The Imperfect Couple (Complete)

Chapter 19

There was a peculiar silence being maintained by the duo in the car. The earlier happenings and their own reactions were no less than a shock to both of them. The passion they had gone through in the last hour was horrifying.

Her lips were aching and trembling like anything. Her heart was hammering hard against her ribs. All she wished was to get evaporated in the air that very moment than face him ever again. Everything was too sudden for her to make complete sense. She had never been this close to a guy ever before. She wanted to run to her room and lock herself from the world.

Though everything was impulsive for Aditya too. But it wasn't any shock to him. In fact, this was something he dreaded he might end up doing which had made him keep a distance from her.

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She quietly went to her room and stretched on the couch, bundled in a blanket. In no possibility, she could have put up a fight with him for the bed tonight. Her heart was thumping crazily at the slightest noise in anticipation of his arrival. But after an hour she felt too tired and drowsy and was off to sleep.

Adi did not return to his room that night. He wandered on the terrace till late and then returned to his study and slumped on the couch; it was another thing that he couldn't sleep, actually.

The whole night her scared features haunted him. But why should he care so much? Why couldn't his heart rest for a second?

It was almost daybreak when he irritatingly got up after trying really hard to sleep for hours. He was never like this. Nothing ever bothered him so much. He was more annoyed at himself than anyone else. The girl wouldn't allow him a moment of peace, and still, he felt an indispensable urge for seeing her again. What was wrong with him? She wasn't any goddess that his day won't start without seeing her. And he could easily see her in the morning. Surely he won't go to see her. Never...

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He was unusually nervous opening the door to his own room. But then a smile spread across his face, wiping all fears as he saw her sleeping on the floor with the blanket wrapped around her. She must have fallen down. He felt a pang of guilt as he remembered how he had forced her to sleep on the couch when she said she wasn't comfortable there.

He slowly went to her and sat on his knees beside her. She was sleeping serenely, perfectly in contrast to his rough, sleepless night. He quietly lifted her with the blanket and made her lie on the bed. She shifted at the movement, but then was at peace on the comfortable bed. He sat down beside her. It was quiet, surprising as he felt an unknown warmth being close to her.

The storm he had faced the whole night suddenly bombed into oblivion. He no longer wanted to judge what was happening to him. He needed to soothe his aching heart. He bent his head slowly and kissed her forehead making her smile in her sleep.

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It was a Sunday, but Adi had left early morning. Charu came out of her room in a long blue top and grey jeans up to her knees. She went to Sarojini's room and found her packing her clothes.

"You are going somewhere, grandma?"

Sarojini looked up to her and then said looking away, "Yes Charu, I was about to tell you."

Charu's face fell at the conformity of her doubt. She sat on the bed holding her hands. "You can't go like this again."

Sarojini lovingly put one hand on her head, "I'll return soon, child."