Devakshi FF #Krpkab (Dev Sona SR - scene 13)

Act 4.. Scene 1

D is driving S to somewhere unknown and to tell frankly S was happy, contented but nervous too. D was in a very different mood today, very quite, excited n nervous too. But why? ... A farm house? what were they doing in a farm house... quite a cozy little thing it was... was he taking her to meet someone...

N then she saw it Devakshi ... beautifully lit raw wooden board with that name embossed on the woodden plank in golden metal. N that's it ... A lump formed in S's throat... her eyes watered and she could not even breathe properly.

D didn't even dare to look at her... he was so nervous about what S will think of him and this place... will she see it as he felt about this place...

D opened the door to his home, their home the only place which was his solace during the darkest time in his life... Today he wanted S to feel that same peace n love he feels for this place. The other house was his family house, he never felt as if it was his solace, his home. Everyone has a claim on him and he is okay to bear that but, here he wanted to be himself... the flawed, imperfect, irresponsible lover of a beautiful woman who was his whole world and reason of existence. Today here he felt alright to admit that everything stops to matter to him if he is not his Sona's Dev.

A Dev who is not so sure, arrogant and confident of deserving this girl, who lits up a room by just entering it... who stands up to him for her principals n who has the strength to bear with a lover who again n again embarassed her, hurt her n then hurt her more by making her emotionally cheat on Ritwik. He knows how she must have suffered to have fallen short of her own yardstick of moral values when she agreed to marry Ritwik for Baba n Maa, while she still loved him. How she must have cursed herself n then cried herself to sleep night after night, because of him. Among all the rucus he created in her life worst was the night of her engagement to Ritwik... how helpless she must have felt on the face of her love for him to leave everyone in that party hall to bring him back home... because she could not see him suffer even after such lowly behaviour he showed on that day... How ashamed he felt of himself for that night no one could guess...

D: Sona chalo andar chalo... ( switching on the lights )

S was so confused that she could not move at all, something was stopping her she didn't know what. And then suddenly she was picked up n carried over the threshold but D was avoiding to look at her... She understood why just in few moments... it was a beautiful house small cosy but mostly left with lot of space... no unnecessary furnitures but everything in this house had a story to tell... every single wall had her photographs or their photographs together of different sizes... one corner of the dining room was exact replica of their favourite cafe where D took her often to drink coffee with a plaque hanging there which said..."Everytime i am looking at you for more than 2 minutes... i am actually marrying you".

Against the mantle in the living room was her photograph with a beautiful globe and another plaque saying "Her Bucket List"...

One wall was full of books of her favourite authors and many new replicas of the books she already had in her house including her books on Diets for everyone Encyclopedia... another plaque saying "Her favourite Books and authors waiting for her like me" . While crossing the open kitchen she saw a plaque saying " She is only micowave cook".

In the bedroom Dev carried her there was a small book stand with another of the plaques "She loves her poetry.." While carried her to the bed because now she was crying quietly but profusely on his shirt n then she noticed the Bose music system with another of her Photographs in frame near the front wall opposite the bed with a plaque saying "Mayur bol bhule, chup hai papiha, ban mein sawaria"... n she remembered humming those lines of Abhiman movie along with the radio in Dev's car while she thought he was fetching coffee for them... but he stood quietly listening to her n she had stopped after seeing him... coz she was not a singer of any calibre... just managed some how being a Bong, I guess.

S: (Looked at D while hiccuping) yeh sab kyun?

D: ( looks away) Woh raat bohot lambi aur kali thi Sona (S knew he meant the days when they were separated) agar in sabka sahara nahi hota toh shayad main zinda nn.. ( S puts a hand on his mouth shutting him completely)..

S: ( holds his face in both of her hands closes her eyes joins their foreheads n asks) Ghar mein kya kaha hai?

D: (smiling) Dost ki shadi pe jaa rahe hain humlog? Teen din baad lautenge...(all boyish charm and naughty)

S could not help but laugh at his deception and D started to laugh with her...

S: Mere kapde kahan hai?

D : (looks all innocent) Kounse kapde?

S: Oh so hum yahan sirf need puri karne aayen hai...oh good mujhe bahot need aarahi hai ..

S Jumps to otherside of the bed and pretends to sleep.. D sighing heavily but enjoying her antics...

D: Tumhare kapde yahan kaha se honge ? wohi shadiwale kapde pack kiye Ria ne tumahare liye jo Bahar gadi mein bag mein hai... jao le lo..

S was expecting D to have a wardroab full of clothes because this house felt like she has been living here for very long and D was a thorough person but may be he actually did not go into that much details... Sighing she gets up to get some comfortable clothes... Comes back empty handed from the car... and finds beautifully packed three boxes lying on the bed... and a note saying..

"Wear them for me tonight n then follow the trail of the lights"

S finds a trail of candles going upstairs she would have been a little scared had there not been a instumental music of old hindi movie songs coming from that direction... she hesitated for a moment but then embarked on her journey with her heart holding tightly in her fists...

On the terrace there was a gazebo which was softly lit n half covered with white sheath of tissue cloth...it looked so beautiful that she just stood there not knowing where to go? or what to do?

N then she found D standing a little in the shadows leaning on the railing in a deceptively calm n relaxed pose and she found a chill pass through her veins... her toes curled even though she could not see him clearly and in the night air she could feel her arms goosebumped. He was wearing a see through pure white shirt with offwhite chinos casual trousers and the shirt was a little too clingy to his torso for Sona's peace of mind... took a shallow breath and started to proceed towards him but then she saw another plaque on the planter near the railing saying "Pani pyar se daliye kyunki, poudho ke liye yeh khana hai, aur khana toh pyar se khilate hai" and she had to smile, just like that she knew she has always belonged to Dev and she will remain his much beyond time, space and life.

D lost all his nerve after seeing S... in Silver see through chiffon saree which clung to her lovingly and a backless blue blouse which was held in place by just two strings at the back... she has left her hair down and is only wearing the the diamond tanglers in her ears of the set he bought for her... he could see her dainty feet in those blue silver stilletoes... and then the most tempting of all was that single charm diamond bracelet on her wrist... n he smiled thinking about the charm.. it was a diamond bunny with Dr. written on its tummy n rubies for its carrot... he had got a designer design it according to his preferences for his khargosh...

He suddenly had to be near her so started to walk towards her seeing her smile at the plaque could not stop just came up and held her in his arms... S was a little taken aback with the suddenness of the embrace so took a step back but then settled quietly..

S could feel D heart beat really fast but was too shy to say anything...coming up from the embrace loosening his hold...

D: Sona main...mujhe...i mean... woh tumhe..i

D actually wanted to hit somebody... who goes blabbering like a fool on a romantic night else than Fool Dixit ofcourse...

Sona quitely takes his hands n goes towards the gazebo ... there in the gazebo she inhales sharply there was the most beautiful bed she had ever seen.. okay maybe it was not a bed but a swing which was of a double bed size right in the middle of the gazebo, in the corner she found a strange thing but very excited to see what it is she went near and removed the cover to find an advanced computerised telescope... the sky was open and she could see the stars while D opened the strings of the curtains closing the scented gazebo in and then just stood there.

Sona turns back with a big smile of an innocent child all the excitement of gazing stars quite evident in her eyes... n Dev groaned this was so not the plan... yes he wanted to show her the telescope but later... much much later...even maybe tommorrow... but he could not say no to her... she looked all lit up like a christmas tree..

D: You want to see stars now?...

But to his amazement Sona went all red and shy and shook her head to a no... ah the relief he felt... selfish bas***d that he is... but then he noticed something as Sona bend down to remove her shoes and was preparing to settle down...

On left shoulder a little covered with her saree was a tatoo which read Devakshi with two joined hearts exactly like the one he had written on her with the pen and his eyes just like that watered...

He held her hand brought her close for a back hug and closed his lips on the tatoo... Sona went rigid for a moment and then gave in to the moment... she could feel Dev's tears falling on her shoulder but she could say nothing... when he let her go to turn her around she was crying too... so much of pain both of them had endured to be with each other... healing will take some time but please let it begin now, today and here... oh God please...

D: kab?

S: Jis din ma baba ko shadi ke liye ladka dhudne ke liye ha kaha tha...(looking away)

D: Mrs. Dixit do you have any idea how much i love you...

S: (smiling sadly) may be... maybe just as much as i love you Mr. Dixit..

D: ( staring quietly at her beloved face for the longest of moment whispered ) maybe...

D makes her sit on the bed removes her shoes.. S was about to protest but one look from D and she quitens down... the look had so much of possessive dominance that her words died down in her throat... Kissing the instep of each feet D bit into her big toes n then kissing them again as if to soothe the pain tries to reach for her... n S looks nervously at the lights illuminating the gazebo going all red , blushing from her clevage upwards coming to her face... D thought well that was interesting he didn't know people blushed below their face too,... n then smiling asked

D: Kya hua? humm

S: ( swallowing and looking down n then softly) lights?

D: Aaj abhi nahi please... mujhe tumhe ji bhar ke dekhna hai, ghar pe toh... thodi der mein plzzz, theek hai...

Only reaction he got was her hands making fist of the soft silver material of the saree n she was still not looking at him... what was this feeling that makes a man rejoice in making his woman go all shy and sweetly uncomfortable... he made her stand n then just held her for some time, just reassuring her... and she just tried to fold herself in within his embrace, hiding herself from him coz she was nervous ... he went down on one knee to remove his shoes with one hand n holding her around the hip with other after he was done he just pulled aside her saree n gave her few small kisses trailing the line from her hipbone towards the navel... trying to gain some much needed breath just held her and pressed his face to her navel nuzzling it with nose. S was standing her toes all curled up, fists bunching D's shirt on his shoulders and eyes tightly shut...now she was trembling in his arms... D had to just pick her up held her for sometime like that and then came to bed with his treasure in his arms...

D: (in gruff voice softly) Sona, please open your eyes khargosh... meri taraf dekho... (S looks up at him)

Scared? (S shakes her head, but her eyes were like a child's, all big on her sweet small face)

main jaisa kahoon vaisa karogi? ( S hesitates a little and then nods her head)

Pyar karti ho mujhse ?

S : haan...

D turns around with her in his arms but now Sona was lying on top of him...

D: Tumhe pata hai shadi ke baad har situation mein ek baat common hoti hai?

S: Kya?

D: Kisses... pyar jatana ho, ek doosre ko manana ho, jhagda khatam karna ho, reward dena ho, appreciate karna ho, mood theek karna ho ...kuchh bhi situation ho bas ek kiss se baat ban jati hai... lekin uske liye practice zaroori hai... par tumhe toh practice hai hi nahi...

S looks away acknowledging the fact that their lovemaking is always initiated by him and maybe she has lacked in resonating the feeling for him... Even he might have doubts for his place in her life... which was very unfair of her.. so she looks at him... and D points a finger at her nose just as he did with their coffee incident... and she kisses the finger tip... then points the same finger at his forehead, both eyes, cheeks, nose, throat making S kiss each of them one by one and in the end points to his lips... S was enjoying the game till then but went all nervous at that point...

D: See I told you tumne doctori nakl karke pass ki hai...( S glares at him feeling betrayed a bit, she did try n do as he said right!)

Dekho tumhe pata hi nahi ke katnewale dant muh ke andar hote hai aur lips bahar isliye inse darne ka kya matlab...(he was still babbling when Mrs. Dixit took the Score point and won the match)...

(c) GargiThaKur