Mystery girl in my life...

‘Sonal Mavshi (Aunty)’, came the voice when I had just reached home from office and had changed my clothes. When you hear her sweet voice you have to rush to the door and here she is as usual at your door. There is no point in greeting her at that moment since she just needs Sonal mavshi. She will always storm in without even bothering to look at you and will start searching for Sonal mavshi. And when she is done with her search in all the rooms, she will come back and ask where is Sonal mavshi?

Seeing her daily and waiting for her has now become a routine for me. She will always peep inside your house and believe me it’s really very hard to move your eyes away from her. When she peeps in, you will notice the little black eyes of her always searching something full of mischief in it, her innocent face, her good dressing sense and of course her striking beauty. Your eyes get fixed on her. And here she enters not just in your door or life but straight into your heart.

She has no problem dancing in front me to the latest bollywood tunes, playing with me or fighting with me. She will ask me to do paintings for her, or do origami for her as if it’s her right. She will actually make you dance to the tunes of her and believe me you will not regret doing that for her sweet innocent smile. And when she smiles you feel like you have won the whole world.

When I don’t listen to her, can you believe she directly goes to Sonal mavshi and complains about me? How can someone come in my house, ask me to do all the things which I don’t want to do and still complain about me for not doing the same? I can never let that happen with anyone except her. Because as you know she has already made a place in my heart.

You know something sometimes I do alliance with her and we make fun of Sonal mavshi. And she is so adorable that I know even Sonal mavshi doesn’t mind it. And sometime she will ask Sonal mavshi to scold me for my mistakes. That’s really childish, isn’t it? But she is a kid. And Sonal mavshi who actually enjoys all this drama, actually enjoying every bit of it and not leaving any chance of teasing me, will scold at me with her fake anger. But hold on, she is mature enough to understand that it’s all fake but she just loves it that way.

It’s not just me and Sonal mavshi about whom she complains. She complains about her mom too, not to me but to Sonal mavshi. And I in turn get to know about it either when they are discussing about it, as when she is at home her each word I fight to listen to, or else get to know about it from Sonal mavshi itself. Then we ought to take her side whatever may be the case. And if you fail to do that then only god can save you from her outrage.

She can take you to the garden and make you roam around with you till you get tired. But she is never out of energy. She is actually an epitome of energy!

And as time passes you get to know that now is the time that the storm is going to go back home and will come full blown tomorrow. And even we plan to sleep to gain some energy to make a futile attempt to match it with her. Futile indeed! And she storms out keeping memories behind as always.

Now I say sleeping on bed beside Sonal mavshi, ‘Don’t worry honey, even we are going to have a sweet kid as sweet as her or may be sweeter than her’.

By the way, who is she? Her name is Ria and she is really a kid, a small kid and my 3 and half year old neighbor. And no price for guessing that Sonal mavshi is my wife!

She is away again…

He came back home from office. The doorbell rang. No reply. As a routine he tried calling her on her cell phone before leaving from office but of no use. It was switched off. It was becoming a pain these days reaching her. Her cell phone was playing nasty these days, some days getting drained way too quickly, sometimes not charging properly, sometimes switching off automatically, etc. giving all sorts of problems. As if it has taken a responsibility of all the mobile problems on its shoulders for being a Guinea Pig. And all the more frustrating was that she was still fine with it and was not ready take a new cell phone.

Again a long sound of doorbell with no reply from inside! With irritated expressions he searched for the bunch of keys in his pocket. It’s always irritating particularly after getting married to open the door with keys without seeing wife opening the door for you after a hectic day. Just the way the expectations of a girl from a boy changes after marriage even guys have some expectations too! Anyway so she was not at home. He opened the door with keys and got in.

Where is she? She is getting irresponsible day by day. She didn’t even bother to tell me that she will be going out when I will reach home. How can she behave like this? With mind all cluttered with such questions he again searched in his pocket, this time for cell phone. When he called her the phone rang from inside the house. Now that’s damn irritating! She is out without even carrying her cell phone. So there is no way in this earth he can find out where she is.

Hey wait a minute! Let me recall whether her car was there in the parking lot. Yeah it was. Was it? No I am damn sure it was. After the surprise incidence he now notices whether the car is there in parking lot or not. So she must be out walking, may be for some small shopping. That sounds logical. Isn’t it? That’s his engineering brain analyzing the situation!

He simply changed his clothes and started watching TV. As she is nearby once she will come she will make tea for both of us, he thought. Now that may be rude but that’s how guys are!

Anyway it’s more than an hour now. God damn where is she? He picked up his cell phone again to realize that her cell is still back home and not with her. Now he was getting worried about her. So he asked neighbors about her but no use. No one has any clue. He decided to scold her when she will return home. But when will she return? Where is she? It’s almost two hours now and almost 9PM and she is still out with no clue where she is, with whom she is, what is she doing, is she alright? No clue absolutely.

Another hour passed in this frantic search. Few more phone calls to her friends with no reply. And each call was freaking him out. It was almost 10.00PM when doorbell rang. He hurriedly opened the door to see her at the door.

He just let her in and stormed at her, where were you? Can’t you tell me? Is this the way to behave? And what not! Why didn’t you carry your cell phone with you? It’s a mobile phone! Do you understand the meaning of mobile? God damn it’s not a static (again engineer in him) land line. She just told him her cell phone went out of battery as usual so she just put it on charging and went out. She was out since evening with her school friend to whom she met after may be ages. Hence she was late. He said that’s fine but can’t you tell me, calming down a bit! She just said you didn’t have anything after coming from office right? I want to have some tea, do you want some? By the time he was asking the question, how you know that I didn’t have anything, he realized what the answer would be. She just put the box of biscuits and tea in front of him which had sticky notes saying I am going out with my school friend. Will be reaching home late! Please make tea for yourself. And he said not again!!!

Surprise! Surprise!!

He came back home from office. Parked his bike in his apartment’s parking lot and started thinking how she will react after seeing him so early at home! By the way he was going through a very hectic schedule for last few days. Going early in the morning and coming late at night had become a routine for him! So coming early today from office was supposed to surprise her a lot. And to not to miss her expressions he didn’t inform her of coming home early although it was an unwritten rule between them to make a call while leaving workplace to go home. But today was different! It was a Surprise day! And he was enjoying every moment of it from the time he left office.

He was back home by tea time which was rarity but today it was reality too! And he was sure that she would never expect him so early. He was extremely happy with his boss for letting him go home early. They say it’s a rarity to have such an understanding boss who not just understands office work which is a corporate need but also understands the needs of family and importance of relationships too! But he was lucky to have one!

It’s so true that such small incidences are so very important in life to make the bonds stronger between husband and wife, to make the relationship grow. With the current rat race under the sugarcoated word of competition we don’t realize that we have actually started missing these small incidences and making the bonds between the two fragile. I agree to the fact that the pace of the world has changed a lot since the last era but it’s certainly a point to ponder on, the achievements we are having now are at what cost?

Anyway he started walking towards lift from parking lot thinking of all her patent dialogues for last few days. Why you need to work so hard? Are you the only one in your project who is working? Don’t they understand that you are no more a bachelor and you have a family now? So are you planning to come at least before midnight today? I am not going to wait for you for dinner. But he knew that she always waited for him to have dinner. And it wasn’t just a ritual to be followed but it was out of sheer love and the need to have a sound communication between the two. Because now-a-days with their working schedules that’s the only time when husband and wife eat together and have a communication. So today being different they were suppose to have tea together and not just dinner.

While thinking about all this he stood in front of his flat and pressed the door bell. No reply. And just when he was about to press the door bell again he heard his ringtone. Now who is calling at this time when I am about to enter my house? And her name flashed on the screen. Now is it a new trick she is playing with me? With this look on his face he picked up the call and said, “Hello?” Her pleasant voice said from other side, “Where are you? There is a surprise for you. I am just standing in front of your office. Just thought as it is now-a-days you reach home late and we hardly get time for each other. So why not at least have a tea near your office so that at least we can be with each other for some more time?” He is just thinking, not again. We are not having tea together even today and he is wondering how involved he was in his thoughts that he missed that her car is not there in the parking lot!!!

When she is away…

He came back home from office and pressed the doorbell. There is no response from inside. He pressed it again. This time for longer duration and with little bit of anger too. Why is it taking her so long for just opening the door? And then something struck him. Oh yeah, he smiles. How I can forget that she is not at home, he said to himself. She had gone out for her passport work which was pending for long since their marriage and would be waiting at her mother’s place at night which is on the way while returning from passport office.

He opened the door with latch key. And just when he was closing the door he saw a sticky note (post it) pasted on the rear of main door. It read, Good evening hubby, I hope it wasn’t a tiring day. He smiled again and murmured yeah the day was good but it won’t be the same with second half of the day as you are not at home. And as he said that he started thinking how dependent he has become on her that even in small things he badly needs her. He badly missed the smiling face of her opening the door of his house every day, greeting him daily. That thought for a moment interrupted his smile. But after all he wasn’t that selfish. Boss how can I ask her to come back home once she is done with the work. After all she did ask me for the first time after marriage that can I stay back at my house since it’s as it is on the way.

But I remember her catching my expressions of not to let her go even for a day. I know she sensed it for sure. She also sensed that in my voice too when I said, not looking at her, that yeah you can certainly stay back. In fact you don’t even need to ask me for that.

And he suddenly realized that he is still standing at door with sticky note in hand and like a statue without even removing his shoes, in deep thought. He removed his shoes and moved to keep it in shoe rack and guess what? Another sticky note which wrote, Hmmm…thinking about me hubby. I know even I am missing you. He was amused by the understanding they shared even while being miles away from each other.

He then simply placed himself on sofa and took remote in hand to switch on the TV. And surprise! Surprise! One more sticky note on the back side of remote which read, I knew you will switch on TV even before changing your clothes. Now this is too much he thought. Is she spying on me or what? And he went on to change his clothes.

Come on man how can she direct me to do whatever she wants to while being far away from me? That’s not fair, he thought. And today with she is not around I am going to live on my own terms just like I used to do when I was bachelor, he decided firmly and opened the fridge to drink some water. And as expected one more sticky note! It read, please make tea for you. Don’t be lazy! And with determination he said I am lazy and today is the day for me to be lazy.

As he ruled out the plan of making tea he decided to raid his own house to search all the remaining sticky notes. And found few others too. One on dining table which read, the food is available in fridge. Please heat it in oven before eating with P.S. as call me if you fail to operate ovenJ. On microwave oven the sticky note read, hey the food is little spicy! Sorry, but if you don’t like it don’t be hungry. At least have fruits. At fruit basket another sticky note read; don’t drink water immediately after eating fruits. It’s not good for health. It was becoming like a treasure hunt! And he finally got the last note on his wardrobe which read; wear that blue shirt with white lining on it for office. It looks good on you! He thought come on give me a break! At least when you are not here let me decide what I should be wearing.

Collecting all the sticky notes victoriously he came out in the hall and started watching TV. It must have passed 3-4 hours watching TV, eating food after heating it in oven with lot of fight on understanding from user manual on how to heat food since he was not ready to give up on P.S. part, eating fruits even though the food wasn’t all that spicy and finally drinking water at last after some time.

It must be around 11PM when door bell rang. With puzzled face he opened the door and the expressions changed to baffled, confused, almost hanged just like due to infection of virus to amused, surprised, and happy! She was standing at the door, smiling as usual and with that special spark in her eyes! I knew I served her purpose with all my different looks since opening of the door to enable her to make fun of me with her return! But I didn’t care! It’s nothing in front of her return. She finally said now can I get in if you can give me some space?

She explained to him how she saw the restlessness in his eyes if she had to stay back at her mom’s place and was unable to sleep. So she simply packed her bag and came to him.

Being a die-heart fan of tea the next thing she did was she asked him do you want to have a cup of tea. I am making some for myself.

Just while entering into the kitchen she asked, did you make tea for yourself after returning from office? He knew that this was a trap and hence was prepared for it. Now I can’t say I didn’t as it will make me lazy and she will tease me a lot on that, he thought. And as it is how she will come to know? So he said with some pride that yes I did make tea for myself.

Here she came laughing like crazy from kitchen saying, no my dear hubby you didn’t! He asked how can you say so? She said now with mischievous spark in her eyes, because the sticky note on tea powder box is still here. He literally jumped from his place to read the content which said How come sun has risen from west today? I don’t believe you are actually making tea for yourself!

When they fight

He came back home from office. The house was still silent. He knew that she is there in the house. But he couldn’t sense the normal energy around. It all sounded dull. He knew the fight they had in the morning was not over yet. It was the new battle of egos which both of them had to tackle till one give up. It’s not even a year passed to their marriage and these small fights have already started to surface in their life to spice up their love.

If you know your partner really well then even the surrounding of your house starts speaking with you. So he was sure that the fight won’t be over till the time either of them gives up. And he was also sure that there will be ambient conditions created so that he will give up and she will get the satisfaction of winning. But today he was in no mood giving up so easily.

He entered the house and was ready for the game. She too knowing him fully was equally prepared and well equipped for the game.

By the time he was changing and getting fresh, she made tea for him. After getting fresh he simply switched on the TV and sat on the sofa. The tea was served on the teapoy. Mind you, not a single word exchanged so far.

He simply takes the first sip of tea and he knows to the core that yes I know her better and everything is going as per the plan. It is the sweet tea which he loves with extra milk in it. By the way she hates sweet tea and milk is strictly a big NO for her. But today she will have both as she is expecting him to give up. But that’s not enough to resolve the impasse between them.

Meanwhile he is thinking what happened in the morning. After all guys will be guys! He has completely forgotten the reason for the fight. Oh yeah, he was getting late for office in the morning and he was wearing a shirt which wasn’t all that suitable for the trouser he was wearing. But that reason was good enough for her to get angry. Can you believe this? Then came emotional dialogue cant you do even this much for me? And he sternly refused to change. And that was it! He was glad that at least he was remembering the reason for fight. That was good enough for him to continue with fight for some time. After all he doesn’t wish to win it; he just needs to drag it a bit.

By the way even she was aware that only tea of his choice wasn’t enough considering the reason for fight. But again girls will be girls. Hence she was still expecting him to say sorry for the morning incidence. After all he is now my husband. How can he wear something so shabby! That is certainly a reason to be angry on! She was determined to prove her point. Hence she simply finished her tea and went inside.

He was observing her and was certain that she is all set to prove her point. After being in relationship with her for so long he knew exactly what’s going on in her mind. But he was curious about her way to prove her point. And was sure that, the way will certainly be new and different too!

And she didn’t disappoint him either. She came out with her hair uncombed, face colored like joker, wearing night dress and blazer on top of it with 2 different colored shoes in 2 legs, mickey mouse bag on her back, and with each nail colored in different color. And said lets move out, I have to do some shopping.

And he was not left with any other option but to laugh like crazy. He actually fed down from sofa laughing really hard. And finally when his breathing came down to normal he said, ok I give up and now wash those fluorescent blue, fluorescent green colored nails first and I promise you not be shabby like today!