I don't know if Anupama will reach office tomorrow on time or she will be late or will not come at all. But I thought about putting my version in the form of an OS.
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She went home after she had a heart to heart conversation with Baa in Shah house. She was changing her clothes while Babuji's words to her were echoing in her mind. "Apne man me Anuj ko aane de". She herself at first didn't believe her ears when he said that. But since it was loud and clear, those words directly hit her mind and heart.
She suddenly remembered the way she was looking at him continuously in the morning after he bowed in front of Krishnaji. She didn't have control over her eyes, her acts, or her heart at that time. She could not believe how she could be looking at him like a teenage look at her crush, her favourite TV actor and film actor. She hit her mind to be back in the present.
She looked in the mirror and placed her hair behind her ear and opened her hair. She knew that she had to reach the office early in the morning so she slept.
In the morning, Anuj was waiting for Anu in the office, and every minute he was looking at his watch to confirm the time. The meeting is about to start in 30 minutes but still she is not here.
He adjusted his wavy thick hair in tension. If she will come or not, what if she went back to Shah's, her family, what if she went back to Vanraaj....
"Shut up Anuj, just shut up and stop thinking nonsense. You have waited for 26 years, she is responsible, she will come." Anuj's inner voice spoke to him.
His face got enlightened when he could smell her fragrance and in a few seconds he heard the knock at the door.
"Mai ander aa jau?"
He could not believe his eyes, his mouth was left open. She was wearing a pink saree. He can remember the same morning when he saw her for the first time and then the night they almost spent together with each other. Pink color is now part of that life which he always wanted to cherish.
He wanted to cup her fresh face and keep looking at her till eternity.
But gathering his emotions, he nodded.
"Suri, mujhe auto nahi mil raha tha, to". Anu tried to explain but when she met his eyes, she stopped as if she wanted to admire those two gems forever.
"How can this man love her without asking anything in return, how can he still be okay with or more then friends wala relation", she is lost in her thought but what she did not know is that she is actually drolling over this Man, named Anuj.
Anuj somewhere felt uncomfortable as she never saw him like that. " Maine kuch galat kiya hai kya", he thought.
"Anu, tum think ho?", he asked thinking she will answer him in words but she nodded but her gaze is still glued at him.
"Meeting start hone wali hai, mai tumhe refresher de deta hmm, so that..."
"Nahi, I am fine, mujhe pata hai, aap pareshan na ho"
They smiled at each other.
Finally, back to back two meeting were over for which he insisted her to come to office.
"Anu, tum ghar chali jao, waise bhi itna sab huya tha kal, to tum aaram kar lena, mai bhi 30 minutes me chala jaunga", he said explaining her his schedule. But to his surprise she denied and said, "Nahi, mai ruk jati hmm, agar aap yaha hai to mai jake ke kya karungi"
Anuj smiled and agreed to her. But he is really getting very strange feeling that what has happened to this girl, yes for him she is still that girl whom he saw at the first time.
Anuj was busy signing some papers but what she is doing? She is again looking at him thinking what her babuji said. "Kya mai sach me pyar ke layak hmm, kya mai sach me inke pyar ke kabil hmm, jo ki itna pavitra hai, kya mujhe bhi khushiya mil sakti hai, kya mujhe sach me Anuj mil saktey hai, kya mai Anuj ko khush rakh paungi, kya ye mere saath khush rahenge, par mai inhe kal se dekhe kyu ja rahi hmm, mujhe khud par se control kyu hat raha hai, kya mere man me sach me Anuj ne friend se bahut jyada ki jagah bana li hai, ya maine hi wo jagah di hai"
She was busy in her thoughts while peeping at him time to time. Anuj is Anuj, he is noticing each and every action of her.
There was a knock at the door, there was a office boy with lunch.
"Anu, tum lunch kar lo, because tumhe sach me apna dhyan rakhne ki jarorat hai".
She nodded surprising him that why she is agreeing to his very word and not even scolding him for once even in the whole day. Getting scolding from her, he use to like it a lot as it seems that she is claiming her right on him.
She asked him to come to the couch with the papers he is studying. To which he to agreed thinking what she is upto.
"Khana to aapke liye bhi aaya hai, to akele mai kyu khau"
What he remembered was he order for one person, but here it is for two. "Please aap sochiye mat, maine hi bola tha aapke liye bhi"
"But Anu, agar mai khaunga to mere hath kharab ho jayenge and phir mai kaam nahi kar paunga and ghar bhi to jana hai na time se, upar se...."
Before he could complete his sentence, she put the bite of chapati in his mouth with her own soft hands. "Anu"
She put her finger on his lips, "ab chup chaap khana kha lijiye".
" hm hm... hmm...hmm", he could not believe if he is in some parallel world that something that just happened has happened for real.
"Anu,please mai subah se puchna chah raha tha, ki huya kya hai tumhe, maine kal bhi note kiya tha, tum sahi ho hamesha ki tarah, bas kuch naya sa hai, ye naya sa kya hai, please mujhe batao"..
"Anuj, mujhe nahi pata, aap kya bol rahe hai, actually mujhe bhi nahi pata ki kya kar rahi hmm, ku kar rahi hmm, but abhi jo kiya, aapko khana khulaya wo bilkul thik hai, mera pata nahi haq bhi hai ya nahi but, mera tarika galat ho sakta hai par aap kabhi bhi galat nahi ho sakte... hey Kahna ji, main ye kya bole ja rahi hmm"
"Thats, okay, sab think, ho jayega, mujhe pata hai ki tumhari family..."
"Family me nahi, mujhe nahi pata ki mujhe kya huya hai, aapko bhi same huya tha kya 26 years pahle aisa hi shuru shuru me?"
For Anuj, it seems he won the entire world, he understood that she is in the transition phase now. What he want is to enjoy this very moment.
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Thats it guys.... I dont know if you guys will like it or not but this is what I would like to see .... I know kuch nahi ho sakta mera.
I have not proofread it, so typos ignore kana and bhawnao ko samjhna.
Kumkum Bhagya
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