TEA FOR TWO & A PIECE OF CAKE

By - Preeti Shenoy

Nisha has been born and brought up in Mumbai. Her mother had died when she was five. Her bond with her father is not cordial. All along her childhood, she was alone and rarely had any friends to share her stuff and her father had never bothered to talk to her.

She made her friends only after joining for work at point-to-point(Travel agency). She had only two close friends. One is Chetana & the other is Akash. Her boss has tossed an invitation to a party where any two of the point-to-point employees will be able to attend it. But they were so many. Hence, they selected Nisha and Prashant (other colleague) through chit system. There Prashant leaves Nisha and joins with other people. Again she is all alone and she hates agreeing to come to that party. After sometime a guy approaches her and  the conversation starts and she lands with her first date with the same guy, who's name is Samir. He is an handsome, elegant, classy and  good-looking man. He was a close friend of her boss & reveals few secret about her. The next day after her first date she was excited and  in excitement shares her boss’s secret with her colleagues and her boss comes to know about this  and she got fired from her job and then Samir gives her a job. They together went to business trips, attended seminars, conferences & meetings. They got along very well with each other. One day Sameer opens-up with his marriage proposal to Nisha & she says yes because she is extremely attracted to him and to his limelight. After wedding Nisha leaves her job upon Samir's suggestion. In the begging it was hard for her to stay alone at home but later she joined cooking course to end her boredom and gets perfectly well with that. She gets pregnant but her hubby was not at all ready for that and he insists to drop the plan but she convinces him somehow. During her labour he was not with her. He visits hospital just for once and don't even look at the face of the baby girl. Again she gets pregnant for the second time and lands up with a baby boy and again his hubby was not there.

Suddenly one day Samir calls her and tell her that he was done with this marriage and want to start a new life with Maya(New colleague). He tells her that , it has happened just because of her mistakes. He tells her that he wanted to have quality time with her wify but she always ignored him and never had time for him after the babies have arrived in their life, but the reality is he never helped her with the babies things. She managed everything all alone by herself. She pleads him not to do this to her but he was determined and tells her that he could give her money for the monthly expenditure and any other things if she needs it. She was independent, she needed his support not the money, so she makes her way to her father's home which was empty after her father's death.

She had no idea , what she will do further. She calls Chetana. Chetana suggests her to return to Sameer and she denys it then, she calls Akash and when he lands at her place he provides a solution to her of starting a new business of catering named "Magic saucepan". He helps her in all the way he can (He was friendly with her kids and helped them a lot) and during the process they fall in love with each other. One fine day Akash gets a call and he got promoted but he has to move to Pondicherry to avail that promotion. They both get bit upset but they accepted what life had thrown at them. After few months he tells Nisha to come to Pondicherry for few days and she happily agrees. She was so happy after coming to Pondicherry and seeing all those ancient and magnificent things there. Akash tells her to shift to Pondicherry but she refuses it without giving a second thought and later , after her daughter's suggestion she moves in and starts her new restaurant and buys home by selling her father's flat. Makes her children school admission there and they live happily thereafter.

Takeaways

1. Behavioral love lasts longer than the physical ones.
2. We have to accept those cards which life throws at us.