KeerTi OS: Stealing moments!
She rang the bell of his room and he immediately opened the door as if he was waiting for her only.
"KT kya hua aisa ki aapne subah ke 6 bje bulaya mujhe woh bhi meri return flight ticket ke saath? "
Actually they both were in Delhi to organise the wedding of a famous jweller's son. The wedding was one of the big ones of their career and of course they put in a lot of effort to make it a big success which of course happened as they saw these big smiles on the faces of the client this morning when the last ritual of the wedding happened.
"Pehle andar toh aao partner! I will explain everything! " He said making space for her to enter.
She glanced a look at him before finally stepping inside.
He closed the door and turned to look at her horrific expression as if she had seen some ghost.
He followed her gaze and indeed the whole messed up room would seem no less then a havoc to anyone.
"Ye kya hai? Tufaan aya tha kya yaha? " He heard her ask.
"Apni ticket dijiye!" He said ignoring her words.
She gave him the ticket not before giving him an you-are-unbelievable look.
"Woh actually mujhe meri return ticket mil nhi rahi thi toh i thought to call you for some help. " He said seriously while putting her ticket in his jacket's upper pocket safely and zipped it so that the ticket doesn't fall out if he bends down or something.
"Accha aur aapne meri ticket kis khushi mei li hai? " She asked with a sweet smile on her face that for a second he got confused if she was being naive or plainly mocking him.
"I know that if I don't find the ticket you will leave me here and go back to Udaipur alone." He hinted as to what fun it will be if things get revealed without any drama.
"Haa toh? Aur koi option hai bhi toh nhi" She said pointing it as the last option and she would love it well too since being alone meant no KT and no loosing of her brain cells into his talking.
"Isiliye, agar ticket nhi mila mera toh i will tear yours too and we will book flight again." He reasoned finally revealing his inner motive.
"KT kya bachpana hai ye? " She asked whinning at his tactic.
"Hame time pass nhi karna chahiye because flight aaj shaam ki hi hai! " He said moving near the bed knowing fully well that her eyes were on him and she must be annoyed with him way too much.
He turned around and raised his eye brow to which she huffed a sigh and started searching for the ticket of his less partner and more a kid.
He smiled seeing her searching for it. Well actually he purposely hid his ticket just to spend more time with her out of work criteria which was in most cases impossible so he had to come up with these silly tricks to spend some time with her. Sounds crazy but then when he was not?
After working with for almost 6 months he started to notice these small changes in him. It's like you can feel the change but not point it out. Stealing her time was his favourite among all the changes specially after last night when that so called big brother of their client openly tried to flirt with her.
He should have more focus on his wife then my partner! How dare he compliment my partner that in front of my eyes!
He burnt with jealousy as the scenerio of last night again flashed in front of his eyes. Though she tried calming him down later on saying 'it was just a compliment' which did nothing but added more fuel to his anger as his partner was not on his side because of that prick. He had this urge to break that idiot's nose right away but one look at her concerned face, he calmed down. They had done a lot of hardwork which should not get wasted because of him. And just like that he left the idea of murdering Mr. Vivek Sachdev's face for some other day.
And rest about the ticket, then he hid it at a place where he thought she would never find it leading them to spend a few more hours in Delhi alone and without much work and even if she finds out he will still at least get to spend some more time with her. It was definitely a win-win situation from both ends.
"KT khade mat rahiye, ticket dhundiye" She told him to which he immediately nodded and acted to look in drawers attatched to the big bed. While still peeking glances at her and thinking how cool his idea actually was.
"Waise partner.. " He said while still acting to search the ticket near the window.
She hummed in response to him while she searched the ticket near the coffee table!
"Wedding bohot acchi gayi! Mr. Sachdev looked so happy." He said dreamily leaning against the wall while she was busy searching.
She turned and looked at him.
"Haa who toh hai but ham dono ko wapas bhi jana hai so ticket dhundiye!" She told him.
"Yes of course but maine already sab jagah search karliya hai and I can't find it! " He said stepping towards her acting way too much convincingly for a person like her.
"Accha toh kahi bahar toh nhi gir gaya? Check kare jaake? " She said giving a solution which crossed her mind first.
"Arey bahar kaha jayega when I kept it here only! Aur partner let me make it very clear that mai ticket saath mei leke ghumne waalo mei se nhi hu!" He said smiling as to who roams with a flight ticket in pocket.
"Aapko apne ticket ki bilkul chinta nhi hai na? " She asked.
"Bilkul bhi nhi hai! Nhi mila toh na sahi we will explore Delhi a bit more then" He said causally.
She shot an angry stare towards him when her eyes fell on the tiny thing peeping from behind a huge painting put on as a show in the luxurious room. She shifted her gaze at him who looked confused as to what she was so interested about, leaving a chance to scold him and then again looked at the tiny paper.
" Partner kya hua? " He asked finally when she scold him or said anything in return to his casual behavior.
She chose not to answer and walked past time towards the painting and pulled out the tiny paper which was nothing but the ticket.
He gulped hard when she looked extremely dangerous looking at the ticket.
She found it! Damn!
Need to work on my hiding skills!
He noted in the back of his head mentally.
Instantly his mind went on to make a story to save himself from her wrath.
But before he could cook up a story she turned to face him looking like some angry dragon, ready to turn him into ashes with her rasor eyes and even the idea of him thinking something jumped out of the window itself.
He bravely looped up a small grin on his face. "Ohh toh maine ise waha chupaya tha! Itne kaam ke beech dimaag se nikal hi gaya! " He acted so that he doesn't get killed by her at least not so soon.
She couldn't believe this! Everyday he manages to come up with something so amusing and new that now she had lost count of it.
She took a few steps towards him which of course scared him inwardly but he showed off an extremely calm face from the outside.
"Kon insaan apna ticket aisi jagah chupaata hai? " She asked the first and sensible question which came in her mind.
"I do because mujhe laga ki kahi chori na ho jaye! You know we were out of our rooms most of the time so.. " He said making a seriously stupid explanation.
Need to work more on excuses too specially with her around!
He mentally noted in his head again.
" Ticket bhi koi chori karega? Paise hote toh ek baar ko samajh mei ata hai but ticket" She said learly not at all convinced by his explanation.
"Partner we should never take things for granted! And thankyou so much mera ticket dhundne ke liye! And as a reward I will treat you with breakfast because its morning now" He said looking towards the sun rising up to shine through the huge glass window panes.
"Iski koi zarurat nhi hai mai apne room mei jaake rest karna zada pasand karungi! " She said as her already drained mind was done with him and his silly antics. She now needed energy to bear him.
"C' mon partner breakfast ki toh baat hai and you are forgetting that your ticket is still with me only! " He said pointing to his jacket's pocket.
She gave an angry stare to him which he was now immuned to.
She let out a heavy breath and nodded her head in yes.
" Mai kucch samjha nhi, say it"he said teasing her.
"Ok we will have breakfast together" She said to which he smirked in triumph.
"Yes! come sit! " he said pointing towards the couch which had numerous papers and his laptop messily kept over. He shoved the stuff to bed not caring one bit about it.
She shook her head seeing him and went towards the bed collecting the papers which he just now so lazily shoved off.
"It's not necessary partner! I will do it after the breakfast! " He countered.
"Aap jaake order kijiye! Mai tabtak is sab ko sametne ki koshish karti hu! " She said and he nodded his head not countering as he knew it would be a never ending debate.
He quitely went towards the telephone kept on the coffee table and ordered some coffee and chai with some light snacks.
A few hours later they both were sleeping peacefully sitting side by side in their flight. Although they looked completely exhausted and drained because of the constant work pressure they beared for six months for a single yet worthy wedding planning but they knew there effort will attract a lot of more work for them.
Her head was on his shoulder and his was comfortably on her head. They were covered with a big warm and cosy blanket , maybe the air hostess mistook them as a couple.
He in his sleep, snuggled closer to the warmth of blanket and slowly opened his eyes adjusting to the scenario in front of him.
He was covered with a big blue coloured blanket which was fine but then what's the weight he is feeling on his left shoulder. He looked side ways and shock was clearly an understatement to define his state.
She was peacefully sleeping with her head on his shoulder. And the cherry on cake was they both were covered with a single big blanket.
Is it some sort of illusion?
He thought and the first thing he did was removing the blanket off him but gently so that her sleep don't get disturbed and covered her with it.
But the difficult part was yet to come! Her head, if she wakes up, she would definitely feel embarrassed and awkward enough to avoid him for weeks which was not at all acceptable to him as of now.
Therefore he resisted the tempt to let her have rest on his shoulder and gently pushed her head to her left making her lean to the airplane's wall.
His heart sank to see her sleep in an uncomfortable position which might result her in getting pain in the neck afterwards but he was helpless. To put the guilt off his heart he thought to divert his mind by putting on his headphones also he decided to cover up his sleep in his home only and played a random song from his playlist and looked at her, seeping in her beautiful features.
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Fin.
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