Rishbala SS: And then he kissed me..Epilogue pg13 - Page 3

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Originally posted by: Rishabala_luv

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XS has been providing technical and field services to almost all the affiliates of Rishabh's company all over the world. But as a technology center, the affiliate in India needed some specialist modules for the geological modeling software developed by XS. This presentation was solely intended to demonstrate the efficiency of those modules. Madhu as a project geologist was responsible for both the conception and the execution of the application. The presentation was commenced by the business development head and Madhu took over from the technical part. Her delivery was crisp and precise. At the end of the talk, everyone agreed that XS had been successful in exceeding their client's expectation.

"Bravo Miss Malik! It will be a pleasure working with you for the next 2 months," exclaimed Jean-Marc Francois. Madhu nodded in agreement. Rishabh walked up to her and said, "excellent job Madhu. Jean-Marc is very miserly with appreciative words, a typical French man, you know! But he praised you outrightly, and that is a big achievement!" Madhu could feel the easy tone in him and that made her feel comfortable. Rishabh is an out-an-out professional, what else did she expect from him? She smiled and said, "I hope we can keep up to your expectation."

Things looked brighter with each passing day. Madhu was enjoying her work more than before. After she had topped her Masters class from IIT, she joined XS Inc. As any other service providing company, the vision of XS had equal priorities in technical excellence as well as its marketing strategy. Madhu had seen some of her batchmates being recruited solely for their marketable appearance and attitude, more than their technical competency. But Madhu had proven her management that even if she was not as attractive as she is, she would have excelled in her job with her technical proficiency. Thus her boss always roped her in any of the biggest projects that came by. She had faced many critical situations in those kinds of projects, but somehow this time she was very relaxed. It was her first project with this British oil and gas major but the work atmosphere was not as much intimidating. And more precisely it was Rishabh, yes; she had to accept the fact that Rishabh being the project lead from the client's side had always been extremely supportive. He would chalk out the strategy well ahead of time, so that nobody would have to slog at the end to meet deadlines. He would list out the probable loopholes and work on them early so that the work was not stalled for any reason. This was definitely a worthy experience for Madhu and she knew she would miss this once it was over.

Both Radha and Padmini were happy for Rishabh and Madhu as they could feel the tension being drained out. Rishabh would tease her and Jeevika in front of everyone, getting smacks from both the sisters at once. Madhu was very happy to have him as a colleague and a friend, and was thankful to him for handling the whole situation with such maturity.

"Bhai it is their first holi after marriage this time, we have to make it special," announced Mohan Kundra. Shamsher also joined him saying, "why not Mohan ji, let's have a dhamaal this time." "This time holi is in a weekend, so the children will also not have an issue to make out time for it, let's go to our farmhouse this time," suggested Radha.

It was decided that both the Kundras and Maliks would drive to the farmhouse the evening before holi to enjoy holika dahan. The next morning all the relatives and friends would join them and they would return after a day of rest in the farmhouse. Everyone was super excited about the whole thing. Madhu had even planned a surprise dance with Jeevika at the holika bon-fire. But she was so busy with the project now, as it was near its deadline, she did not have time to practice with her sister. "Don't worry Madz, we will have ample time at the farmhouse once we reach there. They have an outhouse where we can sneak in and practice before the bon-fire starts." "Ok Didz, we will dance on that chhalka re tune, which we have performed before already, so won't need much rehearsal." "Done!!"

Madhu was trying to think why the error message was coming up constantly, when Rishabh tapped at her desk. "Yes Rishabh, give me few minutes more. This error should not come up like this, there must be something.." "Madhu, do not bring your car to the office tomorrow.." "But why?" Madhu could not link the error message with her car. "Tomorrow I will pick you up for the office in morning and we will go home from office together." Madhu gave him her blankest look which made Rishabh laugh, saying, "take a break Madhu. Tomorrow we are going to the farmhouse for holi. So you will come with me to our house and then we all will go to the farmhouse together."

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Madhu sat in the car with Rishabh as they were heading towards the Kundra house after work. They were chatting about the progress in their project when suddenly Madhu's phone started ringing. It was Mukund from US. Madhu excused herself and picked up the phone. "Hey Madhu, how are you? You did not call me once since last week." "Oh sorry, I was very busy with work. Getting home quite late every night." "That busy huhh!! You do not have time to call your beloved also! What's cooking up there huhh?" Madhu's face hardened at his acrid remark. Rishabh did not know whose call it was, but could feel the unease in her voice. "You do not need to put much hard work in a service company. Just go decked up to the client's office and grab the projects. All your busy work schedule talks are just BS." Madhu had no intention to ruin her mood before the holi gathering, but Mukund's talks were getting on her nerves. In a cold voice she concluded, "it's good that you understand my job so well. Can we continue this conversation later? I am heading towards Didz home." Before Mukund could say any further she hung up.

Karan was driving with Rishabh in the passenger's seat in front. The two sisters seating at the back kept on whispering and giggling. "Must be some conspiracy against us bro." "You are right Rishu, I do not believe these two together." "Oye kya bola hamare bare mein?" "Kuchh nahin Bhabi, just talking about the hot chicks coming tomorrow." "Wait bachchu, when you will get married, I will tell your bride what rangraliya you have been doing all this while, huhh!!" "When I get married..!!" Rishabh suddenly caught Madhu staring at him at the reference of his marriage and somewhere inside he knew she was not looking forward to that.

Jeevika and Madhu hurried to the outhouse with the portable music system. Although they tried their best to avoid the eyes of Karan and Rishabh, but could not succeed in doing so. The boys kept on calling them and disturbing them throughout the rehearsal and the sister duo were left aghast with the whole episode. It was a quite warm evening and both the girls sweated out by the time they were done. Still 15 min were left before the bon-fire, so they decided to go freshen up.

Madhu put on a nice red and white cotton Patiala suit and hurried down the stairs to meet everyone at the hall. But to her amazement not a single soul was there. She looked around the hall and peeked in the adjoining rooms, but could not see anyone. "Didz...Jiju..Ma..where are you?" She was just going to step out of the house when all the lights turned off. A loud scream followed by a wail, "Maaa.." Madhu almost fainted when two strong hands held her tightly and said, "kuchh nahin Madhu, it was just a joke, we all are here." Rishabh had heard that Madhu feared darkness and he just wanted to play a prank on her. He had never imagined it could have such a grievous effect on her.

Madhu has always been afraid of the darkness. It was this darkness which had taken away her Papa from her and even after 20 years she could not make a truce with the darkness. She was barely six that time. Every day she would see her mother and Shamsher uncle rushing to the hospital after Balraj Chaudhary, her father was admitted with some grave kidney disorder. Jeevika and Madhu waited and prayed for their Papa every night. One day Padmini came back and said, "Papa will be all right beta. A good man has donated his kidney to your Papa and very soon he will be home." That night it was raining heavily. The nearby power station was damaged and all over there was darkness. Madhu was sleeping with her mom and sister. She was dreaming about her Papa calling her out in the garden. Suddenly the phone started ringing. Padmini jolted out of her sleep and rushed to pick up the phone. All that Madhu remembers of that night is the loud cry of her mother reverberating through the walls of the house. Balraj had some post-operational complication and could not make it. At that tender age of six, Madhu had realized what the darkness of that night had snatched away from her. Balraj's treatment had made his family almost pauper. Padmini did not know how to bring up her daughters while coping up with this huge loss. Shamsher Malik, Balraj's childhood friend was their only support throughout this crisis. It was Balraj's mother who could not bear the pain her DIL and the grandchildren were suffering and requested Shamsher to marry Padmini and accept her daughters. Shamsher has always been a man of his words. He has never let Jeevika or Madhu feel the absence of their father.

Madhu opened her eyes and saw a tensed Rishabh holding her. She was so outraged at his words that pushed him away from her with a jerk. "How dare you try to play such dirty tricks on me?" "Madhu!! Watch your mouth!!" exclaimed Jeevika. Shamsher, realizing the gravity of the situation, came for the rescue. "Madhu beti, itna bhi bura mat maano. We all were involved in this prank. Maaf kar do beta!!" and he held his ears. Madhu could not hold on her smile and hugged her father saying, "chalo maaf kiya sab ko."

The holika fire was lit and then Jeevika announced to everyone about their surprise performance. Everyone cheered and applauded and the song started. The two girls danced around like two angels. Everyone smiled and enjoyed. The song was almost at its end when suddenly the music player stopped. Madhu and Jeevika looked at each other in confusion when suddenly they heard two loud voices at their back.

"Humko kehte superman

On karlo handycam

From AM to PM

Bandey hain do service me"

Rishabh and Karan jumped up from behind. They were wearing a cape-like cloth around their neck over the clothes and dark goggles. The background tune filled up the atmosphere and these boys started dancing with the weirdest moves around the girls.

"Tainu main love kar da

Be matlab karda

Baahon me aa sonriye

Bas aj raat ke liye"

Karan held Jeevika by her waist and whirled her around in a sexy twirl.

"Saddi ka desi hai adaa

Sadde pe ho jani fida

Baahon me aa sonriye

Bas aj raat ke liye"

Rishabh held Madhu's hand and pulled her closer while singing along.

"Subah hone na de..saath khone na de 'ek dusre ko hum sone na de

Tu mera hero..ooo'.hero'.ooo'Tu mera hero'"

Jeevika and Madhu were really angry at first but seeing the slapstick act by the brothers they could not help but laugh and join the revelry.

The holika burnt bright while spreading positivity around these merry people.

Originally posted by: mannu_minnie

more part coming????

Will try to finish off by tomorrow 😛

Originally posted by: mimibm

Will try to finish off by tomorrow 😛