She had not
much work to do. As usual she had allocated the servitors work. She lay on the
couch with the magazine. In the course of time, her eyes closed due to boredom.
“Hi sweetie!”,
someone called , nudging her gently. She opened her eyes to see her aunt
looking at her with a bit over protectiveness in her eyes. “ Hi aunt! I didn’t expect
you. You were supposed to come around at 4pm.”, Disha said, yawning in between.
She rolled her eyes and asked her to wash her face. Disha did as she was told
so.
“ You are
sleeping peacefully here. You may increase your waist line if you sleep like
this. Why don’t you take care of yourself? I don’t know what will happen to you
if am not here.” , she scolded her softly. Disha smiled at her aunt’s caring
nature. She was right. What will she do without her? She gave one of her bear
hugs. “Now, now, now , you know how to make your aunt’s heart melt? Get dressed
soon!”, her aunt said
Her aunt was
only friend she got. It wasn’t that she had no friends. But her aunt was someone
she could trust on anything...even the matters that she couldn’t discuss freely
with Luv.
They were at
a mall. They were mostly window shopping and would hop into only those shops
that gave lucrative discount offer. They hadn’t shop much. As their feet couldn’t
take any more, they stopped at café at the food court. They were engrossed in
their gossip when aunt saw a young man resembling Luv talking to a young woman.
“Dear, that man
behind you looks like Luv. Just look behind for a second.”, she said. “What
aunt! He’s in the meeting, I know. Why would he be here? If he was, he would
call me.”, she said as she turned to side she was asked to look. Her eyes
shrunk to see clearly at the man. It indeed was Luv. “What was he doing here?
Who was that lady he was talking to? Maybe it was one of his clients. But why
would he meet them at the mall?” she wondered.
As he hugged
her, Disha’s heart pained. This was not happening to her. “Who was he hugging
and why? Was this a meeting with the client, he sacrificed his lunch. Oh god
let this not to be true?”, she thought. Her aunt squeezed her hand to comfort
her. However it didn’t. Nothing consoled her heart. She ran away from the scene
to the parking lot. She kneeled down next to her car and cried hard. She felt
some one place a hand on her shoulder. She looked up. To her dismay, it was not
Luv but her aunt.
(To be
continued)
Hmm..interesting read!
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