Mr and Mrs Unromantic

Valentines Day

Sreeja felt very shy to look at him after what has happened. Though she liked whatever Venkat did, she did not want to confess that. She saw Venkat who dozed off to sleep. Feeling tired she too slept for the night. 

Next day, when he woke up, he saw Sreeja already dressed up in new attire indicating she has already freshened up. She was standing near the pooja room praying with so much concentration. 

Later everyone got ready and went to their respective offices. Venkat and Subhi though working in different company , their offices are in the same IT SEZ park, so they both go together in bike. Whereas Sreeja's office was in a different direction from theirs. 

When in office, as usual Venkat and Sreeja does not talk in phone nor send messages. Now that they both are living in the same house and same room, they did not feel the need to talk on the phone.

Evening everyone came from their respective offices. Sreeja came half an hour before Venkat. Venkat went to his room to freshen up and change to normal attire. 

"Sreeja, where did you keep my 3/4th? Its not in my shelf."

" I have kept another one for you on the bed. wear that"

"pcch... Whatever I feel like wearing I would wear that only,  you get me that, come here" 

Sreeja went in to her room. Venkat closed the door bolting it and  hugged her from behind.

"Did you lie to do all this?" she asked tilting her head due to the kiss he was giving on her cheeks.

"nope, not at all, still I want my 3/4th. Till you search" 

She looked at the shelf which was chaotic due to the search made by Venkat.

Giving him a glare she took the one he was asking while arranging the clothes.

"here it is " she gave him the 3/4th

Taking it from her, he questioned "I saw you praying very sincerely today morning, what was that ?"

"I was chanting mantras to remove my sin for whatever has happened yesterday. I should start writing the chants as well if time permits"

"write extra 2 pages and pray even more, tonight also you are going to witness the same may be more than that" 

"what??? no, just leave me" she came out of his hold and went opening the door.

Days passed and things were going smooth between them. Venkat made her comfortable around him and for his touches. Though he has not gone too far in their intimacy, he was partially satisfied that Sreeja never denied his touches. 

The next day being Valentines Day, Subhi advised Venkat to present her some gift. Venkat who is not accustomed to these kind of scenarios, sought out help from his sister on buying the gift. After much discussion, they bought her few gifts on their way from office and kept it as secret.

As Subhi has instructed him to give her the gifts at night 12 PM as a surprise , he hid them in the other room. Venkat would usually spend some time with his sister and parents before retiring to his room at night. 

Since Venkat took time to come to their room, Sreeja slept. When it was around 12 , Venkat came in and woke her up. Sreeja was in deep slumber and it took around a minute or so for him to wake her up. 

Once she sat rubbing her eyes, he gave her the present and wished her happy Valentines day. He presented her a bottle which had some cute wordings written in small papers, rolled with a small ribbon. Along with it he gave her a big Diary milk chocolate.

"Ok Thank you" said Sreeja and got it from him. 

"that's it?" asked Venkat expecting her to say something .

"ya .. what else?" she asked. Looking at his face, understanding he expects more from her, she added. " Oh , ya it's .. it's nice. I will find a place for this in showcase tomorrow"

"Ok atleast eat the chocolate"

"I have already brushed my teeth, so I will eat it tomorrow,ok?"

Venkat mentally huffed at her unromantic talks. 

"I know you don't like Dairy Milk. But this chocolate is a special edition for valentines day and its apt gift.. so .."

"its ok , not a problem. I like chocolates a lot. Just that I am not a big fan of dairy milk, but I eat them too"

" fine come at,least we will take a selfie" he said and plopped on to the bed beside her. They took some selfies with the gifts that he had given her.

While she was looking at the photos, he kissed her on his cheeks and their so called intimacy whis is nothing but kissing session started. 

Next day, Subhi was eager to know the valentines day surprise and Venkat explained her the unromantic talks from Sreeja. She decided to do some proposal scene atleast  with the chocolate and asked Sreeja to take it out from the Fridge.

The chocolate had a heart shape in it which has to be broken such a way that the heart alone pops out. Subhi planned of making a proposal scene by Venkat giving that heart to Sreeja or Sreeja to Venkat.

Before Subhi could inform her plan, Sreeja broke the chocolate in to three pieces for them to eat. Seeing the heart in the chocolate broken in to two pieces, Subhi's heart broke. 

Subhi:"Sreeja Madam,not only the heart in the chocolate that broke,its  my heart too. I had planned so many things with that. You actually need to propose him"

"Propose ah?? Venkat do you want me to propose you saying I love you? oK here you go, "I love you" " said Sreeja in a casual manner.

The siblings looked at her with an glaring look. 

Sreeja: "what? why do you guys look like that?" 

Subhi: "you are the most unromantic fellow we have ever seen. There should be some feel when you say those words,it should come from the heart" 

"hello, naku kuda romance ochu.. Nenu romance cheyyadam modhalpettanante , meeru thattukoleru" - Sreeja gave a powerful speech.

("guys,If I start getting romantic you will not be able to tolerate me")

Hearing this the siblings started to laugh out loud, catching their stomachs. 

Venkat: " Madam enna balakrishna fanah?? punch dialogue lan parakudhu"

(Madam, are you a fan of Balakrishna(telugu actor)? You are saying lot of punch dialogues")

Sreeja : "You are making a big mistake by touching the danger point. If I start romancing, even if you beg me ,I will not spare you from my love torture"

Again the siblings started to laugh boisterously at her dialogues. 

Subhi: "better you go write dialogues for telugu movies, you have bright future there"

Sreeja: " Venkat,Laugh how much ever you can. Now I am sparing you, but soon I will show who this Sreeja is.No one can do anything to me." she said and twirled around only to be hit by the freezer door which was opened by her MIL.

"Ahh.." came the loud voice of Sreeja who was caressing her forehead. "ohhh sorry, sorry, I really did not notice" her mother in law apologized. 

"Its ok I am alright", Sreeja who composed herself tried to walk. But she stumbled, as her leg got hit on the vegetable tray, which was lying on the floor. 

Seeing it the siblings laughed again and Sreeja managed to run away and hide inside the bathroom in the pretext of bathing.

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This chapter is dedicated to Meena_Jith for your constant support. I refrained from posting as I have only less or below less audiences.

This story is not the cliche romantic  one but more of realistic story. Hence I don't have much audiences. Though I am aware of it sometimes I feel down about it and stop posting.

Thanks to whoever casted vote for my  chapters so far. Those votes made me publish chapters till now.