Rikara Short Stories Collection

Bewitched : Part Nine

Om starts to open the car door for her when she says, "I'll have to inform my nani."

"What are you going to tell her?" Om asks suddenly worried whether Nani would stop her from going with him.

"That I'm going to the coffee shop, just won't mention with whom." Gauri tells him cheekily.

Om grins hearing her.

"You carry on I'll meet you at the coffee shop around the corner."

"I will wait here for you."

"No, you go... I'll meet you there." Gauri tells him.

"Okay." Om tells her and stands there watching her run back inside.

"Sir, I didn't understand anything." Khanna says completely baffled.

"I'll tell you on the way." Om tells him as he got inside the car.

"You two are truly made for each other, Sir." Khanna tells him after hearing everything. "In spite of forgetting everything she still wants to be with you."

"This time I am not going to mess it up. I'll not lose her." Om vows.

"Nani! I am going out." Gauri shouts out to her as she hurried out.

"Where are you going?"

"To the coffee shop." Gauri says and runs out.

"Come back soon."

"Okay. Bye."

Gauri reaches the coffee shop and sees Omkara leaning on his car. She excitedly waves at him as she ran towards him.

The way she was waving happily at him and running towards him reminded him of the time she had come to meet him when he had took her to his house. She had trusted him so much and he had so mercilessly betrayed her. Om tries to push back those memories determined to make new memories with her.

"Hey!" Gauri says smiling as she tried to catch her breath.

"Hey... let's go in?"

"Yes." Gauri says smiling.

They start to walk when she turns to look at his limp and sees his toe.

"What happened to your toe?" Gauri asks him concerned.

Om starts smiling remembering the time she had tried to kill him. "Someone tried to kill me."

"What?" Gauri asks shocked.

"Yes."

"Who?"

"Someone I care about."

"Oh, that might have hurt you." Gauri says sadly.

"I deserved it." Om says shrugging.

Gauri looks at him in wide eyed shock. "So... is that person in jail?"

"No!"

"No?"

"I can never send that person to jail."

"Why? Is that person still trying to kill you?"

"Right now, no." Om says smiling.

"You guys talked it out?"

"You could say that."

"How?"

"I asked her to marry me." Om tells her smiling.

"WHAT?" Gauri asks shocked.

"She said no."

Gauri looks at him in shock and then turns to walk off. Om holds her hand, "Gauri, I was just joking."