Imperfect Love

19

                        PREESHA

The rays of the sun hit me on my face as I open my eyes, but today the sound of the blaring alarm did not disturb my sleep. I feel a huge arm wrapped around me. I tilt my face to see the handsome man sleeping beside me. My hands itch to touch his face, but he looks so peaceful that I do not want to wake him up. I get out of his embrace, and he doesn't even flinch. Such a heavy sleeper! I check the alarm.

SHIT

It's 10 o' clock in the morning. I'm late. How could I be so careless? I've never been late in the three years of my career in this clinic. I try to wake up but I'm sore after last night. I can't let him sleep here because amma and appa might be coming back today. I wish I had my own apartment sometimes, maybe by the end of this year...

Putting my thoughts to an end, I wake up and try to wake Rudraksh up. "Rudraksh, wake up, get up pleasee". As soon as I see his eye flutter open, I rush to the bathroom before he says something cheesy like "I wish I could get this view every morning" which he says anyways, but the voice gets muffled as I shut the bathroom door behind me. I look at myself in the mirror. One night can change so many things. I have no idea what the future beholds for us, but I hope it's in our favour. I find myself smiling like a stupid in the mirrror.

                           RUDRA

I laugh under my breathe as Preesha rushed to the bathroom before I could stop her by saying something stupid. Part of me wants to get in the shower with her but I don't think that would be inappropriate. I watch as Preesha comes out of the bath in her kurta-top and jeans. Her hair is wet and she looks like an angel as she dries it. She catches me staring, but I don't stop looking at her. "You have ten minutes to shower and get dressed, then we'll have breakfast and toast, and then I'll leave for work and you'll leave too." she says. "How rude!" I say as I make a face. Honestly, I am myself cringing at the petulant child I'm acting like, but this is probably the only time I've been treated like a child. My inner child has yet not emotionally catched up my age.

As I walk towards the dining table, I see Preesha making coffee. She lays the breakfast on the table, said breakfast consists of toast and coffee. I don't judge given the lack of time we have. I assume Preesha is already late. "I'm sorry you're late, but I'm not sorry last night happened.", I say with a childish smile. She smiles back at me and reaches out for my hand, giving it a squeeze. Last night's memories come rushing back to my mind, the places my hands discovered, my name from her mouth. I shake off all thoughts and start my breakfast. This is not the tastiest thing I've had but this will do for now. One day I'll show Preesha my cooking skills.

I drop Preesha off to her clinic and drive straight to home before someone sees me. I have to deal with maa as I get home, is all I am thinking. But as I reach home, I find maa and bhabhi sitting on the couch worried, while dad is angry as hell and bhai is pacing up and down the couch area. Every face turns to me as I enter the hall. "Where the fvck have you been the entire night?" papa is the first to speak. Maa comes rushing towards me and hugs me, breaking the hug to check for injuries. "I was out with some old friends, catching up." I am surprised how easily the lie slips out. "We called Bunty, he said he didn't know your whereabouts. So better not lie, kid." Bhai speaks this time. "Those were my school friends, I didn't tell Bunty about it." Since when did Bhai start favouring dad? I can't understand why they're so worried. I'm not a kid, and this is certainly not the first time I've been out. "We were worried about you, you could've informed any of us, Rudra." Bhabhi spoke this time. "Fine, now stop with your speech of concern everyone, Rudra you have a meeting today with your team. It's about a concert in Delhi, the publicity has started and people are beyond excited. Get ready for the meeting, we're going at five"

im sorry this is a lame ass filler but i figured out i need a lot of fillers since this book has absolutely no plot to begin with 😭 and im trying to fix it. i was really bad with writing back when i started this book so please don't cringe at it. alsoo, please vote and comment your thoughts. i hope everyone who was reading this ff before i discontinued it gets notifs. thank you and love you all 🫶