FF: Partial Amnesia Pt 31Pg145-6th Dec - Page 40

Beeeni 🤗I just read the last two parts, and both parts were amazing, you really are a fabulous writer. 👏The evening Khanak and Shaan spent together in part 11 was just perfect, 😍 it had a little bit of everything, and I could visualise it all right before my eye. Part 12 was beautifully penned, I like the way you way portrayed their feelings that your heart goes out for Shanak.😭 Honestly I am loving this story, it feels really nice to relive RBO through your story, so thanks! 😃 I am really looking forwad to reading the next part, till then loads of love! 🤗

1^st January 2012, 8.30 AM

Khanak woke up cheerfully to a beautiful weather. It was cold but the sky was full of clouds. She looked outside the window and decided that she would take a walk in the rain if it did rain. Besides the weather, there was something else that had made her cheerful. Madhvi had promised to let her make her first proper meal in the kitchen. She was really looking forward to it. "Main kheer banaoo gee----din ki shuruaat meethay say karni chahiyay!" she said brightly to herself, still looking out of the window.

"Haapy New Year" a voice she had wanted to listen to since the time she woke up filled her senses and she turned excitedly. Shaan stood at the doorway of her room, smiling at her. She smiled back and looked down, feeling herself blushing. The weather was certainly having a pleasant effect on her, she thought. Shaan came forward, folded his hands and looked down at her again. "Someone looks happy!" he said brightly. Khanak smiled broadly again.

"Happy new year" she replied. "Wohh mausam hee itna acha hain---" she said moving the strands of her hair behind her ear, then realizing what she had done, releasing them over her face and looking up at Shaantanu with a guilty smile.

Shaan laughed. "That's better" he said happily, noticing and smiling. "Tohh---suna hain aj tum kuch paka rahi ho----saal ki shuruaat tumharay haath kay khaanay say hogee haan? " Shaan said softly, moving his head a little forward, bending it towards Khanak. Khanak held her palms together, nodded and smiled. "Kya bana rahi ho?"

"Wohh mainay socha----kheer banao?" she looked up with her questioning eyes, wanting to see Shaan's expression telling her what he thought.

Shaan, who was not going to let Khanak get away with making kheer so easily this time round, wrinkled his nose. "Kheer!?"

"Kyun?!" Khanak asked adamantly, standing up straight. "Kheer main kya problem hain. Saal ka pehla din toh meetha hee banana chahiyay na?" she said logically.

"Haan meetha banao" Shaan agreed. "Laikin kheer nahi-----" he gave a naughty smile in his head "Halwa!"

Khanak's face fell. "Halwa?" she said in a small voice, her enthusiasm disappearing. She knew she didn't make good halwa. It was the one thing that she had difficulty in making.

Shaan smirked inwardly. "Haan halwa----kyun? tumhay halwa banana nahi aata kya?" Shaan asked feigning shock.

"Nahi nahi!" Khanak fired up, shaking her head. "Aata hain na!" she wrung her hands as she saw Shaan smile, raising his eyebrows. "Mujhay halwa banana aata hain! Toh----errr---theek hain! Main halwa hee banaoo gee!" she said trying to sound steadfast.

"Acha? Toh----theek hain----" Shaan said simply. "Halwa banao---mujhay toh HALWA hee buhat pasand hain! Yummmyy!" he made a dreamy face. "Acha chalo main studio ja raha hoon----See you later!" . Chuckling, he left the room.

Khanak pouted as she saw Shaan leave. "Ub main kya karoon gee?" she turned, looked up towards God and asked worried.

Shaan stopped at the door, turned around and smiled at Khanak's back. "A girl cooking something for you she KNOWS she's not good at-----hmmm----first sign of her falling in love with you----" he said to himself, still smiling as he proceeded towards the stairs with a spring in his step.

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1^st January 2012, 11.30 AM

"Hi Dad!" Shaan said as soon as he heard his father at the other end. "What's up?"

"I'm working" Sunil said shortly at the other end.

"Oh!" smiled Shaan "Well I just thought I could make you talk to Shahrukh, he's here in the studio----but If you're busy----"

"WHAT!! Give him the phone! " Sunil yelled at the other end and Shaan chuckled at a loud sound that sounded horribly like Sunil falling off his chair.

"Haha dad I was joking but will keep your enthusiasm in mind next time. " Shaan said still laughing. "I wanted to tell you something else" he said before his father could hang up on him.

"What?!" Sunil's menacing voice filled Shaan's ears from the other end.

"Dad I got my pay check for the first song" Shaan said smiling. "Awesome start to the year isn't it!"

"Congrats beta! I'm so proud of you! " Sunil sounded genuinely happy.

"Acha dad main soch raha tha----kay Khanak kay liyay----kuch loon-----" Shaan said slightly embarrassed and blushing a little. "---like a gift----aisee cheez jo usay pasand ho-----but main sub say pehlay uss kay liyay laina chahta hoon-----you know"

"Yea yea I know----you want to spend your money on her first-----which means we all should not expect a new years gift from you this year too, right?" Sunil said, fake sulking on the phone.

"Errr yea---something like that-----So! I will get her a present but you guys need to like pretend I got you all a present too okay!" Shaan said warningly.

Sunil rolled his eyes but said "Sure count me in! Not sure about your Emm Ohh Emm though" he chuckled. Shaan laughed and hung up. 'Ahhh time to get Khanak something she loves! Bangriya' he said nostalgically, transporting himself back to that warm day in Dhulwadi.

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1^st January 2012, 12:00 PM

Khanak struggled with the amount of the sooji that was to be put in the halwa. She felt frustrated. "Aray dadi say poochtee hoon!" she thought happily. As though God had answered her prayers, dadi entered the kichen.

"Kya ban rahee ho beta? Kheer?" Dadi asked.

"Nahi---" Khanak sulked. "Halwa---"

"Laikin tumhay toh halwa banana man mushkil hoti hain!" dadi laughed.

"Haan wohi toh! Laikin Shaantanu nay kaha kay halwa banao toh-----" she looked down, slightly embarrasses.

"Kya Shaan nay kaha? Laikin usay toh pata hain kay tumhay halwa banana nahi aata!" Dadi said and immediately realized the blunder she had made.

"Kyaa!!" Khanak exclaimed shocked and angry, looking into Dadi's guilty face.

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1^st January 2012, 17:30 PM

The entire Khandelwal family minus Shaan and including Natasha was sitting in the living room enjoying evening tea which Hari Lal had seved them. They had left the windows open so that the cool winter breeze hit their faces while they had their steaming cups of hot tea. It was still cloudy outside with occasional bouts of drizzle the entire day. The perfect beginning to the New Year. There was an unspoken mutual decision by the family not to have a New Years party keeping in mind the tradegy that had taken place two and a half months ago.

Khanak was sitting at the sofa talking to Khushboo, telling her the various ways she could find out whether the baby was a girl or a boy (Dhulwadi knowledge) to which Khushboo would roll her eyes and smile warmly at her being through this before, when Khanak was pregnant. Khanak wondered again why Khushboo was so nice to her; the last she had remembered Khushboo used to hate her, which was natural, she being Natasha's sister. Her thoughts were interrupted by the loud and noisy entry of Shaan in the house, who was holding bags containing a number of boxes. Khanak looked the other way, her nose upturned, which no one seemed to notice, being much more interested in what Shaan had in th bags.

"I got you all presents!" he announced happily and stole a glance at Khanak who was pointedly looking the other way, completely ignoring him.

"Aray beta kyun?" Madhvi said excited as Sunil chuckled. Shaan felt impressed at his mother's acting. He took out a wrapped box from the bag and handed it to his mother.

"Aray yay box itna halka kyun hain?" Madhvi asked, as Sunil put his fist in his mouth to stop laughing. Shaan glared at his father. Apparently, he had not told the members of the family what Shaan was upto. It was too late now, however. He hoped he could quickly give everyone their wrapped EMPTY boxes and proceed to Khanak to give her hers. But as he gave handed Khushboo and Akshay their wrapped boxes, they went in unison with serious faces, "Aray Shaan, yay box bhee halka hain!" Shaan gritted his teeth and glared at his father again. Khanak was looking at the proceedings with a This-was-so-expected-of-Shaantanu expression on her face and shaking her head. Shaan gave one box each to the rest of the family, including Natasha ('Shaan! Atleast you could have given ME a heavy present!') Natasha said weighing the box in her hands and winking at him, thoroughly angering Khanak, who upturned her nose and got up to leave.

"Aray Khanak!" Shaan said, stopping her. Khanak stopped but did not turn. Shaan raised his eyebrows.'What's up with her?' he wondered. "Main tumharay liyay bhee kuch laya hoon!" he said, smiling. Khanak thought it not to make a fuss in taking the present when the family was around all looking at them. She took the box that Shaan handed her slowly.

"So Khanak! Tumhara box bhee halka hain na?" Sunil said, biting back a laugh.

"Nahi" Khanak said weighing it. "Mera toh bhaari hain----" she said confused. Shaan gave his father half a glare and half a smug look. Madhvi, Khushboo, Akshay, Dadi all looked in separate directions to stop themselves from bursting out laughing.

"Khanak---" Shaan said loking down at her. "Kholo naa----" he continued excitedly.

"Aray aap loge bhee kholay na----" Khanak did not reply to Shaan but addressed the rest of the family, all of whose expressions turned suddenly worried.

"Aray Khanak----" Akshay tried to laugh but was worried. WHAT if Khanak MADE all of them open their presents and found out about the empty boxes! "Hum khole lain gay----Infact I think we should all open our presents in our room----Kyun Khushboo?" Khushboo nodded vigourously, while Natasah giggled. Shaan looked extremely agitated and Sunil seemed to be thoroughly enjoying himself.

"Haan why not! Kya pata in dabbo main kuch ho! I mean----kuch KAAM ka ho!" Sunil said, as Shaan widened his eyes in anger at his father and cursed the time he had joked with him about Shahrukh Khan being in the studio.

Panicking, and before his family gave it away, Shaan heed Khanak's wrist and dragged her upstairs mumbling about her having her medicines. Khanak, who was still mad at Shaan for the kheer/ halwa story tried to rid herself off his grip. "Aray! Choray mujhay!" but Shaan took her to her room.

"Kya yaar Khanak! Main itnayyy pyaar say tumharay liyay gift laya aur tum----tum itnay nakhray kar rahi ho!" he whined.

Khanak kept the box on the side table, folded her hands and went and stood next to the window. Shaan followed her again. "Phir naraz ho! Ub mainay kya kiya?" he sighed.

"Aap nay mujh say jhoot bola!" Khanak said without turning around. "Apko pata than a kay mujhay halwa banana main mushkil hoti hain-----phir bhee apnay mujhay halwa bananay ko kaha!"

Shaan laughed. Khanak turned around and glared at him. That made him immediately shut up.

"Errr Khanak! Main toh mazaak kar raha tha!" he said grinning as Khanak turned again. "Aray! Mujhay kya pata tha kay tum actually-----bananay ki koshish karo gee----seriously "Khanak said nothing. "Acha fine tum nay halwa nahi banaya it's fine----main kheer hee kha loonga---khush?" Khanak folded her hands and looked the other way. Had Khanak known the reality of their relationship, Shaan would have been hugging her from the back right now, and perhaps even giving her a kiss to apologize, but since he couldn't do that he had to be happy with just holding his own ears and saying "Sorry na Khanak. Maaf kardo na---" Khanak pouted but then soon smiled. 'Ahhh she still finds you irressitable Shaantanu Khandelwal' Shaan said to himself, thoroughly happy. "Ub toh gift khole lo" he said, making her blush deeply.

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1^st January 2012, 18:00 PM

"Tasha NO!" Mitul said firmly, looking straight at Natasha in the guest room of the Khandelwal house.

"Laikin Mitul----" Natasha said in a soft worried voice.

"Nahi Natasha----Aisay nahi----hum shaadi aisay nahi kar saktay-----humari SHAADI hain Tasha-----koi stupid si date nahi hain----kay chupkay say kar li-----" he said reasonably.

"Mitul----laikin agar hum nay----14^th February say pehlay-----" Natasha began again in broken sentences.

"Oh please Tasha. Since when have you started believeing in all of this? This is not the right way and you know it! Hum iss tarah---iss tarah chup kay shadi kaisay kar saktay hain?! Where did your sense go all of a sudden?" Mitul said getting a bit angry now.

Natasha's eyes filled with tears. " Oh I'm sorry for not using my sense----wanting to marry the man I love---I must be so senseless----" she said sarcastically but tears rolled down her eyes.

Mitul heaved a huge sigh as he felt his heart melt looking at the mess Natasha was in. "Tasha please----" he went over to her and wiped her face with his thumbs as Natasha looked down sadly.

"Mitul----noone will find out-----hum alag rahay gay----jaisay abhee rahtay hain---main yaheen rahoo gee---" she sniffed. "Bus shubh mahurat nikalnay say pehlay shaadi kar laitay hain----phir jub Khanak theek hojayay gee toh hum sub kay saamnay phirsay----phirsay shadi karlay gay----"

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1^st January 2012, 18:30 PM

Shaan and Khanak both sat on the bed, Shaan holding a beautiful set of 6 thin, petite, gold bangles in his hand and getting hold of Khanak's right palm with his other hand, smiling. Khanak smiled too. The bangles were beautiful, she thought, thengave her mind a nudge as she tried to recall when she had been in a similar position, Shaan making her wear bangles. And as Shaan pushed one bangle down her wrist, holding her hand delicately, the memories came rushing back to her as though they were waiting for Khanak to give them a push.

"Aap yay pehlay bhee kar chukay hain----" she said softly, surprising Shaan, who looked at Khanak as though he could not believe his ears. "Jub main ghar chor kar gaee thee---aur gunday humaray peechay paray thay-----aap mujhay lainay ayay thay-----aur barish horahee thee------aur mainay aag jalaee thee-----aur hum----hum jail gayyay thay----aur wohh Soam-------aur wohh sharbat----aur phir mainay apnay gahnay--------" she looked up at Shaan's numb, plae and shocked face now. "Mainay gahnay utar diyay thay----takay aap mujhay dhoond lo-----" she finished softly, sounding shocked herself.

Shaan's hands had already gone numb with shock at Khanak's declaration of the time when they had been alone together for days; the days that had changed everything; that had made them fall in love and not realize it.Finaly Shaan had found his voice.

"Tumhay yaad hain-----" he whispered, coming close to her and biting his lips as he felt a lump in his throat, remembering those beautiful moments, which at the time had seemed like torture.

"Haan---"Khanak breathed back. "Aur wohh who dhaba----jahan apnay------"

"Paisay kamayain thay-----meri pehli kamaee-----" Shaan said taking a deep breath and smiling. Khanak smiled too.

"Unn hee dino humari sahi mano main dosti huee thee na?" she asked. Shaan nodded, desperate to say 'Dosti nahi Khanak----pyaar' but stopped himself. He pursed his lips as they both sat quietly as minutes passed. Khanak realized that she had not removed her palm from Shaan's palm. It made her happy that neither had Shaan removed his hand from hers. Both just sat there, hand in hand, one remembering, one recalling.

"Sari churiyaan toh pehnayay----" Khanak finally said to Shaan very softly.

Shaan smiled and picked up the rest on the bangles, making her wear 3 in her right hand and moving towards the left. As Shaan's fingers touched Khanak's hands she felt a tingling sensation in her entire body; his warm fingers drumming on the soft skin on her hand as he did his job. When Shaan picked up her left palm, he noticed two burn marks on her hand, leading up to her wrist.

"Yay kya hua?!" he cried, extremely worried.

"Kuch nahi----wohh main halwa ban rahi thee-----toh ghee ur kar agaya buss-----" Khanak said.

Shaan's face screwed up in pain at looking at her burn marks. He brought her hand closer to his face and before he knew what he was doing, kissed her burn lightly, letting his lips linger for a while. Khanak's entire body went numb and her heart beat rose at rapid speed at the touch of Shaan's lips but Shaan seemed to not nave noticed. He picked up a bangle and made her wear it, then brought her hand to his lips and kissed the second burn again. A soft moan escaped Khanak's lips and she closed her eyes, hoping that Shaan would not have noticed. He placed the second bangle around her wrist, then palyed with the two bangles parting it, and placing another kiss between them.

Khanak smiled and opened her eyes. Shaan looked into them intensely, wanting nothing more than to keep on staring into their depths. Khanak, who felt shy of Shaan's intense stare, looked down again but continued to smile a little. What was she playing at, allowing Shaan to do this to her?But she didn't care. All she knew was that she enjoyed the unexaplainable sensation.

Shaan placed the third bangle around her wrist and again, his passionate eyes forced Khanak to look into them. When Khanak did not, he parted the 3 bangles on her wrist, with each finger of his, brought his face closer again and trailed kisses down her hand, at the gap that each bangle had made, ending his kisses at Khanak's wrist itself.

Khanak could take no more of the sweet torture being metted out her way. She got up shyly and abruptly but Shaan was too quick for her and held her hand, getting up too. He kept holding her hand and took it to grab her waist from the back, making Khanak take a sharp intake of breath. He came closer and felt his nose get tickled with Khanak's hair. Khanak closed her eyes, no room for any logical thoughts coming her way.

"Achay lagay?" Shaan whispered in her ear.

"Kya?" she asked, feeling her face heat up.

"Mera mutlub----tumhay chooriyaan achee lagee?" Shaan asked, his voice getting husky; the voice he knew would always have an effect on her.

"Hmmm" answered Khanak, feeling disappointed that he was talking about the bangles when he could have well talked about the kisses he had just planted on her hand.

Shaan let go of her hand and removed it from across her waist. He moved back smiling. "Ub tum nay halwa bana hee liya hain----toh khila bhee dohh----" he said again in that same husky voice. Khanak looked down, smiling and nodding. Shaan left the room grinning. Khanak raised her left hand and looked at it dreamily as her hair flew in the cool new year breeze and she felt a bizarre sensation of music in the background.

Na jaanay meray----dil ko kya-----hogayaaa

Abhee toh yaheen-----tha abhee----khogaya----khogayaa

Hogaya hain tujh ko toh ---pyaar sajna

Laakh kar lay tu---- inkaar sajna

Hogaya hain tujh ko toh ---pyaar sajna

Lakh kar lay tu--- inkaar sajna

Dil daar sajna

Hain yay Pyaar sajnaa

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