Soz-ae-Ishq

58. ..Grins and Giggles..

"So many of my smiles begin with you.."

He shuffled in his bed as he heard noises coming from the living room, he groggily got up stepping out of his room, he looked around Shehnaaz stood in the kitchen as she seemed to be tossing some pancakes, he could smell brewing coffee from the warm kitchen, he looked out it was still snowing..

"Good Morning Daa" he heard Vaidehi's squeal as she rushed towards him wrapping her arms around him, while he leaned down planting a kiss on top of her head, he saw her looking up from a minute, her eyes held a hidden joy on seeing him, which she tried hard to hide with the walls of pain and disinterest..

"Good morning bacha" he responded..

"Breakfast karte hai sath mein chalo"Vaidehi exclaimed, dragging him by his hand..

"Okay..Let me freshen up in 10 minutes, I will be back" he responded, more to both of them, while Vaidehi nodded happily as he excused himself..

He came back after some time seating himself besides Vaidehi's kitchen chair, as they both faced Shehnaaz who buttered the toast in her hand..He kept looking at her while she did not spare a glance at him..

She served pancakes in two plates in front of them, as Vaidehi was about to pick up one of the plate, Shehnaaz tapped her hand away..

"Bacha take this one..this has pineapple sauce as the toppings, and this one does not" she passed the other plate to Vaidehi while Sidharth picked up another one..

"But why does Daa plate not have pineapple sauce" Vaidehi questioned innocently, picking up a fork in her hand..

"Because I am allergic to pineapples" Sidharth responded after few minutes of silence, in a soft tone, making Shehnaaz look up at him,His gaze brushed her face, an odd little caress she felt all the way through her body, just as if he'd touched her with his fingers.. his eyes held a faint assured smile, she immediately moved hers away from him, she poured him his coffee, moving out of the kitchen..

She adjusted herself on the sofa, they both finished the breakfast laughing and smiling, while Shehnaaz watched them from a distance, her lips twitching up at the sight, that was all how it was supposed to be, their own little world, their family knitted by love before the storm hit disrupting this lovely dream..It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered...

Sidharth comes and sits across her on the sofa, as she focuses harder on the laptop in her lap, he opens his own, their eyes checking each other out every few minutes, none of them exchanging a word as they worked silently on their laptops, that is how their routine had fallen since a week from when she let him in, he would try talking to her, but she would leave the room or Vaidehi would be around, he knew she was avoiding having a conversation with her and that was defeating the whole point of him being there, the storm has started subsiding outside but the calmness that the air between them held had a scary apprehension of an outburst approaching..

He so wanted to talk to her but she won't lift her eyes from the screen , she knew he was looking at her,but she is trying hard to not acknowledge it..he understood she've lost her fair share of love, too. Just because they have a different way of handling it, doesn't mean she doesn't have scars of her own..

shehnaazattherateofdesigner.com

"Hi"

He hit send on the mail, looking up at her as he did so, he immediately looked back at the screen as he saw her expression change looking at the screen..He sighed as she did not respond as expected and went back to working..