"I love you mayank",
She said breathing against his lips and mayank moved away a bit and looked in her eyes. It was an honest confession ' straight from her heart.
She smiled and again kissed his cheek, "don't worry, I am not demanding a return confession", and with this she opened the grip of his arms and was about to turn when she was pulled back, and before she could even gasp, her lips were captured in a deep kiss.
"thank you for honoring me nupur", he said in a breathless voice, "I promise I will return your confession from my heart .. I promise.", he smiled and nupur returned the smile, "I'll wait", and saying this she kissed him again, making it a short passionate kiss and then ran away downstairs, leaving a sighing Mayank.
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"mujhe nahi khana mummyyy!!", Rahul pushed away the plate and nupur was standing glaring at him,, "rahul finish all of this in the next 10 minutes, otherwise it's punishment for you", she said and Rahul pouted, "but mummy I don't like this vegetable soup, it is so eww..
"Rahul!!", she whacked his head softly, "how many times do I need to tell you that don't make such faces", she whacked again and Rahul started sipping slowly, with tears gushing again and although nupur's heart melted at his silent acceptance, but she had to make sure he starts eating everything.
After 10 minutes, nupur was in the kitchen, cleaning dishes when Rahul came holding the bowl, "mummy I have finished", he said slowly and placed the bowl on the counter and went away silently.
"Rahul..", she said politely and Rahul stopped.
"so now as you agreed like good kids, I want to give you a prize", she said patting his face but he was stern as always, "mujhe nahi chaiye", he made a face and rushed away out of the kitchen while nupur giggled on his cute attitude.
"you can reward his daddy instead",
just then mayank' voice made her smile even more, he was leaning on the kitchen door and nupur took a few fast steps to give him a welcome hug, "aj jaldi a gaye ap", she said and hugged him and he hugged back, "hmmm.. meeting cancel ho gayi", he said and kissed her hair, "btw yahan kia ho raha tha?', he asked moving a bit away, still holding her in his arms,.
"kuch nahi, I made Rahul have vegetable soup, tu us ne pi toh liya, but now he is angry on me", nupur pouted and mayank giggled,
"MY GOD, just like kanchi, pata wo bhi aisey hi karti thi, especially pregnancy main tu us ne itna tang kiya tha k ..
Suddenly he stopped, a weird thought crossed his mind that he was holding nupur in his arms and talking about kanchi, but just then seeing the expression in nupur's eyes, which clearly showed that she wanted to listen more made him complete his sentence,
"k I literally had to give her my life threat to eat", he said and nupur smiled and hugged him again.
"acha ab ap fresh ho jao main khana lagati hon, phir us k baad you have to help me woe Rahul too", she kissed his cheek and mayank went away smiling, with a content feeling that he didn't had to cut his statement short and nupur also smiled and went to the stove.
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Nupur was arranging her cupboard and as she was doing, she couldn't find nitesh's picture on it's usual place. Suddenly she felt earth shrinking beneath her feet and she threw down all the clothes and started searching desperately, but it was nowhere.
In matters of seconds her eyes filled with tears and she felt herself shivering. It was her favorite picture of nitesh and she just couldn't afford to lose it.
"can I help"?, mayank's voice made her turn and he was standing on the door and nupur wiped her tears quickly and turned back to cupboard.
"kia hua nupur"?, , in a matter of seconds she was hugged from back and was awarded with a kiss on her neck and she turned in his arms, "mayank wo ..', her voice was falling weak due to tears, "wo ' nitesh ki picture nahi mil rahi hai ./.. hamesha yahin cupboard main hoti hai .. aj mil nahi rahi hai .. ", her eyes were blank and face was total white.
"tum thek se dhoondhi hai?", he asked wiping her tears,
"haan mayank, main ne sab dekh liya hai ' nahi mil rahi ..", she hugged him again and started crying while mayank softly rubbed her back, "acha mujhe dekhney do" , he moved apart forcefully and started searching in the clothes which were lying on the floor, while nupur was just crying, and finally mayank picked out the picture from the pile of clothes.
"ye lo, kapron main hi thi", he handed her the picture and nupur breathed a sigh of relief with her cheek getting all wet and she quickly grabbed the picture and hugged it close to her body.
Mayank suddenly felt her body burn due to a strange jealousy but he took a deep breath and tried to smile. Nupur caressed the picture and again hugged it.
"thank you mayank .. ", she said in between in her tears and mayank mumbled a "no problem".
His first impulse was to leave the room but then thinking that how large-heartedly she had been supporting him with kanchi's memories crossed his mind and he took a step towards her, "don't worry nupur, we'll not let it lost next time", he kissed her forehead and nupur looked at him and at that moment the trust she saw in his eyes made her heart complete with every void and she smiled back.
"acha main bahir hon, you take your time", and again kissing her forehead, he left the room, while nupur hugged the picture again.
After a complete trip down her memory lane, it was almost night when she was sitting holding the picture on the terrace. Her eyes had dried of tears and she was blankly looking at the sky when she was suddenly struck that she had a family and she had to serve dinner, she was in her room since afternoon, her kids .. OMG!.
She quickly rushed inside and placed the picture securely in the cupboard, she rushed downstairs and there was no one. Her heart came to her mouth but then suddenly she was hugged from back.
"Good evening beautiful", he kissed her hair and she turned in his arms, ' I am so sorry mayank, main aisey sara din .. sorry main ..
"ssshhh, it's okay ..", he kissed the corner of her lips and she smiled, "acha ab ap choro zara, main dinner lagati hon, bachon behi bhokey honegy ..",she tried to move away but mayank's hold was strong.
"bachon ko dinner main ne serve kar diya hai aur sula bhi diya hai, tumhara poch rahe they, but I said k tum ghar pe nahi ho, so relax",
"ap mujhe bula letey mayank .. ", she was surprised and mayank pulled her close,
"nupur you were going down your memory lane, I wanted you to come out of it on your own, it really hurts when you are pulled out without your will"., he kissed her forehead and smiling with teary eyes, she hugged him again.
"okay now ma'am , kindly ap kamre main jao, I'll just be there with your dinner", he said and nupur opened her mouth to protest but her lips were captured in a kiss, "no arguments, don't worry, I'll join you soon", he said huskily and blushing he hit him on his shoulder and went upstairs.
She came in the room and suddenly her cheeks start to boil hot on mayank's husky statement and she went to the mirror to see if she looked okay.
She wasn't looking nice, the sari was looking so dark on her, so she decided to change. She quickly grabbed her night suit and went to change.
She returned in 15 minutes and mayank was already seated on the sofa, observing her from tip to toe passionately and nupur suddenly felt like hiding herself in the washroom again, but that was impossible bcz the very next moment she was in his arms.
"pata hai I'll need to the heat the dinner again, itni kiya jaldi thi change karne ki, dinner tu kar leti", he asked looking in his eyes and nupur felt that he read her mind that she wanted to look good,
"umm, nahi ..wo ..", she fumbled but giving up due to his intense gaze, she just hugged him, hiding herself in his chest and mayank chuckled, "blushing hun?", he raised her head and looked in his eyes who were now looking complete, the emptiness of afternoon had gone away and he kissed her eyes.
He compared the feelings evolving in his heart at both times, the way he was scared and the way he just felt content, and it didn't let him long to reach a conclusion.
"ik baat kahoon nupur", he said trailing his lips down her face and with small bit of senses left she could only murmur a , "hmm". He enjoyed her breathless voice and kissed the corner of her lips and whispered,
"I love you .."
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