The Love In Marriage

2-

Keerthi twists and turns the whole night,unable to sleep,the thought of Vikram pouncing on her, literally,kept her awake,her body finally giving up in the early hours only to be woken up by the alarm.

What the hell? I just closed my eyes.She thought.

Keerthi felt a movement beside her. "Switch it off",Vikram says, irritated.

She huffed, suddenly jealous that he could sleep and she couldn't ,when they were both equally tired, seriously wondering if she should just increase the sound of the alarm and leave the room.

But when she hears him continuously moving,she takes pity.

Keerthi grumbles to herself as she walks towards her bag and takes out her necessities for the day.She takes a quick shower and dresses herself up.

She glances at the mirror and sees the image wearing a light baby blue saree with silver border and a tear drop pendant around my neck along with the chain he has tied.Her eyes burn when she glances at the chain and traces of Vermillion in the partition of her hair,out of sleepiness or helplessness,she didn't know.

She sits on the vanity chair in front of the mirror as she shuffles through her bangles,not at all trying to be quiet that the other person in the room was sleeping.

Keerthi jiggles through her jewellery set a little more and finds her bangles of choice and adorns her wrists, completely unintentionally screeching the chair against the floor when she got up in search of her Ear rings.

Keerthi see Vikram blink his eyes open at the commotion,feeling a sadistic smile curve at the corner of her lips.

"Do it quietly or get out of the room",she hears her husband say,giving her a look.

Vikram was thoroughly irritated that she was making so much noise in the early hours of the day. Sleep was precious. And if the woman in his room didn't understand that,he didn't mind explaining her the consequences if she tried disturbing him again.

Keerthi's lips turned downward,having not expected him to say that.Her eyes burned for the second time in a mere span of twenty minutes.

She was tempted to slam the door just to see his reaction.

Don't provoke him,Kitty.
You don't know what he might do.

Surely,she followed his order,tip toeing across the room so as to not piss him off early in the morning, spoiling both of their moods.

It was only when she was done with decking herself up and ready to go downstairs that she slammed the door shut. Loudly.

Why was he the only one sleeping?

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Keerthi hears before she sees her mother in law bustling through the kitchen, doing something.she frowns,

Wasn't it her kitchen day?

She enters the kitchen,feeling extremely out of place.

Her mother-in-law law,Sakshi Rathore,glances towards Keerthi,giving her a smile,having heard the movement, making Keerthi shuffle her feet towards the kitchen.

She glances at the clock,Seven Twenty.

"Why are you up so early,Beta?I thought of waking you up a little later and ask you to just make the dessert instead of the entire breakfast",the elderly woman smiles kindly at her daughter in law,"You should have gotten more sleep. You must be tired",she finishes with a tender smile.

Keerthi badly wanted to scream,I know right.

But doesn't,feeling extremely relieved that the woman was kind enough post marriage day one.