My Tom-Boy Girlfriend

#28 : Too Fast?

Raghav's POV

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Don't have to leave this town
to see the world
'Cause it's something that I gotta do
I don't wanna look back in thirty years
And wonder who you're married to
Wanna say it now, wanna make it clear
For only you and God to hear
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          Two days later I confronted Sasha with the new brain wave that hit me. No, I didn't do another round of proposal, it would be taxing for me and rub Sasha on the wrong side. Too many proposals in such short span of time. Also, it required a man-to-man discussion, before plunging into it. Her consent was essential. Just because I had comprehended, it didn't mean the same brain wave would have hit her yet. During our lone time, before calling it a night, we spent some extra moments in the seclusion of my car outside her accommodation.

          Placing her right hand in between my palms, I rested our sandwiched hands on her lap. Looking down at it and fondly caressing to fuel up the courage I required for the upcoming discussion. It was time for the crawling caterpillars in my mind to transform into butterfly and fly off my mouth. My words would need to withstand strong opposition initially. Similar to the initial struggle of the flapping wings until they found the hang of flying. I knew a smooth gliding journey was awaiting, once we emerged victorious of the first phase.

          Drawing in a deep breathe, prying my eyes off our hands, I looked up. On straightening, I found her vision too was stuck at our hands.

         "Sasha, I want to talk to you about something. It's huge. Please think it through, before you give me your final decision on it. Take how much ever time you want. The only thing I can hope is, that you should be completely honest with me". Squeezing her hands to provide solace, to which one of us, could be debatable.

"Raghav, you know, you are creeping me out, right?", she jerked her head back.

Sending her a reassuring smile, "Nothing's creepy, just need your point of view on something."

"Then, dive into it. Why are you running around the bushes for?" She insisted.

         "You know we only have  twenty-eight days over here, before we touch down on foreign land.... I—I was wondering if you would be fine, if I introduced you officially to my family...on the lines of taking the next step in our relationship".

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When you love someone,
they say you set 'em free
But that ain't gonna work for me
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Instantly her pupils dialated till there was no room for further expansion.
"What?! Raghav have you gone nuts?! It's too soon to be thinking about such stuff". She panicked, as anticipated.

            "Stuff?", I spat out in surprise, "It's our life, our future I'm talking about. Tell me something, marriage has never crossed your mind? Or did you not forsee, going through it with me?" By now, our respective hands were to ourselves with the topple of our shaky foundation.

"Raghav!", she groaned, "Obviously the first option. Do you see me as the kind of girl who's going to be dreaming and planning out a wedding?"

"Not immediately but eventually, yes!" Folding my arms in affirmatiom, I damned.

"Really?" Her arched eyebrows rose in challenge.

          "I mean, not a dreamy extravagant wedding. I thought somewhere in the back of your mind, you would have thought that marriage is on the cards for us." I could feel my confidence levels drop down.