'She was an adventurer at heart but,
oh how she loved to be home'
                            -Samantha Hammack
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A kind of music

Sadhvi's POV

"I still can't believe you don't listen to music"
I said signing into amazon prime

Beside me on bed Avrudh rolled his eyes, "It is not a big deal"

"It is. Everybody listen music, be it of any kind" I said now typing the movie name

I looked at him dirty.

He furrowed eyebrows daring mr to utter the nonsense I thought of, "You look like, you want to eat me alive"

I cringed, "Chee..."
I cleared my throat anyways and looked at him, this time a little better,
"I am so going to have fun spoiling you"

He looked at me as if scared, "Please don't. I have a small wife to look after"

I laughed, "Oh honey, you have signed your life to me now it's in my hands"
I said using my fingers to climb up his chest and patted there.

"Am I going to regret it?" he asked pushing his face close to me

"You want to?" I said looking in to his eyes, the lack of distance was messing with me, I was going to do something daring if we don't pull out

Avrudh touched his nose with mine, "Only if you do ask me to kiss you"

I blinked and pushed him off,
"Keep dreaming"

He sighed a happy sigh and looked at the ceiling with eyes looking like google. He looked as if he was playing a dirty scene there. "I do that all the time"

I widened my eyes and pushed a cushion in his stomach, he gasped
"Calm your horses down"

Avrudh huffed adjusting the pillow back on my back and his pillows against the head rest. He sat behind me and now was leaning against the resting area waiting for me to join beside him.

It was our morning in.
We woke up early today, out of habit and since we both don't had any other work to do we decided to watch a movie until breakfast comes ready.

The lunch and dinner was on Avrudh tonight, since we were going out later. We decided to give a leave to both Uncle and Aunty.

I scooted back like a kid dragging my ass from one place to other, when looking at me in amusement Avrudh chuckled and I rested the laptop in between both of us, leaning back against the headrest. My head beside Avrudh, I was secretly breathing his scent.

Addictive so it was.

"What are you playing?"

"Horror" I chirped

"Stree? Hindi movie? You said it is horror." he looked at me from the screen then at the screen again

I clasped both my hands together grinning from ear to ear.

"It's hindi horror film plus comedy. You will love it"
I said settling myself closer to him, which he sure noticed but didn't comment on, he accepted it when his little finger touched mine, just a little but it was there.

I smiled secretly.

.

.

"So how was the movie?" I asked Avrudh while closing the window and putting the laptop on sleep.

Then shutting the screen down I craned my neck to look at him, the man just looked at me and with his hands displayed in front said,
"All she needed was respect all along. And they represented the movie so nicely, I mean comedy but" dramatically the husband of mine offered two claps saying "Case solved!"

The look on Avrudh's face said he enjoyed every hour of the movie. I grinned, keeping the laptop aside and getting out of the warm comfy bed. Breakfast was in order

Avrudh followed.

🎶"Goriye
Meri theory hai
Ki ye teri-meri lead mein story hai.
Sorry hai
Khud sorry hai
Hai jo..." 🎶

I walked out of the bedroom singing the song from the movie, the great thing about Bollywood movies has always been songs. No matter what kind, just pick your choice.

🎶"Nazar na lag jaaye jaanu
Thought ye tadpaye saanu"🎶

I met a smiling Swarna aunty wrapping everything up, she was about to leave.

"You feeling good this morning?" she asked with a smile on her bright face

I nodded, "Thank you Aunty and I am sorry you got to see puking one day and sneezing the next" I cringed

She smiled, "But you need to eat carefully, you've got a delicate stomach and weak immune"

She said wishing good morning to Avrudh who was behind me.

"I will be leaving now. Enjoy your day, you two."

"Thank you, Aunty"

"Hmm" Avrudh hummed without looking at her, his full attention was still on me

Avrudh in a hurry went to lock the main gate and doors and until his return I served both of us breakfast.

I poured two glasses of mixed fruit juice for both of us and picking both of our plates I walked into the center of the living room.

I had just kept the plates on the coffee table when Avrudh called,

"I'll get the juice"

Sighing I sat down on the sofa with my legs crossed and back leaning against the cushion. With one cushion on my lap I kept the poha plate on the top of it and waited for my husband to join me.

Avrudh reached me in no time and taking a sip from his topped juice glass he too sat down on the sofa to my left, leaning against it.

He kept the glass of my juice in front of me on the table and picked his plate and started eating.

I did the same.

"So Sharddha Kapoor was the original stree or she was someone else?"

I laughed, "She is a stree" I leaned to pick my glass up

"You know what I mean. She... she did that hair thing" he said looking at me with full concentration

I shook my head, "You think about it, everybody has their own theory specifically about movie ending"

Avrudh turned to look at me, now that his plate was empty and resting neatly on the table, he sipped his juice and concentrated back at me,
"Rajkumar Rao is a fantastic actor and so is Shraddha Kapoor"

I nodded addressing the fast eater with still my half eaten breakfast,
"I'll make you watch more movies like that. Oh... I am so going to spoil you"

Avrudh's eyes shined with my statement and he looked at me with a different poem written in the ocean of his eyes.

"Looking forward to it"
He said gazing at my face, he inched closer to me with the raise of his hand when I looked at him waiting what he was to do.

I was afraid because I was sitting there ready to accept everything he has to offer.

Avrudh brushed my hair from the side of my face and pushed them behind my ear.

"It keeps nagging me" he said, his voice all husky I stopped chewing for a second.

He was looking at my hair tucked now neatly behind my ear I was looking at his face, painting every meek detail in my mind. I was never this close to him before unless asleep.

We were breathing the same air for the moment. Then his eyes shifted to mine.

And I wanted to speak so much again, there were so many words in my head but not a single comprehensible sentence, I see myself attempting to utter.

I wanted to give in, rest my head against his chest and just sit down and stare, we both together. Nothing mattered for that second when Avrudh smiled.

My breath left me for hills.

I wanted to hold the fingers that made me mush under them, wanted to run them on my skin to live the same sensation again and again. I wanted him to know what kind of magic he has on me.

I was bewitched by a justice.

"Eleven" he called out

I looked at him with a confused expression

"You have eleven moles on your face"

I blinked, what?

He was counting them?

Knowing Avrudh was paying attention to something that nobody else did made me conscious and embarrassed, my face was turning warm and I was feeling the rise.

I tried to look away when cupping my one cheek using his thumb he started his count on the one side of my face.

"This one under your right eye" he ran his thumb through it

Then touched the other under the same eye to the exiting corner,
"And this one few centimeters apart"

Using his other hand's finger Avrudh slide the hair strands off my forehead,
"Then there is this sneak"

His hand descended down to my cheek and to the center of it he pressed his finger, "This makes you look cute" he said looking into my eyes

His fingers searched the next black dot on my chin, lingering on it, marking that one he touched the other on the corner of my lower lip.
Avrudh ran his hand slowly on my lower lip breathing deep which seemed to cease mine.

My heart hammered against my rib cage and I was certain Avrudh was aware of that. There was this constant smile on his face which gave his feelings away.

"This one has always been the most tempting one"

Involuntarily I pulled on my lower lip and his eyes if possible darkened. He looked at me long, longer than I was ever stared by him or by any other.

On its account my gaze zeroed on Avrudh's nose, I was dying to kiss it.

What broke our trance we wouldn't know but something changed between us that evening and it was tangible.

We were both able to place our fingers on it but knowingly chose not to.
We stared, admired and stared a little more the whole day, nothing was strong enough to replace what we experienced during the morning. This strange feeling had everything changed between us, maybe this was the day where we found love.

Because I surely did.

We both became aware of the tension that was now present between us and we were both holding ourselves to act upon it. We were having our own debate in our heads.

To give in there was nothing to lose in return but to deny, holding back from each other we were scared to lose our insanity. Maybe losing my sanity will search me peace or Avrudh is my solace.

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'You return like autumn and
I fall every time'
                     -faraway
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So?
How was it?
The crazy in love Sadhvi, what do you think about her?

Soon there's going to be a beautiful ride ahead for them full of love and sweet romance.
Let them grow and bud,
soon there will be garden so scented.
The emotion that begins slowly goes strong, I am fascinated how patient we become.
Anxiety we take sip by sip, we let the feeling grow. We anticipate what to happen next yet we are impatient to know.

With love,
Ankita 🐿️