Chapter 4 : A Good Night Sleep

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"Naina kya hua beta tum pareshan dikh rahi ho?" Naina glared at dadi when she said that. Smirking and putting her hair behind her ear, dadi laid on the bed and closed her eyes, sleeping peacefully, spoiling both Naina's and Sameer's sleep. Naina glanced at dadi and an idea struck her. Switching off the lights in the room, Naina laid on the bed, waiting for the right time to execute her idea. The right time came when she felt that dadi was deep in her sleep. Giggling Naina started her act.

Dadi's sleep was disturbed when she heard few noises in the room. She looked at Naina who was snoring loudly while sleeping. She tried to cover her ears and go back to sleep, but the snores became even more louder. Unable to bear it dadi was forced to wake up Naina. "Naina, utho, utho... " huh? Kya hua dadi, Naina pretended as if she was woken up from deep sleep. "Mujhe needh nahi aa rahi." "Toh kya main apko bhi story sunao, jaise deepika ko sunaya tha." "Mazak mat karo Naina, itni zoor se kharate mar rahi ho toh mujhe neendh kaisi aayegi." "Sorry dadi, ab kya kare, mera aadat hai na. Kharate na marne ki koshish karti hoon", saying this Naina and dadi both drifted off to sleep.

With a few more minutes dadi started to hear Naina snore again. Irritated, dadi took a pillow and covered it over her ear. But the next thing Naina did, made it even more difficult for dadi to sleep. Naina threw her legs over dadi. The leg was soon followed by an arm. Naina pulled the pillow that was covering dadi's ears and tossed it on the floor. Dadi tried to remove Naina's hands and legs from her and moved away from her. But Naina soon filled that space and yet again, put her weight over dadi and dadi yet again moved away from her. This process continued till the time dadi did not have any space left on the bed and she fell to the floor. Naina opened her eyes to find dadi on the floor and said, "kya hua dadi, aap neeche kyu soo rahi hai, yahan bed mein aakar soo jayena." "Upar jagah kahan chooda tumne, tumhare wajah se neeche gir gayi hai." "Sorry dadi, ab main aisa nahi karoongi, aap upar aa jayiye." Naina made space for dadi but she decreased the temperature of the AC, and within minutes the room turned extremely cold. Naina put the AC remote under her pillow and pulled the blanket more closer to her. As time passed by, the blanket was pulled more closer to Naina, leaving dadi without the cover off the blanket, being exposed to both Naina's snores and the cold AC air.

"Naina... Naina..." she tired waking up Naina from her sleep, but all her efforts went in vein. Shivering in the chill atmosphere of the room, dadi took her pillow and went down to the living room. She placed the pillow over the sofa and slept on the sofa.

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The next morning the Vishaka, Mr.Somani, Sameer and Naina were shocked to find dadi sleeping in the living room, on the sofa. Vishaka woke dadi and and asked her how come she was sleeping in the living room. "Sab tumhari bahu ke wajah se?" "Naina ke wajah se , kya kiya usne." "Yeh pooch ki kiya nahi kiya Naina ne. {ehle toh itni zoor se kharate marti hai." "kya? Naina kharate...", Sameer started to say, when he realized what his wife was upto the previous night and he too joined the act. "Haan Naina bohot zoor se kharate marti hai, ab toh mujhe uske kharate ka aadat padh gayi." "Sirf kharate he nahi, woh mujhpar apna haath aur pair dalke soo rahi thi." "Main kya karti maa, mujhe needh mein laga hoga ki Sameer..." Naina trailed off with that and everyone present in the room understood what she wanted to say. "Sorry dadi Naina", added later. "Par tumne AC ka temprerature kyu kam kiya." "AC ka temperature, kab kam kiya maine?" Naina acted innocent. "Jhoot mat bolo Naina", dadi said fuming with anger. "Uhhmm Dadi, yeh sab toh Naina ka aadat hai. Isisiliye main kal mana kar raha tha, par aap sab ne meri baat nahi suni", Sameer said and Mr.Soman nodded regretfully. "Maa aap chinta mat kijiye, maine electrician ko bula diya hai, woh AC theek kar dega. Aaj raat aap aram se apne he room mein soo sakthi hai."

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Everyone left the living room and went on to proceed with the routines of a new day. Sameer followed Naina to their room and hugged her immediately as they entered their room. "I love youuu... maan gaye tumko Mrs. Maheshwari. I love you for this". "Par Sameer mujhe dadi ke liye bura lag raha hai." Kyu? Tumhe unke liye bura feel karne ki zaroorat nahi hai, do din se raat ko theek se so nahi paya, accha sabak sikhaya hai tumne dadi ko, ab woh raat ko humme chain se sone degi."

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