Hopeful Streaks

Chapter 12

The next day, Ajay's alarm jingled and made him get out of the couch. As soon as he woke up, he sat up right on the couch; rubbed his eyes and stretched out of laziness. And on refreshing himself, he went into his in-built gym for his daily work out. On finishing a hefty work out, he came back to his room and checked if Mitha had waken up. She was still sleeping and on seeing her sleeping, he decided not to wake her up. He knew that she would suffer a heavy hangover today, because of last night's liquor input.

Last night, she was uncontrollably wayward, due to her liquory state! Ajay, had always been an expert in handling drunk ones! He had a special training by handling Math, while he was drunk. Ajay, never drank~Thou! Also, whatever she talked last night went straight into his heart! Even if Mitha forgets all those things, Ajay will never. He kind of felt good to handle that weird Mitha, last night. Due to which, he fathomed that Mitha was jealous on Sana. And she wanted to know if he was still pining for her. At last, when he discovered that Mitha was in the same state, in which he was; he felt it convincing and sighted some relief.

After his work out, he went into the kitchen to make his coffee. That day, it was Mitha's turn to cook; yet he didn't bother to wake her up, nor she was awake-able!

After some time, Mitha woke up to a strong, drunkenness that day. She had never waken up to headache, throughout her life. But now, it was really distressing. She felt like some one was hammering her head! The whole of her temples were hurting heavily, due to the shakes. She couldn't understand, anything for a moment after she had waken up. The only that was in her mind about last night was meeting Sana. She couldn't remember anything that happened after that. And there was the next shock waiting for her! She was sleeping in Ajay's room. The only thing that she could think off, at that moment was to think how and why did she sleep in Ajay's bed!

She sat upright and leaned back at the cot! She folded her legs and buried her face, between both of her palms to hold her forehead, that made her feel better despite the headache. She had never thought that the aftermath of drinking, would be such a damnable irritation. She woke up and walked towards her room, without meeting Ajay. She was still confused with what happened last night; what did she talk and how did she behave to Ajay!

She trudged towards her room, and refreshed herself, after which she felt slightly better! And on checking up Divya, she came out to the living room searching Ajay. Mitha, wandered into the kitchen searching Ajay and her cup of coffee. He was standing there in his trousers and tee, near the coffee maker. "Why was i sleeping in your room, Jay?", Mitha asked as she walked in. When he noticed that she had waken up, Ajay took a glass of lemon juice with honey and crushed ginger and extended his hand before her face.

"What's this?", she asked in an irritated voice. Ajay, gave out a auguring gaze and her hands and pushed the glass of honey water in her hands and turned aside to the coffee maker!

"I need coffee! This is some stupid lemon juice.",she pouted and moped, holding her head. Ajay, turned to her from the coffee machine unanticipatedly. They had to meet up with an encounter that was more than enough to make their heart tingle.

"Gulp it off, to escape the headache.", he said and turned aside again, immediately.

"You're an austerely monster! I don't want this.", she grouched. Concurrently, Ajay came out of the room with his coffee mug without answering her. Both of them took their seats at the dining table. Mitha, was  down in dumps with her glass of honey lemon water; while Ajay was quaffing his morning coffee with the news paper in his hands.

Mitha, was still sitting looking at Ajay expectantly anticipating that he would give up. But when she found out that there were no ways, to duck out of that indiscreet essence. She groaned and sighed. Mitha, thence murmured and muttered under her breath. "Such a freak. I've never given up my coffee for anything else."

Mitha, leapt forward and grasped the glass of the liquid and gulped it off, in a flash and her face distorted into a disgusting reaction, closing her eyes. During which, Ajay was looking at her and emitted a vanquishing look and soused into the news paper again.

Mitha, wiped off the fluid that dripped from her lips' sidewards and looked at him resentfully. Ajay, let out a a chuckle and sprang out of the chair. "I will go get break fast ready for us!"he announced and walked towards the kitchenette.

While Ajay was chopping off veggies for the salad, he accidentally cut his finger and it started bleeding. "Holy cow!", he shouted as he dropped the knife down, that clanged the floor.

"What happened?",Mitha squalled and quickened to the kitchen. Ajay, was standing there holding his hand, with his another; cursing himself for being scattered!

"Show me!", Mitha hopped up and gripped his hand and scrutinized the cut. It was quiet deep!

"Pch.. Leave me!", Ajay gritted his teeth, and yelled at her.

"Shush! Shut up and let me see!", Mitha squealed back and pulled his hand to her eyeshot.

"Leave my hand and get away!", he was already in pain and when she was adamantly hopping up and down, clinging to his hand he couldn't help but yell.

"Don't be so brandish. Stop showing off.", she talked back, without taking her eyes off his hand.

"LET.ME.GO!", he closed his eyes in uneasiness; cramping his teeth.

"Shut up Ajay! Wind up this whipping out behavior!", she was in her highest pitch and that's when Ajay let her see his hand! And this time, she was nothing else but angry on him for making a scene, there! And when her usual, luscious Jay, became an ill-tempered Ajay, he caught that she was furious , beyond doubts!

While Mitha, pored over the cut; Ajay had to stand silently warranting her to do, what she wanted! Mitha, wanted to clean the wound and plaster it. She knew that he would make a scene again, if she asked him to grant permission.

"Now that you're done with scanning the cut, leg it!", he cramped his teeth again!

"I am not done, yet! Come with me!", Mitha, said in the same tone furiously; dragging his hand.

"I am not coming! Leave!!", he shouted and he had to zip his lips when she gave him a serious gaze, that was filled up with legitimate rights to claim.

"Sshh! No more discussion!", she announced righteously and smirked at him.

"Human version of headache! Acting smart eh?", Ajay muttered under his breath and sighed.

"Both of us know that I've learnt this skill of negotiating from you. So, better come!"she said and giggled!

He dilated his eye balls, impatiently; soughed,"Trouble is your other name!" And face-palmed!

"You often forget the fact that we're married and i am your wife now!",she arched her brows tauntingly; sticking out her tongue showing out a virtual evil-grin, jittering on her pretty, charming face.

Realizing that she had let out an ineffectual word about being a wife to him, she managed to handle!

"Ooo..Kay..Okay..May be.. Half-a-Wife!!", she muttered and limped him along with her, approaching her room. He sighed and proceeded with her, as she took him along with her.

Once, they were into her room; both of them felt otherworldly! Being with Ajay, in her room was like feeling good to her; And coming in to her private area felt like really embarrassing to him.

She then pulled him towards the mini couch, and insisted,"Sit! I will bring the bandage."

"Make it as soon as possible!", he disclosed enduringly!

"Attaboy!", she rewarded sarcastically and as she came forward to him with the first-aid box. She cleaned the wound well, and unwrapped a roll of bandage and covered it over the cut.

"Done mending? Happy now?",he asked seeing his wrapped fingers. What's great with mending someone's wound; he didn't knew that she wanted to mend his heart too.

"Very Happy Ajay! You may go now!", She said happily, closing her hands to her chest.

Subsequently, he shook his head being amused and got up from the couch and walked towards the doorstep. While walking away, he muttered," You're spoilt!"

"And you did it!",she chuckled and followed him.

Ajay, again proceeded towards the kitchen to finish preparing breakfast.

"I will take care of this! Go, get ready!!", she asserted and peeked in from his behind.

He agreed and while Ajay, went and took his shower,Mitha finished preparing salad and oat meal for their breakfast. Ajay, came back; dressed professionally in his own adorable druthers. Mitha assigned the oat meal bowl before Ajay, and smiled. They were gobbling up their breakfast, with occasionally embezzled squint, and sly smile that Ajay gave between spoons of oat meal!

In the middle of breakfast, Waking up at his bedroom came to her realization, and the moment that she embraced the thought, it started giving her a bad time. She was prying to know what happened and why the heck did she go to his room. Suddenly, the ecstasy that she had before few minutes, had pooped out by now. She straightened her lips, and swallowed the air, that was clogging up her mouth.

"Ajay!", she called out! And she was still serious, and he really had to understand that when she calls by that name.

Ajay, gaped at Mitha; hooking up his mien; also his eye balls appeared to be swollen looking ahead to her response.

"Why.. Ermm.. Why was I sleeping there in your room? I remember that i drank, last night! But why did I sleep there?", She asked twisting her lips, pointing out his room. Ajay, couldn't control his giggle on encountering the question that made him laugh out.

"First of all, you were drunk! Also, I didn't know if you will sleep silently if you're left alone, that's why i carried you there!", he said and she couldn't help but feel the hotness that had just adhered to her plumply jowls. She flushed! She flushed russet; and compressed her lips in embarrassment.

"Oh my goodness! You carried me to bed?",Her eye were wide open, resonating so much of suddenness!

She was humiliated to the core, at that stage. She couldn't help but smile, when she had to become conscious of what happened last night. But soon, her mind screamed loud that it was not a moment to savor but to forget. This life, this relationship with Ajay, grudge on Sana everything seemed like really fugacious and momentary. She didn't want to be enclave herself, with false hopes for something that had one in thousand chances, to happen in her life.

"Do you even know how unmanageable you were when you were lost in liquor?", Ajay asked distracting her from her long lost thoughts.

"I am sorry!", she mumbled and fixed her gaze on her bowl of oat meal.

"But whatever, what you sang was priceless! Oh my god!!", he ridiculed playfully.

"Jay! Your depraved mouth, and hellish mockery! Arghh!", she made a long face and frowned.

"Wheels on the bus go round and round; round and round.. round and round!", he scouted her, and leered at her to check out her reaction.

"Oh my god! Ajay! This is what I did last night! Oh-no!!", she entombed her embarrassed face into her soft, delusional palms, making her head rest on her hands.

Ajay, being uncontrollable; didn't stop laughing! He didn't just laugh, but laughed in the way that only then she came to know he even knew how to laugh!

"Damn! Stop laughing at me!", she moped at him! After the laughter therapy that they had, Ajay rode off to his office! Whilst , Mitha's that day was drained in, harking back her moments with Ajay! Also, Ajay felt contented in some way, after talking to her for  such a long time. He was even amused by the happiness that was audaciously wandering in his life, at that notch of his life.

Though, Mitha knew that she was drunk last night she didn't expect her to be acting so weird while drunk. Also, the headache that she had to go through due to her blues made her pang over the decision of drinking on Sana's words. She had always thought that drinking was fun, but when she had to forbear such a distress in the morning after boozing up, she decided not to go that side there after.

That night, when Ajay came home Mitha was ready at the dining table. Both of them were habituated to the routine, that they were already following! But, now after their talk over the breakfast, she felt a little attached to Ajay, than before! So, she decided to wait for him to eat their supper. Ajay, came back, changed into his night clothes and reached the dining table. She smiled at him, that echoed a welcome note. He, then pulled out a chair contrarily and fixed himself on it.

They had their meal in absolute quietude. When Ajay, got up and cleaned his hands and gargled his mouth, his bandage got drenched in water, which didn't go unnoticed to Mitha's hunting eyes!

While he was trying hide his wet hands from her eyes; trying to crawl into his room she called him out!

"Jay! Stop there!!", she announced as she stomped towards him.

She gave him a bossy glare, and reached for his hands and saw that it was wet!

"If you keep sticking on to this wet bandage, it'll cause an infection growth! Don't you know that?"she said calmly and peeled off the bandage.

"Ah ouch! Take it off slowly! Its hurting.", he said sorely.

"Sorry! Come, let's get this dressed up again!", she said and started strolling to her room! He had no other way, than following her. He went in and made his arse, on the couch while she feel in nearby him, with a new bandage!

She then, slowly took his hands and made the bandage stick to his cut finger. Ajay, couldn't stop seeing her; doing her duty sincerely! She was standing at close quarters, that his eyes were dead straight to her's. All the while, when Mitha was busy dressing up his wound; he was really busy riffling through, and let everything slip from memory! He thought no more of Sana , and her bitchy behavior while he had a rightful, concerning wife with him. He wanted someone to care for him, and be with him. Honestly, he wanted her care forever and a day. He started longing for his time with her, and her tender loving care for him. He was almost about to trespass the fact and the pact!