THE BLOOMING OF LOVE BETWEEN FORCED MARRIAGE

27. One Month Marriage Anniversary

It was 4 pm Rutuja was busy doing workouts while others were still sleeping. Harshada and Rishika got up early so they could plan Rishikesh and Rutuja's "One Month Marriage Anniversary". Harshada thought if we go and woke Ashish and Aniket she will know that we are planning something and decided to text about planning instead.

Harshada texted Ashish and Aniket "Wake up we have got a planning to do today". Ashish and Aniket woke up to the sound of a message on their phones and text her sleepily "What planning are you talking about Harshada?" Rishika texted them 'You guys forgot it is "10th July" today'. Aniket said, 'What about "10th of July?' Harshada said, 'You already forgot it is Rutuja and Rishikesh's "One Month Marriage Anniversary" today'.

Ashish and Aniket were wide awake now as they didn't know about it. Ashish said, "So you are telling us that it's been a month since their marriage now". Harshada said, "Yes that is why I wanted to plan a surprise for them, what do you say?" Ashish said, "Ok, go ahead tell us what your plan is?" She said, "I wanted to arrange a surprise party for them at the house as it is too risky to go outside". Rishika said, "Yes, we can't risk their lives".

Harshada said, "As for me, Rishika and Aniket will be off from the work in the afternoon we can do their dress shopping and decorate the house before evening". Later Rishika and Aniket will have to go to the lab. At that time Aniket will come home early to help me with the rest of setup as cooking will be done until then. The remaining thing is Ashish you should blindfold Rishikesh after you reach home and take him to his room to get ready. Rishika will do the same with Rutuja. She asked "Is this plan alright with everyone?" They all agreed on the plan and decided to go step by step according to it.

It was almost 7 am when everyone came to the kitchen for breakfast. All of them did their breakfast together got ready and parted ways to work. Rishikesh and Ashish were going together while Rishika, Aniket and Harshada were going together too as they had the same work place. Rutuja was going alone Rishika and Harshada had warned her to stay safe. Rutuja had agreed on trying to be safe. But, they knew if some situation came she would directly throw herself in front of danger for anyone of them. That worried them deeply.

It was afternoon now and Harshada, Rishika and Aniket had finished their work and decided to meet up at the parking to go shopping for Rutuja and Rishikesh's Anniversary dresses and some other stuff that would be needed. They all met up and got in the car. Aniket drove them to the shopping mall so they could do shopping. Rishika decided that they should choose Rishikesh's clothes first with Aniket and later they could search for Rutuja's dress.

They did as planned and bought Rishikesh's outfit then left Aniket to choose his and Ashish's clothes for the event. While Rishika and Harshada were searching for a perfect dress for Rutuja as they had finished choosing one for themselves. But, choosing Rutuja's dress was a bit difficult as they didn't want it to be revealing or it would show the bruises she got from the attacks. After searching for 30 minutes they found a perfect dress for her. Then decided to buy some jewellery to match it.

When Rishika and Harshada were finally done with shopping they went home. It was already 3.30pm when they started with decoration after a coffee break. When decoration was finally done Rishika helped Harshada to prepare the cake and to do other dinner preparations. It was 6 pm when the cake and a few other things were finally done. Harshada asked Rishika and Aniket to go to the lab for their work. They said bye to Harshada and left. Harshada laid out their dresses and jewellery on the bed before getting back to her work.

Rutuja and others were working at the lab. She was busy with her work but, knew Rishika and Aniket were hiding something from her. Not only them but, Harshada and Ashish too. She was worried about what it was that they were hiding. Aniket finished his work early and made an excuse that he needs to go back to the hospital for some discussion and told Rishika to come back home with Rutuja before he went away.