Smitten

Chapter four

Next morning

Sadhna was sitting by the couch with some coffee, waiting for Kailash to wake up; she was feeling guilty that he had to sleep on the couch. She waited and waited, it was half past 9 in the morning, neither of them were interested to go to their work, they have been too hard on themselves from past week and way too tired to go to work.

He slowly blinked open his eyes, her heart fluttered but she never admitted that he makes her heart flutter. He opened his eyes and gave a lazy smile to her. She was not able to believe her eyes that he was smiling at her, early in the morning. Only he knows how much he craved for her, his chest ached to see her for a week and he missed her like hell.

He got up and took the coffee from her hands, though it was cold, he dint mind. He loved to have it from her, he sipped on it silently when she got up to leave. He held her hand and made her sit beside him and continued to sip his coffee. She silently sat down and he gave her the cup after the coffee is done, he left to his room to brush his teeth.

He finished dressing up and went into the kitchen only to see her making breakfast. He sat in the kitchen, he couldn’t stay away from her, and he can’t take any chance of being away. She gave him his plate of breakfast and started to clean the counter and make preparations for lunch, he held her hand
“Aren’t you going to eat?” he asked her
“ummm… it’s way too late today for breakfast, my hunger died…” she replied
“Have some with me, please” he whispered
She couldn’t deny, there was so much pain in his voice,
She took some upma for herself in another plate and sat beside him and they were eating in a comfortable silence.
His heart was being so fuzzy from morning; he has an urge to hold her strong in his arms, to prove himself that she is really here in front of him. He feels like crying hard throwing a tantrum like a 5 year old sobs in his mother’s lap. He is really having a hard time keeping emotions to himself.

It was around 12 30 when Sadhna was busy cooking something in the kitchen, Kailash has gone more than 4 times into the kitchen to drink water and is looking for excuses to be in the kitchen. He tried calling up Susheela but she dint receive his call, he missed his mom. He wanted to apologize for what she had to go through because of his behavior.

Sadhna cleared her throat from behind and Kailash looked at her
“Lunch is ready” she informed him
“ummm… can we have after some time? After an hour or so?” he asked her
She simply nodded her head in a yes and left the hall; she went to the balcony and sat for some time zoning out into her thoughts. She took a deep breath and tried to control the emotional roller coaster which she slips into whenever she is alone. He saw a wedding card of his close relative on the table and he thought of going shopping with her for some time. He came behind her and stood at the door just staring at his wife. He doesn’t want to even slip any chance of adoring her, he felt peace just by looking at her, his heart calms down and all the worries simply disappear.
After a while, both sat for lunch and Kailash tried to start a conversation desperately.

“ummm… we have a wedding to attend on 20th of this month, can we go for shopping?” he asked her
“Okay” she said simply
“Let’s go after the lunch?” he proposed
“Okay, I will get ready and come” she closed the chain.

Though he was disappointed that he couldn’t continue the conversation, he was happy that he will go shopping with her. His heart warmed at the feeling of going out with her
She was ready in a simple red and black saree and his heart skipped a beat, he was disappointed that she dint put on any make up and was very much bare faced but he was happy for what it is.

Within sometime they were in their car driving to the shop in a comfortable silence, she was looking out of the window lost in her thoughts and he was admiring her face time to time trying to calm down his racing heart.

They reach a mall and he parks his car, they make their way to the ladies section and she sits in a seat analyzing some designer sarees, he was just staring at her the way she was examining the material, the work, the price tag and his trance was broken by a group of guys who were whispering something.

“just look at the chick in the red, she’s so delicious” said one
“man! I just wish I can take her right here…” said the other
Kailash’s sped up and held their necks right away chocking them and sadhna’s eyes widened at the fight
“Kailash leave them!” she pulled her with all his might and the guys breathed
“How dare you comment my wife?” he screamed on their face
“We were talking about the girl in red one – piece” they managed to choke out

Then was the turn of the girl who was wearing the red tube dress who turned around and started beating the shit out the guys along with the other customers in the mall.

“Let’s go home” she said to him and they both left
Sadhna was trying her level best not to laugh. She was controlling her smile biting her upper lip.
“Why are you laughing?” Kailash asked
She broke into fits of laughter which echoed in the car, she just couldn’t stop the chain of her laughs and he was first stunned, then surprised and was in awe admiring her laughter.
“Your…face… when they said… they checking another… girl…” she managed to say between her laughs.
He was actually feeling embarrassed but if it was leading to her happiness, he bloody cares?!

She was still laughing after they got into the elevator
“Enough now, It was not so funny though!” he tried to mask his embarrassment but all in vain, she laughed again
“Are you going to stop yet?” he asked
She bit her lip, yet again breaking into giggles
He held her by her waist and placed his lips on hers, she was shocked at first but dint push him away. He pulled out slowly when the elevator stopped due to power cut.

There was a moment of silence and only the sound of her racing heart was heard in the elevator.
She tried to pull away from his arms but he cant lose his chance is working things for better
“Leave me!” she said
“Only on 1 condition…” he said
“There is no point… I have already crossed my line…” she said getting serious
“I am happy you did!” he said
“Let’s work this marriage…” he said
“I am in no mood to joke around! Leave me already!” she tried pulling off while he pulled her stronger
Now they were intimately close feeling each other’s breaths on their faces.
“So you don’t want to agree to my condition?” he asked
She nodded her head in a no hesitantly
This time he tipped her chin and claimed her mouth leaving her helpless, her hand flew up clutching his shirt allowing him to devour her, after a while he asked her
“Still you don’t want to agree?” he asked
Her eyes held unshed tears, he gently brought her head onto his chest and then she hugged him back.