PART 50 A!🥳
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Shivneri Nagar, Chembur
April 30th 1 PM
Khanak: Send in a bid and I will look at it! (smiles)
Shaan approaches her, the landline rings, it's the lady on the 5th floor wants to know if the maid is here yet, Khanak tells her, she hasn't shown up. Shaan goes back to the couch, looks around, sees a laptop hooked up on the wall by the window, sitting on the floor.
Shaan: I need to check email, can I go online?
Khanak: Sure! Lekin who 3 saal purana hai, not very fast (embarrassed)
Shaan: I shud survive (mocks)
Khanak: Let me make room for you! (removes the books and clothes off the divan)
She sets it all on the sofas with a "We were supposed to clean house today. But she took off"
Shaan: Have you started shopping or packing yet? (softly, probing)
Khanak: (blushing) Ummm'. Not yet, actually!
Shaan: were you hoping to get here the morning after for the shower and pick out your clothes? (chuckling)
Khanak: Not a bad idea! (bending down to pick up some things from the sofa)
Shaan: I bet!
She walks away with the clothes, she doesn't argue or rant or play along most times. She is quiet even on home ground, he can hear sounds from outside, traffic, women arguing with hawkers, kids, music, dialogs and background music from disrant television sets. She seemed unaffected by it all. The house "would be" very tastefully decorated and clean, if not for the mess this morning, it seems like to him.
Khanak walks out of the bedroom " Aap mujhe help karenge after you check email? If you hand me the things, I set it faster? I have to go get a shower too, I have oil in my hair."
Shaan (looking down at the keyboard, sprawled on her divan, laptop on hois lap, typing away) "I could help with the shower!"
Khanak: Ive done by myself for 20 years, so no thanks, I am good! (husky)
Shaan: I could show you things you don't know about it!
Khanak: I will clean up on my own (sulking)
She removes most of the things from the living room the next half hour, goes to the kitchen to do something from time to time.
His phone rings, a few times, hers hasn't rung once! "She must have few friends like she said"
Khanak: can I shut the windows? It must be too noisy for you nahi? Garmi bhi hai?
Shaan: Sure, if you want to''.
She shuts both windows, and draws the lovely block printed curtains, and switches on the AC.
Khanak: This is old also, sometimes its takes for ever (talks to herself almost)
He watches her, set the temp. It sputters, groans and kick starts, she smiles at it in gratitude and walks away.
She hasn't even asked him, why he was here, she didn't want to know if he had plans, she didn't ask him if he was OK spending the day with her in the apartment.
He smiles as he types away.
His friends want to know when they get to meet her. They couldn't find time on a week nite earlier in the week. He was sure she wouldn't go, if she didn't want to.
He hears a bucket being filled in the bathroom, smiles, its been long since he heard that, cant even recall when he last heard it, despite his memory.
She steps out, hair tied up completely for some reason "Will you get the door? My bai might come?"
Looks up at her "Sure!" "I thought you were going to wash your hair?"
She touches it, "Oh! I forgot! (smiles) Huh! (shakes her head and pulls her rubber band off, while looking at him. For what seems like an interminable moment they look at each other, when she hears the water overflow the bucket, she walks away.
As expected her Bai shows up, is confused looking at him, asks him in chaste Marathi where Khanak and Ritu are, he responds in Hindi with " Who bathroom mein hai"
Bai: What are you doing here? (in Marathi)
Shaan: visiting''' mera matlab milne aaya tha.
The Bai walks inside carefully, suspicious, pensive, thinking if she should call the knocked out useless guard from the gate.
Shaan goes back to his laptop, she works away. The woman cleanes up what ever mess was left behind. After what seems to him like forever, he hears Khanak walk into the back room and talk with the cleaning lady. Coz when she reappears to do the dishes, she has a apologetic smile on her face, Shaan is amused.
He hears a soft chant, and a few minutes later SHE APPEARS!
In a orange wrap around skirt, and a olive green blouse with puffed sleeves, orange embroidery around the neckline. Hair is wet, she is carrying a small plate with a diya.
She hesitates as she stops near him " Umm' would you like some?" (softly)
He does a swoosh with his palm on the diya and rubs it over his head
Extends it, he looks at her as if "I want you to give it to me"
She picks up a piece of sweet and hands it to him, bending down, he bites into it, and holds it for her, she reluctantly nibbles with a "Thanks", he eats the remainder.
She goes off to give her bai some too.
The bai is done, she leaves quietly
Khanak: Lunch is almost ready will you eat here?
Shaan: Don't you want to know why I am here?
Khanak (embarrassed) Oh! I guess''.. (he notices her blouse is soaked around her shoulders by her hair ends)
She is standing behind the sofa, holding the curvy goblet like edge on one side.
Shaan: To see you!
Khanak: Oh! Umm''Thanks? let me go finish what I am doing
Walks away quietly, he is fascinated by her.
A few minutes later'
Shaan: Khanak'''.
Khanak: haan? (from the kitchen)
Shaan: Come here a minute?
Khanak "Ya?"
He is lying face down on the divan, the laptop is on a oblong cushion,
"Come look at the new baseball field at my school"
Khanak: Oh!
Shaan pushing the laptop towards her, as she gingerly sits down by him, facing the lap top, "It looks like a cricket field"
Shaan: Pretty much!
Khanak: The triangle is the wicket?
Shaan: pitch''.
She sees an image in the upper left, touches it. "Is that your "school""
Shaan: (smiles) Haan dekhogi?
He clicks on it, it loads, he shows her his department, the various student facilities''.
She smells like roses, clean, fresh! She is careful not to touch or rub unnecessarily, he notices.
Shaan: You smell great! (groaning, laying sideways, head on hand, supported on elbow)
Khanak: thanks'' its just soap and lotion.
Shaan: What kind? (his heart is racing)
Khanak: Its called Forest Essentials, its not a big fashion brand name, (looking at the screen totally aware of his gaze)
Shaan sets the laptop on the floor, past the oblong cushion, and gently knocks her down on the divan)
She lays on her back, a good six inches apart, looks up at him in shock.
Shan: So did you mean it when you said "Ritu could have me?" (gravely)
Khanak: (captivated) Sshe could... (brings her left hand out and traces his crease on his cheek) but... I would...
Shaan sucks his breath in and waits...
Khanak: I will save this (runs her fingers on the cheek, his hand presses hers to his cheek) those hands, and the hair...(looks at it, as it falls on his forehead) and... the jaw (husky)😳😳
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