Wrapped around your little finger (COMPLETED)

Chapter 25

Aarav's POV:

Her breath completely meddled with mine while my heart began pounding erotically in my chest and then there was Maa's scream outside the door

"Deepu"

Abruptly she jumped out of my hold while her lips just brushed my lips ever so lightly that I was frozen like ice...

I don't know how and when she left the room...

All I know was her soft tender touch on my lips

It was just like a whip of cool breeze tickled the delicate green leaf

As my heart was caught up with the euphoria of our beautiful moment and her dandelion fragrance compiled in every nook of my lungs had snatched my sanity I couldn't sleep the whole night

And before I could know, the next morning Deep had left with Mama Mami and the next few days were horrible...

Baba and Bhabhi were not keeping well and this didn't go well with Bhai... because of some traumatic incidents he had his own fears and  I had to come forward to look after my family

I was stuck with work and simultaneously accompanied Baba to the health checkups

During those days I hardly got time to sleep and neither she tried to contact me

I had many unanswerable questions
I wanted her verbal confession but the situation around us was not at all good... my family needed me so I decided to talk about it later

Everything went well and it was a Pooja at Bhai's place and after long years Bhai and Baba were uniting...

It was a big day for us...

Our whole family was present over there and that's when I saw her in the Pooja room enlightening the lamp

Wearing an orange coloured saree with her long braid adorned with mogra garland... those tiny bouncing jhumkaas...a small black bindi with a pinch of kumkum on her forehead and with the yellowish sacred light of the lamp shimmering on her blackballs her face glowed like a rising sun...

She looked like an angel

The angel who was enlightening the Deep (lamp) of my life

While my sacred beauty was engrossed in her work I took silent baby steps towards her and kneeling adjacent to her I wrapped my arms around her and she gasped but soon composed as she felt my familiar presence while I could feel a thin line on her lips...

And with my arms around her and her head adjacent to my neck we enlightened the lamp of our love in front of Bappa's idol

Next, I joined both her palms and taking them in mine we prayed together to strengthen our sacred love

That moment felt so divine...

While our hands were still joined she turned her head and that very moment was the much-awaited reunion of our eyes speaking volumes of love

I felt her eyes welling up with tears and I just leaned forward and joined our forehead "I missed you too"

Again that moment was bliss...a pure bliss...

And when I backed off she smiled looking at my forehead and I was smart enough to understand that the kumkum on her forehead was now applied on mine while I blinked an eye at her and her long lashes lowered as a rosiness crept up her cheeks

While all of a sudden we heard everyone's panicking voices and in no time we rushed to the living room and everything happened within a few seconds that left us shattered...

Baba had fainted due to high blood pressure and seeing Baba in such a state Bhai had a panic attack and he ended up hurting himself and we had to drive him to the hospital

Within hours I was surrounded by darkness and fear

Bhai and Baba were unconsciously lying on beds while Maa and Bhabhi were a crying mess...

Though my heart clenched with the unwanted happenings I managed to stay strong and mask up my fear

Finally at night when Bhai's health was doing good Bhabhi asked me to get back home and hopefully, Baba was fine too...Consoling Maa I retired to my room

And when sitting on the floor with raised knees and elbows resting on them  I leaned my back against the bed tears flooded out my eyes effortlessly

I don't know for how long I let my heart cry for the people who were my strength and weakness both while I felt a soft hand on my shoulder and my knees relaxed on the floor

I looked at her and felt her saree veil on my neck and chest wiping off my tears and sweat both while her eyes welling up too and I just laid my head in her lap and stuffing my face in her stomach I let my sobs go louder...

She stroked my arms and back while some soft kisses lingered on my hair for which my hands circled her waist and scooping myself more into her I drenched her saree with my tears

She didn't speak a single word but her warm embrace gave me everything that I needed at that moment

Slowly my head moved out of her stomach and laid comfortably on her lap while peeping straight into her eyes I took her hand in mine and kissing the back of her palm I held it close to my chest for which she just went on ruffling my hair and sometimes caressing my forehead

After a momentary period of time she made me relax on the bed and balancing herself on her elbow she lingered her lips to my forehead and began patting my head as if I was a baby

And I don't know what rushed into me...I just flipped my body and pressed my head in her chest making her fall on the bed while she gasped "AD" and lifting my head off her chest a croaked sob broke out my mouth "Just hold me Deep" and my eyes sank down as a tear escaped and fell on her cheeks while my head was back on her chest

And all I know is with her arms wrapped around me she began rocking my back with one and the other one was moving in my hair so softly that it was reminding me of Maa making her baby Aaru sleep on her chest

Bhai's words kept ringing my ears...sleeping on your loved one's chest is a heavenly feeling...listening to their heartbeats you are doused into a peaceful slumber and their every heartbeat keeps saying that I am with you...close to you...holding you in my arms

While I heard her words soothing my scared soul "Sleep my baby...Your Deep will protect you from all the darkness" and a chaste kiss planted on my crown while holding her waist I snuggled more into her chest and soon a blissful feeling engulfed me

That day I realised how much this girl meant to me...

She was my sanity...my strength...my serenity and much more that I could describe in words

I needed her as my everything...not only for that particular moment but FOREVER ❤

Till eternity❤