Rishabala OS : Canvas & Notepad

Canvas & Notepad

"I meant not go anywhere particular." RK asks her. first time, Madhu and he were talking like this and he wanted to talk more to her. it felt nice talking to her. and he didn't want to waste this precious time by going somewhere that would break this momentum.

"Just aimlessly go about?" Madhu asks him.

"If that is okay with you." Then RK realizes that it was her first time in Kolkatta and she might want to really explore the city. "Leave that, we can go anywhere you feel like going."

"No, it's okay. If you are not in the mood then it is not an issue."

"Don't you want to see the city?"

"I do but we can do it tomorrow or day after. We will plan something and do."

"Okay. Wherever you want to go." RK promises her happily.

Madhu smiles as she asked, "So let's walk?"

"Let's." RK says as he smiled at her.

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They were walking aimlessly as they talked about random things and stopping at small shops to either check out souvenirs or eat snacks. RK watched with a small smile as Madhu finished off her Ghugni. She was so curious about everything, be it a building, a store or food.

"Did you like it?" Madhu asks him as she cleaned up.

"It was nice." RK replies as he paid for their food.

"Even I liked it." Madhu replies as she took her mobile and made a note.

She had started noting the name of all the food she liked so that she can get the recipe from the net when she felt like eating it later.

RK waited till Madhu took a photo of the stall after getting permission.

"I am planning to write a travelogue of this trip." Madhu tells RK as she checked the photo. "So, maybe three or four years later, we can read it and remember all these."

RK doubted he would ever forget this day, as it was slowly becoming the most memorable day of his life.

"You should have told me that." RK tells her as he moved closer to her to see the photo. "I would have taken the photo for you. You stand, I will take a picture with you and the stall."

"Oh, that would be nice." Madhu says smiling. Then excitedly she says, "Let's take a selfie, so we both are there."

RK smiles and they both stood together with the stall in the background. RK took the picture.

Madhu happily puts her phone in her bag, and they decided to continue walking.

"Are you upset that we didn't go to see any place?" RK asks her curiously since she was making a travelogue.

"No." Madhu replies. "This is also nice. And do you realize this is the first time we are spending time together outside our bedroom?"

RK smiles at her question, happy that even she was aware of it. "I know. This is the first conversation we have had."

"What?" Madhu asks him confused. "We always spoke to each other."

"Yeah but like conversations..."

"We have had conversations... remember we spoke about mooh dikkayi? We spoke about that milk drinking ceremony?" Madhu asks him surprised.

"Those were not proper conversations."

"Oh." Madhu muses.

"I should confess, the reason I didn't want to go to a touristic spot was because we were talking for the first time and I didn't want to disrupt that. This is the first time since we got married that you were free."