Rab Rakha

Chapter 58

"I'm sorry." Sidharth apologized to Shehnaaz. He believed if he wouldn't have stepped out of her bedroom, Madhu wouldn't have known anything and things would have been fine. They were on a call the next day.

"Tu kyu sorry bol raha hai? Isme teri kya galti hai? Mummy har baat pe gussa karti hai, hadd hoti ja rahi hai ab!" She angrily replied.

"Listen please baby, tu shant ho jana. Mai baat karta hu na Aunty se!" He tried to calm her down.

"Kya baat karni hai unse? Har baat pe unko manao, unse request karo aur unke hath jodo. Mai 27 ki hu aur woh mere sath 15-16 saal ki ladki ki tarah baat karti hai! Mai na Sidharth thak gayi hu ab unke aise harkato se!" She complained.

"I understand, tu ek kaam kar. Aram se aunty se baat kar. Aunty bhi gusse me hai, aisi situation me tu bhi gussa karegi toh what'll be the difference? Haina sweetheart?" He explained her, how important it was to handle Madhu carefully. She was her mother, even though controlling, she was possessive about her daughter.

"Maine nahi karni kisi se bhi baat! Sidharth,  I cannot do this anymore. Mujhe pehle kabhi aisa nahi karna padta tha, Mummy se har pe permission lo, time pe jao aur time se aao. Pehle kabhi unhone aise restrictions nahi lagaye, abhi mere sar pe rule book rakh di laa kar. Aur kitna jhoot bolu unse? Aur jhoot bolne ke alawa koi option nahi hai, sach jaan ke woh toh mera sar hi fod dengi." She kept complaining.

"I agree with you. Tu apni jagah sahi hai, okay? Mat kar kuch, let it be. We'll sort it out together okay when I come home? Mai hu na idhar?" He requested her. He could sense how mad she was at Madhu and there was no point of asking her to confront her mother right now.

After Madhu saw Sidharth in her apartment, especially walking out of her Shehnaaz's room in the middle of the night, she lost it.

"Tu yaha kya kar raha hai? Iss waqt?" Madhu asked Sidharth.

"P-pani.." he stuttered, wondering how to escape her.

"Sana! Sana, bahar aa!" Madhu shouted.

"Mummy?" Shehnaaz immediately ran out of her room. Looking back and forth between her boyfriend and her mother, she knew she was in danger now.

"Yeh Sidharth yaha kya kar raha hai? Tum dono iss kamre me sone lage? Tu toh kehti thi yeh chala jata hai apne ghar?" Madhu asked.

"Mummy- wo na- Sidharth bas aaj ruka, usko wo- meri packing me madad kar raha tha meri.. haina Sidharth?" Shehnaaz answered, looking at him hopefully to knit the story ahead.

"Ha aunty." He nodded as well.

"Ha, aur meri shakal pe bewakoof likha hua hai na? Mujhe sach me bharosa tha ke tum dono ko galat nahi karoge!" Madhu replied.

"Nahi Mummy, hum kuch aisa vaisa nahi kar rahe the yaar! Shaadi ke pehle yeh sab?! Kaisi baatein karte ho aap bhi!?" Shehnaaz immediately interjected.

They didn't? Sidharth looked at his girlfriend lying so smoothly, they actually had sex a couple of hours ago. It was literally difficult to keep themselves in their pants behind closed doors. After a hectic day at work, they needed each other, they wanted to get into each other's arms as soon as they saw each other and wished to spend more and more time together.

"Sidharth. Apne ghar ja." Madhu asked him and he nodded, not wanting to make her more angry.

"Aur tu, koi Lonavala nahi jayegi tu!" Madhu announced, talking to her daughter and refusing to listen to her pleas.

'Mummy, I'm sorry. I don't know why you're doing this to me. Pehle aap itne strict nahi the aur khud hi mere peeche pade hote the shaadi karne ke liye. Mujhse puchte the ke agar meri pasand me koi ladka hai. Sidharth really means a lot to me. And I want to be with him, mai chahti hu aap bhi jaano ke wo kitna acha hai. Aur isme hum thoda time sath bita le toh wo galat kyu hai?