KLEPTOMANIAC
SHOT 3
*Sorry for my insane typing skills*
Who would prompt that Rishabh is a grown up man? Prerna kept caressing his forehead until slumber dawned upon him and he was sleeping like neonate of few hours. Tears dribbled down her eyes as she lifted up his loose grey tee shirt and marks of that inhumane torture burned her eyesight. She hovered her palm on them only to hear his soft moans. How she wanted to balm them in literal sense? For that she needed the support of his family.
Renu was in all yes ! But Anurag he was the only tough nut but she needed to have a breakthrough. She placed a peck on his forehead before walking out of his room. After covering her face with a veil.
" kaisa hai mera Rishabh !" Renu trembled as she was about to approach the threshold. Prerna turned around and touched her feet.
" khana khaliyaa !" she smiled and tears rolled down Renu's eyes.
" usske liyegajar ka halwa banake laogii .. Yahannn manaa hai.. Woh Rishabh smell se bahar aaneki kosishh karne lagta hai !" Prerna was stunned at her words.
" kyunn kaarrahe ho aap log uske saath aisaaa ! Kyunnn?!" Prerna groaned.
Renu hadn't any answer of her question because she was one old seeker of the same query.
She lowered her lashes and mumbled. " gajaar ka halwala dogi mere bete ke liye ..woh usse bohot pasand hai !".
Prerna hugged Renu as tight as possible once then ran out of the mansion what if he was a kleptomaniac , what if he stole things still he deserved a better life. He was no germ to be curbed.
That night Prerna avoided Anurag's pings and devoted her self in finding the bestest psychologist for Rishab , next noon as she was ready with his fav desert and a gift for him guarded in a basket.
" My Rishu would be so happy." her eyes brimmed with tears.
As she walked inside his room to find him trying hard to put his shirt on. She kept her basket and hurried to help him.
" Rishu khood nahayaa aajjj !!" she gleamed adjusting his shirt on the frame and fingers combing his hair.
" priyu halwaa!" he sniffed and gleamed.
" yah! mere Rishu ka fav!" she smiled placing a kiss on his cheek.
" Rishu sanyu ke liye clean clean hai !" he clapped.
Rishab dabbed her nose tip with his palm and hushed like a kid," Fresh" She smiled as the soapy smell tantalized her olfactory glands. She took his palms in her clasp and kissed them tenderly. He smiled at the love she was showering on him and hugged her tight after a long day.
" Priyu ! " he mumbled holding on to her.
" Rishu bolo !" she mouthed caressing his back lovingly.
" Tum mujhe kabhi ni maarogi naa !" came his cringed voice and her heart pained at fear absorbed in his senses. She hugged him tight and kissed on his nape.
She slowly broke the hug and cupped his face , with a swift hoodwink of moments her lips captured his lip in a wet soft lip lock. Rishab was slowly getting used to physical way of channeling love or whatever she felt for him. She suckled on his lower lip and guided him to pleasure her lips as well but he being confused in doing so kept on blinking his eyes when she pecked his lips soft and kissed on his nose tip.
" Kissi promise Rishu.. Priyu will kiss away Rishu's every pain !" she hushed against his lips.
Each time Prerna joined her forehead with Rishabh, she imbibed his sufferings in herself.
Each time they kissed she felt herself losing somewhere. His lips those eyes his words were training he. Training her to ditch her duties.
It was a week prior to her engagement. Rishab was yet to know who she actually was. Prerna kissed his lips tenderly as a prize of being an obedient child and finishing his broth properly.
" Rishu ko Priyu pasand!" he clapped a peck on his forehead. But she latched their lips. As softly as she could as painstakingly as it could swell his lips. Prerna could feel her cheeks moisten with warm tears.
" Rishu!" she breathed out hugging him tight.
She needs to confess something to Anurag. But she dreaded seclusion from Rishabh. Prerna came back home and caught her parents preparing for the engagement with Anurag by their side.
" Prerna see I have chosen this ring for you" he mouthed showing her a malignantly expensive diamond ring.
" It’s worth half of my annual income Papa jii!" Anurag flaunted and Prerna knew how seriously she was trapped.
Prerna faked smiles and dashed inside her room after Anurag hugged her warmly, but it wasn't of any solace for Prerna cause of the kleptomaniac who has played his charm again and this time he has stolen something real precious.
The organ that beats inside her rib cage." Anurag, we need to talk." she burbled over the phone the other day.
Only to hear his irritated voice, " Not now baby arrhmm I’m in a mess, Rishabh bhai is unconscious in fever, he isn't taking medicine as well such a head hammer!"Anurag sounded irked.
The phone dropped from her finger and after 8 mins to be exact she found herself running inside Rishab's room with a pale anxiety-stricken face and tear swollen eyes.
Anurag who was bewildered by her sudden burning presence as if her own life was in danger. He was about to drag her out. He spotted her taking Rishab head on her lap and kissing his warm forehead.
" Meraa Rishu !" she sobbed. Only to hear a faint mumbled," Priyu dawaiii do!".
Everything fell into its place and Anurag stood there like a wax statue melting in anger.
Anurag kept standing there like a statue, he had no sanity left in him to comprehend things.
Prerna was kissing Rishab forehead like she was his wife, " Doctor mere Rishu ko kuch nhi hoga na.." she mouthed hugging him tighter than ever and 'mera Rishu' was enough to turn heads and blast a soul in anger.
Anurag walked out of the room along with the doctor and dabbed his anger and bewilderment under his teeth.
" Rishu.. Rishu , dekho Prerna is here na .. Rishu" Prerna pulled him up and made him gulp the medicine.
Rishab blinked his eyes and hugged him as tight as he could.
‘’Priyu " he breathed out.
" Mere Rishu ko kuch nhi hua. " She kissed his lips thus imbibing life in their system.
" Rishu missed Priyu" he mouthed kissing her lips back, probably the very first time, like showing her that he has finally learnt how to kiss her back. Her lips curved into a cute smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck, thus helping him to show off his new skills. She nearly gave the peril a pass and clung closer to the person who meant the universe to her at that very moment. She sat by his head the entire night thus sacrificing her hunger and sleep, her secret was no more one while Anurag went unusually silent.
Days kept on rolling, Prerna cocooned Rishabh like GOD has embossed her life in his smiles, but now Prerna wanted him fully recovered.
Anurag on the other hand preponed the engagement, " He is a bloody thief uncle, So what he is my brother, I can’t risk Prerna's future for GOD'S sake "
Anurag blasted an evening prior to their engagement. " Rishu isn’t a thief!! " Prerna gritted her teeth.
" He is a thief. Prerna, you cheated on me still I’m ready to forgive you but I can’t risk your life with a mentally unstable person.I still love you " he screamed. " Rishab is very much normal and I’m happy with him " Prerna tried to show him the way when Anurag pulled her close.
" He is a kleptomaniac, bloody thief! " he smirked.His smirk had so many answers to questions yet to be quizzed.
Prerna tried to comprehend Anurag's cunning smile but she was yet to understand the art of human cryptic codes. Her parents were all set to get her engaged with Anurag. She had to nod her head in yes because they were her parents and they’re nowhere ready to settle her with a mentally unstable kleptomaniac. It was perhaps the last afternoon before she could rescue Rishab from the hell, then destiny had some other plans.
Something no one can ever think of.
As night seeped in and Bajaj villa was all set to welcome their newest princess. Prerna dolled up like an Indian barbie walked near Anurag,who was in smiles.
" Anurag beta Prerna ko anguthi pehnaoo " Vardhan urged , while Renu wasn’t in herself.
Prerna was looking at him with her jaws tight. Anurag slipped his hand inside his pocket to unveil a peril.
" I can’t able to find the ring. It’s missing." he panted, thus concluding that it went missing, causing an instant mayhem, Renu fainted.
While Vardhan slapped his decision of letting Rishab out fora walk with Anurag that morning under Anurag's insistence.
Prerna quite unexpectedly stood there like a movie buff waiting for the climax.
" I’m sure it’s in bhaiya's room papa " Anurag declared thus breaking into that tiny room where that soul was sleeping without any frown lines and yes the ring was inside the drawer of his bedside table.
Anurag gritted his teeth and jerked him up.
" Aaj main inhe chodunga nhi chorr , iss chor ko tohh main!! " Anurag yelled.
" mat maaro ..main haar ni li " Rishab cringed like a baby while the crowd sniffed at his plight.
Vardhan tried to intervene, when Prerna tore Rishab away from Anurag and hugged Rishab tight.
" Anurag Bajaj you are under arrest ! " heads turned at an alien military trained voice.
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