Chapter two
This stupid girl will be the end of me... Here I just confessed what I have been trying to hide from my existence itself and she slaps me... Ok, Raj focus on driving... Manpreet Pavanya can be dealt with later... First of all I need to get her home.. Raj, stop staring at her pretty, um not so pretty, face... She is very light... Kind of easy to carry about...entire life... Concentrate!!!! It is not really your fault,it's just a side effect of Harjeet Bajwa's blood... He fell for Amba Pavanya... And his sons can't stop falling for her daughters... It's her fault... Who in the hell told her to let her veil fall that cursed holi day? Her first glimpse and I was lost forever... What is it with Amba Pavanya and her daughters that every guy is attracted to them like magnets??? Time had no effect upon Amba Pavanya's beauty and grace... I wonder if that is an inherited quality??? If she is like this fifty years later and still has the same effect on me then there is no escape!!!! Raj, do you really want to escape???? Nooo, I didn't just think that!!!! It might just be a realisation that after seeing her no girl in this world holds the attraction she holds for me... Thank God I reached home... Now I have to get her inside without anyone noticing. I'll call Rohan veerji... He is a very understanding and sweet brother. He always understood... Even when I was trying not to understand... He always supported Preet even when he thought that she killed Raman veerji. Which I suppose he doesn't believe now. Raj, you can figure out what you want to believe or what you want to do later... First of all you can't let anyone see Preet like this... Okay, here comes Rohan veerji... "veerji, I saved her... But in order to get her here I had to drug her. We need to get her into the house now without anyone noticing". Rohan checks if the way is clear and I finally tuck her into my bed. Rohan veerji smiles mischievously and I know what he is thinking about... "If I had taken her to Simmi didi's room then someone would have came" I say defensively. "not because you wanted to take care of her, ofcourse" he smiling again when he is saying this. Raj, get this over with once and for all... "you know better than anyone else in the planet that I want to take care of her." there, no more secrets between brothers... Having his support in falling in love with a Pavanya girl is far from what I thought in childhood... Somebody is coming and I cover Preet up... Rohan veerji says" Mohini aunty... "
She seems shocked to see Preet... Maybe she was in on Chander's plan to trap Preet... Why is she looking at me and my room and then back to Preet..." what happened to her? "she demands angrily... Is it just me or is she flustered..." why would you care? "Rohan veerji replies." I just thought since Amba would be coming here today she will be up and about... I don't want Pavanyas telling people we don't take care of our bahus". She looks at me meaningfully and advances towards Preet. I stop her, I can't let her see the dress.. "oh, I just wanted to check her temperature..." I'll check whatever there is to check " I reply... Mohini seems to be drawing conclusions from what I speak and it seems to be confirming her worst fears... She leaves smiling a very stressed smile and is shaking badly. I turn my attention back to Rohan veerji." Raj, I think there is a high chance of getting caught like this. You will have to change Preet's clothes." I tried to make a sound with my throat. It suddenly seemed very tight. "What, when, wh... I what?". Veerji looks like he is trying not to laugh."Well she is your wife... That give you legal permission to do so. I'll go get one of her suits from her room and then you can change her clothes" and he walks away... I can't believe I just thought Rohan veerji was an understanding brother. I can't change any girl's clothes. Especially this girl's clothes. I might get a heart attack. Even if I don't she will kill me brutally when she wakes up. Rohan veerji got the suit that I often caught myself admiring her in. I have to get out of this problem...
Nearly two hours later she started stirring... I quickly removed my hand which was playing with her hair. "you alright?" I ask her. She groans and takes my help in sitting up straight. I get her a glass of water. She seems to register the surroundings. "the signature??" "Didn't get one... It was a pretty stupid plan..." I tell her. "It would have been fine if you hadn't dragged me back here... Why am I in your room?" "um, someone would have seen us taking you to Simmi didi's room in that dress". She stretches and suddenly jumps up on the bed. "who changed my clothes????" I felt all the anger which I had bottled inside me ever since she put herself in danger coming out. "I did" I say defiantly... If I was expecting an angry reaction I was surprised. I got a murderous response. I was sitting on the bed and she lifted me up by the collar. I was as much as tall as her even when she was standing on the bed but I still found her very intimidating. It was like this in childhood also. I'll say something and she will start giving off sparks like a firecracker... I never realised her full potential then. I used to ask her often "yaara tu ladkiyon ki tarah jaldi rooth kyu jaata hai" not knowing I was hitting the nail at the time. Her anger brought me back to the present. "How dare you??? Who do you think you are???? Kis hakh se tumne mujhe haath lagaya??? Yeh baat kabhi bhoolna mat ki hamare beech mein koi rishta nahi hai... Bas ek contract hai." She pushed me and started throwing things at me."Relax, Preet mummy ji ne tumhare kapde badle.." Rohan veerji who entered the room said. "Your mummy is here... She is here to put tilak on Chander" he said looking very depressed. I remembered him coming with mummy in tow to help me out with Preet... I wondered what auntyji was going to say or should I call her mummyji now...Last time she came here I overheard her conversation with Preet. She seemed pretty clear that she didn't ever want me for a son in law. I suppose calling her mummyji will be out of question. Last time she left me so guilty that I went and made the contract to erase my guilt which now makes me feel more guilty every day. And I am not the type of damaad a saas would shower affection and say please take care of my daughter. Amba Pavanya will never put her hand on my head and say may you live forever. Most probably please let him die soon or something along the lines of sada dukhi raho. May you suffer more than what you made my daughter suffer. Looking at my personal firecracker who was glaring at me I thought to myself "beti akeli kam padrahi thi ki maa bhi aagayi... Raj beta tu toh gaya"
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