~ A STORY BY MANINI MEHRA ~
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"manik! I am hungry here yaar!" i spoke pointing to my tummy.
"i know" he announced.
"i will cook" i informed
"why? I will order food na?" he suggested
"no..i have learnt some basics from maa, i will cook today, but i hope everything is there in the kitchen" i spoke and started moving to the kitchen. He followed me. I checked and found everything of necessity was there. "mom must have asked to stuff the kitchen" manik said when i gave him an amazed look. I took out wheat flour to make dough "manik i won't be able to make anything special, if you want you can order for yourself, but i want to cook for myself" i informed him.
"i will eat whatever you will eat, in fact i will help you" he spoke wearing the apron.
"no manik...plzz..you have never done all this, if maa comes to know that i made you work, she will be very angry...i will do it myself na.." i tried to stop him.
"mom will never be angry for this! In fact she will be happy, so let's just get down to work" he replied and i sighed. "just tell me, what i have to do" he asked
"ummm ok cut onions" i replied adding water to my dough.
After a while
"o god what is this?" i spoke as the dough was all sloppy and sticky . i think i added extra water. Manik turned to me with tear strewn eyes and sniffing, he was looking super cute!
"i think you should add more flour to it" he suggested and i added flour to the sloppy dough.
After a lot of efforts , i managed to knead a perfect dough but its quantity seemed like i had to make chapattis for 40 people! But can't help it now. I washed my hands and got down to make vegetable. Manik was helping in estimating the amount of various spices to be put in the vegetable.
"manik ye acha ni bana to...?" i asked sceptical about my cooking skills.
"arey q ni acha banega..of course banega..itna mehnat kiya hai tumne.." he tried to inject some positivity.
I smiled gratefully at him " acha now you go freshen up, till that time i will make the chapattis"
"no...why..? i will help you in making chapattis!!" he stated firmly
"arey i will do it na...tum jao fresh ho jao"
"no, no no!" he replied
"theek h, " i gave up.
I rolled the chapattis while he baked them. Although the shape of the chapatti did not come out perfect round but nevertheless, it was still a chapatti!!
After the chapatti was made, i pushed him to go and get freshen up. He obliged this time. I quickly made juice and placed the dishes on table. I went to the room after that and found that he was in shower , so i decided to take shower in other room. ...
When i came out to the dining space, i found manik talking on phone. He turned to face me while still on phone and mouthed "mom" informing me who was on the phone. I nodded and sat down on the table.
When he finished talking he handed the phone to me. I started talking to maa and manik pulled me to sit on his lap. I was wearing a tee and shorts.
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