Part 6:
The friendship
Raman is still standing astonished with the love of a son for his mother. He wondered how did that women managed to gain the love of her kid in spite of the fact that he reminded her of his father. Who had deceived her. She didn't need a bottle of whisky to get over her cheated partner. Oh what a women she is, he stood in mere astonishment. So smiling always cheerful. Helping others, spreading happiness which her life doesn't seam to have. She is bold; he was just reminded of her bold counters on the other day at the resort. She could still believe in love and supported the marriage of her sister with Mihir. Each and every moment he was engrossed thinking about her.
Oh life can also been lived with happiness. It does depend only on what you want in life. He was deeply engrossed in his thought. Ishitha was coming with Adhi to leave him in his school bus. She observes Raman sitting in a bench of the play area. She doesn't look at him and leaves with Adhi. Raman notices her and waits for Adhi to leave. Adhi leaves and Ishitha waves to him and comes back. Raman approaches Ishitha.
R: Ms Iyer good morning, I wanted to apologize to you.
Ishitha doesn't respond to him. He understands she is mad on him and tries to speak further. I need to talk to you. She is not stopping and walks back into her house leaving Raman. Raman is determined to talk to her. He convinces himself that he has to apologies to you.
He goes to his house. Mr Bhalla is very angry on him for defaming good women. He apologizes to his father and assures that he will change the situation. But Mr Bhalla is very much worried out Ishitha's reputation and informs Raman that he also apologized to Mr Iyer. He also adds that Mrs Bhalla spoke to Mrs Iyer as well. Ruhi is having breakfast and getting ready to go to school. After his conversation with Mr bhalla he notices Ruhi on the breakfast table. He goes to her
R: GM Ruhi, what are you eating
Everyone is shell shocked that Raman who never ever used to respond to Ruhi's questions has wlaked up to ruhi and spoken on his own. Ruhi really gets excited and jumps from the chair in excitement.
Ru: Papa, aloo paratha
R: Cool, do you like them?
Ru: Yes papa, very much. I love them.
R: When will you start to school ?
Ru: in 15 mins papa
R: Ok papa will go for shower and will get ready. I will leave you in school today.
Ru: yeh yeh , papa aj mujje chodege( Papa will leave me today)
Everyone in the house become delighted by R-Ru conversation and tear roll down Mrs Bhalla's eyes. She comes and hugs Raman. Raman also becomes emotional and goes to get ready. After coming he takes Ruhi and leaves her in the school. Ruhi has animated conversation all through the drive and Raman feels bad for having deprived his daughter of all this happiness for years. He observes that she has many of his traits like being a lefty and her taste buds, her choices and feels stupid to have ignored her for the mole he has which reminded him of Shagun. They reach Ruhi's school and he leaves her in the school and heads to work.
A week pass and Adhi is now playing tennis with Ishitha. Daily whenever he is trying to strike a conversation with Ishitha she royally ignores him. He feel iss Janshi ki rani ki akad bhut hai.( This JSKR has so much Ego), But he is persistent as he feels he did a mistake and also needs to get back to Adhi. On the other hand Ruhi is still spending time with Ishitha. Raman started coming home in non drunk state. People at home were very delighted by this change. However he is still not getting very close to Ruhi. But for sure there was an improvement; he was speaking to her though.
For past one week (after her divorce issue of disclosed to ppl in office) one of a guy from her office Rahul has been misbehaving with her and he has been opening asking her out to bed her. He has also been mentioning that he can be a person who can give her the physical pleasures that she can be yarning to have after her divorce. His tortures' were becoming very impossible to handle. She was frustrated and has been giving him back. But still the guy was determined and persistent to do what he wanted. This morning he had tried to get physical with her during lunch and Ishitha had slapped him in front her friends. Rahul had determined to show Ishitha his superior and has been following Ishitha home. It's evening around 6 PM. Ishitha is coming back from her office. When Ishitha parks her car and is getting out of her car Rahul barges and tries to misbehave with her. She is giving him a tough fight. Raman who is getting back home sees this and decides to trash the guy. When is comes towards them, he observes Ishitha fighting for her right so well and ends up admiring her rather than helping her. In few min Ishitha gets tired of struggling and Rahul is about to get a upper hand, Raman pitches in and bashes the guy. He calls the police as well and hands the guy over to police. Ishitha is hurt and there are scar marks on her head, hand and neck area. Raman offers to take her to the hospital, Ishitha protests. He forces her & takes her to the hospital and gets her treated. She asks him not to tell this to anyone. He assures her. Ishitha thanks him. When they are coming back from the hospital, they are in the car and Raman initiates his conversation
R: Mr Iyer, I have a request to make. May I
I: Yes mr Bhalla
R: iam sorry, whatever happened today is also because of me. I know you had maintained your Divorce information secretly. But its all because of me you had to face all this. iam really sorry for my behavior. I know my one apology cannot change anything, but I felt that was very much needed. So iam apologizing to you. What you said is correct. I need to spend time with my daughter. Please forgive me if possible.
I: Its ok Mr Bhalla, whatever happened has happened. Let's move on. No human being is bad, situations make them bad. So please don't think about all these. Iam glad that you started realizing that you need to spend time with Ruhi. She really needs your love.
R: Smiles with an astonishment of how can a person be so forgiving. You are right, let's be friends hence forth and advance his hand to give her a handshake.
She also gives him her hand and they reach their society and leave to their respective homes.
Ishitha shared that Raman saved her from one of her office guy only to Adhi. He gets very excited listening to how he bet the guy. Next morning as usual they go to play tennis. All these days when he had been ignoring Raman, he walks up to him
A: Dude, thanks a lot for saving my mom. I guess that one reason to forgive you. Shall we be friends again?
R: He was so delighted. He quickly goes and hugs Adhi. Ishitha is standing behind then. Raman gestures thanks to her and Ishitha reassures him. Adhi pulls himself out of the
A: Due looks like you fight so well. Where did u learn?
R: Laughs hilariously and says dude I was an IPS office, I learnt all this in IPS training academy.
A: runs and hugs him again and gives him rain of kisses on his cheeks and fore head. Raman looks surprised by his behavior. Are you serious were you a IPS officer. I want to be one when I grow up. I used to always tell my father that I want to become police from the time I was small and suddenly pauses seeing his mom.
Ishitha understands and quickly tells him that she has some work and leaves from there.
As Ishitha leaves, Adhi continues. I don't like to talk about my father in front of my mom. I don't know what happened he used to love me a lot. But why he left us, I don't know. Amma never told anything about that to me. She just told me that we need to learn to live without appa.
R: Don't worry Adhi, Iam not your appa. But I can be your friend and you can share anything you used to earlier with you appa. They give a high fi and Raman still wondering how similar Adhi's dreams are to him which he use to see when he was as ols as Adhi.
After that day there was no looking back. Raman was a cool friend of Ishitha and Adhi. He was better to Ruhi as well. But realizing that he is her father was way too far. Ishu as usual was loving with both the kids. Raman and Ishu used to have talks about current affairs, music Adhi, Ruhi. They were slowly bonding into great friends. In fact the society used to have monthly music concerts and one of the month Raman and Ishitha performed and created a mark in the minds of audience. And off course there were people bad mouthing about the two having affair with each other. They bitched about both of them been seen together always. This irks Mr Iyer. However Ishitha strongly confirms that she really respected Raman and her friendship with him. She is not bothered about the people who are talking as she cannot control them. And she is also sure that this will not affect their freindhip.She further adds that what the people were doing when Subbu left me for no fault of mine. Mr Iyer was spellbound by her bold answers. Though Mr Iyer was not happy initially he also realizes that his daughter is not wrong and doesn't restrict meeting Raman. He starts to accept Raman slowly as a good human being. They go out for much as a family. They take the kids out for ice-cream. Sometimes to the game station and the kids really started getting comfortable with both the non parent. Life indeed had turned 360 degrees for all four of them and they were very happy. Raman at times used to compliment Ishitha on her dresses, she used to feel good and whenever Ishitha used to listen to Raman' s interview on TV she used to acknowledge to him. There was a beautiful friendship that was budding between them. They used to respect each other, care for each other and trusted each other than anyone else. They felt complete in the presence of each other. Both the children were contented to see their parents happy after so many years.
Sorry guys I had mentioned about Subbu's court notice in the last precap. But this part became little long so planning to include that as next part. Please let me know your feedback as well weather to continue this story or not.
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