Hi, All I am sorry for the very late update....and wish one and all a Happy Year a head....
I am stuck with some personal things...hence I really could not update.... Please forgive me for that....and thanks a lot for all your comments.... I will try and post regularly....
Part : 17
Mahen and Nikhila look at Gauri who is coming to the table and look at eachother and smile and then Mahen gets up and starts for office saying bye to nikhila and then Nikhila and gauri have their breakfast…and talk about all the stuff about serials, about food, about clothes etc…
Gauri makes a painting…and both Nikhila and Gauri… complete it…and then Nikhila takes Gauri to Gauri's room and both Fix it on the wall…
Nikhila feels that…if she had a daughter they would sit together and do such stuff… although she had her lovely time with her son… she always had this feeling that… she is missing something… and now she is enjoying great time with Gauri…
And then by the time this project of theirs is done its… evening and then they need to get back to cooking… all the servants had finished all the other work of cleaning the house and watering the plants… etc…
Gauri and Nikhila were enjoying each others company a lot…
In the evenings too… after dinner… nikhila and Gauri used to sit and watch dvd- movies that they had purchased in shops…. The lovely dovely movies…. Like dilwale dulhaniya lejayenge….. kahona pyar hai…. Yesboss… chupke chupke…. And all soft romantic movies….. and they used to cry and feel bad when something happened b/w heroine and hero…. And enjoy all the songs etc….
Like this days passed by… Shiv and Mahen were busy with office work and Nikhila and Gauri were busy enjoying with each other… and in the evenings and mornings when ever shiv was around Gauri used to be calm and composed and Shiv was also..the same…he used to be calm and composed when he sees Gauri around… and when she is not there he makes jokes with his mom and dad…
And Mahen found Shiv..staring at Gauri a few times..and then smiling to himself… and mahen expressed…his feelings to Nikhila and they now felt that…surely Shiv has some feeling for Gauri… but they wanted him to comeout first…
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One day Shiv came home and called out 'Mom ..i am home..' but got no answer..instead a servant came and told that nikhila and gauri were in the garden watering the plants…Shiv went to his room… he got changed… and came down had his coffee… and was watching tv… and some time passed by still they were not coming..so he went to check by in the garden… he was casually walking by in the garden… when he saw… Gauri..jumping and laughing loudly…behind some bushes .. and Shiv curiously walked faster…to see whats going on there…and found…... Nikhila and Gauri… were playing with water… the pipe was in nikhilas hand and she was making Gauri all wet and Gauri was enjoying… and jumping with joy…She was swinging and dancing with joy in the water… and then…after some time..when she was totally wet…she came near nikhila and said…with a mischief in her voice… 'Aunty…I want to hug you.. 😉 ' and then Nikhila… jumped and started running around….(as nikhila did not want to get wet 😆 )… Saying… 'Gauri..no…' 'No..Gauri…no..no…' and Gauri was behind Nikhila running around…saying… 'only…one hug aunty..' 'only one hug…' ..
Shiv was watching all this… and smiling seeing them play… he slowly went to a dream land and saw him self holding Gauri by her waist and turning her around and pouring water on her and then hugging her….and kissing her forehead…and Gauri laughing and saying… 'Shiv! Mujhe niche utaro… mein gir javungi.... 😛 !!!'
He immediately… got a jolt and came out of his dream land and started scratching the back of his head…. 😕 And slowly walked back keeping his hands in the pockets of his pant he was wearing and walked few steps then turned around saw them for few more seconds
(I had a very good pictrue for this sequence which I wanted to post but... I donot know my new computer is not allowing to upload images here.... and I donot know what the problem is ..... 😡 )
and then again walked back … in… thinking… 'why…such a day dream came to him… ?' 'Is he wishing to be with her..?'
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Part : 18
Shiv came back…and sat in the living room… changing channels… not interested in anything… and thinking of what he just saw… Gauri's laughter was echoing in his ears… and then after a while Nikhila and Gauri came and they were laughing loudly… they came in and did not notice shiv was sitting there …they went into the kitchen…had some water… and then Gauri… said… trying to catch her breath… 'Aunty… ugle bar..mein aapko nahi chodungi… isbar chod diya… !!!' 'Aunty… aapko ek bar bhigna tho chahiye aunty… tab pata chelega..kitna achalagtha hai…' 'mujhe barish me bhigna…bahut acha lagtahai…' and then after talking a bit more… she came towards the stairs to get to her room to get changed… she saw…Shiv and at the same time… Shiv looked at her… her chunidar was hugging her, small drops dripping around…she was shivering a little and her hair was all wet… and when he saw her..she started adjusting her dress..not to look akward infront of him… shiv stared at her…and Gauri as soon as she saw him..she stared a little and then went up running to her room… and even after Gauri left…shiv kept staring at the place where she was standing…and smiling at the site…he just saw…
A few days passed by… and things were going the same way… gauri being quiet and calm and shiv was also calm and quiet… and kept staring at gauri from time to time…
And finally Alok came back from US and took Gauri home… he said thanks to Nikhila for taking care of his daughter and they had lovely dovley talk and then Gauri took her bags and went home…
Shiv came home from the office in the evening…and nikhila was preparing food… so he called out 'Mom I am back home…' and Nikhila smiled and said 'aagaye beta…I will bring Coffee for you..' and went in… Shiv went to his room got freshen up… and came down expecting Gauri to be around some where …. Nikhila brought the coffee… and gave it to shiv…and sat there… and shiv said… 'thanks Mom..' and took the coffee… and said… 'Aaaj Ghar kuch badla badla sa hain na mom…' and Nikhila said 'Nahi tho beta…' 'Aaise…kyun kehra heho…' and Shiv said… 'Kuch nahi mom… bas eise laga mujhe…' and then they were having some talk about some things… but Shiv's eyes were searching for Gauri from above the coffee cup… his eyes were scaning the whole living room with his eyes… and nikhila noticed that..and said… 'Kuch dund raheho…beta..' and Shiv was startled and said… 'Kuch bhi tho nahi mom…' and went back to drinking coffee… thinking that she might be in her room…then nikhila… went back to cooking… and it was dinner time…and Nikhila called Shiv and Mahen for dinner and served dinner… and Shiv's eyes were searching for Gauri… and then Mahen asked what shiv was not able to ask… 'Are Gauri kaha hain…' and Nikhila replied ' Ji aaj Alok ji wapas agaye… who Gauri ko leke chalegaye…' on listening to this.... Shiv's face which litup to say thanks to his dad for asking that question… just became dull… 😔 . And he went back to eating his food… and Mahen said… 'kitna acha thana… Gauri… ke hote huye… Who bahut pyari bachi hain…' and Shiv just listenend and ate his food quietly and when finished got up washed his hands and said goodnight to his mom and dad and went to his room…. Not talking much…
He went to his room… but he could not sleep… 😳 he remembered her laughter in the house… the way she smiled and talked with mahen and nikhila… and then the water bottle incident and then the water pipe incident and the parathe… incident..all came before his eyes… he felt sad…but did not know why…
Please leave your comments.... I am eager to know what you think of these new parts.......and thankyou one and all for your patience and understanding...
Cricket
Anupamaa
