Hola peeps! How's everyone doing? Moody Monday is here again. I'm back with a ShraMan shot to spruce up your week ahead. This is basically a sequel to my previous shot Match Fixing because RohinaSharma had literally pestered me about it. 😂 Can be read as a standalone piece though. I'm not really sure how good it has turned out. Do give this one a read, vote and comment. Not proofread. Please ignore the errors.
"Shravan?" Sumo asked puzzled.
"Now what?" Shravan looked onto his kulfi as he spoke.
"Why are you so desperate to marry me?" she said sticking her tongue out.
He frowned at her.
"I think we should tell them that we need time to think before going ahead with the wedding" she murmured, digging into her kulfi.
"Sumo, listen to me. This is serious. We are literally on a mini-date, while our families wait on anxiously back at Tiwari Killa, hoping for a yes from both of us, so they could happily start dreaming about what to name their grandchildren. You can't just bail out on me!" He was furious.
"Listen mister, this whole idea of turning our love into an arranged marriage was yours. Change in plans. Now follow my lead." He didn't miss the glint of mischief in her eyes.
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"Lagta hai bacche aa gaye. Chaliye sab, natak ka aakhri scene hai." Nanu announced, while the Tiwaris and Malhotras straightened up.
Suman stepped inside Tiwari Killa with a grim face, followed closely by a distraught Shravan, only to find equally sullen expressions around them.
"Accha hua tum dono aa gaye. Shravan humein chalna chahiye." Ramnath got up from his seat instantaneously.
"Haan chaliye Ma, Papa. Mujhe yeh shaadi nahi karni. I'm sorry Sumanji."
Suman was stunned for a fraction of a second, but she immediately realised where all this was going and suppressed her smile.
"Good. Kyunki humein bhi yeh rishta manzoor nahi. Maaf kijiye Tiwariji, par ab yeh rishta nahi ho sakta." Ramnath folded his hands before Nanu.
Before anybody could decipher further, he had walked out with an equally upset Nirmala and a confused Shravan.
There was utter silence in Tiwari Killa.
"Yeh kya tha?" Suman spoke, after an eternity had passed.
"Beta, bahut sanskaari log hain, par woh use dobara se London bhejne ki soch rahe hain. Taaki baad mein sab wahin par settle ho jaye." Nanu said softly.
Suman blinked vehemently. What was happening? Her plan had backfired.
"Tum toh humari aankhon ka taara ho. Tumhe hum London kaise jaane de bhala?" He smiled at her.
"Par Shravan toh keh raha tha ki woh hamesha ke liye India wapas aa gaya hai" she quipped, annoyed.
"Ho sakta hai Ramnath ne use bataya na ho"
"Par?"
"Kya tumhe ladka pasand aaya?"
"Haan"
What the hell Suman Tiwari? You just ruined your self-devised plan. You told Shravan that you were going to ask for time, and now you said yes yourself. Dimwit!
"Mera matlab, theek thaak hai" she corrected her previous statement.
"Ek minute! Par Shravan ne toh shaadi se mana kar diya" she thought aloud. Suman was flabbergasted. She had been trapped in her very own web.
