Arranged Marriage || Siddharth×Alia

#14

Suddenly she brought me out of my thoughts by saying, "Hey! Wanna go somewhere else?"
That lightened me up.
She atleast started to speak to me back again.
"Where?", I said.
"Beach?", she said. Her dimples were so defined on that bright moonlight night.
"Really? Now?", I asked giggling confused.
"Yes!", she screamed.
"Fine.", I giggled.
We got seated in the car and drove.
While driving I said, "I hope you know, that every evening you will find couples there."
Suddenly I felt the silence in the car as for a couple of second there was no horns or any external sound too. It seemed like the whole Mumbai was shocked by my statement.
"Yes, bhaiyya ji (brother)", she said.
I was like What?
"What? Bhaiyya?", I scrunched my face though the half of my mind was focused at the road.
"Like seriously? You just said 'I hope you know that there are only couples there right now', as if we are siblings.", she said making faces.
"But, I meant...Uh... Leave it. We reached the seashore.", I sighed.
"What? But I said beach, not seashore.", she screamed when I was about to get out of the car.
Due her scream, I hit my head accidentally on the edge of the hood of the car.
"Oh sorry.", she said covering her mouth with both her hands tightly. Her eyes looked so apilogetic for a moment.
I scrunched my face rubbing my head.
Suddenly she burst into laughter.
Seeing her face I too started laughing and we had a hard laugh session.
"Sorry, sorry.", she said finally controlling her laugh, covering her mouth with right hand and showing her right palm.
"Not your fault.", I said winking at her.
"Now let's go to the real beach.", she said taking a deep breath.
"As if it is not a beach.", I made a face and started the car.
"Yes. This is artificial. A cemented one. I am talking about the fresh aired, sandy beach.", she said taking a deep breath as I drove the car.
We quickly reached the real beach.
"Here we are.", I said taking a deep breath. I hadn't even completed exhaling the deep breath when Alia ran to the sea.
She is too fast some times.
I sighed, shaking my head and giggling at her innocence.
I took out my tie and kept it in the car. It felt really uncomfortable in that salty and sticky breeze from the sea.
I folded my jeans and took out my boots and socks.
I followed Alia. We did water fight. We kept on splashing eachother with sea water.
She seemed to enjoy it a lot.
Finally, we got tired and sat a little bit far from the sea on sand.
We were panting like anything. Alia looked here and there and saw some stalls far away. She got up and was about to move when I stopped her.
"Hey! Where?", I asked her gesturing with hand.
"I want coke.", she said pointing at the stall. I giggled and got up.
"Sit down. I'll get that for you.", I said and ran to the stall.
I got two coke cans and paid for thise cans.
I rushed back to Alia. She was looking at me.
"Hey!", I said and sat down besides her.
"Thanks.", she said smiling at the sea.
"Here you go.", I said showing her a can of coke.
She looked at my hand with the can and quickly grabbed the can, and looked back at the waves.
I opened the can and took a sip. She saw me drinking and opened her can.
Suddenly, all the coke spilled over her body. She quickly got up.
"Shit!", she screamed.
"Hey, calm down. Nothing has...", I was about to say when she threw her can on my chest as forcefully as she could. It hurt me a lot.
"You must have purposely done this!", she said with angry and teary eyes and ran to the car.
That was very rude.
"What?", I whispered when she was already gone.
But then I realised that it wasn't really Alia, it was her disease, BPD. And now I had to calm her down, otherwise she would have an aspengers' episode soon.
I ran to her carry both the can.
She was seated in the car.
I got seated in the driving seat. She was wiping. I didn't wanted this to get more serious. But before I could speak something she suddenly started saying, " I don't want this marriage. Please stop it."
I was shocked. Yes, those words hurt me a lot. But then she was in BPD episode, I had to bring her out of it.
I tried to start a conversation with her.
"But why?", I asked as calm as I could.
"Because I don't love you.", this was the worst feeling.
It made me realise that; I loved her so much and she said that she didn't love me. I couldn't help but ignore her words.
"Chill out.", I said wrapping my arms. around her shoulders.
She leaned on my chest. I could hear her sobbing.
In a few minutes it stopped. She was asleep. I slowly pushed her back to her seat and locked her with the seat belts.
I drove back to Alia's place.
I was neither happy nor sad. My emotions were neutral.
I slowly carried her to her room. Either it was a coincidence or anything else that no one saw me entering, keeping Alia in her room and coming back. I was about to get into the car suddenly I heard a lots of familiar voices laughing.
The volune of the voice was increasing and suddenly I saw that the women who were present in the Engagement, Haldi and in the Sangeet. And with them was D (Daadi)
"Oh my gosh!", one of them dramatically shouted with a cunning smile and came to me.
"Son Sid, why are you here?", she said in a way as if I was here to steel something.
"Actually, I was here to drop Alia.", I said nervously.
Suddenly D interrupted.
"Rosey, let him go. Don't keep teasing him.", D said and I quickly got into the car and drove away.
Yes, this is how Punjabi aunties are. Always, ready to tease. But though, they are really very caring and cute.
I went to my room as soon as I reached home. I locked the door and started thinking about what had happened.
Alia said she didn't wanted to marry me. And that made me feel like a loser.
Alia never wanted to marry me. She doesn't need me. She is indirectly being forced. All these things were going on in my mind.
And somewhere I was feeling guilty. I felt like I was also one of those who was forcing her to marry me.
**She slowly came to me. She cried and said she wanted to be with me always and forever. She was about to say more when suddenly my phone rang.**
And I realised that my phone was ringing, and I was dreaming. I looked for my phone with half opened eyes. I grabbed it and looked at the screen and saw that it was Alia calling me.
I picked it up.
Me: Hello!
Alia: Hey! Sid? I'm sorry about today.
I heard her speaking in a broken voice. And suddenly she started sobbing.
Me: Hey, Alia! Please don't, don't cry. It's okay. I know you had a BPD episode.
The line was dead. She had ended the call. That made me feel more sick. I couldn't understand what actually Alia wanted.

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