I apologise in advance for the lack of romance wriiten within this chapter. Too many loose ends left by the CVs that I'm trying to tie up and the way I'm trying to manipulate the different scenarios means that the overly lovey dovey stuff will have to wait for now.
Hopefully soon I might be able to write a chapter devoted to GoHem but at the moment Jigar's life still needs to be sorted out.Chapter 3.
Jigar sat in his cabin staring into space. He needed to get to the bottom of what happened. At the pandal when he heard what Rashi's mother was saying he had been shocked to his core. He wished he could talk to someone about what he had found out but no one could do know anything. Too many people could be hurt, he needed to know everything himself before bringing the truth out.
Ahem walked into Jigar's cabin. "Jigar have you had a chance to look through that new construction file?" He looked up from his phone after getting no response from Jigar. Anger started building up when he saw Jigar daydreaming instead of working until he remembered Gopi's words. He walked up to Jigar, as Jigar had not yet noticed him, and put his hand on his shoulder.
"Jigar."
"Bhai! What.. How long have you been here?"
"Not long."
"Did you need me for anything?"
"I just wanted to check that you'd looked over the file I sent you yesterday."
Jigar's face dropped even further. "Ahem bhai I'm so sorry, I haven't looked at it. I was just..." Jigar couldn't look at his brother anymore and stared down at the floor.
Ordinarily this behaviour would have been enough to make Ahem lose his temper but seeing the despondency hanging around Jigar all he could think was that his little brother needed him.
"Don't worry about that Jigar. We have plenty of time to look through it." Ahem looked at Jigar. "Tell me what's wrong."
"Wrong bhai? Nothing's wrong. Woh I was just thinking and forgot about the file."
"Jigar I told you not to worry about that. But I'm not an idiot. You've been preoccupied for a while now. What you did yesterday was out of character for you. I know you Jigar, you wouldn't have put kaki through that worry unless there was something serious going through your mind. Gopi told me what you said to her. What was it that made you go to the mandir?"
Now how can I tell you what's going on bhai when I'm not even sure myself? "Ahem bhai you're right there is something bothering me but at the moment I can't tell you what it is. I need time to think and work it out on my own. I'm sorry about not concentrating on work but I promise from now on I'll focus."
"Jigar listen to me. Just forget about work for now. I am your elder brother. If there is anything troubling you then you can always to come to me. I will always help you. The whole family is there for you. You can talk to any of us, me, mom, kaka, kaki, Gopi any of us."
"I know bhai and I promise when I have it cleared in my mind I will definitely tell you."
"Acha then I need to go now. I have a meeting in half an hour with the Kapoor's, do you want to come?"
"Yes bhai, it would be good to meet them and discuss the changes."
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Gopi was pacing along the room, glancing at the door every so often. It was five o'clock the time when Ahemji would usually come back from work. Gopi was even more impatient than usual for Ahemji's arrival.
Kanhaji please make sure everything is OK and that Ahemji had a chance to talk to devarji.
The doorbell rang and Gopi rushed to answer it. Ahem and Jigar were stood there, talking and smiling. Gopi felt a smile of relief come to her face.
"Jai Shri Krishna Ahemji, Jai Shri Krishna devarji."
"Jai Shri Krishna."
"Jai Shri Krishna bhabhi"
Devarji looks better today, but he's still missing the sparkle in his eyes. Gopi looked at Ahem with a slight question in her eyes. He gave back a blank look.
"I'll go and make tea for you." Gopi was about to rush off into the kitchen, when from behind her she heard Ahemji say.
"Bring it up to the room Gopi."
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Gopi walked up the stairs to her room. Should I ask Ahemji whether he talked to devarji today? Will he like it if I ask? I don't know, maybe I should just leave it. Ahemji could get angry if I ask.
Gopi walked into the room and saw that Ahemji was in the bathroom. She put the tea on the table and was about to leave when she heard the bathroom door open.
"Where are you going?" Ahem had freshened up and changed out of his suit into his blue kurta.
"I-I was just going... your tea is on the table." Gopi stammered.
Ahem looked at her, "I spoke to Jigar, there is something bothering him. He wouldn't tell me what it was but it's definitely something big. I've told him that we are all here for him when he decided he wants to talk to someone, so Gopi if he ever wants to talk to you please make time for him."
"Ji."
"And Gopi, if Rashi tells you anything about this situation I want you to come and tell me. We need to do anything we can to help Jigar."
"Ji Ahemji." Gopi felt happiness bubbling inside her. Ahemji had decided to share what had happened between him and Jigar today without her having to ask!
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