Surprise!!😃
Part 16
"Aray aray itni jaldi kya hain?" Akshay asked Shaan trying to keep a straight face. "Adi aur Simran toh chaar din baad arahay hain na?" he pressed his lips tight so that he would not laugh. Khanak's face fell. FOUR days?!
Shaan looked at Akshay sheepishly. "Err yea----mutlub chaar din baad tum----errr meray kumray main shift hojana" he said seriously looking up at Khanak who nodded, wondering why Shaan was hesitating so much. Did he not want her in his room? The thought made a bit sad but the happiness that she would be with Shaan after 4 days all the time was enough to overcome it.
"Ahh well that's settled then!" Akshay said getting up and stretching himself "Best of luck bro!" he clapped a hand on Shaan's shoulder, chuckled and left to take a nap. Khanak looked at him leave confused. Shaan looked embarrassed. Sunil and Madhvi just looked at their burthal kids and smiled.
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17th January 2011, 4 PM
"Khanak! Khanak!" Khushboo came striding towards her room just when Khanak was coming out of it.
"Aray bhabhi!! Sambhal kay! Appko pata hain pregnanacy main-------" she started.
"Yea yea whatever Khanak!" she interrupted Khanak making Khanak pout. " Tumko raat ki party ka pata hain? "
"Konsi party?" she asked confused.
"Abhee decide hua hain-----Mitul ki birthday hain----toh wohh yahan celebrate kar raha hain----" Khushboo said happily. "His mom is out of town, he doesn't have much family here and Natasha-----" Khushboo stopped abruptly "----errr----I mean Natasha just told me that Mom told her that he's having his party here----" Khushboo finished lamely with a dramatic deep breath.
Khanak frowned. She really did not want Mitul to come. He was a nice guy and everything, she thought, but when he was around, something was not right. Natasha would behave weird and now that she had SEEN her hug Mitul she just could not place her feelings for him. If he was a nice guy would he randomly allow a girl to hug him like that?! ESPECIALLY a girl who was to be his friend's wife? Khanak shook her head. Maybe she was overreacting, she thought. It was only a hug. And city people hugged each other a lot, she knew that! But something told her that the hug between the two was not just another random hug. Her musings were broken with with Khushboo asking her what she would wear to the party.
"Khanak!! I have the PERFECT pink sari for you to wear you know! I got it for myself but ermmm---blouse thora tight hogaya----" she pointed at her little baby bump and swollen arms. Khanak giggled. "Tohh ermm tum hee pahen lo----" she said in a rush.
"Theek hain-----" Khanak smiled, though her mind was still uncomfortable with the news that Mitul was to have his party in the Khandelwal house.
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17th January 2011, 09:00 PM
It would have been an understatement to say that Khanak looked gorgeous that night. She looked drop dead gorgeous! Her light pink netted sari, together with her sleeveless blouse (Khushboo had to forve it down her throat LITERALLY since Khanak refused to wear such a revealing one) was also backless, her pearl earrings were a gift given to her by Shaantanu on diwali, her six gold bangles tinkling on her wrists and her mangal sutr and sindoor ("Khanak! Oh cmon you're ruining the look of this sari by putting on that sindoor!" Khushboo had said vehemently) glistened like always. Shaan stopped by her room to take in her beaut and felt a sudden ache in the oit of his stomach. He himself was wearing just a white shirt and jeans. Just as he was about to enter to tie the string on Khanak's blouse, Madhvi caught his hand and led him away.
"You'll have enough of that whenshe moves into your room---"she said crisply while Shaan protested. "I need you to go and see where your father is! Mitul will not cut the cake without him and I want this party to end quickly!"
"Mommm!!" Shaan said thouroughly annoyed at his mom for stealing away a blissful moment from him. "What!! Whyyy!! Parties are meant to go till late!"
Madhvi looked at him sarcastically "Shaan you have no CS do you!? Your wife is on heavy medication------your bhabhi is pregnant----they need to rest!"
"Fine!" Shaan said grumpily, dragging himself to look for his father. He was seeing Khanak in saris after ages! And whenever he saw her in one, his mind would either go blank or would rememeber the hundred intimate moments they had shared when she used to don a sari. "A sari is easier to take off Khanak!" how many times had he said that line to her making her blush? he tried to rememeber sadly as images of the time he had carried out that act came to him in a rush.
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17th January 2011, 09:15 PM
"Hi bhabhi---"said Mitul to Khanak when she came down in the hall. Khanak frowned at him and murmered a 'Namaste' making Mitul's eyebrows raise. Khanak looked to see where Natashas was. Surprisingly she was sitting talking to Khushboo and not paying Mitul any heed. See? Khanak said to herself. I WAS overreacting! The thought that there was NOTHING at all between Natsha and Mitul instead of making her happy and relieved made her a bit upset.
The party was nothing fancy. It was a get together with just a few people. Geeta had come over and was chatting animatedly with Madhvi about Khushboo's condition. Soon Shaan and Sunil joined everyone and birthday chorus began. Mitul cut the cake amidst clapping and hooting and Khanak began to feel more cheerful. She looked at Shaan who was standing a bit far away from her crushed in the middle of Akshay and Mitul. Mitul fed cake to everyone but before he could reach Natasha, Akshay picked up the cake and rubbed it on his face. Shaan joined in and gave Mitul a cake shower. As much as Shaan wanted to go and stand next to Khanak, to hold her hand, he could not. Mitul and Akshay were completely hogging him, sometimes with lame jokes. Sometimes with weird dance moves during the entire party.
"C'mon guys! DRINKS!" Akshay announced and moved towards the bar. "Ladies! FOOD!" he added which was a cue for the women of the house to go into the kitchen and serve the dinner. Sunil had dined early and excused himself and went to bed. "Haha! Awesome luck! Drinks and NO dad!NO restrictions! Cmon birthday boy! Comon Shaan!"
Mitul walked forward smiling broadly and picking a glass but Shaan went over and just sat. "Nahee bhaiya----I'm not drinking----"
Akshay was already in the middle of his scotch. "How come? It's not like you'll be having sex tonight!" he said casually.
"Bhaiyya!!" both Shaan and Mitul cried together, shocked.
"What?!" Akshay said defensively raising his hands in the air. "Shaan doesn't drnk ONLY when he plans to have sex---I swear---cuz Khanak doesn't allow him hear her if he does!" he addressed Mitul raising his glass in the air as Shaan looked away smiling but embarassed. "And well since Khanak is not-------"
"Bhaiya!" Mitul interrupted "I'd rather you leave the details out----" he said making a face and in turn making Shaan laugh.
"Cmon Shaan!" Akshay probed.
"Nahi bhaiyaa-----" Shaan said decisively. "You know what----I'll just go and sleep---since you're right! I AM not likely to have sex tonight----" he sighed and went up the stairs. Let everyone go to hell! he thought, suddenly in a bad mood. What a stupid party! My wife dressed up for me and I could not even compliment her, could not even walk hand in hand with her! May all the parties after today go to hell!
"Aray yay toh naraz hogaya----"Akshay joked as soon as Shaan left and indulged in his drink "To me! Becoming a father!!" he raised his glass in the air again.
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17th January 2011, 11:30 PM
Inspite of Madvi's insistence that the part end soon, it went on till late at night. Everyone had dinner (Khanak did not eat since Shaan had not eaten) and went to their respective rooms. Natasha made a big deal to yawn pointedly before taking off. Geeta hung around talking to Dadi in her room, who in a very energetic mood was telling Geeta how she had tried to deleiver her sister's baby when she was young.
The hall was in semi darkness as Khanak climed the stairs, lost in her thoughts of why Shaan had not eaten dinner and just lef the party while she was busy in the kitchen. Suudenly her sandal hit something on the stairs and she bent down to pick it up. It was a payal which she recognized to be Natasha's. She picked it up thinking she would give it to her before she retired for the night. All of a sudden she heard the sound of rushing footsteps moving in the corridor. She went towards Natasha's room and the sight that met her eyes made her gasp in horror and disbelief. Natasha was kissing Mitul close to the lips, not exactly on his lips but just below his cheek. Khanak stood there frozen for a little while but then turned in a split second and strode towards Shaan's room, banging open the door with force. But Shaan was nowhere to be seen. "Ub toh Shaantanu ko meri baat man nee hee paray gee!!" she said thoroughly angrily. "Dost yay sub! Yay sub kartay hain!!" she said loudly as she made her way to the terrace of the room.
Shaan was standing there, in the light winter drizzle, moving his hands in his hair. He saw Khanak and closed his eyes. Urghh stop dreaming already! She has gone to sleep----he said to himself.
"Shaantanu!!" Khanak said angrily. "Aap yahan hain!! Aur wahan Natasha jee aur Mitul jee-----" she started.
Shaan looked at her shocked. She wasn't a dream. She really WAS there. In that divine pink sari yelling at him. He smiled. "Huhhh?" he said dreamily.
"Shaantanu! Menay kaha wohh----wahan Natasha jee aur Mitul jee-----wohhh'wohhh-----" Khanak said through gritted teeth
"Khanak ------tum phir shuru hogaee? Wohh dono DOST hain!"Shaan said loudly.
"Dost ek doosray ko iss tarah---iss tarah---iss tarah---KISS nahi kartay!" Khanak said with awful determination making Shaan laugh.
"What?!" he said still laughing. "Khanak! Haan toh cheek par kiya hoga that's normal----" he said reasonably.
"Nahi!!" Cheek par nahi tha!---"Khanak was not going to give up that easily this time. "Yahan tha!" she pointed at the place just below her cheek and next to the lips and closed her eyes as though ridding an awful memory.
"Yahan?" Shaan pointed directly at his cheek in the middle. "That's fine!"
"Nahi!!" Khanak said frustrated "Wahan nahi! Thora neechay!" she pointed at that place just below her cheek again.
"Yahan na!" Shaan pressed his finger in the middle of his cheek again.
"Nahi Shaantanu!" Khanak whined. Urghhh WHY didn't this man understand! "Yahaannn!!!" she pressed her own cheek harder.
"Khanak this IS the cheek!!" Shaan retorted still pressing the mid portion of his cheek while Khanak pressed the lower portion besides the lips.
Khanak had had enough. She HAD to make Shaan understand. In a fit of hysteria she went on tip toe, grabbed his face with her hands, pulled it and pressed her lips to the exact same place that Natasha had pressed hers on Mitul's.
It happened in a split second. In a split second that could not even define the blinking of an eye, Shaan moved his face, grabbed Khanak's pouty lips with his own wet ones and furiously started kissing her passionately and deeply, his hands automatically pulling her forward and then travelling all across her damp body, her back and coming forward to press themselves on her chest.
Khanak kissed him back, first slowly then with a passion she never knew existed in her, responding to his advances in full measure, giving him whatever he wanted as he explored deep in her mouth, taking in all that he had missed for God knows how many forsaken months or he felt, even years! His hands moved all over her face now to hold it tight, not once breaking the bond that he had made with her. Khanak groaned repeatedly telling him that he should not even think of 'breaking the bond', of breaking the kiss, of breaking the promise that he had made with her at that instant that he would love her for life. Shaan listened to her unspoken desire as he pulled her close eliminating the distance and the cool drizzly breeze that night, his mouth glued to hers, his hands reaching the strings of her blouse, which after all he got a chance to 'untie' if not tie a few hours ago.
Shaan felt himself losing control as he pulled down one side of Khanak's blouse, then suddenly realizing what he was doing abruptly moved back, breaking the kiss with a noise and looking at Khanak straight, breathing heavily. Khanak was breathing rapidly too and was completely red but did not break eye contact with Shaan, waiting-----waiting----waiting for him to tell her that he loved her-----waiting for another bout of pleasure----
"Khanak yay theek nahi-----theek nahi hua-----main---" he finally said not looking into her eyes now but making Khanak's eyes sting as she registered the words and looked into Shaan's guilty eyes. Why the hell were his eyes guilty!! Why were they not in 'love'? Khanak needed no more explanations. Nothing else for Shaan to say. She had got her answers. This was it. Gathering her pallu together, she rushed out of the terrace----
"Khanak!" Shaan went after her and held her wrist, stopping her, but she jerked out of his reach forcefully and rushed hurriedly to her room, locking the door behind her. Shaan heard a sob at the other end. Punching the locked door with his fist frustratedly and passing his hand over his semi wet hair he swore . "Shit!"
Edited by tofeeees - 13 years ago
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