When Two Become One

3-The Wedding Night

///Aneel

It was long ride home. My brother and his wife, my two younger sisters, and Aisha's sister sat with us in the limo.

"You guys can't do that!" I screamed. I groaned and slapped my forehead, trying to ignore my brother's stupid talks. I heard Aisha laugh and then her hand on my back.

"Don't slap yourself so hard. He is just being stupid."

"I know, Aisha!" I snapped. Gosh, all this wedding this was so annoying. "I've lived with him all my life!"

I felt her hand come off my back and sighed. The limo went quiet."Guys, what is this?" Aisha asked. She was quiet now. Just like how it was when I first met her. It took six months for her to get comfortable. "Did you guys make this group? No...the group admin is Aneel. Never mind..."

My brother began to talk his nonsense again and I sighed. Aisha stayed silent throughout the rest of the journey. When someone tried talking to her, she only gave them a nod. I held her hand as the driver turned a sharp right. Since I didn't have my seatbelt on, I leaned on her and slightly squashed her against the side of the car.

"Sorry." I straightened up but still held her hand. The others were too into their debate. Something about chicken...? "I'm sorry about snapping earlier. Hussain is just annoying."

"I kind of figured that," she said with a laugh.

"I'm really sorry though." I looked outside the window and gave her hand a squeeze. "We're here now. Wait," I said as I turned to the others, "how is she gonna go? Doesn't the camera man have to film her coming into the house?"

"Urm..."

"I guess I could go into the lift and then they get out and the camera man would already be there and he can just film us. Does he even have to film?"

Aisha sighed and leaned her head against my shoulder."Everyone is waiting for us." She sighed again and looked up at me.

"Come on. We will just get this over and down with, shall we?"

We both got out the limo and I waved to my aunty and she waved back. I saw Aisha's mum glare at her and when I looked down at her, I found her looking down. Slyly, as we began to walk, I held her hand. I remembered Nafeesa saying that their mum was extra hard on Aisha. I nudged her shoulder when she was about to look up. Looking straight, I gave her hand a squeeze and let go.Two hours went by as everyone took pictures again and then another hour as everyone left. I sighed as I shut the door and turned around to find Aisha walking into the bedroom and taking out some clothes from her luggage.

"What you looking for?"

"My wipes. This woman put so much make up on my face and I just wanna take it off." I looked at her face and frowned.

"Yeah. Over done it too much."

She didn't say anything but just walked into the bathroom. I groaned when I realised what I just said. Great going. Ten minutes later, I knocked on the bathroom door and then stepped in. She didn't even turn my way. I kissed the back of her head and watched as she took off her hairband and loosely tied her hair back into a low pony tail.

"I'm sorry," I whispered as I wrapped my arms around her waist. "You still looked beautiful to me. I just meant that you don't need that much make up to look that great."

"Well it wasn't my fault...Can you get off now, please? I need to wash my face."

"No," I said as I held her tighter. I heard her sigh and turned her around. My fingers caressed her face as she looked at me. "No. I like holding you like this," I whispered. I pushed her fringe out of her face and leaned a little closer. "In fact, I love holding you like this." I looked down at her lips and bit my lip.Shall I? We have to start somewhere, don't we? And I did.

She giggled a little and then blushed. Then I kissed her again."Wait." She pushed me away. "I can't do this. I'm not ready yet. I'm sorry."

I sighed and held her waist again, smiling."It's okay. We don't have to do anything until you're ready, okay? Just whenever you feel comfortable." I kissed the top of her head and she turned around and washed her face.Smiling, I pulled back the pony tail when it started to fall. I rubbed her back in circles and gave her the towel when she was finished.

"Can you help me get this off? It has so many pins everywhere."

We walked into the bedroom and I began to take off the decorations my cousins put on there."Hey, Aneel, you were married once weren't you?" I stopped to think for a second; she knew I was married once so why would she ask again. 

"I don't really wanna talk about that right now." She stayed silent and carried on doing what she was doing. I then took some of my clothes and changed in the bathroom. Once I came back, I saw her trying to reach for the back of her shoulder. "Let me do it." I took off the three pins that were there and gave it back to her.

"Thanks...it's okay, I'll do the rest."

"What was it about? What did you want to know?"

"I just...Did it hurt her?" I started to take off other safety pins around the back and answered the question.

"She was already married before. I don't know."

"Aneel, I'm scared that once you see my whole body, you won't like it."

"Aisha, I'm looking at it now and I don't have a problem. I really don't care. Nobody is perfect."

"Aneel...my..." I looked down at her and took the sari off her shoulder and softly placed it on the floor. I then began to take out the pins that were around her waist. "Aneel...they are not even."

Since I was now kneeling, I looked up at her confused. I knew what she meant but I liked that natural rosy colour on her cheeks."What?"

"My...my breasts are not even...Gosh, don't make me say it again!" I heard her puff and laughed to myself. "It's not funny!"

"That doesn't matter, Aisha. People are like that. You can't help it." Once all the pins were off, I then began to take off the pleats. "Now come on, help me fold your dress."

It took ten minutes to fold the sari. Maybe it was because we had to do it three times. But anyways...I watched as Aisha turned around in a circle. I had to laugh at that. I then watched as she picked up her clothes that she got out earlier and placed them on the bed. She stood still for a few minutes while trying to undo the knot on her petticoat. I knelt down again and picked at it until it was loose. I saw her stomach in front of me and tickled her. I couldn't resist!I watched as she laughed and stepped away.

"No tickling!"

"Not gonna promise anything," I said before I rushed up to my feet. She shrieked and then ran around the bed. I went round to the other side and then finally caught her. But since we were on the edge of the bed, we both lost our balance and fell onto the bed. She landed on top of me and smiled."I'm ready."

///There we go my lovely readers :) Sorry it was so late in the day but I was just a bit busy today. Hope you enjoyed it anyways and let me know what you thought about this chapter. Shall I continue writing this? LET ME KNOW :)