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--Nishita--

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Posted: 13 years ago

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I loved this chotu sa update. 👍🏼

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mbbsrocks

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Posted: 13 years ago

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UPDATE PLEASE AND SOOONNN...

A LONG ONE :)

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mukta3112

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Posted: 13 years ago

#283

Very emotional. Hope they use your story in the next serial of SaRun (Wishful thinking)

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sheena29

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Posted: 13 years ago

#284

Thanks for the pm priya, waiting for the story to unfold. The pathos in the story is right now very appealing. Update soon

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Nina

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Posted: 13 years ago

#285

Beautiful teaser...where is Kushi going? Loved the beach scene...loved
the imagery of sand, sun and water. Could almost hear the waves and seagulls.

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Archu

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Posted: 13 years ago

#286

Its beautiful priya !!❤️
Beautiful explanation b/w father n Arnav !!😳❤️
Beautiful teaser !😳

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subiscs

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Posted: 13 years ago

#287

loved it priya :) beautiful updates!!

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sheanuzz

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Posted: 13 years ago

#288

Thanks for the PM priya!! Loved the story so far and eagerly waiting for your update!

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sweetydoll32

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Posted: 13 years ago

#289

awesome ss please update soon and please add me to your pm list.

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honeypriya

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Posted: 13 years ago

#290

Part IV - b

The temple bell dies away

The scent of flowers in the evening

Is still tolling the bell.

-Matsuo Basho

(it was the cover poem in Arnav's childhood book of writing.)

"Marriages are not about running away", she remembered Amma telling it to her and Jiji always but amma never taught on how to still believe in it at the most fragile moments of life. Arnav was an inseperable part of her,she sighed but she was still running away or as she saw it now, she had consciously come miles away from the relation which bound them.

Her first baby she remembered as she stared blankly at the river outside she lost it due to medical complications, it was still very early stages and she had brightened back soon to the sunshine of their relation thinking love will soon fill in their life again...the family's support also put a balm to her pain that time.

She knew of Arnav ji's insecurities then too but she always believed a new life to breathe admidst them will take away the shadows of his childhood. She knew his dad had cheated on his mother, the lies of his father had scarred him for life - the absence of a normal childhood - his mother taking her life away, leaving two innocent children to fend for themselves...each moment when people laughed on his face in his growing ears - it had all tortured him to be the ruthless man at times whom she had met first. Di had one day taken her to the attic - showed her his childhood writings - that were of anger, of angst towards a man ...who for every boy is otherwise a Hero.

"The eagle came

Evening dusk shared its blame

Young Arnav went to play

Boys around, broke his house of clay"

On first read, she found them jibberish, disjointed... then Di said to read it again and again - and then she discovered the mind of a disturbed young boy...uprooted - slowly Khushi understood.

It worried her at times when he did share with her his inhibitions initially --- but as she saw their relation grow stronger ,she found the confidence for them to take the next step together .She always thought ,when he becomes the father himself, he will realise that its his life coming to full circle - giving him that chance to correct every wrong doing that his father erred.

She loved walking on the wet grass bare feet,the sounds of her paayal gave her company in those solitary walks...the garden had stairs going down to the river..after the walk, she loved sitting at the ghat in the evening.It had been a morning of heaviness..the breeze of Ganga soothed her wild nerves. The temple bells nearby played the harmony to the silence. She remembered in childhood how excited they used to get when Bauji took them to Varanasi for the vacations. She smiled to remember how Naani ji said of Arnav's childhood mischiefs and games with Aakash jijaji during the vacations when they too went to Varanasi.

Looking at the boats sailing by in the twilight ,she thought would it have been then in those vacations we both sailed on boats that sailed close by on the Ganga...did we ever cross paths then...did our destinies get entwined since then or were we the chosen ones like two sides of the river - never to meet.

"You have become lot silent Khushi ' I love the feisty, the wild one like this river"

"Time has taught a lot"

"Did it teach you to not even look at me...only go away from me"

And she turned to look at him,she had not realised when he came and sat next to her...so lost was she in her thoughts -their thoughts. Fresh from shower, in the purple tee, that set the depth of his eyes piercing through her more...the smell of his cologne...she knew the fireflies dancing around sensed her exploding sensations too.She thought to leave, but then she couldn't move...their eyes met..

"You hear these temple bells Khushi", he broke the eyelock...

The evening aarati at the nearby temple was in full swing -- they could see the flickering lights at the other bank of the river...

He continued...his dense voice knocked her soul.

"Ma used to take me every Tuesday evening for the aratis.I used to love going with her...felt like the man who had a responsibility to share...of being the shadow of her at our own get away every week. Two hours I didn't have to share her time with Di or dad or anyone at home. When our lives changed years later, these temple bells used to anger me.I started hating the times when I was forced to go there and only used to go once in a while as Di wanted.

He took a deep breath...

"Months back when you left me, one night I woke up from a nightmare...didn't know what shook me inside...I drove madly towards the temple..."

He paused again..her big eyes had been staring at him ,devouring his each word.

He slowly started, turning to look at the river ahead.

"Drove to the temple, where I had to drag you to marry me.I had thought for so many months that I married you for Di.. because of the situation we were in then..but that night realised,to the depth of it,I married you only because I wanted to protect you...wanted to take your responsibility...did not want anyone to get that share...As I went that night and went on and on ringing the temple bell...I realised with each gong, how I failed you...that feeling of childhood which I lost with mother...your coming to my life had made me meet myself again.

"But the night when in the anger of our fight...when I lost control of the steering of the car...when in that Night in the Rain...when I killed our unborn...in the nights after you left me... the word responsibility and those ringing bells came to haunt me. It still does...I can never change what happened."

And he stopped then - abruptly looked back at her. This time she was looking at the river ahead...it had started drizzling slowly. There were those small droplets on her cheeks, on her forehead, on those eyelids...and then there was silence.He kept looking at her -with the longing and then he slowly lifted his hand and wiped one drop away from her cheek...she didn't move...neither she stopped him.

Suddenly noises broke their meeting of silence .They were setting up an after party of cocktails at the garden. The second day of the Conclave came to close.

3 more days to go!

Edited by honeypriya - 13 years ago

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