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It was only after an hour, she saw him squirming aside loosening his grip on her . He squeezed his eyes and faced her to just start staring, for her to contribute already . That strong stare automatically brought a smile on their faces , and both chuckled remembering their silly deeds the past day . It was she who first stiffened her look to question him,

A- I remember sleeping at aunty's room yesterday, how did I end up here ?

He blinked looking all sides to come up with an answer ,

S- uhh ,vo ...I don't know . Maybe you just started sleepwalking at nights .

Her mouth turned round listening to his answer, he shrugged off to immediately get a smack .

A- hawww! Jhuta idiot ! You didn't even apologise yet, chal I won't speak with you .

She sat up turning the other side while he frowned.

S- I did ! You were asleep then.

A- tho ,ab bolo?

She insisted still not turning to face him ,

S- a sorry for a mistake , that's it .

He stated strictly for her to jump off the bed immediately and leave from there ,not before showing her twists of mouth watching which he chuckled.

There's never a day he could sit idle without troubling her !

Evening,

Both were getting ready in their room,as they've got an engagement to attend .

After so many failures and tries annika finally set the fleets perfectly, and stood struggling to pin it up .

S- jaldi annika ,we're getting late .

He insisted , and she cringed. That little thing was just not happening with her . Suiting up , he noticed her struggling still and went close to her.

S- careful, I'll do it wait.

Suddenly the power went down leaving a dark room ,and it took a few more minutes for the inverter to go on .

A- where are you shivaay ? Mobile torch on karo na ?

S- haan ,

Passing the mobile to her ,he worked with the pin.

A- hey hold all the fleets together and hook up , dare you miss it ! It took nearly 20 minutes for me to arrange it correctly.

S - mom se help maangthi na annika? Hold the mobile correctly first, I could see nothing here .

He complained while failing on his 3rd attempt too.

A- she's gone to temple . Itna bada buisness man ho tum ,ye bhi nahi aatha?

She taunted and he narrowed his eyes ,

S- just be quiet or I'll leave the folds free ,

At once she shook her head muttering sweet words for him to work patiently.

He grinned for finally succeeding, and at that instant the lights beamed again .

An inch of smile covered her face, when she looked at herself in the mirror. She was certainly wearing a saaree which he had gifted her back then , her eyes travelled along him on the mirror expecting a compliment but that man wasn't just looking . Grabbing the car keys he walked past the door muttering a ' hurry up ' , she sighed in disappointment.

Only if she knew the reason behind his continuous failures while he was helping her with the pin, his concentration was on something else....!
Even in that small source of flashlight which reflected on the mirror, she looked ethereal. From now onwards ,he's damn sure that he has got a perfect choice in selecting clothes for her . Such a beautiful woman is his wife . Drifting in his own quantum of particualting every little detail of her's , he merely knew that he had poked his own finger twice during his job of hooking .Her thin side braids which ran above her forehead leaving her free hair dropped on her shoulders disturbed him , that he had to tangle off those soft tendrils away from his fingers which fell weak on feeling her skin . He knew that he'd definitely forget the function if he ponders over his self who was lost in his wife's unbounded belle. That's how he left fetching the keys ,halfheartedly.

And annika who didn't know anything , had a disheartened face as she sat on the seat and slammed the car door hard. Fastening the seatbelt , he looked at her and instantly shook his head .

S- annika , tumhari saaree ...

At once she looked at him in surprise,

A- haan ?

Widening his eyes he insisted her to look down while she looked baffled . Sighing ,he got down and walked to her side.

When she was about to vocalise her wonder, he knobed the door out and bent down .

That's when she realized her pallu to have been hung down outside all this time ,without noticing which she had shut the door . He rested the cloth on her lap and closed the door for her before moving to his side, while she just sat quiet like an idle pet.

After the engagement, they all were gathered for dine , engrossing themselves in some random chats .

' Ahhh! Finally the last lucky bachelor in our gang is also hitched ! Let God guard him with all powers , Amen '

Stated one among the gang for the others to start laughing .

'woah , that's scary .

Spoke the to-be- groom ,

' I ain't joking man , bachelor life is the best ! and you'll know it once you get married '

The conversation prolonged for a few more minutes , where each one gave their piece of advice for their new groom making him gulp deep .

Annika who was seated on the opposite side speaking with her friends ,did hear everything . She had no objection with others rants on marriage until ,it was him . He sounded so in agreement with whatever his friends stated , which somewhere pricked her . All the boys cheered in a low tone, for having lost their freedom ,leaving the ladies glare at them .

Here annika on the other side ,grew curious on knowing that he has got such mentalities upon their marriage. Poor she didn't realize that , it was nothing but a very normal random topic which was only another funny part of their conversation .

She stared at him for a second and immediately looked away slowly .

S- wow , that was indeed good ! After a long time, I got to meet my buddies. There's nothing left which could be said as let undone during our school days ,kitna kuch ! ! One naughty gang we were .Those days !

He expressed his rushing excitement as he grew nostalgic and she smiled faintly.

A- haan, you were so happy back then right ?

S- yeah !

A- so aren't you happy now ?

Her low toned statement made him slow down the car as he passed a glance on her once and looked by the road again .

S- kya ?

A- you were telling them that you've lost all freedom and stuffs after marriage, that's why I asked you . Aren't you happy now ?

He noticed her serious face and shook his head ,sighing.

S- please annika ,It was nothing .

He said shrugging off and she looked merely convinced.

A- it didn't seem like it was nothing .

She put up a stern face and he blinked hard being irked .

S - you're just overreacting paanika .

A- ok , let's just drop this here only .

She signalled ,zipping up her mouth and looked by the window for him to remaine silent in not wanting to argue more.

Both didn't utter a word after that .They just reached home and engaged themselves to sleep .

Morning,

She woke up to find his side empty , did she wake up so late that he had left to work already ? Immediately she checked with the clock which striked 8 am , making her confused.

She dialled for him many times but there was no answer.

Having some important work to be completed within today , he had left early without informing her on not wanting to disturb her sleep. And since his mobile was on silent mode ,he hardly noticed her call .

In that half drowsy state she walked to the kitchen where pinky was busy cooking. Sliding the vessels aside she caught a seat on the counter for herself .

A- good morning aunty ,

P- good morning beta .

A- where's your son aunty ? Itni suba kahan gaya ?

She asked crowning her hair to a bun , and pinky scrolled the stove knob to sim mode before replying .

P- haan , even I didn't see him from morning . Did he leave to office so early? I thought of asking the same to you, he didn't inform you ?

A- nahi aunty ,

P- wait ,let me ring up .

Shivaay who just saw those 5 missed calls from her ,thought of calling back when the phone flashed showing 'mom'.

A- I tried already aunty , he won't pi ...

She halted at once hearing pinky's voice.

P- haan shivaay ,where are you ? .....

Annika's face shrinked slowly ,knowing that he had certainly attended the call. Did he just ignore her deliberately ?, grew some uninvited questions in her mind for her to feel hurt . The last night events have already eaten up her mind and now this ....! She felt left off .

This insecure feel was definitely new to her , that it was really tough  to be handled . She wasn't so mature enough to know that her blunt thoughts were meaningless because the person who could make her understand  has become the very cause for those thoughts .

He ,on the other side just shrugged off his thoughts of calling her as he had spoken to his mother just now . She would have informed her ,he convinced himself not knowing the outcomes of his minute beliefs.

The whole day seemed gloomed out for her as the same thoughts started disturbing her much and she poorly failed to overcome it .

He was really pissed off on watching her throwing all her stuffs from handbag to shawl wherever she directs ,and just leaving out straightaway . It was usual he knew, because he has practised to grab and arrange all her things but today he felt irritated by her act as he was actually searching for an important file for since an hour ,that he couldn't take her laziness as easy like everytime .

S - annika ek minute, did you see my black file ?

A-nahi ,

She answered without looking back and his face turned stiff.

S- I'm asking you something annika , can't you atleast look at me and answer ? So much attitude kisliye?

A- stop finding faults in me and go search your file.

The rudeness in her voice irritated him more .

S- don't talk to me like that ! what happened to you ?

A- muje kya hoga ?

She pulled off a stern face and looked at him .

S- annika if there's anything wrong, just talk to me on my face .

He ordered in dominance and she frowned .

A- see who's overreating for nothing .

S- really annika ? Vo tho kal ki baath tha ,ab tak nahi buli...?! First tell me one thing, itni impulsive kyun ho tum?

His serious tone of interrogation made her pass a blunt stare on him ,

A- so I'm impulsive now. Ok!

S- ohh please annika , stop this. Ye roz roz naya fight ,please end it, I just can't !

He bursted in frustration and she shuddered a bit listening to the sudden pitch of his harsh voice.

A- you just can't...?

She looked at him dubiously . All those irrelevant thoughts had already gave her much and now his consecutive blames were topping up to mountains that she could leastly think with a clear mind .

Precap

Pinky slaps annika .

Chapter dedicated to Archana1989   ❤

How was it guys ?

First, I'd want you all to know the need for this plot at this point. Both love each other and yeah, they got married, but their relationship had never sailed in a period where they could experience their bond growing as lovers where they could slowly explore things. Suddenly engaging two best friends in a clutch called marriage won't teach them anything as they both still are immature when it comes to a life ship of togetherness. Both of them are at fault as ,annika is overreacting to some extent and he , on the other side could behave a little patient to understand why she's acting like such .

So this is needed to improvise their relationship a step forward .

But still, if you find any faults. Kindly don't hesitate to let me know on that .

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