A LOVE STORY OR NOT PART 2

#75

Shehnaaz was doing fine now and her first trimester got over successfully, with a lot of pain but no complications as such.

Sidharth had been so subtly supportive that if Shehnaaz hadn't noticed keenly, she wouldn't even know that he was helping her.

A slightest bit of her stomach showed as it had been 12 weeks already.

Sidharth and Shehnaaz had been looking for a bump almost every week and so when it did appear, they couldn't believe it.

"Bebu, baby, baby, jaldi aa!", Shehnaaz shouted from inside the room.

Sidharth was in the kitchen making sooji wala doodh go her.

Maa had put atleast 2 big spoons of ghee, because this was the only thing she loved to eat and she wouldn't even realise that it had ghee.

Shehnaaz always scrunched her nose up when she saw anything having ghee but it was strange how she could never tell that sooji wala doodh had so much ghee.

When maa had put loads of ghee in that the first time, just for the sake of experimenting, Shehnaaz had just said that it tasted a bit different.

"Kaunsa Wala different?", Maa and Sidharth had almost together and too desperately.

"Achcha wala different, tasty wala!", Shehnaaz said as she continued putting one spoon into her mouth and then the other.

Sidharth and Maa had been so grateful for this idea of loading the dish she loved so much, with ghee.

Otherwise she wouldn't get the required nutrition. This strength wasn't only for the child, it was more for Shehnaaz's body.

She had bleeded so much and to bring her health up to where it was earlier, she required a lot of rich food.

She was a slight bit chubby now but only through her cheeks and Sidharth couldn't help but think about the 16 year old Shehnaaz.

She used to be so chubby and cute but after growing up, she lost all the chubbyness and fat, but now she was gaining the chubbyness in her cheeks again.

Her face was all pinkish and fair and pregnancy glow could be seen. They had still not told everybody.

Only the family knew and given the situation, Shehnaaz felt that telling everybody would just mean grabbing their attention for their child.

She didn't want Pari to have any negativity around her. She didn't want people to know.

"Sidharth agar ho sake na to jab wo school bhi chali jaegi, tab bhi kisi ko nhi batayenge ki humari beti hai!", Shehnaaz said to Sidharth.

"Use na chupake rakh lenge apne paas, isi room mein, isi ghar mein. Kahin nahi jaane denge!", Sidharth said.

"Han, we are going to keep her here, all safe with us aur kisi ko bhi uske baare mein kuch nhi bolne denge!", she said as she looked at her stomach lovingly.

Sidharth bent down and came to where her stomach was. He pulled up the top and caressed the soft and still flat skin of her stomach.

Sidharth kissed it multiple times, telling the baby that they would never let anything bad happen to her.

It was weird that everybody had started calling her Pari, eventhough, they couldn't go through with gender determination.

Somehow, everybody had trusted Shehnaaz when she said that she actually believes that the baby is a girl.

It was amusing to Sidharth but what could he say, because even he believed it and even he called the baby, Pari.

Coming bach to present, Shehnaaz was absolutely calling out Sidharth like anything and since Maa was there putting spoons of ghee sneakily, she asked him to go inside.