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Since that day, it became a duty of Om to make Rudra have his tiffin, even Om did not know as to how he accepted such a responsibility, he never did a thing he hated, no one could dare ask him do a thing he did not like, but this...
For the first few days Rudra was very afraid of Om and would just finish his lunch without any word, but was it easy for him to stay quiet, after a few days he started telling Omkara about what he did at school, about his new friends,
"Can you just shut up and concentrate on your lunch" Om shouted while Rudra was telling about his new crush. Rudra was taken aback at this shout. He made a puppy face and put his gaze down. "I mean when you are eating you should concentrate on your food. You should not talk while eating, hasn't your teacher taught you this", Om said in a very soft and comforting tone. Om could not beilive what he just did, for the first time had he justified himself for scolding Rudra. This was a first in the lifetime for Rudra as well, his face lit up "Ok O", he said, "I promise I will not utter a word till the lunch is done. But promise you will talk to me after that. I have so much to tell, but no one listens to me, whenever I want to talk to Prinku about my girlfriends she runs away, why are girls so weird" "I am sorry Rudra", Om said with small laughter in his voice, "I am not an expert in ladies department, you better discuss this with you bhaiyya", "I wanted to O", Rudra replied solemnly, "but these days he is very busy, whenever I enter his room, I find him reading a book. I think it is on how to get angry"
Om looked at Rudra with disbelief, first of all a book on getting angry was something he had never heard of and secondly even if such a book existed, did Shivaaye actually need that? He could have given tuitions to the author of that book. "Who told you that" asked Om in amusement, "Once I went to his room while he was not there, and the book was lying on his table, I just checked on the cover page and it was written "GRE" in bold letters, now I have read in comics that the anger is represented as GRR in writing, I think there was a typing mistake in the last letter afterall R and E are together in the computer" Rudra replied enthusiastically with a pride in his eyes as if he had solved the biggest case. He looked into Om's eyes with hopes of appreciation, but to his disappointment they were just lost. "Shivaaye is preparing for GRE!" Om thought to himself "He has plans to go out of country for his higher studies and he didn't even tell me about this" Rudra could not decipher the reason for this change in expression, but the mere thought of Om getting angry again was haunting for him, so he kept quiet, completed his lunch and left for his class.
"You are preparing for GRE and you didn't even discuss with me!", Om shouted at Shivaaye when they were home that evening. "Om please calm down,", said Shivaaye, "Let me expain". "Explain!", Om said sarcastically, "Like really you need to explain, to me???Why? Who am I? Just one of your many cousins, why will you bother telling me stuffs" Shivaaye could not bear this. He knew Om was angry, but how could he say that he did not matter to him. He had always been Shivaaye's closest confidant. Maybe for the world they were brothers, or rather cousins, but they had shared every possible relation with each other.
Even Om realized that he went a little too far in anger, but this couldn't be undone. "I think I shall also ask for extra mobiles, breaking mobiles is anyday better than being so rude", he said "I agree", Shivaaye chuckled, "But I don't want you to get into that habit, or else if you don't find the mobile, you will break your sculptors"
Both the brothers smiled at each other and kept quiet for some time, it seemed both knew that the other will need some time to come up with the next line. "But why Shivaaye?", Om said finally. "Because Bade Papa wants it", Shivaaye replied, "And no one in this house can go against his wishes." "I mean almost no one ", he corrected when he saw Om glaring him" He thinks that since I have to get into the business, I must have an MBA degree from a prestigious university like Howard, Cambridge or Stanford. He told me this on the very first day of college and since then I have been preparing for this. I am sorry, but yes I couldn't gather courage to tell you, I always wanted to tell, but..."
"Oh come one Shivaaye" Om said, "Don't tell me you believe Mr. Oberoi. We both know whom he wants to be his successor. This is his plan, if you don't clear GRE and get into a prestigious college, he will get a chance to say that you are not capable enough, and if you get through, he will send you away from us, it is a win-win situation for him" "You are taking it too negatively Om", replied Shivaaye, "I know he has done many mistakes, but he definitely does not hate me to that an extent. Plus whatever he does, he isn't capable enough to get us parted, even if we are not physically close, we will always be together, and about your first point, did you forget that If Shivaaye Singh Oberoi wants to do something, nothing in the world can stop that from happening". Om smiled at the last sentence of Shivaaye
"But before that I want a promise from you", Shivaaye said after a pause, "Two years more when I am out of this house for a couple of years, by then Rudra would be only of 10-11 years, you know he is such a kid, he needs someone to take care of him, to become a parent for him, and I want you to do that in my absence" "What?", Om could not believe this, "You clearly know what feelings I have for him and you want me to nurture him? Only I know how I tolerate him". "Don't worry", Shivaaye replied, "You have two years to get rid of your anger for him and..."
"What are you both chatting?" their conversation was interrupted by the voice of Rudra, "Bhaiyya I am also your brother na, so why you always exclude me from the conversations you do with O" "What is O?" said Shivaaye with a fake irritation, "it was OK if you called him like this when you were young, but now you are big enough", "Of course I can pronounce Omkara now", replied Rudra, "But dadi says that you should not address your elders by their names, and whether or not he is my elder brother, he is elder to me na, so O is perfect" "Don't you yourself get irritated by your stupid logics?", Omkara asked while Shivaye was looking at him affectionately and then both of them burst into laughter, Rudra did not understand the context of this, but he understood that his logics which supposedly are stupid amuse bhaiyya and O, and if they are happy seeing him stupid, he better always remain stupid. He joined them with a smile
"Ok enough of this laughing session", finally he said, "I had come here as I am feeling hungry" "Really!" Asked Shivaaye, "Breaking news, our house has chefs, you could ask them to cook something" "I know", he replied, "But they have their standard methods to cook food, they never experiment, I am bored of the same taste" Well this was again a Rudra logic but it made sense, and Shivaaye took this as a challenge. "Fine I will cook today", "What!" said Omkara, cooking, he was not sure if Shivaaye even knew how to lit the stove, but then he remembered the line Shivaaye had said a few minutes, "If Shivaaye Singh Oberoi wants to do something, nothing in the world can stop that from happening"
Days passed, Shivaaye completed his graduation with flying colors and cleared GRE, he got selected for both Stanford and Cambridge, after much dissections, Tej zeroed upon Cambridge and finally Shivaaye left for his new house for the next 2 years. Meanwhile Om also got good marks in his 12th boards. Tej wanted him to opt for Commerce, but instead he opted for Arts much to the distress of Tej.
It was the third night after Shivaaye had left. Omkara was winding up his paint brush and other accessories before going to sleep, when he heard a knock at the door. It was Rudra. "What are you doing here?" asked Omkara. He might have relented here and there, but was still not OK to accept his presence in his life. "I am feeling very scared sleeping alone, can I sleep here?" said Rudra "What!" Omkara could not believe his ears, children generally go to their parent's room if they are scared at night, why did Rudra come to him? OK Mr. Oberoi could hardly be called a father and his mom was not Rudra's mom, but Rudra did not know this and then he could have also gone to Dadi.
"Please let me sleep here for tonight, I promise I will not irritate or bother you" Rudra insisted, "Actually today Saurabh was narrating the story of a horror movie, I had to listen to him as otherwise my classmates would have thought that I am a coward, but now I am feeling scared to sleep alone" "OK", replied Om, "But if I get even a bit disturbed, I will wake you up and throw you out of this room", "Promise that won't happen" Rudra shouted gleefully before diving onto Omkara's bed. Omkara too lied on the other side of the bed
It was still much time for the morning when Omkara was woken up by a strange sound. It was the shivering of Rudra, even though sleeping, his face looked as if he has just seen a ghost. Omkara patted on his chest to comfort him. Rudra was probably waiting for this moment, he clutched Om's hand and before Om could have reacted, he held Om's tightly by both his hands and nearly clung onto him. Within seconds, the expressions of Rudra's face changed and a small smile appeared on his face. Om could not stop himself from getting happy at this. "How can I hate this child", he thought to himself, "And that too because of the mistakes of my dad. This child has done nothing at all"
He looked at Rudra affectionately for a moment, but then he realized that Rudra has clung onto him, and Om was in such a position that he could not lie down without either waking Rudra up or forcefully freeing himself from this grip. He decided to do neither and spend rest of the night sitting "He really has some serious enmity with my sleep", Om smiled thinking to himself, before seeing the small red mark behind Rudra's ears what was it, mosquito bite, but there were no mosquitos in their mansion, so what?
Next part Spoiler:-- OmRu journey from no hate to unconditional love
For the first few days Rudra was very afraid of Om and would just finish his lunch without any word, but was it easy for him to stay quiet, after a few days he started telling Omkara about what he did at school, about his new friends,
"Can you just shut up and concentrate on your lunch" Om shouted while Rudra was telling about his new crush. Rudra was taken aback at this shout. He made a puppy face and put his gaze down. "I mean when you are eating you should concentrate on your food. You should not talk while eating, hasn't your teacher taught you this", Om said in a very soft and comforting tone. Om could not beilive what he just did, for the first time had he justified himself for scolding Rudra. This was a first in the lifetime for Rudra as well, his face lit up "Ok O", he said, "I promise I will not utter a word till the lunch is done. But promise you will talk to me after that. I have so much to tell, but no one listens to me, whenever I want to talk to Prinku about my girlfriends she runs away, why are girls so weird" "I am sorry Rudra", Om said with small laughter in his voice, "I am not an expert in ladies department, you better discuss this with you bhaiyya", "I wanted to O", Rudra replied solemnly, "but these days he is very busy, whenever I enter his room, I find him reading a book. I think it is on how to get angry"
Om looked at Rudra with disbelief, first of all a book on getting angry was something he had never heard of and secondly even if such a book existed, did Shivaaye actually need that? He could have given tuitions to the author of that book. "Who told you that" asked Om in amusement, "Once I went to his room while he was not there, and the book was lying on his table, I just checked on the cover page and it was written "GRE" in bold letters, now I have read in comics that the anger is represented as GRR in writing, I think there was a typing mistake in the last letter afterall R and E are together in the computer" Rudra replied enthusiastically with a pride in his eyes as if he had solved the biggest case. He looked into Om's eyes with hopes of appreciation, but to his disappointment they were just lost. "Shivaaye is preparing for GRE!" Om thought to himself "He has plans to go out of country for his higher studies and he didn't even tell me about this" Rudra could not decipher the reason for this change in expression, but the mere thought of Om getting angry again was haunting for him, so he kept quiet, completed his lunch and left for his class.
"You are preparing for GRE and you didn't even discuss with me!", Om shouted at Shivaaye when they were home that evening. "Om please calm down,", said Shivaaye, "Let me expain". "Explain!", Om said sarcastically, "Like really you need to explain, to me???Why? Who am I? Just one of your many cousins, why will you bother telling me stuffs" Shivaaye could not bear this. He knew Om was angry, but how could he say that he did not matter to him. He had always been Shivaaye's closest confidant. Maybe for the world they were brothers, or rather cousins, but they had shared every possible relation with each other.
Even Om realized that he went a little too far in anger, but this couldn't be undone. "I think I shall also ask for extra mobiles, breaking mobiles is anyday better than being so rude", he said "I agree", Shivaaye chuckled, "But I don't want you to get into that habit, or else if you don't find the mobile, you will break your sculptors"
Both the brothers smiled at each other and kept quiet for some time, it seemed both knew that the other will need some time to come up with the next line. "But why Shivaaye?", Om said finally. "Because Bade Papa wants it", Shivaaye replied, "And no one in this house can go against his wishes." "I mean almost no one ", he corrected when he saw Om glaring him" He thinks that since I have to get into the business, I must have an MBA degree from a prestigious university like Howard, Cambridge or Stanford. He told me this on the very first day of college and since then I have been preparing for this. I am sorry, but yes I couldn't gather courage to tell you, I always wanted to tell, but..."
"Oh come one Shivaaye" Om said, "Don't tell me you believe Mr. Oberoi. We both know whom he wants to be his successor. This is his plan, if you don't clear GRE and get into a prestigious college, he will get a chance to say that you are not capable enough, and if you get through, he will send you away from us, it is a win-win situation for him" "You are taking it too negatively Om", replied Shivaaye, "I know he has done many mistakes, but he definitely does not hate me to that an extent. Plus whatever he does, he isn't capable enough to get us parted, even if we are not physically close, we will always be together, and about your first point, did you forget that If Shivaaye Singh Oberoi wants to do something, nothing in the world can stop that from happening". Om smiled at the last sentence of Shivaaye
"But before that I want a promise from you", Shivaaye said after a pause, "Two years more when I am out of this house for a couple of years, by then Rudra would be only of 10-11 years, you know he is such a kid, he needs someone to take care of him, to become a parent for him, and I want you to do that in my absence" "What?", Om could not believe this, "You clearly know what feelings I have for him and you want me to nurture him? Only I know how I tolerate him". "Don't worry", Shivaaye replied, "You have two years to get rid of your anger for him and..."
"What are you both chatting?" their conversation was interrupted by the voice of Rudra, "Bhaiyya I am also your brother na, so why you always exclude me from the conversations you do with O" "What is O?" said Shivaaye with a fake irritation, "it was OK if you called him like this when you were young, but now you are big enough", "Of course I can pronounce Omkara now", replied Rudra, "But dadi says that you should not address your elders by their names, and whether or not he is my elder brother, he is elder to me na, so O is perfect" "Don't you yourself get irritated by your stupid logics?", Omkara asked while Shivaye was looking at him affectionately and then both of them burst into laughter, Rudra did not understand the context of this, but he understood that his logics which supposedly are stupid amuse bhaiyya and O, and if they are happy seeing him stupid, he better always remain stupid. He joined them with a smile
"Ok enough of this laughing session", finally he said, "I had come here as I am feeling hungry" "Really!" Asked Shivaaye, "Breaking news, our house has chefs, you could ask them to cook something" "I know", he replied, "But they have their standard methods to cook food, they never experiment, I am bored of the same taste" Well this was again a Rudra logic but it made sense, and Shivaaye took this as a challenge. "Fine I will cook today", "What!" said Omkara, cooking, he was not sure if Shivaaye even knew how to lit the stove, but then he remembered the line Shivaaye had said a few minutes, "If Shivaaye Singh Oberoi wants to do something, nothing in the world can stop that from happening"
Days passed, Shivaaye completed his graduation with flying colors and cleared GRE, he got selected for both Stanford and Cambridge, after much dissections, Tej zeroed upon Cambridge and finally Shivaaye left for his new house for the next 2 years. Meanwhile Om also got good marks in his 12th boards. Tej wanted him to opt for Commerce, but instead he opted for Arts much to the distress of Tej.
It was the third night after Shivaaye had left. Omkara was winding up his paint brush and other accessories before going to sleep, when he heard a knock at the door. It was Rudra. "What are you doing here?" asked Omkara. He might have relented here and there, but was still not OK to accept his presence in his life. "I am feeling very scared sleeping alone, can I sleep here?" said Rudra "What!" Omkara could not believe his ears, children generally go to their parent's room if they are scared at night, why did Rudra come to him? OK Mr. Oberoi could hardly be called a father and his mom was not Rudra's mom, but Rudra did not know this and then he could have also gone to Dadi.
"Please let me sleep here for tonight, I promise I will not irritate or bother you" Rudra insisted, "Actually today Saurabh was narrating the story of a horror movie, I had to listen to him as otherwise my classmates would have thought that I am a coward, but now I am feeling scared to sleep alone" "OK", replied Om, "But if I get even a bit disturbed, I will wake you up and throw you out of this room", "Promise that won't happen" Rudra shouted gleefully before diving onto Omkara's bed. Omkara too lied on the other side of the bed
It was still much time for the morning when Omkara was woken up by a strange sound. It was the shivering of Rudra, even though sleeping, his face looked as if he has just seen a ghost. Omkara patted on his chest to comfort him. Rudra was probably waiting for this moment, he clutched Om's hand and before Om could have reacted, he held Om's tightly by both his hands and nearly clung onto him. Within seconds, the expressions of Rudra's face changed and a small smile appeared on his face. Om could not stop himself from getting happy at this. "How can I hate this child", he thought to himself, "And that too because of the mistakes of my dad. This child has done nothing at all"
He looked at Rudra affectionately for a moment, but then he realized that Rudra has clung onto him, and Om was in such a position that he could not lie down without either waking Rudra up or forcefully freeing himself from this grip. He decided to do neither and spend rest of the night sitting "He really has some serious enmity with my sleep", Om smiled thinking to himself, before seeing the small red mark behind Rudra's ears what was it, mosquito bite, but there were no mosquitos in their mansion, so what?
Next part Spoiler:-- OmRu journey from no hate to unconditional love
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