Four Marriages

Chapter 8

"Manik today is our wedding night" I stated reminding him just in case he has lost his mind.

"Yeah. That's why go and freshen up I will make sleeping arrangements" Manik replied painfully

"Manik why do you think I am still wearing this wedding dress" I asked gritting my teeth. I seriously wonder is he the same manik who was named 'playboy' at college. Because this behaviour of him right now is nowhere near like a playboy.

"Because you like it?" he asked more to himself. Gah Manik!!! And The dumbest man of the year goes to...

"And what about this decoration? Is it for Christmas?" I asked in my best sarcastic tone. All my hard work is about to go in to gutter and I can't let that happen.

"Didn't you do it just to mollify me, as I was an..angry on you?!?!" he asked with stammer realizing that what he thought of the entire situation is nowhere near the truth.

"Manik I wanted you to undress me on our wedding night" I whined turning opposite to him. why cant he see that I am ready for the final step. Where is that manik who was always touchy and talking naughty stuff? Did he fall and hit his head somewhere?

He grabbed my shoulders and turned me around

"Nandini look at me." Still I kept looking down due to embarrassment of not making the wedding night like any man would want. The whole idea about this was to earn his forgiveness and to make our first night memorable.

He cupped my cheeks to make me look at him

"Nandini I just don't want to drag and drop you on bed just because I want to. I want you to be already their beneath me when I fall on bed for you" he said looking earnestly in my eyes.

"I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable. I didn't marry you so that I can have physical relation with you. I just want you to be on my side 24 hours, 12 months and 365 days. That's all I ask nandini. But that doesn't mean I don't want to have physical relation with you. Yes I want to be close to you but not until you are ready." All I could do is just stare at him, letting my brain sink those words.

All my life, when I was younger I had wondered what it would be like if an actual prince charming existed like they say in stories and fairy tales. As I grew older, during my teens I started to read more romantic love story as I thought that these might give me an answer as to what it is like to be swept off of your feet by some prince charming. While reading those stories I tried to relate with real life couple around me like my cousins, parents etc. But it seemed like there was no relation between those beautiful scenery and the mess scenario that was going around in real life couples. Yet I didn't lose faith in the stories and felt like maybe they were having hard time and that they would come out of this much stronger and better like it happens in every fictional story. But the more I read those stories and tried to relate them to real life, the more I became aware that there is nothing such as prince charming. The more I read those stories the more I felt like it's all fake. And it came to a point where I actually stopped reading those. I stopped believing that a man and a woman can actually have the happily ever after. I stopped thinking that a prince charming would come and take me with him. I started working hard for my career. Since I stopped believing in prince charming, I figured women should be able to survive herself. Because if not love, the fictional stories definitely taught me that acquiring education and being an independent women in this society is as dire as breathing.

Then came this man in my life and made me question every single belief that I had about those love stories. He made me want to rethink about those fairy tales. He made me want to read those love stories again. Just because he started to do every single thing that a prince charming would do. I had expected him to fall at a point and give upon me. But to my surprise he has done exactly what a prince charming would do in the fictional love story. He had stick by my side every good and bad times of my life. Every time I felt that this is it, now he would turn around and leave me. But proving me even more wrong he has done the exact opposite or more so he had even became more close to me after that.