Chapter 5

Suzie

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In italics, either flashbacks or flashes in nightmares.

In normal font, is present. 

In Bold , place or time will be mentioned.

If some place or time is mentioned bold n normal then it means that person is there who is thinking about the past. If place/ time is mentioned in italics n bold that means it's the place/time of flashback.

PART 5

AR Mansion

Manhattan,New York

April, 2017

Riya kissed her baby who just stopped crying due to her pain and slept. Riya look at her one year seventh months old baby's red face with puffy eyes due to crying which remind her the time of her birth, she (Riya) couldn't forget those beautiful memorable days when she got the news of her second pregnancy.

Riya farmhouse,

Outskirt of Mumbai, India

November, 2014

A lady was trying feed her 3 years old boy, who is running in living room, while a man, who is sitting on sofa pretending of reading newspaper, smiled seeing his wife running after their son to make him eat. Lady is shouting "Aru come here. Baby please eat first. Aruu!! Arjun please stop pretending and help me. Look I'm tired an.." Suddenly lady started swaying, Arjun jumped up of his sitting position before sprinting towards her and held her to prevent her from falling. But got panicked as he saw her fainted already in his arms. He made her lay on bed before calling doctor to reach as fast as she can. Arjun composed himself a little seeing Aryan on verge of crying and taking his son in his arms he sit beside her and said caressing her head "Riyu!! Please be fine."

Soon doctor came, after checking Riya up she called Arjun inside and said smilingly looking at Riya, who till now got her conciousness "Mr. Rawte from now on you are take care of three children. Wish you best of luck." Arjun frowned as he didn't understand anything, still holding Aryan, he look towards Riya worriedly then back to Doctor. Doctor understood and said "Congratulations Mr Rawte, you are going to be father again. She is pregnant."  Arjun yell in shock "What?" Doctor nod and said "Get these vitamins pills as she is little more weak than usual and take care of her. Now I should leave." Arjun shouted as soon as doctor left "OH RIYA!! i love you i love you i love you. Thank you thank you Thank you so much, love. For everything for coming in my life, for loving me, for making my life beautiful, for giving Aryan, for giving me another best news." He hugged her with Aryan in between them.

After few nights Arjun declared "Riyu i wish this time it's girl. And if it happens I'll kept my daughter's name if boy then you kept. Okay? My daughter's name will be 'Sneha'. Means love she will spread loves just like she did to us even before coming into this world.

Riya's eyes got teary but she wipe it and stood up.

Riya came out of house with baby in her arms towards Arjun, who was sitting in his car on driving seat, talking with Aryan ,who is sitting on back seat all ready to go his school. Both were talking randomly before they turn their attention towards Riya, on hearing the door opening sound. Sitting comfortably after putting baby in baby seat, Riya said apologetically "Sorry for being late Sneha was bit cranking today."

Arjun asked concernly with nod "Is she ok?" while igniting engine to start the drive. Hearing his concern voice Riya smiled and said assuring him "Yeah. She is fine. Just little stomach pain due to..." Aryan cut her asking worriedly "Mumma did Sneha smell Jasmine?" Riya sighed knowing very well about Aryan's worry for his sister and nod her head in yes in reply to the question Aryan had ask. While seeing her nod Aryan immediately turned in his seat with worried eyes towards his sister, who is sleeping, and said, caressing her forehead, in panicky voice "Uske pas Jasmine kaise aaya mumma, she have allergy of it's smell na? Did you feed her anti-allergic pill?" Riya already knew this will coming, so she was going to answer his every question patiently, when other always ready-to-panick man of her life yelled "What? Jasmine? Where did it come from? I had already made sure there were no jasmine in garden due to my allergy then how?" Riya sigh as she know, though Sneha is less than 2 years old but her allergy isn't that bad to worried about so much except her crankiness for half day while her stomach pain gone away just half an hour after drinking gripe water like magic. Riya shook her head in amusement that Arjun didn't disappointed her, after all 'like father like son'. Thinking so she got remind of past.

Rawte Mansion

Mumbai, India

December, 2015

Riya came inside their room after her shopping and saw Arjun is playing with their 4 year old son, Aryan. She smiled but soon her smile vanished as the baby in pram again started crying and Riya saw both Arjun and Aryan ran towards baby. Panicked on seeing one's daughter one's baby sister respectively crying.  Soon they made stop her cry and made Sneha sleep then turned towards her with incredulous look and asked "What happened?" together with same tension and anger written over their faces.

Then she had to tell about how mistakenly during smelling the deo's she spray Jasmine scent on her wrist and it trigged Sneha's allergy. Soon Arjun called Doctor which Aryan agreed too except me.

Smiling inwardly, Riya said "Relax, both of you. Aryan I had fed her medicines, don't worry. And Arj.. uh.. Mr Rawte, Rosie (the female help/maid of house) mistakenly brought the jasmine hair oil for me on asking for hair oil. I asked her to apply on my hair as I was packing my stuff while changing Sneha's dress. Then I smelled and asked Rosie to take it out. But Sneha had already started sneezing followed by her stomach pain with whole lot of crankiness. She will be perfectly fine when she wake up other than her crankiness. So you both don't get tensed up now and Aru you relaxed and go to school, don't worry about her I'll keep her with me all day, okay?" Aryan reluctantly nod, still looking at his baby sister.

Soon enough they reached Aryan's school but Aryan asked in meek voice to no one in particular "Can I skip school today? Please. Only today. Pakka." Riya sighed before getting out of car and pulled Aryan out gently too, she knelt infront of Aryan and asked softly kissing his forehead "Aru, didn't you trust your Mumma?" To which Aryan shook his head in 'no' vigorously with wide eyes in shock hearing his mother's words and said incredulously "No Mumma, Aru fully trust Mumma because I love you Mumma." Riya said softly "Then trusrt your Mumma and go to school I promise, today I'll come with Sneha to pick you up , okay?"

"No Mumma, please. I promise last time. Pakka I will not disturb you and will take care of Sneha only." Aryan said with tears in his eyes. This made Riya angry as she already isn't feeling better and here Aryan is arguing Infront of his school, she want him to go today though she know she wouldn't be able to take care of Sneha's crankiness but she neither wanted to leave her children with house help alone nor bring both of them with her to office which cause her disturbance as well as it's not good for office environment to bring her whole family with her. So she, in her anger, shouted "Aryan! You have to go that's it."  Riya stood after making him wear his bag on his shoulder and left to sit inside the car trying hard to stop her tears from spilling. While in shock and fear after hearing his Mumma's shout Aryan with tearful eyes turned to go inside his school gate but stopped as he saw Arjun Infront of him. Aryan look down thinking Arjun will also scold him but got surprised when he (Arjun) raise him (Aryan) in his arm before hugging him.

Arjun while patting Aryan's back  in consoling way to stop Aryan's sob, he said "Champ! Don't worry Mumma is just not feeling well that's why she shouted on you."

Though he didn't asked her or she told him, his heart just felt that the reason is true he can feel it through his heart that she isn't feeling better but his brain reprimanded him for making reason and feeling weirdly. His brain still justify his words saying 'There is no harm in telling so, to little boy.'

Keeping his thought aside, Arjun said "Champ you don't worry I'll come fast and took you to Sneha, but till then I will take care of her, ok?" Getting assurance from his Dad, Aryan is not anything but okay or happy precisely. He kissed Arjun's cheek, nodding his head giving away that he is ready, he ran inside waving his hand shouting Bye for both Arjun and Riya.

Arjun smiled before going towards his car and sitting in it. He asked little apprehensively about Riya's behavior while starting the car, she replied same that she isn't feeling better and Aryan shouldn't skip his school these days as he already missed little bit of his coarse due to late admission to which Arjun nod his head understandingly. Soon they reached their destination.

AR Textile,

Maryland

Reaching there Arjun said before turning towards basement parking lot "I have some work to do here so I'm also coming." As Arjun's main head office is in Manhattan branch where Riya already did work and most of there people know her so she asked to work here in Maryland Branch.

Soon they came out of elevator and every gaze turn towards them. Everyone got awestruck seeing ASR and Riya R with her baby together looking as a perfect family. While some ladies were jealous on Riya for having chance with ASR, some men were jealous with Arjun for having chance with Riya who didn't allow or neglect every type of informalities especially with male staff even standing near her in less than 2 feet distance is not allowed but ASR is walking just beside her while their shoulders were touching each others.

Soon every one came to their sense and remembered that ASR has came that means they shouldn't be seen roaming, talking or doing anything other than working if they didn't want to be fired by ASR. So they leave their gossipping and concentrate on their works.

Riya, is working as manager of AR Textile's Maryland branch because of her earlier deals which she helped AR in winning even after great difficulty. In almost more than 40 days, She has made Maryland branch, which earlier was the more worst branch and had caused Arjun alot of tension, now the most leading branch in deals and projects even Manhattan Branch also got less appreciation infront of Maryland branch by members of board, to which Arjun felt proud of Riya and her skills.

So today also he got to appreciate the leading process of getting deals and completing the projects on time. Though he didn't have any work in Maryland branch and didn't felt the need of checking here as he knew there will be no lack of concentration in work or late working because of it's manager's celiber and discipline but he have told Riya that he had work here to keep his promise which he did with Aryan.

He was just passing Riya's cabin towards her assistant's cabin to get some file, he heard loud crying of baby from Riya's cabin so without any second thought he open the door to get in while calling her "Riya! I..." Arjun stopped in mid as the sight infront of him made his breathe choked in his throat while his eyes got widened and his jaw dropped down.

TBC...