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Recap: Sanskar comes to pick Swara….
Chapter 9
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Swara was ready with her baggage…giving a final check to everything she stated
Swara: (looking at Sanskar) I think we can leave now
Sanskar was about to say something when an acquainted voice made him turn
“Oh Sanskar!… you are here?”
Sanjeet was standing there along with Bushra. He was little surprised to see Sanskar there. He came up to him and they greeted each other….
Bushra: (giving a tight hug to Swara) So, my bacha is ready?
Swara: finally you came ha…..I thought you forgot
Bushra: (patting her cheek) how can I forget dear…. I have to come, sorry for being late. But it wasn’t my fault…. I was ready since morning, this is all because of your uncle
Sanjeet looked at her who was talking with Sanskar earlier
Sanjeet: (with sorry eyes) Sorry princess… I was little busy with my work and it was urgent
Swara: It’s ok uncle…. I can understand
Sanjeet: (smirk) well I had one more reason…. I don’t want you to get torture by your aunty’s emotional talks whole day…. (Looking at Sharmishtha) I think one mother is enough for this
Everybody smiled after listening him except the two women who were giving him a deadly glare. Sanskar was silently admiring their bonding…. He could see the same motherly love for Swara in Bushra’s eyes. After some friendly talk he signaled his driver to keep her luggage in the car…. She bid by to everyone… a final hug to her loved ones…. Suppressing her tears…..
Ashwin: (teary eyes) I will miss you…. come back soon
Swara: (controlling her tears) me too…. Go and get a bath look at yourself…filthy boy (she said to tease him)
Ashwin gave her a fake angry glare….. Sharmishtha and Bushra both requested Sanskar to take care of their daughter while Sanjeet playfully stated “Sanskar, be careful ha if anything happens to Swara, you have to face the fury of not one but two mothers”.
She bid a final bye and then they drove off…. Leaving behind all with teary eyes….
As soon as she left Sharmishtha broke down in tears, hugging Bushra tightly…
“Bushra! Why Shekhar left us in the middle, I hate him” that’s all she manage to speak
Looking her mother’s state Ashwin looked at Sanjeet who immediately hugged him to comfort, consoling him not to cry…. Whereas deep down he was feeling the same pang…
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Sanskar’s POV
As soon as she sat in the car bidding a final good bye, the tears she was suppressing all this while started oozing from her eyes…. She was looking outside the window blankly, trying to hide her tears but I could still see her wet cheeks…. I was feeling bad for her but what could I do? I knew I am not good at comforting words so I did what I was good at “distracting people”. “Well I can understand Miss Bose how you must be feeling right now…. I felt the same when I had to join boarding school leaving my family behind… at that time I was eight”. Looking at her face I knew she was annoyed by my words… as I was indirectly stating her behavior as immature. Composing herself, she wiped her tears and again turned towards the window…. I smirked looking at her as I successfully did my work. After that we didn’t spoke anything neither she nor I…. she was getting bore…. Swiping the screen of her mobile in between to kill the time…. But after some time she gave up on that also…. Its only about 45 minutes since we started, almost two and the half hour journey was still left if only we would be fortunate enough not to get any traffic jam in between…. I was looking outside the window when a sound disturbed me…. I turned towards the source and saw her, she was flipping the buckle of the seat belt continuously, left to right… right to left… playing with it like a kid making a continuous sound…. I was feeling irritated, just to avoid this I turned myself to other side. After few seconds I realized there was silence, the sound faded… just to check what she was up to next I turned to her…. I was shocked with the scene… the lap belt was in her hand along with that buckle…. God! She broke that…how could she, I mean is she a kid? Knowing my possessiveness towards my cars, not even Siya did anything like that ever… I was thinking about my decision, whether I had made an impulsive decision by choosing her for my daughter or what? I gulped my anger… she was looking at me with horror stricken face as if I will hang her for this crime…. No doubt I wanted to punish her for this but then I looked at her eyes and I don’t know what happened but I couldn’t utter a word….. She quickly held that buckle and was trying to fix that back in place…. But I knew the damaged was made and it can’t be redeemed. Suppressing my anger I spoke “It’s ok Miss Bose, leave that”…. She looked at me with guilty eyes “I am sorry” that’s all she had to say. Again the silence prevailed between us…. We were in the middle of our journey when abruptly car halted…. My driver told me that there is a huge jam, we have to wait here till it clears…. This part of the journey irritates me the most…. I turned towards her, to my surprise she was sleeping peacefully like an innocent kid… it was a relief for me, finally she won’t do any further damage to my prized possession, I thought. I was staring her confused with the thought that how this delicate soul will handle my daughter… later I decided to leave it on time… it will tell everything….
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Shekhar’s house
Sharmishtha was sitting with Bushra in Swara’s room still with teary eyes….
Bushra: Sharmishtha, if you behave like this then how will you handle Ashu?…. He is a kid he needs you…. you have to be strong
Sharmishtha: (whipping her tears) I know Bushra you are right but what can I do… I am helpless… how will she live there without me…
Bushra: (holding her hand) we know our daughter very well…. She is very mature and she knew how to handle everything even better than you….
Bushra gave a teasing smile to her where as she hit her shoulder, smiling through her tears…..
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Shekhar’s house, at hall
Sanjeet was sitting with Ashwin talking to him to distract his mind…..
Sanjeet: Ashu beta…. You are a strong man and we men can’t weep like girls… so just cheer up
Ashwin: (annoyingly) can’t she do a job here?
Sanjeet: why you are behaving like this…. you know you are man of this family now and you have to be strong…. If you cry like this then how will you support your mother…. Ok tell me do you have a girl friend?
Ashwin: (surprised with an unexpected question) No…
Sanjeet: Do you like anyone in school?
Ashwin didn’t reply to this instead he shyly looked down… Sanjeet smiled at his behavior
Sanjeet: just think how she will feel when she gets to know that you were crying like a baby for your sister…. I am telling you a secret my friend, women always like strong men not a crying baby….
Ashwin looked at him with a smile and they gave hi-fi to each other….. Sanjeet knew it won’t be easy for these two to manage without Swara but they have to….
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Sanjeet house
They reached home late……
Sanjeet: (passing her medicine) have it….. Bushra why are you crying now, there in Shekhar’s house you were consoling Sharmishtha and now you are shedding tears
Bushra: (irritated) I am not crying because Swara left….
Sanjeet: (confused) then why are you crying?
Bushra: I was thinking if shekhar would have alive he would never allow Swara to do such job… where she has to stay in someone else’s house
Sanjeet: (calm tone) what’s wrong in this job dear…
Bushra: (annoyed) don’t you find it absurd for her…. I am not getting why you are so willing to make her to do this job
Sanjeet: (serious tone) I don’t know Bushra… I think it’s my instinct… you always say na that we should follow our instinct… I am just doing that… I feel Swara and Sanskar can help each other to come out of their miseries…
Bushra: (surprised) I wish it to be true…. But what Misery can he have…. He has everything, money, power, social status… what else he need
Sanjeet: (sad smile) yeah…. What else he need, he has everything…(coming back from his thought) you take rest now, I am in office as I can’t handle your emotional torture anymore…
She gave him an annoyed look as he moved to switch off the light….
Precap: Swara’s and Siya’s first meeting………..