LOVE OR?

Chapter-17

The next day, we woke up early, we had to be early at work. I left earlier than Ben, have more distance to cover than him.

Reaching early in the office, I made some coffee first, have not drank coffee since the morning and it was killing me. I drank two cups of coffee and got back to my work. I completed one of my 13 files in 2 hours and drank a cup of coffee with each passing file.

By the end of the day I had almost completed my file and had to stag for long hours after the promotion, almost the last one to leave, made me more hungry.

I completed my work and headed over towards home. I reached soon, hunger was killing me and made me speed up.

I opened the door and the fresh aroma hit me in the head, growling in my stomach increased by ten folds.   
Ben was here and he cooked or had a take out. I went to the kitchen and found out he had already made dinner.

I went in for a hug as he started placing the chicken into the plates. I picked up my fork and knife and started eating it on the kitchen counter.

Ben snatched the plate away from the kitchen counter and placed it on the table , he set up for the dinner. I walked  towards the table with fork and knife still in my hand and started eating as soon as i sat down. "I have made my guest list, you make yours and then we will decide whom to invite and whom not to at the end" I said to Ben while I chugged my food down my throat. "I have made mine too, let's go over with it after the dinner" Ben replied.

After the dinner was over, I put all the dirty dishes into the dishwasher.
So we both sat down on the couch, with a notepad in hand and taking out both the lists we made. "It should be a small affair, nothing big" I said and he agreed with a nod. "So it's 200 people at the end." Ben said.

"Wait, what? How? So you invited 5th cousins and also Kyle and Stacey's parents and grandparents and even a few members of their family too." He said "I am close with everyone, I can't just not invite them to my wedding" I said. "So it's 200 people, you invited your boss, his family and your colleagues and their family also" I further added in my sentence. "What to do? Have to impress my boss and colleagues. They invited me to their weddings and I wasn't married at that time but always took a date with me" he said and he muted as he said those last words. "Datesss?? How many did you take?" I asked while wrinkling my forehead. "4 or 5, I have a lot of colleagues, you know" he said and I frowned at him "like you never took a date to your friend's or colleagues weddings" he said "I took stacey or Kyle as my date" I added in my defence and I threw a pillow at him placed near to me but he protected himself and threw away the pillow as he hold me tightly in his arms, and he both leaned in for a kiss, but he kissed my forehead instead as I went in for the lips.

He got up and said "I am going for bed, have an early day tomorrow!" And walked to the bedroom. I was in confusion as to what happened, we had never had this moment.

I walked to the bedroom and while I thought this, I slept with this doubt in my mind.

THE NEXT DAY

Just 3 weeks left for the wedding, invitations were to be printed out today. I took stacey with me. I didn't wanted to talk to Kyle about this.
While we reached the shop, I didn't tell her about this, I just kept it within myself. "So made the invite list?" Stacey asked me and I nodded yes "200 people to be exact." I said "that's a lot of people for a small wedding" Stacey said. "I know right, but some people are just too important to get their blessings" I replied and we never knew, when we were at the store.

We sat down and looked through at a lot of samples, I finalised 4 of them :- one of them was a simple white card, with written in cursive. The next was a beige card with a bold writing. The third one was an off white card with printing on the edges. And the last one was a box kind of thing with the invitation and a small cabinet for small gifts.

I chose  the beige one, while Stacey chose the box and I sent a picture to Ben and even he picked the box, while Stacey sent the picture to Kyle and he chose the white one. So finally after a lot of convincing by Stacey, I chose the box and we ordered it for 200 people. The venue being the central library, the dates and the timings for the wedding and the reception(to be held in central plaza).

The invitation cards were done and I will receive them within 3 days so that I can post them in advance.

After everything was done, Stacey and I decided to go for coffee. We sat down and ordered respective drinks and for me something to chew on.

I told her about what happened last night and she said nothing, she was blank. Later she replied "maybe, it is the wedding that is stressing him out, you know, I know a lot of couples who wait for like 2 months or more and have sex on their wedding night" she said and I believed her. "Maybe or it could be something else" I said . "Maybe it is just it" Stacey said.

One side i was worried about yesterday and the second I was happy like I am not cheating on Kyle with Ben. Uhh it was all so crazy and I am getting crazy.

I just cannot wait for everything to get over.