FF - Ek Duje Ke Liye, Ch 35, pg47 updt on 15.12 - Page 2

Dutta…..Bhao….thought Nakusha….what was the name of the don who came to inaugurate the Mandap yesterday…..whom Suchitra called the biggest don of Mumbai….nehi nehi….Dutta is a common name and Bhao means brother….and every other man wears a diamond earrings nowadays….

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Ganpat walked up and down in their room…Babi idhar mera dum ghut raha hai, oh my god such a big house but I am feeling suffocated….

Ganpat ek din, can't you do without your drink for a day even….Babi scolded him…come and sit down and stop walking up and down, mera sar duk raha hai….

Tai, come on lets take a walk round the house….see many people have left, chal bahar jara ghum ke ateh hai…kya ghar hai Sethji exclaimed….

Nehi rukh ja, kya jaroorat hai they might not like it….

Tai, please see maybe we will not get a chance to come here again, chalo na if you do not go I will go alone….

Nehi tu akela nehi jayega..Naku uske saath ja, as it is your father is acting like a child himself and I cannot take anymore tensions….be with him and don't dare touch anything nor enter anybody's room…kisi ko disturb nehi karne ka…..

Sethji did not wait further, he ran out, Naku went after him, rukh ja bhao rukh ja….

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Ayi Sahib watched the brother sister duo taking a round of house…she moved away from their view, as it is they were uneasy …Ayi Sahib had expected them to be….when Babi's eldest daughter was born she had seen her…a beautiful child, Babi too was very refined in her own way, hard working woman who was always dreaming about a better life while trying to keep her husband under control….not that Ayi Sahib did not meet such women in that basti but somehow she felt connected to Babi, even after so many years when Babi asked her for help her voice shook, unable to make eye contact…yes Ayi Sahib had invited Babi to have a look at her daughter Pari…if she was still a beauty as the women of the basti remembered her to be….it is time Dutta gets married….not that Dutta asked her to look for a girl for him but as a mother she thought it is high time he got married…leaving it on to him he was always picking the wrong girl and getting hurt…fortunately he does not need a girl who will need to earn to support his family but a girl who will love her husband blindly, not question his actions, love his family and take care of his hearth….poor girl Nakusha, which parents would like to have a girl like her, specially the poor who would have problems in getting her married…the girl too seems to be very conscious of that fact, she tries to hide herself always…Ayi Sahib sighed…maybe she should she should speak to Dutta, if he knows of any boy who will be willing to marry, of course they have to spend a bit of money…ugly girls do get married…don't they..Ayi Sahib went towards her room…..

Tai dekh…dekh ekdom asli lagta hai na….Sethji exclaimed seeing a figurine….

Haath nehi lagana, Nakusha pulled him back….hath nehi lagana….tut jayega toh hum bharpai nehi kar payenge, dekhke hi maloom hota hai ki it is very expensive….

Areh tai tu bhi har samay paisa paisa karti rehti hai…just like mother…both of you are just the same…..

Nakusha smiled…well not really….she thought, if she was her mother in reality than she would have left her husband long back….not that she does not like her father but then she also realizes as a husband he is a very bad one…

They cross the garden, while Sethji was busy admiring the various figures, lights the garden was decorated but Nakusha's eyes went towards a hut at the corner of the lawn, she could see few people standing with a glasses in their hand and inspecting what looked like a rifle, she narrowed her eyes to get a better look was it a rifle….one of those which they show on TV when the guards of big minister…isn't that guy who is holding it is Bajirao the man who was being most sought after by Dutta Bhao and Ayi Sahib….

Uhmmm…someone cleared his throat startling Nakusha…she looked at that direction to see him standing and watching them…….

Err so…sorry for disturbing you..…Nakusha stammered…Sethji chal lets go, Ayi must be wondering where we are…she pulled her brother inside when she heard someone greeting…..

Dutta Bhao ajao ajao, Bajirao has liked the consignment, lets drink to our the deal on this special day….Nakusha turned behind to see a glass being offered to him while he picked up the gun…Nakusha hesitated…he looked up to stare back at her…she pulled Sethji and ran inside….

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Areh Babi idhar kya jaroorat tha usse yesa lane ki dekh idhar sab kitne achhe hai, idhar kya hota uska….

Tu apna bar bar band kar….ek bhala admi ke pass hi humlog apna Pari ko tuitions ke liye bhejti thi…uska anjam bhugat rahi hu…..Babi stifled her cry….

Sab tere dosh hai, beti ko parana hai, likhana hai, Ganpat mocked….lekin tu aise karegi toh dusra bhi hamara sar ke upar baitha rahega pura zindagi….abhi shaadi karana hai uski…..umar ho giya hai…is umar me tere shaadi ho gaya tha…

Areh deva re deva koi toh isse chup karao…nothing is normal with you Ganpat, either you are drunk and out or you are constantly talking nonsense….

Not nonsense but sense…dekh she is growing up and she needs to get married now….

Just then Nakusha entered with Sethji..who gets to marry ? She asked….

Tu aur kaun…mera sar par abhi ekhi toh bojh hai….

Listen Baba I am not getting married, not in this lifetime and that is for sure…..

Shaadi nehi karegi…aur kitna din hamara roti toregi….

Mai abhi kamane lagi hu….I will study and work my way up…..

Hai hai badi ayi kamane wali….

Idhar bhi jhagra…Ayi why did you bring this man with us…Sethji grumbled….

Areh bap hu tera….

Nakusha was glad the attention was moved away from her she went and sat on the window ledge the garden was looking beautiful with lights on….

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During festivals Ayi Sahib was unable to sleep, the trauma of losing her husband during Diwali night haunted her but children have grown up, time has moved on and festivals need to be celebrated…Ayi Sahib came out of her room silently…the house was asleep and she wanted to see everything was alright, everybody was safe…as she walked past the hall she stopped….a beautiful girl was sitting with her wet hair wrapped in a towel, lighting all the diyas in front of the deity ….who is this beautiful girl, so known yet so unknown….the light from the oil lamps made a face glow, she looked so peaceful and serene…Bappa, Ayi has endured a lot, make her happy please, after all these years she deserves to be happy, don't you think so….she pushed the wicks of the lamps so they glowed brightly….

Areh Naku idhar baithke kya kar rahi hai….sone chal….it is about to be morning, if somebody will see you what will happen….

Ayi the whole house is asleep, don't worry I have ensured that before I came out…..Ayi sone ka mann nehi kar raha hai, it is so nice to have a puja in the house…Ayi I hope to get a better job, agle saal hum bhi ganapati ka sthapna karenge hamare kholi pe…..

Beta I have stopped making plans long back…we will see when time comes, now lets sleep, it will not look nice we will cannot get up in the morning with the others….chal chal….Babi pulled her daughter away….

Ayi Sahib came out from behind the pillar…with a smile on her lips she went towards her room….

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If you have money there were no shortage of way to spend it, there was good food, not to say about a 'group of singers' who came to sing bhajans praising the lord and then poor people were called in to get their share of gifts and food….Nakusha observed that in every stage, Ayi Sahib was directing her son, what to do and what to give, he was following her instructions quietly, just like an obedient servant or mama's boy, can he be the mighty don as Suchitra said….Nakusha narrowed her eyes…nehi I think there is a mistake somewhere….I am only assuming things…but those were rifles and guns, what would a good man do with such things and he does not even look fearsome, ha serious jaroor, does not smile often but …..just then Nakusha heard two guards speaking, areh kal mal agiya hai, ekdom latest, now Bajirao will not spare us if we goof up, he will not hear any excuses with Bhao's security…..

Areh tu kis soch me khowee hai, come Ayi Sahib wants to meet us, her servant is waiting to take us to her, Oh my god, this house and their servants, Nakusha grimaced, chal ayi, waise bhi we have to leave today, tomorrow the shop will reopen, I have to join back….

Ha ha we will take this opportunity to say our goodbye even, she is a busy woman, they followed the servant …..

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