CHAPTER 15

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Meera returns after dropping Alia . Since she has no plans of going anywhere, Meera goes up to her room and change into sweats. A few minutes later her phone starts ringing . She look at it to find her dad calling her. 

"Hello  dad"

"Meera , how are you"

"Perfectly fine dad, but first tell me how are you feeling. And did you take your medicine on time, did Mary make lunch according to the food chart?"

"Woah, slow down , take a deep breath. I'm perfectly fine and yes to everything."

They talk for about 10 minutes and then hang up . Meera then goes downstairs but there is no one there. She decides to make dinner as she had nothing else to do. 

By the time she finishes making dinner its 6 pm. Meera is about to enter her room when she hear Rey crying from the adjacent room.  

                                                            (Reyansh's room)

She looks around but sees no one . Sarla aunty has gone somewhere, she thinks. Meera decides to go into Rey's room. She  finds him sitting on the cot ,crying. She goes over to the cot and looks around helplessly for a moment . She has no experience with babies. Meera finally bends down to his level and waves her hand in front of him trying to get his attention.

"Hey, Reyansh, stop crying na", Meera says. In the mean time Abhi comes to Reyansh's room but stands at the door observing what Meera is doing. He doesn't go in out of sheer curiosity. He just wants to see what she does, so he decides to remain their undetected for a minute. He listens to her as she continues to talk to Reyansh." Why are you crying? Is your hand hurting? Wait, you can't talk. Shit. Sorry I dint mean to swear. Now don't remember that word ok. Good. So how about we make a deal, you stop crying now and once you can talk, I'll do anything you want. See no one around now and I really don't know what to to do.. ", Abhi lips curve upwards as he hears her cutely babble to Reyansh.

To both Meera's and Abhi's surprise, he actually stops crying and raises his arms indicating that he wants her to pick him up. But Meera doesn't know this. She just holds his hands and takes a cloth kept nearby and wipes his tear stricken face. Reyansh's bottom lip starts to quiver again when she doesn't pick him up. When Meera notices this she starts talking again.

"No no. Please don't start crying again. Wait here for one minute, I'll go and call Sarla aunty." She turns around and bumps into Abhi. 

"Sorry, I dint see you there", she says.

"Next time he's crying, just pick him", Abhi says.

"Huh, ok. I'll leave you to it", Meera says and heads out of the room. 

Meera is about to leave the room when Abhi calls out ,"And don't worry, I'll remind him of your little deal once he can speak". Meera's face heats up in embarrassment as she realizes that he probably heard their whole conversation. Or rather her monologue. She rushes out of them the room and Abhi softly chuckles to himself.

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 A week has passed since their marriage and Meera and Abhimanyu haven't seen each other in the past week. This was mainly due to the fact their work work timings don't match. Meera had grown close with Alia, Adi and somewhat with Reyansh. There were times when Reyansh would cling onto her and refuse to leave her. This happened mainly when Meera went to check on his hand , otherwise Sarla aunty was always there to take care of him. 

It's a Saturday night today and after a hectic week, Meera just wants to sleep peacefully. It's 11pm now and she's about to go to bed buts she feels thirsty so Meera  goes to the kitchen to get a water bottle.

Slowly she goes downstairs and is about to enter the kitchen when she bang into someone and her nose crashes with a hard surface.

"Ugh, what the fuck", she mutter.

"The princess swears", Abhi mocks.

Meera  ignores him and makes her way towards the refrigerator and remove a water bottle. On her way out,  Abhi grabs her hand and turns her around to face with him

"I don't like being ignored when I talk to someone"

"Good to know"

"Look at me when I talk to you", he says and Meera looks at him impatiently.

"I don't take orders from anyone, especially no you", saying  this, Meera snatches her hand away and stalks back to her room. She realizes that she was being rude but she was exhausted and was in no mood for an argument.

She finally switches off the light and drifts of into a deep slumber.

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The next morning  Abhimanyu is sitting in the living room along with Reyansh who is busy playing with his toys. The door bell rings and a few moments later, Alia comes in.

"Good morning bhaiya. Where is bhabhi?", Alia asks.

"How am I supposed to know", Abhi replies. Looking at Alia's confused faced, he realizes that he just sounded very rude . "I mean, she is upstairs and was sleeping the last time I checked", he amends.

"Ok, then. I'll go call her", Alia says heading towards the stairs. 

"No, wait", Abhi stops her. Meera is in her room and not his his room. Alia doesn't know the situation of their relationship. "I'll call her. You keep an eye on Reyansh", saying this he goes up stairs and knocks on Meera's door. No one replies so he gently twists the knob and enters the room. He finds Meera sleeping under a heap of blankets. She looks so peaceful, he thinks. Abhi puts his hand to brush away a strand of her hair when he remembers the reason he was actually here.

"Meera, wake up", he says shaking her softly.

She groans. "5 mins dad".

"I'm not your dad"

"Ok then. Karan get lost", she mumbles turning her head towards the other side. 

"Meera, its me Abhimanyu and Alia is waiting downstairs for you", hearing this Meera gets up with a jolt .

"What!", she exclaims rubbing her eyes. 

"You heard me, she's waiting downstairs", saying this Abhi leaves the room.

10 mins later Meera makes herself presentable and goes down. Alia notices her descending the stairs and gets up excitedly from her place and says  . 

"It's Sunday and we are going shopping"

"Do we really have to ", Meera asks.

"Yes, now go and get ready."

Meera begrudgingly goes back upstairs, takes a showers and changes into a pair of jeans and a top. So after 20mins, when she finally ready, Meera goes back to the living room. 

                                                                      (Meera's look)

Abhi is sitting on the couch in just jeans and a t-shirt. Meera notices his appearance This is the first time I am seeing him in anything except a suit and he looks good, she subconsciously thinks. The t-shirt is hugging his upper body tightly showing off his muscled torso. 

                                                        (Abhi's look)

 Alia is placing Rey in a stroller and looks up at Meera and says,

"Great, you are ready lets go, even Rey is coming with us ",Meera nods and is about to go when Sarla aunty pulls her back and says,

"Itni jaldi nahi, eat your breakfast first", in a stern tone.

"I'm not hun-", Meera tries to protest but her efforts are in vain. She drags Meera into the dining room while Alia is waiting in the hall. Aunty places a cup of coffee and a sandwich in front of her . Meera starts eating when Abhi comes in and gives her his card. She looks at him quizzically. 

"Take it, you can use my card", he explains. She doesn't need his card but takes it anyways because she was in no mood of arguing with him right now. Once she is done eating, Alia, Rey and her leave for the mall.

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Hey guys, how are you doing?

I just realized that I never posted a pic of Reyansh's room so i did it in this chapter.

Hope you enjoyed reading

xoxo

Sakshi






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