The First Baby- A Shraman Story

Part 4

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Shravan was sitting on the bed waiting for her to bring him the letters she wrote for him. He saw her roaming around in the closet area and thinking something. She was trying to do something with the cupboard where his files and her documents were kept. Finally he had enough and went to her. She looked at him helplessly.

"Sumo what are you doing?"

"Actually I asked Ramu kaka to keep the box out of sight and now it is kept behind this cupboard where I couldn't reach so you see. You can't read the letters today. Ramu kaka is on leave today."

"What the hell? I want to read them right now. I'll move this cupboard and you pick up the box. By the way what was the need you to hide it?"

He held the cupboard up front and started sliding it towards himself. Suman tried to squeeze herself to get the box. After three unsuccessful attempts she finally got hold of it and asked him to move the cupboard back but because Shravan's line of sight was blocked he put it back a bit fast and Suman got hurt. It was a small crack in the skin due to the tension force of the jerk but how would she make him understand that. He started running around in search of the first aid box which she had to tell him where to get. Shravan bandages her hand carefully while she was busy busy admiring him.

"You didn't tell me why you his the box at the first place. And is it the same box which......"

"Yes its that one only and I his it because its my and Chashmish's memory box. The Khadoos Shravan have nothing to do with it."

"Yeah right. But I can see now?"

"Tumhari amanat hai. (Its your precious.)"

"One second" He got up to keep the first aid box and then himself with her on the bed with a box waiting for revealing her secret love for him.

He slowly opened it and the first item was a Newspaper front page. Without even looking at it he asked her.

"What is this doing here?"

"Look at the article at the left corner downside"

"This is me right?"

"Yes, you topped all over Delhi in CBSE 12th exam."

"I didn't know that."

"I'm proud of you, my nerd."

"Nerd kisko bola?" ( Whom did you call Nerd?)
And she laughed at his cute angry frown.

Next he found some photo frames, their pictures which Pushkar and Nirmala had clicked at different occasions.
He found other pictures torn into two pieces. Suman and Shravan were separated then again brought together with tapes. He was looking at her with confusion while her eyes told him that this was their story. They were torn, separated and then brought together.

"When I got to know about my marriage with Aditya I was broken and you were also of no help after all you became my wedding planner. A night before wedding I lost all hopes on you and thus this."

She lifted her eyes after completing only to find him crying. His eyes were red and tears flowed non stop. He was clenching his fist must be cursing himself, she thought. She held his hands and took him in his arms.
"You are and you were NOT at fault. It was just a phase, a phase of difficulty and pain that we both had to go through. We went through it and came out strong right? Now smile else I won't talk to you. "

"Sumo, what's next?"

"See, we went to this movie 'Kaho naa Pyaar Hai' together, the annual fair tickets, you got me a RD Burman CD, and this VCR of CID episodes, we used to binge watch. "
(I can kill for a person who would do this with me 😂)