TERI MERI YAARI

~3~ The Dal and Khichdi massacre

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NANDINI'S POV:

I was woken up by a slight knock on the door of my bedroom, which I would've loved to ignore as my sleep was much more precious than anything else, but decided to do against it. After all, family is the most important. I sat on the bed trying to gain my consciousness and come out of my deep slumber because I am as good of a listener as a wall is, while I am still sleepy. I rubbed my face to drive the sleepy trance away from me and finally got up to open the door to check who it was.

It was Dadi and she was here to call me for dinner. As soon as I heard the word dinner, my eye balls nearly squeezed out of their sockets because it felt like I had just 15 mins of sleep but I have been sleeping throughout the evening. Kabir was right, I do sleep like a panda sometimes, completely unaware of my surroundings. Dadi patted my head and planted a kiss on my forehead and asked me to be downstairs ASAP and I told her that I would be there. I went inside the bathroom to rinse my face with some cold water to feel a bit fresh and came out from there while dabbing my face with a towel to dry my face and that is when I heard my phone's screen lighting up with a ping. I went towards the bed to check who it was and a small smile cracked up on my face when I saw who it was.

KABIR SHARMA. My one and only crackhead best friend.

BEFKOOF🖤🥺🥺:

Uth jaa. Itna matt soo ki zinda hai ya laash iska difference pata na lage.

(wake up. Don't sleep too much or else it'll be difficult to realize if you're a living human or a corpse.)

ME:

Tere saath ghoomti hu din bhar. Isse bura zinda laash naam se jaane jaana nahi hosakta. Tu toh jeete jaagte insaan ke andar ki jeene ki iccha khatam kardeta hai.

(I legit roam with you all day. Being known as a corpse wouldn't be that bad. You have the ability to nullify the wish of living in a healthy and happy human.)

BEFKOOF🥺🥺🖤:
Nice way to tell that I almost take your breath away with my charm ;)

ME:
Shitt yaar kabir so damn cheesy. EWW.

BEFKOOF🥺🥺🖤:
Let's meet tonight.

ME:
👍

I slightly shook my head at his silliness with a smile at my face and threw my phone on the bed to go down and have dinner. I might show him that I hate it when he uses those cheesy sentences on me but deep down I do like it a little bit. A little bit. Not a lot.
That's because he speaks like that only with me. I've never seen him use those lines on any other girl in our school and he openly says it that he's comfortable doing those jokes only with me. It somehow makes me feel special. I am the only one with whom he can do and speak a certain things with.

I quickly went down the stairs to have dinner with everyone on the dining table, and as usual everyone was present there. Maa, dad, dadu and dadi as well. Out of habit I went towards dad and kissed on his forehead to which he responded with a peck on my cheek. Maa whined saying I didn't love her so I giggled and kissed her on her forehead as well. Soon I settled down on my usual seat and looked at what we were going to have for dinner.

It was roti with paneer curry, my absolute favorite. I thanked dadi for the dinner because whenever there was paneer for food, It was dadi's cooking. It's just her thing. You can call her the paneer lady of india. Everything she made with paneer was absolutely awesome. We all started eating our dinner, and that was when I observed dad was having khichdi and not paneer. I frowned looking at his plate and asked him why he was eating khichdi (porridge) and not paneer.

SATHYA: I am not feeling well baby. Don't worry nothing serious. It's just the normal tiredness and a slight fever. Your maa won't let me eat anything heavy until I am completely normal. I have to bear with the khichdi for a few more days now.

LYKA: be happy you have a caring and observant wife like me. You just don't appreciate things I do.

We all could see drops of sweat on dad's forehead. He hates it when maa is angry or upset and tries his best to avoid upsetting maa.

SATHYA: Hey nugget, I never said I don't like what you do for me. I was just joking! you are the best wife in this entire world! Please just don't be upset with me.

Maa started giggling after looking at his panicked face and we all started laughing as well. It was pretty evident that maa was only joking but it is what it is. Dad apologizes for the tiniest of his mistakes. A TOTAL GREEN FLAG!

NANDINI: but dad, you still have to take care of yourself. Or else I swear I'll skip school and go to your office to take care of you.

SATHYA: no baby, you're never skipping school. I will take good care of myself I promise.

He uttered in a strict tone because he has always been very serious about my studies. He wants me to focus on my life and follow my passion so that I don't regret later and I totally get his point. I nodded at him and we all continued to have our dinner while talking about random things and laughing.

I finished my dinner and returned to my room. Kabir was going to come at midnight so I had a lot of time still left. I decided to do some sketching as I loved doing it. It frees my mind from all the stress and distractions and helps me in focusing my mind on a single thing. It's as if I was releasing all my thoughts and feelings on a paper, but differently as compared to writing. I was completely lost into sketching and lost the track of time.

After I was satisfied with my sketch, I picked up my phone to check the time and it was 11:30 already. I quickly got up from my seat to arrange all the snacks because what was the point in watching a movie at night with no snacks? I got some chips, cookies and cold drinks and pop corn of course. I put all of them into different bowls and arranged them on the bed table and placed the table on the center of the bed. It was all done and at that very moment my phone pinged with a message.

BEFKOOF🥺🥺🖤:
Khidki khuli rakh. 10 min mei aaya.

(keep the window open. I am coming in 10 mins.)