She waited...he crammed...He crammed...she waited. He slogged determinedly, with single-minded focus, to reach out to her...to doggedly pursue the words that kept running away from him so that he could climb the pedestal he himself has put her on and win her over. If only he had looked up once, he would have found her beckoning him with open arms. Ultimately, it didn't matter...cause she pulled him up to her when he got stuck and made him ride the wave of the words making the poetry with her. She completed his lack...How many times has he told her that they are one? He lamented himself for getting tongue-tied when she is before him...yet why then did he feel that he was simply not only close to her but that he didn't know where he ended and she began? As surprise turned into mesmerism, he stood transfixed as she finished his thoughts to her, indicating how deeply she fathomed his emotions..."From your heart, by your touch... the thought that has reached me is so drunk...and after touching me the question that has reached you is so thirsty...Is this love? Or does this need any other definition?"...She then proceeded to convey her feelings..."Once again desires have knocked the doors of heart...once again you have looked at me with so much love...When that dew dropped from the sky, the clouds of your memory hugged me...Whenever the heart succumbed to darkness, the bright glow of your face came and hugged me."...
Yash thinks he has failed his two attempts in conveying his feelings. Little does he know how he aced each effort...With each shy fumbling, Aarti loves him that much more...whether it was an indirectly worded message (Aartiji, thanks for coming into my life...you have changed me) or the choice of the poetry and the effort that he put. Aarti knows her Yashji well...she has learnt to listen to the eloquence behind the silence!!!! He in turn has made Aarti reintroduce to her own self...the fun-loving, poetry-reciting, art designing, teasing, laughing Aarti. They bring out the best in each other...they know each other's essence, which is what will see them through the upcoming crisis.
The morning rays brought the reality face to face with Aarti...when she found Prashant with her son. Initially she mistook him for Yash. However, the mistake couldn't have been more glaring when Ansh rebelled at Aarti's commands and listened only when Prashant coaxed him with sweetness, undermining her manner of tone...something that Yash would never blatantly do. Prashant interfered in parental authority...of which he had no rights...and made the whole thing into a joint parenting matter, he being the active participant. He is rendering Aarti helpless where it matters most to her...and he is doing it very subtly. He is making his way to her through Ansh...Aarti's Achilles heel at the moment. In making Ansh part of a secretive adult deal, Aarti is losing Ansh to shady maturity, wherein he thinks it's fine to negotiate her authority. Prashant is slowly undoing what Yash and Aarti built up all these months.
Yesterday I mentioned how Prashant has begun his hovering...Now when Aarti and Shobha are on to him and have debarred him from going to Scindia house, he not only defies them again, but is making the visit turn to his advantage. If he cannot go to Scindia House, he can get them to his...!!! Aarti is furious with him for even thinking of asking something from her without her husband's presence, and terms him the coward that he is..."If you have the courage, come inside and place your requirement in front of my husband." Turning in huff, she turns and trips, only to be held back intimately by Prashant...an act that doesn't go unnoticed by Yash. She had just begun to blast Prashant for touching her when he cuts her short with one name that he knew would shut her: Yash. When Prashant tries to tell Yash that he was only saving Aarti and that his action should not be misconstrued, Yash refuses to take the bait and looks straight into Prashant's eyes, "What's there to misunderstand? You have saved Aartiji...Aartiji, are you alright?" Prashant's words are as hollow as his conviction...He thinks that when Aarti has a fall in front of Yash...that is when Yash ousts her after learning about her...he will be ready to catch her and save her from that fall. It's a dangerously naive thinking he is playing around with...and the sad part is he still thinks Aarti is some kind of an object for the men in her life to toy with. The logic being: if he did, Yash will too!! He is so sure of that...and that flawed reasoning is his biggest misunderstanding!!!
The more Prashant is trying to be clever and cocky, the more he is realizing the existence of the wall he faces...the wall of goodness and trust: Yash Scindia. If he wants to compromise Aarti's position in Yash's eyes, he should start thinking about alternate plans, because Yash would never doubt Aarti till she herself speaks out the words. Prashant turns Yash's friendly cajoling to his advantage and through a clever twist of words he conveys to Aarti his intentions..."Yash, I won't hide anything. Yesterday I went away because seeing you with Aarti, and seeing your love for her, I became upset...and a little bit angry with my God also...that all the happiness that He bestowed on my friend, why didn't He give me that much happiness...It might sound strange to you, but what is true is true." Each and every word there was said to Yash but hinted to Aarti...just the contexts differed...Prashant has begun pushing Aarti into revealing herself...putting her in such awkward positions that soon she won't have any openings left to wriggle through. His parting shot about 'Ma/babuji" and then looking at Aarti when Yash catches the slip of tongue was deliberate. He was giving clues to Yash yet trying to be on the clear with Aarti...Oh dear God, what a tangled web we weave, when we decide to deceive!!!!
That's it friends...my two cents of the day. The Retro Party promises to unearth many Retro skeletons. The games have begun...only Yash doesn't yet know that he is the main contender!!!!
Have a nice day.😊

