Part 6

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Madhu is happily running to her room when she dashes into dadi. "Slowly... slowly." Dadi says as she steadies her. "How was your date?" Dadi asks in a teasing tone. "Da-di!" Madhu says in an astonishing tone. "What? Tell me." "It was nice." Madhu says as she blushed, avoiding eye contact with her dadi. "Kiss-Viss?" Dadi asks excitedly. Hearing kiss, Madhu thinks of the kiss RK gave her just now and blushes even more. "Stop it, Dadi!" "Tell me... tell me." Dadi insists all the more excited. "Let me go, Dadi!" "Tell me then you can go." Dadi says latching on to her hand. "Daaaadi!" "Tell me!" "Yes." Madhu says as she hugged her dadi unable to look at her due to shyness. "How was it?" Dadi asks excitedly. "Nice." Madhu says blushing. "Where all and how many?" "Enough dadi!" Madhu says as she starts to go and Dadi holds her more tightly. "Tell me this and go." Dadi says cutely. "One." Madhu says as she blushed and touches her forehead where he had kissed. Dadi stops smiling and makes a disgusted face, "Forehead?" "Now let me go, Dadi." Madhu says blushing. "That is your big kiss?" Madhu looks at Dadi in shock seeing her making pissed off face. "I thought he was a hatta kata munda! Chee! Forehead? Your dadu was so romantic." Dadi says going all romantic. "Before marriage whenever he got me alone..." Madhu cuts her off in a panic, "YUCK DADI! I don't want to hear all that!" "Disgusting! He gives her a big kiss on the forehead and she is blushing like this! Why did I even bother sending them for a date?" Dadi wonders out loud as she walked away in disgust, "Wasting my time!" 

Later at night, Madhu was waiting for RK's call as she replayed their kiss in her mind. She hadn't thought of anything else since he kissed her. Her first kiss. She wondered whether it was his first kiss too. She had never asked him whether there was anyone in his life before her. It didn't matter to her; she just wanted to be the last girl in his life. She hears her phone ringing and she takes her battered down phone that has seen better days a decade ago. Maybe it was because she was thinking of the kiss that she was feeling so shy that she was tongue-tied. "Madhu?" she hears his voice over the phone. She again tries to reply but her shyness was stopping her. "You there?" RK asks when she doesn't reply. Seeing her anklets lying on the bed she takes it and shakes it near the mic area of the phone. She hears RK chuckling. "Won't talk?" he asks her. She shakes her anklet twice to mean no. "Because you are shy?" she shakes her anklet once to mean yes. "Madhuuuuuu" RK sighs as he falls on the bed. "If this is your condition, then what are you going to do when I really kiss you?" RK asks making her gasps. RK chuckles hearing her gasps and adds, "Not to forget, many more things that we would be doing after marriage." Madhu stops breathing thinking about what he had just said. She knew that they would be intimate after marriage, but him saying that, and the fact that he did think about it just made her crimson red and made her feel hot. "Madhu? You there?" RK asks and she just blushes as her hand refused to move to her will to shake the anklets. Again he chuckles as he asks, "Now even your anklets are shy?" when she doesn't reply he says, "Your anklets and your shyness, they drive me crazy. And now both are there." Covering her face with her free hand Madhu falls on to her pillow as she blushed. "How I wish I could see you now." RK says sighing. "The way you smile and the way you go pink, specially your cheeks. It can drive saints to naughty thoughts." Madhu just continued to blush. "You won't say anything, Madhu?" RK asks her. when she doesn't reply he says, "Then I guess I will just hang up." Fearing he was going to hang up she shakes her anklets twice. "Knew you would say no." RK says grinning. RK talks to her for some more time and decides to call it night. "Madhu, tomorrow I have to wake up at 5 to go to Pune for that meeting I told you about. So I will go to bed now. I hope I will wake up, I am feeling so tired." RK tells her. "I will wake you up." Madhu finally says. "Aaaah... I thought I would have to go to bed without hearing your voice." RK says happy making her blush again. "It's okay, Madhu. I have kept the alarm." RK tells her and he soon hangs up.  

At 5 o'clock Madhu calls RK. And RK picks up the call on the second ring, "Good Morning, Madhu." "Good Morning. Are you awake?" "I just heard the alarm and had put it on snooze and was about to sleep again." RK tells her. "Good thing you called, otherwise I would have been late as I would have kept putting the alarm on snooze." "Do you want to sleep for 10 more minutes? I can call you after 10 minutes." Madhu tells him. "There is no need for that. The moment I saw Madhu calling, I came awake completely." RK tells her making her smile happily. "Now you go to sleep. I am going to get ready." RK tells her. "Okay. Message me when you reach Pune." Madhu tells him. "Okie will do." RK says and hangs up the call. 

          

Much later, Madhu gets a text message from RK, 'Reached Pune. Will be late getting back home today. Don't sleep. I will call you.' Madhu starts smiling reading the message. He told her not to sleep. It felt like such a husband thing. 'Will wait for your call.' Madhu replies to him happily. 

A week had passed, and they were slowly getting closer to each other. RK calls up Madhu during the day which he never does as he knows she would be busy that time and he is also always busy during the day. "Hello RK?" Madhu says excitedly. "Madhu, be ready today evening. I will be come around 7 to take you to a place." RK tells her. "Where?" Madhu asks excitedly as she thought about what to wear. "Suspense. You be ready. Sharp 7." RK tells her. "Okay, I will be ready." Madhu tells him happily. 

Madhu quickly finishes all her work at home and double checks again so Mama or Papa has no additional work to give her. Once she was satisfied that there was no work they could give her, she goes to Balraj to ask him permission to go with RK. Balraj was sitting with Sheela having tea. "Papa..." Madhu worriedly calls him. "What is it?" Balraj asks. "RK said he wants to take me somewhere, he will come at 7 today." "You can't go." Sheela tells her quickly. "Please, mama. I will come back fast." Madhu promises. Balraj and Sheela looks at her angrily for contradicting them. "There is lots of work to be done." Sheela tells her angrily. "I finished all the work." Madhu meekly tells her. "What you finished? Did you forget that Mukund's parents are coming day after tomorrow instead of Sunday? After we celebrate Balraj's birthday we are going to finalize the wedding and engagement dates. You have to finish all the work before that." Sheela reminds her. Madhu gapes at her in shock, "I didn't know that." "Where were you when we decided all this? Now go inside and start the preparations." Sheela orders her. "I will stay up all night and finish it, please let me go. I told him that I would go with him." Madhu begs. Sheela furiously looks at her, "Who asked you to tell him that without our permission? And 7 in the evening is not the time to go out of the house. Ask him to take you whereever it is during the day time." And for the first time, Madhu rebels "Dipali goes to meet Mukund whenever she wants. I want to go." Balraj throws the tumbler he was holding at her and she moves just in time to miss the tumbler but the tea falls on her hand burning her. She flinches as she wiped her hand on to her salwar. "How dare you compare our Dipali to you? Did you forget the difference between you two? Staying under my roof, under my care and you have the nerve to question us!" Balraj says furiously as he angrily shook her. Madhu closes her eyes as she tried to, not scream out loud as his fingers dug into her skin almost threatening to crash her bones. "I am sorry, Papa. I am sorry. Please.." Madhu begs him. Hearing the contriteness back in her voice he leaves her and orders her "Go inside and do your work!" 

Madhu runs to her room as she fought to control her tears. By the time she closed her door she had burst into tears. Once she was able to control her sobs, she wipes her tears and calls up RK, "Madhu... was about to call you. I am about to leave office now. Will be there in 15." RK tells her. "Don't come, RK." Madhu tells him sadly. "Why?" RK asks disappointed. "I have work here." Madhu tells her. "Can't you come for just an hour?" "No, RK. I have lots of work here. Day after tomorrow, all of you are coming for Papa's birthday and then to finalize the engagement and wedding dates, I have lots to prepare for the function."Madhu tells. "We are coming on Sunday, right?" RK asks frowning. "Mama just told me that you are coming day after tomorrow." Madhu tells him. "Oh! I didn't know." RK says upset that his family never bothered to inform him. Realizing just like her even he was not aware of it. Her heart breaks realizing how badly he was treated by his family. "Even I just found out now." Madhu tells him. Ignoring the pain, he says "I will drop you back fast, Madhu. Please come." Hearing him say that, a sob escapes her before she could control it. "Are you crying, Madhu?" RK asks angry and worried. "No." Madhu replies as she tried to hide her crying but failing miserably. "Don't cry, Madhu." RK says helplessly. The moment he said that, the dams broke and she burst into tears, "I told them I would come back fast, but they didn't.... *hic*" "Please don't cry, Madhu." RK begs her. For the first time in his life, someone's tears were breaking his heart. He always felt bad when others were in pain but never had anyone's tears broke his heart like this. "I am here, Madhu. Whenever you want you can see me." RK tells her. "Then why couldn't I see you today? I finished all the work still..." Madhu says as she continued crying. "Madhu, please stop crying." RK says in a stern voice. Madhu hiccups for a few times before she is able to control her tears. "Take a deep breath. And calm yourself." RK gently guides her. Madhu does as he tells her. "Drink some water now." Madhu drinks water. "Now you relax." "I am fine now. Sorry I cried." Madhu tells him. "NEVER EVER CRY AGAIN." RK orders her. "Okay." "I got work in the kitchen. I will go?" Madhu asks him cutely. "Okay. I will call you at night." 

Having talked to RK Madhu was feeling much better while RK was fuming thinking about Madhu crying. He smoked as he paced in his room thinking of her crying, it has been over three hours and he couldn't control his temper and he still haven't called her yet. As much as RK was furious there a treacherous joy somewhere inside his heart, never in his life had someone cried for him, cried because they couldn't meet him. He hated himself for finding joy in her tears, as much as he tried to suppress it, it just kept popping into his mind again and again. RK accepted that even though he knew Madhu loved him, it made him feel happy that she loved him to this extend that she would cry because she was not allowed to meet him. But he couldn't forget her tears, her heart breaking sobs. If Madhu wanted to meet him then she WILL meet him, and RK wanted to meet her, he wanted to make sure that she was fine. Taking his mobile he dials a number and waited till the person answered the phone, "Bittuji, how do I climb a wall?"

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