"Look whose back " Kiya Ahluwalia said in a sing song voice.
And seriously Dhwani thought that this day couldn't get any worse.
She walked past them towards the stairs to their room.
She didn't have enough energy to deal with it right now.
"The girls now a days are so culture less. Working is good and all but nothing comes above your husband. " Prabha Ahluwalia stated as she was climbing the stairs.
"We don't have the voice to say that now do we?" Ambika Singhania replied.
Dhwani knew they were talking about her. Because she already had a first hand experience.
According to them , even if a woman works as hard as her husband she is still entitled to look after the husband. Reason, he is back from a long day of work. So he's most probably tired. That was fair enough. But women were robots which don't get tired.
So they have to do the office and house work together without getting tired.
Seriously sometimes Dhwani wished she had a time machine to send these type of people back to the time of colonization so that the thoughts and time matched each other.
She was proud of her culture that preached equality between men and women. A culture which saw woman as the embodiment of para Shakti.
But according to people like them our culture meant staying obedient to your husband, not voicing out opinions and being content with every hate and hardships thrown their way.
Dhwani wanted to laugh at their justification, which was Pati Parameshwar.
Then why don't we consider Patni parameshwari?
Afterall the god did give half his body to his wife as a symbol of unity and equality.
She changed into a comfortable kurta and Palazzo pants and was going to the kitchen when a tearful Mahika bumped into her.
"What happened Mahi ? Are you alright. ? " I asked
"I'm fine jiji. Just got something my eyes. "
I gave her a unconvinced half nod then went to the kitchen to find everything already prepared.
"Aarohi will leave in a few days so I wanted to make the dinner for her but didn't know we would have visitors." Amrita Chachi said coming to stand beside me.
"I wasn't expecting them either." I replied with a scowl.
Chachi chuckled.
"Come it's already late. "
I helped her arrange everything in the dining table.
One by one everyone started to fill in.
Usually everyone are together but today Dhwani knew she won't be eating now.
"Dhwani can you please serve for dadi. "
Kiya called out as she was about to sit beside Veer in her seat.
"Sure" I sighed.
The moment I moved away , she occupied that seat which I knew she would.
Kiya was giggling and touching Veer too much and everyone noticed it. But no one pointed it out.
Kiya was Veer's first fiance. But he broke it off when he started seeing me.
A few comments about how middle class people were really gross was thrown here and there. Kiya completely ignored her existence as she flirted with Veer.
But Dhwani didn't say anything to this whole show. She didn't want to. So she went towards the kitchen to eat alone.
As she was going Dhwani noticed a look of shame and longing in Veer. Nobody noticed it except her because she knew the meaning of it.
It was just one month after their marriage. As it was a Sunday, Veer wanted to take her out for dinner. As they were going out , the Ahluwalia family suddenly popped in for a visit.
Dhwani was never taught to be anything other than nice. So she welcomed them as any other daughter in law of the house would.
Little did she know that they were not any other guests.
The Ahluwalias were close friends of the Singhanias from Raghav Singhania's father's time. And Prabha Singhania was the closest friend of Ambika Singhania. Imagine Gordon Ramsay and Simon Cowell but their feminine narrow minded variants.
But Dhwani did not know any of these. What she did know was that the girl with them , most probably her grandchild was throwing hellfire at her through her eyes.
While I was serving chai Mrs Ahluwalia asked ; "What was your name again?"
"Dhwani Taneja"
"Taneja , never heard of it. What does your parents do? "
"They..uh .... They died when I was young. "
"You are an orphan. Seriously Veer? You left me for this low class orphan? She is not even that good looking. Like can you even compare her with me , Kiya Ahluwalia. The choice was so obvious. I bet she doesn't even know anything about fashion or fame. " Kiya literally screamed at him fisting his shirt.
"And I bet you doesn't know the full value of pi." I muttered under my breath.
"What did you say? "
"I said I bet you didn't know the full value of pi which is
"What will I get knowing that? "
"Exactly the question I want to ask you. "
"You were interrogating my HUSBAND for sometime now so let me pay back the favour. "
"What do you do ms Kiya? "
"What do you mean ?"
"You know, for example I am the head of finance department of the Singhania industries. So what do you do? "
"I don't have to do anything. My parents have enough money for the next two generations. "
"Fair enough. But seriously how does it feel to you know live off other people's money because I never knew that feeling. And to answer the questions you asked my husband, yes he did leave you for an orphan. And yeah you are right you can't be compared to me because it would have taken too long to list out how dumb you are. So the choice is obvious and as you can see , he chose the obvious. "
"Whatever. You are just another gold digger who prey on rich boys. "
"Oh you have the whole statement wrong. One I earn millions every year so I don't have to prey and dig for anyone's gold. Two my husband is not a boy but I guess you were never meant to know that. "
"Anyways we don't have anymore time to waste on you. You know time is precious and no you can't buy it with your dad's money. "
"Aren't you coming honey? "
Once he started driving Veer asked.
"Is my love jealous? "
"No"
"Then why are you looking like you want to go back and kill her? "
"Because I want to. Now drive. "
Veer parked the car near the side walk and turned towards her.
"You know that I'll never leave you for someone else right. "
"Hmm. "
"Then why is my baby jealous. "
"Don't call me baby."
I replied with a glare just to have his lips collapse into mine.
"What was that for? "
"You look hot when you are angry. "
I giggled.
"I promise you Dhwani you will be the only women in my life and as you said I chose you because you were the best choice. "
"Okay charmer now drive. I'm hungry. "
"As my lady commands. "
It was not like Dhwani didn't care anymore. She did. She wanted to rip away the hands that were currently on her husband. But she didn't think she had that right anymore.
Mahika was hungry.
In the anger of that moment she had refused supper but now her stomach was refusing to co-operate. She was not used with going to bed on an empty stomach.
She looked at her phone which showed 12:08.
Her stomach let out a growl at the same time.
"Fine I'll feed you. "
She sneaked into the kitchen without making any noise.
She was opening the fridge when someone whispered in her ear
"Sandwich?"
And as any sane person would, Mahi screamed bhoot.
The ghost covered her mouth.
"It's just me. "
She turned around to see Dhruv looking at her guiltily holding out a sandwich.
I took it from him without saying anything.
"Mahi I'm sorry. "
"You don't deserve to. "
"Please I don't want to lose this too. "
"Okay fine. Then tell me who he was."
"Who Abhinav Shekhar was. "
"Stay away from him. "
"See this is exactly problem. You won't even tell me who he is but you still want to control what I do? "
"Mahika just understand. He's not a good person. "
"I got that from today. Thank you. I'm asking you why he hates me. Hates you. "
"It's a long story. "
"I love stories. "
"Sorry but I don't. "
"Dhruv. Don't expect me to listen to everything you have to say. You are not my father. And if you ask me to do one more thing without telling me why then I promise you I'm going to do the exact opposite. "
"I am a human being Dhruv and I'm fed up of running after you. "
Arya didn't remember falling asleep.
Especially on the bed.
She and Rehan was talking all night long about random things.
She moved the hair away from her eyes.
" Good morning "
She turned towards the voice to see Rehan standing there wiping his head with a towel. Half naked.
She couldn't help but raje her eyes over his chest which still had drops of water dripping down them from the shower.
He didn't have the well designed and like celebrities but this was still way hot for her to handle.
" Enjoy what you see?"
"What ??"
"Uh no"
" Lying is not such a good habit Mrs Singhania. "
"You seem so happy today morning. "
"That's because I am. We are going to THE Louvre museum today. "
She shrugged her shoulders.
"You might want to get ready. We are already late on our schedule. And no offence but you look like you just came back from a trip to hell. "
"Well most girls dont look like models when they wake up. We wake up with our hair on our face and drooling. "
"Too much information. "
"It's just the truth. See Frozen. Anna IS us. "
"Fine fine. "
He replied putting his hands up in surrender.
I showered and changed into a beautiful flowy dress. They decided they will eat a brunch and officially started their tour of the city of love.
*
Rehan wanted to go to Louvre first and Arya didn't see anything wrong with the decision.
Once they reached their Rehan highly resembled a child who just reached Disney land. He started explaining and telling the stories and myths surrounding each and every exhibit.
"And this is the raft of Medusa. It depicts the aftermath of the 1816 wreck of the French Royal Navy frigate the Medusa, which ran aground off the coast of Senegal.
The most beautiful part of it is that it does not focus on the mass destruction but the individual pain. Like isn't that mind-blowing. "
Honestly, Arya didn't get half of what he was saying but she was entranced by the passion in his voice.
He turned towards me to see me already staring at him.
"We should probably get something to eat. " He stuttered.
"Yeah sure. "
"I bored you didn't I. "
"Actually no you didn't. "
"You don't have to lie. "
"I am not. "
They were eating in silence when suddenly Rehan asked her.
" What happened to your eyes? "
" Is something there in my eyes?"
" No there just a small brown dot near your pupil...."
" Oh that. I got scared for a moment "
" What happened?"
"You really don't want to know. It's silly. "
"C'mon. It can't be that silly. "
"Still not telling you anything." I responded making a zipping my mouth gesture.
"Please please please. " He said with puppy eyes.
"Okay. Fine."
"I was around seven or eight I think but whatever. I was showering one day and poked myself in the eyes. "
'Wait what? "
"For more context I was acting like a pop star under the shower and accidentally hit myself in the eye with my thumb. "
"Omg then? "
"Couldn't open the eye for a good two hours. And when I did , there was blood inside the eyes. My parents took me to the hospital where they told me there was a mild internal bleeding. It was no big deal and went away after sometime but the scar didn't want to leave."
I finished with a chuckle.
"You know everyday I learn something new about you and I don't know if it should but it gives me this small sparks of excitement. "
His comment had her cheeks glow a bright shade of red.
"How did you notice it though? It is really faint. "
"I don't know." He replied too fast.
"Okay....."
I looked down at my baguette and at his croissant.
"Do you want some " he asked noticing my look.
"Wait really "
"Yeah.
You know what let's just be friends fr the rest of the days. We can go back to hating each other after that. "
"Seems like a good idea to me. "
"So deal? "
"Promise. "
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I'm late. Again.
The updates are going to be unpredictable like this from now as my classes are going to start soon.
I'm really sorry but it eez what it eez.
What do you guys think about the chapter?
I'm in love with Dhwani.
And yes your author does have a scar in her eyes. It's like a small brown dot and it's really faint. So I get happy everytime someone asks me about it as it's really faint and you have to look a bit hard to see it.
I thought that it would be fun to add it.
Any guesses on what's going to happen next?
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P. S. I'm half asleep so I'll edit this once again tomorrow just to make sure.
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Aswa _maya
The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an
unspoken cosmic rule.