Jalal reached his khema, he was not happy that Jodha questioned him the shehensha, no women have ever asked him in his life whether he loves her or not...they all use to die for his one nazar on them, even his best friend never asked him whether he loves or not as she already knew he dont have heart to love... whenver he visited her, she offered him always took atmost care of him, she even selected which begum will spend time with him... she was not at all possessive for his heart...all she wanted was his time to her when she needed him,...
jalal asks the daasis to serve him with his alcohol for the day, as he wanted to forget what nonsense jodha has spoken, as he was never questioned by any women all this life...
"this Rajvanshi begum is just a nasha to me, who wants to touch her, if it was not for waaris, i would have not even looked at her, what she thinks of herself, the Rajvanshis, first they cheated me, killed my brother, and i have forgiven them, but than too this Women questions me, how dare she hold my hands, shehensha Jalaluddin Mohammeds"
Jalal told to himself
"i will teach her a lesson of her life today how dare she..."
jalal drank the entire glass..and he went for one after other...
he had lost his sense by this time, he claps for daasis to attend him...
"Daasi, go and call Jodha begum to present infront of me..."
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Jodha still had not come out of her scary reality of her life, was shattered and tears were not stopping flowing through her eyes...
"gustakhi maaf, begum sahiba, shehensha wants you to be present soon in his khema..."
She wipes her tears and moves to meet him... but she is not looking scared, not even a fear on her face...
she reaches his hojra, she sees many bandhis dancers, singers, in his hojra...surrounding him, many women lying in his bed, caressing him, dancers dancing around him to please him...
Jodha feels disgusted to look her husband fully drunk and enjoying in this state with many women in her presence... just a few hours before he was fulfilling his desires or hawas with her...now she can see him with other women...
Jalal notices her presence...
"Jodha you are on time, come here sit with me..."
Jalal asks her to come and sit next to him, jodha feels disgusted to sit with many women around him... the daasis think that begum and shehensha need privacy, they all stop dancing singing and think of leaving them alone in the khema...
But jalal stops them..
"why you all leaving on your own, today your Begum sahiba will also join you all to please the shehensha... she will sing for me, dance for me ...she is a rajvanshi begum she knows well how to please her husband..."
All the women looks confused by his statement, till now no begum was compared with them, but today shehensha e hind had compared a begum with bandhis...
Jodha looks calm...she walks off from his khema without his wish... Jalals temper raise, he immediately push the women lying on him, and follow her...
Bandis starts gossiping...
"shehensha ne galath kiya BEgum sahiba ke saath..."
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He enters her khema, see her decorating the bed with flowers, he could not understand what she is doing, he was thinking that she will be extremely angry on him but she looks calm and she has smile on her face, and she is humming the song, and she stops humming... she turns towards him, she smiles and walks towards him, holds his hand
"shehensha, i have decorated the room as you wish, did you like it.."
He looks at her questioningly...
"shehensha, i am just a mediu
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"jalal, i thought that you and Jodha begum will take more time to get along with each other, but someone told me, you both dint even take seconds to get close to each other... and jodha begum vacated to her hojra also...Jodha begum wakahi bahuth tej hai..."
Jalal fumes in anger, his eyes turn red...Ruquaiyya hugs him from back and leans her head on his shoulders... "Jalal i pray to allah, that soon our wish for the child gets fulfilled... i want to hug him to my heart, i want him to call me ammi jaan when he speaks for the first time.. i will never let him away from me for a second also..."
Ruquaiyya expects him to respond her, but jalal dont reciprocate to her...
"Jalal whats this, i am noticing that you have started behaving as i am stranger to you, i know you are angry with me that i left you alone and went to Kabul, but you know right what was my intention behind it..."
Still not hearing any response from him,
Ruquaiyya breaks the hug and move towards his front... and notice he has bent his head, trying to hide his rage filled eyes from her...
Seeing Jalal in this state, Ruquaiyya gets scared for a second and thinks something went wrong in her absence...
"Jalal, what happened??? tell me jalal??"
She shakes him up, holds his hands to comfort him...
"jalal, jodha begum ne kuch kiya??"
That was the last for his anger to burst open, he pushes Ruquaiyya...not withstanding his forceful push, Ruquaiyya falls on ground...she fears for his safety, when Jalal pushes all the things kept in his room, he breaks the vase, throws glasses all over...
Ruquaiyya to calm him down hugs him...
"Jallal dont do this i will die, i cant see you like this,what happened for god sake tell me jalal...i am your best freiend, i am your wife..."
jalal hugs her back...and he closes his eyes tightly so that tears wont drop from them...so that he should not think about of her anymore...
"Ruquaiyya, why cant others be like you, no one can understand me better than you, dont ever leave me alone Ruquaiyya, there is no one for me in this world other than you..."
Ruquaiyya breaks the hug holds his face in between her palms...
"jalal why you say this, i am always with you, ammi jaan hai, badi ammi hai, aawam loves you jalal..."
he looks in her eyes...
"Ruquaiyya, why she did this to me, i wanna kill her, i want to scream on top of my voice to make her understand... but i dont want to "
Ruquaiyya could not understand whats wrong with jalal, and why he is behaving this way...
"jodha begum ne kuch kiya jalal??? humaein bathyiye.."
He moves away from her..
"dont ever take her name infront of me, its all because of her, i wanna tear her tongue apart, but i cant do it...how dare she say No to me, i am shehensha E hind, she rejected me, no one in this world has never said No to Jalaluddin Muhammed, how dare she"
Ruquaiyya could not figure out completely what went wrong... before she could ask him further, he moves out of his khwabgha ...
Ruquaiyya fumed in anger and thought to herself..
"how dare she hurt my jalal, i cant see him like this, Jodha begum, you will pay for this..." saying this Ruquaiyya Marched towards Jodhas hojra...
there she is lying on her bed, like a fairy princess...not knowing what turn her life is taking in the next moment...
Edited by Parijatrocks - 11 years ago
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