"movie dekhne chale????" she pouted n blinked her eyes to convince swayam who looked up from his laptop... He gave a nervous smile...
"haa ...chalte hai..." he knew there is no point in fighting with her because right now fat tears will spill from her eyes...
"insidious dekhte hai..." Sharon said clapping her hands like a kid... Swayam felt his cardiac muscles contract signaling him of an attack...
"lekin cookie... Horror movie dekhne se hormonal change hote hai.. and its not good in pregnancy...any kind of shock is not good for the baby nuh????" he prayed to all the gods he knew of hoping his crazy , 4 month pregnant wife listens to him...
It has been 5 yrs of their marriage and for swayam it has been a beautiful journey knowing all the shades of Sharon which were unknown to him even after being her best friend...
And right now , whatever swayam was hoping became true to his horror... sharon's eyes has started brimming...
"accha fine... chalte hai..." swayam immediately wiped her tears and they got ready...
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"swayam..." Sharon looked up from the crook of his neck at him...
"hm..." swayam and Sharon were sitting in the theatre with his hands wrapped around her tightly as she was white with fear...
"tu sahi tha... mujhe nahi dekhna.. ye bohut darawni hai..." she pouted and swayam immediately took her out of the theatre...
"so ab kya karna hai????" swayam asked her hoping again she won't ask him to take for sky diving... with the kind of weird way Sharon was behaving that was not at all impossible...
"lets watch something funny... how about rom com????" she winked at him and swayam sighed in relief... better than sky diving...
They went to another screen of the multiplex after getting the tickets and settled down... after an hour of the movie Sharon looked at swayam with a frown...
"ye bakwas hai I tell you..." swayam was shocked... all the people around them looked at them giving him looks as Sharon was too loud...
Swayam gave them an embarrassing smile in the dark theatre and whispered to Sharon...
" what's wrong cookie..."
"mujhe ye nahi dekhna... its boring...lets watch the horror movie only... ab dar nahi lagega..." Swayam gritted his teeth in frustration and went out along with Sharon...
"kya chahiye???" he snapped at her and sharon frowned... swayam mentally face palmed and bashed himself left and right for shouting at her ...
"mera matlab hai ab kya kare???" he asked her sweetly...
"bola na..lets go back to insidious..." she pouted...
"but sharon the movie is almost over..." He whinned...
"Sharon kyun bola?????" she asked almost ready to burst into tears... Swayam was taken aback...
"huh???" he didn't know what else to say...
"cookie nahi bola..." she stomped her foot and started walking out of the mall and swayam now face palmed literally and ran after her to catch up with her...
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It was evening and Sharon was sitting in the lounge and swayam was sitting there too watching the French opens quarter final men's singles and was almost cursing his fate as Roger Federer was on the losing end... nothing was going right today...
"Sharon di.. ye lo apki milk...jaldee pilo..." muskaan sat beside her giving her the glass... Sharon made a face and turned away...
"mujhe nahi peene..." She pouted ...
"soch lo..isme apki favorite chocolate nuts hai..." muskaan smirked as she knew Sharon is gonna drink it right away... Sharon's face lit up and she finished the milk in one way...
" nut for a nut..." Swayam muttered but as he correctly mentioned that his day was too bad , both Sharon and muskaan had heard it... Next came what was most expected...
Sharon burst into tears and started sobbing while his mom and chachi came downstairs and then he had to listen to a half an hour long lecture of how inappropriate of him was to make an "innocent" girl like Sharon cry and behave rudely with her when he was supposed to be fulfilling all her wishes even if her wish meant taking her to Disney land...
"great...just great..." He muttered...
"waise why don't you concentrate on decorating the baby room..." Swayam's mom tried to calm Sharon down... Sharon's face immediately lit up...
"haa swayam... rey ko bol colouring book leke aye..." she said happily... swayam knew she would be happy one moment and sad one moment...
"colouring book???" he tried to confirm whether he had heard right...
"I mean... wall pe paint karne ke liye colour catalogue..." after Sharon explained swayam called rey and after half an hour rey was standing in the lounge along with the rest of the shekhawat family looking sympathetically at swayam...
"blue karaye...???" Sharon went throught he card which had different shades of blue...
"nahi...pink kara... it would be a girl I'm sure..." Swayam said with a smile...
"nahi blue..." sharon immediately had to say the exact opposite of what swayam had said...
"go for mauve.." muskaan suggested and Sharon took her advice and asked for the purple catalogue...
"but these are not the correct mauve rey..." she threw the cards on rey's face and he was buffled...poor fellow , swayam thought...
"huh???" rey couldn't gauge any other reaction...
"haa... some are more mauve , some are less mauve , some are a bit less than too much mauve... some are much more than a little less mauve... some are bluish mauve , but I want mauve... not more , not less , but the correct mauve..." She explained herself and thought everyone has understood and casually went upstairs...
And in the hall there was pin drop silence... rey looked at the mauve catalogue hurled on his face and then looked at swayam who gave everyone a " I told you she is nuts" look...
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It was night and swayam came inside the room to see Sharon smiling standing near the window with a smile looking at the pouring rain.. he smiled looking her smile and guessed her mood was fine... so it was safe for him... he went inside and locked the door and hugged her from behind caressing her slightly swollen belly... Sharon leaned back at him...
"baby?? Sab thik haina andar????" swayam asked looking at her stomach...
"haa papa sab thik hai..." Sharon replied ... every night it was their schedule to talk to each other as if swayam was conversing with the baby...
"swayam see na.. its raining... lawn mein water log ho gaya..." Sharon said cheerfully... swayam gave a nervous smile again.. hope she won't ask him to swim there...
"haaa..." he said with a fake smile...
"chal na waha chalke paper boats sail karte hai..." she clapped her hands again... swayam sighed in relief... after all sailing paper boats is easier than swimming in rain water , he mentally chuckled at his own stupid joke...
Sharon went and took her diary out from her locked drawer... swayam frowned... she sat on the bed and tore some pages from there...
"ye kya kar rahi hai????" swayam literally screamed as he saw the papers she was tearing the pages where her writing was there...
"paper boat karne ke liye paper chahiye..." she made a face at him...
Swayam rushed towards her and snatched the diary away...
"kahi aur se tear kar... ye kyun kharab kar rahi hai..." he frowned at her trying to prove his point...
"you bloody thief , robber , dacoit..." She screamed back at him and swayam's eyes popped out...
"what???" he asked clueless...
" pura diary to tune chor ki tarah par liya.. you literally know it by heart... Ab iski kya zarurath..." she glared at him...
"haa wo to hai..." swayam grinned at her... " but abhi tu diary nahi likhegi?? Matlab nahi likhti bohut dino se but kabhi nahi likhegi????" he asked softly...
"naahhh..." she smiled and hugged his arms... " ab tu haina... jo likhneka man karega wo tujhe bata dungi... mera chalta firta diary... and in that way tere liye bhi easy hoga.. sunna is easier than chori karke parna..." she winked at him and swayam smiled...
They were standing on the last staircase of the lawn which was not immersed in rain water.. swayam had pulled up his jeans till his knees and Sharon was already wearing a knee length short... they had made paper boats out of her diary pages...
Swayam didn't let Sharon bend a bit and instead he himself took the boats to sail it in the water to fulfill her wish and make her smile and Sharon held and umbrella above their head...
As the rain dropped on the logged water creating ripples , and sharon's laughter echoed resonating above the sound of the rain , swayam followed sharon's gaze as their boats made of the pages of the diary floated away, each carrying the secret tale of their friendship and love "beyond commitment"...
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