REALIZATION - AN ISHRA SS COMPLETE LAST PART PG 20 - Page 14

Raman smiled fondly looking at the screensaver of his macbook. His daughter and his Ishita.

HIS ISHITA. Only his. Now that he looked back, he wondered was it that simple ... he had been fighting with the ghost of his inner demons for so long and Ishita ... she made it sound so easy and simple. Three words and everything changed.

"Sirf Hamare Liye."

These words resonated in his ears time and again.

As soon as he had heard those words, he was immediately beside her and asked her to repeat so as to make sure he had heard it right.

"Kya kaha ?"

"Mujhe aapse hamare baare me baat karni hai. "

"Sirf hamare baare me?"

"Haan ... Sirf Hamare baare me!!"

Raman kept looking at her for a while. Then adorning a naughty dimpled smirk, he closed the distance between them and huskily whispered,

"Sirf sirf hamare liye?"

Ishita who had been very confident till that movement, saw her bravado bidding adieu to her with his simple gesture. She immediately closed her eyes and started rubbing her arms in order to control the sudden out surge of goose bumps.

She was sure he could hear her heartbeats for her heart was in one of its own mood to do to a marathon. Damn him for affecting her so much.

"Ishita!!!"

His voice broke her trance and she looked at him,

"Hmmm ..."

"Sirf hamare liye?

There was something in his eyes, an expression which made her think ... while he was surely being his naughty self, her Ravan Kumar, someone she knew in and out and was pretty much at ease by now, yet there was something else in his eyes, something like ... yearning ... desire ... which made bravado make a sudden turn around and she yet again recalled that she wanted to do this ... she wanted to confide her feelings to him.

With a new found confidence, she said,

"Nahi"

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"Sirf sirf sirf sirf sirf sirf sirf sirf sirf sirf sirf SIRF hamare liye."

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It took all his self control of Raman to not engulf his wife in his embrace. He almost wanted to laugh her at her sentence. So ironical yet so true ... from Sirf Ruhi ke Liye to Sirf Hamare Liye ... it sounded good. He could live with it. So, he decided to play along and encourage his wife now that she finally was ready to confess.

"Acha. To bolo na. What do you wanna say? Mai to kabse intezaar kar raha hoon sunne ke liye."

"Raman ... "

"Hmmm .."

"Raman vo mujhe aapse ... Vo mujhe kehna tha ... mai aapse kehna chahthi thi ... "

"Bolo Ishita ... Kya kehna chahti ho ? "

"Raman !!!! Aapko pata to hai sab ... fir kyu... please samajh jao na "

"Kya pata hai? Kya samajhta hoon? Itna to bol hi dia hai .. to baaki bhi bol do na ... itna socho mat ... Bolo na ..."

"Please ..."

That was it. There was something in the way he said it that melted the last bit of her apprehension. She sighed, looked straight into his eyes and spoke up,

"Aaj se 10 mahine pehle ek din subah subah Amma ne mera horoscope pada aur bola ki aaj meri life me koi aayega jo meri zindagi khusiyon se bhar dega, meri zindagi me pyaar lekar aayega."

"Maine Amma ke us prediction ka mazaak banaya tha lekin jab usi din sham ko mujhe Ruhi mili, to mujhe laga shayad unhone sachi hi kaha tha. Usse dekhte hi mujhe aisa laga tha jaise usse mera ek alag hi rishta hai."

"Lekin tab bhi meri samajh me poori tarah se nahi aaya tha, par ab; ab sab kuch clear hai. Ekdam clear!!!."

"Ruhi mere liye sach me special hai. Usne na keval mujhe maa hi nahi banaya, meri zindagi me khushiyaan lakar di, balki meri zindagi ko ek khoobsurat mod bhi dia, ek alag hi direction di, mujhe aapse milwaya, ek patni banaya ... Aapki Ishita banaya."

With her downcast eyes; the crimson on her cheeks a giveaway of her blush, and her constant fidgeting with her pallu a constant reminder of her nervousness, she spoke,

"Raman mujhe pata hi nahi chala ki kab mai sirf Ruhi ki maan se aapki beewi ban gayi, aapki Ishita, jo ab is zindagi ka har ek pal sirf aapke saath bitana chahti hai, aapke saath, aapki patni bankar."

"I just ... I have fallen for my Ravan Kumar ... aur mujhe nahi pata ki it makes any sense to you or not, but I had to tell you about it ... I just ..."

"Shhh ..."

Raman closed the miniscule distance between them and embraced her in his arms. Hands on her waist, his forehead touching hers, he finally gathered his erratic breathing and spoke while cheekily giving a dimpled smile,

"Galat nahi kehta hoon mai. Lecture queen hi ho tum. Kitne dino se tayaari kar rahi ho is lecture ki? Itna bada upansyaas suna dia. Fir bhi asal baat fir bhi nahi bol paayi. "

Judging his wife's confused look, he tightened his grip on her waist which made her gasp and forced her to open her eyes, he finally spoke ...

"I love you too!!!!"

If it was possible, Ishita went redder at his confession and his simplicity. She had been struggling to find out words to confide her feelings with him and he had simply confessed in the simplest words possible, yet it made everything so simple and so beautiful.

She did the only thing she felt was apt given the situation. She buried her face deep in his chest while blushing and he smiled and engulfed into a bear hug.

Both of them stood like that for a while before the awkwardness of the new found feelings took over and both of them struggled with these new sensations. Raman decided to play safe so he immediately shifted his stance.

"Oye Madrasan. Maana ki I accepted that I love you lekin iska matlab hargiz nahi hai ki tum meri kamar tod dogi. Mere I love you bolne se tum halki nahi ho gayi ho."

Ishita immediately pouted and moved away from him.

"Khadoos Kumar."

"Duniya me ek aap hi ho jo itni badi baat ke baad bhi beewi ka mazaak bana sakte ho. Ravan Kumar."

Raman smiled and innocently added,

"Acha, to fir kya karte hai normal husband jab unki beewi unhe apne dil ke baat batati hai?"

He yet again pulled her into his arms evidently locking her between them and whispered,

"Bolo Ishita. Kya karna chahiye mujhe?"

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"Raman ... !!!!"

It took Raman all his self control to not kiss her right then and there. Much to her disappointment, he reluctantly broke the embrace and moved towards his desk and picked up the receiver of his desk phone, his eyes all this while on his blushing wife who was by now confused at his sudden movement.

"Please cancel all my appointments for the evening. Kuch urgent ho to please send them to Mihir."

"Aur haan ... agar koi pooche to keh dena ki Raman Bhalla apni life ki most important deal seal karne ja raha hai."

"Chalein"

"Huh ..."

"Deal seal karni hai mujhe. Aur aaj apni Jhansi ki Rani ki galatfehmi door karni hai ki uska Ravan Khadoos aur Budha hai."

He concluded.

THE END