Chapter 6
At Pawania house:-
"What took you so long, Lakhan Veerji?", Preet whispered to her cousin, in a curious tone. Lakhan didn't reply, just gestured that he will tell later. Preet quietly nodded and again turned her attention to the Pahujas, who had come with the Pandit to fix the marriage date.
For the past few days Lakhan was acting awfully strange. He suddenly leaves at night without any explanation and comes late at night or at dawn. And he had this serious and almost distress expression on his face, almost all the time; that it vexed Preet. Lakhan was a very carefree type of guy and rarely got angry or serious. Preet thought that maybe it's cause of his tight schedule and heavy work. Maybe she should talk to Tej or her Papa ji to ask Tau ji to cut down some task from his schedule and to reduce his workload. Preet came out of her momentarily trance when the Pandit finally announced the Muhurat after 3 weeks.
"So it's decided then! The marriage will happen after three weeks." Mrs. Pahuja said enthusiastically. Amba nodded approvingly, while Deena beamed with joy. Jagan asked Ravi and Preet to distribute sweet.
Preet was about to go when Lakhan stopped her."Meet me near the Yaara Da Adda after this. I'll be waiting for you,"he said in a serious tone and left without waiting for Preet reply. For a moment Preet stood where she was confused, when she finally turned and went towards the kitchen to help Raavi Chachi.Preet and Ravi were distributing sweet, just then Gunjan came back from College hoping merrily, humming a tune.
"Gunjan!" Amba called out to her daughter.
"Ji, Mummy Ji" Gunjan gleefully replied and turned to look at her mother, but her smile dropped at the sight of the Pahuja.
"College se agayi. Look Samdhi Ji has come" Amba
"It's ok Amba Ji. She must be tired. Gunjan you go and fresh up then we will talk. We have some exciting news to tell you. " Mrs Pahuja chimed in, cheerfully.
"Yes, sure" Gunjan said, with a forced smile. And went upstairs. Before going she asked Preet to meet her in the room. Preet excused herself and went upstairs to Gunjans room. Preet was about to knock on the door, when Gunjan suddenly opened the door and pulled Preet inside.
" What are they doing in here?" Gunjan demanded in a small panicky voice, quickly locking the door behind her.
"Who? The Pahujas? They have come here to fix the wedding date."
At that Gunjans face went white." To fix the marriage." Gunjan suttered.
"Actually, they have already fixed the date and its after three weeks."
Gunjan hesitated, turned and went towards the window. "Three weeks, huh?" she said in a whisper. After a moment of silence she asked" Where is Manu?"
" Shah Ji has gone out for some work"
"Yes of course he is always busy." Gunjan stated dryly
"By the way, you seemed really happy today when you came from college." Preet said, trying to change the topic and to lighten Gunjan mood."So what happened?" she teased softly.
" Oh, that" Gunjan turned around her face brighten up. She was about to say something, but then stopped. She started fidgeting with her dupata a blush dusting on her cheek. Shyly she said" You won't understand."
Preet raised her eyebrows and gave her friend an amused. Gunjan just giggled and lightly pushed Preet away and ran into the bathroom. With a sigh of irritation, Preet went out of the room. ' What's wrong with everyone today 'Preet pondered 'First Lakhan Veerji and now Gunjan.'
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Sorry for all the grammatical errors.
Next update on Tuesday
Edited by rani7131 - 6 years ago
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