Ajnabee - The ecstasy of one sided love. ( completed )

Chapter 46

" Hey Durga maa , hey Ambe , Jagdambe , hey shakti dayini , Aaj meri laaj rakhna . Inhe aaj kisi bhi halat mein gussa nahi aana chahiye . Aaj mujhe iss ghar mein koi toofan nahi chahiye . inka janam din acche se gujre , aur main na guzar jaun bas itni si apeksa hai ...aur han inke gusse karne ki adat sudhaarlo maan , mujhe behri nahi hona , abhi inke muh se meethe meethe bol sunne hain mujhe , i love you ke bina to main behri nahi ho rahi haan nahi to " She rambles aggressively swirling the diya in front of the idol . 

Trilochan was trying hard to hide his smile when he listened to all of his bahu's rants and wishes and honestly he wished it too . 

Batuk snickered when her rants got a full stop . " Bondita ....Dada jung pe nahi jaa rahe aaj janamdin hai unka "

" Chup karo Batuk " Som , Bondita , Trilochan shouted in unison . 

Batuk stepped away and shut his mouth smart enough to not laugh out loud . 

The Arti finished but as Trilochan expected Anirudh didn't came . As always he is sleeping like a log in his bed . He had scold him countless of times to not to work till late at night and get a sleep And like always he shrugged it off . Even he managed to drag Batuk off his bed but he couldn't do that with Anirudh . Somewhere in his heart he knew his son needed peace and he only gets with morning sleep . 

They were all sitting on the dining hall , ready to get breakfast when they all turned their heads at the stairs direction as they heard the familiar stomping of Anirudh's steps . And there were few gasps . Batuk's mouth was opened with food dropping . Trilochan had to adjust his specs because he couldn't believe what he was seeing . Somnath's eyes were widen as saucers and Bondita could feel something funny going on in her chest , she seems to clutch her heart . 

Anirudh hurried through the steps , waking down in a navy blue kurta with tiny silver prints on it and a crisp white dhoti . He was again struggling with his watch . 

" Bahu ...yeh humara hi baggad billa hai na ? " He whispered . 

" inka koi judwa hai kya kaka sasurji " She whispered back as lost as Trilochan . 

" Bondita ...jaldi khana lagao ...bhook lagi hai "

" ji " 

" Kya ji " Trilochan snapped . " mandir tum khana khaa kar jaoge ... bahu yeh humara dharm bhrast karwaake hi chodega . " 

" Aaj mat daatiye na inhe please . " 

Trilochan suled in his chair making a face . " Accha accha ab aisa muh mat banao ...jao uski aarti karlo pehle . phir mandir ke liye niklo " 

Anirudh crossed his arms and glared at his kaka .Before he could erupt his volcano she dragged him away to their home temple. She quietly performed his arti. Her eyes turned slightly watery seeing him at the temple as a symbol of breaking another layer of his heart.

" aise kya dekh rahi ho? " he asked gruffly.

She shook her head but decided to say it anyway. " aaj maa hoti to bohot khush hoti " she said with a wobbly smile.

Ohh! His heart might have skipped a beat when she said those words or it stopped.

" meri maa? " he asked unsure like a little boy.

" kya woh meri bhi maa nahi hai ? " she seemed to be unsure too just like him.

He nodded at her looking down trying to control the flood of emotions as she mentioned his mother and she asked.. She accepted his mother as her's too. He returned to the reality after he heard her squeaky voice.

" hey bhagwan maine to aapko tilak lagaya hi nahi rukiye. " she reached out for the sindoor in the thaali and managed to accidentally knock the gangajal on the plate.