Continuation of Pins and Needles
She sat on her pod swing wearing a satin striped kaftan, loose and roomy, periodically she felt the two hard mounds of heads
UNBELIEVABLE
Sometimes while returning from Rohini after seeing Amma's bhajan mandli friends Amma and her would drive down
Chanakyapuri on Sunday evenings when Dhaula Kuan would be crowded, she hadnt driven on this street but had driven off Nyaya Marg a million times... now it was her home😳
A part of her slept on the master bed with her Daddy😳
In her pink lehanga, her fat bangle clad wrist on his chest
He slept on his back when she last checked on the duo
Her oil bath braid almost untangled in sleep, but even in sleep she had her "things in order"
Amma would say Akka slept like that, not one clothing out of place, only her ankle showing
A hand under her cheek though like II...
It was past 6:30
she had woken her daughter early to go to Malai Mandir for Skanda Shashti prayers with Amma
They had to find her a new paattu teacher II's didnt do lessons for lil girls
Amma had told her Bala Mami was bringing a new teacher to the prayer this morning
She had later cooked up a storm, avial and such
The one on the right kicked hard
"Ayyo" she winced
She had another 16 weeks of this "Twins are always early be ready by 35th week" her Doc told her
The house was quiet, the guards changed duty downstairs
The Zambian Embassy had some event cars pulled up... it was twilight
She had a good long nap
Amma wanted her to go over for dinner
R&B only allowed them "one event a day" so she doubted she would be allowed to go again
Nivi spent as many waking moments as possible with her Daddy and Thatha
She needed Amma rarely
She spoke softly and slowly and walked like a feather noiselessly
She hadnt lost one earring or clasp
All her fake jewelry was neatly hung in her closet in a special jewelry box Ranjan bought for her from Hyderabad
He bought her TOO MANY THINGS
R&B chuckled or shrugged when II ranted
"Vendaam sollu da" she would beg(stop him)
"I wont" he would say kissing her
She would pull R&B's hand down , he would kneel and she would whisper in his ear "Can I go to Sam Athai's house? PLEASE?"
He would half smile when she carefully used please
"Can I play with Lasya ka I dont want to go out with u. PLEASE?"
"Can I go to Vandu Periamma's Shubhang and I were going to do finger painting" PLEASE?"
II reminisced one such evening last weekend😳...
Shravu picked her up like a toy and twirled her, he sat her on the dining table and watched her talk
He was almost 17, headed to college in Fall
He even shaved... like Nandu, Nandu wore glasses.. Shravu was expressive like II
"Chithi ida ennoda anupungolen please?" (Send her with me to college no?)
"Sure kanna take her.. I am like a factory I am making two more" she rubbed her belly
Akka threw a towel at her "DONT TALK LIKE THAT" she warned her from buri nazar
"I will have THREE NOW" II shook her head embarrassed
"U shud have gotten ur tubes tied no?" Akka whispered sitting by her "Its called fallopian tubes and usually the"
Akka wore glasses now, she was louder and funnier too
"SHUT UP" II ordered... as she reminisced
"Vendaam da" she begged after Nivi was born, 6 weeks later when he became frisky
"II" he warned
She had slid her arms around him in bed letting him smother her
"I am getting my tubes tied... feels like I was pregnant for a DECADE" she recalled
He chuckled
Nivi slept in the crib nearby
Ofcourse THAT never worked... he wouldnt let her get her tubes tied, he tattled to Sam and Sam went all ninja on her
And one of those "I havent seen u for a week, Paris was hell, I am not letting you leave the room, Dad can watch Nivi" madness
The twins were formed
Sex was a big part of her married life like food...
"I am getting a hysterectomy" II hissed
Akka rolled on the couch...
"I cant seem to stop... who would have thought I will have twins ka?" II groaned
"I HOPE ITS BOYS" Akka whispered
"I hope its GIRLS" II graoned
"Nee Shravu Shatabdi paduthina padukku IT HAS TO BE BOYS" (the way uve tortured my boys u deserve it)
"WHERE IS SHATABDI?" she asked
"He is a Sachin, hes downstairs playing cricket, paavam this one has board exams, " Akka laughed
He stormed through the door, threw his taller than he was cricket bat
"CHITHIII" he jumped on her
II shielded her unborn lil ones and hugged him
"ARE THEY COMING OUT?" 🤣he asked looking at her mound curiously
"Umm no not for 16 weeks" she smiled
"Will they have clothes on?" he asked😆
"AND will be riding a bike" Poda!!" Shravu dismissed him, now that he knew about the birds and the bees😳😉
Shravu carried Nivi in his arms, she wore denim shorts and a pink frilly shirt
He had given her his old TI scientific calculator
she showed II the new shiny thing "amma Nandu na has the same" she said in awe
"Onakku vendama da?" (dont u need it?) II enquired
"I have 4 chithi." he spoke in a deep manly voice "U give her something it will remain the same" he looked at his
lil female cousin in awe, as she held the calculator like a precious flower
"Polama?" II asked her daughter
"Ask him to come no" Akka begged
"He just returned from Mumbai he was refusing to let me go or her go"II blushed
Akka nodded sadly
"If he is home he wants us to be hovering like drones... Dad's teh same way whenever he is back from Spectrum" II said softly... content
THATS MY CALCULATOR" Shatabdi yelled, snatching it from Nivi
Nivi cried softly... he wrestled her and garbbed the USB cable too
Shravu fought him... II grabbed Nivi and nestled her in her bosom and quietned her
"Shhh shhh We will ask Nandu na for his old one" she whispered
"I want it amma... PLEASE" Nivi begged looking up at II with eyes bigger than her own
"Paavam da Shatabdi wants one too u know" II pacified her daughter. Nivi was uncontrollable
Akka stod up to tackle her boys...