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Part 18 - Fallacy!!
"The Most Painful Thing In Life Is Losing Yourself In The Process Of Valuing Someone Too Much & Forgetting That You Are Special Too"
(Writer's POV)
"Rishu? Can I ride the bike?" Madhu asks.
"You know to ride?" Rk asks surprised.
"Well, you teach me" she says & bites her lips anticipating for his reply.
"It's getting late, Madhu" he says checking his wrist watch.
"Please, Rishu" she asks cutely. Sighing, he moves back on the bike seat & lets her climb in & take hold of the handlebar, then he places his hands on top of her hands.
"You ready" Rk asks.
"Yep!" she turns excitedly & hits his chin with her head. "Ow!" he winces.
"Sorry" she tries to turn again.
"Keep your head straight" he chides. "Okay"
"Change the gear" Rk instructs.
"How?" Madhu asks.
"Ow" Madhu howls in pain when stamps her foot with his when he tries to change the gear.
"Move your legs" he chides again.
"Why are you so grumpy?" Madhu asks upset.
"Um... Sorry, baby" Rk kisses her head from back.
"Apology accepted" Madhu smiles. "Shall we go little faster? The road is free?"
"Okay" Rk tells & twist his wrist along with madhu's to increase the speed.
"Baby, I m gonna take my hands, keep your hands steady on the handle bar, okay?" Rk tells.
"No. No. I m scared. You keep holding too" Madhu tells worried of making accident.
"Baby, then how you will learn to drive? It's easy. Just like bicycle." he says & slowly releases his hold on her hand but he keeps steady check on the road & her hands.
"No need to grip the handlebar so hard. Just easy" Rk tells. She nods fully focusing on the road ahead.
"You are doing good, baby." he says & encircles his hands around her waist making her gasp softly.
Her loose hair wildly waves in wind & fans Rk's face. He nuzzles his nose on her hair & inhales the sweet scent which drives him crazy.
"I love this, Rishu?"
"What?" me nuzzling her? Rk thoughts.
"Riding a bike at night." Madhu tells.
"I told you to Slow down & change the gear when speed breaker comes" he reminds her as she forgot to slow at last speed breaker which made Rk throw himself against her back.
"Okay" Madhu says.
"You remember Rishu? You only taught me bicycling, then car driving & now bike."
"If you let me I will teach much more" No need for Trishna's oral education,
"What else will you teach me?" Madhu asks excitedly.
"Anything you wish to learn" How to make love!!
"Why you kissed me, Madhu?" Rk asks her in a husky voice near her ears.
"Uh-huh... I ... actually, when the other couple kissed, I got tempted & wanna experience the same feel as the atmosphere was also so romantic & on an impulse I kissed you. You know Trishna corrupted my head with all sorts of kisses & I thought... why not try... umm... I mean..." she wants to say she kissed him because she wanted to show her love for him but she couldn't pluck the courage yet to openly declare her love to him.
Then she feels him removing his hands from her waist & moving little back from her as he went silent.
"Rishu?" she calls him.
"Are you listening?" she asks.
"Yeah, very well, so you practiced with me like how you tried to practice the self defense I taught you years ago. Nice!!" he tells nonchalantly.
"Why you kissed me back?" she asks him.
"Well, you made a sudden assault on me & was struggling like a deer caught in head light not knowing how to take forward the kiss so I gave you the lead. You know, like a practice so that you can kiss properly to your future boyfriend" he says acidly. He knew right from the moment she started playing with the cherry, whats gonna come up & as expected she kissed him but he didn't let her stop, as he wanted to know the true feeling of madhu. A single kiss can speak miles. he was surprised initially feeling the intensity of her kiss. She was pouring her life in the kiss as if conveying him some message. He felt so happy & he too kissed her back with all his love. He was in bliss then as she took him up above the sky in joy but now she mercilessly drops him down. Well, he didn't get affected much as this pain is insignificant when compared to his earlier heart breaks. Still her kiss is lingering on him but a moment ago the feel was beautiful... But now he feels bitter. He wants to wipe of the kiss. He curses his little heart for daring to hope again that she might have cleared her wavering thoughts & come to a conclusion & hoping it to be positive. But still she is the same. A confused soul. Not even knowing well why she kissed him.
Soon they reaches their apartment. Rk lets madhu get down first & then he parks the bike in bike stand & walks silently with her to the elevator.
"Rishu, um... that kiss" Madhu starts.
"Stop talking & forget about the kiss. That was a mistake, okay?" He says leaning his back on the elevator walls looking above, with his arms crossed over his chest. She stands silently gaping at him.
"You have apartment key?" Rk asks.
"No" she whispers.
"I thought we could let ourselves in without disturbing them" he tells & takes his hand to press the bell button.
"No. knock the door, if you ring the door bell everyone will get up" Madhu tells. Rk nods & knocks the door. No one responds. Rk knocks again little louder & suddenly sultan opens the door but without noticing Rk knocks hard right on Sultan's forehead.
"f**k" Sultan splutters. "Don't you have eyes?" Sultan asks angrily & Rk growls at him as he is higly pissed.
"Move" Rk barks at him. Sultan shakes his head while madhu giggles for knocking on Sultan's head.
"Very funny" Sultan chides & hit her head with his knuckles & in return she slaps him hard on his arms.
Rk walks straight to the refrigerator & pulls out a beer bottle. Credits to Sultan for bring beer bottles for Madhu's birthday party.
"You want one?" Rk asks Sultan ignoring madhu.
"Yes, Dude" Sultan smiles & grabs one chilled bottle from him & they both settles on the couch.
"You okay?" Sultan asks Rk.
"Oh yeah, I m grand" Rk says & takes a huge slug from the bottle.
"Rishu, you are drinking on my birthday" Madhu reminds him. She hates him drinking & that too on her birthday.
"You want some?" Rk holds the bottle for her. Madhu shakes her head.
"Stop drinking, Rishu" Madhu pleads him.
"Stop worrying for me baby. You are not my wife to care for me. Just a friend. See Sultan is also my friend but how nicely he is giving company to him unlike you" Rk tells patting Sultan's shoulders.
"Go sleep, baby" Rk tells.
"I won't" madhu tells & sits down on the floor & starts unwrapping her birthday gifts.
"Hey, See my gift first" Sultan insists. Rk looks at sultan suspiciously seeing his over enthusiasm.
Madhu nods & opens his gift & her eyes went wide.
"f**k!!" Rk growls at sultan.
"What the hell is this?" Madhu asks.
"Gift" Sultan shrugs.
"That I know." Madhu snaps.
"You will give this as a gift to a girl?" Rk shouts at him.
"How dare you?" Madhu shouts even louder.
"What?" Sultan jumps back on the couch worrying she will ripe his neck.
"Do I look so fat that made you get me 42 size Bra?? mine is just 32" Madhu tells holding a baby pink lazy bra on her hand.
Rk closes his eyes mortified. "This idiotic girl is not shouting at him for getting a pair of bras but for getting the wrong size & without any shame she is openly saying her bra size to him. What I m going to do with her? Lord help me"
"Oh I m sorry. I have the bill, I can change it & get one of your size" Sultan says disappointed of getting her a wrong sized one.
"No thanks. Go give this bada wala bra to your grandmother" Madhu says & throws the bra at him.
"I don't think my grandma uses this at the age of 80" Sultan wonders holding the strap of the bra. Rk snatches it & throws it away.
"No need to get new one for her & never give any such shitty gift to any one, you idiot" Rk snarls at him angrily.
"That was not a shitty gift" Madhu jumps in to Sultan's defense.
"You just go to your room & sleep" Rk warns her.
"I want to see all the other gifts, Rishu?" She tells softly.
"This is panty, this is stockings, this is swim suit, this is rat shit & that's Bullshit. I told you whats in all the gift boxes. Now go to your room" Rk shouts & she jumps a step back & starts trembling from head to toe.
"Rk, calm down. It's all just for fun. I just wanna tease her. Hey, that's my actual gift. It's a novel as we all know you are a bookworm" Sultan says & points to another gift kept on the table.
"Madhu... come here" Rk calls her gently. She shakes her head & bites her low lips hardly till it hurts her, to stop her sob.
"Madhu... Baby I am sorry, I didn't mean to shout at you" Rk takes a step to her but runs crying to Rk's room.
"Oh God! I made my baby brat cry on her birthday" He groans.
"Chill, dude. As you know she won't take anything to heart & she will forget everything by tomorrow... I mean today morning." Sultans says coolly. Rk glares at him murderously for giving her that f**king gift & riling up his anger.
"Okay, I got the look. I will shut my mouth & move my ass to where my darling dips is sleeping"
"Got to hell" Rk shouts & Sultan runs to the room.
"Hey, Stop crying. I said I m sorry, I won't shout at you" Rk says sitting beside her on the bed, rubbing her head gently.
"Look baby, that's not something to openly show or tell your size to Sultan or any men"
"But I tell you everything. You know my size right?"
"Of course I do. 32' , 28' , 34'... But Sultan & I are one to you?" Rk asks.
"No!" Madhu shakes her. "I'm sorry"
"It's okay"
"You know, you get over possessive at some time" Madhu remarks him.
"You have know idea how possessive I am, baby" he chuckles.
"Why you drink on my birthday Rishu? You know I don't like you drinking."
"It was just a beer. I was really tired so.. I'm sorry, I won't drink ever on your birthday" Rk promises.
"Being a friend I can still care for you, Rishu. There is no written rule that only a wife should care"
"Yes." he agrees.
"I liked it when you shouted at me. It was a novelty" she tell him smiling.
"Then why you were crying?" Rk asks.
"I was little scared, you never shout at me..."
"I just don't know what came in me... I lost my temper." he says & she yarns.
"You are tired. It's late. You sleep here. I will sleep on the couch"
"Um... it's okay. We can share the bed" Madhu tells hesitantly.
"I have few mails to check & then I will suit myself on the couch. You don't bother." Rk tells & plants good night kiss on her forehead making her smile as she remembers trishna's words "a loving husband with never forget to give his wife a goodnight kiss on her forehead"
"Good night, Rishu" Madhu smiles.
"Good night, Baby. Happy birthday once again" He smiles back.
"Hey" Madhu walks out of the room rubbing her sleepy eyes.
"Good morning, Baby" Rk wishes & takes a sip of his coffee.
"Where are our friends?"
"Gone"
"Oh. You did breakfast?" Madhu asks. Rk nods.
"You had?"
"No waiting for you." Rk tells & gestures her to take a seat beside him & she obliges.
"After breakfast, get ready soon. I will drop you at your house & then go to mine."
"No. I will come with you to your house first as I want to get blessings from aunty & uncle"
"Okay" Rk nods.
"Rishu... Can I ask you something?"
"Sure" he nods.
"You said in the beach that you were gonna talk something important to your parents... May I know what's it??" She asks softly.
"Um... I..." He hesitates. Then they hear his phone buzzing on the breakfast table.
"Mom!" Rk answers.
"Mom... Please... I m coming... I will be there in 10 minutes... Love you" he says & hangs up.
"Madhu we will talk later. I m in a hurry. Mom is really pissed at me for not coming last night to meet her"
"Sorry... Because of me, u had to stay the night with me"
"No. Its okay. Just eat ur breakfast quickly & come down. I will get the car ready"
"Whose car? Sultan took his car right??"
"Trishna left her car for us as sultan dropped her at her place. She will take back her car when she comes to your party this evening"
"Oh okay. I will come with u."
"No. Eat"
"I m not hungry. Thanks"
"Okay come." Rk tells & takes her hand.
"Madhu beta, happy birthday" Mohan hugs madhu.
"Thanks uncle" madhu smiles & takes his blessings.
"Your dad is mad at you for not giving him the chance to wish you at sharp 12am." Mohan laughs.
"I know he will forgive me. But trust me uncle i had a great time with Rishu & other friends in the apartment"
"Glad u enjoyed a lot"
"Dad, I guess you totally forgot me standing here" Rk says.
"When you forget me & your mom... Then why should I acknowledge your presence my son??" Mohan asks faking anger.
"Dad. I... I didnt forget you two..."
"Just kidding. Go see your mom first. She is dying to meet you."
"Where is she?"
"Upstairs. In her room"
"Okay. Madhu you talk with dad. I will see mom & come"
"Okay, Rishu"
Then Rk runs upstairs taking two steps at a time so that he could reach his mom sooner.
"Mom" Rk shouts & runs into her room & hugs her.
"I missed you so much" Rk whispers hugging Radha tight.
"Rishu... " Radha sobs hugging him.
"Mom... You look weak. You have Lost weight" Rk holds his mom at arms length to see her clearly.
"I don't have 10 children to look after me but only one & he is also not with me. Staying for away from me & suffering alone. Why are you doing this to yourself, Rishu? If you are mad at us for getting you married forcefully then give any punishment to us. We are ready to take but please don't distance yourself from us. We cant bear it. Let us in... Let me in baby... Let me help u. You dont need your mumma anymore??"
"Mom... Please. I do need you & dad. I m not punishing you or dad. I m just finding some space." Rk hugs her mom & cries.
"How long, Rishu?"
"Mom, I pleaded you & dad to come to Singapore with me but you refused to"
"We will come to Singapore..."
Rk smiles hearing that but his smile drops hearing the next sentence.
"... Get married, Rishu"
"Mom!" He says & takes a step back. "No. I can't. I m not ready for marriage. I dont know will I ever be ready for that. I dont want that. Please, don't force me"
"Rishu... I m not forcing you. Once we did that mistake. Not mistake. It was a sin. Without caring for our son, ur dad & I forced you into the marriage you didnt want & pushed u to this stage... Now I m pleading you... Not forcing you. Every mother wants her child to be happy so I do. I want you to get all the happiness. Please" Radha pleads.
"Mom... Don't push me to a helpless situation. I m happy. Trust me"
"Don't try to fool your mother. You can lie to me but not your eyes. How much pain you will carry in it??" Radha shouts.
"Radha... Why are you shouting. If he is not ready for marriage then leave it."
"Rishu... I heard everything... I want to..." Madhu came a moment later rk had come to meet his mom & stood at the door way shocked hearing their emotional & heated comversation. Only when Mohan came behind her running she realized she needs to tell her love & beg him for forgiveness for putting him through lot of pain which she failed to see all these time. She wanted to ask him to marry her.
"Madhu... You leave... Please" Rk tells not even looling at her.
"Rishab, answer me? Will you forget everything like a dream & start a new life?" Radha asks.
Rk looks at his mom helplessly.
"Rishu... Listen to me once. Please. I m sorry... I..." Madhu pleads as she cries
"Madhu you just leave the hell out of here" He says gritting his teeth.
His heart his aching seeing his mother in pain. He was so blind in love not seeing the pain his parents were suffering. He hates himself for not thinking about them once.
"Rishu... Please..." Madhu begs for a chance as tears stream down her cheeks uncontrollably. He didnt hear her words as his mind failed to process anything
"Aunty... Please tell Rishu to talk to me once... Please" madhu cries & shakes Radha's hand.
"Rishab... " Radha caress Rk's cheek. "Sorry... I lost my control. It just hurts me to see you like this. I m sorry I wont force you in anything you dont have to do..."
"I will get married, mom. Choose any girl for me. I will accept her as my wife" Rk promises & walks out of the room.
Madhu stares his retreating form feeling as if her world has fallen apart.
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I had tears while writing this update. Oh my poor Rishu... I love u... Come here baby... I will marry u... Wish Radhaji choose me as ur wife... Lol!!😆😆
Well, if u all wonder what exactly Rk wanted to talk with his parents? Then its just forcing them to shift to Singapore to stay with him if he finds there is no change in madhu's feelings. Yes... He came to celebrate her birthday & also to know abt her feelings... But that girl messed again... Well, when he came home instead of him forcing his parents... His mom forced him into marriage... What an irony? Lol😆😆
Hope you all liked the update.
Don't forget to kiss the like button & comment your views. I value each & every single comment...
Sorry for not replying to all your comments. I read all & loved them.
Wished to reply but couldnt find time.
See i m posting the update at 4 in the morning... So i guess u cant expect me to comment right??
@ rishbala4eva - baby, in your comment you asked me not to make radha force rk to get married as u guessed that would be the talk btn them, in fact many guessed it rightly. But i couldn't help show exactly the same you feared of... But dont worry baby... All for good. So smile please!!😃😃
Edited by madhurish - 9 years ago
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