The cupid's mistake

Chapter 8

Bas ek baar
(7 years ago)

For the first time in life his phone's ringtone seemed irritating as that damn device rang up early in the morning.

Ehan groaned in his sleep. Nivedita was still clinging to his body when he heard the phone ring. But instead of getting up and attending the call, he just simply ignored it and shoved his face back into Nivedita's hairs so as to continue what he was doing- sleeping & dreaming.

His sleep broke for the second time when the phone rang again, few minutes later. Thinking that it might be from Kavya or any of his friends to inquire about why he sneaked out of wedding last night, he decided to ignore it again. But he couldn't do that anymore when the phone rang for the third time.

Muttering a row of curses under his breathes, he got up from his bed and walked upto the study table. "Hello?" He asked as he received the call without looking at the caller ID.

"Hello? Ehan? Where were you for so long baccha?? I am calling you since last night!" A female voice floated from the other side.

Ehan removed the phone from his ear and looked at its screen. It displayed 'Shagun Ranawat' over it, written in bold letters.

"Mom?" He scrunched his eyebrows.

"Baccha your dad is in the hospital. He got a massive cardiac arrest last evening and then..." her voice cracked as a fresh batch of tears rolled down her eyes. "Can you please come, Ehan? Me and your bhai.. we need you so much right now.."

Ehan's eyes fell on Nivedita out of nowhere. There on his bed, lied the naked girl with sheets wrapped around her body. Some of it had even shifted a bit, thus giving a good view of her cleavage. Two bright purplish blue marks kept glistening in that area.

His love bites they were, made to mark her as his own for the rest of their lives.

"Ehan? Are you listening??"

Snapped out of his trance, he nodded slightly and mumbled- "hmm..."

"You are coming here right?"

His eyes got stuck on Nivedita again. So pretty! He whispered to himself as a cold sigh escaped his lips. How will I wake her up? She is sleeping so peacefully, man!!

"Ehan?"

"Yeah.. I'm coming." He disconnected the call without listening to anything else that his mother had to say.

He just felt it so useless to do and ironically, he wasn't even guilty about it!

Probably this was what perks of having a disfunctional family actually meant!!

Releasing another cold sigh, he walked towards his bed and sat down beside Nivedita's curled form. "Nivi? Wake up baby.. look, its morning already." He cooed in her ears lovingly.

"Umm...." She twisted her body in return and snuggled more into him. "Just five more minutes."

"No Nivi, the sun is up and you need to go to your P.G now. Else if someone catches you here then both of us will land into big trouble!"

She listened to that and blinked open her eyes. The first thing she saw thereafter was Ehan's handsome face and her entire world lit up at an instant. "Good morning.... you look so beautiful."