Book III - Baby, I Love You (Part Two - Ongoing)

Part 10

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"She loved him and he loved her but it wasn't that simple." 

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"I am going to marry her as soon as possible... as she is pregnant... with my child" 

"She is what...?" Madhu asked horrified as the spoon slipped out of her hold and fell on the plate making a harsh clunk sound. 

"Pregnant" Inayat whispered. Wow! Veer and Arjun... Both the brothers are gonna become fathers at the same time. Well, that's unexpected.

Madhu stood up almost knocking down her chair off and reached across the table to grab her son by his shirt and started hitting him. "How many fucking times have I told you not to do anything stupid and here you have come doing the exact fucking stupid thing!" Madhu slapped Arjun on both his cheeks. "How could you do this, Arjun? How could you be so stupid?"

"Ammi, Ammi, please..." Inayat tried to hold her back but Madhu kept hitting him and he stood rooted to his place with his head bowed. 

God! Why this happened to me? Why did Kathy forget to take her pills? 

If she had stopped her pills she could have told me, right? I would have used condoms but fuck, she didn't! 

Ugh! Just one time we went careless and she somehow managed to get pregnant! Fuck! How unlucky are we? 

"I kept telling you to stay in your limits! I even warned you explicitly 'Do not fuck her' and you even promised me! Didn't you?" she shook him by grabbing his shirt in her fists. 

"Mom, this happened before..." 

"Shut up! Don't give me any excuses now! You knocked her up, you manner-less asshole! Is this how we raised you?" Madhu shouted and in her heightened anger, she picked an orange from the fruit basket and threw at him but he dodged it. Inayat gaped at Madhu in utter shock. She had never seen her mom-in-law use swear words before, at least not these many. "Ahh! Now what are we going to do? What will tell her parents? Her grand-father... That old man trusted you with her... he believed you would take good care of her but you... Fuck!" Madhu held her head as it started spinning. "Oh God! That poor girl! She is pregnant at 20? She is too young to be a mother... How will she raise a baby..."

"Mom, she is not alone in this. I'm with her. We are with her, right?" Arjun asked hopefully as he looked at his family members. Dadi, Naira and Inayat nodded their heads assuring him. Madhu glared at him, murderously. Rishab sat there, speechless. He didn't know whether to get mad at his son for being so careless or pity him for his misfortune. 

"Now why are you sitting like a statue, Rishab? Don't you have anything to say?" Madhu had redirected her wrath on her husband now. "Come on! Try and defend your son's shameful act!"

"Madhu, first cool down." Rishab calmly said. 

"Don't tell me to cool down! It's all because of you!" Madhu accused him. 

"What did I do?" he asked, offended. 

"You didn't listen to me when I told you that girl was bad news! You only encouraged their relationship and ruined my son's life!" Madhu said in her anger but immediately wished to take those words back as she couldn't see the pain in her husband's eyes. 

"Mom, please..."

"You shut up and get lost! I don't want to see your face!" Madhu ordered her son.