The Binding String

S E V E N T Y

"I thought you're upset with me because I denied your request of seeing a councillor."

"I still want it but I am no one to force you Ishita." Ishita blinked her eyes, a relief spread through her system with his confession, "It's not easy for me to open up Raman, I have seen and bore alot since a tender age and no one expected to know how I feel about it. That's why I never had a habit to open up.

Now going back to the councillor would be equal to the revisiting those dark alleys of my life." Ishita turned teary she didn't cried but mist appeared in her hazel orbs.

"I don't want to do anything which will hurt you but at the same time I cannot see you burning in the agony of our past. Your past." He cupped her face gently before planting a soft kiss on her forehead. Ishita rested her head on his shoulder staring at the dark sky, their fingers remained entangled until they chose to sit.

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A DAY LATER

"Pluto baby, give me my injection, it's time to give Papa his medicine." Raman faked horror looking at the two devils who were standing in front of him. "No doctor please no injection." Raman faked crying and asked for mercy from his little doctor.

"No noutanki Mr. Bhalla." Roohi scolded her father in babyish voice, she took her plastic injection and filled it with water before injecting it over his arm. "This is your punishment for not playing with Roohi." Roohi mimicked the expressions of a cartoon character and passed a paper to her father.

"These are your medicine's. Meet me after four days." Raman examined the paper keenly and found his daughter drew lines on the paper and called it as prescription paper.

"Next patient." Roohi adjusted her plastic rimmed glasses on her nose and gestured to her mother to sit on the chair, "What happened to you." She scrunched her nose and rested her hands on her hips just like her grandmother. Ishita chuckled looking at her daughter, she controlled her smile and faked pain, "I am having a terrible toothache doctor." Ishita faked pain holding her jaw, little Roohi adjusted her stethoscope around her neck and took a torch from her bag, she asked her mother to open her mouth and pretend to check her teeth.

"Hmm.....look like you eat lots of chocolates. Saare daant kharab ho chuke hai aapke." Roohi faked glare and Ishita made a scary face, making Raman chuckle. "So what you're going to do doctor?" Raman nudged Roohi, she was rumming through her plastic bag.

"We will pluck all of Mumma's teeth." Ishita eyes popped out where Raman rolled over bed unable to control his laughter. "I know you're mother is oldie but don't make her toothless Roo...."

"No no we need to remove all her teeth." Roohi jumped next to her mother, Ishita covered her face with cushion still laughing on her daughter. "Papa... Mumma is not letting me do her treatment." Roohi whined unable to remove the cushion away from her mother face. "I need to do her treatment."

Raman winked at Roohi as his gaze fell upon his wife's exposed waist peeing through her saree, the father daughter duo started tickling her making Ishita hold loosen from the cushion, she turned her body into fetal position but the father daughter duo didn't stopped.

"Gosh you two! Stop it." Ishita caged Roohi in her arms and laid her head above Raman arms, Pluto who was looking at the three playing started to jump around and went at the side of Raman. He jumped over the bed and sat next to Raman who caressed his head lovingly. "Roo you're becoming naughtier day by day."