Manisha is upset by Himanshu, by his behavior, attitude and way of talking. She is trying to avoid him as much. She is not looking at or talking to him and only answers yes or no. She wakes up before him and when it's impossible to avoid him, she looks at anywhere in the room but at him and behaves normally with others. She studies in the room when he is at the office and when he comes home she either spends time with Gayatri and Sunaina or in the temple at their home. Five days pass like this. Himanshu has noticed it but he is too proud to talk first. Today is the sixth day going on like this.
Today, Himanshu is working from home because Grandma is having a headache and feeling little uneasy, so, she has told him to not go to the office.
After Breakfast, everyone is in Gayatri's room except Riya. Jaideep has gone to the office. Himanshu is sitting on the bed with her and Sunaina on the couch beside her. Manisha is standing. Gayatri instructs her to sit and there is only place beside Himanshu, so she is thinking how to avoid it. She suggests to massage Gayatri's feet and after much persuasion, Gayatri agrees.
Twenty minutes pass likes this. Manisha is thoroughly messaging and pressing Gayatri's feet with her soft hands. Gayatri is praising her as she is getting relaxed. Sunaina is in awe of her DIL. Himanshu is also fighting with the thought as how well Manisha has mingled with his family, how she cares for them as their own, how she puts other's comfort before her own, how much she respects his family and tries to contribute to their life. He wants to voice these thoughts out but his ego is stopping him. He is too proud to acknowledge her efforts.
Doorbell rings.
Their house help informs them that Himanshu's distant aunt has come to visit them with their son. Hearing this, Himanshu leaves the room at once. Sunaina asks Manisha to come with her to welcome the guests.
Their aunt has brought sweets for them after hearing about Himanshu's wedding, as theirs was a covid wedding, so she came to congratulate them and bless Himanshu's new bride. She instructed the house help to serve the sweets in tray so that she can feed the new bride.
The house help came with a tray comprising of different sweets and handed them to the aunt. She took the tray with a malicious smile and came toward Manisha eyeing her jewelry.
Aunt : Nain-naksh toh sundar hai par rang thoda daba hua hai bindani ka, par chalo koina, rang bhi toh doo hi hote hai, gora aur kala. . . mera matlab ghehua. (DIL's features are sharp but her color is little dark, but it's fine, as their are only two type of complexion, fair and dark. . . means wheatish.)
Sunaina : Hume hamari bahu bahot pasand hai didi. (We like our DIL very much, elder sister.)
Aunt : Aur Himanshu bete ko, mera matlab hai ki. . . ( And what about Himanshu, I mean does he . . .)
Sunaina : Hum sab ko Manisha bahut pasand hai. (We all like Manisha very much.)
Aunt : Ha, Ha Sunaina, mein samajh gayi. (To Manisha) Lo beta, muh meetha karo. (To his son) Rajat beta, apni bhabhi ke peir chhuho or unka muh meetha karwao. [Yes yes Sunaina, I understand, (To Manisha) Eat this sweet, child. (To his son) Rajat, touch your sister-in-law's feet and feed her sweets.]
Rajat : Yes mom, but we are of same age so why this Bhabhi and all. I'll call her Manisha only.
Rajat comes forward to feed sweets to Manisha. Himanshu is witnessing all this on her laptop through the cctv. His blood boiled seeing Rajat so close to Manisha. He sets his laptop aside and leaves the room at once.
Rajat feed Manisha and asks her to feed him too. Manisha looks at Sunaina and when she nods, Manisha raises her hand to feed him.
Himanshu arrives there and holds her hand to stop her. He glares at Rajat and when he looks at Manisha, his eyes softens.
Himanshu : (continue holding her hand) Come with me.
Manisha : (in slow voice) But . . . I have to. .
Himanshu : (gritting his teeth ) I said come with me.
Manisha looks at Sunaina who is about to stop Himanshu but he glares at her.
Himanshu held her hand and took long strides towards his room with the tray of sweets in his other hand. She was literally running behind him due to her short height.
When they reached their room he let her inside and locked the door. She was terrified and when he looked at her, a shiver ran down her whole body. When he took steps toward her, her feet moved backward automatically. After three steps, she stopped. He looked at her amused. She moved forward to leave but he grabbed her arm and yanked her towards him. Her breath quickened and she felt that and her brain has also freezed.
Manisha looked at him questionably.
Himanshu : (still holding her arm and twisting it a little, their chests are about to touch, he felt her heart beating rapidly) Ab kahan jaa rahi ho ? (Now where are you going ?)
Manisha is unable to speak.
Himanshu : (brings the tray in front of her) Feed me.
Manisha looks at him surprised.
Himanshu : (raised his brow) I said feed me.
Manisha : (raised her hand slowly) K..Konsi mithai khayenge aap ? (Which sweet will you eat ?)
Himanshu : Chamcham.
Manisha looks at him surprised and raised her hand to feed him.
Himanshu eats the delicious creamy sweet form her hand and licks the sugar syrup dripping from her fingers. He feels her stiffening at his touch.
Manisha is about to withdraw her hand but he holds it, a little tighter.
Himanshu : Remember, you can only feed me and Jiya only.
Manisha nods
After saying this Himanshu licks her finger again and bits the tip a little.
Manisha hisses.
Himanshu : Stay away from that fucker Rajat.
With this he leaves the room leaving Manisha alone with her thought, lightly bitten finger and a tray of sweets.
Sweet
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