Rikara FF: Heal my Soul (Updated conclusion part in Pg 60) - Page 10

<Part 14>:

That night.. Gauri was stacking up her pillow in couch. Omkaara kept a new blanket near her. "Ye lo, tumhaari blanket"

Gauri didn't want a new one. She was happy wrapping around his jacket. She couldn't say that to him. She got it. But she didn't return his jacket. He also didn't ask for it. Omkaara went to change. Gauri wrapped the jacket up quickly and covered on the top with the blanket so that he doesn't know. She was checking something in her mobile. Omkaara saw that she already lied down.

O: Lagta hain, tume nayi company mili hai? Kya baat kar rahe the aap teeno.. Omkaara was curious to know about the hero baat. He was trying to ask in the pretext of adjusting the pillows.

G: Wo, kuch nahi Anika Bhabhi bas humhe ched rahi thi. Aur saumya bhi. Bas Bareilly waali baat kar rahe the.

O: Tum kitne baar sunaoge ye kahaani.. Bore nahi hoti tumhe?

G: Nahi, aur kitni baar bhi sunana padta hai. Hum bilkul nahi taq jaayenge.

Gauri turned her head and said it to him. Those words and her expressions said something to his heart. He liked the way she chooses to express herself in a subtle and apt way. Her choice of words and expressions were bang on. He always liked this quality in a girl. His poetic nature always made to express the simple things in a most sufi way, but he liked the reverse in a girl. They had a eyelock for a moment and Gauri turned away.

It was a breezy day and her locks of hair were flying. She tried to put in under the blanket and Omkaara was watching all this. All of sudden she turned only to see him look away. She was feeling both happy and shy. She turned towards other side and pretended to sleep. Omkaara was feeling some irritated sensation in his back. Ever since he freshed up, he felt something irritating and burning on his back. He kept on turning and seeing his back. He went up to the mirror and tried to check. But he couldn't check unless he pulls his shirt off. Gauri was still not asleep. She was seeing him turning this side and other side towards the mirror. Gauri went up to him

"Omkaara ji kya hua. Baar baar sheeshe mein palat kar dekh rahe hai"

"Haan, wo I feel something irritating. It's on my back. Main dekh nahi paa raha hoon. Kuch jal raha hain"

Gauri was hesitant to ask but asked anyway. "Kahan pe?" She touched his back with one finger. He felt a little tickle. But didn't reveal. "Nahi". She kept moving her finger, Omkaara wasn't able to focus now. She stopped at centre of his back. "Haan wahan pe" he tried to concentrate on the wound. His hand wouldn't reach there anyways.

Gauri gathered her strength and asked. "Agar aapki aitraz na ho, Kya main dekh sakthi hoon"

Omkaara turned around was looking surprised. He thought she would shy away at doing this.

"Are you sure?" He looked into her eyes

"Haan" she didn't meet his eyes.

Omkaara half turned infront of the mirror and started unbuttoning his shirt. He felt a little strange to be doing this before her. Gauri was too flustered to look at him.She offered to do this. But she was feeling shy. She was looking down. Omkaara removed his shirt and turned towards the side to look at Gauri.

"Gauri. Dekho"

"Hmm.. " Gauri was giving a half look and looked up. First time she saw a man, that too this close. She always had been fangirling him ever since he married her. But she never even imagined anything physical with him. She tried to concentrate on this wound.

There was straight wound which was there on his back. Blood had dried and there was a little swelling.

"Omkaaraji, yahan pe ek gaav hain, jismekhoon bhi hain. Kya hua tha"

"Pata nahi, I was working in art sudio. I was searching for some paint in the rack. There I had slammed against a brush stand. May be wahan pe hua hoga" Omkaara tried to look into the mirror.

"Ek minute main aati hoon" Gauri came with Dettol and sponge. She cleaned the wound.

"Dard ho raha hain?"

"Nahi, am fine. Wo ointment wahan hai uss drawer main"

Gauri was applying ointment on the wound. She was blowing air so that irritation would come down. Omkaara kept on looking sideways at her. Her soft fingers were giving him a different sensation.

"Ho gaya.. Omkaaraji. Ab jal to nahi raha naa..?"

"thank you". He nodded no.

Gauri went back to couch. Omkaara put his shirt on and lied down on the bed. Their eyes met each other before sleeping. Gauri was pulled by the intense look while Omkaara was trying to sense the feelings beneath the doe shaped eyes. Gauri withdrew and turned away and slept off.

Om woke up in midnight since he was feeling thirsty. He drank water and looked at peaceful sleeping gauri. Her blanket had come off, and he could see that she was clutching on to his jacket and sleeping peacefully. Omkaara kept on looking at her.. A thought of lust came into his mind "What if I was there in the place of the jacket".

<To be continued>