Next day morning Riddhima was having coffee and Armaan came and sat on the dining table reading the paper. Riddhima out of courtesy made coffee for him and placed it on the table, but Armaan made himself another cup and walked out from there. Riddhima kept looking at his retreating figure. Then later in the day, they met a lawyer to file the case. When the lawyer asked them since when they were married, Armaan answered a week. She told them that it was not possible to file a divorce case for at least a year from their marriage. They both returned home and decided that they would live the same way and file the case after a year. But as soon as they returned home, Rahul with other friends of Armaan were there as they had not met Riddhima. One of his friend's wife noticed that Riddhima's maang was bare and told Armaan to fill it. Muskaan took the sindoor and brought it to Armaan and Armaan unwillingly took a pinch of it and filled her hair with it. Riddhima stood there silently not knowing what to do. They had a small party, Muskaan and Riddhima shared sometime talking about their life and late in the night all left. Muskaan told Riddhima that she and Rahul were going to UK due to Rahul's work there and would not be back till 6 months.
For the next 15 to 20 days they both were living in the same place but did not speak to each other. Armaan had a hard time in the office dealing with the leader of the labourers. Riddhima felt bore sitting at home idle. She had made some kids as her friends. One day Armaan returned back a little early and he saw her playing in the garden with some of the kids. He saw her laughing to her hearts content playing with them. He smiled seeing her laughing. He thought how much he loved her and walked away shifting his gaze as he saw her turning towards him.
In the night while preparing the dinner he burnt his hand and dropped the hot plate. Due to the noise, Riddhima ran inside the kitchen to see what had happened. When he saw her there, "don't worry kuch nahi hua, wo bas dhyaan kahi aur tha, aur hot plate ke upar haath daldiya". She felt bad for him. she though from the day they came to Delhi, he was the one who cooked food all the time and he didn't complain about that. Then they had the dinner and retired to their rooms.
Next day morning, as Armaan was about to leave, she called him, "Armaan". "haan" he turned back. "vo mujhe aapse kuch baat karni thi,"
Haan bolo, kuch chahiye kya.
Nahi, vo main soch rai thi ki, kya aap aaj jaldi aasakte hai.
Kyu, kahi jana hai.
Nahi, vo…….. mera yaha aye hue 1 mahina hogaya. jabse main yaha ayi hoon bas aapki banayi hui khana kha rahi hoon, maine socha aaj main kuch cook karun, toh bas isliye puch rai thi.
Its ok Riddhima don't worry main aakar bana lunga, but he was cut in the middle.
Nahi mujhe banana hai, toh pls aap jaldi ane ki koshish karenge.
He smiled at her and said, "ok main ajaunga" and left to the office.
Riddhima had prepared all the dishes whatever she knew and was waiting for him. It was 9 in the night, she was sitting on the couch and was watching tv waiting for him. After sometime she saw the clock it was 10:30 but Armaan had not come back. She did not know when she fell asleep. Armaan returned back at 12 and came in with his spare keys. He saw the house dcor was changed. It had a homely look. Then he saw Riddhima sleeping on the couch and then it flashed to him that he had promised her that he would return soon. He felt bad seeing her sleeping there waiting for him, he saw all the dishes on the table not touched. He did not want to wake her so he covered her with a shawl and went to his room.
Riddhima woke up the next day and saw it was already 7 and when she checked Armaan's room, she saw him sleeping. She felt bad that he had not come for the dinner and left from there. She took a shower and came down, sat outside with her coffee looking at the paper. Armaan came and sat next to her. She saw him looking at her and turned to other side angrily. He smiled at her antics. He took the coffee mug that was on the table which she had prepared for herself and took a sip of that. As soon as he tasted it, he said, "hmmmmmmm, good coffee." She saw him drinking her coffee. She felt something in her body to see him drinking the coffee which she had already tasted but brushed the thought away saying, "no need to manaofy me. main hi buddhu hoon, mujhe pehle hi samajhlena chahiye tha, ki jo insaan mera banaya hua coffee hi nahi pita ho toh mera banaya hua khana thodi khayega. I am sorry, ainda se main aapko disturb nahi karungi."
