Ishq ka Raang Safed Piya

45.Kaanch ki Lakeer

"Utho.....utho didi......Jija ji Ka phone aaya hai".Pooja almost shouted in Shehnaaz's ears tickling her sister..Shehnaaz was in deep sleep..it was afternoon when she has gone for a small nap and overslept till evening.

Shehnaaz whose sleep was not so good friends with her and who was insomniac from her adolescence till few  2-3 months ago,had befriended good sleep only when she accompanied Sidharth on the same bed with her  a few days ago,as sleep too accompanied her and whenever he was physically far away from her, the sleep too left her was sleeping like a log now a days,too much as if she has closed some door of her heart and entry of her  brain..and let her rest of the body took over the entries of cognitive brain which led her to think & understand....and that's why it is said ...'It is all in the brain'.

She looked at Pooja suspiciously waking from her sleep and was about to sleep again,confirm on her known that Pooja was throwing a prank joking for sure as Pooja laughed like a mad person....

It had rained the whole day today after so many days of scorching heat today entering into June and she felt felt so lethargic,dull and sleepy that she could hold her sleep in that relaxing weather ...and today her eyes has rained too alot automatically in alone hiding from everyone as it rained...the rain today and the rainbow on the sky reminded her the last rain and the subsequent road trip where Sidharth has taken her from Trivandrum to Kanyakumari...and that day she had enjoyed a lot ,drenched in his love and rain on the coast of Indian Peninsula...everything reminded of him.

She terribly missed Sidharth today and he was no where...her hands trembled to snatch him from the time..,her fingers itched to touch,hold him...she wanted to hear his deep hoarse voice and his chuckle and laugh which plays some rhythmic chant on her heart...she felt empty and parched for his touch on her at places,oh !...she missed his lips on her and his hands deep on all those only explored places of her by only him....a strong urge to kiss him on his cheeks and on his heart strike her every now and then ..yesterday night only she felt she was doing fine without him...but how wrong she was proven right now .

Swinging between heart and brain...swaying between loving ,not loving,missing and not missing him...but either way she was continuously in her heart and mind ...so yes!..She missed him every moment...every time like routine, even she just saw him only in the dreams.....is he here?...like that full rainbow flaunting spectrum of light in the sky ?Was he there as she can feel him sometimes!?

She should sleep some more to avoid all of these confusion and also so that he could grace her beautiful dream again !..and so slept again....

"Didi....Jija ji ka phone sach me aaya hai....uth bhi jao ab.....tumhara intezar karte kitni baatein ki humse unhone...aadhi gharwali jo hai hum...ab itni sundar aur mazzedar saali kahan milegi unko..itna hasate hai na..jodi to humare sath jamti hai unki..unki jodi kahan tumhare jaise rondu bhondu se ban gayi........ye nahi ki khud khus raho aur sabko khush rakho...bechare tumhare chakkar me Pappa aur humse duniya jahan ki baatein kar chuke hai ki unki biwi kab jage aur wo baat karen humko bole sone dein tumko na jagaye...bole jab tak tum soyi ho...humse kaam chala lenge......par fir hum soche...wo kab phone kare, na karen doobara, kya pata....isliye utho..wapas call kar sakte hai wo..kasam se bol rahe hai unka phone aaya tha".Pooja said giggling but could not complete and her laugh was cut short as Shehnaaz gave her a tight slap right on her face .

Pooja's face dropped and heated her white soft skin turning into red and imprinting marks of her 5 fingers on Pooja because of the slap....

The intensity of the slap and the hurt on both the sisters was equal...

Shehnaaz felt as if someone was mocking on her resilience and patience ,moreover teasing her by name of Sidharth,comparing herself and thinking Pooja on place of her as his wife for a nano second also was bearable as jealousy hit her,so she hit Pooja and stood up excessively annoyed as if she will kill Pooja today throttling her ....but her steps faltered hearing the ringing of telephone loudly and instead of going to Pooja,she paced to the dining hall leaving a stunned & fuming Pooja on her indignant elder sister...