In Quest Of Love

The sky is falling...

    Yes.... He is safe...and he  is not going to have the nightmare anymore...

      when they came back to the cottage, the sun had begun to fall back towards the South.  The blue sky was adorned with different shades of grey oranges...

" Thank you Suman..."

He clenched his eyes,grasping her hands firmly...A lone tear drop ran down his cheeks...

" Mmmmmm..."

She mumbled, pouted she said mischievously...

" Thanks? Forget it...make it a lunch..."

He bursted out into bouts of laughter...

" Suman...you are a devil...I mean...I mean.... really you are a devil"

His voice chocked...In happiness, his eyes shed down some more tears...

" Shravan bhaiya has come....!!"

" Oyeaeaea....!!!"

He turned to the children cheerfully...They dragged him to the grass land where already the play mode has been set on fire...

She sat under a tree to view them playing soccer.. The game began lightheartedly. Sooner,  the game was tight as , all of them were  running,  pushing each other and  knocking down others  to drive the ball to the goal post.

All of a sudden , Suman's  vision focused only at Shravan ...all the others have vanished from her view...

     He was equal to the kids...He was not the adult who cried badly some minutes ago unable to handle his depression ...He  was smiling charm and kicking the ball ..Most of the time,  he deliberately lost his winning moment to the kids . When he was knocked down , he pretended to be hurt ...When the children were worried,  he took the chance to win enjoying the children's arguments... Sometimes he taught the little ones to kick  and block the ball . Throughout the play,  he was jumping and  hopping among the kids...

Shravan... I don't want to know who you are ...I have understood you now. you are a kid and you are the finest man I have ever known to be . What is most remarkable about you is,  the way you relate to people ...You really care people... you are coming out of your world to make people happy . I have become a tremendous fan of yours....

    She couldn't resist thinking about him...Her lips curled up in smile all through the way to the home as her mind was keep on talking about him...

She started liking the purest soul in him...She knew that he also loved her...There was a thin shield that narrated their beautiful feeling as only friendship...What guarded Suman was her girlie shyness..In other words, she was expecting him to confess the love...

   Suman .. you're expecting too much, too soon...

Her mind yelled at her, in a mere fact...

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" Good morning beta..."

" Good morning Mom"

Suman fell on the couch exhausted after the regular morning work out...She dapped the sweat beads and threw her look at Neeraj 's office room...He was seriously looking into his laptop...

" Pappa is too busy now-a-days..."

She interrogated Priya...

Priya huffed

   " Haan beta...I don't know what he's doing... strangely, this time he's webbed with highly confidential meetings... discussions... hotline calls...
Above all, he's reading huge books which is completely different..."

She was worried about him...

Suman leaned on the table,where Priya was setting up the breakfast...

" Mom...do you miss Pappa...?"

She asked softly...

For a moment Priya was shocked...

" Beta...time for breakfast...go fresh up and come fast..."

Obviously, she was diverting Suman...

  But, Suman was not in a mood to leave Priya...

She folded her legs and sat comfortably... placing her palms to her cheek, she eyed Priya curiously...

" Ma...tell me...Do you miss Pappa?"

Her eyes were filled with expectation...

Priya traced Suman's head fondly..

" What happened to you today...? Always you will curse these words_ Love... missing...care... and, What happened today? Let me check whether the sky is falling...?"

Priya peeped out the window and starred at the sky ...she nodded negatively and touched suman's forehead...

Suman held her hands and rolled her eyes to Priya...

" Ma...I thought that you will be relaxed after sharing your feeling...who want it now...?"

Pouting, she stood up with fake angry...

Priya hugged her and yanked her cheeks...

She made Suman to sit and sat beside her...

" Suman... It's a great feeling to love and to be loved...we married after six years of love... When he proposed me, I didn't mind about his nature of his work and lifestyle..what I wanted was his love..love alone..."

" After your birth,  he had to spend more time with his profession...it doesn't mean that we don't love each other...but, the bond is growing even more stronger ...I don't know why ..this time he's more restless and it bothers me a lot.. that's why I am feeling not good... I will be missing him always whenever he's not close to me..."

  Suman was listening to her as though she was in a dream land...Her eyes were shining since she was loaded with emotions...

Priya lifted her chin and looked into her eyes...

" Beta...why you're crying? Why do I feel that you understand the most beautiful emotion in the world...? Are you alright? Is there anything you wanted to share with me?"

Suman mumbled...

" No... it's okay...I am happy now...no need to tell me anything...be comfortable..."

She pressed suman's hands and nodded...

  " Not like that Mom...I couldn't define my feelings exactly...if I feel so, you will be my first choice to disclose..."

She huffed...

While they're conversing, Neeraj came out and called Priya...

" Priya darling... breakfast..."

"On my way..."

Priya replied and rushed to bring the breakfast...

  " Pappa... Is the mission too disturbing?" If you don't mind, may I help you...?"

Neeraj scratched his forehead...

" It's too confusing beta...but I can't tell you anything .. it's highly confidential..."

  That was the end of the conversation about the case file he's handling with...

Suman stepped towards her room, thinking about shravan...

Yes Mom...the sky is falling...