"Hello, Baby" she hugged her baby Tara the moment she entered the house.
"Mooomy" Tara squealed excitedely.
"Mooom..." she stressed on the word, frowning "... Why do you smell like ice cream?" the little girl questioned her mother taking a step back, with her eye brows raised, suspicion clouding her eyes with her little arms crossed over her chest.
"Well...may be because I had ice cream with choco chips and berries... Oh wait there may have been wafers too" Sanyukta teased her baby twisting her lips thinking of few more additions.
"Bad mommy...wweally weally bad, you ate without me." she said pouting.
Sanyukta took a moment to look at her daughter from head to toe : frown...check, pout...check, crossed arms...check, one feet placed slightly ahead of the other...check. Sanyukta smiled at the little girl, this girl was going to be one handful when she will grow... just like her, yup cut/past, she chuckled.
"Daddyyy..." Tara shrilled as she ran away leaving Sanyukta chuckling to herself in the hallway.
A few minutes later Karan came up to the living room along with Tara in his arms, "Daddy..." Tara wailed and cuddled to her dad while Karan animatedly frowned.
"Don't worry Tara...Look daddy will beat Sanyu mommy" Karan assured Tara and patted
Sanyukta's head.
"Oucchhh" Sanyukta wailed back animatedly, Tara looked up and narrowed her eyes in suspicion.
"This was not a real punch daddy ! You are on her side" she whined.
Sanyukta's eyes grew wide at her daughter's comment... so little and already so smart... this little girl will go really far in her life ! ... definitely a mini her, she smirked remembering the lyrics of the hit song ma ka phone aya "jaldi hi tu bi teri mom jaisi ban jayegi ... ban jayegi..." and just like that the world will witness the ascension of a new drama queen, Sanyukta will pass her crown to her daughter, taking a vow from her, promising to spread her melodrama all around the world. ...Yeah she could already picture that, thought Sanyukta dreamingly.
"Tara baby, don't worry we will go and grab more ice cream than your mommy..." Karan's voice snapped her back to reality, reassuring Tara.
"Pow Pow Pow" Tara fist punched in the air towards Sanyukta to which she just showed her
tongue in tease.
"Okay baby Tara go and do your homework then we'll go for ice cream" Karan told her as
she moved upstairs leaving the duo behind.
"So ! Finally, the great and mighty Sanyukta deemed us valuable enough to grant us some time of her tight- money-costing schedule ... " Karan mocked Sanyukta as he gestured her toward the couch.
"More like tight-life-costing schedule..." she muttered under her breath. Indeed these days, either she was busy running away from kidnappers or she was playing "who-will-blink-first" with a gun. ...getting engaged with a hot gangster did that...
" I was busy saving my life mister !" she slapped his hand. More like "me makin the devil life miserable and him saving mine" she smiled inwardly at how easily she could rile up the gangster...the way he galred at her in return, his chest puffing out, his fist and jaw clenching, ...heavy package of hotness, he was !
"When are you not... ?" Karan rolled his eyes, making her come back to earth.
"Hey ! ...At least pretend to be a little concerned for you friend here..." she rolled her eyes back at his lack at his concern.
"So... did you...umm hear about the shoot out?" she asked tiredly, slouching in the couch, lying flat on her stomach.
Karan looked at her weirdly.
"What ?" inquired Sanyukta, noting his disgusted expression.
"You do know that your face is currently rubbing the place where people usually put their butts, right ?... where they even might have farted, right ? " he told her flatly.
"Ewww !!!! eew eww eww" Sanyukta squealed immediately jerking up rubbing her face, thanking Karan for this valuable, life saving piece of info.
"You're welcome" chuckled Karan, sitting in front of her.
"So yeah I heard about the shootout, why ? Karan answered in a confused tone, puling the newspaper with the same headline on the table... "What about it ?..." a few minutes in processing mode and he joined the dots...
"Wait...! ... No way... No... you didn't ?!" he asked her to confirm his doubts.
Sanyukta smothered upped her imaginary collars, and "Yes I did."
"No ways ! ...How?! Why?! " Karan attacked her with questions. "...Wait that was the day you took arpita's dress... OMG !" Karan asked back in disbelief.
"Stop squealing like a girl..." Sanyukta frowned at her friends antics.
"Concern show karo to problem, na karo to problem... " muttered Karan.
"Whatever, shut up and listen" Sanyukta cut his ranting short.
She narrated him the whole story, from the moment she borrowed Arpita's dress, till Randhir took a bullet for her, deliberately avoiding mentioning what happened afterwards. Getting all cosy and little pecks were one thing but hot make out sessions and sleeping in a guy's bed were a whole other level.
"So... What you are saying is that the guy took the bullet for you..." Karan looked up from the table to Sanyukta after a momentary pause.
Yeah he had saved her life risking his... repeated Sanyukta in her mind for the umpteenth time... it was kind of unexpected at first...but in some way it a totally logic course of history... confusing, right ?... Rummaging through their relationship history folder, one could easily point out the animosity between the duo, kidnapping, insulting, stealing...they had done it all ! At one point she was sure, he was her biggest enemy ...as she was his, no matter petty criminals and lowlife, serial killers and rowdy gangsters...at some point she was sure she was his greatest enemy. ...They were so different. While she was delicate and refined, he was strong and primal. While she was calm and composed, he was rude and hot headed... She had hated his ways and he had hated hers... she had hated his lack of morals and he had hated her curtain of false principles...She had hated his dominating and controlling personality and he had hated her challenging and gutty one... He had been ice, she had been fire... and slowly...very slowly they had consumed each other...to point that they got so intertwined, that they didn't know what was theirs and what was the others... Sanyukta recalled every moment spent with him...every emotion she felt. In their fights, their quarrels... they had gotten used to each other... they had started understanding each other... then arguments got heavier... matter got even more serious... mix in it : sexual tension...raw thirst for the each other... possessiveness...hapniess...jeaslousy... and it gave a hot turbulent mess...they had felt it all...and they had come to the same conclusion, they had gone too far...none wanted any of this...but still it happened...to the point where the other's life became more import that than their own...Sanyukta sighed. She sighed because she knew if roles had been switched, she would have also jumped in to save his life...and that frightened her bid time !
Sanyukta snapped back to reality and nodded while Karan sighed.
"...and you left him afterward ?" he inquired further as if waiting for some specific response.
"Umm... yes... why ?" asked Sanyukta, confused.
"OMG ! ... seriously girl ?!" exclaimed Karan, his mouth hanging open.
"Close that trap, less shit will come out of it !" she clapped his mouth shut.
"No, but... Seriously ?! ... you didn't do anything ????!" he repeated flabbergasted.
"Me... Why ? ... should I have done something ?" Sanyukta looked back in wonder and confusion.
"Oh C'mon where's your side of gratitude Sanyukta ?! ...the guy didn't pull out a chair for you on a dinner date... he took bullet for you damn it !" Karan reasoned.
"Like he would ever ask me on a date... much less pull out the chair for me..." Sanyukta muttered.
Karan pinched his nose and gathered some patience.
"Focus Sanyukta! ...FOCUS!"
"Right sorry" Sanyukta replied sheepishly.
"We are not talking about mundane gallantry and sugar coated words girl...! we are talking about HIM saving YOUR life...!!! ...him allowing you to stuff more muffins in that fat tummy of yours in the up comming years...!!!!" He said gesturing toward the muffing in her hand along with her cup of coffee.
" ...him preventing you from having to deal with boring mushy angels and annoying little devils poking your derriere... !!!! him preventing Tara from being mother less again and crying her eyes out...!!! him preventing me from hunting down your soul and killing your all over again...!!! is that clear enough or do I have to repeat it in chinese ?!" he enumerated loudly in one go, stating the importance and depth of point.
"Yeah...ummm your are kinda right... he did save me from all those horrible things" she sighed thinking about the super hot devil... Ok not the right moment to think about his hotness !
"Glad to know that you stopped thinking like a grandma who moves about half a step a year... we are FINALLY on the same lines !" exclaimed a relieved Karan.
"Grandma yourself !" she retorted back outraged by the comparison. She was NOT old NOR wrinkled !... the speed thing could be subjected to debate...
"Urgh... Focuuus Sanyukta pleaaase !" said Karan
"Okeyyy mooom" Sanyukta rolled her eyes at him.
"Eww that's weird, am not your mom"
"Focus Karan, focus" she imitated him, making faces.
He looked at her , eye brows raised ...she looked back at him with the same expression, and suddenly they both burst out laughing.
"...Love you Karan !" she launched herself at him in a life squeezing hug.
"Love you too baby girl !" Karan hugged her back.
"Okey ! ...SO ! What's the plan ?" she asked taking back her seat, twitching her nose.
"Well See here's the bid..." he pulled back his gay avatar, "You look hot sure han... but the
guy's not bad himself either... " Karan started flickering his fingers again, "And he must be the apple of a lot of pairs of eyes I'm sure" he winked back reminding Sanyukta of one familiar set
of eyes she wanted to removes out of sockets for sure.
Shaina, that Man-snatcher climber vine. Sanyukta fisted her hands in return, how can she
forget her encounter Sanyukta re-collected, Nah she can't let those dim-wits surface up,
Imagining herself up just like the circus ring master tackling loins with a whip. Better none to
approach!
"No one near him !!!" she muttered day dreaming in herself, the kitten extending her claws ready to pounce of the first source of danger "...Or I might have to mark my territory the old way" Sanyukta almost punched the couch. ...The oldhuman way, she added in her mind...because every species had their own way of marking territories and dogs' style was definitely not the one Sanyukta was referring to. Did you know that dogs marked their territory by peeing on the perimeter ? ...yeuurk !!! right !
"Whoa... Easy there kitten ! Simmer down" Karan broke her trance, sipping on his mug, "That's the stage I don't want you to be in...So what's the plan?"
"Well, Frankly I've no idea on how to pursue that" Sanyukta pouted totally confused... "On the other
hand I should actually be asking you about this, What would you like as a guy?"
"As a guy I would like for to you to start showing me some respect... from what I understood, you are constantly challenging and disrespecting the guy" suggested Karan.
"Uski shakal hi aisi hai, dekhte hi chirana ka maan karta hai" said Sanyukta absent mindedly.
Karan chuckled at his friend's cuteness "Okey...then DTR?"
"Define The Relationship..." Karan could tell by the look, the words flew above her head, "Like you may start expressing how you feel, the way you both want to end up".
"No way ! ...he is the guy, he should be the one saying it first... am the girl am supposed to be shy and wait for him to take the first step. " she contered him.
"Exactly !... you are supposed to be " he quoted her words. "...but as you are not, you can do it first..."
"No way ! I'll say will after him, period" she concuded, leaving no room for dabate.
"But you just said it yourself, you would even mark territory if required" Karan marked a point.
When the only thing got in return was Sanyukta stern look, he sighed defeated. Next.
"Okeyyy fine !... so hummm may be... you should... you know... hum..." started Karan, scratching the back of his neck
"what ? i should what ? "
"You should hum ...you know..."
"Come on, pop it out already !" she snapped.
"...Please him..." finally said Karan.
"What do you mean please him ?... " Sanyukta asked him back ,not understanding his point, but suddenly a thought crossed her mind... Oh that kind of pleasing ! "Please... I hope you are not thinking about what I am thinking because if you are thinking about what I am thinking then you will surely not be pleased with what I am going to do to you for even bringing up that idea..."
"What ? you asked for a guy's advice...what did you expected ? " he rolled his eyes at her.
"Pig... ! " muttered Sanyukta.
Disregarding her insult Karan said "Are you sure you want to do something ? it does not look like that to me...
"Not my fault all your ideas are stupid"
"Excuse me my ideas are not stupid...you are the stupid one here. "
Sanyukta sighed, "You are not helping here..."
"Come on sanyu the guy took a bullet for you, even though he didn't says anything you should have understood that you meant the life for him, actions speaks louder than words sometimes..." he told her...not thet she needed to be reminded, she had understood loud and clear...what she didn't know what was what she going to do now...
"...and what you did in return you left him... any sane person would have run into his arms, and here you are still thinking about it... damn it girl go for it ! " Karan stated, urging her to act.
"He did take a bullet for me... right... and instead of staying with him acknowledging his feelings I ran away... " She sighed, she was so confused, her mind and her heart were kick boxing...with no apparant referee, she was sooo tired.
"I came here to take a break and see what you have done you made me feel guilty, what sould I do now ? " she groaned, biding farewell to sir PeaceOfMind.
"You have to make up for it, and don't be surprised if he is pissed off at you" he added.
"Let me think...hmmm what can I do...the devil is on bed rest he can't move a lot...hmmm...Idea ! " she exclaimed after a minute of thinking.
"What is it ? " Karan asked her to make sure that her plan was good enough.
"Can't tell you"
"Oooh...something naughty naughty... hmmm" he teased her.
"shut up. and tell me what time is it ? "
"5 pm" karan informed her.
"Whaaat ? it's already 5pm ?!!! " came Sanuyukta's panicked voice.
"I have to go ! I need to fetch some things" she said hurrying out. It was time to show some gratitude to the man that had put his life in line for hers.
Deep thinking could wait she will have to at some point...but not now, her poor devil was waiting for her...her poor devil, the irony...!