XVIII

Delicious aroma filled the house. Mrs. Devi could smell her favorite gajar ka halwa (carrot halwa) even through the strong smell of her aroma candles. She wondered from where the strong smell of freshly made halwa was coming.

Rakesh paused his favorite song in his mp3 player, his mouth started watering as his nose tickled by the smell of his favorite kachoris. Since the morning, thanks to Guruji's arrival, he hadn't had anything to eat. His stomach growled by the enticing smell of kachoris.

Mrs. Devi couldn't resist further, she paced up towards the door of her room, but then stopped, she just recalled she was angry. "Yeah, I'm angry...still I can go to the kitchen....it doesn't stop me from going there" Mrs Devi said to herself, justifying her act of getting attracted towards the smell of halwa. She gave up her control and rushed towards the dinning hall.


Rakesh couldn't control anymore, neither his stomach nor his watering mouth, he had to have kachoris. He rushed towards the kitchen. As he stepped inside the living room, he stopped seeing his mother in law on the other end of the hall.


Mrs. Devi also stood on one foot, her left foot almost still in the air. She had hastily stepped towards the dinning table seeing the halwa, but then didn't set her other foot down seeing Rakesh. " The halwa is towards this end of the table, and Sunita is also sitting, I should join her.....also why was I angry at Rakesh, again" thought Mrs Devi, and without looking at Rakesh she sat down at one end of the table.

Rakesh also hurried along towards his end of the table, and gave Sunita a wide smile. Both of them attacked the kachoris and halwa. Sunita smiled to herself, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

XVII

Sunita paced up and down in her room. Her mind was full of jumbled thoughts, just like two trains and each wants to pass by the next station first. The station was obviously Sunita herself and the two trains were the two most important people in her life, her mother and Rakesh.



She didn't want either of them to get hurt, but in the current scenario, neither of them wanted to consider the other person's approach or feelings. While her mother was hell bent regarding Guruji's readings and sayings, Rakesh was completely not in a mood to even give Guruji a chance.

She was also well aware that she couldn't blame either of them, both of them were correct as per their thinking, and both were thinking about her, for her betterment.

At this thought, suddenly Sunita stopped, and a smile crept on her face. She was so lucky, two most important people of her life, and both of them thought so much about her!

She now knew what she had to do.

She quickly went to the kitchen, she knew the favourite dishes of both of them. After all food is every human's weakness. " I just hope among these dishes, "she" has her favourite too...and hope "she" likes it and leaves my house....haha!" Sunita joked to herself and chuckled as she hunted for the ingredients.