Love isn't just about being with someone, it is about feeling someone even if miles seperate you!❤️

I don't know why , while writing this whole chapter, "Hosh Waalon Ko Khabar Kya" by Sri Jagjit Singh was playing in my mind!❤️... You too may listen it once!😍❤️
Ps. Any Ghazal lover here?!😉😍

After Anirudh had dropped Bondita and her parents to the nearby railway station. He came and settled himself on the study chair, the room felt a lot more emptier to him. He knew he won't be going there unless he needs to sleep.

He took out a file and tried working on it, but his mind didn't allow. He so wanted to hug Bondita again, kiss her forehead and her lips too!.... The last kiss, before she left was making smile so much, already.

He just sat back and tried to focus. He had a few cases pending and he needed to work upon them. After a while he went to talk to someone on the telephone, related to the case.  Work has always been his greatest distraction. He could forget anything and everything while he had work to  do.

After a  busy evening, he headed to the hall, where everyone was sitting, waiting for the dinner. They all had been feeling a void since Bondita left. They would ofcourse need to time to adjust without her.

The dinner that day, didn't taste great to him. Neither Bondita nor Maa had cooked it and on top of that, he didn't get it served from her too!...After having the dinner and chatting with everyone for a while, he finally entered his room.

It smelled of her!.... Her fragrance never left the room, for sure. He went up and looked around. Suddenly the room seemed too big to him. The bed seemed extra large and the dressing table, useless.

He just shrugged off his thoughts and went to the cupboard. Most of her clothes weren't there, just a few heavy sarees, taht she had left behind. The cupboard too, seemed so large to him.

Sighing, he took out a plain white kurta pajama and went to the washroom. Everything, literally everything in the room reminded him of Bondita!... How could he forget her eben for a second. But this was really pleasurable too. He loved how everything reminded him of his love, his life.

After he took took the shower, he lied down on the bed. He could hear some insects in the garden below and his mind refused to sleep. He even tried reading a novel, but it just won't help!...

Afterall, he was so used to, sleeping with Bondita in his arms, with her fragrance intoxicating him completely. He was so used to cuddle with his wife, that now he had completely forgotten to sleep alone.

He just kept tossing on the bed, trying to sleep. His comfortable mattresses and large pillows, too, didn't help!

He just decided to himself on the bed and lied on Bondita's side. Taking her pillow in his arms, he hugged it tightly. Afterall, the pillow smelled like her hair.

And that was when, sleep decided to take him in her arms and he drifted off.

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The next morning was a busy one. As Bondita wasn't there, he had decided to kep himself busy with work. He got up and dressed for the court, Bondita, not leaving his mind even for a second.

He was really used to her. Coming down at the breakfast table, everyone could sense his loneliness, but just couldn't help even after trying hard.

As he just walked to his study, to pick up his briefcase, the telephone rang. He kept the briefcase back down and rushed to the telephone.

Vibhavari had already picked up the receiver and was talking on the  phone.

"Yes, yes, Barrister Babu is here! Let me hand him the telephone." She said and his face dropped.

He had thought it to be Bondita but it came out to be a work call.

Vibha forwarded the receiver to  him and he took it sadly. She just pressed a smile, at how his face had suddenly dropped.

"Hello!" He said casually.

"Hello, Barrister Babu!" He heard from the other end, the voice he wanted to hear!....

"Bonditaaaa?!" He exclaimed, happily and looked at Vibhavari, who as at a distance. She just giggled and held her ears, laughing happily.

"Pati Babu, how are you?" Bondita asked through the phone.

"I'm fine, Jaan! You tell, did you all reach safely?" He asked. "And tell me, did you take that yellow medicine at night?.... And was the train seat comfortable?"

"Pati Babu!" She cried, laughing from the other end and and he just smiled at himself.
He had just bombarded her with a plethora of questions.

"I love you!" She said, making him blush and look down happily.

"Me too!" He said, looking at Batuk, standing just a bit away.

"Is anyone around?" She asked, giggling.

"Hmm" he hummed a reply and smiled at Batuk.

"Dada, just say it, I wont listen!" Batuk interrupted, inserting his fingers into his ears.
"As if we don't know tht hoe many times you tell her that you love her in a day!" He just mocked both of them so happily.

"Shut up!" Anirudh told him, trying to hide his blush.
"I don't need to tell this to her, but I  just like to!" He told and Bondita just wanted to hug him tightly.

"Okay, Pati Babu, now you should leave for the Court. Don't be late and please have your lunch on time. And yes, your yellow file is kept in my drawer." She said and he just listened obediently.

"Okay! Bye, Jaan! Take care!" He said with a loving smile.

"You too!" She said.

"Here, talk to Batuk now!" He handed his brother the phone and left for the court.
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This went on for days, and weeks. Finally, when two long months had passed. Anirudh had started to adjust to this loneliness, but he understood that he  won't ever be able to adjust to her absence.

That day, he was really happy as he returned from the court. He had, afterall, gotten a new case.

Finding a new case wasn't exciting for him, though. But this was!... This case was based in Calcutta, so he needed to go there. That meant, he could meet his Bondita after two whole months.

He told it to everyone and they too got excited. Afterall, they had witnessed him long for his Bondita and the same was with their Bondita!....

"Dada!... Do take a few leaves and spend some time in your Sasuraal!" Vibhavari giggled happily and Som agreed.

"No need!" Maa interpreted. "Just come back after your work is done. It doesn't look good, if the Jamai stays in his Sasuraal!" She said and Kaka agreed. Binoy was always out of such conversations.

"Why, Maa?" He asked, frowning. He would have already not stayed much at his Sasuraal, but now when his Maa said, he was determined to rebel.

"It's just not good!" Kaak said strictly, agreeing to Maa.

"But Kaka and Maa, why don't you understand? If Bondita can live in my home, making it her own so why can't I? Why is her home alien for me? Wy can't her home be my home?" He asked both of them.

"Anirudh!" Maa bellowed, but she didn't have anything to say.

"No, Maa!..." He said. "I really don't want to argue wih you, I respect you so much. But if I find something wrong, I just can't support it!"

Som and Vibhavari looked at each other. They had nothing to speak so they just kept quite.

"I would have not stayed at her home, earlier. But now, I'll go and stay there with my other family until I want!" He said and walked to  his room, not waiting for any replies from them.

"This boy has changed!" Maa sighed. "He never argued with me, before!"

She sounded sad and at this moment, it was the easiest for her to blame Bondita for all this!...Afterall, she was the one for whom he was doing it all. She just sighed and walked to her room.

No one else, even trued to say a word. They too, just kept quite. They had never seen Maa so upset with her favorite son and that too, because of her favorite bahu!...

Are the relationships changing with time? Who is wrong here? Is Maa, who has grown up seeing and hearing all this, wrong. Or is Anirudh, who isn't aware about the consequences, his one argument can have?
Will the relationships really strain, here? And can Bondita, who isn't even here, do something? Would she be able to know this at all?

Leaving these questions for you all!❤️❤️

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