Ishra FF ||A Contract Of Love 2|| Chapter 25 ~ Chapter 39 - Page 15

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Originally posted by: swathin

Beautiful update
loved d way story is moving

"Ishita!"

He rushed into the bathroom to where she was grabbing her shoulders. She was on the verge on crying and he knew exactly why. No one else besides him and their family knew anything about her pregnancy and clearly she wasn't ready to tell anyone either. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes as she tried to hold back her sobs.

"Raman..." she called him in a choking voice. As he looked at her, she gave him a helpless look before she started to whimper as she hid her face in her hands.

"Relax, it's okay. Don't cry please." He held her shoulders tighter as if telling her it would all be fine.

"Do you think they know? What if-" Before she could continue on saying anything, he cut her off.

"Shhh, leave all that to me." He asked her not to worry about anything and told her to wipe of her tears before anyone saw them. When she continued to cry, he turned on the water tap...

"Ishita if you don't stop crying and wash your face, I will splash all this water on you now so it will blend in with your tears."

She let out a small laugh between her cries as he asked her to trust him. She knew well enough that if he told her he would fix everything that he would it. She felt as if he would always be there with her to solve her problems like he had been doing till today and this was no exception. So she did as he said and washed her face and made it look like she had never cried in the first place.

He watched as she took a minute to wash her face and closed her eyes to get rid of the slight redness in them. She looked at herself in the mirror drying her face and giving a smile in the mirror as if nothing had ever happened. He was amazed at how easily she had made it look like she was fine despite the fear of people knowing and the pain of being judged again was still in her for sure. And so he knew he was right, there was a lot of pain hidden in her and she had been hiding it for a long time. That's why she could so easily cover up her momentarily breakdown and put a smile for the world to see. She looked at him as she finished cleaning up bringing him out of his thoughts...

"You okay now?"

"I still feel a little sick."

"Then we'll go home and you cancel your plan for today if it's really bad."

She nodded slightly as she thought of having to cancel her meeting. He noticed something was off as he mentioned her meeting with someone, but brushed it off as this wasn't the time or place to ask her. They came out of the bathroom as Ishita slowly walked out while Raman followed her very slowly making sure she was able to walk steadily. As Ishita found the couple anxiously waiting looking at her, she felt conscious of herself and what had just happened. She started to fidget with the dupatta in her hands trying to slyly cover her stomach. Noticing her uncomfortableness Raman came around almost standing in her front of her as all the eyes turned towards him.

"What happened Raman? Is she-"

"Bala actually she hasn't been feeling well. Must have eaten something wrong." Vandita and Bala both believed what he said though the way he was concerned for her made them feel as if it was something else, but then they brushed it off as Ishita's health was more important right now.

"Please take of her and if you need anything, just call me." Vandita told him genuinely concerned about everything that just happened.

"I will, we need to go now." He reached out for Ruhi as Ishita slowly started to walk back home. As he closed their home's door behind them, she let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank God you handled it other-" she couldn't continue further as she ran into their room. He was now very concerned about what was happening to her and followed her inside with Ruhi in his arms. She came out of the bathroom looking tired and he quickly placed Ruhi in her crib as she held the wall for support.

"Are you dizzy?"

"A bit."

"I told you to eat properly this morning. Now you have no energy left in you!"

"Raman, I'm fine." She tried to tell him was all okay, but he wouldn't listen. In between their small disagreement, Ruhi started to cry.

"Ishita, lay down on the bed." He ordered her as he went to go pick up Ruhi, but hearing her loud cries Ishita wanted to go to her, and tried to tell him she was fine.

"Raman!"

"Sit! You've never been this sick, so today you are only taking care of yourself and nothing else. I will take care of Ruhi today."

"But-"

"I'm not listening to anything. If I look mean, then let it be, but you are staying on that bed until you're fine."

She knew he wasn't budging at all. He calmed down Ruhi while his eyes were on her the whole time. She would get up every couple of minutes rushing to the bathroom and come back feeling disgusted and tired. She was looking exhausted from all her energy going into running back and forth from the bed to the bathroom and it was starting to get to him. He got Ruhi busy with her small teddy before he went out trying to make things easier for her.

He came back with a bin for her and told her she didn't need to be running back and forth since was already so tired and this was just making it worse. She tried to tell him once again that this wasn't a big deal, but he was adamant on making her rest in bed. She couldn't deny that she wasn't feeling okay and never had she been this sick before, so she listened to him quietly knowing he was going to get his way around now...

"No wonder Ruhi is so stubborn...like her dad." She quietly said to herself with a small curve on her lips.

"Did you say something?" He asked though he had already heard what she had said. As she shook her head negatively, he told her he was going to give Ruhi a bath and she could just call out to him whenever she needed, but she should stay in bed.

"But he's still nice, just like Ruhi!" she smiled to herself and he did the same as he heard her while walking by with Ruhi.

She sat in bed trying to read a book as she was bored, but her mind was diverted to what could be going on in the bathroom. She was more worried about Raman than Ruhi, he didn't know his princess had become very stubborn and a tantrum queen nowadays. She hoped she wasn't giving him a hard time when she heard his laughter from the bathroom.

"Ru, your mom has gotten a new habit of talking to herself." He told his daughter who was engrossed in her rubber duck. He looked at the door and found Ishita looking at him open mouthed and Ruhi looked up at him and splashed the water all over him. Ishita burst out laughing as he looked at his slightly wet clothes and then back at his giggling daughter and wife.

"See Mr. RKB! My daughter is on my side! She won't hear anything against me."

Amidst her laughing her nausea returned and he couldn't help, but comment on the timing of her sickness as he brought Ruhi our wrapped in a pink towel...

"See Mrs. RKB my baby is on my side! So don't tease me or else she will bother you!"

"Raman...Urgh, I am so done with being pregnant!"

"Don't worry it will be over soon!"

He placed Ruhi on the bed as he got her a towel and handed it to her to clean up herself. She took it from him with a sulking face. Trying to change her mood and cheer her up a bit, he tried to distract her mind...

"Can you do me a favour and put out on Ruhi's clothes. I'll go get you something to eat...so what do you want?"

"I don't know, I'm sure it doesn't matter because it's hardly going to stay in me anyways."

"Ishita you have to eat something! Let me find a small snack for you."

He walked out the kitchen and looked around the place confused. First of all, he hardly knew how to cook and he wouldn't just let the maid give her just anything to eat, but he himself didn't know what she could be able to eat right now. So he took the easy way out; when in doubt, just use Google. Taking out his phone, he looked through as many sites as he could trying to figure out what to give her. Whenever he seemed to have found something that seemed okay, it would either be too hard to make or non-vegetarian which he couldn't give her. Finally he decided on a salad which seemed to convince him it would made her feel a bit better and was a good amount for her to eat.

He earned a few questioning looks from the maid who was busy cleaning up the kitchen as he pulled out vegetables from the kitchen and got out a cutting board. He ignored her and continued to work fast as he knew her enough to know she wouldn't stay still for long and would be up doing something again by the time he got back.

But much to his surprise, as he walked into the room, she was sitting on the bed patting Ruhi while humming the tune she always did. If she was actually resting, then it was definitely serious since she wasn't the type of people who could stay still for so long. He tried to reason with himself that she was perfectly fine and just listening to what he had asked her to do for once, but that worry was still at the back of his mind. However as she looked at him, he gave her a smile as he sat down on the edge of the bed...

"Here you go! This is all I could make. And this time it's not from a package!" he handed the bowl to her as she looked amazed at the salad.

"Obviously, it looks so good!"

"Then eat it and let me know how it is. And just a warning I made it for the first time."

She took a small bit of the salad and ate it slowly worried about throwing up again, but she seemed to be okay. She waited before taking a second bite in case she would feel sick after swallowing, but it seemed to be okay. Raman waited her as she ate looking to see if she was okay or if she didn't like what she was eating. He knew she liked it as she slowly ate most of what he had given her until she claimed it was enough leaving a little still in the bowl. After she finished eating he handed her the iron pills she needed. As he came closer to her while reaching for the water, she moved away getting his attention.

"Oh...I was just getting the water."

"I know, but it's not you. It's..."

"What happened?"

"Raman that cologne you put on...it makes my stomach sick."

"Has it always done that?"

She looked at him before nodding positively not meeting his eyes.

"You should have told me before! I'll change right now." He got up right away and went over to the cupboard to get a pair of clothes that wouldn't smell anything like his cologne. As he took out his clothes, he noticed her t-shirt and pyjamas that she packed, but never wore. And he looked at her laying down wearing her churidar that was meant for her outing today.

He called out to her and asked her to change into something more comfortable pointing to her clothes. He handed her the clothes as she did want to change into something more relaxing. He went to the bathroom to change while she was in the room, he was carefully to stay near the door in case she called him or was feeling dizzy again while changing. As he heard her ask him to come out as she was done, he came out to find her snuggled into the blanket while Ruhi was doing the same.

He asked her to try and get some sleep while he would be right in the room working. She told him not to work too much and he could go out into the living room to watch TV or even go out for a walk. Though he agreed, they both knew he had no plans of doing so. Pretending to be busy with a file, he kept on watching her and Ruhi in between his work. He looked up again 10 minutes later and found her fast asleep free with an exhausted look on her face.

Getting up, he went over to the bed and sat next to Ruhi. She ran his hand over her head watching the infant smiling in her sleep. Kissing her forehead, he looked over at her mother who was now sleeping with a faint smile lingering on her face. He smiled at finally seeing her at some peace, the whole day she had been continuously vomiting to a point where she was almost too tired to even get water for herself. To see her relaxing for a while, he felt it was a good idea to get her to change into comfier clothes as she fell asleep instantly.

He noticed her cuddling close to herself as if she was cold. Realizing the chillness of the room due to the AC which Ruhi would not sleep without, he knew she was feeling cold, but he couldn't turn off the AC as Ruhi would wake up. He took his blanket from the bed's edge and gently placed it over her trying not to disturb her sleep. As he decided to go onto the balcony to work, he heard her phone ringing. He watched her stir in her sleep and quickly answered her phone for her.

"Hello Akka, where are you?! Why are you so late?"

"Umm Mihika? It's me Raman."

"Jiju?! Where's Akka?"

"She's sleeping. She was tired and so she's resting."

"Is she okay?"

"She was feeling a little too nauseous today, so I made her kind of take some bed rest for today."

"That's good. Thanks for watching over her."

"She's my wife and I'm supposed to take care of her. I don't need to be thanked."

"Okay...anyways Jiju I'll leave you to take care of her."

"Alright, do you have any message I should give her?"

"No, I just called just like that, bye!" and she quickly hung up the phone. He knew something was of right from Mihika's first sentence, but this wasn't the time to start questioning anyone as Ishita feeling better was his priority and only concern right now.

He went back to his work, but his thoughts were continuously on Ishita. She had told him last night as he was half asleep that she wanted to go out and meet someone. He didn't think it was right and he was too tired to question her as to who she wanted to meet or why, but now he felt like it was related to Mihika's phone call. But he tried to tell himself it wasn't right to be asking her where she wanted to go or who she wanted to meet...

He looked in from the balcony and found Ruhi awake and trying to touch Ishita's face. He rushed in and picked her up taking her out the room. She started to cry as she wanted to be with her mom and her dad was taking her away from her. He tried to calm her down by talking to her in a childish tone and offering her a rattle, but she wouldn't be quiet.

"Ruhi! Baby you want mumma?" Hearing the mention of her mom, she starting pay attention to Raman and was whimpering instead of crying.

"Mom is sick, she need to go sleep." She looked as if she was going to cry again, but he continued to speak as if explaining to someone what was happening.

"Mommy and baby are sleeping. So you and Papa will be quiet. Okay?" Ruhi cooed almost as if in agreement. He distracted her with a rattle and soon the two got lost in playing with each other that they didn't realize how the time flew by.

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She woke up and stirred in the bed not wanting to get up, that was until she heard two familiar voices. She heard Raman's voice talking to Ruhi who was clearly amazed by something. She slowly opened up her eyes and found Raman showing Ruhi his phone. He kept on pointing to something and telling Ruhi it was her and Ruhi seemed to be wowed seeing herself on the phone's screen and tried to grab it while Raman tried to save his phone. She slowly sat up in bed and that's when they noticed her.

"Good afternoon!"

"Oh my God I slept for so long!"

"It's good, you got the much needed rest."

He left the room right after and came back 5 minutes later with a cup in his hand...

"Here you go, chai with some ginger."

"You made it?"

"The maid had to leave, so I had to give it a shot."

He watched her take a sip and then sheepishly ask him...

"It's good. But can I get some more sugar?"

He took the cup from her and went out to add more sugar for her. He came back giving her the sugary chai and watched her drink it with excitement on her face. He found it much better when she was doing childish things like this rather than the more serious Ishita. He admired the innocent ways she emptied the teacup. As she finished she leaned back on the bed closing her eyes. Thinking everything was okay, he also relaxed for a while and went out to make a quick phone call to his office.

When he came back she was still sitting with her eyes closed. As he walked in, she suddenly jerked open her eyes. Grabbing the bin he gave to her, she leaned over for another round of feeling gross. He ran to her sitting on the bed as soon as he saw her. Her loosely tied hair opened up and was going on her face. Hesitantly he held back her hair for her and gently stroked her hair. As she leaned back, she was way to too tired to do anything. Feeling bad about not being able to do anything for her, he took the wet towel for her and asked her to open up her eyes. He wasn't sure about doing this, but as she refused to listen to him and wanted to go back to sleep, he held her face turning it towards with one of his hand. Feeling his touch on her face, she opened her eyes, finding him looking a bit down and his face had a sadder smile on. He slowly moved his hand away from her cheek. He started to wipe her face trying to be as gentle as possible while she watched him with moist eyes.

He was fully engrossed in his own task, he didn't notice how she was looking at him. She didn't ever think there would be anyone like him in her life. A man who was her namesake husband, but did everything and even more than a husband does for his wife. She had only known him for just over a month and he had just dedicated his day to taking care of her and doing whatever he could do for her. And there was another man who claimed to be love with her, to give her all the happiness he could and ended up left her alone, had insulted her repeatedly and she knew for sure even if they had gotten married, he would have never given her the care that Raman was giving her.

As he was busy doing his job, the back of his hand brushed against her lip. They both went still for a moment. Her lip trembled as his hand touched it and she felt a shiver go down her spine as he slowly moved his hand away. He swallowed a lump in his throat in his nervousness as he noticed what he had just done. He didn't know why or how, but he couldn't move his hand away from her lip the moment it touched. He had le this hand linger on her lips for a few second longer and now it seemed as if she had noticed. He looked up at her and saw her moist eyes from before and was now worried he had made her cry because of his uncalled for actions.

"Did you feel bad I did this?"

"No! It's nothing. I'm getting emotional for no reason." She replied in a quiet voice remembering what she had been thinking of before.

"All those pregnancy symptoms are showing up now. Poor me!" He attempted to make the mood lighter.

"Poor you? I'm the one going through this."

"I'm dealing with it!"

"So now I'm like a problem you have to deal with? Well let me remind you that you took on this problem yourself."

"I was just joking! You so have the harder job... But seriously man! Hasn't this morning sickness has become afternoon sickness!"

"Raman, are you getting mad or annoyed with me?" she said with a sad look on her face.

"I'm not. I'm...I'm just getting worried. Why are you feeling so sick?"

"It's probably nothing. I'm sure this is normal. And it's not that bad anymore."

"I don't know. Should we call a doctor?"

"What do you think? Is this supposed to happen?"

"Why are you asking me? I'm not an expert here."

"I thought you would know."

"I know I have a daughter, but let's just say I have no experience in all this. I don't know how often you will feel sick or if it should continue on into the afternoon. I have no idea!"

"Then we'll learn all this together! So this will be like a first pregnancy for both of us!"

"I guess so, and you know I'm going to call a doctor, just in case. So just stay in bed until then."

"Then can you hand me Ruhi?"

Giving her Ruhi, he walked out of the room to call a doctor he knew and went outside just so his worry wouldn't be visible to her. She kept on looking at the door wondering what the doctor would say. For a moment she became panicked. She tried to think back to see if she did anything that would affect her baby at all. She felt as if she should have listened to him whenever he told her not to work, she was becoming scared as she thought something could be wrong as Raman was taking so long on the phone. She was so lost in her own thoughts, she failed to notice him coming in until...

"Doctor said it's normal. She said some women have nausea than others. And sometimes it can continue throughout the say. Guess you're one of them." Her worry was vanished in a moment and now she was feeling upset.

"Why? Why do I have to be one of those few?"

"Relax, maybe it's just for one day."

"It better be!"

"Umm Ishita. I want to ask you something."

He was fidgeting with his hands and sat down next to her putting up a smile, but he was engrossed in his own thoughts. She was suddenly worried seeing his behaviour and wondered what happened. Was it something about his phone call with the doctor? She was getting extremely worried now, and then she looked at him again worried it could be something about him. Seeing him not say anything, she was getting impatient and anxious...

"What happened? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine but...but I was thinking...actually I wanted to ask..."

"What?"

"Do you think we should tell Vandita and Bala about the baby?" he said it all in one go.

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Also I might not be able to update for 2-3 days, so please bear with that and I will see you all when I come with the next update!

Originally posted by: Isha_Pathare

Seeing raman caring for ishu so much I was like

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Haiye Mar java gud khake

ishita ne kya punya kamaye ki itna honhar aur caring patidev prapt hua boss

Love it

you know saab se jyada I liked was its length 😆

I just love reading your long updates seriously