Plot: Imlie was introduced to the man by Aryan, who came to court Arpita for marriage. He came for the cooking contest organized for him on Imlie’s wishes. His name was Uday but Imlie had already met him on the road before and saw how ill mannered he was. As he was acting to look nice Imlie got angry the moment she saw him but that led to a fight between Aryan and Imlie, as Aryan couldn’t trust her words thinking this was her plan all along to fit Sundar and Arpita in the same frame.
TRUST
“Jai Sita Maiyya…Ai badbudaar jurab( Oh you dirty smelling socks). Why the hell are you here?” Imlie screamed at anger.
Everyone was taken aback for a second. Aryan immediately made his way near Imlie.
“Imlie…” he whispered.
Imlie was fuming in anger she uttered her words gritting her teeth, “So this is the guy chosen by all of you for Arpita didi? This guy?”
“Ai khatti Imlie what’s wrong with Uday?” retorted Neela.
“What’s wrong with him? His whole existence is wrong!”
“What?” Aryan uttered in confusion.
“ABP I met this guy before in front of the office. And he was insulting an old lady and he insulted me too. He was extremely arrogant and ill mannered”
“Nope Aryan she is lying” said Uday to save himself.
“What lies? You will tell my husband about …” before Imlie could say much Aryan dragged her to the corner.
“Imlie what the hell you were trying to do?”
“Akkarbagga, that guy is not a good person. He even insulted me yesterday. Trust me I am telling you Blue kaaki brought a fraud for didi”
“Stop it Imlie. I know you are lying. Lying isn’t hard for you, you even lied to my mom last time when we went to save didi. And this time you are lying for Sundar your friend”
“ABP why are you not believing me? I am not doing this for Sundar, I saw that guy and talked with him too as I saved the old lady”
“Imlie stop” this time Arpita said, a little irritated as she made her way to the couple.
“Arpita didi I am telling the truth”
“Imlie I know you care for me but lying and your vocabulary. What kind of respect will my family have in front of the society if you keep using such words?”
“Arpita di”
“Imlie, di is saying right that you should not lie but di she is also okay with her vocabulary. She can’t talk like us so let her talk in her language”
Imlie looked at Aryan. ‘Talk like us’ this line of Aryan and Arpita’s questioning of her vocabulary had made her sad.
“Imlie I know you care for us but I won’t let you tarnish our names as Rathore’s”
“But I was not lying,” Imlie muttered under her breath.
Arpita left and Aryan looked at Imlie who seemed upset.
“Imlie…” Aryan called her but she didn’t look at him and went to the garden by the backdoor.
“Aru”
“Coming maa”
Aryan couldn't follow Imlie as he was called by his mom.
Imlie sat on a bench in the garden. She was extremely upset seeing no one trusted her truth and considered it as a lie. Uday was walking alone to his car but stopped seeing Imlie in the garden.
“You actually were a rich person”
Imlie looked straight at Uday's face. He continued, “I thought you were some illiterate from the village but you were the wife of a Billionaire. But my oh my such a poor girl that your family didn’t trust you over me. I will marry your sister in law and take a good chunk of benefits from your husband. After all I will marry a widow when I am an young and handsome bachelor”
“Ho gaya? Have you finished? Mr. Uday nope badbudaar jurab, for your kind information the land you are standing is of my mother in law’s, the girl you met is my sister and the man you met inside is not only my husband but also my best friend. And I am Imlie Singh Rathore, also you are the one who is illiterate else you would not have asked my identity if you had checked out newspapers daily. Fruits never fall much far away from the tree, definitely you are Blue kaki’s choice; a perfect fraud”
“Ayy” Uday raised his voice.
“Ayy! Keep your voice down” Imlie retorted back.
“Do you think you will be more precious than me to my family?” said Imlie.
“Definitely, you are just the bahu(daughter in law) but I will be the damad( son in law) who would be treasured for marrying the widow child of this house. And it was absolutely visible today who holds more ground in this house”, Uday left with a smile.
Imlie had enough. She was angry and felt extremely outcasted in her own family. She came inside and saw everyone in the hall.
“Imlie you should not have done what you did” said Aryan.
“Tarmarindaah doesn’t know how to speak. What were the words she used in ‘Badbudaar Jurab’ my oh my such cheap language. Such kind of words would have never came out of my mouth”
“But you just said it” Imlie said with an expressionless face.
“Narmada, your daughter-in-law is thinking of herself as the owner of this house. She even wants to shoo away your daughter’s future husband. The audacity…oh my lord I haven’t seen anywhere” Neela uttered provocatively.
“Imlie what you did wasn’t right today. You should not have lied about meeting Uday today” said Arpita.
Narmada stayed silent as she was not sure what to say but Aryan said, “From today Imlie you will stay inside the room whenever Uday visits”
Imlie looked at Aryan with disbelief but nope Uday’s words were coming true. They didn’t trust her one bit but Aryan, even him. He was the last person in this world she would have thought of showing distrust at her.
She didn’t reply and went upstairs to which Neela uttered, “Look Narmada, such misbehavior from your daughter in law. She didn’t wait for us to finish our words.”
But soon Imlie came down holding a suitcase which surprised everyone.
“Imlie what the hell are you doing?” Aryan went to her and tried to take the suitcase but Imlie was holding it firmly.
Imlie questioned Aryan, Narmada and Arpita firmly, “If I say that Uday guy said he would be treasured by kaki ma, Arpita di and ABP and I won’t matter much to all of you. Will you guys believe me?”
All were silent.
Imlie continued, “If I say that guy himself said he would take a lot of money in exchange of marrying Arpita di, will you three believe me?”
“Hey Khatti Imlie why the hell are you lying? Uday is a well mannered kid, he didn’t even get offended when you misbehaved and now you are spewing nonsense again acting up with that suitcase?” retorted Neela.
“Mousi ji Tamarindaah thought she could pull off our stunt” said Preeta but got quiet when Neela looked at her angrily.
“Do you think I am like you blue kaki? I don’t act up and also I am talking with my immediate family. I won’t like to hear words from a distant relative and an outsider”
“Imlie beta this is not the way to talk” , Narmada tried calm Imlie down.
“Kaki maa I can even ruin the whole world for my family in order to save them if it is needed but if they tie my hand questioning my authenticity I can’t help in any way”
“Do you think only you can see things and be authentic? Others are also not blind Imlie. We can see your intentions” Aryan said calmly.
“Stop it!” Imlie retorted in anger and this time in a louder voice, “My words are cheap right then let me talk in your decent language”, and she changed up her language to ‘English’, “Mr. Aryan Singh Rathore, you said before you trust your wife. Where’s your trust right now? I had been trying to explain that the Uday guy is not right for di but you think that my words had been intertwined with my selfishness. If you had easily forgotten I was the one who stood for justice of your jiju risking my life, I didn’t think twice before standing in front of murderers and yes I wouldn’t have been sad dying that day if I was killed. Do you know why? It’s because I was doing everything for you and your sister. I never met Arvind jiju and I have no connection with him but the Rathore’s are my family and I am a Rathore too. I have a connection with you, kaki maa and Arpita di. But to think that all of you trusted a mere stranger in front of me and shunned me down, it was really pathetic to think but it indeed made me doubt my worth in this family.”
“Imlie…I” Aryan was bewildered to see Imlie not only speaking in fluent English but also was upset to make her sad by doubting her.
“I am very much able to use the sophisticated vocabulary, Arpita di but I just didn’t want to leave my mother tongue behind as I was the only one speaking that language here. And ABP do you really think Sundar matters to me more than my family? More than you or Arpita di. Both of you doubted my intentions so well that it made me remember my past. How could I forget? I begged, cried and wept for a little trust from my last family. Who knows better than you what trust means to me ABP?”
“Imlie we didn’t want to hurt you. UNB please tell her” said Arpita.
‘She thinks she can say anything if she talks in ‘Angrezi(English)’. But what is she saying?’ wondered Neela.
Imlie looked at Aryan with tears in her eyes and gave him the last blow, “Don’t you dare to forget the reason why I left my last husband… Or did you already forgot Aryan?”
This line broke Aryan into pieces as tears rolled down his cheeks
Imlie took her suitcase and went away leaving Aryan in distraught.
Later Imlie sat in a cafe and wondered about her own actions.
“Wah re Imaliya! You were so angry that you left with your suitcase. Now where will you go? Not Pagdandia as at any cost you need to break the marriage but not to Rathore Mansion as well. Tripathi nivas? But it’s too far away to keep an eye on that Badbudaar Jurab. Sita Maiyya please send Akkarbagga, I just need him to come and take me home” uttered Imlie angry at herself.
She had already finished one plain coffee, one latte and she ordered a cappuccino for her third round.
Aryan was searching her all over the city like a crazy man, he knew that he was wrong this time and he feared of her leaving him. Trust was always the lifeline of their relationship and he disrespected it. He found her sitting in a cafe with tables in the open. He saw the waiter taking a cappuccino to her table, he stopped him and said he would deliver it, the waiter was confused but said yes when he handed him some cash.
He went and kept the tray at her table from her back and heard her talking to herself, “ABP you better say sorry else I won’t return.”
“I am sorry” Aryan said with regret in his voice.
“Pardon?” Imlie turned back and was surprised by Aryan doing the waiter’s job.
“Don’t look at me that way. I just did the waiter’s job for you. And I am sorry for not trusting you. A stranger can never be your worth. I was blinded by the thoughts that you are doing everything for Sundar”
“ABP if it was all for Sundar I wouldn’t be drinking three types of coffee right now. You are the last man in this world I thought who ever show distrust in me”
“That’s why I am sorry. I failed to meet your expectations. Please forgive me”
“ABP want to have this cappuccino?”
“What?”
“I am hungry but I didn’t have the energy to go for lunch with this suitcase so I ended up only having different types of coffees here”
“You idiot why do you do such things?”
“What idiot? I was angry at you. Now I don’t have the energy to walk. You were late to find me”
“I searched the whole city”
“And I waited for you, it’s almost four o’clock.”
Imlie kept her head on Aryan’s chest as she couldn’t stand anymore. Aryan made her sit on the chair and said, “Imlie I trust you but if you really want to break the marriage because the Uday guy is bad and acting up, you need to prove it to everyone. This is a rishta brought by bari maa hence we would need strong proofs against him”
“No problem. I will gather proof against him. No one can hide their real self for a long time. But you please stand with me” said Imlie.
Aryan smiled and said, “Now you sit here I am bringing the car.
Aryan went and parked the car in front of the cafe. He put her luggage in the dickey. And opened the car door for Imlie. Imlie sat and was quite happy that her husband indeed came to take her home as she expected and now she just needs proof against that Uday guy to break the marriage.
As Aryan sat for driving he said Arpita sent lunch for Imlie and it’s in the backseat. Imlie grabbed the tiffin and started eating as she was extremely hungry.
“Imlie I trust you always and will be there for you till you and I exist. So just give me a reminder when I start faltering so that I never hurt you. I want to be the last person to ever hurt you.”
And the couple went back to the Rathore Mansion.
This time Imlie getting the trust only with her words and actions but not proofs like she had to present to her ex-husband.
Well felt like writing this after today's episode. Hope this will touch your hearts.
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