SHIKHA


She stepped out of the shower. Her hair was wrapped in a blue towel; water droplets barely contained trickled down her neck and on to her bare shoulders. She scrutinized her body which had changed considerably since the last time her sister called her ?scrawny?. But, that was six months ago. Now, Shikha realized with a pang, she had again outgrown her lacy bra for the 2nd time. Which meant she?d have to buy a larger size and soon.

Shikha was the thin, quiet one of the two sisters. Neha was the vivacious child who went against all norms of their conservative upbringing. Neha was the one with the love letters from the boys in their school. Neha was the one who got the bluff calls and the flowers on Valentine's day. As for Shikha, she felt like a mere shadow in front of her lovely younger sister. Their mother always remarked how Shikha's big brown eyes did not quite fit into her small, narrow face. Her voluptuous lips often caused surprised looks from strangers. Their sanu ma would lament, if only they could fatten up her cheeks, she would be beautiful. Shikha had long before been de-sensitized to comments about her features and her thin body. She had learned not to care. But, she had also learned to fantasize about an ample body and a perfect boyfriend. Shikha was a dreamer. She was, an escapist who skillfully balanced her imperfect world with a perfect fantasy.

Neha, Shikha's younger sister was getting married in two months. To her mother's amazement, Neha had agreed to marry Binod, their father's friend's son, a family friend. Her family had expectations of Neha, to do the outrageous: to elope or to marry a Kuhire. It was, the family's way of bracing for impending disaster given Neha's track record of having dated beyond the acceptable Nepali caste, and color line. Shikha remembered an overjoyed mother rushing to the ?Hare Krishna? temple to offer prayers of gratitude, donations and flowers at the thought of Neha settling down with a ?good? huney khaney, Nepali boy. And, to one the whole family approved of.

As Shikha struggled into her jeans, she smiled secretively. Her time would come, soon, very soon. The email she had received from Jeevan assured her of that.


**********to be continued**********

More like another bollywood's flick, but again as usual I admire your writing.. You rock...

sitara..loved your story immensely....almost a nonfiction if you know what i'm talking about..hehehehe.....so what happens to shikha or neha after she gets married....does neha find hey hubby boring..does she date secretly with one of her ex??? hows the sex with binod dude???does shikha maintain her virginity????who's the first to deflower her???i hope to get all my answers....and you can add boring stuff like what they actually do ..study or work...hmm..but not interested...thank you darling

does shikha maintain her virginity????who's the first to deflower her???
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Wasnt Shikha pregnant and then at 7 months she steps into the bath tub and her baby gets aborted.. Isnt how it ends? So where is the thing abt shikha maintaining her virginity. Puppy sis... just curious

damn i hadn't read the other part..ooopsy rythm..bro..risani muaff paun

damn i hadn't read the other part..ooopsy rythm..bro..risani muaff paun

well wait i can't find the other part dude...

LOL sis... now that was hillarious... hehehehe... malai bro re... sis what made you think I am a guy?

Sitara Hazur, wow, Superb storytellin' hau!!

(me wan more) :D

Thank you for reading the whole story. Ali laamo cha ta ra still falls under "short story"! :)


Hushpuppy scroll up right under the title "Shikha" and then click on:

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Hushpuppy, eh, would you like to take special one-on-one tuition on "How to use Sajha for beautiful ladies" class? .. ehe.. I'd be more than happy to teach you that... :D

Sitara Hazur, would you? ;)

Surendras ji, I saw your website; pretty impressive stuff you guys are doing. Thank you for your interest.
Indi babe tyam taym ma ali ali josh chalya bela ma lekhay. I got an email from one silent reader saying the story touches too many raw nerves, re.

Pisces, stories are the same, I hope I did not dramatize Shikha's predicament as they do in Bollywood. In fact, she was more of a non-entity.

Bijay and Prem charo thank you. Prem charo, yeso jhalyak jhuluk dekhda khooshi lagcha ni.

Sristi, thank you sweety. Scary but true and happens all the time, hoina?

Oi Kalanki, where have you been these days? "Libra boys are cooler" bhanera, I thought you were contemplating swinging over the fence! :P

Hushpuppy, being a fan of your writing(and opinions), I'm wondering what you would have to say about the whole story.

Kalankistan ma bharna khoolyo "Navigating Sajha, One on One!" Trust you to come up with that, you! :P

>>Oi Kalanki, where have you been these days? "Libra boys are cooler" bhanera, I thought you were contemplating swinging over the fence! :P

I'm around... ehe.. infact, RIGHT HERE RIGHT now eh... watching the threads in sajha homepage shuffle. ahhh and my screenname disappear re kyaa... waah... kyaa deep dyaa. ehe.. baru, WHERE WERE YOU re kyaa. . . ahem.

Libran guys might be cooler but the GEMINI GUYS ARE COOLEST.. . haha... (No offense Oys) :D We don't need to swing over the fence ni hau, we simply GLIDE... smooothly :) ... we go with the flowwwww... swiftly... re kyaa.. :D

"Swinging or gliding" to the other side!!!! Oh no! You into guys now Kalanki? :P

hahaha, Not yet Hazurr.. eeh... Even if all the fine ladies are dead in this world, आप हैं ना .... ehe. (Don't over-analyze what I just said, otherwise i will mean something else)... :D No offense.. :D

Naaaaaaaahi!!!!!!!Not even if you were the last man on earth, Kalanki! , now don't over analyze that either! :P

ehe, Last man on the Earth? yahooo... surrounded by all the fine ladies? Including Liz Hurley? wow... Who wants to go to DC in such case anyway? :D

(I can almost visualize Liz Hurley dancin' on "mere haathon mein nau nau chudiya" on her Chudidaar-chicken-kurta-paaijaama for me) aaah...

would you like to take special one-on-one tuition on "How to use Sajha for beautiful ladies" class?
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now what does that mean? lau kalanki I was in the impression that u r a libran... gemini....hmmmm....;)

Rythm, I can't say "How to use sajha.com forum for dummies", can I... haaa....
And I am sure you are one of em beautiful ladies, are you not? Yes? Khoi, Photo herum ta... ha..

And When did I say I am Libra? Harey, raam raam, Kalanki Ko reputation ma Kalanka?

Genuine Gemini >>> KALANKISTHAN eh..!! Whatever Matrix Rose wrote about the characterstices of Gemini in some other thread, eh... APPLIES to me too... ;) grrrr...

Any LIBRA girl out there... re kyaa.. ha.

lol... mmm.. i am going to take it that u know I am libran and are yet acting naive.

Wonder where Confused is these days. I'm sure Sitara misses him!

:P