Our Way Back

58. "I am keeping the hoodie"

A D V I K A

I adjust in my sleep and feel a warm breath and weight on myself. I open my eyes to find Vishal spooning me, his face nuzzled into my neck and hand over my waist holding me close to him.

I shut my eyes and make sure that I am awake and not dreaming but when I again open my eyes, I find the same scenario.

What the fuck!

As much as I love sleeping so close to him, I know it's wrong!

But who's gonna know anything and anyways he is sleeping, it might be done accidentally.

Advika again you're on the same path....we don't want the history to repeat itself do we?

You can't do this, it's not right to do to Rohit, that boy loves you with all his heart Advika!

I gingerly remove his arm from around me and get off the bed. I look around the room and realise Rushi isn't here, it was just me, Vishal and Adnan sprawled on the bed.

I place the blanket back on both of them and quietly leave the room closing the door behind me but not before having a look at the babies sleeping.

I go into the other bedroom expecting Rushi to be sleeping in there but he isn't.

I come out in the living room and find a Rushi with his laptop, dessert and a sleepy Whiskey on the couch.
I stand leaning on the door frame of the living room capturing the moments forever in my memories, I have no idea when would be the next time we would have such time together!

Rushi is working on his laptop whilst Whiskey is resting his head on one of his lap while the other is occupied by the laptop.

I walk towards them when Rushi looks up at me and gives me a smile.

I sit beside him on the couch taking my sleepy baby in my lap.

"Whiskey absolutely loves you!", I tell him in soft voice.

"I am lovable baby!", He says smirking.

"Can't sleep?", I ask him

"Yeah...!"

"What's up?", I make him look at me.

"It's nothing yaar....", I could make out that clearly something was bothering him. I keep looking at him and he looks away and closes his laptop. I place Whiskey on the rug and sit back beside Rushi. It was 5am in the morning!

It was gonna be an early morning heart to heart conversation!

"Just speak up Rushi...", I tell him and he gives in sighing out a heavy breath.

"Advika don't go...", he says in a low voice looking at his toes as if they are the most beautiful thing in the world.

"Hey.....", I scoot closer to him and latch my arm around his and place my head on his shoulder.

"What's wrong?", I ask him

"Nothing is wrong Advika, infact everything is right, Vishal is happy, you're happy, me, Adnan even your pet dog is happy with us!", I look up at him confused and wait for him to speak further.

"Advika why are you going back to London?", He asks me.

"I have a place there Rushi, we have a life there, Rohit and me are happier in London than being back here in India, I also have a lot of other job opportunities there, I could also get an internship to work under a psychiatrist right away after I go back to London", I tell him sounding convincing but he isn't convinced.