It was their 1st
anniversary and Pranay said that she should get ready as he wanted to show her
something. And here in room she was
in flux to do what? Just then Ammo came and said “Bai Ji, it’s your chance to
common normal life. Take it; I know it’s hard to trust someone when he has broken
your trust so many times. But you also wanted a dead do us apart kind of
marriage so now this what it matters. Go for the chance and make him your
Kunwar Saab, tell the world that you are Uttara Pranay Sangher.”
She took her chance and got dressed in He took
her the balcony where she saw a large cloth covering a segment of balcony so Bai
Ji removed and found that there was huge cage with innumerable love birds of
all colours, he said “When I was visiting your father recently I saw over there
that your father was tending to pigeons, he only told that you like birds. So
after a lot of thought, I thought its best to get you some as other way also
you get bored over here.”
“But I don’t like caging them.” Bai Ji said in
small voice
“Ok, then no problem we can free them” he said moving
towards the cage.
“Can I free them once at a time, but then how
much I will miss them” Bai Ji said in child like whisper. For the first time in
their wedding he saw the girl in front of him to not be someone who was 29 but
a teenager craving for love, he can’t even imagine his life being brought in
house filled with 7 sisters and 2 brothers, he always had more than enough
attention in his life.
“Don’t worry I will refill them till the time you
either get bored with petting birds or with setting them free.” He said good
humourly, where he realised that his small gesture opened the doors of her
heart in a manner which he cannot see. It was first crack in their wall of
separation. As she hugged him by herself and drawing happiness from his
posture, she may be really strong but she has now decided to lean to him.
After this incident their room was always full of
chirps of birds and many times of peals of her laughter. Sometimes Pranay use
to imagine how both of them sounded so similar to his ears. Now she smiled more
often and laughing would be correct word. As promised he kept his word and the
cage was always full of birds, small colourful birds. To see the birds most of
the time his room was now flocked by the female brigade of haveli. From maids
to his Maa now everybody would be there pampering the birds.
Uttara now also involved herself with Ammo and
both of them together kept the royalty of this haveli still alive. They were
still busy with community school in morning to sorting some miniscule problems
of estate and then they will be just together reading books.
Pranay sometimes just wanted to thank Ammo to be
there when they were at their worst. Because it was just only due to Ammo their
marriage stayed. And now the situation was that even his parents loved Bai Ji
more than him. Now the whole haveli would like “Bhaiya, Bai Ji ko bhejo na,
kuch kaam hai.” But still he was not free from his guilt about how he treated
her.
“Please, let be a husband to you only for today.
I know it’s your birthday. You only wanted this relationship to work. So give a
chance for repentance.” He said being teary eyed as he felt how badly he had
wronged this girl.
“Only at one condition, we will never discuss the
past again and live our lives more full of new hope. And you will stay my
husband till the end of our lives” Uttara said emotionally.
Bai Ji just turned and took the saree to the
dressing room and opening her wardrobe started searching accurate blouse. Just
when she was about to pull a full sleeve black velvet blouse. Bai Ji felt him
near her saying “I know you are the elder daughter-in-law but that doesn’t mean
you always need to dress up royally. It’s just you and me so you can go with
more eased look, but only if you want. By the way, the saree had its blouse
too. It’s in another bag.” With that he left the room so that Bai Ji had
privacy to change.
Bai Ji came down wearing the silver saree with pink-purple
halter neck blouse. Her curls were lying on one of her shoulders. With that Bai
Ji only wore jhumkis and under bustier diamond band. Bai Ji was smiling shyly
that only he noticed that Bai Ji had some marks in her upper arms, they were
dark marks of something like scratch marks. He decided to inquire about them
but later. For now they needed to be with each other.
He took her to their estate near a river where
there lied a mattress in garden with bon fire and under the stars while bubbling
sound of water rustled, he just said
“Sorry, I have no idea to celebrate some ones birthday. I thought that
you are always so full of people that you would like this.”
They just sat down enjoying the starry night,
after a while he said “May ask you something’s about your life? I never tried
to know each other. So let’s start with that. You toh know that I am studied
from top universities of India and joined business after completing my studies
10 years back.”
The night was quite they both just sat and talked
and talked about each other lives. This was the first time they just had talks
like friends and came to know many hidden traits of each others’ personality.
The natural graduation in their relationship progressed;
she just slipped calling him “Kunwar Saab” as like all other wives called their
husbands. Like now all the household including himself called her “Bai Ji”
The first time he realised that he earned back
“Kunwar Saab” he was so ecstatic that he said to call him that once again which
she did unconsciously and then when she realised, she blushed like a ripe
cherry and was silent throughout the day.
The room now showed signs of cohabitation, from
mini fights over covers to now had a huge picture of them framed and put in
their personal library where she is holding him by arms and looking at him
curiously where he looking at her lovingly. The photo that was clicked when he
was taking her to see their anniversary gift
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