Chapter 40 She saw him walking away to the driveway and thought of what she could do to apologize to him and she walked over to the table thinking about what to do. As she sat down she spotted his lunch still on the table and she thought of something.
"Mihika, stop you Jiju. He forget his lunch." She called out to her sister who went out to the balcony and called out to Raman asking him to wait. While Mihika stopped him, Ishita did what she needed to and handed his tiffin to Mihika to rush down and give it to him.
She went over to the balcony and grinned as she grinned as his face changed expression as he took the tiffin but ignored it afterwards. Hopefully this would work, she thought to herself as she walked over to Ruhi who was put on her play rug again. She was going to bend over and pick her up as the child was opening up her arms for her when...
"Akka! Wait." She heard Mihika and looked up to find her coming to her and picking up Ruhi to hand her over.
"Jiju's orders. You are not doing anything that will tire you. I'll help you with Ruhi."
"But Mihika, I need to do something important, but only today."
"No. Not at all. You are not getting off the bed today. Jiju has mentioned nothing important today, so tell me what you want to do and I'll see if you can work."
"Mihika, you don't understand. I can't tell you!"
"Akka, either you tell me or you go to bed right now. And I'm sure even Ruhi is on my side." She pinched Ruhi cheeks earing a shriek from the child and she backed off.
"Mihika...I...it's for Raman..."
"For Jiju? Hmmm what's going on here?"
"Nothing Mihika, I need to do this, so please let me."
"But I can't, after yesterday I don't want to risk it Akka. How about you tell me what to do and I'll do it for you."
"But it's not special anymore. I want to do something for him and if you watch Ruhi for me, it's more than enough help. I'll do everything else myself. And it's not even much work. Just a few phone calls and few small things."
"Only if you will eat when I tell you and a take break when I tell you."
"Jiji ki Chamchi, fine! Now I'll give you some food to feed Ruhi. And warning it can get messy. Then I'll put her to sleep."
"That is after you eat. Then you can do whatever you want to do."
Agreeing with her sister, she sat down as she was served a giant breakfast while her daughter was placed in a baby chair and played happily with the toys hanging above her. As she ate, she thought about what should do for him.
Ever since she had woken up this morning, she couldn't stop thinking about him. She had woken up to that touch of his and his gaze on her. Though it was probably accidently, she blushed as she remembered it. He was the first man who she wanted touching her, his gentle touch on her made her feel wanted, and made her feel special. Maybe because she knew, he didn't touch every other woman, he only came near the one who's special and close to him. And that's what made him special and make her want him near her. But now he was upset and he had the right to be as she did hide things, but now she would make it up to him. He always did things to cheer her up in her and moods and now she would do the same...
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He was exhausted in just a few hours of sitting through presentations and slumped down on his rotating chair closing his eyes. Immediately the moment when he touched her this morning and he opened his eyes right away. Shaking his head as he thought about the consequences of touching her, he decided to have lunch as food always took his mind of everything. Opening up his tiffin wondering what Ishita had ordered to be prepared for him as she always tried to give him what he preferred, he found salads and soup in front of him. At the bottom, he found a small slip of paper. Opening it up to her handwriting...
Light lunch for my light hubby, eat well like you make me every day. And please come home early today...dinner together? I'm waiting for you. -Ishita
"Light hubby?! Again?! I'm just fit not thin! Man, not fair, soups and salads! Where the good food?!" he tapped his desk wondering what to do now and pulled out his phone opening up his message to her name...
"Did you just ask me out?"
"No, I asked you to come home. So..."
"I will...but why?"
"Just cause."
"Okay then."
"Raman, you busy?"
"No why?"
"Call me."
He did as she said and she picked up on the first ring...
"Hello Mrs. Light RKB."
"So you read the note?"
"Yes and I'm offended."
"Sorry, so how are you?"
"Fine, what's going on? First the note and now all this."
"Raman...are you okay? I mean I've been wanting to talk since this morning." He thought he knew what was coming up and tried to hang up...
"I'm fine...listen I have to go now. Kinda busy. I'll call you when I leave." And hung up the phone right away making her sure he was still upset.
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He spent his day distracting himself with his work as he worried about how he would face her at home, though he wanted to spend time with her and enjoy. But every now and then his mind continuous went back to the morning incident and he scolded himself for not having any control and doing all this. He didn't know whether he wanted to go home and face her.
She other the other hand couldn't wait for him to come back. For the first time she was trying to do something for him instead of the other way around. Nowadays he was all she needed to be happy. She always the perfect fairytale life, but got a reality check when Subbu left, but now she got hopes from him, she started to expect more him from, she just wanted to live a happy normal life with him and their children. And she wanted to do everything possible to get that...
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He walked in to a surprisingly quiet house today and wondered if she had fallen asleep. He checked his watch and saw it was too early for everyone to be asleep and wondered why it was so quiet. Suddenly some worry came into his mind as he remembered what happened yesterday. He rushed into the room flinging the door open to her sitting on the bed stretching out reading a novel. She sighed in relief as she looked up at him...
"You're home!" she walked over and gave him a side hug as he entered and he wondered if everything was okay as she was behaving like this even after this morning.
"I think so. If this is my house." He joked.
"Raman..."
"It's pretty quiet for our house."
"Because Ruhi and Mihiku are gone down to the park."
"Is that safe?"
"Of course. I trust my sister completely."
"I do to, I meant safe for Mihika. You know our choti don and her anger on Mihika."
She laughed as he looked around the room with flowers kept around and their fragrance running in the whole room. She took his laptop bag from him and asked him to sit while he looked confused at what was happening. She brought him a bouquet of flowers and a card. He looked at her confused further at what was happening...
"What is all this for?"
"For you. I wanted to make it up to you."
"What do you mean?" he got up and asked.
"Raman...I'll get to the point..."
"Ishita..." he was worried about what would happen next when she yelled out.
"I'm sorry!" He didn't understand what she said and continued to blabber...
"I know you are, and you should be because I...wait! Sorry? Why?!" he looked over at the card she had handed him and it had sorry written in huge letters.
"Because you're still upset about last night and me hiding everything. I did all this to say sorry." She pouted sadly.
"I thought you were upset about this morning, so I've been avoiding you all day! And you..." he gently tapped her head as he continued... "Pagal, why would I be mad at you. I told you last night I was fine with it after I heard you talk about what you went through."
"And why did you think I would be mad for this morning? It was an accident...right?"
He could deny the whole thing and she would never know! It would all fine...But wouldn't that shatter her trust further? He had already crossed his limits and lying on top of that would just hurt her further if she ever found out. So...
"No...I...I don't know what happened...I shouldn't have touched you...I'm...sorry."
"Raman...that's why you avoided me?"
"I broke that trust you put on me. But I promise you I'll back off from now. I won't come near you and-"
It was enough for her, he was thinking of backing away from her and staying away if she was not okay with and she needed to tell him she didn't want him away, she wanted him near her and with her.
"Can I tell you something? I...I like it when you touch me, you make me feel so wanted, not like an object, but like a beautiful person...because when you touch me, there's a gentleness and feelings to it. It's just another reason I feel lucky to have you."
"Does that mean...you didn't mind...this morning?"
She had thought so much about getting close to someone last time, but it got her pregnant and left alone. Today she didn't want to think, after all what did they have to lose? They had gotten into this marriage for their children and now they both knew it was more than that. And today she needed to take that leap of faith. Worst case scenario would be he wouldn't share the same feelings she did and they would continue living as the parents of their children. Maybe it could get worse, but she didn't want to think of that.
And so she took that chance as she saw something flicker in his eyes as and it gave her hope that they had a chance as that "us" she had talked about, as that family he had talked about and as that couple they both dreamt of but never mentioned. And seeing him today, she knew he was too shy or too scared of hurting her and she would need to take a step so he would follow and take another step. So...
She came closer to him as he stood waiting for his answer. A sudden hope and desire came forth in him and that's what she had seen as well. Maybe she did like having him around and touching her. His happiness wouldn't have any boundaries if it was true. He always wanted the "us" she talked about to be there and he wanted his perfect small family. And as she came closer his hopes grew.
She kept hardly any distance between him and cupped his face gently. He went along with whatever she was doing. Bringing his face closer to hers, she stood on her toes and he grabbed her waist as she leaned over. She placed her lips on his jawline and gently kissed him. Letting her lips linger on his face, she leaned on him as he brought one hand up to her hair and kept the other on her waist. As she parted after a few seconds, she buried herself in his chest too shy about what she had done. She had initiated any physical proximity for the first time. And all she could do was whisper...
"Did you get your answer?"
"I did..."
To Be Continued...
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That's all for now! Hope you all liked my attempt at some IshRa moments and will leave your feedback! I would really like to hear what you all have to say on my attempt at any romance since romance isn't my thing and I have no clue on how to go about on it.
{Note: Ruhi's nickname Choti Don credit goes to Isha, don't want copyright issues😆}
Edited by smilesforever98 - 10 years ago
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