Hello people. This thought just struck me last night when I was apparently thinking on what to right for the next Misunderstandings part. I'm sorta losing my ideas over it because I got fed up and stopped watching IB (but not DDBEDS and Saiyaara)
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"I am not a virgin"

Omkara's eyebrows furrowed listening to this

"Isn't that what she told you when you met her?" Dandi asked him

Hell yes! The exact words his wife had said the day they had met for the first time. He hadn't actually understood why she'd have to say that because he himself wasn't one so why should he be having a problem with it?

His silence gave away the fact that it was cent percent true

"She is mad" Dandi chuckled.

"Can I ask you something Omkara" Dandi asked

"Yeah sure. Why not"

"How much do you know about her?"

What was Omkara supposed to say―that inspite of being man and wife, sharing the same bed, they both practically lived like strangers?

"Strangers?"Dandi voiced his thoughts

Omkara looked at him baffled but then regaining his composure he nodded affirmatively

"Usko galat mat samajhna please. She's just been through so much in life that she finds it tough to open up to people"

Omkara blinked at Dandi, Gauri's best friend in confusion

They had come down to Chennai from Mumbai because of Dadi's insistence to do some ritual of the groom experience one day of how his wife used to live before getting married and here he was listening to his wife's best friend about to give him an incite of her life that even she hadn't given in the last one week or one month of courtship.

"Her parents live apart" Dandi continued

He knew that. And also that both Gauri and her mother were independent women, a retired bureaucrat and a leading businesswoman. What's new about it?

"She's a chickened out soul. That's why she didn't want to get married too and she lied to you"

Om was confused

"About?"

"About not being a virgin" Dandi said nodding his head

"She's basically stereotyped all us men because of her father in her mind"

"Added to that is her family, she hasn't even got much love from them either because they were always envious father's property which she doesn't give two hoots about" he said bitterly

Om didn't know how to react to it. He felt bad for her. He couldn't believe all that Dandi was saying but somewhere he knew that it was true given the behaviour all of her first cousins during the wedding.

"Kya baatein chal rahi hain" Richa, Dandi's wife came carrying snacks for them

"Kuch nahi bas iss moti ki taareef. Aur kya karunga?"

Gauri's face twitched. She knew well enough that Dandi might have spilt out things about that would be dangerously horrible, things she wouldn't want anyone to know

Om saw Gauri's changing expressions and realized that she didn't want him to know about anything so he decided to let it be. He won't bring out the topic until she willingly told him about her life herself.

He saw her visibly relax when he said that they didn't get to talk much because Dandi had to attend a call. Of course, they hadn't even been together for 15 days, it takes time to build the bridge of trust between two people

"Aye moti. Dinner ke liye baahar chalein?

"Idly dosa hai toh haan. Tujhe apne momos khaane hain toh main nahi aa rahi. Aur mujhe moti bulana bund kar!" she growled

Woah! This was knew. Omkara had always known Gauri to be a silent and calm person but this Gauri was someone totally different!

"This ain't even the tip of the iceberg" Dandi told Om while throwing a cushion on Gauri's head making her glare at him

"What!? Omkara needs to meet Mukesh tab hi toh usse pata chalega ki uski biwi kitni haanikaarak hai!" Dandi said wiggling his brows in mischief

Omkara was liking this side of his wife better than the ever-silent girl who'd be lost in her own world most of the time

Though they didn't stay back for dinner Dandi's place, Om agreed to attend the reunion party that was the next night of all of their school friends. He'd really love to meet her other friends

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"You didn't have to agree to come tomorrow" Gauri said a little upset as they finished dinner

"Agar tum nahi chahti ho main aun toh theek hai main nahi aunga" Omkara said, his tone sounding slightly offended

"Mere kehne ka matlab woh nahi tha" Gauri justified. "It's just that you might not find them to be very great"

"Ain't I allowed to meet your friends?" Omkara asked

"It's upto you" Gauri said. Though she had come upfront with it, she was a little scared about it. All of her life would be put on display by her classmates tomorrow! Especially Mukesh!

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As she had expected, even the female folk she had hardly interacted with were narrating how a then-fat Gauri used to punch the guts out of guys when she got angry to get a bit of attention from her drool-worthy husband

Mukesh and his wife walked over to Gauri

"Kya moti, shaadi karli tune?" Mukesh scoffed reminding Gauri of the times she used to parade around the school with her 'Loner-for-Life' when she saw couples coochy cooing during high school

"Shut up" Gauri snapped.

True that she didn't want to get married at all in life but Omkara was a thorough gentleman who hadn't even once touched her inspite of being married

"Yaar tune itna mara hai school time pe ussi ke naate invite kar leti" Mukesh said with a fake pout

Gauri slapped her forehead. One more thing about Omkara―he'd agreed to have a very low profile wedding with only family and close friends and was very supportive of her too. An unbeknownst blush crept up her cheeks thinking about him and her eyes began scanning for the black tuxedo among the crowd.

Omkara knowing about her crazy self was something inevitable. She knew that. So she just let it be and decided to deal with the embarrassment later and concentrate on meeting with all her friends and batchmates

Unknown to them Ajay, who was once Gauri's classmate had his eyes set on her. Who would have thought that a girl who used to be an overweight bully as a teenager in school would become not only extremely hawt but successful as well.

He walked upto Gauri and offered her a glass of orange juice. Gauri felt weird looking at her. her instincts were telling her not to have the glass of juice because why would a guy who provoked her through high school would be so nice with her out of the blue. Just then Omkara came up close to her

"Hello" he greeted Ajay all-so-nicely "I'll just take her for a bit" he said pulling in Gauri to the other side of the dance floor.

When he knew that Ajay wasn't looking at them, he emptied the juice into the trashcan

"Arre...yeh juice..." Gauri protested

"Spiked hai"he cut in and saw Gauri's eyes go wide, from being the calm Gauri he saw a violent storm that would erupt in her anytime in her anytime

He pulled her back as she was about to storm back and definitely beat the pulp out of Ajay as he had heard from her other classmates but he couldn't let get away that easily. Taking her to the dance floor, he began swaying to the music with her in his arms. God! She so fit perfectly in his arms. Everything would have so been fine and perfect is her nostril weren't flaring because of fury

"Thande dimaag se socho. Usse maarne se usse sabakh milne se raha" Om said faking a smile as he felt Ajay's lewd gaze itself slowly stripping Gauri naked much to his chagrin

But Gauri couldn't care any less. All her anger had evaporated as his hand settled on her midriff. No man had got even this close to her. Sankarji had definitely sculpted him with a lot of patience. Shoulder length jet black hair, chiseled jawline, musky fragrance and his fingers that were dormantly touching her back in ways, evoking feelings that she had never felt before

"Mujhe ghar waapis jaana hai" she said abruptly

"Kyun?" Omkara asked shocked. Wasn't it just 2 minutes back that she was going to go and vanquish Ajay's plans? Why did she want to go home already?

"Bas jaana hai" being any longer with Om torturing her like this would definitely end up in something but her being normal

"Main bas washroom hokar aai" she said exiting the room

Ajay too followed her and cornered her before she entered the washroom. Had only the poor thing known that he wasn't the predator here, he way the prey

"Ab kahaan jaogi tum Gauri. Ab toh tumhara pati bhi nahi aayega tumhe bachaane aur tum iss haalat mein mera kuch bigaad bhi nahi paogi" he said as his hand slid around her waist in an unchaste manner making Om furious who was right behind

Gauri who had already spotted her hubby smirked when Ajay was ripped away from her by his collar.

"Thank you Omkara" she said gratefully. "Baaki ka main handle kar lungi kya tum Dandi ko le aaoge?"

Though Om was unsure about leaving the bastard alone with his wife, one assuring look from her and his feet took him back to the dance floor where Dandi and Richa were having a good time

By the time, the three of them got back to Gauri to Ajay was lying on the floor with blood oozing out of his nose as well as little from the corner of his lip, nothing new for Dandi and Richa but Om was shocked seeing Ajay's state would also be an understatement. He was somewhat feeling bad for Ajay for getting brutally beaten up but the moment he saw a bruise on Gauri's arm, he found the trashing way too less

Dandi nudged Om to take Gauri home while he took care of the rest

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Gauri flinched when Om snatched the band aid out of her hands

"Dhyaan se nahi kar sakti!" he screamed not knowing himself why he was pained at a slight injury

"Pehle antiseptic lagaane do mujhe" he said pulling out cotton and the bottle of antiseptic from the first aid box

"Nahi. Antiseptic ki za...zaroorat nahi padegi" Gauri said aal the while eyeing as the ball of cotton absorbed orange coloured liquid

He was about to clean her wound when she got up and took almost 10 steps backward

"Arre kaha na nahi chaahiye. Uski zaroorat nahi hai itni choti chot ke liye"

Om got up and followed her

"Gauri zakham septic ho jaayega. Baat samjho"

"Nahi hoga!!!" she screamed on top of her lungs

"Usse mujhse dur rakhiye. Bohot dard hota hai usse" she said with tears pooled in her eyes

Om placed his finger on her lips to silence her

"Kuch nahi hoga. Mera bharosa karo" he assured her 

Making her sit down on the couch Omkara applied the antiseptic while blowing on her wound while she was lost looking at his concern for her. Maybe not everyone was as bad as the people she had in her life before getting married

Okay! That's all I could type for now! Phewww!

Next two shots by next Saturday

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