Part 25
Ruhi walked to ishra and settled in ishita's lap , she kissed her temple and spoke " good morning betu, achchi neend aayi".
Ru- (in bit angry tone)-humm , main to achche as soyi lekin aaplog hamesha mujhe chod kar kya baatein karte rahte ho.
Raman was ruhi surprisingly as she never had talked like this . She was always a scared child and use to speak less when she is around him but this is the first time she is speaking like this . Ishita hugged her more tight and spoke " ye na mumma papa ka secret hai, jaise rooh aur mumma ka secret hota hai, jaise papa rooh ka secret hota hai na usi tarah ye mumma papa ka secret hai .
She spoke making ruhi understand while Raman was just amazed seeing the way how ishita tackle ruhi .
Ru- but mera aur papa ka to koi secret hi nahi hai .
R- That's doesn't matter beta , now we make our secret but now mamma and papa has one secret .
Saying so he called ishita near him and spoke slowly but audible " suno ishita ruhi hasn't brushed her teeth and her mouth is stinking."
He teased ruhi and laughed aloud while ruhi cried and spoke " mumma papa is so bad , I just had woke and came searching you people and he is teasing me ".
Raman was still smiling seeing ruhi getting angry with him as till now she was always scared of him and was always soft with him. He was looking at ruhi smilingly while ishita glared him and spoke " Raman stop teasing her ".
Raman saw ishita and spoke " thank you ishita ".
I- thank you, thank you for what .
R- for giving my daughter back .
I- back ?
R- yeah , she was with me always but her childhood was lost in my ignorance and rudeness, my daughter was scared to talk to me but now she not only talks with me freely but also gets angry with me .
I- not you but I should thank you that even if you were not ready for the marriage or was just marrying because of her , you listened to me and not only listened but even worked on it . And this all is result of that only , you know may be you won't show your love but you always loved ruhi a lot.
Raman smiled a bit and spoke " nope , I never loved my baby rather use to hate her because of that mole , that's why I was away from her for so many years ".
I- no , that's not true , you always loved her a lot that's why though you were not ready for marraige but the moment you come to know that the woman is ready to become only ruhi's mother you got ready to marry her .
Raman thought for a while and spoke " don't know may be you are right but now I m actually feeling the feel of being a family man after having a cute daughter and a beautiful wife ".
Ishita blushed listening to his complements while ruhi came running from the washroom and spoke showing her teeth to Raman" papa dekho ab mere teeth saaf ho gaye na ( she blow air from her mouth and spoke ) dekho ab smell bhi nahi aa rahi hai , hai na ".
R- humm ab to hamari rooh good girl ban gayi .
Saying so he pulled ruhi in his lap and kissed her when she spoke rubbing her cheek " papa shave karo na,dadhi chubhti hai.
R- ok my baby.
Saying so Raman too went to freshen up, then they had breakfast of toast , juice and fruits as Raman didn't allowed ishita to do work as she was unwell . Then he went to do some official work on his laptop , ishita went rest while ruhi started watching her cartoon .After about one hour ishita got up and thought to make lunch as Raman was busy . She made dal , rice , curry and was kneading flour when Raman entered the kitchen and asked " ishita what are you doing ".
I- you were working so I thought to make lunch , waise bhi rest kar kar ke bore ho chuki hoon .
R- achcha kar liya na, now move , let me do further work. Bolo kya Karna hai.
I- you have to make chapatti , baki maine kar liya hai .
R- chapatti ?
I- koi problem hai .?
R- no Kya problem ho sakti hai.
Saying so he started making roti's instructingishita to rest that's when ruhi too showed up . She too wanted to see her papa making roti's so she sat on slab .
Now ishita was sitting in chair and ruhi was on slab ,while their eyes were on Raman who was trying to make perfect chapatti . Ishita was instructing him while ruhi was making fun of Raman seeing the different shapes of chapatti . Ishita got up from her place and spoke " Raman you do another work,main jaldi se bana deti hoon ."
R- bola na nahi ,you are sick .
I- correction Mr bhalla ,I was sick but I m very happy now . you know its the happiest day of my life .
R- really ?
I- aur kya ,you know till now I was living in fear ,hamesha dar rahta tha that what you will do when you will come to know about this,but today ,today I m feeling too relieved, jaise sar se bahut bada bojh utar gaya ho.believe me I never wanted to cheat anyone ,because of that my many alliances broke .
Ishita defended herself again while Raman asked in between talks"ishita you actually loved someone else ."
He asked as if he is asking casually,making ishita quite. She thought for sometimes then spoke " unfortunately yes , yes I loved that man but he left me . He left me when I needed him most "
Her eyes got moist recalling it , which made Raman jealous of the person and he asked " do you still love him ".
I- no .
She answers instantly for which Raman spoke" , but your eyes are moist while whenever I talk about shagun my eyes fill with anger , which shows I hate her a lot while your tears shows that you still loves him ".
I- no Raman , my eyes are moist because I regret loving him while your eyes spit anger as you still expect from shagun.
R- what do you mean ?
He spoke bit angrily for which ishita spoke " Raman we have much to talk but not in
front of ruhi , we will talk this later ".
R(calming down )- ok .
Soon they had their lunch then they went to bed , ishita made ruhi sleep while Raman was doing his office work . After she made ruhi sleep , she turned to him and spoke " now we can talk ".
R- bolo , you were saying something.
I- I just wanted to know why are you so short tempered , itna gussa kyun karte ho aap.?
R- do you think , I will answer this ?
I- Dena to chahiye.
R- but I m not giving , because I myself don't know the answer , gussa aata hai to aata hai uska koi reason thode na hai .
Ishita smiled listening to him and spoke " you know you are cute sometimes ".
R- Kya come again , I m cute , tera dimaag kharaab ho gaya hai , I m RKB , log dartein hain mujhse.
I- but I found you cute from the very first day, yaad hai I lectured you and you agreed to me .
R- humm .
There was a pin drop silence for sometimes , both wanted to talk much but don't know from where to start , what to talk , finally after much time Raman asked
" so tell me why your eyes were moist when you were talking about him ".
Ishita looked at him and spoke " Raman you have accepted me na."
R- humm.
I- you want to live your life with us , me and ruhi .
R- humm .
I- then can we talk about us, leaving subbuand shagun behind . They are our bad past , it will be nice if we forget it and try to move on without giving them any space in our life .
Raman was looking at ishita still thinking what to answer her when she spoke " I can still go away from your life , aap bol do if you are not ..."
R- can I ask something ?
I- humm .
R- everybody is scared of my anger but you don't, you didn't got scared before saying I love you to me .
I- nope .
Raman looked at her surprisingly when she spoke " You know , you darewhen there is lesser chance to loose . Yahi hua mere saath , I was sure that you will leave me after knowing about my disability as you never wanted to get married, so I dared to spoke my heart . I was like you will already leave me then why don't I say my heart out to you ."
R- what if I had denied.
I- kuch nahi , chali jaati aapki life se.
R- kahaan .
I- pata nahi .
R- tum pagal ho ?
I- marti nahi ye pata hai just had to try living without you two .
She spoke looking nowhere while tears made way from her eyes , Raman saw this and pulled her to him , she hugged him tightly and spoke broking into tears , which she was holding from long " don't know how , but I love you most, nahi jee paati aapke bina".
R- you don't have to live without us .
I- I love you .
She spoke still being in his embrace while he pulled her little more to her and closed his eyes feeling good engulfing her into him .
That's all for now , hope you like it . Enjoy reading and do comment
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