Rhythm Of Luv

3. The Beginning.

Heya all!

How are you? Actually this is an incomplete part but I am updating it anyway. Will remove this after update the full one.

"Fir le aya majboor dil kya kijiye...."

The song once again played in the loop and Luv snapped in an instance. This was not a way to welcome someone who had been returning after a long time. He loathed his brother's stupid trick. Like the jet lag, the glaring hot sun and anxiety had not been working him up.

"Will you stop that song? You are already making me sad and depressed. I should be happy not guilty." Luv told his brother in an irritated voice.

"Abhi toh pure 8 saal ka badla chun chun k liya jayega and you are already annoyed. That country had weaken your endurance level." Surya beamed.

"Then please turn around. I would rather go back then bear with you." Luv punched the stop button.

Still the drama queen, Both brothers thought.

"Eight years..." Luv looked out of the window, to the Jaipur he always longed to come back and still felt rooted after all these years of living in Chicago. Maybe this is the returning all about, He thought.

Luv felt home. I am home, he corrected himself. As peace fell over his mind, he stared out, noting the changes and happy to see the old places from his childhood memories. He looked at his brother and he realised how much they had grown up. Not only by age but as a person. He was no more the lanky, 5"5' heighted, pimpled, fragile and scared looking boy from India who felt unfit in his new surroundings and almost wished to run back for first six months. He was 25 now; 6 foot tall and his scrawny body had been toned up over the years. But Luv was not aware of the fact why girls loved him. It was his intense black eyes and manners that won hearts. Still he was not ladies man which he could not understand why till now.

"What are you thinking so much about?" Surya inquired.

"Just how much you have transformed." Luv replied. "In a good way." He added.

"Yeah, it took years but I feel myself now." His brother nodded truthfully.

Surya had finally grew out of his comfort zone and fear of their father. In these years, he had become his father's friend and learned to speak out his mind, take decisions on his own and trust himself. And now the twenty nine years old was getting married; the key reason of Luv's return.

"So, how's Saumya and how's preparation going of your big day?" Luv asked.

"Saumya is head-over-heels on my dimpled smile." Surya flashed his famous roguish smile, "And marriage preparations are driving everyone around crazy. Especially mom. You know yesterday, my naada split out into two during sherwani trials and the feat she threw like it was near to nuclear war." Both laughed hard as Surya recounted all the incidents from past few days.

"I am happy to be back." Luv said, "Can't miss so much fun."

"Arrey, asli fun toh ab shuru hoga.." Surya bit his tongue.

"What fun?"

"Nothing."

"Tell me what were you going to say? "

"It was nothing sort of important. Anyway, everyone is waiting for you. Not because you have returned after eight years but the gift, the list of things they told you to bring." Surya replied.

"Don't worry. I have brought everything." Luv assured.

They were near the house when Luv spoke.

"Can I ask you something? It has been bothering me the moment I landed."

"Sure."

"That girl? How is she? I never bothered to contact her. I felt guilty for marrying her to fulfill my dreams and I couldn't find a reason to talk to her. I was ashamed to admit I married at 18."

Surya stopped the car in a parking area and they both came out. Luv halted momentarily to admire the decorations. The house was brighten by lights and the loud music was playing in the garden. He saw his cousins waving from balcony and then running into house to inform his arrival. He turned to his brother who was busy with luggage.

"Surya?"

"Oh. Can you help with that?" Surya pointed at the big suitcase in backseat and continued, "Why now then?"

"I remembered her from our marriage only and we hardly had any conversation. It was strange and confounding. I am still not sure about my feelings but I want to see her once." Luv concluded.

"She is your wife. You can do more than just seeing." Surya winked and earned a hard back slap.

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"Is it really her?" Luv inquired his cousins one more time who nodded in unison.

After the first round of hugging and exchanges greetings were over with his relatives, Surya and his cousins had taken him to backyard where women were gathered. They had pointed to a girl standing in distant and told him she was Rhythm.

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Believe it or not, that won't change her identity." Malin replied plainly.

"Cool." Luv shrugged and headed to in girl's direction.

"Wait. Where are you going?"

"To meet Rhythm."

He took long stride and stood in front of her. She was talking to some neighborhood lady and did not notice him first. But then she looked up and saw him. A look of recognition washed over her delicate face.

"Luv?" She offered smile.

"Hey, Rhythm." And then he hugged her, murmuring in her ear.