Chapter 39
"Hitler hongaya tera bache!" Kiran shouted back as she missed catching Preet by an inch. Preet jumped over the water, barely missing it, but Heer wasn't as successful. She didn't stop in time and slipped on the water and lost her balance as she started to fall. Her eyes widened, then shut them tightly waiting for the pain to come, but it didn't. She felt someone grab her arm and pulled her towards them and held her around the waist. She put her hands on his shoulder for support, as her heart skipped a beat. She didn't have to open her eyes to see who it was, because her heart had already recognized the person.
She slowly started to open her eyes as she heard Preet and Kiran whistle. She looked up to see Prem smiling down at her as he helped her to a upright position and both let go of each other. Prem had become much more mature and manly in the past 5 years as Heer had become more gorgeous and kind-hearted. They stood there soaking in as much of each other as they could, but were disturbed by everyone getting up and coming to meet the new arrivals.
"PB ghar ka ahndar aaya bhi nahi aur bhaiya-bhabi ka romance shuru!" Preet said as he went up to hug his older brother.
"Oh hoo!!! Heer di ka piya ghar aaya oh ramji…di ka piya ghar aaya ho ramji!" sang Kiran and Ash happily as they hugged Prem next.
"Saajan ji ghar aaya, saajan ji ghar aaya, dulhan kyun sharmaiya, saajan ji ghar aaya" sang Preet, Ash, and Kiran in unison as they saw the color in both Premeer's face rise.
"Sab iss Prem se chipak kar rehange ya humse bhi milne ki fursaat hai!" said Amar from behind Prem as he entered with his wife, Guneet, and 3 year old son, Nick (Nickvir).
Everyone went and greeted the couple, as Prem walked over and took the elders blessings. Jeeti, had tears of joy in her eyes as she hugged Prem.
"Beta, I missed you so much" said Jeeti and Prem replied "Maa.." as he wiped her tears.
Kanwal hugged Prem next and said "It's great to have you back son!"
"Papaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kunal excitedly shouted as he ran over to hug his father. Prem lifted him into his arms and said "My son has grown a lot in the last 6 months!"
"Mama, gives me milch 3 timej a day with bournvita and she makesh me par..pan…pantha" said Kunal while trying to figure out how to say the last word.
"You mean Parantha Kunal!" said Neel as he hugged Prem as he held Kunal.
"Hey yaar…how have you been? Looks like you're still single" said Prem as everyone headed back to finishing their breakfast that was interrupted for the 3rd time. Prem sat down with Kunal sitting on his lap, while Preet forced Heer to sit down next to his PB. Heer quietly sat down and started to feed Kunal as well as served Prem food, while both stole quick glances of each other. Meanwhile, Neel tried not to comment on Prem's remark, but everyone kept pushing it.
"You still haven't found Nishi didi a bahu yet!?!" asked Amar.
"Not again..." cried Neel, "Please…can we talk about something else"
Everyone laughed as they continued their breakfast. Suddenly, Heer's cell phone started to vibrate. She noticed that it was from her office so she excused herself and headed up to her room, to receive it. As Heer left, Ash said "Hey Kiran...how come you forgave Preet so quickly!? You were bent on hurting him and now you're happily talking to him!"
"Oh yeah! Prem bhaiya's grand entry made me forget" Kiran said as she playfully hit Preet and finished saying "stupid, ullo, bandhar, danghar, ghada, bevakoof…how could you say such a thing about me and that, that, that idiot!"
"Oye!! Gaali na kad" said Preet. Suddenly, Prem accidentally spilled water on his shirt. He quickly had Kunal sit on Heer's chair as he stood up to dry it off.
"Prem, I think you should go change" said Guneet, as she winked at him, knowing that he had done that on purpose. However, this went unnoticed by everyone else.
"Haan beta…your luggage was already sent upstairs to your room" said Jeeti.
"Umm…where's my room" asked Prem. This was the first time he had come to this house, as it was built not even 2 years ago, so he had no idea where his room was.
"Kunal…why don't you go show your papa, where your mom's room is" said Kanwal.
Kunal quickly jumped down from his chair, grabbed his dads hand and led Prem 2 floors up.
Meanwhile, Heer sat on her bed checking out the pictures of the house that her company would be designing and afterward decorating, while discussing the plans with a manager from one of the departments. Her eyes widened when she heard her door open. She prayed silently that it wouldn't be Prem, as this was not the best time to deal with Prem and his desires. However, she knew that it was him without her needing to turn around and see who it was, but did anyways. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw Kunal with him. Prem headed to where his luggage was placed and picked out clothes to change into as he headed into one of the 2 changing rooms in their bedroom. Meanwhile, Kunal jumped onto a leather sofa in the room and started jumping up and down on it. However, he ran out of the room, when he heard Sweety aunty call him down. After a minute, she ended the call and started heading out of the room, before Prem came out, however Prem grabbed her arm, shut the door and turned her to face him. Heer didn't have to courage to face him as he whispered into her ear "running away from me?"
This was all Heer needed to fuel her anger as she pulled herself free and folded her arms as she walked over to stand by a window.
"What happened?" asked Prem as he came up from behind her and hugged her around the waist.
"Let go of me" said Heer as she tried to stay calm and pretended to be upset with him.
Prem turned Heer around to face him, but she looked away immediately. Prem smiled at her and asked "You're still mad at me?"
Heer rolled her eyes and said "I think you got your answer when you called and mind you, I'm taking that 'I love you' I said to you back".
"Too late…that 'I love you' is locked in my heart forever" said Prem as he grinned at her.
Heer didn't know what to say next, so she remained silent. Prem took Heer's hands into his own and knelt down in front of her. Heer slowly looked at Prem and realized what he might be doing.
"I know, my saying sorry won't be enough for you and it won't make those years you spent without me disappear, but I promise you that now I'll never leave you again. I can't make up these 3-4 years again, but I can try to give you that happiness now and even more for the time that is to come. You took care of this family and helped stabilize everyone life, but now we'll join together to give each other and this family all the happiness they deserve" said Prem, not once breaking his gaze at Heer, who now had tears sliding down her cheek for the first time in 3 years.
Prem slowly rose and kissed the tears away. Prem wrapped his arms around her waist again as Heer put her arm around his neck and moved in to kiss Heer for the first time in years. After a few moments, they broke apart as Prem put his forehead against Heers and quietly said "are you starving the people in this house, because they've all thinned out."
Heer pushed Prem away and hit him playfully, while saying "nahi…I've been feeding them healthier food."
"And you're feeding Kunal Paranthas?" asked Prem as he pulled Heer closer to himself.
"All the ingredients I use are healthier than what people usually use…and what a way to ruin a moment" said Heer.
"I can fix that" said Prem as he moved into kiss her again, but stopped when they heard a knock at the door. They quickly let go of each other as Prem headed over to where his luggage was as Heer went to go open the door.
"Now go bash the person that ruined this moment!" Prem said grinning, as Heer glared at him, as she put her hand on the door knob.
As soon as she opened it Preet fell into the room and Heer shrieked "PREET!" Prem turned around to find Preet putting his arm around Heer's shoulder and leading her back into her room.
"Sorry to ruin your romantic atmosphere, but if you guys are done with your so called duties and work, then can you come spend some time with the people downstairs, you consider your family" said Preet as he smirked at the pair.
"Oye Preet, why are you bothering my di and veer!" said Kiran as she entered the room followed by Ash and Guneet.
"I was just telling them to join us downstairs, whenever their done with their teri ore teri ore gazing sequence" replied Preet.
"And how do YOU know what they were doing" asked Ash with her eyebrows raised.
Preet grinned at her and said "Mein Preet hoon…I know EVERYTHING!"
"Oh…so now you're a psychic!! Waah Preet…now I know why it took you an extra year to graduate. You spent your time doing useless things…" started Guneet, but Ash cut in saying "such as flirting with every hot girl he saw"
"Liar!!! I'm not a flirt! I don't even know the definition of the word flirt let alone the abc's of it" replied Preet and turned to Heer saying "Bhabi…tell them to stop spreading rumors about me…what will the pind wale lok think of me!?!"
"Ooohh" Ash sarcastically said, "Preet Juneja sudhar gaya!?! Baath kuch jaami nahi"
"Jaami gayi kaisa…yeh koi dahi hai jisa tum jaamane ki koshish kar rahi ho" said Kiran as everyone laughed.
"When he was staying with us, every other week he…" Ash started saying, but Preet put his hand over her mouth so she couldn't say anything, but she was successful anyways, finishing with" would have a new girlfriend…"
"Bhabhi!!" whined Preet.
"Oye, don't bother my devar" said Heer as she patted Preet's cheek.
"But what the girls are saying is true Heer" replied Prem.
"PB that's not fair…you're supposed to be on my side" cried Preet, and turned to Heer to say "Bhabi, tell him to change back to our party"
Heer smirked at Prem and said to Preet "We don't need your PB on our side…we two are more than enough!" as both of them left Prem, Ash, Kiran, and Guneet in the room grinning at Heer's statement.
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Preet led Heer down the stairs into the main hall to find the 3 elder ladies discussing possible marriage proposals for Neel with Swaran, while Neel sat at the dining table with Karan and Amar trying to ignore what they were saying by playing cards. The 2 men were busy playing chess as Heer went and sat next to her Deep chachu.
"Come on chachu…I know you can win!" cheered Heer as she watched the men play the game.
"What is this beta…you changed sides already!" asked Kanwal jokingly.
"Uncleji, this is nothing…she ditched her sister for her devar now" said Kiran as she walked down with Prem, Ash, and Guneet.
Prem sat down on the floor at his moms feet as Kunal rushed over and sat down in his lap. Prem looked across the room at Heer as he grinned at her.
Heer rolled her eyes and said "If Prem can take my sisters side, then why can't I take his brothers!"
"I agree with Heeriye…she has a point there" said Amar from the dining table.
"Vaise Maa…what were you talking about?" Preet asked Jeeti.
"Kuch nahi beta…we were discussing possible rishta's for Neel" replied Jeeti.
"Arre yaar, can't Neel just get this marriage business over with. After him, mera number hi hoga viyaah karn liya" Preet said while sitting at his bhabi's feet as she massaged his head.
"Oh ho…devarji seems quite eager to get married…what's the matter Preet…who is she?" asked Heer.
"Who's who?" Preet asked pretending to be all innocent as his gaze feel on Ash, who didn't notice him looking at her.
"You know who I'm talking about…don't try to be so innocent" replied Heer.
"Maybe we should get Preet married!" said Nishi.
"Thank you god! At least mera peecha toh chuta!" cried Neel.
"Puttar…we're not going to sit in peace until we have you married off" said Sweety aunty.
Kiran suddenly started to giggle with Ash as they just shared a joke. Everyone turned to look at them as they hurried to sit by Heer and whispered something in her ear, as she broke out laughing.
"What's so funny Heer?" asked Swaran.
The three girls broke out laughing even more, grabbing everyone's attention even more. Through her laughter, Heer finally managed to reply saying "Nothing…it's just that the girls said that no decent girl would marry these two, so they should just marry each other!" causing everyone to break out laughing.
"They would make a cute couple! We could call them Preneel!" laughed Ash.
"Though we can't promise you that you'll be getting grandchildren from them" giggled Kiran as Preet and Neel started running after the girls.
"Not again…" said Heer as they all watched these 4 fight. However, Ash was able to calm Preet down, but as soon as Neel got a hold of Kiran as she reached the top of the main stairs, they started their bickering again.
"I'm not going to shut up…karlo jo kuch karna…god gave me a mouth and I'll say whatever I want!" shouted Kiran.
"Oye stupid, he also gave you a mouth so you can shut it once in a while too!!!!" Neel yelled back.
"Why don't you shut your ears!!!!!" Kiran shouted.
Neel started moving towards Kiran as she moved back slowly and yelled "No Kiran…you shut your mouth...jabse aaye hai tabse mera sirr kahrahi hai!!!!!"
"You're the one that doesn't know how to behave with peopled!!!!!" Kiran yelled back.
Heer noticed her edging towards the stairs and got up quickly looking nervous. Everyone noticed Heer getting nervous and started to tell the bickering duo to stop fighting as Heer made her way towards the stairs, followed by Prem. However, neither Kiran nor Neel were ready to listen to anyone and they continued their yelling.
"Kiran be careful" shouted Heer, but she was too busy fighting to listen.
"I don't know how anyone can stand you!! It's confirmed that you are out of your mind!" shouted Neel.
Kiran shouted back "SHUT UP!!! You're the most insensitive guy I've ever met!"
"Patha nahi kab tu shaadi karke iss ghar se jayage!!!" shouted Neel as Kiran reached the edge of the stair case, causing her foot to slip.
"KIRAAANNNN!!!" everyone shouted.
**Hi everyone. I actually updated on time…I think this is a rare event! Well, I now have a good bank of updates, so I'm going to update on time more often, unless something else comes up. I'm back to my habit of having cliff-hanger endings. I'm trying to catch up with all of my pending deals and not procrastinate anymore, but it's a very difficult job to do. I procrastinated yesterday and went out to watch 'delhi-6' with my cousins, but I don't regret it at all as the movie is probably one of the best I've ever seen. I definitely liked it and enjoyed it more than ''Ghajini' & 'Billu Barber'. This had to be Abhishek's best performance & movie till date…I'm officially an AB Jr. fan now…but that has nothing to do with this ff. Though I do recommend that everyone should go out and watch it. Well, my next update will be on Tuesday. And I will be looking forward to reading your feedback for this chapter!**
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