"Gopi vau, holi is coming in two days and we need to clean the whole house. And especially the store room. You go with mani and clean the store room and me, mota bhabi and rashi will clean the rest of the house."
"Ji maji."
Gopi goes with mani to clean the store room. The store room was really dirty and took a long time for both of them to clean it.
Ahem was waiting impatiently in the room for gopi.
Gopi came back to the room while ahem was sleeping on the bed. Gopi smiled on seeing him sleeping like a baby.
As gopi was very tired after cleaning the store room and all her clothes were drenched in sweat, she thought about a quick shower.
Just then ahem woke up and saw her smiling at him.
"What happened gopi?? You are looking very tired"
"Ji ahemji wo I had to clean the store room and it was really in dirty condition. Now I want to take a shower."
"Hmmm…"
She took a saree from the cupboard and went into the bathroom.
After five minutes ahem heard a worried voice of gopi "ahemji are you there??"
Ahem thought why is she calling me, "Yeah I am here. What happened?? Do you need something"
"Ahemji the shower is not working. I think the water in the tank has finished. Ahemji now what to do?? I am all covered in soap and there is no water. Ahemji please do something" gopi said in a pleading tone.
"What?? There is no water?? Okay wait I will do something"
Ahem was confused as what can be done now. "From where to bring the water now"
Just then he heard koki shouting at rashi, "Rashi how can you be so irresponsible. If you knew that water supply is cut for today then you should have told us earlier. All the water is finished in the house and you are telling me now. Oh I forgot that you can't do anything properly."
Ahem came down and asked "Mom what's the matter??"
"Ahem dikra there is no water in the house and its all due to this rashi. Yesterday municipality had called us and told that there will be no water supply today and we should store extra water for emergency but unfortunately the call was received this rashi. And she is telling me this thing now."
"Kaiki ji I am sorry I forgot to tell…"
"Stop rashi your excuses will never end"
"Mom don't worry I will do something"
Koki leaves for her room angrily and hetal also left disappointed from rashi.
Ahem thought" What to do now??There is no water in the house and gopi is there in the bathroom"
He called the municipality to send a water tanker to MM but they said that it will take two hours as they have a lot of requests already for the tanker.
"Two hours?? Are you mad??? We need it urgently"
"Sorry sir but you have to cocoperate with us, Please sir try to understand"
Ahem was fuming with anger and cut the call. He went to his room and told gopi that water supply is stopped today and the water tanker will arrive in two hours.
"Ahem ji two hours?? I can't remain here like this. Please do something"
Ahem couldn't think of anything so he went outside. He saw that there was a handpump on the road at some distance and people were bringing water from there.
"Now I have to do this also for that gawar"
He took two buckets and sneaked out of the MM so that no one notices him in the house. Then he went to the handpump where people were struggling and fighting to get the water first. Ahem just stood there confused as he had never faced this situation before. People were pushing him to sides and ahem was waiting for his turn politely but his turn never appeared to come. Ten minutes passed by and ahem was losing his patience as the people there were behaving in a very uncivilized way and everyone was pushing each other. Suddenly a woman having a bucket full of water slipped in the chaos and all the water dropped on ahem. Ahem's clothes had gone all wet. The lady asked sorry from ahem but that was not enough to cool him down.
He thought he won't get water if he remains like a civilized man waiting silently for his turn. "I have to do like these people are doing"
He pushed two men to sides and reached near the handpump. As soon as the man on the hanpump finished filling his bucket ahem took control of the handle and pushed both of his buckets under the handpump. Others started shouting at him "Its our turn, go back"
"Chup ek dum chup. Now if anyone of you spoke anything I am gonna kill him right here", ahem's eyes were sufficient to tell that he was very angry and no one dared to resist him.
Finally ahem got the water and he started to go back to the house when someone tapped on his shoulder from behind. Ahem turned to see who it was and he was shocked to see savita ben laughing like crazy behind him.
"Arrey ahem dikra, you and here, filling water from this handpump" she said laughing.
"Looks like Modis' bad days have started that they need to use handpumps now"
Ahem was speechless so he quickly turned around and went inside the MM leaving savita with a smirk on her face.
Ahem went inside the house and peeked into the hall to see if anyone was there. Mani was cleaning the sofa there and ahem had to get her out of the way. He put the buckets down and went near mani and said, "Mani I want a green tea now. Bring it in my room"
"Ji ahem bhai", mani left for the kitchen to prepare the tea.
Ahem quickly ran to the doors and took both the buckets and sneaked in as fast as he could and ran upstairs.
"Gopi wo I have brought the water."
Gopi slightly opens the door and sees ahem is standing with two buckets of water.
"Wo ahemji put them down and you………"
Ahem understood and went out of the room. Gopi pulled both the buckets inside the bathroom and completed her bath.
She came out ten minutes later. Ahem was working on his laptop so she thanked him for his help, "Thank you ahemji"
"Its okay"
"Ahemji wo…. from where did you get the water"
Ahem avoided the question and didn't answer. Gopi asked again but ahem shouted ,"Will you allow me to work. Go and do your work."
Gopi quickly left the room in fear. When she went downstairs savita ben had already arrived and was waiting for koki.
"Jai shree Krishna savita ben. Which news have you brought today??", kokila said.
"Jai shree kokila ben. Arrey news is at your house and you are asking me?? why didn't you tell me that you have water problem at your house. If you asked us for help then we would have gladly helped you but…."
"Savita ben how did you come to know about it"
"Arrey when ahem went to get the water from the society handpump then everyone came to know about it. Now what to say kokila ben, I felt really bad to see that such a big businessman ahem modi and filling the water from handpump with middle class people.", savita said laughing.
Gopi came to know from where the water came and felt bad that due to her, ahem had to do all this. Ahem was also listening all this from upstairs and felt very awkward.
Kokila had to take the control of the situation and shut savita's mouth so she said, "Savita ben, middle class people are also humans but their only fault is they are not rich, right savita ben. And my ahem dikra hasn't done any crime. He has just filled water from a handpump which didn't hurt anyone unlike your son who used glass on his manja to win the kite competition and even hurt a poor bird. Atleast my ahem dikra won't do such low class acts and I am proud of him"
"Kokila ben you are saying us low class???"
"No savita ben I am saying you are high class people but only do low class acts", kokila had left savita with no words to speak. Savita ben ran out in hurry as she couldn't take any more taunts from kokila.
"Maji wo… ahemji had brought the water for me as I was taking the shower and water finished in the middle"
"Gopi vau did I ask for any explanation from you??"
Ahem came down and thanked kokila, "Mom thanks for understanding me"
"Ahem dikra if you had told me once then it would have been better but don't worry. Now go and do your work", kokila left for the kitchen.
Gopi looked at ahem in surprise and said, "Ahemji, Why did you do all this???"
"Because I lo……" Ahem stopped in the middle and left the rest of the words for gopi's imagination.
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