Staring out through the window into the darkness…, lost in thought, shiv eventually drifts into a peaceful sleep…Gauri asleep against his chest… wrapped in his arms… his head propped against hers in sleep…
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With the downpour having reduced to a tiny drizzle and the morning rays breaking through the window of the lil enclosure, the enclosure is better lit and Shiv shifts uncomfortably in his sleep, with the morning rays hitting eyes and face and the sudden warmth seeming alien in a otherwise cold , freezing shack…
Shifting a lil , shiv jerks his eyes open , still registering the place he is in… and still not moving , he tries to recollect, the scene of the previous night…Gauri all cold and shivering and he helping to the corner .. and she was running a temperature possibly… and his thoughts…
He slowly looks down to see Gauri still asleep on his chest, holding on to his shirt , all huddled up in his arms….her face covered with a few strands of her hair.. and he almost , unconsciously removes them gently and watches her face and then slowly…with one hand still wrapped around her… pulls his bag towards with the other and rummages through , to see if he can find something…and he does … one guava..and smiles.. he remembers not having eaten both that she handed him…in that pit…she had needed them more…
He slowly…looks back at her and …pats on her arm…. "Gauri…."