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Krithi's POV:

Since Hruday is not willing to tell me what I wanted to know, I planned this visit to sea shore.

After coming here I started planning the methods in which I can succeed!

Well, that's not the only motive for today. I have a surprise for him.

"What now?" Hruday asked.

"Come, I have something for you!" I said and dragged him towards the shore.

I pulled him towards an isolated rock and leaned against it.

I started the conversation lightly just to complete my mission. I held his hand and started examining it.

"Hruday! You know how long your fingers are.. I just love them... That too they are very skilled... How can they be soo..." My babbling stopped when I felt his finger against my lips.

"What's the matter wifey! What exactly do you want to say? Do you want my fingers like this..." with that he started caressing my cheek.

"No it's just that I want to give you something but you are making me nervous......." I said.

"What? Are you going to kiss me openly or what?" he asked me smiling.

"What?! No!!!" I said punching his shoulder.

"What is it krithi? Will it be easy for you if I close my eyes?" he asked.

Isn't he my better half?

"Ya, that would help!!" I said.

"I heard a line somewhere.... that Sometimes the greatest relationships are the ones you never thought you will be in and which challenge your every view you ever had!"

"I liked it, but I never believed it. But you made me believe that with my heart."

"It's hard to believe but you are the beautiful thing happened to me, without my knowledge."

"When you settled our marriage, I was so angry, depressed and devastated."

"I thought I lost all my way to you....... But in you I found all the way back to me."

"I don't know when I exactly fell in love with you. Maybe it happened when you hugged me or when you kissed me passionately, or when we had deep conversations or when I'm cursing you."

"It was instinctive, like an effortless intake of breath. Everyday, I discover that I love you even more and in this vast universe I'll love you to the end."

"I want to be the girl who makes your bad days better and the one that makes you say 'My life has changed since I met you' ,"
by this time Hruday is smiling from ear to ear.

Oh, I think I said too much.
What can I say?
I can't stop the inner poet in me!

Or maybe because of all the quotes and pickup lines you saw in Internet.

My innervoice commented.

Shut up!!!
They are my own words, from the bottom of my heart.

Anyways, let's bring the real krithi to action.

"Don't smile too much, these lines are from one of the many love letters I got. I did some modifications of course...... " I said.

"I wonder who that tasteless fellow is. He misused those words for you. He could have written for someone who is worth it!" Hruday said smirking.

What?!
Where did his jealousy go?

I was trying to make his smile vanish, not turn it into a smirk.

"Oh, shut up. Will you?"

"Can I open my eyes now, my beautiful witch?" he said.

I still didn't give him the thing I brought.

"No, not yet!!"

I should be fast.

"Hey!! Did you just call me witch?" I asked analysing his last words.

"Yaa, you are my witch. You are doing wonders to my heart!" he said.

"People usually use the word angel for it!!" I said dryly.

"But your evil nature is not letting me call you an angel!" he said.

I do not understand why my lips are itching to smile for his comment.

They should form into a thin line right?

Anyways, he's not watching me. What if I smile or grin?

"Yes, I'm a witch like hermoine. I consider witch in terms of Harry Potter!!" I said.

"Maybe then I'm a wizard like Ron Weasley!" he said.

"Yaa, the dumbass!" I said chuckling.

"Dumbass Haa?" saying that he pulled me towards him and rubbed his nose with mine.

A shiver ran down my body which increased when his lips touched mine lightly.

I tried to pull away because he is diverting me in his own way.

But he being his usual self gripped my waist and kissed me even more passionately and I too followed his lead closing my eyes.

"krithi, I want to open my eyes! I want to see your expression....wifey!!" Hruday requested cutely.

"You can't resist looking at me even for a second Haa?" I said dramatically.

I slipped a ring on his finger.

"This is my gift. Return gifts are heartily accepted!!" I said.

"Do you really think your boring unromantic husband will return any of your gifts?" he asked me.

"I told you that I'll change you. If you do not change, I'll kick you till you change!" I said.

"It's highly difficult, my love!!" he said.

"Nothing is impossible if you have the will to do it. Anyways, during the time of your transformation atleast one of us has to be romantic right? So I'll be the one with bigger heart!!" I said shrugging.

"It's handsome!" Hruday said looking at the ring.

"God, Hruday. Will you leave your male ego just for once? You can say that it's beautiful!" I said.

"Beautiful is a word tagged just for you, not to anything in this world!!" he said slightly brushing his lips over mine.

What can I say?
My heart is about to burst with contentment.

This is exactly how I wanted my life to be. To be surrounded by people with love.

"This is a public place yaar, why don't you go find some secluded area? You don't seem like horny teenagers to kiss wherever you feel like!!" someone yelled spoiling our sweet moment.

I got frustrated.
How dare he comment us?

I'm about to give him a counter answer when Hruday pulled me to the opposite direction.

"Leave me, I'll show that kid his limits!!" I said angrily.

"He's just a teenager, leave it. He didn't say anything wrong," Hruday said.

True enough, he didn't say anything wrong.

We are in the middle of the beach on a rock, like a centre of attraction.

And we are about to kiss!
What are we thinking?

We are so much involved in each other to care about the world.

So now we are heading towards the sea with large tides entertaining us.

I pulled my saree slightly upwards and dipped my foot in the cool sand of the evening.

This is heaven!!

Suddenly I felt water sprinkle on my face and I looked up to see Hruday with a playful smirk.

So now he wants to play with me! Then the game is on!

With that I lunged towards him against the natural obstacles like the tides and my saree!

Soon both of us are completely drenched in water.

And I don't know when this war turned to a kissing war!

Hruday is kissing me leaving me completely breathless.

We are now sitting on a rock in a less crowded area smiling to each other and the evening sun rays are soaking our wet bodies.

"Hruday, isn't it ironic, How I used to hate you to the core and now how I'm loving you to sky and high!!" I said.

"I did nothing wrong for you to hate me, at the first point!" he said.

"You are saying that? That you did nothing? You tricked me into marrying you!!" I said keeping my calm.

Haha, I still didn't forget my mission.

All this is not an act, its true. But I'm not forgetting my mission either.

One stone, two birds.
Fasaaakkk!!

"I didn't trick you. You agreed on your own, darling!!" he said.

"Oh c'mon!! Hruday we had an agreement that we were not going to proceed with the wedding. But you betrayed me!!" I said.

"If you remember, sweetheart, I had never agreed with you in that matter. You just said what you wanted to tell and left without waiting for my reply!!" he pointed out.

Hmm, true.
I agree that I have an attitude touching the peak that time!

"But you can't just come to our house with your parents and settle the wedding. You should have asked me before, atleast once!!" I reasoned.

"You left me with no choice Krithi, I was so into you that I didn't think twice about my act. I just don't want to lose you and wanted you all for myself!!" he said.

If I'm not intelligent I would have fallen for his words.

I know human psychology well, specifically I know him better.

The Hruday Aurora I knew earlier wouldn't step down to marry a girl like me.

There should be something else, something which he's not telling me.

Funny that it sounds, but I can actually see it through him.
That he is lying!!

Maybe I should talk to him in a pleasant way.

I can't give up now.
With our busy schedules I don't think we get time like this again.

Not to forget with my undying curiosity.

"So you are saying you have fallen to me in the first sight?" I asked trying to blush.

Fall for my charms!!
Fall for my charms!!

"Not actually.....But....I liked you since the start!!" he said.

Hmm, not bad.
Let's play more.

Maybe I should lie a little.

"Even I had a crush on you, since I saw you......" I said blushing a little more.

"But you bluntly rejected me!" he reasoned.

"That's because I gave more importance to my career than marriage!!" I said.

"I thought you had a boyfriend and your parents are forcing you to marry others!" he said.

Oh, someone's opening up slowly....

"No one actually attracted me in the first sight, like you did!" I said smiling.

"Haha, maybe that's why god made up my mind to ask for your hand!" he said.

He is again trying to divert the topic...

"I felt bad the whole night for rejecting you. I just consoled myself that I'm doing the right thing as I'm giving preference to my career. But you know, I was more excited than shocked that I saw you the next day in OT!" I said.

Actually speaking, I was more scared than shocked.

"Is it? But to me it seemed like utter shock!!" he asked.

Shit!!
I wish he didn't remember.

"It's just a cover up. I was really grateful that dad made us have lunch, that day. That was the start!!" I said.

"Yaa, that evening you scolded me in the club for saving you from a pervert!" he said as of mocking me.

"C'mon you were rude to me about my dressing style. I was angry. But that was the day we first kissed!!" I said.

I know, I'm being too cliche.
But I can't help.
Situation is demanding me to be like that.

"I'm surprised that you remember every single moment!" he said.

I'm as surprised as you Hruday, I wanted to say but I didn't.

I don't have a bright memory. But I don't know why, I remember all our moments.

Am I interested in him since long without my notice!!

"Yaa, that was kind of our first kiss. But not a kiss actually!" he continued.

"Haha, you have no idea. I couldn't sleep that night because of excitement that my crush had kissed me!" I said.

Did I think I'll lie him just a bit? OK, I'm lying a lot.

"Are you serious?" he asked.

"Yes of course. One of my best days!!" I said.

"But as far as I remember the very next day, you poured a glass of water over me!" he pointed out.

Shit!! What should I say now?

"Well, that's because you behaved like a jerk that night. Not because of hatred, it's pure anger!" I said.

"What did I do that made you think that I'm a jerk?" he asked.

"You insulted me by saying I have many boyfriends. You insulted my character. That's why you were a jerk. You were so despicable!" I said pouting.

"Oh c'mon, that was nothing like despicable. It's very little. And I really like it when you pout!" he said laughing.

"Oh really? Then what do you call despicable? Suddenly coming to my house for fixing marriage because you like me!" I asked him.

"No, despicable is when I fixed the marriage to satisfy my ego!" he said.

What does he mean?

"I don't understand, can you elaborate please?" I asked smiling real sweet.

"Even when I warned you not to come to the ward, you came and rejected me. Of course, you did that in a secluded area but some of the staff members heard it!" he said.

"What?" I managed a surprised laugh.

Well I'm really surprised!!

"Yes, just imagine how embarrassing it was to know everyone talking that just a first year PG, rejected Hruday Aurora, the one and only great son of Arjun and Avanthika Aurora!" he said still laughing.

"That's why I immediately fixed the marriage without any further repercussions!" he said smiling reminding those days.

"Oh wow, that's very great of you!!" I said and tightened my fist.

That devil!!!

"Yaa, but the highlight is you agreeing to the marriage absentmindedly. You are so dumb!! If the situation hadn't been sensitive then, I would have laughed my ass out!" I said with tiny laughs escaping my throat.

I couldn't control anymore.

"You are doing the same thing now, but I'll make sure you don't laugh or even smile for the rest of your life!!"

With that I left the place not before pulling the car keys from him.

Hruday's POV:

"Come on krithi, give me any kind of torturous punishment, but don't leave me!" I almost begged her this time.

"Pfft, will you sit quietly at the corner just for few moments?" With that she zipped the bag.

"No I wouldn't. Why should I? I can't let you leave me. Please forgive me!!"

"God Hruday!! I'm not going to!!" she said.

She's not gonna forgive me?

But we are happy now.
I love her so much, can't she see it in my eyes?

I can't let her go like this.

If required I'll lock her in this room for the rest of our lives.

I hugged her tightly from backwards and muttered apologies in her ear like mantras.

"Argh!!! Hruday, why can't you just let me do my work. Why can't you understand?" she angrily yelled at me.

She is not at all listening to me, maybe I should go with my other plans.

I roughly pushed her aside unzipped the bag.

Within no time, I messed up her clothes, throwing them in different directions.

Some on the night stand, some on the bed, some on the floor....

All are decorated with her clothes.

Wait a second, shirts and pants. What are they doing in her bag??

Is she taking them like a last reminder of me?

But those are old ones, I'm not using them anymore.

Even her dresses seem like old ones, I haven't seen her wearing those clothes since a while.

What will she do with these clothes??

"What are these....." I looked at her only to see her lying on the floor.

I don't remember throwing her that bad?!

Immediately I rushed to her and held her arm to help her in standing up.

She snatched her hand away and stood up on her own.

"Are.... Are you OK?" I asked her.

She snorted....

"I think I should ask you that question, because since 10 minutes you are acting like a lunatic!!" she said.

"I know you are mad at me for my words, but how can you think of leaving me krithi? My approach may be inappropriate, but my love is real. And I promise to do anything to get your leniency!" I said holding her shoulders.

She gave me dirty look.

Did I hurt her that much?

"OK, I'll excuse you. But help me pack these clothes back, fast!!" she said and moved aside.

I pulled her -- "Why are you so desperate about leaving me? And why do you think I'll help you? I'd rather kill myself!" I said seriously.

"Hruday, if I'm leaving you, why would I take your clothes? Or even better why would I take our old clothes?" she asked.

"Yes, that's what I'm thinking too!!" I said.

"Because I was going to donate those dresses. I do it every year. This is the last day of the programme conducted by the NGO. That's why I'm in a hurry. And you are only delaying me!!" she said.

Oh!!!
What have I done?

How could I know that she is packing dresses for donating?

When I came home in cab I'm sure krithi would be angry on me.

The first thing that crossed my mind when I saw her packing is that, she's leaving me.

"Hurry up, we have very less time!!" she shouted.

"Yes!" I gave into her.

Atleast this is not the worst situation I expected.

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The dinner went well and she left for shower whereas I sat there replaying the events happened in this evening over and over in my mind.

Glad that she is not behaving like.....

"Hruday...I should start my journey tomorrow? What do you say?" She asked me in a serious tone while drying her hair with a towel.

"Wh..aa..ttt are you saying krithi?" I stuttered at her question.

"May be I should get ready and leave now right?" She said raising her eyebrows but I can detect the sarcasm behind her words.

I have to use my charm now if I don't want her to leave!!

"Why would you leave when I'm asking you not to leave my dear wifey!!!" With that I pulled the towel from her hands and shoved it away.

I placed my fingers into her wet hair and pulled her towards me.

"What....." I stopped her in the middle itself with the most passionate kiss I ever experienced till now.

She is trying to dominate me and that's what I want!

She is trying to bite my lip and I'm not making it easy for her even though my heart aches to give in to the sweet pain she is trying to inflict on me.

She pulled the hair on my scalp and that made the trick for her.

The pain is sweet and I'm enjoying it.

Once she didn't get the reaction she expected to see on my face she started pushing me.

But I held her tightly and refused to let her go.

I slowly pushed her on the matrice once we reached the bed.

"I will receive all the pain you give if it stops you from going!"

Those are the words I told her before kissing her for another time holding her tightly.

Suddenly I felt wetness on my fingers which are holding her cheeks.

She is crying!!!!

"Why are you crying love? Do you feel bad for biting my lip?" I said wiping the tears to lighten the mood.

"You are very mean Hruday! I'm trying to inflict pain to you and make you aware of your mistake but you instead are making me feel bad for this!!" With that fresh set of tears escaped her eyes.

"Don't cry love! I can't see you like that please!!" With that I kissed her eyes.

"You know even though you order me to leave this house I won't go because...." She stopped there.

"Because.." I continued.

"Because I own this house and the people here belong to me. Instead I will make you leave this house!!" With that she shoved me away and got up from the bed and started running.

"Heyyy.." I ran behind her to catch her!

I caught hold of her shirt and pulled her towards me.

"Ahhh!!" She shrieked and came falling on my chest.

This pull made her top disorganised and I can see the strap of her inner ware on her right shoulder.

I pushed it down the shoulder and kissed her now bare shoulder.

I can hear krithi moaning in the middle.

"I can't stand baby! Take me to bed!!" I heard non other than krithi's voice.

This single statement is enough for me to pick her up bridal style and gently place her on bed.

She looks so cute in her flushed state with redness decorating her cheeks beautifully.

"Let me continue from where you stopped!!" With that she pulled me to bed.

Someone became very bold this night!!

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At present we are under a warm blanket after a wonderful love making session, krithi hugging me tightly and slowly slipping into sleep.

She has done a wonderful job in giving me hickeys almost all over my body.

I felt very content after this as I felt like there is no barrier of secrets between us that will seperate us.

Suddenly I heard krithi murmur- "Then are you ready for leaving in the morning?"

Not again yaar!!!!!!

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