Hey my lovelies!! I am so sorry for not updating this FF! Was a little busy and had my other FF as well. So, here is Chapter 11! Enjoy!! đ Please do read and comment!! đł
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Chapter 11
In the Aurora household
I had hid in the kitchen and watched everything that unfolded in the living hall. The slow bond that was weaving between both the Auroras and Mehras made me feel high-spirited and blissful. My cover was not blown before I intended it to. Daadi had given my cue and it was time to unleash the surprise.
As I walked out calmly with the tray, I only faced in his direction. He was seated next to Aaliya who was squashed in between him and Purab. The three of them looked greatly affectionate. His expression showed countless shades of emotions - admiration, realization, shock, disbelief and finally utter bewilderment. Aaliya kept looking from me to Abhishek, stammering, unable to get the words out. I supressed a small laughter at their comical antics.
My gaze was undeniably fixed, solely on him. Nothing else came into my range of vision, it was just a blurred patch. I inspected Abhishek carefully, he was wearing the new black T-shirt and dark blue jeans I had picked out for him while shopping yesterday. He looked freaking sexy and awesome with an ample of style, my mind screamed in my head. After what seemed like a millennium of stuttering from the both of them, a few words did manage to roll off their tongues.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!!", they practically screamed at me, deafening my hearing.
"SURPRISE!!", I screamed back at them in delight, still never leaving his eyes.
An unexpected voice spoke, breaking my eye connection with him and just basically throwing me off guard. I was the one who wanted to surprise them, but, in the turn of events, I received a surprise from an unsuspecting source.
"PRAGYA BETA?!!!", came the voices of two elderly women.
"Daadi? DAADI!!!! AAP?!!!! AAP DHONO YAHAAN?!!!", I said in complete shock.
The cat was finally out of the bag, but I never imagined that the cat would be an overweight feline. What followed was an overly excited and euphoric dramatic scene which was unfolding before my eyes.
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A sea of different facial expressions were being exhibited in the Aurora household - baffled, bewildered, flustered, dazed, distracted, glaze-eyed and at a complete loss.
Words in the form of questions and comments were being thrown in all directions, shooting out of everyone's mouth aimlessly. We were all talking, or should I say literally arguing and yelling at cross purposes. The hall soon sounded like a bustling fish market, with absolute loss of control.
This wasn't Aurora house, it was Aurora's Mental Asylum For Lunatics. A madhouse, just like how Daadi used to say.
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"Behen ji, you know Pragya?!!", "Daadi, how did you come here?!!","Pragya, why on earth are you here?!!", "Pragya Di, how do you know Abhi Bhai's Daadi?!!", "His Daadi?!!", "Pragya Di, how do you know my Daadi and Daasi?!!", "She's your Daasi?!!", "Purab yaar! How is Pragya related?!!", "Purab! Do you have a log in your mouth?!", "You met Pragya at the mandir?", "Khab?", "Pragya Diii, you never told us you met Rockstar Abhi's Daadi aur Daasi?!!", "SHE IS YOUR SISTER?!!!".
"Purab, why didn't you tell us about Pragya Di?!!", "You knew they were my budhiyas Pragya?!!", "Arre Aaliya! How was I supposed to know?!!!", "Abhi Bhai! Di wanted to surprise you!!!", "How was I to know they were related to him?!!", "You knew who I was?!!", "Pragya Di! You never even told me the truth!!", "Sarla, looks like the plan backfired!!", "Why didn't you tell me Pragya?!!", "Bulbul, you were in cahoots?!!".
"Purab! You idiot, you never told us the true identity of Bulbul's family!", "You never told me that the new friend you met at the bookshop was Pragya Di?!!", "We knew it was Pragya!!", "How did you know Ma?!", "Arre Sarla ji, we were discussing about her!!", "You were talking about her without me Daadi?!!", "Bulbul! You knew the truth! Why didn't you tell me?!!!", "Purab! You are such an idiot!!", "Aaliya, you never told me who saved you! It's all your fault!!".
"My fault?!!!", "Pragya, that means you knew the reason I was buying new clothes yesterday?!!", "I wanted to surprise you!!!", "Lekin, meri baccha! Look who is surprised now?!", "We never thought we would find her here!!!", "Pragya beta saved Didi!!", "Daadi, you fell??!! Why didn't you tell me??!!", "Aaliya, did you know about this?!! Why were you tight lipped?!!", "Purab you could have told us the truth!!".
"Abhishek, he didn't know!!", "Abhi Bhai!! Pragya Di had us even remove our photos!!", "All of you are wearing the clothes I chose yesterday! No wonder, I thought something looked wrong!!", "Abhi Bhai, you have good taste unlike Pragya and Bulbul Di!! Can we go shopping for my culturals?!!", "Haan, your granddaughter is such a sweetheart, she let us all the way to the car!!", "You didn't even recognize the car?!!".
"Arre Bhai, how many cars do you have?!!!", "Do I look like a car sales girl?!!", "Aaliya, if you knew that your Daadi and Daasi met me in the mandir, why didn't you call and tell me?!!", "Bulbul! Why didn't you tell me Di met Bhai?!", "She is one who saved me Purab!", "You never asked?!!", "I wanted to know the guy who hit you!", "Arre Purab, you cow!!", "Bhai!! I am innocent!!", "You are blind!!",
"Pragya has been praising Abhi beta and Aaliya beta since the day she met them!", "You discussed about us Pragya Di?!!", "You even covered up during our phone conversation!!", "When did you call her?!!", "And you couldn't even say hello to me?!!", "Wait a minute, you both were in contact?!!", "Pragya Di, this is not fair, Abhi is my Bhai!", "Are you mad Purab? Everyone knows that!!", "Even yesterday, she came home so ecstatic that she met Abhishek at the boutique!".
"Aunty ji, you are in this too?!!", "Abhi didn't mention anything to us na Indu!!", "Daadi!! Wrong timing!!!!", "Pragya has even joined me in watching Rockstar Abhi's concerts on TV!!", "Di, when did that happen? You never told your chotte behens, who are die hard fans of Rockstar Abhi?!!", "Daadi you watch my concerts?!!!", "Pragya Di! I thought you never had a liking to Bhai's songs?!!", "Who do you think I am beta?? I love your rock music!!!".
"Pragya beta, I never thought you would have met Abhi!!", "Didi! We should have contacted them ourselves instead of through the children!!", "Pragya was so thrilled when Bulbul mentioned that Rockstar beta was Purab's Bhai!!", "She was just excited at the coincidence Beeji! Don't spook the wheels!!", "Sarla Di! There is no smoke without FIRE!!", "FIRE?!!", "WHO SAID FIRE?!!", "PURAB! STOP STANDING THERE LIKE A LOST LAMB AND CALL THE FIRE BRIGADE!", "PURVI, GET MY PHONE!", "ARRE, WAIT A MINUTE! I DON'T SMELL ANYTHING!!".
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I had absolutely no idea whom I was talking to and who was talking to me. The entire supposed conversation made no sense at all. What's worse was that the situation was spiraling out of control and the fire brigade was about to be called!!
I had to think quick before both our families were the laughing stock of this whole neighborhood. Aaliya met my gaze, finally, looking helpless. I gestured her using my hand towards my throat and guiding it up to my mouth. She understood and nodded immediately.
"STOP!!!!!!!!!!!", we screamed holding both of our ears, and our high pitched voices bounced off the walls, vibrating the air.
Silence descended. We were stared at by everyone. The look which spelled "Is something wrong?", which were glued to everyone's faces, pissed me off.
"Please just calm down na?", I said sounding extremely flustered.
"Beta, how do you expect us to calm down?", Abhi's Daadi said.
"Daadi, I know there is currently a lot of confusion. We will clear it all now.", Aaliya said looking at her.
Without further due, Aaliya started narrating her story of how the both of us met. Subsequently, she told about her accident and how I had saved her, and called Abhishek to the hospital. Her Daadi and Daasi only knew about my identity later when they were talking to Aaliya about meeting a girl in the mandir. Putting the pieces together, only then had the three of them realized I was the same girl.
Later, Bulbul took over, relating to how she had met Abhishek and taken his approval for the marriage while at Purab's apartment. Following which, she came home and told us that Abhishek was Purab's elder brother, and that their Daadi, whom we didn't know, had agreed for a marriage proposal.
Then, I took over the reins and told everyone that, it was only when Bulbul broke the news at home, had I connected the missing dots. I knew who Abhishek and Aaliya were and how they were related to Purab. I admitted that I had forced Bulbul to keep tight lipped as I wanted to surprise the Mehra siblings when they came over for the proposal.
The only unexpected bombshell was that the elderly women I met at the mandir were actually Abhishek's Daadi and Daasi. Even after knowing it, Aaliya didn't reveal it to anyone. Not even to Abhishek. However, the only person who had absolutely no clue about anything was Purab.
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Both the Mehras and Auroras were nodding and looking at each other after listening to the story. Except me. It was a surprise, no doubt, but my brains nagged at me, mocking me that she knew everything and I didn't.
For that matter, even my princess hadn't told me that our budhiyas met Pragya at the mandir. As for Purab, he was just plain blind. Probably, if I had probed him or Bulbul further during the meet at his apartment, maybe I would have found out earlier. But, I left it, thinking that we could know more during the marriage proposal.
"Abhishek?", Pragya called me.
"You don't look happy. Are you angry?", she asked me when I just stared at her.
"What do you think?", I asked her dryly.
"Well, I thought it would be sweet surprise!", she beamed, coming to sit on the arm rest next to Aaliya.
"Surprise yes! Sweet? No!", I said shrugging my shoulders.
"Arre, kya hua?", she said, gently adjusting Aaliya's hair.
"Pragya! Mujhe vishwas nahi hota ki tum aisa karoge. I feel so weird!!", I practically whined.
"Hahaha!! Aap kyun ajeeb laga raha hai?", she laughed.
"It's not funny! It's like you knew everything and I was clueless!!", I complained.
"Well, it was part of my plan na!! Mein sirf mazaak kara raha tha!!", she shrieked at me happily.
"Koi farq nahi parhta, it was a PRANK!", I snapped at her.
"Accha! So you are saying I pranked you instead of surprising you?!", she snapped back at me.
"At least you got that right!", I barked at her.
"Oh!! So that's how it is na! I went through all the trouble of padlocking everyone's mouth, even my own and removing all my family photos, all to SURPRISE YOU, but you are siting here saying I played a PRANK!!", she said in a hyperactive tone.
"Haan!! No matter what you say, it was a PRANK! PRANK! PRANK!", I argued with her, crossing my arms.
"Abhishek, mein aapko bata raha hoon na! Surprise!!", she said, rolling her eyes.
"Prank!", I shot back at her.
"Mein ne kaha Surprise!", she said louder, crossing her arms as well.
"Prank!", I barked again.
"Surprise!!"
"Prank! Prank!!"
"Surprise Surprise!!!"
"Nahi Pragya! Prank! Prank!!!!"
"Nahi Abhishek Mehra! Surprise! Surprise!!!
"Mujhe iski parvah nahi! PRANK!!!!"
"Mein bhi parvah nahi hai! SURPIRSE!!!!"
"Pragya mein ne kaha PRANK!!!!!!"
"Mein bhi kaha SURPRISE!!!!!!!!"
"Arre!!! RUKO NA!!!!", came an exasperated voice from between us.
Aaliya was almost crouching with her hands over her ears. Pragya and I looked at her in puzzlement, not realizing that we had actually argued right above Aaliya's head and that too in a high amplitude.
"Princess?", I said in a small voice, my eyes wide in shock.
"Aaliya?", Pragya called her like a mouse.
"Aap dhono bacche hai?", she cried, looking up at the both of us.
"Princess, I am sorry. I didn't know you were here.", I tried consoling her.
"You didn't know? Bhai! I have been siting here since we came! Mein ek bhoot hun? To just disappear?", she said nearly jumping down my throat.
"Aaliya, don't scold your Bhai. We just got carried away bacche.", Pragya said caressing her cheeks.
"Ohh!!! Aap mera Bhai ko samarthana kara raha hai?!", she glared at Pragya.
"Di? Kya mein kuch bhula raha hoon?", Bulbul spoke with her eyebrows raised.
"Kuch nahi Bulbul. Tum kyun sank se apna Di ko dekha raha hai? She said na, that we just got carried away. That's all.", I said looking at Bulbul.
"Bhai? Aapko kya hua?", came another suspicious voice behind me.
"Arre Purab! Mein theek ho na", I yelled at him.
"Bas bas bacche! Enough na. Sarla, look at the time! Have you forgotten about lunch?!", Pragya's Daadi shook Sarla's hand.
"Arre Beeji, I almost forgot! Jhanki, come quickly.", Aunty ji said and rushed into the kitchen with Jhanki ji.
"Purvi, bring them inside to the dining table.", Pragya's Daadi said.
"Daadi, aren't you all coming?", Pragya asked.
"Nahi beta, we will come. You kids go and have lunch first.", she said.
"Daadi, lekin, it's already late na.", I said looking at my budhiya.
"Arre puttar! Just go and eat. We will join you later.", she said.
"Are you sure Daadi aur Daasi?", Aaliya asked.
"Meri jaan! We are sure! Now, go and eat! Jaana!", Daasi replied her.
Unable to convince them any further, the five of us moved to the dining hall as Aunty ji and Jhanki ji were placing delicious looking food on the table.
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"Behen ji! Aap dhono ko bhi mein ne dekha ki kya dekha?", Pragya's Daadi asked us.
"Haan behen ji! That's why we didn't say anything!", I said to her excitedly.
"We just kept quiet and watched them!", Daasi whispered with a thrill.
"Behen ji, to be honest, Indu and I like Pragya.", I told her.
"Arre behen ji, mein bhi Abhishek ki pasand hai.", Pragya's Daadi said gleefully.
"But, we mustn't rush this. Let them get to know each other even more.", I told the both of them.
"How Didi?", Indu asked me.
"Haan behen ji, how do we get them to meet each other more often?", Pragya's Daadi asked me looking perplexed.
"I have my secret weapon who is capable of all this mischief and she has already started the ball rolling.", I beamed at them.
"When was this?", Indu asked me.
"Getting them to do shopping together was the first plan!", I said thinking about my smart granddaughter.
"Kya??!! So the shopping thing was planned?!", Pragya's Daadi asked, her mouth wide open.
"Planned? By who? Woh kon hai?! ", the both of them said at once.
"Aaliya.", I said with a smile.
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Edited by abi5991 - 9 years ago
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