She sat on the bed looking at Sameer's photo frame with utter passion and love, her cheeks coloured in crimson suggesting that she was blushing for a while now. She looked at the pink nighty that was kept on the bed and shied away thinking how will she face him in that piece of cloth. She was still dreaming and blushing when she heard someone's footsteps. She quickly hid the photo and the nighty in the cupboard and sat with the bedsheet and few threads, pretending that she was doing embroidery. "Beena! Suno." Tauji entered the room and saw the pink nighty that was slightly peeping out of the cupboard. "Boliye Parlay ke Papa!" Beena said looking at Tauji praying that her pink nighty wasn't caught by him. "Ye Sameer mera Sautan ban ke rahega." Tauji thought to himself and left the room without saying anything. Beena looked at him confused. "O bai! Iss buddhe ko kya ho gaya. Mera hi naseeb kyun kharaab tha." Beena held her head in her hands. After a minute or two she stood from the bed in full tashan determined. "Woh Bholuram ab sirf mera hoga." She smirked like a typical vamp of Saas bahu shows but looked like an idiot to Pralay who stood at the door seeing his mad mother sitting on bed and standing in a same way for thrice. He ran away scared of some ghost that he thought resided in his Mom, not knowing she was a ghost herself.
"Bhagwan jhooth na bulaye, Preeti ke Papa, hum Naina aur Damaadji ko khaane pe bula lein?" Bela said excitedly. "Haan haan Bela. Ismein puchnein ki kya baat hai." Anand said happily. Preeti and Bela got excited but someone on the door was more excited than anyone else. Beena who was leaning on the door looked at the lift and smirked again just when Meghaben's mother stepped out of it. She smiled awkwardly but Beena continued to smirk while still looking where lift was. Meghaben's mother found it good to go away than to be eaten by her.
Tauji who was pacing up and down seeing Beena smirking madly after every 10 minutes amidst her chores was freaking him out. With the Rajma Chawal that the being cooked in the adjacent house of Anand and the commotion that they had, it was pretty clear that Sameer and Naina were coming for lunch and seeing his wife all the more chirpy and active and smirk-y, it was clear that she knew and that means, Tauji's sindoor was in kharta.
Beena heard Sameer's laughter from Bela's house and her heart leaped in joy. Tauji was looking at her expressions and crushing the newspaper in his hand. Beena got up to get her plan in action not before stopping in her ways and looking at Tauji and smirking leaving him all the more mad at his phooti kismat. "Issi liye main Naina ki shaadi ke khilaaf tha. Ye aurat ko mere gale mein pade apne naam ke mangalsutra ki padi hi nahi hai." Tauji said taking out the mangalsutra from inside of his kurta. Wind blew in from the window and the sindoor in his maang was clearly visible. With tears filled eyes he screamed without voice and sat down. After about a minute he got up dramatically like another vamp and looked at the door and smiked. Pralay who witnessed his Papa too sitting and getting up thrice, dramatically and smirking like mad was now sure they weren't his parents. He went in his room and started packing his stuff. He couldn't live with two mad people anymore.
"O bai! Ahhh!!" Beena shouted from inside the bathroom pretending that she fell. It was a perfect plan. Tauji ran for her help and her plan was on! She ran from the bathroom to Anand's house with Tauji running behind her. She hid behind Sameer, at least tried to. "Bholuram, ye buddha mere pe line maar raha." She said pointing at Tauji leaving everyone shocked except for Tauji. He knew her too well. "Beena chalo." Tauji said. Preeti saw the mangalsutra and sindoor and nudged Naina to see and both were in their own world suppressing their laughter. "Bholuram dekho ye mujhe tumse door karna chahta hai." Beena pretended to cry. "Hua kya hai Bhaisaab?" Anand asked. "Arre ye bathroom mein gir gayi. lagta hai sar pe chot aayi hai." Tauji said not wanting to let people know of what his wife is planning. "Toh hum doctor ko bulate hain." Anand said. Tauji ke bhi dimaag ki batti jal uthi. Ab doctor karega expose! Dhyaan se dekhiye iss aurat ko. Tauji couldn't help but laugh holding his stomach thinking about it leaving Anand and Bela confused, Naina and Preeti laughing out loud and Sameer scared because Beena ke iraade theek nahi lag rahe.
The doctor came in and checked her. "Dekhiye sar pe chot lagne ki wajah se inki yaadasht kho gayi hai aur inhein zabardasti kuch yaad dilana inki jaan bhi le sakta hai. Ye jo kehti hain woh maan lijiye aap log. Main kuch dawaiyan likh deta hoon, time pe de dijiyega." Doctor looked at Beena and winked. She looked at the ceiling and again smirked thinking of how she gave him 100 rupees note to lie it all woh bhi Pralay ke gullak se chura ke. Tauji was looking at her and understood everything. Anand got a call from his office and left due to to some emergency.
"Bholuram." Beena tried to hug him but he ran. Beena ran behind him but he locked himself in Preeti's room. Beena went to her room and changed into a blue chiffon saari. "O bai! Ismein toh main Sridevi se bhi zyda sundar lag rahi hoon. Ab toh Bholuram mujh pe fida ho jaayega. Tum sirf mere ho bholuram!" She let her tightly pleated hair remain as it is kyun itni mehnat kaun karega! She then again went to Anand's house to find everyone calming Sameer down.
Dheere dheere se dil ko churana
Everyone looked at Beena who was singing in her croaked voice. Sameer gluped and looked at her with wide eyes. She moved towards him and smirked wickedly. Preeti and Naina were laughing seeing all that.
Tumse milkar tumko hai hai batana.
Beena moved her index finger on Sameer's face and he tried to run away. He hid behind Naina. "Naina, please mujhe bacha lo. I promise I'll do anything you want me to." Sameer said scared. "Kuch bhi?" Naina asked in a husky voice. "Kuch bhi!" Sameer said. Beena moved towards Naina but Naina stood in front of her. "Baaju ho Naina." Beena glared at her. "Naina looked at Sameer who pleaded her with puppy eyes. "Tayji Sameer aapke bete jaisa hai." Naina tried to remind her. "Haan. Main hoon tumhara pati." Tauji jumped in between and cried.
Mere hothon pe ek tere siva koi naam nahin.
Beena pushed Naina aside and moved towards Sameer still singing in her bhangaar voice. "Bholuram, idhar aao." Beena said looking at Sameer smitten. "O bai mujhe bas tumhare saath dance hi toh karna hai." Beena said sitting on the chair pretending to cry. "Sirf dance hi karna hai na pakka?" Sameer, who was in the corner scared asked. He thought to dance with her so that she goes away. She became very happy and pleated the open pallu of her chiffon saree to expose her curves a bit.
Bas yaad tujhe karta hai aur koi kaam nahin,
Dheere dheere meri zindagi mein aana
Dheere dheere se dil ko churana.
Beena was singing and dancing with Sameer. Preeti and Naina were cheering for Beena leaving her blushing more. "Ne Waah! Aaj toh sab meri taraf hain." Beena thought to herself. "Yeh Bhabhiji nein pehen kya rakkha hai." Bela adjusted her pallu and thought. Tauji was counting the number of hair he tore out of his head. "Meri itni zindagi kharaab ho gayi hai, itni zindagi kharab ho gayi hai." He cried like a kid. Beena tried to fall on Sameer but Sameer moved back and she was on the floor. "O bai!" She cried. Sameer looked at Tauji who was very happy seeing her fall and then looked at everybody else and ran away. He couldn't put his izzat in khatra anymore. Naina ran behind him. "Ne waah!!!" Beena said while everyone was got busy in their own work not paying attention to her at all.
It was only at home did Sameer took a sigh of relief but Naina couldn't stop laughing at his antics. "Yahan tumhare pati ki izzat khatre mein thi aur tumhein hasi aa rahi?" Sameer looked at Naina who couldn't stop laughing. "Par maine tumhein bachaya." Naina said. "Kahan bachaya?" Sameer glared at her. "Arre koshish toh ki, ab main kya karun ki Tayji itni moti hain. Main toh gir hi jaaungi na." Naina said. "Uss O bai ki toh main!" Sameer kept on bickering about everything that happened. Naina moved to the table and played the cassette of 'Aashiqui' and looked at Sameer with that different glint in her eyes and moved towards him...
Dheere dheere se dil ko churana.
PS : I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it down. Its written for fun and shouldn't be taken seriously.