The Imperfect Couple (Complete)

Chapter 8

With her sandals in her hands, she was literally jumping on the bar counter. Adi's eyes popped out at the scene. Without a single thought, he ran to her.

"Charu come down!", he demanded still trying to make sense of the ongoing scene. Even Sid was trying hard to stop her, but she was in no mood. Then it dawned on him.

"Is she drunk?" he asked Sid.

"Yes, she-" Sid started but was cut in by the exasperated Adi "You did this."

Sid gulped in at the increasing rage in his voice and eyes and then defended himself, "No I didn't. She only wanted to taste alcohol" then added after a pause "Why are you so worried about her?"

Ignoring his query, Adi climbed the counter and twirled her in his arms and came down.

"What are you doing? I am enjoying so much. Please" she kept on and on and he brought her out of the disc in his arms. Sid and Rohan too followed him. They were real perplexed at his unusual reaction but kept quite.

Adi put her in the back seat and tried to come out, but she pulled him with her hands still around his neck. There was less than an inch distance between them. Adi's heart raced at an unusual speed as he had never been this close to girls. But the truth was, he had been close to girls, in fact much closer than this.

"I want to go back there, please." She pleaded so cutely turning her face sideward that he felt an abnormal urge of drowning in those large black kohl eyes as if those eyes had a whole of their own world behind those eyelids with long lashes that blinked while waiting for his answer. For the first time, he felt so incapable of denying something. He tried to free himself with his hands, but she strengthened her grip, pouting. He smiled at her antics. Not that he was finding it hard to remove her soft arms, but he just couldn't...

And then his present situation struck him. Why was he smiling like an idiot? Irritated by his own act, he pulled away from his neck out of her entangled hands and then closed the car door behind him, locking her inside.

It took him a while to come back to his senses and then turn his attention to the quizzical expressions of his friends.

"Guys I need your help."

"What is happening, dude? And help? What do you mean? And who is she?" came a series of questions.

"She is my – my wife" he finally managed to confess. He knew he would have to tell his friends about all this and the sooner the better.

"What the hell?" Sid said with his eyes about to pop out at any instant. Rohan's reaction was no different.

"Are you in your senses? How can you have a wife? Is this some kind of prank Adi?" Rohan asked trying to make sense.

Taking a deep breath, Adi finally faced them. "This is no joke. I'll explain everything in the car. But now I need your help. Grandma would kill me if she finds Charu drunk."

"That means you are serious" was all Sid managed to say and then they got in the car. Throughout the way, Adi tried to convince them with continued blabbering of Charu.

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It was almost midnight when they reached home. They were all set about how to divert grandma's attention and sneak Charu quietly inside the room. They were about to come out of the car when Adi's cell phone rang "Hello, grandma."

"Adi, did you reach home?"

"Yes almost. Wait, aren't you at home?" he asked with all his hopes high.