Love at the time of dentistry

Chapter-6

February-the month of lovers. Manya was having a hard time believing that it's been 1 month since Siddharth and she had been dating. The whole month had been so magical, so perfect. Siddharth was the perfect boyfriend for her, he knew everything about her and she knew everything about him-there were no secrets between them, still they loved each other so much. She was surprised she hadn't realised this long ago. But that didn't matter any longer, they were together now and there was no separating them. Nobody and nothing was going to come between them. The whole thing was like a dream and she was afraid to open her eyes, lest it all just vanished.

The 5 batches of their colleges had come together to throw a big Valentine's Day party for everyone, singles and couples, like every year. Couples came to celebrate their love and singles came to find that love. Manya didn't like to go to this party, even though it was the highlight of their year and everyone even her friends went to it. But this time it was different, she was going with Siddharth. She wanted to celebrate this feeling of wholeness and happiness which had come in her life with Siddharth. Her friends were all going to go, surprisingly with dates. Rhea was going with a final year M.B.B.S student who had been pestering her for a date since like forever, Anaya with an intern whom she had had an eye at for a long time; it had been a surprise for all of them when the guy had himself asked her out, Susannah had summoned up all her courage and asked Karan, the post graduate she had a crush on, to go with her. She had almost died of relief and happiness when he had agreed. Pari's boyfriend was coming down for the party as her date and Tamanna had also been asked by one of the seniors to be his date. The theme for the party was red and black, no surprises there. Everybody had to come wearing masks. Manya had selected her dress the day their invitations had come. She had bought this dress as a whim a few years back but never had the occasion or nerve to wear it. It was quite a sexy dress in red, at least for her; it was an A-line dress with a flowing skirt reaching till her knees and which swished delightfully when she walked, and a halter top. She had teemed it with a pair of red stilettos, another of her whimsical buys. She wasn't wearing any jewellery except for a thin gold chain which she wore every time. She had kept her makeup minimal and had left her hair loose on her shoulders. She looked quite bolder than her usual self but she didn't care; now she couldn't wait to see Sid's reaction to this bold new avatar of hers. They were all going separately with their dates and were going to meet at the party. Her friends had all left before her and she was waiting for Sid alone. She was starting to get anxious when a car came and stopped where she was standing, she recognised it as Sid's father's car. Her heart stopped momentarily, imagining all sorts of horrible things, when Siddharth stepped out of it wearing a black suit and carrying the most beautiful bouquet of flowers she had ever seen. To say he was looking breathtaking would be an understatement. He was looking absolutely handsome, his hairs were falling stylishly on his forehead and his jaw was clean shaved. Her fingers itched to run in those silky locks of hairs and to feel his cheek. She tried to control her heartbeat as he came near her and smiled lovingly down at her, "you look absolutely stunning, nobody will be able to take their eyes off you tonight", he said and kissed her lightly on her lips. "You don't look half bad yourself, but I can safely say that I would be the envy of half of the girls in the party". "Only half?", "Yeah, only half", she said. "Are you going to give me those flowers or they are a part of your suit". "Oh, I just brought these to help improve your looks but I don't think you will need these". "Accha, to improve my looks, you better mind what you say Siddharth Kapoor or I will have to punish you severely", she said in mock indignity and hit him on his arm. He caught her hand and pulled her towards him, holding her tightly at her waist, "I would like to see you try", he said a low sexy voice which took her breath away. "We should be making a move if we don't want to be late for the party", she managed to pull out the words from her mouth. He left her and went to open the passenger side of the car for her. As he started the car, she asked, "how did you manage to get your father's car, isn't he like super possessive about it?", "I told him it was for you and that I wanted to make this day special for you so he agreed after all this is our first valentine together, you know he can't say no to anything related to you, he loves you like his own daughter". Her heart swelled with happiness on hearing his words, he had gone to so much length to make this day special for her, even borrowing his father's much loved car. "So you took advantage of my name, hmmm?" she said trying to sound angry but failed to hide the smile on her face. He turned to look at her with the smile she loved and said, "yeah, anything for you babe".