Deal To Love

The Rooftop.

Third person perspective.

"Dumbo! Basant Bhaiya meant that he and Monica are going to become parents. Monica is pregnant." she beat him with frustration.

"What!" He jumped at disbelief. "Keh do ki yeh jhooth hain..."He palmed his forehead dramatically.

"Haye Ram What now?" I asked him.
But no longer he started to cry.
"Rai.... all this time I underestimated Basant. Eww.. I thought he will adopt a child but he will not touch a woman. He will live a life without romance... but I was wrong he did that to her" He explained to her.

"This illogical topic. Everyone has a right to love both physically and mentally... Sometimes I wonder who will bear you as a wife after I will go.." She paused for a while.

"Let's sleep..." Rai diverted the topic.

"Rai? Time flies so fast. We are going to complete one month of our marriage... Soon the day will come you will be freed from me. Wrong they said you never....." he paused to complete the sentence instead he gulped his lump and turned off the lights.

"Good night Keshav... See you tomorrow at Office." She wished him before leaving his room.

Rai turned the lights off in her room. Instead she put on her glasses and turned the table lamp. She adjusted herself on the chair and opened her diary where she used to write shayaris and poems to profess her feelings.

After she was done, she fetched the locket where she kept her parents' photo. "Mumma-Papa... Is it true that I'm the only one who wouldn't got any happiness...?" she asked herself in the mirror.

"Am I the only one who will not able to love once again?" Keshav asked himself silently.

"Why? Only me?" Both questioned the same question to themselves respectively.

The silent tears fell down from their eyes without their consent. Both of them were craving for the love they deserve from each other.
One who couldn't confess her feelings because of her fear to loose the bond while the other was confused and denying the feelings he grew for her without his knowledge.

“What I'm doing for her is just to get the Revenge...it's just an act Rai... I must not fall for anyone. Once the trust breaks it never joins instead it injures the rest part.” Keshav convinced himself.

It's true that her closeness with him made him to feel for her. It's just that he always denies and named those feelings obsession with her friendship.
He often get lost in her eyes. But he convinced himself that those eyes are the first one which proves the lies and hopes that are drawn for gaining attention.

Keshav closed his eyes to sleep. But indeed he got lost in his past.

Flashback

“Keshav?” a girl came upstairs at rooftop where he was standing.

“Chahat?” Keshav hugged the girl.
“Keshav you okay?” she asked.

“After two days I'm moving to India... there I will get busy... I will miss you Chahat..” Keshav wiped his tears.

“Hmmm... I see... Well take this... I hope you will like it.” Placing the envelope in his palms she ran away.

Keshav quickly opened the envelope and and found an invitation inside it.

Miss Chahat Deshmukh has organised a party for her beloved boyfriend Mr Keshav Singhania . All her friends are cordially invited to the Nigeria Hotel for the party on 17/12/2021 at 6:00 p.m.
Hope all will attend and enjoy the party with full enthusiasm.

Keshav blushed reading the card. He too rushed downstairs. “Chahat...Chahat...” He kept calling her names but she didn't responded.

“Keshav what happened? Are you okay.”

He slowly opened his eyes. His vision was blurred but though he felt familiar.

Keshav’s Pov

Shrugging all the thoughts I closed my eyes but those memories kept flashing on my mind.... Everytime I wanted to erase those thoughts, I ended up bringing back those memories again and again.
I was scared of the nightmare I saw the day. But at the same time I was relieved that I have someone who cares me. And that was Rai.

“Keshav are you okay..” Her voice made me woke up from the worst dream. She saved me from the suffocation I felt in that dream.
My lips quivered a smile. It might be the heart which was concious than my brain. I was half asleep.
Though my vision was blur but I was sure it was her.  I closed my eyes and without wasting any time, my hands automatically pulled her closer to me. She too fell onto my chest.

“Keshav?” She was about to ask me but before that I hushed her.

“Hush... Rai.... Can we sleep together?”  Unconsciously I asked her without looking at her.

And Rai, she is the superwoman I guess she gave me a warm hug to comfort me. “Rai...I’m sorry...” all I could whisper to her before my body went weak in her warm friendly hug.
Being in her embrace I slept peacefully. No dreams nothing. It was a pure sleep. After many days I got a sleep with pleasure.

Next day when I woke up. I was  surprised to find Rai lying on couch.

I looked up at the air conditioner. It was -15°C. She even didn't turned the A.C. So I turned the a.c. off...
“Look at this girl...so careless” I chuckled at the sleeping beauty on my couch. She slept without quilt. I went to her and lifted her in my arms. While my palms touched her body, I realised she was burning. Her body was shivering...

I placed her on her bed, put on her sweaters over her night-shirt. I turned the heater on. I got the hot mustard  oil and rubbed it on her palms , feet, neck and forehead. I remembered when I was small, Aai use to pamper me like this whenever I suffer from cold. Though I belong to royals, nothing could be more expensive than Aai’s remedies.

I then put the icebags on her forehead after covering her body with the quilt.

I tugged the unwanted yet the beautiful strand from her face on her ear. I was happy not because I was thinking about her but I could have an opportunity to serve the good and innocent soul. But soon my smile faded when my phone beeped with a call from the bitch Chahat.

To be continued.
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