Breaking the silence- part 2
As soon as he heard those ,he started to understand those little strange actions of her, every scene started playing on his retina like a movie, how she has blushed when he has looked in her direction more than 2 seconds today evening, how all the time they were together she was uncomfortable , how when he has caressed her cheeks today she has turned away her eyes.
How he couldn’t get that she was getting attracted to himself rather she was having those strange feelings called togetherness. and as he realized the truth behind those actions, on his own he kneeled to herself balancing himself on his knees and asked “ I don’t know, you tell or you can ask your Suhani Ma.” He teased her.
“how you don’t know, you know everything ,you are always right,” she was not in her senses and for the first time he was enjoying it rather he wanted to have this talk go on and on but he knew it was wrong for her to tell her feelings in this state where she herself wasn’t aware of that .
So in an attempt to stop her incoherent yet so important talks he said,” sleep Krishna ,we will seek the answers later.”
And as he tried getting up , he felt her palms on his knees “ I was so unconfident about me all my life that I never have thought life would be that generous to me. You came to me like a dream I never dreamed yet wished.”
In that moment he tried really hard to stop himself from just pulling her in his embrace and hug her tightly. But it felt so wrong to do that even when she was his wife and he had every rights to do so .
“I am right here Krishna ,and though I don’t think I am capable of becoming someone’s dream I am your reality and you are mine”. Intertwining their fingers he said and in no time he felt her balancing her head in his palm and gone ,she was gone in some good sleep she needed .
After a few minutes and assuring that she has gone into a deep slumber, he stretched himself on his side of bed.
then started a past memory of a time where his mom has asked him to meet this girl doing her masters in medicines and though he had no preferences for his would be wife he had thought to himself why a doctor ,wont it be a little too different!!
But who he was kidding, gods over skies always know the best for us living under them.
They had met in her college where her semesters were going on and he had to meet her future wife in the visiting hall of university. He remembered she was accompanied with Rachna, a good friend of his too now. She looked nervous and as they both reached her and Rachna had left after the little introduction, he was feeling her nervousness on her face and he still didn’t believe even after 9 months since that first meet that she was one confident and fine student in her batch.
“So you are doing your masters in cardiology ,right ?. he had tried breaking the ice .
‘‘Yes .’’ and received a small mumble.
Talking a little about here and there ,about their family,and his job where mostly he was the one starting something he had felt one thing for sure she was a meagre talker. she still is ,he corrected himself.
As he felt their cups were getting empty he suddenly asked
“”What do you need in a marriage’’ and with no thinking like a rapid fire she had said.
“trust .I don’t know if love stories exist In real or not, I haven’t seen but I have seen trust in marriages and I guess that’s enough for a life to spend with someone.” She had completed in a single breath and her only one sentence long answer in the whole meeting lasting 35 mins.
And in the end she has looked in her eyes.
But he had never got a chance to answer her as Rachna had come again to tell their practicals had started already and she had to go. and saying a Good bye it was already over.
He liked his simplicity, he had always been surrounded by smart ,straight to heart and fast forward girls in his college or in his job but this simple ,down to earth, shy and a somewhat traditional girl felt a best match to stop her feet for a while in the rushed atmosphere he was living in.
His mother had called him and he had said a yes immediately to someone he knew for a few days and met just an hour ago even when he felt he was much practical in his life, thought with brains and spent hours for taking a decision he had said yes with no more thinking.
And in next two months they were engaged and now after 9 months they were living under the same roof.
With that lope sided smile of his he turned on his side and found her sleeping peacefully, she looked confident by the way in her sleep.
“Look Krishna ,we have come to that level in our lives where we trust each other, comfortable with each other and now when I know the truth behind all those weird behaviors of your so I guess Love stories exist in real life too,at least now you are going to believe them. He said to himself and pulling the comforter he too slept .unknown to them a long day was waiting for them.
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“no ma, I am perfectly fine now, no need to visit a doctor, and why you are going to ask him for that. He has already once told he was working on some civil project and its deadline was close,” Krishna nearly pleaded Suhani.
It was already too much for her that she didn’t remember a single thing after that water bottle Sayyam had offered last night, what she talked last night or said to him or anybody she was really terrified about all those things. Also people say alcohol makes the secrets out and she didn’t want any of that sort to happen.
“So now you are going to tell me what to and what not to talk with my son, Krishna” inwardly laughing she enquired a now scared Krishna.
“No, no ma I didn’t mean that.” She said urgently.
“What happened Ma, why you here? He asked getting up, and suddenly he saw Krishna fidgeting with herself. “hey, you alright.?” He enquired. “Should we visit a doctor?” but before her reply his mother started laughing and she too looked a bit embarrassed.
“See Krishna, my son and I think same.” Suhani quipped .
But no ma, I am perfectly fine ,really no need .Krishna assured her.
And mumbling about no one was listening her these days suhani left.
Now as she found herself with him alone in room, again those thoughts started coming in her mind, and she silently prayed her gods to save her .
“Krishna, I am so sorry ,I said it was okay to have that drink but maybe it affected you a little too much.”he was genuinely sorry .
“No,no it was not your fault, I myself never knew it wasn’t going to suit me.”she was calm now as the topic of last night did not come.
“Krishna ,lets go somewhere today ,also we never went somewhere as in for us.”he was looking towards her.
And there was something again in his eyes that wanted some answers, did she tell him something yesterday but she wasn’t that careless to say her heart aloud but who knows that alcohol did some weird things to her that she didn’t even remember how are clothes were changed and moreover how she reached her room from the wedding venue.
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“Okay.”she found herself agreeing even when it was the last thing she wanted right now or was she wishing this only. She was definetly behaving weird around him.
“Be ready at 5 ,I’ll pick you up.”he said while entering the washroom .
And suddenly the terror was back, THOSE EYES ,she suddenly remembered telling someone about those eyes and it definitely shouldn’t be him but how suddenly he is asking to go somewhere, here she was already wanting to just leave those intense eyes and now this proposal. She has definitely messed up .
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thank you so much guys I am so overwhelmed with your response,I hope you like the second part.