Hey don't call daksh eekk...bani will personally come and kill you!!!
PART-3
MUMBAI
Sonali stood idly looking at jai who was finishing his work sitting on the couch...she knew she had given him a tough time, a very tough time, but she invariably ended up thinking about it... it would be four years for their marriage and yet they were childless...the first two years went in a blink of an eye...it only started after that, a child, a symbol of their love...jai have never pestered her for children, he liked them but wasn't that much bothered as she was...she missed something, she felt incomplete when she saw her friends pulling the prams taking a walk in the park or knitting a sweater sitting across their lawns... motherhood was something she didn't know was so beautiful and fulfilling unless she missed it. Jai and her had visited the top doctors, undergone all the tests, there was nothing wrong, either with jai or with her, but yet she couldn't conceive...May be it was a matter of time, the gynecologist had said, but how much time...a year and a half had passed by since then... there was no god which she hadn't prayed to, no maternity ward where she hadn't given milk-bottles and other usables for charity, but...it seemed it was her destiny to not mother a life... ...she knew her behavior was irking jai, initially he would make her understand and pacify her but off late he too had given up, he had started spending more time in the office, something which he never did before... ...she knew he didn't deserve it one bit, her obsessive fixation for a child...maybe it was she who was not able to conceive, may be the problem lay in her... ...
"Jai..." she said gently...
"Hmm..." jai looked up to see the apprehensive face of his wife... ...
"May be the problem is with me..." sonali said...jai's face hardened...he was sick of all this now...
"Why are you doing this yourself Sonali...??? Weren't we happy???Did I ever force you for a child??? I love you, you are my world, it's not like we need a child to tell the people that we love each other and are happy??? I am fine; it is you who is obsessed with this?? I have got you, it's more than enough, if we have a child it would be great, but not having one doesn't take away anything... Why can't you to get such a simple thing???? " jai raised his voice... sonali sat mutely, fidgeting...
"What have you made of yourself, just see...?" jai said throwing away the file he was reading...getting up...
"Sona please...don't do this to yourself..." he reached her sitting beside her, he caressed her hands... she stayed mum...
"I can't see you like this, it pains me..." tears streamed down her ghostly eyes...
"Shall we adopt...a small baby..." jai said suggestively...
"I want my child...our child...made out of love..." sonali wailed out...
"Damnit sonali...I am just sick of you..." he shouted...scaring her...
"Just...go to hell...I give a damn..." jai yelled...picking up the file he stormed out of the room, panting heavily, only to meet his masi's concerned eyes...
"Send her to her mother's place, may be mom will be able to make her understand..." jai said hoarsely, walking towards his study... ...
"Jai...suno..." he didn't stop to hear...
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It was late night that jai entered his bedroom, he was shocked to see sonali, dressed up in her favorite red color... gliding about the room, lighting scented candles...his jaw dropped as he gaped at his wife... ...
"Sona..." came his voice...
"Jai..." sonali turned around looking at him...
"What...is...?" words dried up in his throat...shocked was an understatement, he was speechless...
"I...I am sorry...for whatever I did...and did not...I..." sonali came near him, hugging him...as he stood rooted to his spot...
"I was ruining our present for an uncertain future...masi is right...I am sorry I hurt you..." she hushed looking up into his eyes...
"I...I missed you..." was all that came out his mouth... she smiled, her gorgeous smile...she stood on her toes kissing him... ...he picked her up...taking her to the bed...
Jai sat up a bit exhausted, stretching himself, his back leaning against the headboard; the candles had blown out, the room enveloped in darkness... sonali was sleeping blissfully, this sudden change in her had jolted him, he was happy to see his old sonali back, but somewhere those feelings which he had for her had faded away, he loved her, but now it was a different kind of love, their love making was a dire need, a want, not something brimming with love…he felt emotionally vacant… ... maybe so much had happened that his mind was stressed out...maybe he should take it easy, taking a break would help...he smiled thinking of taking sonali for a holiday... ...
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JAIPUR
Bani adjusted her chunri...it was her new dress, a faded purple ghaghra choli, she had loved it the first time she saw it in the shop, though a bit more costly but her father had agreed, not wanting to disappoint his pet daughter who never demanded anything much unlike pia whose demands were skyrocketing...
The marriage ceremony had already started; her parents were sitting in the mandap doing the rituals, her smile widened as she saw Daksh coming in with his family, bani promptly walked up to them greeting them politely, after all she didn't want to miss any opportunity to impress her future mother-in-law, though very career-oriented but she couldn't imagine herself marrying anyone but Daksh, of course a few years later...it was foolish to think of marriage when she was yet to cross the twenty brigade but she couldn't help it, she was hopelessly in love with Daksh, the boy well she preferred man who mad here heart-beat go wild with just his one of those serious yet flattering looks...
She blushed as Daksh hand gestured her that she was looking great...she in turn flashed her pearly teeth...
Daksh kept on signaling that he wanted to talk to her...and to come to the terrace...bani nodded her head vehemently in denail...but gave in seeing Daksh make a puppy face...
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"Daksh pagal ho kya...kisine dekh liya toh..." bani whispered walking towards him, who was staring at her...
"Daksh Hello!!!" she waved her hand in front of him...
"Arre main toh bhool hi gyai...congratulations...tumhe job mil gayi...I can't believe..." bani...
"I feel like making love to you..." he said abruptly, making bani shut up...she burst into small giggles...
"Thank God!!! Mujhe laga tum kiss karne ke aage badoge hi nahin..." bani joked...
"I am serious..."
"Maine bhi seriously hi kahaa..." bani said sheepishly... ... daksh grabbed her arms, kissing her; she wriggled out his grip after much struggle...
"Mad...I was joking..."
"I wasn't..." he said drinking in her beautiful form...
"You look so pretty..." he commented...
"Really...and I never knew you could look so good in a kurta pajama...at least you look decent in it..." bani poked her finger against his chest...
"I was serious bani..." daksh pulled her, whispering into her ear...
"Tum toh aise baat kar rahen ho jaise ki tumne yeh sab kiya hain...don't tell me mere pehle koi thi...I will kill you..." bani glared at him making him laugh...
"Nahin tum pehli ho..." he assured her...
"Aur akhri bhi..."
"Well, uska pata nahin..." he teased only to be hit by her badly...
"Sach bani...I...you have made me crazy..." he said trying to kiss her...
"Daksh abhi nahin...yahaan...pagal ho kya..." she pushed him away...
"Hain tumhare pyaar main... ..." daksh said dramatically making her giggle again...
"I...maine yeh sab...aur fir hindi filmo main kahaan kuch dikhate hain, kuch hone se pehle hi andhere kar dete hain...aur maa English filme dekhne nahin deti...I am completely clueless sivayi biology class ke jo twelfth main padha tha aur sab bouncer gaya tha..." bani said pursing her lips...daksh laughed out loud...
"Oh Bani...!!You are..." he laughed more...
"What!!! As if you know everything...?" bani said, her hands resting on her hips...
"Practical karke bataoon kya..." he challenged her...coming near her...
"Daksh nahin...daksh..." bani moved back, but was soon caught in his arms...
"Please...don't you trust me..." he asked...
"I...do...but..." all her words silence as he began kissing her...under the dusty moonlight...
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"Now do you need to go...I was planning a holiday..." jai pouted as he saw sonali packing her bags, she had decided to pay a visit to her parent's house...
"Jai...I think we both need a change...we have been through a lot..." sonali said...
"Fine...but do think about adoption...if you want that is..." jai said...
"I will it is very difficult to give love to a child who you know is not yours, but maybe I will gather the strength...I will think and I promise I will not mess it up this time..."
"I don't know what masi said to you that you have changed so much..." jai said amazed...
"Well, she just told that I was running after a dream... and ruining my present for a dream which had no guarantee that it would come true...I was hurting you...and myself..."
"All this while I have tried telling this to you and you refused to listen..." jai said a bit angry...
"I know jai...I am sorry... now, come on won't you drop me till the airport...I am getting late..." sonali said...
"Do you really need to go...?" jai said once again...
"Yes, I do need to go... ..." sonali said dragging his arm, leading him out of their room...
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God bless
Dhani
Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki
Veer Hanuman
