Coffee logi?
The husky familiar voice brought her out of her trance.....She could recognize his voice however deep her sleep was and this was just a trance....a quick trip into her messed up life.....with Suraj...even his name gave her a feeling of having bitten a distasteful fruit! His promises, his confessions, and his pretence of true and undying love...everything seemed like a perfectly enacted play to her just to lure her.....
A few moments before, as she immersed herself in the report that she was preparing for the case.....a mail from her lawyer informing about the proceedings of her divorce case popped up in her personal mail box.....In a month or two, everything would be over...
Her marriage to Suraj had been on the rocks from the very first day.....her wedding night to be precise........but she pulled it along and tried her best to save it for over a year....she tried to think positively and waited for him to change his ways but it never happened.....and eventually everything had to come crashing down sooner or later...She felt dumb not to have seen his true colors before getting married.....Meeting Suraj during that fateful case at Jaipur was the turning point of her life.....it had turned her life into a horrible nightmare......Now getting out of that seemed like coming out from hell! She was disturbed by all that was happening in her life but yet there was an unexplainable peace within her!
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She was lost again when he repeated again "Riya...kahaan koyi hui ho?..maine kuch poocha tumse???? kya tum coffee logi?? [He held forward the cup to her direction as he said that]
She brushed aside her past and replied "nahi....maine coffee peena chod diya hai, Sir!"
He was stunned by her reply....she used to love coffee......making coffee for all others and ordering a cutting chai for him was like an unsaid duty for her.....she diligently did that every morning....
No one in the team cared to neither thank her nor acknowledge it openly when she did that but the day after she left ETF, her absence was felt obviously but her coffees and tea went missing too....
He took back the cup and remarked with slight sarcasm "shaayad usse bhi waqt aur haalaat ke wajeh se choda hoga, right?" his subtle poke at her own words were sharply understood by her but she didn't bother to reply back....
But when he took a sip from the cup...she was shocked and she couldn't help but ask him about it "Sir, aap kabse coffee peena shuru kiya? Aap toh sirf chaai peethe..."
He didn't let her complete and responded quickly "jab se tum gayi ho....tab se Riya!"
She was taken aback by his words......but she was in no mood of giving up...."shaayad chaai order karne waali koyi mili nahi hogi, right Sir?"
Arjun smiled and replied in the spur of the moment in a sober voice "tum nahi mili Riya!"
What was he upto? Ab yeh sab keh kar kya jathaana chahthe teh? Where was he when he really had an option to say such things? Now what meaning did all this have?
She thought to herself with a smirk on her face and looked away as if she wasn't interested in talking to him....
Arjun: [concerned for her] Riya......tum teek toh ho na???
Riya: kya sunna pasand karenge aap?? Agar yeh sunna chahthe hai ke main teek hoom....toh suniye....haan main bohat bohat khush hoom.....ek princess ke tarah apni life jee rahi hoom.......[pausing for a moment and taking a long breath] aur kuch poochna hai aapko??
Arjun: Riyaaaa......itna behrukhi se kyun baat kar rahi ho?? kuch hua hai kya?? Sab teek hai na?? kya maine kuch galathi kiya hai??
Riya: [sarcastically] aapne kahaan kuch kiya hai sir??[letting out a quick sigh] Khair chodiye.....inn sab baaton ka ab koyi fayda nahi hai.....
