GOPI CAME TO THEIR ROOM LOOKING LOST AND SAW HER AHEMJI BUSY MAKING THE SOFA BED AND INSTANTLY SAID " SOFA, WHY AHEMJI". " DUE TO YOUR COLD YOU CAN NOW SLEEP ON THE BED AND I'LL BE SLEEPING ON THIS SOFA WHICH WAS IN THE STORE ROOM" HE REPLIED. GOPI WAS DREAMY AND TAUGHT IS THIS THE SAME AHEMJI THAT THREW A PILLOW AND BLANKET TO THE FLOOR. BUT ALL THE SAME SHE WAS EXCITED BUT SAID " AHEMJI AM BETTER AND NO NEED FOR THE SOFA SO YOU SLEEP ON YOUR BED AND I'LL SLEEP ON THE FLOOR". AHEM LOOKED AT HER STUNNED AT THE STRESS ON THE WORD 'YOUR BED' AND FELT A STING IN HIS HEART BUT PUSHED IT ASIDE AND SAID " LISTEN GOPI ARE YOU DISOBEYING ME. IF YOU SLEEP ON THE FLOOR THEN YOU WILL GET COLD AND COUGHING AND SNEEZING WILL DISTURB MY SLEEP SO NO ARGUMENTS. YOU ON THE BED AND I ON THE SOFA AND THAT FINAL". SHE THEN NODES HER HEAD IN AGREEMENT AND LAY ON THE BED AND AS SOON AS HER HEAD HIT HIS PILLOW GOPI DRIFTED TO HER DREAMY WORLD AND REMEMBERED HOW MANY TIMES SHE HAS WATCHED HIM LAY THERE. HOW SHE WANTED TO CARESS HIS HAIR AND PUT HER HEAD ON HIS CHEST...
" GOPI! GOPI! CUT THROUGH HER THOUGHT AND SHE ABRUTLY LEAPED FROM THE BED AND WONDERED WHAT SHE HAS NOW DONE WRONG. AHEM WAS WATCHING HER FROM THE TIME SHE LAY AND SAW THAT SHE WAS IN HER OWN WORLD AND WISHED THAT WHATEVER IT IS HE IS A PART OF HER DREAM CAUSE ON GOD KNOWS HOW MUCH HE WANTED TO SHARE HIS BED WITH HER BUT KNOWS HE HAS TO TREAD CAREFULLY WITH HER. THEN HE SAID " WHY ARE YOU STANDING AND SHAKING, ARE YOU FEELING UNWELL AGAIN". NO SHE SAID THEN WHY ARE YOU LOST YOU KNOW YOU CAN TELL ME ANYTHING IN YOUR MIND. SHE REMAINED SILENT BUT FEARFUL AND AHEM GOT UP FROM THE SOFA AND APPROACHED HER AND TOUCHED HER FOREHEAD AND SAID YOU ARE RUNNING A SLIGHT FEVER AND WENT TO THE DRAWER AND TOOK OUT SOME TABLETS AND GAVE TO HER AND WATCHED UNTIL SHE TOOK THEM AND WENT BACK TO THE SOFA WITH A BOOK.
GOPI LAY BACK ON THE BED STIRRING ON THE CILING AND THINKING OF RAJI WHILST AHEM WONDERED HOW TO START A CONVERSATION WITH HER AND HE SAID LOOKING AT HER " GOPI HOW DID YOU MEMORISED THE GEETA?" STUNNED AT FIRST BUT SAID A USED TO GO TO MANDIR EVERYDAY WHEN RASHIBEN GOES TO SCHOOL. " SHE REPLY AND AHEM THOUGHT RASHI WHEN SHALL I HAVE A CONVERSATION WITHOUT HER RASHIBEN. IT'S ALWAYS RASHIBEN THIS,OR THAT WITH HER. HE GOT UP AND WENT OUT AND SHE NOW WONDERED WHERE HE HAS GONE OR WHAT WRONG SHE SAID BUT BEFORE HER THOUGHTS FINISHED, AHEM WALKED IN WITH A BOOK IN HAND AND LOCKED THE DOOR BEHIND HIM AND THEN SAID TO HER " WELL AM NOT SLEEPY AND THOUGHT WE CAN GO THROUGH THIS TOGETHER AS PART OF YOUR CORRESPONDENCE STUDIES BUT SINCE YOU ARE UNWELL WE WILL DO THIS ANOTHER DAY". NO AHEMJI AM FINE BUT WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.WELL SINCE YOU CAN READ,I WANT YOU TO READ THE GEETA NOT FROM MEMORY BUT BY OPENING THE PAGES. SHE STARED AT HIM WIDE EYES LOOKING FRIGHTENED BUT HE SAID AM HERE TO CORRECT YOU AND IT'S JUST THE FIRST FEW PAGES. SHE AGREED AND TOOK THE BOOK FROM HIM AND WAS ABOUT TO SIT ON THE FLOOR BUT HE STOPPED HER AND SAID SIT ON THE BED AND READ. SHE SAID THEN HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CORRECT ME. GOPI YOU WILL BE SURPRISE TO KNOW THAT I TOO MEMORISED THE BOOK AND AT SCHOOL I WON A COMPETITION READING IT SO DON'T WORRY I WILL KNOW. WHEN SHE STARTED TO STAMMER THE WORDS, AHEM COMPLAINED HE COULD NOT HEAR HER PROPERLY AND AFTER A COUPLE OF TRIALS AND AHEM FRUSTRATION GROWING, HE DECIDED TO GO AND SIT ON THE BED AND GOPI INSTANTLY RAISED HER HEAD SHOCKED AND SHYLY LOOKED DOWN BUT AHEM WAS ENJOYING THIS FEELING OF BEING CLOSE TO HER AND THE EFFECT HE HAS ON HER AMUSES HIM. HE CALMLY SAID YOU ARE RECITING VERY LOW I WAS STRAINING MYSELF AND THIS WAY I CAN SEE PROPERLY WHAT YOU ARE READING SO NOW YOU CAN START. BUT SHE FOUND IT HARD TO UTTER A WORD WITH HIM BEING SO CLOSE AND ON HIS BED WITH HER. AFTER A WHILE SHE STARTED AND AFTER FEW PAGES HE SAID SHE DID GOOD AND THAT THEY WILL DO MORE OF IT AS HE ENJOYED IT. GOPI THANKED HIM AND HE SAID " THE PLEASURE IS ALL MINE" AND BOTH STIRRED AT EACH OTHER FOR A WHILE AND THEN AHEM WAS SO DRAWN INTO HER AND SAID NOW HOW ABOUT YOU TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOURSELF AND FEEL FREE TO ASK ANYTHING ABOUT ME WHILST LEANING AGAINST THE HEAD BOARD WITH NO INTENTION OF LEAVING THE BED.
SHE SAID BUT AHEMJI I KNOW HOW YOU LIKE YOUR TEA, FOOD AND ROOM TO BE AND YOU WORK HARD AND LOVES MAAJI A LOT AND YOU HAVE SYNOSE PROBLEM AND ...SLEEPILY LAY ON HER HID OF THE BED AND BEFORE LONG BOTH WERE FAST ASLEEP ON THE SAME BED AND IT WAS MISSION ACCOMPLISHED FOR AHEM AS NOW HE DOES NOT WANT TO SEE THE SOFA IN THE ROOM OR HER ON THE FLOOR AND HOPEFULLY SOON HIS NEXT MISSION WILL HAPPEN. THAT IS EXPRESSIONS OF THE HEART.
Edited by kamjal - 13 years ago