hey guys...thanks for the awesome response to the prologue of my ff...i hope im able to meet all of your expectations...im trying my best...here is part one...sorry if you are bored...but its setting up the stage for the whole ff so please bare with me...i promise...bohot jaldi...the real drama/romance/twists will begin 😳😳😳...
Happy Reading!! 😃
NOTE: Im not good with the whole "tere ko...mere ko" stuff...the way they talk on the show...so im sticking to hindi...😳...also...i needed a name for Aayi Saahib so just go with the flow...her name is Sujata...😆
Chapter 1
The shrill shriek of her alarm woke Naku up – like it did every morning. Opening her eyes slightly, she could see that the sun was just making its debut for the day, which meant that she too would be getting up. Rolling over to the other side, Naku reached to turn off the alarm clock before it woke up everyone else in the house. Then, just like she did every morning, she took a moment to admire the picture on her side table – a picture of her parents.
"Naku!" someone called.
Scrambling out of bed, Naku grabbed her dupatta that rested at the foot of her bed and rushed out of the room. She heard her name another three times before she made it to the main hall where the commotion was coming from. As she approached, she could see her mother, Babi, wearing a not-so-pleased expression on her face.
"Ji Aayi," Naku said as she came to stand in front of Babi.
"Kahaan margayi thi!? Kitni baar avaz laga chuki hoon main tere liyeh," Babi yelled.
"Maaf kijiyega…woh alarm…" Naku tried to explain.
"Jaab dekho bahana banate rehte ho!" she said as she rolled her eyes. "Tu jaanti hai naa ke aaj ghaar mein mehman aane vale hai? Tujhe maine kahaa tha naa ke saab kuch ek dum perfect hona chahiyeh? Phir bhi tu itni dehr tak soh rahi thi!"
Naku didn't say anything, because she knew that no matter what she said Babi would accept nothing.
"Jaa, jaldi se tayar hoja…bohot kaam hai. Barsoon baad meri saheli aa rahi hai mujhse milne," Babi said with a smile. "Main nahin chati ke tere vajese saab kuch barbad hojayeh. Aab jaati hai ke nahin!?"
"Ji Aayi," Naku said as she turned to leave.
"Naku, tik se tayar hona," she called back as a warning.
"Ji," Naku said before heading up the stairs back to her room.
Naku's room, so to speak, was actually the small storage room all the way that the back of the house on the second floor. Everything in that room was reachable in just a few steps. As she entered her room she went to her closet and pulled out a patterned green and yellow suit for the day. She took of her dupatta and placed it on the bed, her eyes once again falling on the picture of her parents. Taking just a moment, she picked up the frame and looked at the smiling faces.
"I miss you," Naku whispered before placing it back on the table before heading into the shower.
As the cold water from the shower hit her body, Naku couldn't help but think about her life – what it had been and what it turned into. She couldn't help but think back to a time before she was Naku, back to a time when she was just Nakusha. Nakusha had never known her biological mother because she had died giving birth to her. You'd think her father would hate her; after all it was because of her that his wife had died, but amazingly he didn't. What ever had happened and as hurt as he was, he never gave her anything but love and adoration. She had been a true "daddy's girl" from the day she was born. Her father always said that Nakusha was part of his wife and that was enough for him to live his life. For the first four years of her life it had just been Nakusha, her father, his expanding medical practice and his growing family business. In those five years Nakusha had dreamed big just like her father had.
It had been under the pressure of his family that, her father had agreed to remarry. He thought it was a blessing and a sign from God when the rishta for Babi had come along. She had been married at a very young age and tragically lost her husband in a factory accident. She was widowed at the age of 25, with two girls to raise – 8 and 6 years old. Her father had insisted on marrying Babi because he felt that she could understand the pain he felt in losing his wife, and he felt that she could love Naku like her own, just like he would love her two girls. Therefore, just three months before her fifth birthday, her father married Babi. They were officially Ganpat and Babi Deshmuk. With Babi moving in with her daughters, Leelavati and Supriya – or Leela and Priya as they preferred to be called – her father had built a bigger house for them all.
At the beginning, things were great. Babi treated Naku with love and respect and Naku managed to get along with the girls. However, about a year into the marriage things had suddenly changed. Babi became distant and inattentive while Leela and Supriya had began to fight with Naku on every matter. It had gotten to the point where her father was the only person that talked to her with love and affection. Babi and the girls acted very nice in her father's presence, but behind his back it was a different story. Naku didn't care, all she needed was for her father to be happy and he was. His business was making incredible profit which Babi and her girls enjoyed immensely. The only thing he missed as spending time with his family.
Naku was getting the honor roll award at her school at the age of sixteen when the incident happened. Ganpat had been away for a medical conference but he was determined to make it back for the ceremony. The train he was supposed to take got delayed by three hours, so he decided to rent a car and drive out. While he was driving, he had an accident with a truck whose breaks failed – he died on the spot.
Babi blamed Naku for her husbands death, she cursed Naku for the day she was born because all she brought with her was death and devastation. Naku didn't mind at what Babi said because inside, Naku blames herself as well.
That accident had happened shattered not only Nakusha's dreams, but it had shattered Nakusha's heart and soul. Since that accident, Nakusha had been living in her own house as the ugly maid that everyone looked down on. Babi and her girls had always been jealous of Nakusha's natural beauty so they took this opportunity to ruin it. She was under strict orders that she was never to show her face to anyone and that she was to do as they say. With her father dead and no other family to turn to, Nakusha did as she was told. A week after her fathers death Nakusha had died as well, and Naku as born. That had been five years ago.
As Naku sat in front of her vanity applying the last touches of make up to cover her fair skin, she knew that her life would be nothing more than this. People came into this world with their destiny set, their fate planned. Naku's destiny was to suffer for herself the pain she caused others, and her fate was to be alone in this storage room until the day she died.
Pinning her dupatta to her shoulders, and giving herself a once over making sure everything was in place – that there was no sigh of Nakusha – she made her way out of her room. As she made her way thought the house she could hear Babi already giving out orders to the other servants. Coming into the dining room she saw Babi and her older step-sisters sitting at the table.
"Naku…chai," Supriya ordered.
"Abhi laayi Taayi," Naku said as she hurried into the kitchen.
She came back a few minutes later with the tea kettle and three cups. As she poured and added sugar to each cup, Naku couldn't help but over hear what was being said. What want she could gather, Babi's friend, Sujata Patil, was coming to stay with them because of some sort of threat because of her son. Her friend was coming with the son and apparently a big security detail. Apparently the plan was also to get the son to fall for Priya, as Leela was already engaged to a man named Sundar Sawant.
"Khadi khadi humare baatein kyun sun rahi hai? Jaa, aapna kaam kar," Babi ordered.
"Ji," Naku said.
And so the day began with her chores. First cleaning up the kitchen after breakfast, then moving on to the laundry, cleaning the entire house, making sure all the guest room were fully stocked and ready for the visitors. Naku worked as fast as she could, sneaking in a cup of tea and a few crackers as her breakfast. Naku was in the kitchen over seeing lunch perpetrations when suddenly commotion broke across the house hold.
"Priya, Leela!" Babi called as she raced to the door, "Jaldi aao! Woh log aagayeh."
Priya and Leela polished their appearances as they climbed down the stairs.
"Aayi, main kaisi lag rahi hoon iss color mein?" Priya asked as she settled her dupatta around her neck.
"Aur main? Yeh jhumke kaise hai?" Leela asked as she tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ears.
"Meri dono betiyaan bilkul pariyoon jaise lag rahi hai. Kissi ki nazar naa lage." Babi took kaajal from her eyes and put a tika behind the ear of each girl.
Along with the other servants, Naku came and stood behind everyone else in the main hall, wiping her wet hands on her dupatta as she did.
The first people to walk in were two men dressed in black, looking like guards. One stood on each side of the door as a middle aged woman, wearing a simple purple and gold saree, walked in. Instantly Naku took a liking to the woman simply for the smile she wore on her face. The smile had the ability to light any room she walked into, like she did just then. The smile was genuine, not fake like those plastered on the faces of her family members.
"Sujata!" Babi yelled.
"Babi!" her friend yelled at the same time.
The two friends went into each others arms as they greeted each other.
"Itne dino baad meri yaad aayi? Saab suna hai tere bare mein. Aab tujhe main Sujata bulaoon ya Aayi Saahib (AS)?" Babi asked.
"Chup kaar. Aaisi baath nahin hai, baas…itna waqt kaise guzar gaya, kuch paata hi nahin chala. Aur tu, tere liyeh toh main humesha Sujata hi hoon," AS said.
"Haan haan. Aagar zarurat nahin hota toh tu aaj bhi nahin aati," Babi complained.
At that comment, the smile half disappeared on AS's face and she took Babi's hands into hers. "Sukriya. Humare liyeh tu joh kaar rahi hai, uska ehsaan main khabi nahin chuka paunga."
"Chup," Babi protested. "Dost hoon teri. Zarurat ke waqt kaam nahin aaungi toh kaab aaungi?"
They two friends hugged again. Naku knew that the feelings that AS was displaying were true. As badly as she wanted to believe that Babi's feelings were true, Naku couldn't bring herself to buy it. She had a nagging feeling that this was all just an act to increase the chances of one of Babi's daughters forming a relationship with AS's son.
"Aa, tujhe aapni betiyoon se milati hoon," Babi said as she pulled Sujata into the house. The both took seats on the sofa as the girls approached. "Yeh hai Supriya aur Leelavati." Babi pointed out each girl to her friend. "Pyaar se hum inhe Priya aur Leela bulate hai."
"Namaste Aunty," Priya and Leela said at the same time.
"Namaste beta," AS replied.
"Aane mein koi taqleef toh nahin hui naa?" Babi asked.
"Nahin, bilkul nahin. Baas thodi thak gayi hoon," AS answerd.
"Naku! Idar aa," Babi called. As Naku approached Babi continued, "Yeh hai Naku, kuch bhi chahiyeh ho toh isse keh dena."
"Namaste," Naku said as she bent down to take ashirwad.
"Aare baas baas…" AS sais as she pulled Naku up. Putting a hand on Naku's cheek she said, "Humesha kush raho."
"Aaiyeh, main aapko aapka kamra dikha deti hoon," Naku offered.
"Haan, chalo," AS said as she got up.
"Sujata…" Babi called, "Tu toh keh raha tha ke tere saath tera beta bhi aayega. Woh nahin aaye?"
AS turned around to face Babi. "Nahin aaya hai naa. Paata nahin kahaan reh gaya."
Suddenly, Naku watched as a smile appeared on AS's face, and pride and love shone in her eyes. "Yeh loh, aagaya mera beta," she said with her eyes fixed on the door.
Curious, Naku followed AS's gaze and then…then she saw him.
JAZ
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