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Part 83

Time froze for few seconds in front of Suchi and Dev. They saw Sushma's reaction in front of their eyes, and it was not intentional, it just came as a reflux listening to his words, his questions, his thoughts.

Leaving Dev's side, Suchi walked towards Sushma, who was trying to run away from facing them. Suchi's arms extended in front of Sushma and blocked her way. With little frustration and pleading eyes Sushma looked at Suchi, and met her serious face.

Sushma stood there, still covering her hand that slapped Dev, tried to say: I am sorry, I didn't mean to......

Suchi taking her arm up and showing her flared palm in front of Sushma at her neck level: No Sushma, it is not for your action, you have the right to slap him, but I want to know the reason behind the slap. Why do you think he deserve that slap?

Sushma: vo mei, I am sorry

Suchi: no Sushma, You don't need to be, but tell me, why you slapped him, do you know Radhika more than he knows? I thought I know Radhika, that Radhika who loves to run around chandenpur, who loves to play around little naughty things and love doing it, who get excited easily with her chandenpur talks, and gets esily depressed when she has to leave chandenpur. But I don't know how much she loves Dev, I have seen my son's eyes on her more than hers. So why he deserve that slap? Tell me

Sushma looked at Suchi's face helplessly and then she turned and looked at Dev's shocked face. Holding her cry behind , she came back to Dev, and then rubbed his cheek softly , which she pained few seconds ago, with a sorry face. Her eyes started shedding tears and then her wet throat mumbled: I am sorry beta, you don't deserve this slap, it is me who deserve it, it is me, just me......

She turned and faced Suchi and said : you said all will ask you , right? You may be facing those eyes externally but all those fingers are pointing at me, only me? And I am the only responsible person for all these? I am the only responsible person. I need to give answers to their question, to Dev's questions, your questions, or may be to my Radhika's too. her voice traield off....

Suchi coming near : what are you saying Sushma?

Sushma walked towards those letters that was spread on that floor, she sat down and picked few in her hand and then the voice came out, looking at those light blue color envelops: yes, it is me, it is not Granny, yes Granny dreamed of them, but Radhika made her to dream like that , to see her with the prince of her stories, and yes, Dev was the Prince of her dreams.

Suchi: what are you saying?!!!

Sushma got up from the floor and went near Dev and said: Do you know why Radhika love her chandenpur this much? Why she acted so differently with you? Why she showed that fake or angry face to you? I don't know whether I can give the answers for all your question, but don't say she never loved you. Because Radhika ke man mei sirf thum the, sirf thum, jo sirf meine dekha hei (OH God this hindi', I want to write in hindi , but I am sure it is wrong, so will write in MY English only, sorry )

Because only I have seen her deeper mind that was holding the picture of you and only you. Saying that she walked towards the window, and looking at those outside greenery she continued in trance......

If I look back to those days, I can see an environment full of greenery, a little girl , aged 41/2 wearing a nice pink frock, and her hair tied on both sides with nice pink ribbons, and her eyes were drawn nicely with the kajol, and she is wearing a nice small bindi on her forehead, very cute with chubby cheeks, and small dimples appears on those chubby cheeks when she smiles, walking into this home, holding onto her babuji's hand.

Sushma: Radhika, do you want to come with me?

Little Radhika looked at Mohan bhayya's face for approval , and as soon as she saw that smile on his face, she came running towards me.... and i should say, she neverleft me alone after that......

Coming near me,Little Radhika: where are you taking me?

Sushma: where you want to go?

L. Radhika with a thinking: outside.

Sushma: ha Outside, But come first I will give you something so special that you will like.

I took her inside, and talking with her and listening to her sweet talk, I made carrot halwa for her. And blowing it to cool down , I gave her little bit to taste.

Sushma : why? don't you like sweet?

Radhika; heina, I love sweet, but only sweet sweet

Sushma in a curious tone: what is meant by that, this sweet sweet?

Radhika in her soft secret voice: I don't like vegetables, I saw you putting carrot in it.

Sushma making a circle with her lips as if understanding the reason behind, said back in secret voice near her face: so, why you don't like carrot?

Radhika: simple, .... because it is vegetable.

Sushma , in a childish secret way : but if you don't eat vegetables, how you will grow?

L.Radhika: don't you see, how pretty I am. She flickered her lashes to make it more beautiful

Sushma: Oh really, who told you look so pretty.

L. Radhika kept her little palm on her cheek with that question and said: then Radhika won't get her prince she said very disappointedly

Sushma laughed out hearing her disappointed words: what?

L.Radhika: did you hear what Granny said yesterday in her story

Sushma curiously: what?

l. Radhika: she was telling the story of snow white. She said snow white was looking so fair and her cheeks were all pink and pink, and her lips were like red plums.

Sushma curiously: Oh really!!

L. Radhika seriously: haaaaaa, so if i don't look pretty, i won't get my prince..

Sushma: ha, may be. and she may be eating all these vegetables and carrots to bring out that color.

L. Radhika: Really!!!

Sushma looking at L. Radhka's face: so you did all this also for your prince, tieing your hair nicely, this kajol, this bindi....

Sushma: look at you, my princess is blushing.

L. Radhika secretly : No, its not me, mom did this, to make me look so pretty, and this beed chain, Birju bhayya brought me yesterday.

Sushma: ha ha. But then why want to look pretty like this, for your prince na.

sudeenly L.Radhika with little disappontment : but I don't know where he is?

Sushma: um, I know where he is?

L.. Radhika loudly: you really know

Sushma: ha, I know

L.Radhika: where is the prince?

Sushma: I will show you , if you eat more of this carrot.

L.Radhika ate that completely, and she slowly loved the taste of it too.

l.Radhika: now tell me

Sushma: um, not today, will you come tomorrow, then I will tell you.

L.Radhika: pakka

Sushma: pakka.

....Turning to the window side she continued: then onwards I started imagining little Dev and connected that with granny's talks and tried to give answers to little Radhika's questions. She started dreaming of him, playing around, and I also joined with her. We went outside , we played house around, I acted as her baby, she send you to work, and she cleaned house. Slowly slowly, unknowingly she was filling my own feeling of a mom, and I started waiting for her everyday outside, to see her coming with holding Mohan bhayya's hands. she started going to school, but she visited me everyday, with her daily stories, along with Granny's stories. She listens to that , and come and say the story imagining herself and you in that picture'

One day she came with a paper in her hand: I have a surprise for you?

Sushma: what?

Radhika: first you give my sweet, then I will show you.

Sushma: um, so this is my princess Radhika and then this is her prince

Radhika: NO.... she used to sit on this counter top while talking to me.

Sushma: no, I thought it is my princess Radhika and ...

Radhika interupted : no, look at that picture, the prince eyes are not sparkling

I got surprise , listening to her and she said: ha, a prince should look different, his eyes should sparkle like diamonds, and his lips should be thick and rosy.....

Sushma , parting her lips: what? A prince with rosy lips!!!

Radhika: um, why not, especially when his princess lips are red like plums, atleast his should be pink na.

Radhika: ha. Then his body should be like a warrior

Sushma: what?

Radhika: um, Sweety,

Sushma: sweety! Sweety kaun?

Radhika: ha, from today onwards you are my sweety , ok. Now look at me, I will show you how my Prince then secretly coming near my ears she said dev then raising her voice will look like, ok, look at me carefully....

She stood there, showing a pause of a warrior,' I laughed that day very loudly.

Then surprisingly Rohini came in, saying....

Ha ha, really I want to ask you, what you two are discussing so seriously everyday.

Sushma looked at Radika's face, and then shrugged her shoulder

Rohini: no , I am serious, I never seen you laughing loud like this Sushma, so tell me what is it?

Radhika grabbing the paper from me ran away from there. and I kept quiet as usual.. I was so free with Radhika, but for the rest I was and I am just sushma...

Rohini talked about her concerns and her likes in a normal way of chatting with me, and I told Radhika, if she won't study well, then her prince won't like her ,as he is studying hard, and I told her she needs to learn dance, for her Prince , when he comes to take her away, she should show him, that she is not only pretty but she is beautiful and intelligent too. She agreed with a proposal, that she will do anything, but I need to teach her drawing as she has seen my little hobby one day.

The chandepur was passing time with listening to Granny's stories , along with that my Radhika lived in her own world, nobody blocked her from imagining, but all supported her, the nature gave color to her dreams, my words and granny's stories gave life to her dreams, and the smile from the surrounding gave her the hope.Years passed and granny was getting weaker physically, and I saw Babuji's eyes too, wishing to see you all nearby, especially when we heard Dev grown up so big that he exactly looks like Surender bhayya. Along with Granny and Babuji, and me, I saw the dreamy eyes of my Radhika, who was waiting for years , to see you. Then looking at Suchi: so only I send that letter, because I gave her the hope, so I should make it real for her, or may be my curiosity to see them together.....

...............And yes, you all came here, and I saw the sparkiling of your eyes which my Radhika told me, I saw the thick rosy lips which my Radhika told me, and I held those broad shoulders of the warrior, which my Radhika told me. And you stepped onto the ground, where she was running with all those colorful dreams. It was new for you but you were not new to them. All the trees and the bushes, the veins and the flower buds, and the flowing river heard about you, not only from granny, but from Radhika's smile and her giggles, and from the sound of that ghungharu she tied to her ankles to take those speedy circles, and through her dreamy eyes'

And you met her. But it was she who saw you standing under that tree, she got surprise, she thought she is dreaming again, and she slipped her balance and she fell into your arms and you lost the balance and rolled down to that water. She realized you are real and it is not a dream any more , she quickly managed to get onto that bank, to see you clearly, unknowingly she tried to cover her face with her yellow duppatta, and she saw you emerging from that water, wiping your face down, and she saw you clearly, and then she ran away from there , as she was unable to face you. You looked for her following the kids and she saw that hiding behind the big tree, her eyes were following you till you reached back here.

We met outside , she looked at my face unbelievably as she wanted to believe her dreams are true, her imagination was true. But then she told me "your Prince needs to pass the test to get this princess" I asked her why, and she said, i waited for him this long, I want to see whether he is like my prince, who loves me so much, who cares about me so much, or atleast dreamed about me once...

.........Radhika cornered her eyes on you all the time, I was seeing it, and she was rolling her eyes on me when I caught her many times. She was around you mostly hiding behind these nature , to see your actions. But she loved this chandenpur, she got disappointed when she realized now her life will be away from here, loooking at Suchi Sushma said:but she got so much love from you Suchi, she told all those moments, and she told about you Dev , who was getting irritated easily by seeing her. She was loving it, when she saw your frustrated face, because of her.

Sushma: why?

Radhika: I was dreaming about him from my childhood, and for him his dream is different. He never looked at me lovingly, I also don't know how to tell him. He doesn't love chandenpur, he is not attached to anyone here....

Sushma: no Radhika, don't take it that way. Dev doesn't know about anyone here.

Rahdika with little disppoainted tone: including me, right?.

Sushma just accepted that fact with her silence.

Radhika resting her head on my lap , asked me : now what will happen Sweety?

Sushma: let's wait , we will see, and I am sure one day your prince will come back.

She lived with that hope. And you came back and saved her, and she saw the love and concern in your eyes for her, for the first time, she saw the sparkling in your eyes, that day she felt like she is the happiest girl in the whole world. But she felt that uneasiness when she saw that sparkling in your eyes, so she tried to keep that distance, as she knew you may flew away quick. And yes dev, you made all those attempts to meet her, but she tried to keep that distance, because Radhika was unable to bear that separation. You went behind securing your life with her, you accepted the job, but her mind held onto those small dreams, she was unable to bring that voice out, when you delayed your trip, I saw her gloomy first time, chandenpur saw her droopy eyes, she became silent, we saw her shedding tears for small small things. she was unable to bear that seperation and she was unable to vent it out to anyone, not even to me, i read her face and only i knew how deep it was paining ....

But then now what happened to her? What happened to her dreams? Where is she? In whatever state she is , I am sure, the reason behind it is me, not you looking at Dev, and then looking at suchi" not you either'.

Then with her dried eyes sushma smiled: do you want to see the gift she gave me, for teaching her drawing. Come I will show you. She started walking to her room and Sushi and Dev followed her in trance

While walking Sushma said: I know Dev, you asked her, about me, my past, and she told me you saw me crying and then with a smile she said: ha sushma cried once, when I heard my bhayya's dream unexpectedly, and I just wanted to hear from her that she will agree with your dreams and it was little more girlish talk that I cannot tell you. This sushma buva, doesn't have any past dear, I was like this, and am like this. Marriage was not on my card at any time, but Radhika satisfied my wish for dreaming wild like a child like a friend, like a sister, and like a mom......

.......But you asked her one day about that warrior picture right? that she left unfinished in Rahul's room, and many in her own room. She gave me one too, oh not one, may be two.

Saying that she opened the cupborard and took a rolled white sheet out. She moved near to the day light and then slowly opened it. She held it upright and said " she completed it revealing the face, but only I have seen it" ...But long before, before even I thought of writing that letter'

Suchi's eyes gone wild seeing the posture. It was a pencil sketch of a warrior, The thick soft bundles of cloudes were given the cieling to the atmosphere, the warrior is standing against the wind. His shoulder length wavy hair blowing back with the force of the wind, his masculine body was trying to hold it tight, he is wearing a dhothi, which is tied to the lean waist. His shoes were holding a curled tip. His knee length masculine arms showing each prominent vein clearly. and his face exactly looks like Dev, His sparkling eyes are looking straight into the viewer's mind.

Dev mumbled: but that is not me

Sushma with a smile: ha, I know this is not you, I told her, this is the picture of a soldier, not my lovely Dev. Then she gave me this. She opened the next one "a pencil sketch of sweet lovely Dev, wearing a short sleeve shirt and pants, wearing shoes, giving his usual killer smile.

Sushma: this is you, right?

Dev coming near, took the picture away from her and looked at it unbelievably.

Sushma: yes, she drew this to show me, the picture of you in her mind, and this is how it came out, and I got surprised when I saw you under that dark light, because I was imagining you with this face , and she was right. Her imaginations were true.

Thank you for reading my post, have a good day.....

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Part 84

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/40150744

Originally posted by: nycsweetie

g8 update

Devika di it was literally a very heart touching face to rads...so thats why she always avoided to give the correct answer to his question of when did u started loving me....little mind see want they r told by elders could eaisly connent how rads was dreaming n longing for his prince dev... little one getting ready so neatly for his price n ready to vegi to maintain the fair complextion for him was awesome...so now dev n suchi came to know how madly rads loved dev....waiting for radev to unite... but still what happened that she had to leave her loved prince dev...

devika sorry for the late comment..... now we understand what is the secret between radhika and sushma...