~~~ 2 O'Clock proposal ~~~

"Sir, kitna achha mausam hai na! lagta hai barish hone wali hai." Shreya said cheerfully peeping outside the window.

Daya , who was on driving seat, too looked outside and admired the cloudy sky. They both were just returning from headquarters after attending an official meeting.

"Hmm...is season ki pehli barish!" Daya said turning the steering to the left. But all of a sudden the engine went off making a strange sound.

"Oh no! Ab ise kya ho gaya?" Daya murmured annoyingly.

"Kya hua sir?" Shreya asked confusingly.

"Gadi servicing maang rahi hai, par time hi nahi milta. Ab dekho, phir se achanak se band pad gayi. Ab to mechanic aayega tabhi kuch ho sakta hai."daya said calling a mechanic on his phone.

"Ohhh!" Shreya made a sad face and got out of the car.

Daya too came out to find signal. He talked to the mechanic and asked him to come immediately.

The next moment it started raining with a loud thunderstorm.

"Oh wow!" Shreya said looking up into the sky, making the raindrops to fall on her pretty cheeks.

"Shreya, come on get inside the car. Pehli barish me bheegna achha nahi hota. Skin infections ho sakte hain." Daya said loudly but till now shreya was almost wet. Her pink shirt was glued to her skin.

"Shreya..." Daya called her again but he stopped as His eyes fell on her. She was ruffling her wet hair releasing tiny water droplets in the surrounding. He had never found her so beautiful. He kept staring at her and he too got drenched.

Shreya ran towards the car, "ab to koi fayda nahi sir, main to puri bheeg gayi hu." She said wiping her face with her hands.

Daya came out of His trance. "Aur main bhi... Pata nahi ye mechanic kab aayega." He said getting inside the car.

Within few minutes the rain had stopped. The mechanic arrived.

"Ha sir, abhi theek karke deta hu." He said to daya. But as His eyes fell on shreya, he stared at her for a minute. She was completely drenched. Her shirt was stuck to her body highlighting her curves. The mechanic was staring at her with desirous eyes.

Daya followed his gaze and found him staring at shreya who was totally unaware of this busy in combing her hair with her fingers. Daya became furious. He turned to the mechanic.

"Hello...gadi ka engine idhar hai.!" He said angrily breaking his stare.

"Han ji han ji." The mechanic said and concentrated on the engine after stealing a last glance at shreya.

Daya went and grabbed his blazer kept inside the car. He came to shreya.

"Shreya, ye lo, tumhe thand lag rahi hogi." Daya said forwarding the blazer towards her.

Shreya looked at him, "nahi sir..." She was saying when daya went behind her and covered her with the blazer from behind. Shreya had no way to reject his blazer. She wore it covering herself. She smiled as she felt like daya hugging her from behind.

The car was repaired. Daya dropped shreya back at her home leaving his blazer with her.

He reached his home. But all the while he was just thinking about shreya. "How gorgeous she is" he thought.

He suddenly started feeling something for shreya. He had never thought about her this much. He was unable to concentrate in anything else.

He thought how bad he felt when that mechanic was staring at her. "She is mine. Koi aur shreya ko is terah se dekhe, ye main nahi bardasht kar sakta." He thought.

He took his dinner and went to bed but sleep was miles away from his eyes. Only shreya was in them.

He was changing his sides on bed again and again. He was recalling the previous moments spent with her. He had a special place for her in his heart but why, he had no idea.

It was 10 O'clock but he was still awaken. He got up and poured a glass of water. Took just two sips and again went to bed. Closed his eyes trying to sleep but thoughts of shreya were not letting him to sleep.

He started thinking from the beginning, when shreya joined cid. How abhijeet and others tease him with her name, which he always ignores. He was thinking and smiling at himself.

11 o'clock... 12 o'clock... 1 o'clock... and he was still awaken. He was feeling restless and was lying in the bed with opened eyes.

He thought more and more and it took him one more hour to find His answer.

It was about 2 o'clock. He got up with a jerk.

"Oh no! I am in love? " he scratched his head and smiled, "Yes! I am in love with shreya! Uff...itni simple si baat ab samajh me aayi mujhe?"

He came out of the bed and grabbed his cellphone. He was about to dial her number but stopped thinking something. "Nahi...phone par nahi. Ye baat to main khud use bataunga. Uski aankho me dekhte huye. Phone pe uske expressions kaise dekh paunga main." He thought and kept the phone back.

He came to bed with a smile and lots of excitement. "Subeh kab hogi?" He closed his eyes trying to sleep but it was the same again. He couldn't sleep.

He got up, put on his shirt and grabbed his car keys. "Main subeh ka intejar nahi kar sakta. Abhi ke abhi baat karunga main shreya se." he decided and left for her house.

He stopped the car in front of her gate. It was locked from inside. Daya thought what to do. Should he rang the bell and make everyone awake. No, he can't do that. He looked at the gate and guessed its height.

The next moment he was climbing over the gate. He was a trained cid officer and knew very well how to tackle the obstacles coming in the way, in war as well as in love.

He crossed the gate and jumped inside the yard. He moved towards the house with cat paws. Another obstacle, the main door of the house. Was locked from inside.

He smirked, "a bloody door?" He was about to smack it hard but stopped, "nahi ye shreya ke ghar ka darwaja hai. At least ise to nahi tod sakta main." He sighed and started looking for another option. Luckily he had wore his formal pant and it had a swiss army knife in its pocket. He took it out and soon he was successful in opening the door. He entered the house without making any noise and shut the door back.

He moved ahead in darkness slowly. He reached near one of the rooms.

"Kya ye shreya ka room hai?" He thought and leaned on the door to make a estimation of the status of the room. He heard someone snoring. He moved back, "uh...ye shreya nahi ho sakti.!"

Meanwhile he recalled a previous conversation with shreya, through which he came to know that her room was upstairs.

He turned on his torch light from his cellphone and found the staircase. He immediately climbed the stairs and reached upwards. He reached near another room. Its door was opened but a curtain was stretched. He slided the curtain and peeped inside. The lights were off but the moonlight coming through the window was facilitating to get a clear vision of the room. Daya saw two persons were lying on the bed.

"Yaha to do log so rahe hain? Shreya to akele soti hai." Then he remembered, that nowadays shreya's cousin had been living with them. "May be wo shreya ki cousin ho." He guessed and moved ahead with cat paws.

He came near the bed and what he saw made him smile.

Shreya was sleeping on the left side of the bed hugging his blazer. Daya stared at her lovingly for sometimes. Then he looked at the younger girl, shreya's cousin sleeping beside shreya hugging her tightly.

He bent and touched shreya's cheek and whispered her name, "shreya..."

"Hmmm" shreya uttered in sleep as she could still sense someone calling her.

"Shreya, aankhe kholo" daya whispered again.

Shreya opened her eyes slowly and looked at him. She took some time to get that it was daya standing in front of her.

"Daya sirrrrr...she exclaimed in shock but daya covered her mouth and signalled her to keep quiet.

Shreya's cousin hugged her more tightly making shreya unable to move. Shreya was lying on the bed with widened eyes and daya was leaning over her covering her mouth. He slowly removed His hand from her mouth but signalled to not to shout. Shreya was looking at him with perplexed expressions.

"Shreya, mujhe tumse kuch kehna hai " daya whispered into her ears.

Just then the clock struck two.

Shreya looked at daya, "sir abhi? raat ke 2 baj rahe hain." She too whispered in a lowest voice possible.

"Wo to roj bajte hain. Baat kuch aisi hai ki, main subeh tak wait nahi kar saka. Mujhe raat bhar neend nahi aayegi shreya. Subeh tak pagal ho jaunga main. Please, meri baat sun lo." Daya said in audible whispers.

"Kahiye." Shreya nodded.

"Main wo...nahi yaha nahi, bahar chalo mere sath." Daya whispered again.

"Sir, Neha jaag jayegi. Usne aapko yaha dekh liya to kya sochegi." Shreya whispered with a helpless look.

"Nahi jagegi... Dekho kitne aram se so rahi hai, tum bas aao." He said holding her wrist.

Shreya felt her cousin Neha loosening her grip. Shreya made herself free and carefully came out of the bed.

Before she could say something, daya dragged her outside.

Shreya stopped him, "sir aapko kya ho gaya hai? Raat ke 2 baje kya baat karni hai bhala aapko. Aur aap andar kaise aa gaye, oh no...kahi aapne darwaja to nahi Tod dala." Shreya whispered looking at him.

Daya held her by her shoulders, "nahi todne wala tha, par toda nahi. " he looked into her eyes, "main ye kehne aaya tha ki..." He paused for a moment and continued, " tumne mera blazer return nahi kiya."

Shreya gave him a look, "what? Raat ke 2 baje, choro ki terah mere ghar ne ghuskar aap blazer wapas lene aaye the. Yakeen nahi hota!" She nodded her head in disbelief.

"Yakeen to mujhe bhi nahi hua ye dekhkar Ki tum kitne pyar se mere blazer ko hug karke so rahi thi." Daya said mischievously bringing his face closer to her.

Shreya felt shyness. "Wo ...wo...main..bas wo rakhne ja rahi thi par itni tej neend aa rahi thi ki rakhna bhool gayi aur..."

Daya completed her sentence, "aur usi ke sath so gayi." Daya said teasing her.

Shreya blushed again, "sir please han! Aap yaha kyun aaye hain?" She asked looking downwards.

"I...I just realized something...I realized that... I am in love...in love... With you!" He completed his sentence in instalments.

Shreya was about to fall but daya held her in His arms. In the dim light she could see him looking into her eyes. "Sir?" She could utter only that.

"I love you shreya! Bas yahi kehne aaya tha tumse. Isiliye mujhe neend nahi aa rahi thi, Shayad ab aa jaye." He said leaning towards her lips.

Shreya too moved closer absent mindedly. Their lips were about to meet, when...

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the lights turned on.

Both daya and shreya moved away in shock. They turned and found shreya's parents glaring at both of them.

Shreya looked at Neha standing behind them with a grin.

Shreya was hell scared. Her throat dried seeing her parents angry glances. She looked at daya in horror.

"Ye sab kya ho raha tha.?" Her father asked angrily.

"Papa... wo..." Shreya began but her father cut her in between.

"Tum chup raho shreya" he turned to daya, "tum bolo? Tum cid officers ko yahi sikhaya jata hai, ki kaise ek ladki ke ghar me raat ko choro ki terah ghuste hain. Abdhere ka fayda uthakar kya karne aaye the yaha.?" He asked glaring at him furiously.

Daya gasped in nervousness, "Ji...wo...bas wo...

"Kya wo wo laga rakha hai? Sach sach batao kya karne aaye the yaha?" Shreya's father shouted more angrily.

"Ji aapki beti se bahut pyar karta hu main aur use propose karne aaya tha bas!" Daya told everything honestly in a flow.

Shreya bit her lips. Her parents exchanged glances.

"Raat ke 2 baje?" Her father asked raising his eyebrows.

"Han...to kya karta, 2 baje hi pata chala" daya said very innocently.

Shreya banged her head. She looked at her cousin Neha and found her giggling.

"Raat ke 2 baje pyar ka ehsas hua to uth kar chale aaye propose karne?" Shreya's mother asked smirking at him.

"Ji..." Daya nodded.

"bina ring ke?" Her mother asked smiling this time.

"Ji?" Daya looked confusingly at her.

Shreya too looked up and found her parents smiling widely.

"Aise kya dekh rahe ho?" Her mother said removing her ring from her finger, "mujhse ye ring borrow karo aur propose Karo, ghutno pe baithke." She said forwarding the ring towards daya.

Shreya couldn't believe on her ears. She looked at daya surprisingly. Daya smiled and took the ring from shreya's mother. He kneeled down in front of shreya.

"Shreya... I love you. Will you...

Shreya cut him,

"I'll marry you!" Shreya answered before he could complete the proposal.

Daya smiled and slipped the ring into her finger. Neha and shreya's parents clapped for them.

Shreya looked at Neha, "Neha ki bachhi tune, bataya na sabko!"

"Kyun aapko kya lagta hai, aap meri Marji ke bina bed se uth ke ja sakti ho kya. " and she winked. "Aap logo ki sari khusar phusar sun rahi thi main."

"Achha hua Neha ne hume jaga diya warna hume to pata hi nahi chalta. Par daya tum andar aaye kaise, darwaje par to tala laga hua tha." Shreya's mother asked curiously.

Daya looked at shreya and then turned to her mother, "shreya ke liye aise hajaar tale tod sakte hu."

Shreya was just smiling lowering her head.

"By the way, main ab chalta hu, I am sorry, meri wajeh se aap sab ki neend kharab ho gayi." Daya said apologizing to them.

"Are beta, ruko bas thodi der me subeh hone wali hai, nashta karke jana." Shreya's father said laughing at him.

Daya was embarrassed, "are nahi nahi main chalta hu bas, aur han auntie" he turned to shreya's mother, "aapki ring jald hi wapas kar dunga. Nayi ring kharidne tak." He said looking at shreya and left from there.

All watched him going.

"Chalo bhai, neend puri kar lete hain." Shreya's father said yawning and moved to their room with shreya's mom.

Shreya was still standing smiling. Rashi nudged her, "kyun shreya di, aapko neend aayegi ab?" She said winking at her.

"lagta to nahi" shreya said with a helpless face looking at the ring in her finger, "he is so crazy!" She thought and smiled.

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o-o-o-o THE END o-o-o-o

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A/N : just hope you guys liked it.

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