Chapter 42A Mihika walked in minutes after the couple had dozed off inside with a tired Ruhi who rested on her shoulder. And Mihika was not less than her. She should have listened to Raman and come up with Ruhi. The child hated her and there was no other way to put it. She cried and shrieked when she held her and would so long to calm down only after bring bribed with a toy or some milk. She even had to take off her earrings as Ruhi tried to grab them, ended up tying back her hair just in case but still got her bindi taken off by her niece who was either way too curious or full of hate for her. And not to forgot her ears that still had her cries ringing at the back of her head.
But she was okay with it, she chose to stay down because her Akka was excited about spending time with her Jiju alone, and she wanted them to get their alone time. It seemed like there was something more than mere friendship between them and she hoped it would only be for the better for both of them. She had noticed when they talked about each other, a smile and happiness reflected on their faces if they talked about the other's happiness and their faces would go dull and they looked upset if the talked about the other's sadness or worries. There was something special between them, maybe she would think she was getting her hopes up too high, but somewhere down the line she thought love was a possibility. Just maybe they were starting to fall in love. She really hoped overtime they would take this relationship further and get a chance to be loved that the y both deserved. She didn't know about what Raman had been through, but what little she knew, it was sure that he needed someone to love him.
Ruhi pulling her chain brought her out of her thoughts and she looked at the child who for once stayed peacefully in her arms due to her tiredness. Tired of handling Ruhi all day, she looked around and found her sister's shawl on the couch and dishes in the sink and knew they might have gone to bed considering the silence in the house. She quietly walked over to their bedroom and knocked on the door gently. Not getting a response she whispered their names and as she got silence in return, she quietly opened the door to find them asleep cuddling each other. She looked at them for a moment as they were fast asleep embraced in each other's arms.
She immediately closed the door looking away as Raman stirred in his sleep. She never thought she would walk in to see them together hugging. She thought back to what she was thinking about before. Was it possible their relationship had gone further than just parents for their kids and friendship? But this far...was it possible her sister was moving on so fast from the man she said was the love of her life? If she was, then Mihika was one happy woman today. This man Raman Bhalla had managed to give her sister so much that she was coming close to another man so quickly. She trusted him so much and so blindly after her previous meant there was something about him or something he did that made her come close to him in mere weeks. He cared for her and her baby more than the child's own father did, and tried to give any happiness he could. He was a great father and a wonderful husband from whatever she saw of him minus his occasional anger. So was her sister really getting the second chance she had thought of moments ago?
Her thought chain was broken by Ruhi who started to whimper as she saw her parents and was reaching out to them when Mihika came out of the room. Being taken away from her parents in her sleepy state, she started to cry loudly. Mihika tried to shush her while trying to pull out a milk bottle from her bag.
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A loud noise of something falling woke them up with a start. As they both lazily got up and out of each other's embrace, they heard Ruhi's loud cries. Startled by the sudden cries, they ran outside to find Mihika struggling to calm down Ruhi who only wanted her parents. Ishita rushed over and took Ruhi in her arms while Raman tried to quieten her by talking to her.
Mihika looked the trio in front of her as her mind went back to Ishita's defensive nature when it came to Raman, his concern for her, and their mutual love for their children and want for the other's presence and happiness and finally as she thought of what she had witness minutes back, a smile found its way on her face. The smile was short lived as Raman brought her back to the current situation asking her for Ruhi's milk bottle. Handing him the bottle, she watched the parents in them come forth and Ishita rocked Ruhi and he brought the infant's attention to the milk. As Ruhi quietened down and settled herself in the crook of her mother's neck, Raman caressed her head and gave her the milk bottle which Ishita held for her. They asked Mihika to eat and go to bed as she would be tired after dealing with Ruhi all day. Bidding them good night, they all headed to their respective rooms.
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"Raman, why are you up? Go to sleep, I'm with Ruhi." She asked him for the third time as she feed Ruhi who was almost sleep on her lap.
"How can I? My daughter is not sleeping yet, so I won't either." He sat next to them patting Ruhi's head.
"Ziddi family!"
"You're also a member of this family! In fact you're our leader."
"Raman, don't divert the topic! Go to bed!"
"Relax, I'm fine."
"For now. Tomorrow you will be asleep when you meet those American clients."
"How-"
"I know who you meet and when..."
"And this is why you shouldn't let your wife become your secretary." He laid back on the bed as he saw Ruhi had closed her eyes.
"Raman!"
"Shhh. I'm just joking. But at least my pakku jokes made her sleep." He pointed to their sleeping daughter. Tapping the sleeping child's nose, they laughed as she wrinkled and rubbed her nose in her sleep. They got up to put her into the crib. She placed her in the crib and took out a giant teddy while he tucked her in with a blanket. Placing a kiss on her forehead, he said...
"She sleeps so peacefully and creates ruckus when she's awake." And got a smile from her in return.
As they finally went back to bed, they turned and faced each other...
"Finally both babies are sleeping and we can sleep." He exclaimed.
"Are you sure they are? Ru is sleeping, how do you this one is?" she caressed her stomach.
"What else does she do in your stomach all day?"
"I don't know. Why don't you ask...and wait she again?"
"Yes she, it's going to be a girl. I know it."
"No it's not. It's going to be a boy. And then we will have the complete family."
"My idea of complete family means me, you, Ru, and our smaller princess."
He slid down a bit and whispered near her stomach...
"Your mom is being so silly. She's call you a boy, so come soon and show her you're my baby princess."
"Your Papa is the silly one. He can't tell the difference between a boy or a girl. Actually it's not his fault, you're with me all the time so I know you're a boy. Papa is right, come soon so he will know the truth." She said holding her stomach.
"Sachi! I am getting so impatient! I also want to her to come soon! I'm already imagining what it's going to be like to hold her and be able to play with her like I can with Ruhi...except I don't want our baby to go through anything Ruhi went through...I want everything to be fine this time."
"It will Raman. I promised you I will take full care and you are also there with me."
"I know it will! And that means we will be able to her home the next day right?"
"Of course!"
"Oh my God!" he sat up on the bed and she followed.
"What?"
"That means we have...I think only 7 months left to prepare! Ishita...you know I just realized we have nothing for her!"
"Raman..."
"Seriously! There is no crib for her and we can't use Ruhi's since she's also small. And toys, clothes, and all the other things. We need all that! And the biggest problem I don't even know if our room has space for all that. More toys than already, more cupboard space for clothes and a whole new crib."
"Relax, you just said 7 months. We have a bunch of time!"
"I'm telling you don't panic last moment then."
"I won't and the baby will be totally prepared for in 7 months."
"I don't know, during Ruhi's time everything was so rushed. You know there was so much happening that I forgot about everything. It was the day she came home I realized we had no clothes for her, and there wasn't even a crib for her."
"Oh my God, then what did you do?"
"Then what I had to leave Ruhi with mom and rush to the store. Lucky shopkeeper made an extra couple of thousands off me, but of course I needed it for her. And then I tried to do something about the clothes. I walked into the children's shop and looked so lost. I just picked up whatever seemed okay and of course I got giggles and stares as I asked someone for help all confused. Luckily a kind lady helped me and I managed to reach the girls section of the store or else Ruhi would have been stuck wearing clothes meant for boys!"
"Thank God she didn't."
"But she did end up with baggy clothes for a week until Ma could get some shopping done for her. I forgot to read the tags that said it was clothes for 3 month old babies. And she was anyways so small, so her shirts were larger than her!"
"Raman I seriously need to hear about all you did those 3 months when I wasn't here."
"But she looked so cute! I have pictures I'll show you tomorrow!"
"Now I need to see them!"
"Luckily this time around you're here and you will do all the shopping!"
"And we will need to go to the section with blue clothes!"
"Nope I know the pink clothes and dolls are what we need!"
"Raman-"
"I'm serious. She's going to a girl and look like you." He interrupted.
"No my son is going to look like you."
"I know what's going to happen. She's going to have those huge eyes and the long hair and her nose will for sure be like yours. But actually I'm worried if that happens."
"Why? What's wrong?"
"If both my daughters will be so pretty, then I'm going to have to do a lot of watching out for them when they grow up." He earned a smack on his arm as she proudly exclaimed...
"Don't worry. Our son will protect Ruhi."
"You don't know anything."
"I know everything. He will have your eyes and I hope he has good hair like you. And these dimples right now need to be there." She happily listened off his facial features while he had a huge smile on his face seeing her excitement...until he realized and his smiled faded.
"But Ishita, this baby won't look like me..."
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I know, short update and little IshRa, but next update will be IshRa! So until then please like this one and leave your feedback! Looking forward to it!
Edited by smilesforever98 - 10 years ago
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