ShiVi - Redemption

Chapter 13

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Chapter 13

——————At Pandya Niwas————

Panic was seen flowing up Shiva's face as he struggled to cut the already placed video call to Raavi, "Yeh cut kyun nahi ho raha" when her moonlit face appeared on his phone screen, looking puzzled as ever.

"Woh..woh.. galti se lag gaya, main...main.." a flustered Shiva, making an entrance to the conversation.

"Yeh bakri ki tarah, main main karne ke liye call kiya tune" she asked amused at this stuttering Shiva.

How cute did her Bhoothnath look all nervous and afraid. The fact that he was afraid to say something or do something, thinking that it would make her distant from him, was evident on his face. She liked seeing this side to Shiva, but she missed the Bhoothnath who would annoy the daylights out her too.

"Nahi, woh pakode—, haan pakode mast bane the" said Shiva, relieved that he could frame at least one full sentence.

"Acha, bas yahi batana tha?" she said sounding disappointed.

"Haan" said Shiva, thinking what else did she think he called her for.

"Okay, toh main phone rakhti hoon" said Raavi about to quit the call when he screamt,

"Nahi!!" and continued, "Woh, Dhara Bhabhi ko bhi pakode acche laga", cursing himself mentally for turning into babbling bumbling idiot.

"Hmm mujhe pata hai unka message aaya tha" getting slightly annoyed at this fumbling Bhoothnath.

"Tujhe ho kya gaya hai Shiva, tu kabse itna darr darr ke baat karne laga, maana ki main Somnath ki sabse sundar ladki hoon, par itna bhi nervous hone ki zaroorat nahi" she said, being her nautanki self.

"Eh Chipkali, Shiva Pandya kisi se nahi darta samjhi" getting back to his own element, Shiva replied.

"Accha, toh bina hich kichaaye baat karna phir" challenged Raavi.

"Haan toh seedhi baat karta hoon na, tere khaana peena sab sahi hai naa Hardik Bhai ke ghar pe? tu aaram se reh rahi hai? dekh Raavi, agar tujhe wahan rehne se koi problem hai toh tu bata, seedhe seedhe" said Shiva directly.

"Mujhe yahan rehne mein kya problem hogi, main toh aaram se rehti hoon" told Raavi assuringly.

"Acha..." trailed off Shiva, trying to think of something to keep the conversation going.

Raavi also tries to think of how to break the awkward silence that had kept on building. Never would she have thought that Shiva and her would run out of things to talk or argue about and here they were, barely trying to keep it together. She decided to break the ice by asking, "Ghar pe sab kaise hai? Kaki? Dhara Di?"

"Sab acche hai, Maa Kanta Kaki ke saath teerth yaatra pe gayi hai, kuch dino ke liye, aur Dhara Bhabhi tujhe kaafi yaad karti hai, Rishita Bhabhi toh job mein busy rehti hai, aur Dev usse irritate hota hai, jaisa tha sab waise hi hai, sirf ek hi kami--" stopped Shiva hoping not to make her uncomfortable and deciding to change the topic, he asked "Waise teri Mami se baat hui?"

"Nahi, mujhe unse koi baat bhi nahi karni" said Raavi firmly.

"Woh aayi thi ghar pe kuch din pehle, meri aur unki phir se bhains ho gayi, main ladna nahi chahta tha, par unhone sab ko dosh diya tera iss ghar se jaane ka aur unke ghar naa aane ka, mujhe dosh deti toh phir bhi chalta, kyunki yeh saara raita meri wajah se phaila hai, par baaki sab ko nahi bolna chahiye tha, I am sorry par main chup nahi reh saka" explaining to her the whole situation clearly and hoping she wouldn't get upset.