Prat 12 ----- guys part has no romance but stil hope u wil like it
Anmol picked up his file and looked through it breifly,forgetting everything else ,when sudenly smell of special chai brought him back to his special cup of tea.
He picked the cup and took a sip,first sip was like a soothing balm on his aching heart,spreading warmth in his chilled heart.. How he had missed her special chai .....he tried to count how many months had passed since that half drunk last cup on that fateful day.
The sudden flash of that day was enough to turn soothing drink into something priclly and bitter .He struggled to push second sip down his throat and cup trembled in his hand ,he had to struggle to put cup back on the table spilling some tea on his fingers.
Ouch .......
It was a perfect day,he had a month with his daughter sleeping in between them at night,yet there was a tension building between two of them,the intensity they shared was so powerful that he had to admit he was longing to get the room back to both of them,he had wanted a oppurtunity to speak to her about thier life, a future together and soemthing else was also bothering him a lot.
A voice in his mind had kept whispering .........shadows are dangerous places.......
He had seen Ragini's complete trust in him,yet he was waiting for her complete surrender......specialy her soul......her heart. ;
they were not his yet............
He was shocked with vasundhra's surprsie the previous night.Last night vasu and inderjeet had come to their room and announced they were suposed to go to a secluded greek Island for one week.
He had almost dropped his laptop in shock and Ragini had visibly paled in front of hsi eyes.Her reaction had hurt him a bit yet he thought it was too soon.They had both argued in vain with elder Rajvanshs about Tammy and buisness.
Mom main bachi nahi hoon aur sakshi chachi hai,guni hai.......
So Ragini and he had to bow to wishes of majority and get ready for the Trip. He remembered how this had changed the atmoshphere between them from intense and crackling to uncomfortable silence.Tammy's constant chatter was their only soalace and both were in their own inner worlds ,fighting their own personal demons.
Anmol remebered sitting up all night in study on pretex of extra work.His fingers had frozen and his heart was full of a dread and a reluctant promise made to a dying man.
whole night he had sat reading and rereading the same file 100th time and still not understanding what it was about.
Should I tell her or not , is it breach of a promise ,Tammy knows about ranvir so Ragini should know too ....the reality of that fateful day,he had closed his eyes and swallowed hard.
The clock had hit 6 in morning and suddenly he was woken by Ragini's special chai....
his neck was hurting from awkward angle he slept in the chair.
yahin so gaye they.....
na i was awake till 5 30 ....after that i must have dozed off he had yawned.........
after taking few sips of tea he had calle donly other person who knew the truth.....
His father in law Sharma ji
HE remebered he was so deep in hsi conversation, his tea forgotten and unshed tears in his voice that he had not even heard the crash of hsi priceless vase....
when only Vasu had grabbed phone from his hand and slapped him hard ,he had looked around in confusion and seen the shattered peices of vinetian crystal vase.
Tum ..she had kept shouting and sobbing at same time
the things she said that morning were too painful for anmol to even remeber now...he closed his eyes and covered his ears as if trying to lock away that pain of rejection .
He had felt a chill run down his spine when he saw a shattered looking Ragini holding on t the door ,as if trying to hold on to sanity in this flood of insanity.The look on her face had filled his heart with a forbidding gloom.
He remembered how he had stumbled on his chair again and his eyes had met Ragini's .Hurt confusion and finally betryal was all written over her face and he could still see acusation in her eyes as if she was saying how could you?
amid this confusion and chaos his tea was left half drunk ,discarded just like today.
Vasu had not spared any single insult,she was on maddness spree and was screaming for him to get out of her house and sight.
Stunned looking sharmaji had come half hour after ,he had tried to explain frantically to Vasu when suddenly Ragini's cold voice had buried his heart in ice for long time.
Babuji aap ne hamesha sach ka sath diya to aaj itna bada sach kase chupa liya aap dono ne.How could you babuji.......
I married the same man whose hands are colored with my beloved 's blood...................
Her words were echoing in his mind and he tried to block them away ......
think of somehting else ....think of Tammy ..think of her trusting eyes...think..
suddenly e remebered his daughter had seen the drama down stairs which had taken place about 1 hr after this one in hisi study.
His daughter revealed only few days ago that she had heard vasu and her heart was broken as her mom had not even tried to stop him from leaving..
He remembered Ragini's weired stand, she had reacted like a person waiting for a oppurtunity ,as if she wanted to remove threat to her heart.....as if she knew he had to push him away before he could come so close..so close to her soul .
Suddenly her actions were fresh in his mind again.
He remembered talking to inderjit who despite his initial shock had told him he was proud to be his dad and advised that anmol could go ot masourie for few days and in mean time he would try to sooothe things in agra
Bus 2-4 din ki baat hai na ragini aur na hi vasu tumhare bina reh payenge beta...
Dekhna tum...
but Papaji was proven wrong by time, it had been months since had left the house,perhaps papaji overestimated his worth and his share of love ........
he smiled bitterly and remembered how he ha dpacked and walked out of house alone with vasu shouting and Ragini withdrawn.
He remembered his own anger later on ,anger at fate at himself and to hsi utter surprise at Ragini.
he was furious with her for not beleiving in him ..He remebered his wow not to ever enter that house in Agra until both Ragini and Vasu begged him to come back,yet he was going now for Tammy but they had loads to build on....he and Ragini had a path ahead of them ful of hurdles and they both needed to tskr tiny steps forward.
Ragini and kids were all ready to leave,It was two days since anmol had brushed hisi lips to her hand,yet she could feel warmth on that spot ,but since then she rarely saw him in past 2 days,she was yet to find hsi reaction to everything now.
suddenly she sensed hsi gaze on her and she turned to see a dashing boyish look with black shirt and khakhi jodhpours ,it seemed he had just come from riding,his eyes were bright and her complexion looked great with excersie.
He smiled at the girls and kissed their foreheads lovingly before they went baclk to agra gently promising everyone that he would be back in 1 week.
Finally he was alone in big house again and he sa t down to analyse everything when suddenly he smiled and looked up in mirror he sawa flickering light of hope and he got ready to leave for Agra too.
Edited by sami01 - 14 years ago