THE IMPERFECT PERFECTIONS

•∆16~ 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐨?

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Taniya’s POV

The door  to the room closed behind us and suddenly everything was quiet again.
We were back home.

I didn't know why I got so shy walking through that door. Maybe it was because I thought everyone downstairs would have a really wrong idea of what we were doing in Paris or maybe it had everything to do with Aditya's hand on my back the entire time we were downstairs.

I couldn't control the small giggle that left my mouth as I sat on the bed. Aditya laughed after me, the sound making my heart do that weird flutter thing it always did lately and he lay down beside me.

“You are adorably easy to fluster.” His voice made me look at him.

I furrowed my brows in confusion but I could feel the heat creeping up my neck with the way he was looking at me. "I am not easy to fluster."

"You absolutely are," he said and then he actually booped my nose with his finger, “your cheeks were bright red downstairs.” I groaned, completely mortified. "Shut up."

He just laughed as he pulled me to lay down beside him and wrapped his arms around me.
"I am feeling all the exhaustion of the trip now” he said, resting his head on top of mine and I could hear his tiredness in his voice. His breathing was getting slower, heavier.

"You can rest today," I said softly, running my fingers through his hair. "Just sleep the whole day. We have to resume work from tomorrow anyway."

He just groaned in response,“ I can't sleep without you here.”
I pulled back to look at him, surprised by what he said. "What?" I asked,trying to keep my voice light with a chuckle."Aditya, it's only been one day. You managed to sleep alone all these months, so why not now?"

His arms just tightened around me in response,pulling me back down until my head was on his chest. “It's different now,” he said,his voice low. "Because now I know what it feels like to have you so I don't want to go back to sleeping without you. I can't”

I just stared at him, not knowing what to say. My whole body felt warm and it had nothing to do with the heat that was radiating off his body.

"I want to be glued to your side," he continued, his voice dropping lower. "To go everywhere with you. To wake up to you. To fall asleep with you. I don't want to spend a single moment apart if I don't have to."

My heart was racing so fast I thought it might burst out of my chest. Nobody had ever said things like this to me. Nobody had ever needed me like this.
“How did you change so much in just one day?" I asked, attempting a teasing tone even though my voice came out shaky.

He was quiet for a moment but then he tilted my chin up with his finger so I had to look at him. His eyes were serious now, the playfulness gone. “It's not just today, Taniya,”he said, his thumb brushing across my cheek gently.

“From the very second of our marriage, I wanted to be by your side. I wanted to hold you like this, to hear you laugh, to be the reason you smile but I gave you space because I thought you needed it. I thought you needed time to adjust to me”He paused, his eyes searching mine intensely."But now that we're closer," he continued softly, his voice dropping"now that I know what it feels like to have you completely, I don't want to waste a single moment.”

His words hit me like a wave and I felt remorse crash over me. All those moments I had snapped at him or shut his attempts to have a conversation were just him trying to get close.  He was waiting so patiently for me to come around and I was too focused on my own fears that I didn't fully appreciate what he was doing for me.