chapter 74

At the end of the last part of the story you read... After drinking tea, both of them get up and start going towards their room, Ragini was lost in the memories of her childhood, watching Venkatesh go......Now onwards.......When Ragini was 10 years old, she went to her maternal uncle's village in Visakhapatnam with her parents during summer vacation. Her maternal uncle's village was close to "R K Beach". "R K Beach" of Visakha is a very beautiful and famous beach. Visakhapatnam port is just a short distance away. Visakhapatnam port is also one of the deepest ports of India, its depth is 16.5 meters. People from every corner of India come here to see this beach in every season. Ragini remembers that when everyone had come to "R K Beach" with their families, Venkatesh had also come with his mother and younger brother. When she was playing with everyone in the sea waves, suddenly a high wave of the sea swept Ragini to the front, then when the same wave pulled her inwards in reverse way, Venkatesh saved Ragini by holding her. At that time, Venkatesh was a 15-year-old skinny boy, he did not look that good. Today his youth had blossomed and his body had become even better by going to the gym.After 15 minutes, everyone had dinner together, Raghavendra and Venkatesh stood aside and joked with Vatsala, Ragini and Sreenu.Venkatesh liked Ragini since childhood, she was very beautiful like his sister Vatsala, now she was on the threshold of youth, due to which she looked more attractive.But, Venkatesh knew that he could not have a relationship with Ragini because Ragini belonged to the Kurmi (Reddy) community and Venkatesh came from the fisherman community.In Andhra Pradesh, the Kurmi community is considered a high caste, they have had a different dominance in the state since the beginning.After having dinner at night, everyone keeps talking till late night, after that they go to their respective rooms and sleep.  Venkatesh and Raghavendra had to go for an interview at MCD tomorrow morning at 10:00.Meanwhile, at Lalit's house.....After Geeta tells her story to Lalit and goes to her room crying with Rimjhim, Lalit's parents also get up and go to their rooms to rest.Gita had decided that she will not have any relationship with Lalit, she will only talk about household work. She also decides to sleep alone with Rimjhim in a separate room.Lalit sits quietly in the hall for a long time thinking, his thinking had become like that of a wounded animal. Today he was happy in his heart for the fact that he had averted this trouble by pretending to apologize and admitting his mistake in front of his parents and Geeta.But the game that Lalit was going to play now to take revenge from Vatsala, Amar and Geeta was a very dangerous game, whose script he had written while sitting in the hall.Lalit was going to start this game from the second day of Neha's wedding, till then he had decided to stay quiet and help her father like a responsible son in the wedding work.Neha is going to have a court marriage first and then a wedding in Prateek's house according to Gujarati customs. The day the baraat will come to Lalit's house, a reception was arranged at his house.Lalit goes to the office the next morning and gets a 15-day leave in the name of sister marriage in written form and gets it passed from the boss. His boss puts two other people on duty in place of Lalit and Vatsala, because Vatsala had also taken leave.Apart from this, Lalit had one more thing going on in his heart, that was Prateek's sister Bhumika, whose beauty he had become crazy about. Lalit does not take a breath of peace until he does what he thinks.Lalit plans to get closer to Bhumika during Neha's wedding, because she was smiling and talking to Lalit, Lalit liked this thing.While returning from office, Lalit feels like going to Bhumika's house, Bhumika lived with her two children and husband Vaibhav in her own 3BHK house in "Jyoti Apartment" in Sector 7, Rohini. Her husband had a clothes shop in the market.Lalit had taken Bhumika's mobile number and home address the same day, which Bhumika sent on WhatsApp to Lalit's number.Lalit talks to Bhumika over the phone, Bhumika was at home, Lalit turns his bike towards Sector 7 instead of going to his house in Sector 13.Lalit reaches Jyoti Apartment, parks his bike downstairs and climbs the stairs to reach house number 104 on the first floor.Lalit sees that there was a lot of ladies' sandals and slippers outside Bhumika's house, it seems that at least 20 to 25 women must be inside.Lalit understands that there must be a crowd of ladies inside. But despite this, Bhumika had asked him to come over the phone, Lalit rings the doorbell.After a while, a lady comes and opens the door, Lalit says in a hurry, "Vaibhav Patel's house...?"The lady says smilingly: "Yes, yes, come come.... you are Lalit, right?" Lalit coming inside: "Yes, I am Lalit"Lady says: "Bhumika told me that you are coming, this month's "Cheat Meet" is going on inside for us women"Lalit: "Oh! BC or Cheat Fund type?"Lady says: "Yes, you can think of it like that, no loss no profit, draws are made by pooling money, the one whose name comes, the money of all the members is handed over"Inside, about 19-20 women from rich families were sitting in a circular shape on sofas and chairs. Bhumika smiles and gestures Lalit to sit.Lalit sits on a chair kept separately. Bhumika was writing the names of the women on slips.Today was the turn of drawing names from the lottery system in Bhumika's house. Every month the women of the apartment put in 1000 rupees and draw the draw. There were 20 members in total.Every month, we used to draw lotteries by changing houses, the house in which the lottery was drawn used to be the house of the girl.  The woman used to serve tea and breakfast to the other women. The women who came to Bhumika's house had already had breakfast and tea. Now they just had to write down everyone's name and put the slips in a box. Any small child of the women had to take out a slip. The one whose name comes up had to count the 20 thousand rupees collected for that month and give it to that woman.After a while, all the slips are put in a big box and shaken well by three or four women. Then the lid is opened and a girl from the neighbourhood is asked to draw a slip.The head of the women reads the slip drawn by the girl. The name of "Bhumika Patel" is written on that slip........To be Continued ........ 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