Hopeful Streaks

Chapter 6

Early bright bask, barged in and pierced the curtains and reached the bed. Mitha opened her eyes, slowly and sat upright. That's when, her mind automatically started to play all what happened last night. Is that all a dream? Or real?

She shook her head, and came back to normal and then the half empty water bottle came to her sight, that reminded her of the stuff that happened last night! How much monkey-like that guy was!?

She filtered herself, out of the bed and went to check out Divya, after refreshing herself in the privy. Divya, had no change. She was still the same. Once the usual check up was done, Mitha marched towards the hall way, and found Ajay's room door in open. Actually, she had thought that he was not awake yet, but to her surprise the room was unlocked. Some nameless joy, got struck to her and her lips twitched into a smooth smile by seeing the door in open. Something, made her to proceed her towards his room. She was unsure, if she was the same Mitha, who cursed him on their first meeting and made a ridiculous comment about his girl friend. May be, that's why his response was waywardly, towards her. She thought and her legs didn't stop.

She felt some brand new, inexperienced bliss, being into his private area.

As she promoted her parade into the room, serenity skirted around. Ajay was no where found, in and around the bed. On stepping forward further more, her eyes caught up with something that made her to gasp for air. All what she saw there was the attractive Ajay Rish, skillfully handling the gym gadgets. He was there handling his hammer strength machine, very casually. She couldn't stop herself, from moving towards him as he was facing opposite to her. The arrogant, waywardly lad was shirtless and sexy, working out and intensifying his powerful, athletic muscles. Mitha, suffered a shortage of oxygen and the formed lumps in her throat seemed to be more deep, this time. Controlling hard, it took her few second to stop her legs from moving towards the handsome hulk. After a while, when Ajay had finished his routine work out, he stood up from the machine and took hold of his towelette to pat his body's perspiring.

He, then turned around holding the towel that's when he comprehended that Mitha was standing there. He felt some abrupt good vibes on seeing her there. Not just like that, but yeah Ajay was smitten by that girl. It really costed high for him to forbid himself from shouting his expression loud. He felt an instant attraction, when he saw her for the very first time in the rain, at the seashore. He still remembered, how awkward their first meeting was. On seeing her suffering and battling with two debauchees, he couldn't stop himself from helping her. He felt like he had a great responsibility in saving her. He sensed that he should do, that for her sake. All the efforts that he used to put together for his work outs till that day, didn't backslide but helped him to fight against those perverted men.

His heart clenched. However, he managed to drop her at home that night, after saving her. She offered him a cup of coffee, forgetting his waywardly reply. Even then, he denied and stormed out of the place, in a jiffy. He felt it really funny, when she made a comment about his girl friend because he didn't have any. Yeah, his one and only relationship with Sana, got broken. The girl dumped him. After his break up with Sana, he had become really headstrong and felt all alone. He, then concentrated on his business, with all his heart as he didn't want to get hurt again. But he was not the same sweet Ajay, after his break up with Sana. He even stopped talking and spending time with his enchanting sister Divya! After so many years, though he came across many women who even flirted with him, he hadn't given a damn about them. His decision was firm. It was impermeable, until he met Mitha. The day when he saved her, she was totally drenched in rain. She looked so tired, but she looked so flawless. Her chocolate brown eyes, spoke and conveyed every little thing. It was an undeniable attraction. Though, it was Sana before, Ajay had wiped her off his world after realizing that she had ditched him. He was amazed by his stupidity all again. But this time, the feeling was much more than his past relationship.

He was trying hard to brush away the thoughts from his indiscreet mind, cursing himself for being stagnated in her thoughts. When the bloke was already affected by her, the damsel came back to him again, asking for an employment. He, himself was amazed when he went back to the day when she agreed to be his live-in doctor. An anonymous feeling and joy! He felt too shameless inwardly, for doing that. He tried hard to resist himself from falling for her.

Even after that, he didn't talk much to her. Poor Ajay, had a blunt idea that talking or interacting less to her might help to reduce his attraction towards her. But as we all knew, nothing worked. Not only for Ajay, but also for Mitha.

Mitha stood there motionless. Not even eyes fluttered. She had no idea about how she could drool to floods on seeing him. She got back her senses only when, Ajay's long finger danced before her eyes.

"Hello!!", he distracted her by waving his hands before her. She flushed! Humiliation, shame, clumsiness all together made her cheeks go red, confronting the lad. Not just another encounter it was. What she had was a tough, hardened rendezvous, which made her to be out of breath. This time it was little more harder, as he was standing closer to her. Like, really close! The closeness that she hadn't experienced with any other guy. This guy made her dizzy. She felt like she was about to black out. The amazement of adoring each other held both of them strongly.

Within she could get lost in the depth of his eyes, he diverted her by being loud this time.

"Ms.Mitha!", it was a bit louder then. She, finally got back her consciousness but still her heart was beating fast.

"Ye.. Yes! Mr.Rrr,.Rish!", she stuttered in speech and coughed when she realized how close they stood. Mitha, then slowly suspended her head down, like in a hook and ambulated a step back. She couldn't help but press and twist her lips in embarrassment. Both of them were maddened and excited due to this startling, unanticipated encounter. To be specific, Mitha was over excited! Whereas, Ajay's excitation was not in a good way. It was the other way around. He couldn't do that. He didn't want start every thing all again and get hurt. He also didn't want to hurt her.

"I.. i just came to check if you were awake!", she started before he could ask anything and make her flush once again.

"You were appointed to take care of Divya. And not me!", he raised his brows.

"I know. I am sorry!", she lopsided at him. Also, she had no other way than getting surrendered.

"Did you check Divya?", he asked and she was glad that he changed the topic.

"Yeah! Everything is normal!", she managed to reply in a formal manner, in which she failed.

Ajay, moved a little closer like a burning lava and whispered, "I will go, get breakfast ready for us!", whilst his eyes were sincerely scrutinizing her's. The next second, he moved out of the area; reached for his closet and grabbed a tee and made his way towards the kitchen. Mitha, immediately rushed out of his room and sprinted to her room.

In sometime, she found herself staring at her own image that appeared on the mirror. She shook her head to get out of her dirty thoughts, which made its appearance due to the bout, that they had sometime ago. Immediately, she intended to screw the faucet and splashed the flown water at her face, to make herself feel okay. The fresh water, had a positive affect. She felt a bit better after the water treatment. She came out, patting her face to dryness.

She came out of the room and found Ajay, inside the kitchen standing facing the stove, toasting and tossing the bread slices. She immediately turned aside, to avoid the awkward situation again. The tingling aroma of the freshly made coffee, made her to turn anyways, by that time Ajay had finished his chores and brought the food to table. She took her coffee mug, and started to feel the taste of the coffee. Whilst, Ajay sipped his coffee with that day's Deccan chronicle, on the other hand. Though, she didn't see him or get caught, her mind was totally occupied by Ajay and the feelings that he had for him. On finishing her coffee, she took a neat bite of the toast.

"So, can you be able to predict something about Divya's health?", he asked breaking off the silence, finally.

"As far as I noticed, she is normal but she might get back to normal anytime. That's impossible to calculate accurately. Its up to the way, she is treated.", she answered in a professional way this time, which made her feel much better than before.

He nodded his head, in an acknowledging manner and smiled at her. Oh, he's no m*******a, nor any weeds; yet she got high on seeing him.

Giving penny to her thoughts, he started enquiring about her comfortableness there,"So, do you feel comfortable in here?"

"Much comfortable!", she assured. And protective too, the inner monster showed up. She rolled her eyes, and decided to ignore the so-called inner voice, that's been spoiling her since the beginning. Soon after their breakfast, Mitha locked up herself inside the room and Ajay started to his work.

A week had passed! Nothing except the date changed. It was that evening, and Mitha was in her privy for a short shower. That's when, Mrs.Martina bid a good bye and left and immediately she stepped in to her water closet and got soaked in the water, that made her feel eternal. Everything seemed to be perfect. But still the high speed race, that she had to experience whenever she saw Ajay, was really hard for her to get through. It was the same for Ajay. In order avoid spending time with her, he started to spend most of his time at his office. Mitha, was also careful in not stepping into his bedroom without knocking, unless there was an emergency. Also, There were no traces of Siddharth after that day.

Once Mitha got out of the shower, she fit herself into a pair of pajamas and a tank top, she took her phone and stepped out of them room. On unlocking her phone, she noticed the missed call notification that's been floating on her mobile screen. Wondering, why Ajay should've called for more than five times, she moved towards the hallway. There, Ajay was sitting with his coat in his hand. His eyes were bloodshot and his brows were furrowed, that made him appear frenzied. On noticing a great change, in his swag she moved towards him, and he chinned up to throw a look that could even burn her to ashes. She couldn't apprehend what must've happened.

"Good evening Mr.Rish!!", she greeted, smiling a little.

His body stiffened, his fists clenched. He closed his eyes to restrain back the anger. He gritted his teeth, in the way that it could even get crushed. He was totally ferocious and bitter. He got up from the couch, in a bounce and shouted,"Yes.. Evening.. My foot!!l". His voice, in the highest pitch shattered the whole manor. To Mitha, it sounded like a mini earthquake. Tears, cracked out from the rim of her eyes. Her father had always been lovey-dovey to her. In that way, hearing someone shouting like this was her first time. She blinked her eyes, enormously and her breath hitched.

"Where's your f*****g phone? Why didn't you pick up my call? Didn't you notice the call? Or you avoided it purposely ?", He gritted his teeth again. "Throw that stupid answering machine, off the cliff!"he said and pitched forward and grabbed her phone and let it hit the floor.

Boom!

Mitha's mobile phone, flew high and bombarded the ground and broke apart into pieces. That phone was her first mobile phone, and the scene of the phone getting disbanded pumped up the tears.

Tears started to make their way, rolling down to earth. She hung her face on having a cold feet.

"I... I was taking my shower!", she mumbled under her breath, in between tears.

"What? Come again!!", his hands were on his hip, and his eyes narrowed.

"I said, i was taking my shower. "She raised her voice this time.

"You're supposed to attend my call! Stop giving silly excuses !"he stiffened more.

"Which one is silly, Mr.Rish? Do you think i can take my phone to shower? Are you insane? How could someone take their phone to shower?", she mumbled controlling her anger to avoid the argument that was about to glow brightly.

"I was.... ! Aah, listen! I don't have time to argue with you! I came to check if you're okay! That's it!" Yes, he was scared ! He was scared due to the unanswered call. He was scared that she was in some emergency and in need of help. His heart growled to see if she was okay. That's why, he made his way back to home and once he got to know that she hadn't attended his call, his brimming anger bursted out and made her cry. Anyhow, he didn't convince her, instead he bustled out the house immediately. Mitha didn't stop crying . She didn't even think that he would come suddenly and shout at her, for not attending his call. She didn't even have an idea that the anger was shown due to the anxiety and fear, that he went through while riding home.

Water works were full fledged. She ran into her room and jumped into her bed, holding her pillow tight. His voice was still echoing in her ears! 'Throw that stupid answering machine off the cliff', how could he be so mean? Is he an i***t? How couldn't he even understand that I didn't do it purposely? Mitha, melted inwardly. She didn't eat after that. She also didn't know, when did she sleep off. She had no idea about when did Ajay headed back, as she had slept earlier. When Ajay, came back home at mid night, all he saw was tired Mitha sleeping deep, with her puffy face. Even when he bustled out of the home, after shouting at her his heart didn't seem to be patient. He cursed himself for hurting her. He broke her phone. Above all, he shouted at her. That was really atrocious. He himself felt that it was a little unfair. Ajay, decided to buy back a brand new phone for Mitha, to pay back for what he did to her. But when he came back home and saw her innocent face brimming with grief, he couldn't forgive himself. The feeling became much more when the broken pieces of the phone came into his sight. That's when, he felt that only the new phone wouldn't make her happy but also his apology.

Concluding not to disturb her from sleep, he turned back and locked the door, with low noise and reached his room. He then decided to sleep. The next morning, he woke up before she could and did his morning work out. Ajay, then entered the kitchen to make coffee for them. He decided to ask for her forgiveness with his coffee.  That was not what he usually did! His name otherwise meant ruthlessness. But now the whereabouts had made him think about the ways of asking for her forgiveness. He carried two coffee mugs in his hands, and went into her room. After, placing those mugs neatly on the table beside Mitha's bed, he moved towards the fenestra and raised his hands up to open up the curtains so that the bright light would wake up Mitha from her sleep. Anyhow, the aroma of the coffee had already made her open her eyes, slightly.

Ajay, noticed her she was stretching out of laziness, and when she noticed Ajay standing there the small smile on her lips disappeared. Ajay neared and  took over his coffee mug, and moved the other mug towards Mitha. She was watching him carefully. He sipped his coffee and looked at her, "Good morning!"

'Good morning?... My foot', she wanted to reply but she didn't.  "Morning!", she mumbled.

"Sorry for what happened yesterday! I was kind of afraid...!"he paused and she looked at him immediately. He let out a heavy exhale and continued," because of the unanswered calls I was afraid that you were in some danger!", he hung his face. "Taking our first meet into count, you know what was that situation!".

Just then, her sick brain realized that he cared for her too. Her heart melted by hearing, his sincere apology. "I am okay, Mr.Rish!, she whispered.

"This will not happen again.", he mumbled and leered at her. She smiled back, authorizing his apology. Soon, he got up and went back to his room and came back with a newly bought iPhone  box! "I broke your phone, so here!", he handed over the box to her. She had no other way than getting the phone. One, because she had no phone at that time and then she was not ready for another argument again.

On handing over the phone, he decided to go back to his room and get ready to go to his office. He moved out and paused near the door, and turned back to check Mitha's reaction for the new phone. She was overwhelmed, by seeing the phone. Not just because of the phone also because that She came to know that Ajay cared for her. On seeing Mitha, checking out the phone with loads of amazement Ajay's heart became serene.

________