My Destination, My Bondita

109 - Another Unique Suhagraat

Anirudh and Bondita went back to their room, holding hands the entire time. Both of them were filled with immense joy and happiness over their union. 

"Can I move into your room permanently Pati Babu?" she asked him, as he locked the door behind them. 

"You want to?" he asked her with a smile, the idea of them sharing a room permanently, making his heart flutter. 

"I want to move all my stuff in here too!" she told him, "I want this to be my permanent room!" 

"Of course you can, but we have to add a desk in here," Anirudh informed. 

Bondita couldn't help but giggle. Still, her Pati Babu was only worried about how she would manage her studies if she moved in here. 

He noticed her giggle and just shook his head, asking, "Are you mocking me Bondita?" 

"Of course not! How can I mock my Pati Babu?" she asked, and lightly wrapped her arms around his neck, slowly moving closer to him. 

Anirudh's heartrate shot up when she approached him like that. 

Bondita leaned into his ear and whispered quite seductively, "Isn't it our suhagraat?"

Anirudh blushed when she said that. 

"B - Bondita," he gasped, "How do you know?"

"I'm very observant Pati Babu," she whispered, "And I heard some ladies telling Manika Didi during her marriage that after a wedding, there is a suhagraat, or phoolsojja. It's after kalratri, where the husband and wife separate, but we can skip that since we had a Gandharva Vivah. We should have our suhagraat though!"

Anirudh just blinked a few times, surprised. 

"Kakasasurji tried to get us to have one remember?" she asked him, and then grinned at the memory, "My bangles broke, the bed broke..." 

Anirudh looked at her with a blush and said, "Bondita that was not a suhagraat. Kaka spiked my ladoo and I was intoxicated." 

Bondita blinked a few times and said, "Really? No wonder you were behaving weird!" 

Anirudh nodded, feeling sad at the memory. 

"I was so scared that I would take advantage of you," he confessed. 

"You? Take advantage of me?" Bondita asked, almost laughing at the idea. 

"What if I did Bondita? I wasn't in my senses," he told her, and touched her cheek. "What if I hurt you that night? What if I r - raped you?" 

"Rape?" she asked, confused. 

"It's when someone forces sexual relations on another without their consent," Anirudh explained. 

"You would never do that!" Bondita exclaimed, now frowning at how he could even doubt himself like that. "Pati Babu, anyone who knows you even a little bit would know this!" 

"But I was intoxicated Bondita, I wasn't in my senses --" he started, but Bondita shook her head adamantly. 

"Even if you're very intoxicated Pati Babu, our relationship is not like any other! It's blessed by Durga Maa. We have a mann ka rishta that goes far beyond everything else! It's this mann ka rishta that binds us deeper than any relationship that others have," Bondita said. "And I know that no matter what happens, this mann ka rishta will never let you hurt your Bondita like that." 

Anirudh smiled and asked, "You know how I learned that?" 

"How Pati Babu?" she asked him with a smile.