Vodka on the rocks

Part - 6

This is an alternate scene from Episode 129 where Raghav and Pallavi are in jail. I always wanted to write an alternate to this track.

"Venkateshwara! Yhi din dekhna baaki reh gaya tha mera! Aur kuch choda hain kya dekhne ko Raghav?"

Jaya exclaimed furiously, slapping her forehead with a hand. 

"Mujhe toh abh tak yakeen nhi ho raha hain ki tu aisa karegi Pallavi!"

Sharda said pinching the bridge of her nose in helpless frustration. 

"Woh kehte hain naa Vahini, bacche bhagwan ka roop hotein hain. Magar lgta hain ki sirf ye hamare bacche shaitaan ka khirak leke aaye honge."

Milind said glaring at the duo standing sheepishly behind the bars. Raghav and Pallavi looked at Jaya, Sharda and Milind with apprehension and with the embarrassed fervour of five year olds caught steeling cookies from the jar red handed while the latter trio were glaring at their kids in disappointment. 

"I always knew Raghav was an impulsive idiot but I had thought you had some degree of sense Pallavi. But looks like my useless son has started rubbing off on you a bit too much."

"Amma.."

"Shut up!"

Raghav looked aside almost pouting like a kid while Pallavi flushed a beetroot red unable to counter her mother in law's words cause in hindsight she had indeed behaved like a complete fool. But it wasn't her fault totally. 

She always seemed to lose her mind when it came to her husband. The man had a dangerously volatile effect on her which she still did not know how to counter. Seeing him behind the bars, where she felt she could reach made her almost delirious in the mad desperation to get him out of there or join him inside. 

And she had acted purely on instinct. 

Which was a pretty stupid thing to do. 

"No, Jayaji... this Pallavi always loses her mind when it comes to her family. She behaves like a self slaughtering idiot. I had thought Raghav was much more pragmatic than this. Taking someone else's blame for a capital crime and getting himself jailed before even knowing the entire truth of the matter."

"Aai..."

"Shut up!"

Now it was Pallavi's turn to pout and Raghav felt his cheekbones light up in flames hearing Sharda's frosty retort. Both their mothers looked incensed for the lack of a better word and both Raghav and Pallavi could slowly realised that maybe... just maybe they shouldn't have acted on their first impulse. They looked beseechingly at Milind hoping at least their uncle would save them from their mothers' wrath but to no avail as Milind stared back at them equally nonchalantly. 

"Don't look at me. Pallavi, don't even think of advising me of acting rationally with Sulochana after your award winning antic. And you, Mr. I-am-The-Raghav Rao, if I ever hear about your 'I-am-born-smart' comment I while break your legs. Deva, what fools for kids you have bestowed upon us."

"I swear Milind... man toh kar raha hain lagau kheench ke dono ke kaan ke niche do acche se.. phir aayegi akal theekane."

"Main toh kehta hain laga hi dijiyega Sharda ji. Aur iss Raghav ko zor se lagana.. pata nhi shayad thoda dimaag track pe aajayein.."