Part 43 - Let Bygones Be Bygones✌
Priya is reading a book when Ram comes back to the room after taking bath.
"What are you reading?" Ram asked Priya striking a conversation with her while flipping through the channels in TV.
"Novel." Priya replied without taking off her eyes from the book.
"What kind of books you read? I mean which genre." Ram asked seating beside her on the bed.
"What's the matter?" Priya shut the book and look at him.
"Just asking." Ram continued saying "Don't you ever think about me or remember me even once in your daily routine?" Ram asked hesitantly.
"Why would I think about you?" Priya furrows her brows at him.
"Does my presence or absence makes no difference in your life? I just want to know what's going on in your mind." Ram asked her straight forwardly.
"Why are you asking all these things of all a sudden?" Priya questioned him.
"Please answer my questions instead of shooting back another question." Ram said.
A romantic scene is playing on the television which is distracting her a bit.
"Don't you know the reason?" Priya look straight into his eyes.
"I am not involved with Ashwin. I married you because I love you not out of my ego or for anything else." Ram tried to explain her.
"I know you are not involved with Ashwin." Priya surprised him with her answer.
"When did you get to know about it?" Ram sounded surprised.
"I know it, that's all" Priya shrugged her shoulders simply.
"Hey tell me how come you know about it." He insisted her.
"There is a thing called women instinct." Priya responded. He exhales the air deeply.
"Interesting!" Ram nodded his head. "So what else your instinct is telling about me?" Ram asked curiously with a smirk on his face.
"It is saying that you are very intimidating, egoistic, and politically incorrect and it is saying that I should stay away from you as much as possible and..." Priya said without stopping and Ram interrupted her saying.
"Okay okay enough! Stop believing your so called instinct blindly every time. Sometimes it can go wrong like right now it is telling you the incorrect information about me." Ram tried to defend himself.
"I don't think so." Priya replied shaking her head in negative.
"Why do you still behave weirdly with me when you got know that I am not with Ashwin?" Ram look at her for an answer.
"It's not the point whether you are involved with Ashwin or not. The only thing that matters to me is that you married me without my full concern. You forced me into this so called relationship and want me to behave the way you like. Common I am not a toy, I do have feelings." Priya yelled at him while he stayed numb not knowing what to answer.
"I am sorry, I didn't want to loose you." Ram said.
"You ruined my life and simply saying sorry." Priya fire at him.
"I don't want to loose you and I came up with a marriage proposal to your house. I couldn't take it when you said no to this marriage so I had to force you but trust me I love you so much. I cannot live without you Priya, please understand my feelings for you." Ram pleaded her with an innocent face.
"You came up with a marriage proposal but couldn't take my denial? Common how on earth do you think that I will happily agree to this proposal? Do you think I am the girl who runs behind money and popularity?" Priya eyes becomes red and she breathes heavily.
"Please calm down Priya." He said.
"If you love me so much then you could have waited for my acceptance, damn it." Ram didn't have any answer to her questions.
"You said yes to the marriage, don't you?" Ram asked her finding some words.
"My mom blackmailed me into this and I had no way other than marrying you." Priya continued "Tell me what you might have done if we denied the marriage proposal?" Priya shoot another question at him.
Priya gets distracted with the noise from the TV. A girl in the erotic scene is moaning louder than usual. At the same time, Ram leans towards her ear, his breathe falls on her ear making her shiver a little with tingling sensation.
"I would have kidnapped and married you." Ram said with mischievous eyes while Priya gasped hearing his answer.
"See your answer has proved that my instinct is 100% correct about you." Priya move aside a little maintaining gap between them.
"Can you please stop watching this nonsense?" Priya said irritatingly finding an erotic scene on the TV.
"What's wrong with this scene? I like this movie." Ram said playing his tongue on his cheek.
Priya gives him stern look when he move towards her not giving her space to move further.
"They are having a moment that we didn't share yet. Shall we...." Ram asked in husky tone. Priya immediately push him away.
"You are impossible." Priya finds it awkward to see the scene so she gets up from the bed and go to the washroom. Ram laugh at her reaction.
Priya comes back to the room wearing her night gown and she finds Ram is still engrossed deeply in the movie. "God! What's going on?" Priya mutter to herself and occupies her side on the bed silently.
"Okay Let's start a fresh and keep aside whatever happened so far." Ram said after a long pause.
"Please Priya. Let bygones be bygones." He said.
"Can you please switch off the TV? It is such a nonsense and moreover I have office to go tomorrow." Priya chided with irritation and ignore discussing with him further on the topic.
"What's wrong with this movie? I don't even get a chance to do all these things with you and on top of it I am not even allowed to watch also, wow!" Priya gasped at his statement and gives him a deadly look. "I don't have the freedom to do watch anything in my room, sorry our room." Ram corrected himself biting his tongue.
"Sleep and let me sleep peacefully." Priya turned to other side realizing that there is no point in fighting with him anymore.
Ram switched off the TV with a sulky face mocking her and settled himself beside her.
"Priyaaa!" Ram tapped on her arm from behind.
"Hmm...!" Priya turn facing him. "What?"
"Did you notice that for the first time we had a proper discussion between us which lasted for a significant amount of time?" Ram smiled at her.
"Hmm... what should I do? Shall I clap for it now?" Priya said in a mocking way.
Ram pissed off with her disinterest. "Hitler!" Ram murmur. "Good night" Ram said before switching off the bed lamp.
"Good night" Priya replied and closed her eyes.
Priya open her eyes in horror as soon as she finds his hand on her. "Can you please remove your hand?" She said but instead of giving a reply he made his grip tight on her and sleep.
Priya is the one who wake up first to switch off the alarm. She rubs her eyes to adjust the sunlight in the room. Ram's hand is still on her tummy while he is still in sugary sleep. Priya exhales the air finding herself caged in her husband's arm.
"He is sleeping soundly holding me as if I am his teddy. How can someone sleep in the same position through out the night" Priya mutter to herself releasing herself from his hold and to washroom to get ready for the office.
In Priya's office,
"Hey Priya, Good Morning" Keerti greeted Priya.
"Hello Keerti, good morning." Priya replied and continued her work.
"Why are you so quiet? Worrying about training that you have to stay away from your husband?" Keerti laughed at her own statement. "I can understand that you people are just married and it is bit hard to stay away from each other." Keerti winked at her Priya while Priya gives her an unbelievable look.
"Very funny" Priya replied mockingly. "I am dying to stay away from him and here she is thinking otherwise." Priya thinks in her mind.
Priya gets a call from Ram and she excused herself from them while Keerti tease her.
"Hello Mr Kapoor" Priya pick up the call.
"Hello Priya, just called you to check if you have reached office safely or not?" Ram try to make up some reason for the call in fact he is dying to hear her voice.
"Yes reached." Priya replied casually.
"Okay how are the things at work?" Ram try to extend the conversation.
"Yes good so far." Priya replied him in short.
"Okay cool so... ok then will talk to you later. Carry on with your work." Ram said.
"Okay bye." Priya responded and both hang up the call.
"Call from your husband?" Keerti asked excitedly. Priya nodded in positive.
"Seems like your husband is really missing you badly?" Keerti teased her.
"Shut up!" Priya shushed her.
"What did your husband say when you tell him about the training?" Keerti asked curiously.
"Why do you want to know?" Priya asked with a confused look.
"Just out of curiosity. My husband always sulks whenever I speak about the official trips." Keerti replied.
"All men are same." Priya responded shaking her head side ways. Keerti laughed at her expression.
"Speak to our boss in case if you don't want to go for the training." Keerti suggested before another colleague walk to their desk.
"Hello ladies! What's up? How are you?" The man greeted both ladies and fix his gaze on Priya.
"Hey Palash, I am good, how are you?" Priya greeted back with a smile.
"It's a surprise for you to see Priya getting married, isn't it?" Keerti asked him.
"I had to learn from the other colleagues since Priya didn't care to inform me directly." Palash purse his lips showing his displeasure. "Anyway, congratulations Priya." He shakes his hand with Priya.
"Thank you Palash. Everything happened so quickly and didn't get a chance to invite you guys to the wedding, sorry for that." Priya replied him with a pleading face. Palash is a colleague cum friend to Priya.
"Are you coming to the training next week? I am also there in that list." Palash asked Priya.
"Yes!" Priya replied instantly keeping aside the thought that how would Ram react on this.
"Tell me who is that lucky guy?" Palash asked Priya about her husband.
"Let's get back to the work, we can talk about it later. There is a lot of pending work to do as I was on leave." Priya excused herself and continued working on her laptop.
Priya reached home late in the evening. She was wondering why he was not at home yet but choose to ignore, carry on with her routine and spend sometime with dadi.
"Where is Golu? Didn't he come home yet?" Dadi asked Priya about Ram.
"No Dadi." Priya responded.
"Call and ask him that when he is going to come home." Dadi told Priya so she called him without having any option.
"Hey Priya! What a pleasant surprise? You called me, oh my god!" Ram sounded extremely happy seeing her phone call.
"Hello Mr Kapoor. When are you coming home?" Priya replied him.
"I will come flying if you say so." Ram started with his flirting.
"No need. Yes, dadi is with me only." Priya said hinting him that she called him because of dadi.
"Oh that is the reason for this surprise call." Ram pursed his lips and face fell off.
"Yes, okay then bye." Priya cut the call and smiled at dadi saying. "He has some work to finish."
"Golu manages everything on his own, he takes all the stress and always maintains a warm smile on his lips." Dadi shakes her head smiling at Priya who smiled back. Dadi continued "You finish your dinner, he might come home late tonight."
"Dadi, what about you?" Priya asked.
"I have my dinner early to take medicines. I sleep early as well." Dadi answered.
Priya entered the master bedroom after having dinner. After a long time, she started sharing her thoughts with her dairy and finally Ram enter the bedroom nearly at midnight.
"Hello my dear wife, didn't you sleep yet?" Ram asked Priya.
Priya look at him once and keep her dairy in the cupboard. His hair is little messed up and tie is loosen, must be a long day at work, she thought but keep quiet.
"I thought you already slept peacefully since I am not around to disturb you." He smirked looking at her.
"Not yet. I am going to sleep now" Priya noticed that Ram is taking tablets and look tired.
"All okay?" Priya asked hesitatingly.
"Having bad headache. Long day at work as lots of pending work to finish." Ram replied her.
"Have some rest, good night." Priya replied and Ram smiled at her and said. "Good night."
Priya gets ready in front of the dressing table and just then Ram also wakes up his sound sleep.
"Good morning!" Ram greeted her as soon as he wake up.
"Good morning!" Priya turn back and greet him while taking her handbag in her hand.
Priya's phone is on the bed and it flashed with a message. Ram becomes suspicious looking at the sender's name as Ashwin. He checks the messages one bye one and becomes furious where as Priya has no clue what is happening behind her.
Ram sees a lot of messages from Ashwin but no reply from her. Ram is boiling with anger that she didn't share anything that Ashwin is disturbing her by sending plenty of messages. He keeps the mobile back in its place without getting caught by Priya.
Priya is thinking about her training and how Ram and Dadi are unhappy with her decision. She is thinking whether to go or not.
Keerti taps on her shoulder making her to come out of her thoughts.
"Hey what's up?" Priya asked her.
"Nothing, you tell me where are you lost? Don't tell me that you are in dreams with your husband in the middle of office hours?" Keerti laughed at her.
"That is the last thing I do." Priya murmur to herself. "Nothing I was thinking about the training. Is the trainee list final? Any modifications can be possible like if anyone wants to back off from it?" Priya asked Keerti.
"No I don't think so." Keerti replied shaking her head in negative.
"Hmm okay" Priya resumed her work.
"Is there any problem?" Keerti asked her again.
"Nothing that sort of. I was checking if there is any possibility as such, okay no issues." Priya responded her with a smile.
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