A night together after long!
Sonakshi twisted and turned on the bed that once she and Soha shared. It was enough for those two females, but tonight was an addition into their room and their bed... On her daughter's outright stubborn demand, her father, Dev shifted to the Bose House, which he gladly agreed upon his daughter's "request", that he termed as; though he himself knew, she did no request, persuasion or polite asking... She just openly demanded and threatened her parents for her wish to be fulfilled... So, with his bags packed, Dev had come diligently to the Bose House...
Sonakshi couldn't blink shut her eyes, her mind was working at a pace remembering the evening... Bijoy was miffed, furious, livid and what not, seeing Dev with his bags into his House... He wanted to throw him out just like Dev had ordered his brother to throw them out of this very house many years ago... But, Sonakshi's strict order to not create any ruckus before Soha, Bijoy had to keep his mouth shut after a long quarrel...
Surprisingly, Dev was quiet... Very quiet, of every insult Bijoy was hurling at him... Either Dev was prepared for this kind of behavior or he has turn indifferent to everyone except for Suhana, that he did not even open his mouth to give a sigh...
Sonakshi turned to her sides on the bed sighing herself... This is so difficult... even more difficult than staying apart... He was sleeping next to Soha on the bed, and she was lying on Soha's other side, letting their daughter have a share of both her parents at once... But this separation between them by their daughter cuddling to both her parents wasn't helping Sonakshi at all... After all these years, he used the same male cologne that filled the entire room with his presence... Her mind was boggling with the senses she felt even seven years later, knowing his presence, as if her heart knew no bounds, it worked its own way... Thank God! His back is facing her and he cannot see her in a total turmoil of emotions...
Sonakshi scrunched her eyes shut, trying to breathe as easy as she could when she realized that Dev was turning on his other side, now facing towards her... She tried being normal, pretending to be asleep even when while turning his hand landed on her hand over the pillow near her head...
Dev sighed in relief realizing that Sonakshi still didn't wake up with his hand bumping on hers... He could anyway not sleep... Change of room, change of bed, lack of space to sleep, since Soha wanted both her parents to sleep beside her and to top it all Sonakshi's presence... She still uses that flowery smelling shampoo, whatever the brand name was... But she still uses the same... Since she didn't tie them, and they were splayed all over her pillow, and his face quite near to her pillow, he was getting intoxicated in her shampooed smell, just like he was so fond of nuzzling into her freshly shampooed hair, seven years back... "What the hell! How do I sleep here...?" he thought to himself... Sighing he scrunched his eyes shut, forcing himself to sleep...
Half an hour later Soha opened her eyes, finally stopping to pretend sleeping... She was sure, both her parents were asleep... Mumma, she was sure she is asleep... Papa, was slightly snoring... She could trust that he is asleep as well... She slowly crawled out of their bed... She knew how to slip out of her mother's sleeping embrace... No big deal... And papa was already sleeping... Soha, giggled to herself... "Good night, Mumma-Papa...!" Soha murmured to her parents as she quietly tiptoed out of the room...
Soha knocked on her Maamu's room, whose room's lights were dimly on as an indication for Soha that he was still awake... Saurabh slipped her in his room quietly, and locked the room... Both Maamu-Bhaanji had a low-five moment, as he ushered her to the bed, and patted her to sleep... Both had planned this to let Dev and Sonakshi sleep together for the night...
Sonakshi woke up to a feeling she had felt many years ago... Being engulfed into the arms of the man who felt so familiar... Her face on his chest... His arm holding her by shoulder, and the other one on her waist... Holding her close...
Dev tried opening his eyes to a familiar weight over his chest... A love filled weight... She cuddling on to him... Her cheek caressing over the hairs on his chest... "Good morning wifey!" he could hardly register the words that escaped his mouth like a sheer habit he must have had many years ago, that he hadn't practiced in years...
She mewled back a muffled reply of a fine morning... And had her nap... Only to wake up with a start, sitting on the bed, horrified... Dev opened his eyes with a total change in the body language of the person cuddling on him...
"Dev, ye kya kar rahe they tum?" Sonakshi was miffed...
"Maine kya kiya? Tum so rahi thi meri baahon mein!" Dev defended...
"Main kyu aaungi tumhari baahon mein? Pagal ho gaye ho kya?" Sonakshi accused him...
"Toh kya maine tumhe kheench ke apne paas bulaaya tha? Humare beech mein toh Soha so rahi thi na!" Dev explained, being active in this banter...
"Toh Soha gayi kahan?" Sonakshi was horrified!
"Main yahan hoon Mumma! Good morning papa!" A smiling Soha came with a Thermos and two cups, that she assured her Dida that she will carry them to the room, that Asha gave her on the top most stair...
"Good morning!" both chorused to their daughter...
"Ab aap dono fresh ho jaaiye... Main tea laayi hoon aapke liye!" Soha twinkled her eyes...
"Soha, aap kahan chali gayi thi? Aap toh mumma aur papa ke beech mein soye they na?" Sonakshi asked confused...
"Yes Mumma... Par main apne usual time pe uth gayi thi and aap aur papa so rahe they..." Soha painted a white lie before her parents who conveniently believed, because they knew nothing that transpired... Nor anyone else except for this little kid and her Maamu...
"Oh! Okay!" Devakshi confusingly accepted the facts, being back on bed for their cup of tea... Having an awkward silence between both... And Soha's eyes never left the twinkle of happiness seeing her parents together for once...
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