PART 8:
"Oh my god! yeh mujhe vahke main ho kya gaya hai? yeh bani koi jaadugar hai kya?? yeh mujhe kyun sab jage dhikaye dehti hai?? Aur agar Adi ne mujhe teekh waqt par rokha nahin hota...toh na jaane kya ho jaata??" Jai thinks to himself in his office...
The phone rings just then, when he answers it...surprise surprise...its Bani!!
"Mr Walia...Hello? hello??"
Jai had hung the phone up as soon as he heard her voice..
"now i can hear her voice everywhere...i gotta go home and lie down..."
....
At home..
"Mr Walia...Hello? Hello?"
Yeh Mr Walia ne phone kyun kaat diya? now how can i tell him that mausi wants to ask him something regarding the wedding preps...i'll guess i'll just wait till he gets home tonight...
"Bani?"
"Ji Mausi?"
"Did you get through to munna?"
"Uh...he was in a very important meeting mausi...he said he will call later..."
"ok well i guess it can wait"
When mausi left bani, she barely had a second to think about jai before Sonu came and pulled her towards the kitchen.
"Bani didi look!"
She was trying to show bani something, and ended up tipping over the jug of water.
"Oh i am really sorry didi..i didn't..." then she started to cry.
"Its ok sonu, its just water. i'll just go and change ok.i'll be back soon"
...
Jai entered the house wearing his sunglasses and was immediately questioned by mausi.
"Jai, tum is waqt? Aur why are you wearing your sunglasses in the house?"
"OH mausi, that is you rite??!
"of course its me..tumhe aaj ho kya gaya hai?"
"don't ask...i think i need to lie down...bani kaha hai?"
"She is with sonu, they are either in the garden or kitchen"
"Are you sure you are ok??"
"Yes mausi just please let me go"
...
Jai entered his bedroom and at the same time bani came out of the bathroom having changed her clothes...this time she really was wearing the white saree from that night...
they just stood staring at each other for awhile...until all of a sudden...
"Bas ab aur nahin...I can't take it anymore"
"Mr Walia...aap teekh toh hai??"
"Stay away from me...you are not bani...you are not really in my room...oh my god what is happening to me.."
Bani thought to herself: Yeh Mr Walia ko ho kya gaya hai...he really has gone mad...i am not bani?? has he started drinking in the daytime too??
She started to walk towards him...he tried to look away...but couldn't....something about her drew him...she was the light in his otherwise dreary life...oh how much he wished that at this point it really was bani in his room and not his imagination of her....he waited for her to get closer...knowing that at any moment he is either going to get hit by something or wake up!
She drew closer to him...now she was at arms length..."Oh god help me" Jai thought...
"Mr Walia...are you sure ou are ok?"
She was touching him, his arm...she was...real?
"Bani?...yehi tumhe ho naa?"
"Mr Walia...what are you asking me?"
"Oh Bani don't ask...you don't know what has been happening to me today...i thought it was you...i tried to kiss...Adi...oh god!"
"Aap aur Aditya uncle? Eugh! 🤢 " then she burst out laughing....
Jai just looked at her...suddenly all of the day's irritations got to him...he couldn't stand being so close and yet so far from bani...he turned towards her....
Edited by tbabhra - 19 years ago