Chapter 2

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Its dark and very quiet in the heritage house, bhoomi is sitting infront of the mirror wearing the maroon and gold saree, her hair is open blowing in the wind which is being let in by the open window. Bhoomi starts to put on her maroon bangles, her earrings, then her bindi and lastly her payal. She was about to tie up her hair when she hears a knock on the door, she slowly makes her way to the door which is only made visible by the lamp near the mirror, 'umm, kaun hai? Kaka? Maine kaha kaun hai?' her voice was starting to tremble now, she moved ever so slightly and all that could be heard was her bangles and payal, as she turned the door knob the door flung open and she screamed. Bhoomi jumped back with her eyes closed and her hands over her ears, her heart beating so fast…… 'Bhavri, hahaha, tum dar gayi,hahahaha, bhavrii, main hoon, arjun' arjun moves towards bhoomi and puts his hands over hers and pulls her closer to himself.

Bhoomi still has her eyes closed, she walks closer and closer to arjun, with arjun pulling her gently, she gradually gets very close to arjun and Arjun whispers in Bhoomi's ears 'Bhoomi, tum aakhen (eyes) khol sakti ho'. Bhoomi slowly opens her eyes and looks directly into arjun's eyes, she then hugs him. 'Bhoomi, arjun ki bhoomi itnee jaldi darr jati hai, haha' arjun starts to laugh and is stopped by bhoomi who places her hand over arjun's mouth, 'Arjun, I love you…I love' her voice tails away and she removes her hand from arjun's mouth and starts to walk towards the switch to turn the lights on. Arjun stands looking at her, he has a mixed expression on his face, a mixture of excitement, sadness and simply a confused expression.

Bhoomi walks down the stairs towards the kitchen to get something to eat for Arjun, she's lost in thoughts and starts to think towards herself ' I love you Arjun, and I will wait for the day that you accept me as your wife, the day our souls become one'.

Bhoomi starts to put the yohurt in the tray when Arjun enters the kitchen ' Bhoomi, I want to tell you something', he takes the tray from Bhoomi's hand and puts it down on the work top, 'tum is sarree mein bahut ache lag rahe ho',Bhoomi smiles and says 'khana is ready'. They both walk to the dining table, with bhoomi leading the way, as they sit down Arjun turns off the lights. 'Arjun, what are you doing?' Bhoomi eyes start wondering around the room, searching for arjun in the darkness, 'Bhoomi, it's a perfect day to have a candle light dinner' Arjun places the candles on the table, and bhoomi starts to place a roti on Arjun's plate, just then Arjun grabs hold of Bhoomi's hand and walks towards her, as she gets up he kisses her on her forehead 'Bhoomi, mein janta hoon ke maine bahut time lagaya, lekhin I love you, aur shahid mujhe kuch waqt laga, but I want you to know that you mean a lot to me, you're my friend, my wife and I want to be with you always and I know God wants this also', he looks down at bhoomi, who has now got tears in her eyes 'Bavri, tum ro kyun rahi ho?' Boomi says (in hindi of course) 'Arjun these are tears of joy, but I'm sorry also',arjun looks on puzzled 'sorry??', Bhoomi replies 'whatever you said in english, I didn't understand, tumne kya kaha tha?'. Arjun bursts out laughing and hugs Bhoomi, 'Bhoomi tumhe sirf itna pata hoona chahiye ke main tumse pyar karta hoon'.( all you need to know is that I love you)

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Arjun wakes up and finds that Bhoomi is not sleeping next to him, there is bright light In his room and he can hear people laughing and talking loudly outside, he gets up in his white kurta and looks out of the window, then it struck him, it was holi!

As soon as Arjun realised it was holi, he knew instantly that Bhoomi would come running in and splatter him with colour, he hid behind a wall and waited for Bhoomi's arrival. Just then the door flung open and Bhoomi stood in to doorway holding red powder in her right hand, all dressed up in red and white Salwar kameez she shouted 'Arjun! Happy holi!!' she started to look around the room and walked towards the bed, Arjun grabbed the thal of powder in her other hand and threw red powder on her head and than ran out of the room shouting ' This time I was the first one bavri,hahaha,catch me if you can'. Bhoomi looking fustrated at the same time happy, followed Arjun out of the room ' Arjun, just wait, I'll get you'. Both of them are running one after the other on the balcony, arjun stops with bavri looking directly at him with the red powder in her hand, she laughs and throws the powder towards arjun and screams 'Happy holi'. When the mist of powder is cleared, she finds mansen standing infront of her with his face and clothes covered in red. Mansens's nostril's are flared and his mouth scrunched, he raises his hand…..

Arjun who ducked now gets up and looks at Mansen's face,bhoomi looks on shocked and almost shaking with fright. Just as mansen was about to retaliate  with his harsh words, baisa makes an entrance , 'mansen, dekh kar acha laga ke tum be holi ke festival mein khel rahe ho' she laughs and gives an indicaton towards bhoomi and arjun to leave.

Yuvraj see's his dad wiping his face and he walks towards him 'who did this??!! I will not spare that person, I will teach that person a lesson. Tell me, who was it?' mansen replies 'that dirty servant, Bhoomika, what else can she do apart from spreading dirt and mess every where she goes. I was going to teach her a lesson then and there, but at that time Baisa stopped me. Never have I been so insulted!' Mansen looks angrily down the balcony staring hard at Bhoomi . 'papa, I will teach her a lesson , she needs many lessons and so does her Arjun. Today she smurred your face with red and I will colour her face with black!' Yuvraj leaves and has a twinkle in his eyes as he has wicked smile on his face. Shefali hears this conversation and starts to smile.