“You didn’t tell son you were coming to Mumbai!” Uma asked him as she sat in front of him.
“yeah, plans just happened even I didn’t have an idea I was coming here.” he said sipping the cold water.“a few things needed a fix bebe but right now I want to sleep.” he didn’t want to reveal anything, this was not the time.
“i understand son, it is just if you had informed I had made your room.” the heart of a mother went in guilt for no fault of her.
“Bebe… I’ll fix a fresh cover. No need to worry. Now go and sleep.” he told her with care evident in his voice.
“Twinkle, you still have not changed my towel, I needed a new one… bebe, it was good when you were in charge.” a grumpy face of Yuvi was in front of her.
“Yeah, I am going… just take this jug of water I am keeping for you,” she said caressing his arm to fade away the memory of another son.
“yeah… I’ll take.” and he walked back to the table his bag was lying.
“where did she go, was she not happy with this surprise visit?” he asked himself looking around in a hope to see his one glimpse.
“are you going to stay for a day or two Kunj?” Uma asked and he was startled as if he was caught doing something inappropriate.
“No bebe, I am taking the flight tomorrow evening.” he didn’t know how and when his plan got shifted for a few hours but now he needed to type a few emails.
“oh… it is okay, go freshen up..we’ll talk in the morning.” and with that Uma kept the jug on the table and retired to her room.
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With casual cleaning-sessions in his nearly No-furniture room, it didn’t need anything other than a bed cover change.
Though it had rained in the evening with all windows closed the room was little suffocating so after changing the sheets and pillow covers she walked to the window to open the glasses.
He found her door closed and thought she had already gone to bed but when the open doors of his room welcomed him… some positive vibes flew towards him.
And here she was struggling with the jammed window latch of his room, one arm securing the sheets and white covering of his bed and other trying so hard to push the latch which was little hard for her height.
“it is okay, I’ll do it.” and her stretched arm stilled hearing his voice.
Switching the fan On, he moved to the cupboard for towels.
“ohkay… ummm…Good night.” and with that, she tried to leave the room.
And before he could have warned her the sheets in her hand juggled with the jug kept on the little table near the door and with a good noise all the water spluttered on the floor.
“Twinkle careful… he shouted but it was too late and with the sudden events she lost her track and hurt her big toe badly with the door.
“Uffff….” a cry left her lips and she bent to massage her badly hurting toe and that’s when she knew it had started bleeding. The sheets soaking the water, she hunching on her feet and a total turn of events was not something he had expected to see in his room. Taking a good moment to finally understand what was needed the most this moment, he walked to her and first sided the soaked sheets and sat beside her.
“show me…” he said politely.
“it is okay, I just need a moment for this pain to go away,” she said with her eyes shut tightly.
And suddenly a faint cry crossed their eardrums, perhaps the little member was awake and needed attention.
She tried standing up and the pain shot up through the whole of her body.
Sensing her discomfort he stood up, “ I ‘ll bring her here only..just a moment.”
“but…” she tried to stop him but this was not a moment to make arguments.
“Babaji, was this your way to make it more awkward for me?” she asked with frustrated tears forming in her eyes.
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“I told him to go and meet them,” she told her mother.
“it is the strongest thing you have done my girl, it needed a lot of bravery.” Mrs. Singh told her daughter caressing her back.
“but I am done being strong Mum, every time I turned myself strong only to get broken by strong storms.” she sobbed to her mother’s lap.
“it is okay dear… there would be someone else, someone who would be the perfect match for you my doll.” seeing your child in pain is not easy for any parent.
“he is also in distress Neha, I am happy you freed him.” she was genuinely happy for every strain was now cut, her daughter needed to move on from this.
“Ma, you can’t even count how bad I am feeling this moment, please make me forget this ma…” she hugged the lady tightly and her loud wails failed to cover themselves in her mother’s lap.
the man on door felt his blood boiling up seeing the condition of her girl but he knew it was better she accepted this pain once and for all.
“is she any better Papa?” the message on the screen flashed from San Francisco.
“No Dhruv… your mother is trying her best. don’t worry, we shall take care of her” he typed away.
From Mumbai to the silicon valley, every member was concerned for her but she had no senses and the worst was she wanted to gain her senses but the right senses promised tough memories.
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Little kids are the most beautiful thing in the world unless they see their mom or dad or someone they are close to, they are happy with anyone giving them attention.
He pushed the door and her cries made him feel bad for borrowing her mother for a while.
“here, come to me princess.” and he took her in his arm and patted her back.
“it is okay, I am here…it is okay.” he kept chanting for her to calm down and after a few moments of him trying she finally stared him like trying to recognize him.
And next came her little fingers, she caressed his cheeks for the pricks which perhaps gave her pleasure cause she grinned as it pricked her and he touched her soft cheeks with his.
A giggle followed afterward and then many more until he forgot why he came there.
Twinkle who was waiting for the two came to her room when the two didn’t show up for a long time and with no cry.
With moonlight spreading through the window had intensified the cream color glow of little night bulb and in the middle of it, a father and daughter were enjoying their reunion.
She knew every kid needed both of their parents, she wasn’t able to reverse the happenings but she still had a choice to give her daughter a father.
She kept staring both of them with her fingers sticking up with semi-dried blood on her palm.
The little girl was growing up fast and he knew about it when she tried imitating his acts of touching her cheeks with his… and then he made a few more acts and faces and she tried imitating him.
This was beautiful for Kunj as well as for Twinkle and though she didn’t want to interrupt their session she needed to do it.
“Kunj,….ummm” and he turned with her in his lap and her heart skipped a beat, she had never looked at him in any other light after her marriage with Yuvi but today something was changed, perhaps it was the awakening storm in the city, perhaps his sudden arrival after all these lonely days or perhaps something else but her heart started to rhythm irregularly.
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“how did you know she needed us Rakesh..” Neha’s mother asked her dad.
“Dr. Parul called me that she had received this message and parents are the first people they want to deal with the patient so she told me to help her without her knowing about it,” he told her after they came out of her room giving her the medicine Dr had told her.
“but when did this start Rakesh? We had no idea she was seeing a psychiatrist.” the lady who was a strong woman broke for the first time after seeing her daughter like that.
“it is okay, she will be fine… depression is a phase, not a disease. I am happy she is a strong girl.”Rakesh pacified the lady.
“but how come we never know about it, how she grew this distant to us?” in between the silent cries she asked the man.
“now is not the time to question ourselves Savitri, it is the time to help her,” he said staring the message her daughter had sent her doctor this night.
“I think It is going terrible Doctor, I need to meet you urgently…before this pain takes my life”
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“Sorry, I kind of lost the track of time.” he apologized walking towards her.
“it is fine, I am okay,” she said trying to look away in an attempt to not get caught staring them.
But as soon as mother was there Kunj was no one to little Kavya and she wriggled in his arms to go back to her mother.
Twinkle moved faster to take the girl in her hands, in the process hitting her toe again with the foot of her bed.
“aaah, and her body jolted with the uncontrollable pain.
Covering her toe she sat on the bed and this time tears made their ways out of eyes.
“Hey careful..” he warned her but he was too late.
Seeing no way out he made the little girl sitting on the bed beside her and ran to his room for water and some antiseptic liquid which he hoped was there in his room.
“how could I be this careless,” this was the only Thought wandering in her mind with the tears flowing on her cheeks.
her daughter crawled to her lap seeing her mother in distress and looked at her with eyes filled with puzzlement.
“Sit straight and leave your toe…”he ordered her and proceeded to hold her feet.
“Hey, what are you doing ..I can manage.” she tried pulling her feet and with the high pitched shrill Kavya got terrified and started crying again.
“just hold her and its nothing big.” he held her toe lightly and poured the water on it rubbing the dried blood gently.
The smart kid was silent in no moment and curiously gazed the procedure this man was doing to her mother.
With his warm touch, she shivered for a while… cool winds have made their way again for a late night shower.
With utter gentleness, he cleared it and putting the ointment covered it with the cotton gauze.
All the time she kept staring him with no sound and it seemed the moment was stopped for her…
she needed someone to take care of her this way, she needed someone to hug when she was alone…
and she needed someone to be with her in the storms to hold her hand and wait for the storm to get quiet.
One more time she needed to give a chance to this life.
“it’s done, I am going to have a sleep.,” he said after he was done.
“are you going to stay longer?” before she could have stopped herself, the words left her mouth sending jolts of happiness in his heart which, of course! he wasn’t going to tell her.
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Hello everyone, how all of you are doing? I know it is the season of exams, entrances, and weddings but I hope you all are managing it well.
I went through a few of the crucial things in my life this week which drained myself totally, writing gives me the immense pleasure and strength and I did write but something else which I felt these days..someday I’ll share with you all.
But again telling you Loving again is not easy.
Now a notice that I am apologizing in advance – Next part will come after 10 or On 10 only because I have a few exams and a few personal things to complete.
Take care everyone and do tell me how you like.
With Love Morusya.