OS - I found My Hero - II

OS - I found My Hero - II

Both the son and father walked towards the entrance, holding each others hand tightly. Anyone could say they are the perfect father and son.

Arnav looked at his son feeling content. He don’t know what had transpired to him, what made to change his decision, but whatever be the reason he is happy to get his son back in his life.

Both retired to their room after bidding good night.

After an hour, Arnav was sitting on his bed looking at the frame with small smile playing on his lips.  

“Khushi… I  missed you… Life without you is horrible” Arnav breathed out looking at the smiling face of his wife and his son. He was slowly closing his eyes, when he felt someone hugging his frame and placing their head on his arm. When he opened his eyes, he saw his son with closed eyes cuddling to him.

“Atharv?”

“Dad Please… Shall I sleep with you?” Atharv asked with closed eyes.

“Sleep Atharv. It’s very late” saying Arnav patted his back.

Both don’t know when the sleep took over them.

Early Morning,

Atharv woke up with sound of someone putting something on the table. He opened his eyes to see the steaming coffee places on the coffee table. He looked up to see Hariprakash leaving the room without disturbing his sleep. He went to bathroom to freshen up and came after few minutes. He looked around to find the traces of his father. But he found none. He took his coffee and moved towards the poolside to see his father tending his plants.

“Dad?”

Arnav turned back hearing his son calling him.

“Chotte?”

Atharv frowned hearing this name

“Dad, Please Im not chotte. Im big man now”

Arnav chuckled at his son’s annoyed face.

“Good morning Chotte”

“Good morning Dad” Atharv went to him and gave a hug still with the frown in his face.

“BTW What got you here young man” asked Arnav seeing his son having early morning talk with him.

“Simply dad… Coffee?” Atharv asked offering his mug..

“No Son… I will have my coffee in sometime”

“It’s okay dad.. You can share my cup”

Saying Atharv offered his mug…

Arnav took a sip from the mug smiling at his son. How much he had missed this.

In Breakfast table,

Both the man was sitting on the table and Hariprakash was serving them, when again Atharv frowned seeing the food..

“What happened son?”

“Dad I don’t want this toast… I want some omelette, can you make it for me?” Atharv asked pouting his lips, which Arnav felt cute.

He remembered a very familiar expression of his wife. He missed his wife. Even Though he didn’t say it aloud, it still pains him living without his wife.

He got back to reality when his son shook him.

“Dad please?”

Arnav jumped up from his seat in excitement of making something for his son. He ran towards kitchen shouting out “2 mins”.

In Living Room,

Atharv was sitting on the couch with some random files spread across him with one in his head. He looked at his dad who is watching some basketball match on TV.

“Dad, can we have match?”

Arnav turned his attention to his son…

“Match?”

“Yes Match, To be precise Basketball match”

“Son, You don't have to do something which you don't want to, just to please me”

“No Dad, Im not doing it to please you. I want to spend time with you. I want to feel the love you have for me. I want to feel my mom with you. Please?”

Arnav nodded getting up from his seat.

Evening,

Both son and father came back home after the match.

Atharv smiled remembering his dad being lenient towards him, making him score more. He felt his dad losing wantedly for him. He understood one things, only a dad can make him win losing himself in it.

He saw his dad stopping for moment. He took a deep breath and whispered something which heard of his mom’s name.

He saw a very petite figure running towards his dad engulfing him in a bear hug.

“Dadddddd”

He heard the girl calling his dad as dad. Calling? No literally shouting at his ears…

“Archana?”

He snapped opened his eyes at the name. He realised she is the girl whom his dad had chosen for him.

He saw the girl back facing him and heard her speaking something animatedly to his dad which he doesn’t understand.

“Dad I made jalebis for you just like Khushi ma would prepare. Will you taste it?” asked the girl excitedly.

“But beta, I can’t have sweets”

“I know, that's why I prepared Sugar free one. Come I will serve” saying she literally dragged him to the kitchen.

Atharv stood watching the scene. He felt himself standing alone. He felt he was nowhere in the scene. He was about to move towards his home, when he heard her sweet voice calling him,

“Will you also have some?”

He turned back to see the very expectant eyes of his soon to be wife. He don’t have the heart to deny, so he nodded.

In Atharv’s bedroom(Night)

“Mom I made a big mistake. I failed to understand dad’s love. One should feel proud to have Arnav Singh Raizada as a dad, but what I did. I ignored his love, I took him for granted, I hurt him mom. I'm not good son. Now I want things to be back. When Archana was talking freely with him then why can’t I. Even I want to be like that with my papa. Will dad accept me? I'm afraid ma. Today I understood how much I missed in my life. I want to be part of dad’s life, I want to be part of Archana’s life. Mom, She resembles you, Her eyes, her smile, her behavior everything resembles you. May be that’s why dad chose her for me. Mom I want to fall in love with her, I want to have a happily married life just like you and dad. Will she agree?”

“She will chotte”

Atharv turned to his dad who is standing at his room’s door…

“Dad, Im sor.”

“Don’t”

He opened his arms wide for his son. Soon he found himself in a tight hug.

“I missed you dad”

“I know son”

THE END

OS-Complcated Love

OS – Complicated Love

“Where do I stand in his Life?”

“Where do I stand in her Life?”

This was the one question that was ringing on both their heads. They got married with all the rituals, with their consent of liking each other, will all the blessings. But still why can’t they live happily? Why their life has become so complicated? Did they lose interest in their so called marriage life? Did they fed up of each other? Did they fall out of their liking? Let’s see how their complicated life bringing out their love for each other.

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“I love him Payal. Our marriage is not a complicated one. It’s just weak. But I hope one day it strengthen” Khushi whispered to her friend on the phone.

“Khushi why can’t you confess your love” Her friend Payal asked her.

“I can’t Payal. He doesn’t even spend his time with me, then how can I talk with him. He doesn’t care about my existence”

“You are making something out of nothing Khushi. All you have to do is speak with him. Let your heart out to him. Let him understand you”

“No Payal. Enough is enough. I can’t continue with this loveless marriage. It’s been ages since we talked, since we had dine together”

“Khushi please understand, marriage is not a game that you both can play”

“Please Payal, please” Khushi whispered as if she had lost all the energy to fight back, as if she was fighting for the lost battle.

Payal cut down her talk understanding her friend needed some time. She put down her phone, silently praying for the best.

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“Arnav what are you doing in office at this hour. Man, it’s almost mid-night. Don’t you think you have a wife at home, waiting for your return?” Aman asked his friend come boss with annoyed voice.

“NO Aman. She won’t be waiting for me. I have some unfinished task to complete” saying Arnav immersed his head into his laptop.

“WHAT? What unfinished task you have that can’t be postponed. After all I’m your manager, and it’s my duty to know what’s going in this office” Questioned Aman.

“Aman Please”

“What please Arnav? What is your problem? You care coming early to office, moving out lately. There is something which you are hiding. What is it? Is it about Khushi?”

Arnav snapped opened his eyes at his wife’s name being taken from his friend’s mouth. Aman understood that it got something to do with his wife, with his marriage life.

“What is it Arnav? Spit it out.”

“Aman I feel as if Khushi had lost her interest in our marriage life” Arnav said dropping a bomb at his head.

“WHAT?”

“Yes Aman, I thought she liked me, no I felt she loved me, but nothing seems like our earlier days of marriage.”

“What do you mean Arnav?”

“She is not spending her time with me Aman. She was always free for everyone, but for me. I tried. I tried as much as I can to work out this marriage. But it is slipping out of my hands. I feel as if she is trying to ignore me. Earlier, she always waited for me to have her meal; she always brings meal for me to office, to share with me. But that is not the case now. She was fast asleep before I reach home. She was not sharing her life with me. She was staying aloof. She was being busy lately for me. I don’t know Aman. I really don’t know what went wrong.”

Aman was literally laughing at his friend’s state.

“So My friend wants his wife’s attention”

“Aman please this is not the time for joke”

“I’m not joking. Be practical man.”

“What Aman?”

“If you spend all your time with your laptop and Bluetooth then how do you expect her to spend her time with you? If you stay at your office till late, how do you expect your wife to stay awake? If you intend to not to share your feelings with her, then how can you expect her to be? Unless and until you” Aman was about to continue his talk, when he felt someone pushing him and dashing towards his friend.

He steadied himself and looked up to see his friend and his wife looking at each other, one with confused and other with furious.

He was about to interrupt them, but thinking the other way he left them alone.

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Both of them staring at each other, their lips were trembling.

“Arnav Are you busy?”

“I was never busy for you Khushi”

“Liar”

“I never Lie Khushi. You know that”

“You were busy Arnav. For past few weeks you were busy for me”

“Khushi what are you saying?”

“No Arnav… Let me speak first. I feel sick of this. You and Me..” she paused for a moment.

Arnav felt his world is spinning around and he might fall at any second.

“Why? What went wrong between us? Why are you avoiding me? Whenever I came to meet you in your office, I was informed by your PA that you were buys. You always came late to home. I waited; I waited to have you beside me, to spend some time with you.

Arnav was shocked with this piece of information from his wife. His PA? His mind wandered back to the time that his so called PA Flirted with him, trying to seduce him at given chance. He closed his eyes understanding where this mishap started. His Ignorance. His work. He looked at his wife who is shedding her tears silently.

He saw his wife opening her lips to speak something. But he didn’t want to hear anything. At least not now. He wants to clear his side of misunderstanding. He wants to make his wife understand that she is his life and he loves her dearly.

He stepped towards her and cupped her cheeks hushing her at once. He silently wiped her tears nodding no to her.

Khushi looked at him with her hazel eyes shining in her teas and her lips quivering with all the crying she had.

He took her to the nearby couch, sat himself and pulled his wife on his lap, placing her head on his chest where she belongs to, cradling her like a kid.

He let her calm rubbing her back, peppering her hair and face with kisses time to time.

After what felt like a year, he lifted her face from his crook and saw he looking at his face with full of questions.

“Khushi, I was never busy for you, Promise. I don’t know what that stupid PA of mine said you, but I always missed our meal together. I know I was being home really late, but ignoring you was not my intention. Khushi I really carve for your presence. Being in your arm I feel home, belonged, loved and what not. But Now I promise that nothing, nothing will ever come between us not even our work.”

“Arnav?”

“Shhhhhh. Don’t speak. Let me please. I Love you Jann. You are my only love. I can’t think of a life without you. Let us give some time to each other. Let us understand each other. Let us leave all the pressure out and enjoy our life. Let us love each other. Please Love?”

Khushi nodded smiling at him, silently agreeing his request.

Their life was complicated one. Where they stand, what they do, nothing is unsure. But one this sure is that, they love each other immensely.

Author’s note:

I don’t know what I wrote. I feel this is one of the worst story I have ever wrote. I started of something ended with something. I’m extremely sorry. L