Promised Love

40. House Hunting

This chapter is dedicated to chandralambas 🥰

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Playlist: Jeene Laga Hoon (Atif Aslam)

The next week couldn't have come fast enough. It feels like the fire scare was a million years ago as we busy ourselves in our usual daily routines.

Abhimanyu and dad had given Dhanush Yadav, the pompous bastard, all the bribe amount, which he had now hiked to ten crores, two days ago. Hence closing that chapter of our lives for good.

Mostly me and Abhi have been busy looking for houses and planning our honeymoon trip, so we have enough on our plates. Vikrant and me aren't doing very well. He hasn't texted or anything and I haven't bothered either since I feel like I should give him space. I had shared the whole thing with Abhi and he wasn't very happy with the idea of me and Vikrant being friends.

Honestly, I don't blame him. I don't want him to even be mere acquaintances with Shanaya.
Just thinking of them together makes my blood boil. I am a jelaous person. So sue me.

As a matter of fact, in no way are Shanaya and Vikrant on the same level. Vikrant is just some guy who was intrested in me, but Shanaya is actually his ex whom Abhi loved enough to think about marrying. Not to mention she is exceptionally gorgeous. She has the kind of body and face that makes everyone do a double take at her. And no woman with a working brain would want her husband to be friends with that kind of an ex.

It's not even my insecurities talking this time. Don't get me wrong, I know I am pretty, if we go by the success I have in the male department. Its just that any woman is bound to feel inadequate standing next to her.

"What's going inside that pretty head of yours?" Abhimanyu remarks as he pulls into the driveway of the under-construction villa complex we have come to see.

I just shrug in response and smile reassuringly. Before he can prod further, the real estate agent we are taking the help of emerges next to Abhimanyu's car. We step out.

"Hello madam and sir!" He exclaims in the same over enthusiastic tone he has greeted us the past two times he has shown us houses.

"I am sure this place will make you fall in love. It's a great locality, amazing home structure, exceptional complex. You will love it!" I don't pay much attention to his promises since he had made them the last two times as well, but the houses weren't that great.

As we walk past the half built house structures, some lush green lawn areas and a water fountain situated near the entry gate I actually start liking the complex, one step at a time. Dinesh Maheshwari, our real estate agent walks us into the show house-the perfectly furnished house which is used to demonstrate how the bed product of each house will look-and opens the door.

The layout of the house takes my breath away. It's a duplex house with a spiraling staircase. The living room is spacious and large enough to accommodate the basic essentials of sofa set, coffee table and television. It opens into the kitchen which is kind of small, but if we build the cabinets properly then can be spacious enough.

Its basically a 4BHK. Two bedrooms in the lower floor and two more bedrooms in the top floor. There isn't a lot of space in the top floor, the two bedrooms are opposite to eachother, and only one has a bathroom in it. Dinesh explains that the other bedroom is the smallest bedroom in the whole house and can be ideally used as a study room. There is only so much extra space in the top floor to accomodate a piano at the very maximum.