Galatfahmi

Chapter eight: Unexpected Return

RAJVEER.

He was again up. He couldn't sleep again. And it was all because of her muffled cries. There was really something she had in her mind and life. He was unaware of a big part of her life. He wanted to know.....but as always his mind stopped him from getting up and asking her reasons.

When he heard cries getting silent, he thought she had slept. So he turned his position and tried to doze off. But a sudden noise of utensil falling jolted him up. He got down the bed and wore his flip flops. He silently opened his door a little and peeked.

There she was. In kitchen timidly filling a glass. Then she unwrapped something and swallowed. She drank water and left for study.

Curiosity got him. He couldn't stop himself from going out and checking what she had swallowed. He waited for five minutes. When he heard study door getting locked, he tip toed to kitchen. There was nothing on slab. Neither on floor. He checked dustbin. It was also empty of anything. He had cleaned it before sleeping...and it was same. Empty. He searched whole area but got nothing..

At last he dropped his idea of search. Perhaps she had swallowed pain killer or something. May be she had an ache. But where the hell that wrapper went?

He thought for a while.

She would have brought only pill. But he saw her unwrapping it. Damn! This woman'd one day make him the cat who was killed by curiosity!

He went back to his bedroom and waited for the academy alarm going off. Today was the important day. Last night he had got affirmation mail from ministry. kMA was going to have new staff. And he was sure the lazy ass BC was, whole burden was now on his shoulders.

Today is a big day! Sleep.

But sleep was far away when someone adjacent to his room was making his life difficult day by day.

She understood her place in his life and had happily accepted it. She had drifted apart. There was nothing between them. Neither a proper conversation, first of all even a conversation, nor any kind of emotional or relational stuff. There was nothing between them. Both were living under same roof as two strangers. She was cooking his dinner and he was fixing her breakfast. It was just give and take relation. What she was giving him, he was returning. He was not ungrateful after all.

But as always her silence and aloofness always caught him. She since the confrontation had decided to neglect him. What was the reason? When she woukd have come to know about his tending of her wounds, she could come to him and explain herself.

He'd have listened!

But no. She never did that. Her actions every day made his belief more firm. She was.....

Today for first time,Raj wanted her to announce her truth herself. If she was what he had thought of him, she needed to announce it. Raj thought of talking to her once again but god knows whay she'd do after hearing same lines.

No....

He got scared. He had brought her safe and sound,and he was going to leave her at Naveen' in same state.

This relation with his independence was going to end.

Naveen' case!

Realisation hit him hard. Between all his marital drama he had forgotten to keep a track of his case. Damn this marriage! Now he was being a ungrateful friend which he was not. It only happened after this marriage. This marriage was the cause which brought the worst of him out.

He never was so rude to someone, this much insensitive he never was. He never was a jerk he was being in past one and half weeks. He was someone else...a caring, sensitive, kind guy. But the day he had seen her on his table begging for him to be her bidder, he was enraged.