It was Saturday morning, Arohi was awakened by all the hustle bustle going on in the house. She tried to lie down for somemore time but finally decided to wake up. she was not used to sleeping alone for quite sometime now and today it suddenly felt weird waking up in the room she had always loved, she herself was surprised by this. She started looking around for her hairband, it had become a habit to look for it everymorning since he always flung it off. He liked her hair left loose, a smile crept as she thought of it. Then she realized it was intact in her hair today, she felt a pinch in her heart, it has not yet been a day and she was missing him terribly. That too he had not called her nor spoken to her since thrusday night. reluctantly she got ready to get down and join the family for bfast trying to put up a smile. She was here to see her daddu who was not well and she did not want him to her sad face.
As she approached the bfast table she was again pushed back to his land, they had to make puri's today , she thought. It was his favourite and would gobble as many as he could whereas she always avoided oily food for bfst. lost in his thoughts she served herself a plate full, her mom who was about to make her a sandwich was pleasantly surprised. Just then rajveer arrived too , 'oh by the way arjun called last night' she was all ears 'he was checking on dad, I told him he was doing okay now'. As her mom nodded arohi felt a lump in her throat , it cldnt be coz of the oil she isn't used to, it must that he did not ask for her. Even after bfst she felt an emptiness in her tummy. I will just watch something, why is everyone except her so busy today, she thot and went to the living room where gauri was busy rearranging stuff.
Thursday evening rashi and jignesh came to drop of raj , since he had a holiday on Friday and as they both worked they were leaving raj here. It was abt dinner time him and arohi were chatting with dadi , rashi came there with a tired face. 'everything allright at work' he asked, 'nope' she said luking at arohi once and then at him and then decided to keep quiet, after a little chat arohi left to sleep and rashi and arjun walked upstairs too stopping briefly outside his room. He asked her again 'if there is problem let me know, I know ur boss I can talk to him' 'its not him' she said then lowered her voice , 'I don't want to upset arohi , u know how gauri always tries to sabotage my work , today she did some stupid mistake and I had to deal with it. I asked my boss to put her in a different team , she was mad for that and called me a corrupt mind and a kissass, oh it was such a horrible day'. Gauri was arohi's chachi and best friend and also rashi's collegue, posed problems to rashi every now and then at work and today luked like even the most calm rashi has had her limit. this gauri has become a pain in rashi's career he thot. he never had a good opinion abt that lady. he had a gift of judging people the first time he sees. That is how he married arohi. The moment he saw her he knew she was the one.
It looked like arohi could hear them from inside, as soon as he came in , she had asked him
he was surprised that she took it offensively,
'because sadly I am good at judging people, remember I knew you the first time I saw you ' he tried to make the atmosphere light by smiling, he did not want to fight with her even though she did look cute with that little frown
'I don't think you are' she continued,
he felt like it was a challenge , it was his asset and he took pride in knowing ppl.
'you don't?'
'no , if u were you would have judged ur sister too, she is a people pleaser and gauri is not, it is as simple'
why was she doing this, he just asked her a question
'fine if you want to continue, it is not as simple when it jeopardizes the work of ur collegue and my sister is not a people pleaser' he prepared to sleep.
'it is always two sided'
'yes it is, if my sister had not forgiven her so many times, by now she would not be working in that office'
'so you are saying , gauri is there not because of her own merits'
'that's not what I said, u are taking all my words wrongly, why are we even fighting over them'
'I didn't start it'
'I didn't either'
'well just like my friend I am the wrong one here, you are right like always'
'yeah , I am always right, now let me sleep , and I am sorry I asked you to do one simple thing'
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'what? I had to cancel it because I had to work, where did u get this idea from , I thot u were smart'
'so now you are saying I am not smart, that is why you arent encouraging me to come with you to the office'
'arohiii, what did I ask and what are you leading it to. clearly you are not in the mood to listen to anything I say now, I will talk to you in the morning. goodnight'
she did not answer, may be she was mad at him now. He was irked by her illogical argument too. Friday morning when he woke up she had already gone down, he did not see her till he left home and she did not call him at work all day. He was busy too, did not even realize his lunch was sent in by his dad and when he came home she was not there. All this for a silly fight he had thot. It was a painful Friday night and now it was becoming even harder.