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Part 31

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"Open and close both are opposite to each other but we open to them who is close to our heart"

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"Sabeer?" Naira was surprised to see him there. "What are you doing here?" She asked. He waved his hand at her, grinning widely. She cut the call and stepped back letting him enter her room.

"Surprised?" He asked as he looked around her room and walked straight to the balcony as if he owned that damn place.

"Yeah, I am. And you didn't answer me. What are you doing here?" She asked hardly containing her annoyance.

"Why you sound so annoyed? You don't like to have me here?" He asked feeling hurt and disappointed.

"No! I am sorry. It's just... I don't know how Roshan will take this. He might not like having you in our trip"

"Just like how they joined you in their trip they will join me as well. If they don't like to have me in their team also its fine. You just come with me. We can tour around Goa on our own. Just the two of us. I would prefer that actually. We will get to know each other better then. What do you say?"

"Sab, that's wrong. I came with them and I can't ditch them mid way for you"

"Alright" he sighed. "So what you guys have planned for tonight?"

"I don't know. I should ask Roshan."

"How many days you guys have planned to stay here?"

"A week" Naira replied. "And you are going to accompany us throughout the trip?"

"Hopefully"

She frowned.

"If there is any emergency at the hospital I would be leaving soon"

"Oh"

"So before that I would like to take you on a date."

"A date?"

"Yes. Will you go with me?"

"When?"

"Tomorrow night"

"I will ask Roshan..."

"Stop it Naira. Stop taking his name for every damn thing. You have nothing to ask him. You decide whether you want to go with me or not" he snapped.

"I didn't mean to ask his permission. I wanted to ask Roshan's plan before making my own plans." She snapped him back. They stood glaring at each other for a minute.

"Why didn't you tell me about you coming here?"

"I told you it was a surprise"

"Hmm"

"You wish I hadn't come, right?"

"Honestly yes. There are too many boys here already."

"Don't worry. I will protect you from the R-brothers"

"I trust them and they respect me so I don't need your protection from them"

"Cool. Now at least give me a welcome hug. I will feel so unwanted otherwise"

Naira smiled a little and briefly hugged him.

"You smell good." he said catching a whiff of her sweet scent. "You just took your shower?"

She nodded.

"And you didn't dry your hair. You will catch cold. Come. I will blow dry for you"

"Sab, I will do..."

"Shush Naira. No defying me."

"Bossy much" she rolled her eyes.

He smirked "Let your doctor take care of you, darling"

Naira blushed and nodded her head. He took her hand and walked back into the room. When Naira produced him her hairdryer he dried her hair into a wild look.

"So?" He asked once he turned off the dryer.

"What?"

"Dinner? Tomorrow. Will you go with me?"

"Okay" she agreed offering him a gentle smile.

"Great." He pecked on her cheek. "I will go make arrangements for it now as I want to make it romantic for us"

"Nothing over the top, Sab. Make it a simple dinner in some local restaurant"

"As you wish"

"Where are you staying?" Naira asked.

"In this resort only. Next room is mine"

"Oh. Wait. How did you know this place? I mean how did you know that I was staying here?" She asked suspiciously.

"Your FB and Whatsapp status, silly"

"Ah yeah okay"

"I will go now as I am in desperate need of a hot shower."

"You look so fresh and clean to me"

"No. I just checked in, dropped my bags there and ran to your room to see you." He said raking his fingers through his hair making her eyes travel up from his face to his hand. She wished to rake her fingers through his hair.

"How did you find out it was my room?"

"I asked in the reception"

"Oh. Btw, Roshan is in the opposite room, he is sharing his room with his brothers"

"Good. They can keep him company and you can keep me company" he winked.

"Sabeer, please. Let's all enjoy this trip together." She didn't want to hurt Roshan more than she already had by ignoring him and going out with Sabeer.

"Will Roshan be okay with that idea?"

"Roshan accepted the fact that I like you..."

"From love to like huh?" He asked cocking his brow.

Naira looked away. She wasn't sure anymore about her feelings. "You have never been so sure about your feelings, Naira. You just let yourself believe you love Sab" her inner voice mocked.

"Sabeer, I... I don't know..."

"Relax. We will figure it out in this trip" he said and smiled. She nodded.

Then he turned on his heel and walked towards the door. He twist the knob and pulled the door open and there stood Roshan, with his fingers in the air, ready to knock the door.

"What are you doing here, doctor?" Roshan asked frowning.

"Spending some lovely time with my girlfriend, lawyer. Do you have a problem with that?" Sabeer said with a smirk.

Naira closed her eyes as she belatedly realized that she should have listened to her mom and stayed at home. She shouldn't have come to this trip at all. But she didn't listen to her and now she was stuck between two extremely good looking men who hate each other's gut.

--0--

"Kate!" Alex aka Alexander, Kathryn's best friend waved his hand in the crowded Airport lounge. Her flight just landed on NYC and he had come to pick her up.

"Alex, I missed you" Kathy threw herself in his arms and hugged him tightly.

"I missed you too, Sexy, but now happy to have you back in my arms, where you belong, sweetheart" he whispered and kissed her hair.

"Don't call me Sexy" she slapped his arm and pushed him away from her body.

"Alright! How long you are going to stay here, Kate?"

"A month maximum"

"Hmm. Are you still seeing that guy?" Alex asked with a hint of jealousy and hatred towards Arjun.

"Yeah" she mused, already missing Arjun.

"You love him, Kate?"

"No"

"He loves you though"

"I don't know for sure though he keeps saying that."

"If you don't love him then why are you still with him? Why don't you just end things with him?"

"Because the sexual connection between us is electrifying" Kathy said that in a whisper as if telling him a secret and then she winked at him. She tried to dump Arjun a couple of times but she couldn't. Well, her body didn't allow her to do that cruelty as it just craved for him like it's craving now.

Alex gritted his teeth and angrily dumped her bags in the trunk of his car.

He hated Arjun for having what was rightfully his! He believed Kathryn was rightfully his and no one else's as he knew her from their diaper days.

--0--

Rishab sat up and swung his legs outside of his bed and gripped the matress with both his hands. He couldn't sleep. He had twisted his right ankle this evening while stepping out of his car and it was paining him badly now. He stiffled a groan, not wanting to disturb his wife.

"What's wrong, husband?" Madhu's worried voice startled him.

How the fuck she woke up? I didn't make any sound right?

"Nothing's wrong. You go back to sleep" he said looking at her over his shoulder. She shuffled the duvet away and scooted closer to him.

"No! You couldn't sleep? Why? Tell me?" She asked rubbing his back.

"I always wonder how you quickly wake up whenever I am in pain." His wife was a sound sleeper and she won't wake up even a thunder falls on top of their roof but she wakes up instinctively whenever he was unwell though he tries his best to be discreet and not disturb her.

"You are my jaan (life), Rishab, so I will know when you are not feeling well. Well, now tell me what gives you pain and discomfort? What happened?" Madhu asked in concern as she jumped out of the bed and knelt down on the floor in front of him, placing her hands on his lap.

"I sprained my right ankle. It's paining mildly. That's all. Nothing to worry, okay?"

"Why didn't you tell me before?" She scolded him. "Okay, you wait. I will go get hot water for you to immerse you foot in it"

"Madhu, there is no need for that. You just go back to sleep. Please."

She gave him a glare before standing up on her feet and walking out of their room.

--0--

"Veer, I have to tell you something" Inayat started hesitantly after exchanging their usual pleasantries. She was in the kitchen making a cup of coffee for herself as she talked over the phone with her husband.

"Hmm tell me?" It was their routine to talk late night before going to sleep and they fill in each other with what they did the entire day.

"I am sorry I let Arjun kiss my head and hand and we hugged once, today." She said that in one single breath.

"Okay?" He waited for her to continue as he wondered why she was telling him that now.

"I feel so guilty about that. I have sought Allah's forgiveness and now I want you to forgive me. I am sorry, Veer" she got headache thinking about that throughout the day and now she was making coffee to ease her pain.

"He is my brother, Inayat, so I don't mistake you two. Besides, I know you will never cheat on me, not even in dream, just like I won't." he softly said after a brief pause. 

"Yeah, I know and I didn't mean to complain about him or anything like that. He is really sweet so you don't tell him anything that will hurt him and make him avoid me. It's just that I feel I am being unfair to you"

"I am just glad my brother is helping you come out of your fear..."

"Hmm"

"But don't let him kiss or hug you often. He can do all that cozying up with his girlfriend and spare my innocent wife" he said possessively. She giggled.

"How can I stop him when he suddenly hugs me or kisses me?"

"Just warn him you will slap him if he even lays his little finger on you"

Inayat gasped audibly. "No, I won't hurt him. He is just like my baby brother"

"You should tell him to stop doing all that, Inayat otherwise I will feel bad that my wife is not letting me kiss her or hug her..."

"I will let you, Veer." She hurriedly said. "I will let you hug me, even kiss me. I promise." She said sweetly. She decided to let her husband in and clean her mind and heal her heart.

"I wish I was there at this moment, Inayaa..." He said huskily. "...to kiss you"

"I miss you, Veer"

"I think half of our lives will be over missing each other" he said with a sigh.

Inayat looked up when she heard someone clearing their throat.

Madhu was standing by entrance of the kitchen and listening to Inayat's one way conversation with a fond smile till the moment she realized why she was there in the first place.

"Ammi" she acknowledged her. "Veer, ammi is here. I will pass the phone to her, wait"

"Hello Veer" Madhu said once she took the phone from Inayat.

"Maa, you didn't sleep yet? Are you okay?" He asked in concern.

"I am okay. It's your, dad. He sprained his leg and he just told me that. I came to heat some water so that I can give him hot water massage..."

"Oh. I will talk to him, tomorrow. You take care of him now."

"I will. You tell me? How are you doing there?"

"I am doing well though it's extremely cold here." He was literally freezing in the camp and he was talking with chattering teeth.

"Oh baby. Take care. Momma loves you"

"Love you maa"

"Well, I will put your wife back on the line" she said. By now Inayat had warmed the water for her mom-in-law.

"Ammi, you need my help?"

"No, darling. This is enough. You carry on your convo with your husband. Oh and drink your coffee. It's getting cold" she said with a smile and leaving Inayat in the kitchen she went to her room carrying the steel pot with warm water.

--0--

"Madhu, you need not massage my foot. This warm water is soothing my pain."

"Inayat was in the kitchen making coffee when I went to get this." She said ignoring her husband protest. "She was talking with Veer."

"And you eavesdropped, didn't you?" He asked looking down at her.

"You know me well, husband" she grinned widely.

"It would be a shame if I didn't know you well even after being married to you for 27 years"

"Fair point." She smiled looking up at him. "Inayat and Veer miss each other so much and I feel so bad about that. They are really young and they just got married but they couldn't stay together..."

"We can do nothing on this issue, Madhu"

"Hmm yeah. Now I feel I am lucky compared to her..."

"In what way?"

"However busy my husband was, I still got to see him at home daily night unlike Inayat." she pitied Inayat.

All day that poor girl had to wait for a phone call from her husband only to talk for few minutes.

Army life is not easy. It involves so much pain and sacrifices.

"Hmm"

"Maybe we should send her back to Kashmir to stay with Veer once they start a normal life"

"That's a call Veer and Inayat should make, not us" he knew it wouldn't be easy for Inayat to go back to a place where she lost her happiness.

"Right" she agreed. "I really like Inayat, Rishab. She is the sweetest person I have ever seen in my life. She is so kind and helping. I am so happy with Veer's choice of life partner. Wish Arjun was also wise enough to choose someone like Inayat"

"I agree with everything you said about Inayat, Madhu but I don't agree with your opinion on Arjun's girlfriend. Trust me, Kathryn is also a nice girl..."

"But I find her weird and I feel she is hauling around with emotional baggages" She knew something was fundamentally wrong with Kathryn but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

Bang on!

Blast my wife's smart and inquisitive brain! Rishab thought.

"Enough. My pain has gone. Thank you. Let's sleep now." He said putting a halt to Madhu's worry.

Madhu nodded her head and got onto the bed after wiping Rishab's wet foot with a towel and placing the now less warm water pot aside.

"Darling, I love you" Rishab whispered as he pulled his wife in his arms and kissed her forehead.

Madhu suppressed her giggle as she felt it was so unlike her husband to say those sweet words.

It was more like Arjun's style of confession but she didn't dare say anything funny and offend her husband. 

"Husband, I love you too" Madhu whispered back as she placed her head on his chest and they went to deep slumber.

... To be continued!

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