Discordance

Chapter Sixty-Seven

Her throat was chocked up from the emotions caught there because Abhimanyu had told her time and again that he wanted to give her the world but never in her life had she imagined that he would actually end up giving it to her, she didn't think it to be possible. Yet, here they were at the threshold of her apartment and all she could do was blink rapidly and try to understand how he had done what he had.

The floor was covered in what she thought to be black silk but every inch of the ceiling had tiny glittering stars stuck on it, every inch of the roof was covered in it and it created this mystic air that felt magical. But that wasn't all, it never was with Abhimanyu, because as she stepped in, she realized that there were crescent shaped moons hanging on white glowing strings. He had given her the moon and stars!

But because he couldn't stop at doing things in a normal, acceptable manner, she heard him fiddle with some switch behind her but she was too stunned to look in his direction. However, she whirled around in awe, jaw on the floor, when the switch connected to some machine that let out small cloud shaped puffs around them. She watched the cloud form and float around before fizzing out, followed by a few more as they floated to the top of the ceiling, letting the sparkly stars wink in between the space.

Without a word, she sat down with a thud in the middle of the room, clutching her legs to her chest and letting her skirt fan out all around her, yet nothing could get her eyes to unglue from the ceiling as she stared at everything without blinking. She didn't want to miss a single second of anything because regular humans never got to experience this, yet Abhimanyu had done this for her.

"You- you gave me the stars" she whispered softly, not wanting to break this dream if that's what it was but Abhimanyu sitting down beside her felt real, so real. His hand reaching out to grab hers felt real, so so real. Him pulling her down on the silk sheets so they could lie flat on the floor and stare at her ceiling felt real, very very real.

She had held on to her emotions so tightly for the past few hours but now that it was just the two of them, she felt like she could let loose and all her love flowed out of her eyes as tears dripped from the corner of her eyes onto the floor

"Baby?" he asked kindly and the gentleness with which he dealt with her felt so foreign but also so comforting, like coming back home, that try as she might she couldn't stop the tears from flowing. When would it stop aching deep in her chest? Because after all the months and all that he had done, the ache still felt like it was lodged deep inside her. It worsened every time she was around him because nothing and nobody made her feel like he did and now he had gone and outdone even himself and left her insides reeling.

"How do you do this? Why do you do this Abhimanyu?" she choked out making him turn in her direction as he bent his elbow to rest his head on his palm. She was certain that if she turned she would find him smiling down at her, his brows raised in confusion but she just couldn't look at him yet.

"I wish I could give you actual stars, but since that was out of the question, I wanted to let you know that if you ever wished, I would lay down the galaxy at your feet but even that wouldn't be enough." There he went promising the impossible, yet somehow, she knew it in her heart that he would fulfill it if she ever wished so. But he was a fool if he thought she needed all of this, or for him to prove his love to her, he was all she needed but she was too starstruck in the literal sense to form the words.

Shaking her head she wriggled away a little when he tried to thumb away her tears. No, she needed the reminder of how much in awe she was of him, and of this night, and she needed to let it all out before she went crazy. From the time he went down on his knee to ask her to marry him again to now being married, none of these were things she had ever expected from life.