I went inside the hall from backyard and saw that there was a big cardboard box placed near the sofa. I looked at the box which had my name on it...

Who might have sent it?

Without waiting for another second, I opened the box and looked inside which had small small cute clothes for my baby!

Rahul bhaiya!

I checked out all the clothes which were too cute to be ignored and I made a mental note that I have to thank him later...

I put the baby on carpet and then surrounded him with the cushions.

I lifted the big box and placed it in my room... Be ready for another photo shoot baby!....

I went down to see baby on sofa with arjun beside him.

Wait, when did this all happen? I mean how and why? He dosen't like baby na...

I let them be as my waist is already paining by carrying him and working with only one hand. I went inside kitchen and started cooking. After half an hour I came back to look at my baby keenly looking at him. I don't understand why he is staring at arjun when his lovey dovey mother is here.

I went to my baby and picked him up.

I looked towards arjun and now I was shocked ! Now I understand why Laddu was staring at him! It's because arjun got his beard trimmed! When did that happen? He looks dressed up too! Wait whats the time?

I looked at the wall clock which showed 8:00pm... Where is he going late at night? Leave that aside, where is his sadhu beard!!!

Damn, he dosen't look like a Godzilla anymore... Now I understand why that Kaira is swooning and pouring her boobs on my husband. He is one fine specimen if he cleans up himself.

When is he going to get his pony cut?

" lakshmi

Did you make rahul sign the legal papers? " he asked and I was numb for a second. The devil is back.

I shivered of the consequences now, that day I had become Rani lakshmi Bhai taking all the decisions by myself thinking that he can't even touch my hair... That's all due to intensity of the situation... But now... I'm scared... This is such a big thing for which I hadn't even taken his permission....

" never do it again " he said and went inside the dining room and my eyes almost touched the ground! What the freaking hell!!! Did he just leave me? Did he just...did he just spare me? Did he not beat me? Is this all a dream? I felt a slap on my cheek , to see it was none other than my shehazaad.... He giggled....

Damn !

I still can't believe it!

I went to the dining room immediately and served him. I stood behind him and laddu is playing with my saree. He knows when to disturb and when not to...

He went inside his study , I had my dinner and then I cleaned up the plates. Laddu was playing on kitchen floor. After I was done I picked up Laddu and went up the stairs. He kept on babbling and I kept on talking to him as if I know what he is speaking of... I just need someone beside me in this lonely house to talk to and now my baby is there for me.

I was about to go towards my room and suddenly he started crying! I went down the stairs with him and prepared milk for him, I kept the nib near his mouth but he just turned his head away. I patted on his back but he didn't stop. I went inside my room and he is still crying loudly... Tears were pouring out of his eyes crying miserabily... I tried everything I could but he didn't stop....

His nose and cheeks turned pink and tears were trailing out continously from his eyes . I couldn't help but tears rolled down my eyes... I kept on patting his stomach slowly and I cried out.... It's paining... I don't know why... It's hurting.... He has not stoped crying still.....

There was never space for forgiveness but I did today... I didn't forgive her but I just let her be for this once because I have already punished her for the mistakes she hasn't committed.

After the online conference , I shut down my laptop and went down the stairs.... The time was already 10:00pm.

I still remember how homely it looked when she was playing with that child in the kitchen while preparing lunch. How she took care of me even when her hands shook with fear. How she fed me slowly.

That child really had quite an audacity to pull my beard and sneeze in my clothes and rub it back on my shirt!

I took a glass of water from kitchen with paracetamol and went up the stairs. I heard sounds of crying... I waited for few seconds but they increased more. I went inside her room and it shocked me to core seeing that actually I'm harbouring 2 kids in my home!

Lakshmi is crying really loud , much more louder than the baby... She is patting him but he ain't stopping and she is crying more and more by every passing second! Is she gone mad!?

I went near the bed and looked at the baby who looked like he would pass out any second due exhaustion .

I immediately picked him up in my arms and patted his back softly. After a few seconds he stopped crying but the other kid on the bed is still crying as if someone has passed away..

" shut up! " I growled at her and she shut her mouth quickly... She is looking like a pink ball...

She kept looking down and I tried to keep the baby on bed but he started wailing as soon as I lowered him...

Ahhhhhh

What is this headache!

I should have left them to cry! Why did I even add up more headache!

I went out of her room and reached my room. I slept on the bed and the baby lied on me. Key word * lied.

He is still looking at me with those sterling grey eyes. I don't know what I'm doing ,I'm not in my right senses..

This headache is killing me.

" uvaa...vaaaavuuuuuu " this was only the start... The whole blabbering continued for 5 minutes and if Lakshmi wouldn't have come then I would have tied him up in a towel and throw him out of the window.

She climbed up onto the bed and pulled him towards her and he raised his hands towards me asking me to take him in my arms... Ignore...

" kanna

Mumma is here for you na

He is tired, let him rest... " she said softly to the baby and the baby instantly put his hands down looking at me.... Is this even possible...

I looked at her feeding the baby by making him sit in her lap.

" olu lu olu lu

Inkoncham Inkoncham " she said softly encouraging the baby to drink a little more. I had jitters all over my body listening to those words. Would she do the same when we have our own baby? would she be sitting like this infront of me and feeding our baby ? would she smile and say those sweet words to our baby too?

All the thoughts of her and baby have clouded my mind.

" Oooooo...vuuuuuuoooo" the baby started blabbering again and I looked at him.... He rose his hands towards me. He wants me to take him into my arms? Never! I've already had enough of this drama. I moved to the other side of the bed and layed down.

The baby started wailing more and I could hear lakshmi trying to control that little seed. I sighed in frustration after a few seconds I turned towards them to see her already in tears! Damn what's wrong with this girl! Why is she crying for even a small issue!

I took the baby in my arms and started patting him. He held on to my shirt and slept within few minutes. I tried to seperate him from my shirt but he woke up and again I had to make him sleep. He slept and I looked at lakshmi who is going towards the door.

" where are you leaving? " I asked her and she looked at me.

"I'm going to sleep " she said and was about to get out .

" oh, then I have to tolerate this thing all the night? " I asked her getting angry.

" but he ain't leaving you,

You can keep him for tonight

I will take him early in the morning " she said and I was amazed by the way she twisted my words! As if I'm begging her to let the baby stay with me!

" take him or stay the night " I said and she looked at us contemplating for a few seconds...

She came and slept on the other side of the bed with baby in the middle who is hugging the hell out of me.

The morning rays fell on my face and I felt soft skin underneath me...

I hugged it more tightly and inhaled the jasmine smell. I opened my eyes to look at my wife underneath me...

What the heck! I looked around to see the baby still in the middle of the bed but I'm on wrong side... When did I shift?

Maybe when I went to washroom..

I looked at the wall clock which showed 9:00 ! How come I slept for so long?

It happened last time when I slept with her and this time too...

I raised up a little and pushed back my messy hair on to a side. I pushed away the strands of hair covering lakshmi's face. She looked like a breath of fresh air... Sunrays were making her glow like a celestial being.

Big eyes , small button nose and plump lips... Soo natural and exotic...

I felt her moving and I got up immediately...

She ain't a time bomb!

Whatever

I felt a little tired and went back to sleep on my side with baby in the middle. He sleeps better than my wife who is drooling all over the pillow.

I felt the rays burning my skin and I got up. I looked at wall clock and the time was 10:00 am!!

Wait this ain't my room....

And then everything came flashing down my brain... I turned to my left and looked at the unbelievable seen unfolding infront of my eyes in the early morning which is not soo early..

I took my phone from stand and took a pic of them...

How come this Godzilla is hugging my rasgulla? Didn't he detest babies?

Oh my oh my !

Forget that and save your rasgulla who is being crushed under Godzilla!

I tried moving his hand off my baby but he pulled me by my hand and I balanced myself from crushing on to the baby... This guy is totally mad even in sleep! I loosened his grip on my hand and he put another hand around my waist! Damn! I didn't change and this saree ain't helping! How did i even sleep in saree!!??!!

I tried calling and waking him up but to no avail until something stinked.

Oh no...

" hahahahahahahaha " I laughed seeing arjun scrunching his nose...

It's because my rasgulla produced it's juice! Hahahaha

And it smells a little or maybe more!

He instantly removed his hands off us and got out of bed. He looked at his wet shirt and bed... Serves him right!

Hi-5 to my rasgulla...

' Ammi ki naam roshan kiya mera putra.' I said mentally...

He glared at both of us and left to the washroom and I took my baby in my arms and went back to my room.

" bujulu

Let's get you bath now " I said and he smiled... Aww my baby is the cutest of the cutest in the whole galaxy.

I bathed him and wrapped him up in a towel. I made him wear one of the new set of clothes that bhaiya has sent me...

I kept a black tika ( dot) under his ear and mentally made a note to buy children's kajal...

I kept him on bed and put up the pillow barriers and went to take a bath.

After a refreshing bath I came out in a towel and looked at my baby talking and I smiled at him... He is the light of my life....

I went inside the walk-in closet and wore my Saree for today.

I braided my hair into a French braid and put a small bindi. My mangalsutra is always there around my neck.

*sigh*

I went down holding baby in my arms and I looked at arjun who is in his casuals, reading news paper. Why do I have to work in quarantine too!!!

It was already 11:00

Shall I make breakfast or lunch?

I will just throw some snacks on his face for now and start preparing lunch.

I put the soo called breakfast in front of him near the couch .

" what is this ? " he asked gritting his teeth.

" post breakfast " I said holding rasgulla on my hip.

" what's that? " he asked keeping the news paper down and concentrating totally on me.

" thats something you eat after breakfast.

Now if you don't want it

Then dont eat it " I said escaping from there....

I entered kitchen and exhaled the air which was struck all along in me....

Poor him,

Have to suffice his hulk body with Britania biscuits and 2 oranges...

" vavuuuu uuuaaaa "

" yah yah I know

There are cream biscuits

But I don't want to give them to him" I said as if the baby really asked me...

Yah this is my condition now... I'm going mentally insane.

Baby pulled my nicely braided hair and I glared at him... This guy always spoils my hairstyle... He is too damn intelligent and I feel like he is wantedly doing this...

" baby....

If you are doing this because I didn't feed him breakfast

Then I will not give you milk too

Both of you can suffer with your undying love for each other " I said and the baby left my hair immediately... He is surely more intelligent than kids of his age group...and my guess was right...

I made him drink milk and side by side I prepared lunch...

I expected that arjun would start a drama at lunch time again but he ate quitely and I after him.

As it is Sunday

Ofc all days are Sundays in quarantine but still Sunday is Sunday...

I went out in the backyard garden and put a sheet on the grass. It's already 4:00... I lied down on the sheet and the baby started playing with the small ducks... Life is soo peaceful now.

" lakshmi " okay all my peace is gone.

" hmm " I said sitting up right on the mat.

" clients of mine are coming for dinner tomorrow sharp at 8:00 and everything should be ready " he said in a serious tone and I nodded my head.

He sat down beside me and I looked at him as if he got 100 heads... Is he even the real arjun? He is behaving a little humanly...

He was looking in to the forest and lines formed on his forehead.

" what are you staring at? " he asked and I turned my head away not responding to him.

" what are you thinking? " he asked again... Woow that's a lot of change... Why does he even care what I think but why is he even asking that?...

" nothing " I said and looked at baby trying to eat grass!!

" hey you!

Am I not feeding you enough that you started eating grass?!

You eat that thing now

Then no milk for you

Everyday I will put a plate full of fried grass for you " I started blabbering shit rubbing my nose on his tummy and made him laugh.

He is my twinkle twinkle little star...

I heard a giggle from beside me and I looked at arjun with shock... Did he just laugh?

He pulled out something from my hair and that was.... Grass!

You traitor son of mine!! Putting grass in your mothers hair! Hope you don't keep flowers in my ears in future!

I lied down on the mat and left rasgulla to play with his toys...

I looked at arjun to see him staring into the forest again thinking something deeply...

He has changed a little and I really want to work out this relationship with him... I mean atleast friendship..

He can behave with me the way he does with Rahul and Vihaan bhaiya..

I can be a better friend or a best friend too... Maybe I have to talk to him, I have to give it a try... We stay under the same roof...

He laid down beside me looking up in the sky , I'm in between the 2 men of this house...

" speak out " he said in a deep voice and turned to me...

" actually

I wanted to talk to you

I mean

I know that we aren't in the best terms and we had faced some real shit in our span of stay or I have to say that I have faced a real bad shit.

I just wanted to ask you whether we can be friends like your friends rahul and Vihaan bhai...

It's kinda even awkward to ask too " I said scratching my head.. Damn! This is not the way I wanted to ask him.. I thought to be like a filmy wala way but this is like... Yuck....

Better run away before he punches me square in my face...

" hmm " he said. Did he really accept?

" don't you mind my temper and relations? " he asked... Okay that's one hella difficult question.

" don't you mind my temper and relations? " I asked her.. What the hell is wrong with me? Why am I asking this little girl such a lame questions as if I'm ready to be a friend with this bud..

" I do Ofcource

It's just that you are uncontrollable when you are angry and you become a real Godzilla and beat the shit out of anyone who is the reason for your anger without analysing or thinking.

And your relations

To be frank

I don't care

It's not like we have given our consent willfully in this marriage. You don't even know that I ran away 3 days before marriage to escape this but I was caught by my parents.

U have all the liberty to stay in relationships with whom ever you want as you are older than me and it's weird for us both to indulge in one." she kept in talking like a non stop chatter box without filter to her thoughts as if she is pouring out her brain...