Chapter 105:
It was the time of the day, the whole Khanna family was standing in the living area.
Bebe: Avni, now go and have a rest.
Avni nods.
Neil: mom, Bebe, I am thinking of shifting our room to downstairs. It will be easy for Avni. It is her first pregnancy we have to be extra careful. Climbing stairs are not good for her.
Bebe and Shweta nod.
Bebe: you thought it right.
Neil: Avni, you sit here. I and mom will get important things from the room and if you need something then just tell us, any one of us will get it.
Shweta: I think, we have to hire a nurse for Avni, what say?
Avni smiled to see their love and care.
Neil: that's a great idea. Just after shifting the room, I will search that on the internet even I can send a nurse from my hospital.
Shweta: hmm.
Bebe: Avni, you leave this mother and son, let them do their planning. You come with me to my room and have a rest. You also must have gotten tired of living with this insane person.
Neil makes a face.
Avni: but Bebe, how can I? I am fine here, Neil will complete shifting in an hour. I can sit here.
Bebe: Of ho, this girl. Your Bebe is not as weak as you think and sometimes, kids should spend some time with the elders of the house, the elders give them blessings and immense love. Rarely this time comes, now we have got it so we should avail it. You lay on the bed, I will tell the stories of our times if you want to hear them.
Avni smiled.
Avni: I will love to hear them.
Neil and all smiled.
Bebe: then let's go. Today, we grandmother and granddaughter will have fun.
Bebe looked at Shweta.
Bebe: Secretary.
Shweta widens her eyes. Avneil too widens their eyes.
Bebe: I mean, Shweta, send two glasses of juice and fruits to my room. And make sure you send them fast. Come, Avni.
Avni nods. Neil was smiling. Avni and Bebe were going, and Bebe winks at her.
Avni: Bebe, you. Why do you always pull mummy's leg?
Bebe: I love to do that. This leg-pulling is the beauty of our relationship.
Avni smiled. She shook her head.
Later, Avni was laying in her room resting her back on the hardboard of the bed. Neil entered the room carrying a box. Avni saw him and smiled.
Avni: you brought everything?
Neil kept the box on the table.
Neil; aah.
He cleaned.
Neil: Yeah, almost. The thing which I remember, I have brought them if you need something then do tell me.
Avni: I am missing our room.
Neil looked at her as he was checking the things. Neil smiled to see her and goes to her. He sat.
Neil: It is obvious but more important is our being together. When we are together, we will make this room our heaven too.
Avni smiled. Neil's phone rang. He takes out his phone from his pocket.
Neil: hospital. I am coming.
Avni nods.
Avni: sure.
Neil smiled. He picked up the call and goes out of the room while smiling. Avni looked at the room and sighed. She thinks.
Avni touched her belly and the tears foamed in her eyes. She had lost all her hopes but now when she got what she wanted, she thought of it as a dream.
Avni: hi, baby, mamma here. I can’t believe that I am talking to you. It, it is like a dream for me. it is not a dream right, it is a truth, right, you are with mamma, right. Hmm.
Avni said while wiping her tears: of ho, now mamma has become a cry baby. Avni, you are going to become a mother and are behaving like a baby. Now no more cries, only smiles.
Avni wipes her tears and sighs. She smiled.
Avni: ok, now we will talk. Baby, did you see how much papa, granny, Bebe, and Dadu loved us, they changed our room for our safety though I am missing my room and want to take you there but it’s ok, they are doing it for us. But, I promise, when you will come into this world, I will take you there first. That’s my promise to you. Hmm.
Avni smiled. She keeps the hair strand behind her ear.
Neil came into the room and looked at Avni. Neil thinks and smirks. He got an idea to tease his cute wife. Neil cleared his throat and Avni looked at him.
Neil: ab, Avni.
Avni: hmm.
Neil: you were saying something last night?
Avni thinks.
Avni: what?
Neil: think.
Avni thinks and recalls their argument but she did not understand his point what he is pointing at.
Avni: I don't remember anything.
Neil: you were saying something about second marriage that I should marry someone else.
Avni understood that he is teasing her, and she raised her one eyebrow.
Neil: is that offer still available? No, actually, I have started seeing girls on shadi.com ab how can I go against your wish so if that offer is still on then I start talking to the girls whom I shortlisted.
Avni: you.
A cushion was kept near Avni. Avni throws the cushion at Neil. Neil catches that and laughed, Avni glared at him then she also smiled.
Neil: no, I am serious. I have made an account on that and have shared my profile.
Avni nods and thinks.
Avni: Neil, can you do me a favour, please.
Neil: Yeah, say Avni, what’s the thing of favour in it.
Avni: can you make one more account on shadi.com.
Neil frowns.
Neil: for whom?
Avni: for me.
Neil was confused then he understood and gives her a look.
Avni: if you move on then I should also move on, isn’t it.
Neil glared at her, and Avni smiled.
Neil: Avni, you know, I don’t like these types of jokes.
Avni: you have started it. If you do then it's right, if I do then it's wrong, wow.
Neil: I am not saying you wrong but I don’t like it when you talk about it.
Avni: aww. Ok, sorry. Now, come here. I want to talk about something important.
Neil frowns and asked what.
Avni: for an account.
Neil gives her a look. Avni smiled.
Avni: ok, sorry, sorry now no more jokes only serious talks.
Neil: promise?
Avni: yes promise, now come.
Neil nods.
Neil: I don’t trust you in that but still I am coming.
Avni: oh please, stop playing the victim card.
Neil looked at her and smiled then he goes to her and sat.
Neil: aah, now say.
Avni: tired?
Neil: little bit but it’s ok you say.
Avni: I am thinking of not going office from tomorrow.
Neil frowns.
Neil: but why?
Avni: Neil, we have got this big happiness after crying for years. After years of suffering, now we have got this happiness, I can't lose it in any way, at any cost.
Neil: I understand but you are not habitual of sitting at home, you will get bored and what about your work?
Avni: I can do it from home too. Neil, you know what the doctor said.
Avni’s eyes filled with tears. She shook her head. Neil keeps the hand on her hand and wipes her tears. He cups her face with one hand and wipes her tears.
Neil: nothing will happen. Till morning, we were thinking that we will never get a baby but now see, you are expecting. So be positive, everything will be fine.
Avni: still I don’t want to go, I don’t want to take a risk. If I needed then I will call my staff at home. And I will have a proper rest under the observation of two officers.
Neil frowns.
Neil: two officers?
Avni: yes, Bebe and Mummy Ji. Are they less than any police officer or detective?
Neil smiled.
Neil: that’s true. Ok, if it gives you satisfaction then you can work from home but please don’t take the stress of anything and only think about our baby. Dream about it.
Avni and Neil smiled.
Neil: ok, now I am going to take a bath. After this shifting and all, I am feeling a pungent smell from me and irritation.
Avni holds her nose.
Avni: hmm.
Neil: Oh come on, stop this drama, I have applied perfume.
Neil rolled his eyes and Avni smiled. She pulls his cheeks.
Avni: aww, my cute Neilu.
Avni kissed his cheek. Neil was surprised, he looked at Avni.
Neil: What's the matter, hearing the news of the arrival of the baby, the condition is this; what will happen when the baby will come. Hmm.
Neil looked at her lips and leans toward her, Avni hits his arm.
Avni: shameless. Then you will sleep on the couch. Only I and my baby will sleep on the bed.
Neil: um hmm. The baby will sleep in the cradle and we will proceed for the next baby.
Neil touched his head to Avni’s head they were smiling then Avni hits his arm.
Avni: shut up. Go and take shower you ugly duck.
Neil smiled.
Neil: ok.
Neil kissed her cheek and goes while smiling. Avni smiled and shook her head. Avni touched her belly.
Avni: did you see, baby? How shameless your father is but I still love him and he loves us too.
Avni smiled. She looked up and smiled.