Part – 5

"Good morning, Beautiful" Gautham whispers near her ears & nuzzles her hair.

"Good morning, Husband" she smiles.

"Sleep, Okay" Gautham asks.

"Never slept this well ever in my life" she whispers sleepily.

"How are you, baby?" Gautham kisses her cheek hugging her close.

"Mighty fine" she grins. He raises a brow in surprise.

"A bit sore" she agrees shyly.

"That's good" he pecks her lips.

"Now, get up, we have other places to visit" Gautham says releasing her from his clutch as he got up from the bed.

"Hmm..." she moans.

"You want to see places in & around Kashmir or just play in bed?" he asks grinning.

"I would choose option two" she blushes.

"You are insatiable, Wife" he shakes his head. "But it's an offer which I can never deny so here we go" he launches back on the bed to make sweet, sweet love to her once again.

"Gautham, where are we going?" She asks as they take their seats on the car rear seat.

"Gulmarg" he says & pulls her close to him.

All the way they kept chatting & taking pictures of beautiful scenery & individual pictures & selfies. They halted twice on their way to have hot tea & breakfast.

"Shall we go to second phase?" Sanjana asks. They are currently standing in the line at the gondola station (cable car / winch) waiting for the winch to arrive to take them to the peak point of the mountain.

"Nope. First phase is enough. If we go too high we will feel suffocated as the breeze is stronger there. You want that?"

"Nope"

"Good. Two in one cable car" Gautham demands with the boy who checks the tickets & guides the tourist on the car seat.

"No, Sir. These winches hold six members."

"I'll pay you more" Gautham takes a currency note & stuffs it in the boy's pocket.

"Sir, I should not do this but..." he hesitates.

"Okay fine. Four members. Not more than that. Send those two kids in our winch." Gautham bargains.

"Okay, Sir" he smiles in relief.

"What is this, Gautham?"

"I don't like too much of crowd... besides it will be easy for us to romance..." he winks.

"Not before kids." she points to the two kids, a boy & a girl sitting opposite to them on the cable car.

Slowly the winch started to ascend & Gautham and Sanjana along with the kids gazed the beautiful mountains covered with snow, it looked a magnificent view.

"Hello kids" Gautham says with a smile.

"Hi, Uncle. I'm Ruhi" a cute chubby little girl says with a dazzling smile.

"Ruhi. Lovely name for a lovely little girl" Gautham tweaks her nose making her laugh.

"Hi, dude. I'm Shaan" The little boy sitting next to Ruhi shakes hand with Gautham.

"Cool! I'm Gautham & she is my wife, Sanjana" Gautham introduces Sanjana to them. She smiles fondly at the kids.

"So you both are brother & sister?" Sanjana asks.

"Nope" Shaan shouts in horror.

"Calm down kiddo" Gautham appeases him.

"She is my fiancé" Shaan clarifies Sanjana.

"What?" Both Gautham & Sanjana shrieked.

"Yeah. My dad & her dad are childhood friends & they have decided to marry us the moment we were born" Shaan explains.

"Oh" Gautham & Sanjana nods.

"So when you two are going to get married?" Gautham asks stupidly to the little kids of 7 or 8 yrs. Sanjana glares at him for asking such a ridiculous question.

"We are ready to marry this moment, Uncle but our parents are not letting us. Even now we had a fight so we told them we won't come with them in their winch & that's why we accompanied you" Now, It's Gautham's turn to glare at Sanjana & smirk at her silently saying that his question was not at all ridiculous.

"You look beautiful, Aunty" Ruhi says in awe making Sanjana blush & before she returns the compliment to the beautiful little girl Gautham interjects saying "That's why I married her" he brushes his lips on her hair, earning a poke on his gut with her elbow silently asking him to behave in front of kids.

"Uncle, could you please take us a photo?" Shaan asks offering his Iphone.

"Today's kids are born with electronic gadgets I guess" Gautham mutters & takes the phone from him & steadies to take the photos. Then Gautham turns to Sanjana hearing her loud gasp & his eyes follows hers & he gasps even louder seeing the kids giving kissing pose, a pout style lip to lip touching kiss.

"Uncle, before you take the photos we will grow up & get married." Shaan sighs. After recovering from the shock Gautham takes photos after photos of the cozy couple kids.

"Uncle, we will turn other side & look at the view..."

"Okay, why are you telling me that?"

"You are so obtuse uncle; you want me to spell it out loud?"

"What?" Gautham still didn't get what he was talking.

"We will turn around and in that gap you steal your moment" Shaan whispers pulling Gautham close to him.

"What?" Sanjana asks curiously the moment the kids turned the other side.

"He told me to take my chance & kiss you" Gautham says equally shocked as Sanjana.

"I feel puppy shame to kiss in front of kids" Gautham shakes his head.

"These kids are born adults!!! Their fathers must be sexpertizes like you"

"Their mothers must be nymphomaniacs like you" Gautham grins countering back.

"So our kids will be like them? Or even worse?" Sanjana asks curiously.

"Our kids?" Gautham asks in shock.

"Yes" she says wondering why he is giving shocked expression.

"You want right?" Sanjana asks.

"Of course, but definitely not like those two." Gautham points to the kids who are showing their back to them, the girl's hand tugged in the boy's pocket & his hand encircled around her petite waist.

"Why? What's wrong with them? They are so adorable?" Sanjana asks.

"I don't want my kids to be brats like them." Gautham replies with a shrug. "I want a cute sweet baby girl just beautiful like you." he brushes her hair from her face & tucks it behind her earlobe.

"I would love to have a baby girl too. But I want one baby boy later, may be after five years" she says shyly.

"Your wish is my command" he says & gives her a quick kiss on her cheeks.

"So when you want to have kids?" Gautham asks casually.

"Hmm... I don't mind waiting. Just the two of us at least for few months or a year" she replies blushing.

"Good. Let me have you all to myself for sometimes then we will think about kids" Gautham agrees with her.

"Here, we reached" Gautham helps the kids out & then Sanjana steps out of the winch.

"Bye kiddos" Gautham & Sanjana waves bye to the kids & starts walking in the snow.

"Stalls over here" Sanjana asks surprised.

"Yep. Come." he takes her hand & walks towards the mountain top hotel to eat something hot.

"What you will have?" Gautham asks.

"Aloo paratha" Sanjana says & rubs hers hands together to get some warmness.

"Two Aloo parathas & one veg pulav & two ginger tea" Gautham places the order.

"So you wanna go skiing?" Gautham asks.

"And break my neck?" Sanjana asks with a frown. Gautham grins.

After having their lunch, they played in snow like two small kids, then took photos & returned down through the cable car. Next day, they visited Apple garden & Rose garden. Day after that, they visited few other local places & did god awful shopping for everyone in their family.

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"Sanjana, Gautham, you are back a day before?" Radhika asks in surprise seeing them back home.

"Yeah, Mom, we almost covered all the places... she did hell lot of shopping and nothing was left to do there... so we took the next flight & returned home" Gautham says tiredly leaving their bags on the hall way & slumps on the couch.

"How are you, Mom?" Sanjana asks Radhika with a smile.

"I'm good. Before you ask I'll say, your dad, your Maa & papa all are fine. Sundar & Jaanvi are coming here for dinner."

"Oh okay. I'll see Maa & Papa then. I'll go freshen up & come to help you in kitchen" Sanjana says.

"No you both must be tired. You both take rest. Patil will help me in cooking."

"Okay" Sanjana nods.

"You both look fine" Radhika tells smiling. Sanjana blushes & runs to her room while Gautham lies flat on the couch without paying any attention to their talks as he was hell tired after going shopping with his shopaholic wife the day before they left Kashmir. He was scared she will buy the entire Kashmir & stuff it in her bag so he brought her home a day earlier.

... To be continued

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