Originally posted by: Sandhya.A
Earlier at the peanut farm mansion...
The pleasant laughter of the ladies rang through the mansion. Ms.Lana Peanutakker had a visitor. Her neighbor and flower farm mistress Kalgiakka had brought with her a boquet of exotic flowers from her farm."Your eyes have never sparkled so brightly on seeing my flowers earlier. Am i to read more into them?" she teased. Lana turned crimson. "Ooh! Your cheeks are redder than the reddest of my roses. Who is it dear? You once helped me out of a crisis. I would like to do something for you in return. "Lana's eyes dropped. A tear drop swelled at the corner. "Yes. There is someone. Someone who makes my days brighter and my nights dreamier. But there is another girl in his life. I wouldn't want to intrude. i do not wish to take his name.""Hush Lana darling. No more tears. I wish to see your wonderful smile before i leave."Lana's thoughts kept wandering on her certain someone long after her friend left. She had to check her accounts and write a letter to the pipes dealer for some works in her farm. But her mind refused to move away from Khan Sahib. But he was Heera's. She wasn't sure if she was right to think of him so...With such tumultuous thoughts she stood in her balcony to see if the calm of the night air would give her some peace. Just then the she saw a boat down the river with a couple absorbed in each other...he looked familiar..."oh! Azeez Shah, Khan Sahib's trusted and her friend. He trusted her and always poured out his heart to her and sought her advice...so this was the girl he said he was in love with...he said she was unwell...may be she is better now...so he has brought her out for a moon night...would Khan Sahib too take her out like this some day...even as a part of his assignment...sigh!!!!"Further tears rolled down her cheeks that sparkled in the moonlight.Kalgikka happened to come back to pickup her purse she had forgotten. She stood rooted to the spot and was touched by the image of her friend in pain and tears at the balcony, as she walked on the pathway to the mansion. Suddenly her attention was arrested by a boat on the river and a handsome couple in it. She looked up and saw Lana's tears as she looked at them."So this is him. Is he..." She fumed