TANGLED SOULS

Love at first sight

Just a simple, quick OS.
Timeline : During the current camping trip.
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Enjoy your reading!
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The Birla family and Goenka family were gathered in the front yard of their camping ressort hotel. Joy and Happiness reigned the families after a long time as light hearted chatters, genuine laughers and small teasing sessions were exchanged between the members, everyone celebrating their favorite couple, Abhimanyu and Akshara Birla, pregnant with their unborn twins.

Abhimanyu, being the happiest and the most overprotective husband and father, had just finished explaining 'Spin the wheel' to everyone as he stood in front of them as the master of the game, proud of his non harming entertainment game idea.

"Akshu! Your turn!"

Hearing her favorite person's voice call out to her adorably, she turned her head to give him a bright smile, standing up with a skip and making husband's eyes widened as she did so. She quickly held her ears, apologizing with her eyes as she joined him before he could chide her. Her Chidkuram scold her with his eyes however, which was not gone unnoticed by their family as some laughed. But her heart soared with love for him. Ever since he'd agreed to keep the babies, he's been taking care of her every need, like a mother would take care of her child. More than that actually. He was overprotective, yes, but Akshara felt the safest in his arms.

She didn't realize that she was staring at him, lost in her thoughts until he snapped his fingers before her face, breaking her out of her reverie. She shook her head and smiled. Abhimanyu returned it before spinning the wheel enthusiastically, eager to know what she will get but equally alert to flat out refuse anything that could be risky for her wife and babies.

The wheel stopped spinning and arrow pointed at, "Talk about your first love." She read it out aloud, a shy smile and a warm blush appearing on her face as she sneaked a glance at her Abhi.

"OH-HO! Now that sounds interesting!" Neil whistled while Parth, Shefali and Nishita smirked, as the elders laughed at the blushing Akshara.

Abhimanyu was feeling giddy, his heart rate increasing with each passing second as flashes of their first meet and his falling in love phase resurfaced in his mind. He knew he was her first love, just like she was hers. But they never really talked about it with all the fiasco that followed the trip but he's always been certain of her attraction towards him from their trip but was she in love with him back then? Only she can answer. So he looked at his Akshu expectantly who was busy avoiding his  gaze.

"Chalo! Bhabi! Tell us about your first love! How did you feel? Was it fairytale like, like in movies?" Nishita pressed more, eager to know about the unknown feeling. Her family encouraged her along with her and Akshara took a deep breath, calming her racing heart as she started talking.

"After coming back to Udaipur after three years, going on a trip with my family was special for me. But I didn't know how special it would be, at first." Smiling to no one in particular, reminiscing the most beautiful memories of her life, she continued softly.

"There's this banner when we entered the ressort. Its said Magic is about to happen."  A serene smile graced her lips as she glanced at her Abhi, catching his eyes, locking their eyes together.

"It did happen when I met Abhi."

His heart did a summersault as he felt himself lost in her eyes and the memories they conveyed.