Rikara One Shot Story Collections I

Twin Series 1.2 : Sweet Nothings

Thanks to all for voting and commenting on the previous story.

Here is the other twin story. I am hoping that you all have read Sum of All Kisses, because the backstory for this story is pretty much the same as that story. So, I am not writing it all over again. Just remember that in this story it is Shiv and Nitya who had kissed and fell in love, and just for the clarification, Om and Gauri doesn't flirt in the dance floor at that time. another change to note is, in this story also, it is Gauri, who is the dancer and Nitya the poet. The backstory is the same till they go down to inform their family about only one pair of twins are getting married.

Gauri was nervously sitting at the foot of the bed. She wasn't even sure why she was nervous. Maybe this was the first time she was going to sleep with a man. Hearing the door open, she nervously sits up as her heart started slamming against her chest. She looks at Om and sees him closing the door and locking it.

"Hi." Om says politely smiling at her.

"Hi." Gauri nervously smiles as she stood up.

"You alright?" Om asks her gently.

Gauri nods her head.

Om smiles. "I'll go change then."

Gauri watched him walk to his dressing room. She sighs in relief. She didn't know why she was so nervous. They had been friends for months now. she was engaged to his twin brother and he was engaged to her twin sister. But as fate would have it, her sister fell in love with his brother. The problem arose when her father said that he would let only brothers marry his daughters as he wanted his daughters to go to the same house. She loved her sister too much and he loved his brother too much, and they had decided that they would get married so their siblings got their love. Their siblings had vehemently tried to dissuade them, saying that now they knew the joy of love they wanted Om and Gauri to also find their love. But they had replied that their marriage would be like an arranged marriage where they would fall in love after marriage. Gauri sighs, it was easier said than done. Because the few months she had been engaged to Shiv, try as much as she could, she could never develop any kind of romantic feelings for him. She really suspected that was the case with Om too, as he wasn't even bothered that his fiancé was in love with his brother. If anything he looked happy.

Hearing the door open, Gauri turns to look and sees Om come out in a tshirt and pyjama.

"I'll change." Gauri tells him as she walked past him to the dressing room.

Om sighs as he walked to the bed and sat on it. He was so nervous and he had no idea why. Gauri was his friend, why should he be nervous? Was it because this was the first time he was going to share the room with a girl? He wasn't this nervous when he had gone for his first and only date. Maybe because it was because when he was in first year of college and young or because that was the first time, the date had been so disastrous that he realized romance was not something for him. Even when he was engaged to Nitya, he had felt a little bit of detachment to her and had consoled himself that things would change after marriage. Then fate played its cards and he ended up marrying Gauri. They had said that they would fall in love after marriage, and he wasn't even sure if it would happen. He really liked Gauri, there was no doubt in that, but love? Compared to his brother, he was always comfortable with the opposite sex, though it was all in a friendly platonic way. Girls were always comfortable with him as he was not a flirty guy and if any girl showed him any interest that would freak him out. Even the girls he was crushing on at that time. he had always felt that there was lacking something in him or that he was waiting for something else when it came to romance.

Hearing the dressing room door open, Om stands up and turns to look and sees Gauri stepping out in a full length night gown. His heart started beating fast as the reality of their first night hit him. Gauri walks to the bed as she looked down nervously.