Finding us

Chapter 81

Turning on his back, Rohan gazed at the picture on his nightstand, waiting for his phone to ring.

It was a picture of him and Priya from their Paris trip - a rather candid picture that Naina had clicked of them - with the base of the Eiffel tower in the background, and Rohan and Priya in a sort of embraced, with their arms around one another and gazing deep into each other's eyes!

He smiled as he gazed at her pretty face in the picture - Priya was smiling and blushing, looking so ethereal in the teal blue dress she'd had on that day!

And he couldn't believe for the life of him that a month had already passed by since that glorious holiday!

A small sad smile curled his lips as he recalled the plan he had for 14th February. What to do next?

He felt jitters whenever he thought of the "next" and yet his heart sank - Priya had been so busy with finishing up her pent-up work, and also running around with Diya for the wedding arrangements that Rohan hadn't even been able to meet her!

Priya had cut short her lunch hours too, so that she had enough time in the evenings to go shopping or help out with the wedding preparations with Diya.

And so, he hadn't even been able to meet her for the past one month!! Their daily phone calls had also been cut short thanks to the wedding preparations! Priya was usually busy with Diya or Diya and Aarna, so she hardly had any time for him!

Five more days - she'd told him. One more week and then Diya's wedding would be over, and Priya would finally have time for him - he sighed!

But Rohan didn't know if he'd be able to go through one more day without her, forget a whole week!

He'd called her earlier today - she had been busy and had later texted him saying she'd call him at 10 o clock. And 10 o clock had come and gone but there hadn't been any call from Priya!

She'd been juggling between Mumbai and Pune a lot in this one month! She was in her toes, to keep Diya calm as the latter kept having anxiety attacks or just sheer excitement at the prospect of her wedding!

Diya was using the same wedding planner as Aarna - that handsome Karthik - Rohan's insides knotted with unease. And in the past month alone, Diya had sent Rohan 20 pictures of them both where Karthik and Priya are talking or laughing and gazing into one another's eyes. Sure, Rohan knew that Diya was clicking these pictures when Priya was discussing the wedding plans with Karthik, but it annoyed him at how much time that asshole got to spend with Priya, whilst Rohan was here waiting to even hear her voice!

And it annoyed him even more that Diya had stopped calling him jiju, and worst of all, Diya had been puttijg up pictures on her WhatsApp status almost every day now, surrounded by her family or cousins as they went about the preparations for the wedding. The worst part here was that Priya was always in the picture, looking beautiful like a freshly bloomed rose, and Karthik on her side - ALWAYS!

But Rohan's patience had worn off!!

Diya's mehandi was in 5 days - marking the start of her pre-wedding rituals. And her honeymoon was in two days after the wedding - exactly a week later. And during this one week if Diya tested his patience even a bit, he would be there to spoil her honeymoon, he vowed!

Rohan was abruptly jolted to reality as he heard the elevator doors pinging to a halt. His heart skipped a beat, and then it fluttered, as he heard the shuffling of footsteps - Priya?

A deep pink rose up his cheeks and he couldn't stop grinning as he got up from his bed. But his blood froze in his veins as he heard the voices of two women, and he turned, only to find the two ladies walking in through his bedroom door - looking just as shocked as he was!