The Promise of Forever

CHAPTER 28

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Writer's POV

After letting his heart out to Arushi, Vikrant felt lighter as though a weight was off his shoulders. At night when the two of them were off to bed they slept at the two end poles both wanting to be in each other's arms but hesistant to take the first step ahead.

Both kept tossing and turning unable to gather some sleep and when they faced each other with widely awake eyes they couldn't help but let out a laugh at each other.

It was so easy for Vikrant to involuntarily have her in his arms the previous night but now it seemed like a war between his brain and heart. Still hesistant though Vikrant finally managed to speak.

"Can I?" he asked pointing at her waist and holding his hand out for her to snuggle into him.

Not knowing the right words to reply Arushi just moved closer to him while Vikrant wrapped his arm around her slender waist. Arushi made sure she wasn't hurting his shoulder in any manner and made a mental note to take him for a check up the next day.

The next morning Arushi woke up in Vikrant's embrace. It all seemed like a dream to her but she knew it wasn't a dream. She could not stop the smile that was playing on her lips. When Vikrant's sleepy eyes were greeted with a smiling Arushi he could not wish for anything better than this sight. Last night he had the most peaceful sleep that he had been craving for months.

Once Arushi was out of his embrace he felt empty just like a lock without its key. But alas he couldn't stay like that for the whole day though he badly wanted to. Vikrant had decided to join back to work because he knew  his father needed him.

When Vikrant walked out of the closet after dressing up he saw Arushi getting ready in front of the dressing mirror and once again the urge of filling her hairline with vermilion was building up in him. He always thought that was an act that makes him feel she is his, he has someone to be back home for, someone to love, someone to care and someone to cherish his life with. But remembering the previous encounter he could not gather up his courage to ask her again. Maybe she needed time he thought.

Arushi could sense his gaze on her rather more on the vermilion box. She felt bad for declining him the other day but back then she could not bring herself to let in so easily. Even she craved for those small loving gestures but their equation was not so clear then. It was like a complex algebraic equation which had now simplified a lot.

Taking the vermilion box she walked towards where Vikrant stood gazing at her. Vikrant was perplexed at her action he could not bring his mind to realisation that she stood infront of him holding the vermilion box out to him waiting for him to do the needful.

"Are you going to make me wait for another life time?" Arushi questioned him clearly irritated by the amount of time Vikrant was taking to sink in her action.

Vikrant nodded in a No like a small child who sways their head a hundred times. A happy tear danced in his eyes when he placed the vermilion in her parted hairline. Life was getting better with every passing day and now he would not miss out on making the best out of it.

"Would you mind if I did that every day?" he questioned happiness glinting in his eyes.

"Not in a hundred years." Arushi smiled back walking out of the room not before asking Vikrant to come out soon as she had taken an appointment at the orthopedics.
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Arushi was happy when the doctor informed that Vikrant's shoulder had healed completely and now all that he needed was a little care for a week and he would be absolutely fine. Arushi was driving Vikrant to his office because the doctor had clearly declined the request of Vikrant to let him drive.