Our Way Back

76. Engagement: 2

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"Hey wassup!", Rushi greets Mansi with a quick hug as she comes in our room.

Mansi being Mansi she checks me out top to toe.

"What?", I ask her nervously.

"Vishal is freaking nervous", Adnan says and laughs hifying Rushi but I chose to ignore those bastards for now!

"Shut up guys!", Adnan and Mansi give each other weird looks of irritation and Mansi says to me, "You look great!!! Just push away the nervousness, also Advika might be done by now!"

"Oh umm, how does she look?", I ask Mansi with slight hope that she might just tell me but I know she won't but what's the harm in trying right!

"Eager much?", Mansi asks and giggles.

"No, I mean, I just wanted to make sure I don't look shit in front of her tonight"

"Oh please, you chill out I assure you, you two are going to look ravishing together!", Mansi assures me and turns to Rushi.

"Keep your phone handy, aunty will give you a call about when you have to come down.", She instructs him and he nods. I can see him hesitating to say something to Mansi.

"Hey", I call out to her.

"Ha?", She turns back to me.

"You look awesome!", I tell her and her smile widens.

"Thank you!", She says and we both turn to look at Rushi and after a quick nod they both give each other, Mansi leaves.

Mom dad come to my room while Adnan had gone to see Advika as he couldn't keep in the excitement.

"Finally the day we have been dreaming about, is here!", Mom says cupping my face in her palms and I bend down to give her a quick forehead kiss. Her eyes showed pure emotions of happiness and love not just for me but also for her soon to be daughter-in-law!

"Advika brings out the best in you!", Dad says patting my back and I have never been any more happier before to hear this. Listening to it from him came as a assurance of making the right decision.

Adnan returns after some time giggling but then frowns telling that the girls didn't let him in to see Advika!

"Girls?", I ask him by the plural mention. Initially I thought it to be Mansi and Advika both of them but he cleared after saying, "Mansi and that Arshi, she stood by the door not even flincing a bit! Am I not intimidating enough to move her from the door and don't even get me started about the irritating sister! She gets on my nerves always, she loves to push my buttons and irritate me!", Adnan says everything is a breath and plops on the bed sitting there.

"Hey enough of it okay!", Rushi says to him trying not to sound mad.

I knew exactly how he must have felt hearing about Mansi because sure it boils my blood to listen anything not appropriate about Advika, though I know she is irritating and bossy and sometimes very childish and irrational, but hey only I can point that out not anyone else!

"Yeah yeah take sides, both of my bestfriends are puppies who have given their leash to the sister's duo!", Adnan says irritated but teasing us.

After a moment of passing shy smiles to each other Adnan says walking upto me and throwing his arms around my shoulder from behind, "By the weekend you would be married yaar! No more a bachelor!"

"Yeah!", I say excitedly.
The thought of being bound to Advika with the rituals of marraige make me happy to the brim of my heart.

"Thankfully it's just Advika, if it would have been someone else, I wouldn't have let you get married!", Adnan says to me laughing slightly.