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CHAPTER-46: I recognised you

VIKRAM POV

I left the study and even without wasting another second I ran towards maa sa and baba sa's wing. The guards let me enter their wing for obvious reasons.

My steps halted right in front of their door step and all the memories of my childhood that I had spent with the woman that might be present behind these doors were playing in my mind. I took a deep breath to calm my ragging emotions and wiped off the traces of tears.

Knock

Knock

After few seconds, baba sa opened the door of their room. He passed me a gentle smile and pulled the door a little more for me, inviting me inside. I walked past him and heard him lock the door. He guided me inside and me like a timid boy walked behind him, as he led us to their personal sitting area at the backyard.

What I saw, made my eyes turn misty and I gulp down an ugly sob. I saw my maa sa( maasi) sitting on a cozy mattress placed on a lush green garden. She was reading a book in her usual rajputi poshak. She looked beautiful even in her age and I could feel why baba sa is so head over heels for his LOVE.

As if feeling our gaze, she pushed herself and kept the book down. Her eyes settled on baba sa for a moment and I couldn't miss a hue of pink covering on her cheeks. She blushed as I heard baba sa chuckle.

I cleared my throat to grab their attention and felt blessed.

" Vikram, aaye beta. Aap wahan kyun khade hai?" I saw her gaze shifting from baba sa to me. But the crimson of her cheeks darken a little as she guessed that I caught them in their vulnerability.
(Vikram, come inside son. Why are you standing over there?)

" Ha....hum.... hume aap....Hume aapse baat karna tha maasi.....maa sa" I said correcting myself from making that mistake.
( I wanted to talk to you maasi....maa sa)

Baba sa and maa sa had a silent conversation as baba sa gave a gentle nod after few seconds and pat on my shoulder before moving away.

Their was a thick tension between us for few seconds before I decided to voice my thoughts but.......she beat me in that

" Hume jante hai ki aapko sab pta chal gaya hai Vikram......aap humari didi ki aakhri nishani ho aur ye baat hume bahat pehle se pata thi" she said with a calm tone like she knew that this day will come.
( I know that you know about the truth now Vikram.......you are my sister's precious possession and I've known about this for quite some time)

I couldn't wait any longer and rushed towards her. I knelt in front of her and wrapped my arms around her, engulfing her fragile form in my hulk like body. I sobbed and sobbed for all those moments that I used to share with her, I sobbed for the time that we were denied of and I sobbed for our lose.

Loosing my maa and maasi maa in that same night.

I felt her shaking as she buried her face in my clothed chest. Her tears were drenching my black polo and that couldn't be more valuable than anything to me right now.

This black polo tshirt will be living in my wardrobe for lifetime....I made a mental note

" Shhh.....bas kijiye maa sa. Jo hone that woh ho gaya" I said as I run my fingers in her long hair. She patted on my shoulder and moved back a little. Her face looked flushed but the glow was undeniably adorable.
( Shhh..... please calm down maa sa. It has passed now)

" Hu....hum kitna ta....taras gaye the Vikram. Hum roz aapko apne samne dekhte the lekin aapke samne sach batane ki himmat nhi kar paye the hum. Hume lagta tha ki aap shayad uss raat ko kabhi bhi yaad karna nhi chahenge...." She said as she caressed my face and palming it.
( I was dying for this day Vikram. You were in front of me but I couldn't muster the courage to tell you the truth. I thought that you would never want to discuss about that night again)

" Lekin aapne hume pehchana kaise?" This question had been running in my mind from the moment I've learnt about the truth that she is my long lost maasi maa.
( But how did you recognise me?)

She chuckled and shifted on the mattress making herself comfortable. She patted the space beside her and I took that place, gently making her lean on my huge frame.

She is as tiny as my mumma was

" You are your mother's carbon copy Vikram. You have that same innocence that my jiji had, her eyes spoke volumes and they were the mirrors where anyone could feel her inner turmoil. When I first saw you at my door steps been introduced as Amogh's best friend, i thought that my jiji was standing infront of me.........and when you touched my feet, I felt as if someone brought me home" she said and by the end her voice crack.

I could feel my throat getting tight as the lumps were forming inside it. My gaze became misty due to unshed tears.

" But.....but I....I couldn't recognise you MAASI MAA" and that broke me even more. A child within me, craving for his mother finally found his HOME.

I am finally home mumma. Your Vikram reached home.

We didn't even realised for how long we kept on shedding tears while I wrapped my arms around maa sa. But the moment broke when we heard someone clearing their throat.

When I broke our hug and looked at the direction of the sound, I saw baba sa along with Amogh and dada hukum standing at a distance. Each of them held a gentle and proud smile while Amogh had a glint of something different in his gaze.

I stood up on my feet and helped maa sa. We stepped forwards and I saw baba sa heading towards us first. He held maa sa in a gentle embrace and lightly wiped the traces of tears from her beautiful face. He pecked on her forehead before looking at me. He gave me a nod and then held his hands out for me to join them in a hug.

I rushed in like a child been offered a candy after a bad day. But the moment was short lived as I felt getting suffocated by a hug muscular body pressing against me, crushing me between him and baba sa.

Trust me baba sa is no less then a muscule man himself.

" Move away you bas....." Even before I could say the word I stopped myself-" move away from me, you are crushing me Amogh"

" Why should I dear brother from another mother" he said with pride visible in his tone.

" Now I am feeling so relieved, Hukum" all our of us smiled after hearing her words.

" It was me, who turned emotional and didn't punished my idiot of a son for getting an innocent and fragile young girl pregnant so early.......trust me boys but your baba sa was pretty desperate" we chuckled when we heard dada hukum's word.

" Baba sa!!! I was in love" we laughed at his words.

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