Afar for my Love's happiness

Part 7

Rishabh and Madhu were now sitting in the waiting

room. Both of them didnt know how to break that

silence. Finally Rishabh decided that it was his turn.

He turned to Madhu and said... "So what will u eat

Malik."

"eat..."

"yes humans need to eat you know..."

Madhu chuckled hearing him. "Dont you want to eat at

home..."

"I am..." Rishabh said looking into her eyes as he

wanted to say 'I am Home' but stopped in between.

Madhu looked at him confused. While Rishabh just

smiled at her "Nothing..."

Rishabh went to bring food. Both of them got some time

to let the new developments sink in.

Rishabh returned with food and they both sat on the bed

facing each other and ate their food.

"So srishti is your niece..."

"Yeah i did tell you right..." Madhu looked at him with

an inquiring face.

"Yeah you did... but at first I thought she is your

daughter..." Rishabh smiled at her naughtily.

Madhu looked at him shocked and then laughed... "It

didnt occur to me at all it could have looked like

that..."

Rishabh smiled at her... "yeah for that matter you look

old, i was thinking that still you were quite late..."

Madhu looked at him scandalized. "Thats not funny

RK.."

"I wasnt even joking..." Rishabh said trying to maintain

a straight face.

Madhu threw an empty glass at him, and frowned at

him. While Rishabh burst out laughing.

"well seriously Malik... why didnt you marry..?"

"I was waiting for you..." Madhu winked at him

reminding him the same that he had said to her when

she asked the same question. Rishabh broke into a

smile and nodded his head at her silliness.

"Well on a serious note... You know na Kundru... Aajkal

achhe ladke hain hi kahan... They just take things for

granted. Specially after all this... you see.. guys cant

understand a simple thing that I want to support my

family. Specially after what happened with Riya I

realised that trusting someone who comes along and

behaves decently for a couple of months... its really

easy for them u know... TRUST... Is something

bigger..." She said thoughtfully...

Rishabh felt the depth of what she said and nodded his