Teri Yaadein..Mini Update Pg 6... - Page 3

.............Part Two............

"I still can't believe that Jumbo out of all the people has saved this..{and guess what for once I sort of got a guilty pang to call him Jumbo..}"

"Haha! You know he saved it because it's a unique piece of art, no one would have had the guts to make it."

"HAAAAAAAAA! No One will ever have the guts to do the things I do, you either have to be Anvesha Banergy for that or her baby gurl. Right Tammy? You would make your momma proud hai na?" She asked her little devil knowing within her that she was already immensely proud of her infact she so would love to be known not by her name now but by the name of being her dotty's mom, just like her own mother whose greatest wealth is the identity which attaches her to Ashi. Now she exactly knew what being a mother really meant and she owed all her maternal feelings and love only to her own mother who had perhaps loved her just like bhaggu loved his children. Tammy reached for the painting and was trying to snatch it but Ashi shoved it away.

"What?"

"I don't want her seeing that"

"Whacko you never hide stuff from Taams"

"Well I would teach her hundreds and thousands of spells to harass teachers, infact if I am not wrong she already has this knack indigenously built within her. But I don't want her seeing this. I don't want her to have such a wired, wage picture of a "happy family."

"I was mad. I mean , I am still mad, but at that time I seriously didn't know what living in a real happy family meant. I just knew my family existed in one soul then and that was my mother. And I had always wanted her to be with me as I put forward my every small step in life. This painting was my retaliation, my way of telling mumma that I missed her when she was away on her shoots and it was a big joke I playe don myself and my mother's love"

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"I don't want Tammy doing this same mistake. I hope and yearn that if ever Tammy is asked to paint a "happy family" she would make a granny elly….[don't forget to make her the slimmest most elegant elly alive though Tam else your Sonuu would seriously get a heart attack}…holding a very small pink eared white furred little bunny rabbit…{awww my taaaaaam.she koochikos her dotty}…dancing away to the sound of music coming from a toota phoota besura guitar of the giantest of all black bear..{she says looking at him winking at him thinking he defiantly would give Real Mr Bhaloo tough compyy..}holding a veryyyyyyy pretty red tigeress in his arms…{and she automatically blushed to that one..} and all four of them smiling at each other beaming in the security of knowing the fact that there were three souls to share their hurt and pain and failures and to magnify their laughters and joys and achievements"

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Yuvi was choked by her new description of a happy family and he was really really proud of the bear who was holding that tigress. Aaah! He would go on holding her even if she bit or scratched him to death with her beautiful pows. But looking at her he knew that this tigeress loved the bear no matter how ugly he might look. And the best part was nothing and no one could look ugly in her halo, she so beautified everyone's' lives.

He promised himself then that he would give life to this wishful painting of hers and seeing the glow on his daughter's face, he knew that the colors where already there and as life would progress, she would automatically paint every corner of their lives with love and pride.

Yuvi wrapped his arms around her shoulders and walked them towards those same corridors where they had laid eyes upon each other for the very first time and had immediately started fighting like snakes and snails, where they had tore each other's shirts and hairs, where they had danced in each others arms, where they had skated away to Cloud 9. They were once again riding gloriously in their love station and flying away to new heights.

What a song that was. WHAT A SONG. He had written it for her eighteenth birthday and it was their first ever love song. Since then he had written and sang tons of songs in her honor… {actually invariably all his songs were meant for her alone because she was his music and lyrics, words of love and beauty made sense only when he looked at his tigress..} but still that song would always remain special and he knew that till date it was her personal favorite song. She sang it to Tammy ALWAYS, now toh even Tam knew tit bits of its words. Whenever he was trying to be angle with them she would sing…"tu haan kar chae na kar tery hai marzy kahte rahenge tujh se baaten hum dil k{..and tammy would sing phew phew phewwwww…{her version of their whistle tune} doing that famous birdy dance…Gosh he thought no one could beat him in that particular dance step but one look at his dotty doing it and he knew he was far far behind. She looked so adorable when she did that.

So they continued walking and halted their train to past memoirs outside room no. 16 of the boy's hostel. He opened the door dheere se apprehensive of perhaps not finding his two best buddies behind the door who were as much a part of him as this room. He walked in and the first thing which came as a pang was the missing CD rack which had been one of the main treasures of this room. He remembered all those dread filled nights when he had been lonely and depressed coz of his mahaan dad and the only solace then had been his beloved guitar and thoughts of a certain gurl sleeping peacefully in Room No. 15 of the gurl's hostel

Then his gaze wondered away to the walls and he was surprised to see a veryy tattered poster of Pamela Anderson still hanging there. Suddenly he started grinning like the Yuvraj Dev of yester years all that arrogance and attitude was back on and he so proudly strode away to Miss Pam and gave her good full length stare. "Aah the lady of my dreams I can see you have been waiting for me to come back to you., see am here now come in my arms baby!"…Ashi rolled her eyes and instinctively Tammy jumped off her and onto the bed which had witnessed so many dudeish broodings over chicks and hot babes and muscles and football matches and hangovers and break ups and what not….she popped up near her powyyyyy and gazed keenly at the poster, Yuvi looked at her and picked her and she looked at him and she crooned her nose in dishgust saying that the picture is "gandaaaaaa" he laughed and shook his head immensely missing sid and nakool with whom he had shared those blissful days of youth and growing up. Together they had been a bunch of selfish arrogant gits not caring one bit about others and always in their own special air of we are the kings until obviously one gurl had walked their way

He turned to her and she was looking at a white board where stillll was written in big block letters "OOOOZONEE" along with an N S Y written together as a signature but he wasn't looking at that he was looking at a very small corner of the board where he had written ABR and had made a huge cross over it. Strangely though he noticed today after so many years that the arrows of the cross had tiny hearts at the end. He shook his head hey bhaggu! Was I mad or what I mean I wanted to kill her but still I couldn't resist capturing at least her name in the boundaries of my heart. He remembered so many times she had been here in this very room and one of those times sadly had been those moments where he had really cried out of despair. He still could hear the echo of her words ringing in his ears.."main koi cheez nahi jisse jab chahe rakh lo aur jab chahe phenk do" he had felt like such a big waste that day he had hated himself to the very core for casuing so much pain to the one person who had loved him the most truly. That was the biggest defeat of his life he had lost out on the one true love which god had given him with the hope that he would take care of it and preserve it forever.

But just at that very moment she looked at him and said "tum ne toh promise kiya tha ki tum mujhe kabhi bhi whacko nahi bulaoge" He was amazed at their telepathy, she once again was thinking of that same very day. "Promises are kept by men who are gentle and neither I am gentle nor I am a man" He gave her a half happy half sad smile that once again told her how deeply sowiee he was how deeply repant and how deeply hurt to have bene the one to hurt her feelings and she smiled back at him though her smile was brilliant bringing a twinkly feeling in her eyes that told him she loved him then and there and she still loved him here and now and she was proud to belong to him. "Ahaa finally someone has accepted hes not a man may I ask what he really is?" "Hes a Heman and a powyyyy" right tammy? "noooooooo tykoooooooo " she replied and he laughed yet again thanking god for letting him out of that nightmare, he knew he wasn't a perfect man but he still wanted to keep on trying and fighting for them and he knew he was lucky to have gotten a second chance with love and life.

He took his hand in his and said…"whacko aaj bhi din ke 24 hours main se 20 hours mujhe tumhe marne aur tammy ko paari karne ka mann karta hai" ashi agin made that popat wala face…"mery bhi kuch aisy hi feelings hai".."u see I told you its so special"…"ashi blushed and said yaaaaaaaa its really special and apny life main main sirf ek bhallo ke saath ladna chahty hun aur who ho tum…I lovee you mr powyyyyyy"…tammy immediately says "not you my powyyyyyyy" possesivelyy hugging her powyy to her tiny little heart of gold

"Yuvi come with me"

"But where?"

"To my room"

"But whackooo we already have been there"

"Yaa but I forgot to do something there"

"What?"

"Come and I would show you"

She took them once again to her room where the devil is back poster still hung. Tammy instantly wooshed in joooy somehow just like her mother she felt totally at ease in that room, maybe that's why it was called "devilz paradize". Ashi made her stand on her dresser and pulled out three candles

She still remember the promise Mp, Mate and she had made at this very place in this very room and she was so proud that this was yet another promise of hers which she had adhered to. Mp and Maate till date were more than sisters to her, they were her devilz always there to appreciate and criticize her to show her the right way and to tell her that yeah she really is the bestest friend ever and they were proud of her and they believed in her. She knew those were two people who wouldn't leave her even if she did everything wrong, they were two people who would never be ashamed of her come what may.

And today she wanted to promise that same thing to her daughter that come what may she would always be there for her as a mother, as a sister, as a best friend and if she wanted as a guide too. And she knew she couldn't do this alone, she knew she needed her strength which rested on his shoulders. He took Tammy and made her hold the small candle, seeing him in the candle light she knew his shoulders would never fail her He winked at her saying "my strength is always there for you". Oh Man!! love really was magic and in the power of that magic, Ashi promised her dotty love friendship faith trust confidence and freedom to do what she wanted to do, she promised her dotty to allow her follow her heart always and to accept her just the way she was. Tammy obviously didn't understand a word but she blew at the candle with her full force and started singing "happy budday tuuu tuuuuu"…both her parents had moist eyes and both of them together said…"amen" !!

And finally at long last they came back to the one place which was home ot both of them. This place had witnessed their dreams and their struggle to make them come true, their passionate kisses and their heartbreaks, their secret tears and their wicked plans. It was their hide out form the rest of the world, the one place where they could just be themselves, leaving behind the mask of pretence and finally accepting the reality. Yes! They had come to their beloved shed which still smelled of all those moments they had shared. She still remembered the day when she had accidentally discovered it in her desperate attempt to hide Leo..{her kid brother who was her fourth pillar of life}. She remembered all those times when yuvi had blackmailed her with Leo's threat and made her do his dirty work and she also rememebred the burger she and leo had together coocked for him with a special shoe sole sald in it. She remmebred all those band practices she remembered the night before she left to meet her only in name father oh how she remembered that night the fragrance of those candles still lingered on her and she could still feel herself drifting in the most peaceful sleep in the circle of his strong arms, she still remembered him closing her eyes and all she could see or think or hear was HIM and His Voice and His Songs. That night was magical and she knew she was bewitched by his trance for life.

And then she also remembered Yamini and pata nahi kaise apne aap aansun aane lage, she had not thought of her for ages now but today being back in this shed brought all the happy times and sad times together and she didn't realize that the force of sadness had been so strong that it still hurt till date when she looked back. With Yamini coming she knew she would laso remember the day when she had returned after running away from him when Sid had told her about the bet, she had come straight to the shed for shelter and she started falling into a deeper pit of sadness.

She looked up and saw him even he was crying even his eye were full of pain and anguish and she knew she just knew it he was thinking about Addityya and her birthday he was thinking about that day when she had walked out on him. She just couldn't control anymore. She ran to him and he closed his arms around her engulfing her in a huge heart crushing hug as if trying to consume each others pain and remove each and every scar of the past from their mind and heart. He kissed her throat, he kissed her face he kissed her eyes he drank her tears and finally he kissed her lips swollowing all her cries and pain. It was a very strange kiss both of them were crying and sobbing and holding on to each other as if if they let go they would fall apart .Both of them were breathing very had and gulping in all the hurt and both of them were oblivious to the two year old kid watching them in wonderment.

But Tammy was a very sensitive and sensible child she saw her mumma and powyy like that for the very first time and she knew this was their moment and she would do a very bad thing if she intervened, she knew her parents needed this moment to themselves so she just stood their and watched possibly tryied to capture every single bit of this momenbt in her small memory so that she could remember it. She was just a little kid but she knew the power of love, her parents had taught her and shown her that since the first day she was born and she knew this was love at its purest. She gave them some two minutes time and then ran to them, both of them still were locked together in the medley of the sorrows of past and the joys of present, she tried to hug both of them in the small circle of her arms as if trying to tell them its okie its over and now even I am here with you the proof of your undying love.

Ashi broke away and bend down to sweep her dotty in a big bear hug, she was still crying and yuvi took both of them in his arms and stroked ash's hair and tammy wiped her tear striken face. She was a bit sad coz her moomy never cried. Even her moomy knew it but she cried today coz she really loved her and her powyy and she would die without them, she would not be bale to survive if something happened to either of them or if they went away from her. She wasn't such a huge emotional wreck before Tammy came, yaa this was true that her emotions always struck a high note where he was concerned but since Tammy came she had turned much more apprehensive.

She looked up at yuvi and said in a hushed trembling voice

"Remember once I had asked you dad ka hona zaroori hota hai kya? And we were talking of a happy family and even you had said it's a fairy tale a fiction…I know today yuvi that dad ka hona kitna important hota hai you are a wonderfull father the best ever that Tammy could have had. Promise me today that kabhi in future when things might go wrong between us you won't let go off Tammy, promise me you would leave me but never leave Tammy, promise me that you would walk out on me but never on Tammy, promise me that you might stop loving me one day but never ever stop loving Tammy. "

"Yuvi never let our differences effect her, she needs both of us, shes as much a part of me as you and I wouldn't have gotten her had it not been for you. Am proud really proud that you are her father and I am the mother of your daughter. But there are some regrets in my past some unfulfilled dreams of my childhood which I don't want my daughter to have.I want you to take her to school the very first day, I want you to teach her how to read and write and play the guitaar, I want you to see her when she first makes a pony tale,

I want you to tie her first shoe lace, I want you to hold her and cry with her when she experiances her first failure and tell her that failures are the stepping stones to success, I want you to be at her side and beam at her with pride when she graduates, I want you to be the man who would walk her down the alter and give her away to the love of her life and I want you to still be there in my life if not as my love or my husband then as my best friend and as my daughter's father. Just promise me that you would always be there with us because we can't exist without you…………"

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