"You want what?" Ratul asked in a cell shocking shirk. His eyebrows were Knotted a furious frown that could describe the amount of surprise he was. "Did she asked to go with you?"

"Well not directly..." Shuvro licked his lips, still confused about the incident of last night. What got into Tuli he would never know.

"Oh so you are assuming she wants to go with you or it's just all cooked inside your own brain?"

"I don't know..."

"What do you mean by you don't know...?"

"It means I don't know okay!" Shuvro finally looked up at Ratul's scowling face. He wiped his face with his palm, even though being under air-condition, he was sweating. Ratul scrunched his nose noticing his state.

"Why the fuck are you sweating this much!!!" He hissed.

"I am confused as well okay?... well, I need to talk to boss..."

"You need to calm the fuck down first! Just think before..."

"Why? She is my wife, she wants to go, I have to at least look if I can bring her with me!"

Ratul looked at Shuvro for a minute as if he had said something very absurd, and asked "Why?"

"What's your problem? She is my wife, its my decision to do whatever!" Saying Shuvro turned on his heel heading their boss's cabinet.

But he had to turn to throw a hateful dagger at Ratul as he replied over his shoulder in mild high pitch "oh yah! How's your voluntary celibacy going?"

***

"So I asked my boss," Shuvro cleared his voice to launch the overture that he was preparing himself to start about since he picked her from her university. He stood awkwardly at the way of the washroom as she walked out of there. She looked at him being surprised. He licked his lips then continued "about what you said last night that you wanted to come along!?!" This last part came out more like a question asked out of confusion more than a statement. Hearing him Tuli's nose flared up and eyebrows got furrowed and she took a step towards her husband.

"When did I say I wanted to?" Her eyes loomed over his threatening him. He, being somewhat scared took a step back instantly. Her jaw stiffened and a mad lightening struck in her black orbs, "when exactly you heard me saying I wanted to go to a vacation with you!!!"

'Please don't leave me! I am sorry!' Shuvro's mind begged.

And scratching his jaw he started stammering, "I-I... you said... I thought..."

"What? What exactly did you think I want?" The mussel of her face flexed as she clenched her jaws to the point - the corner teeth started paining. "You think I am jumping at the opportunity of going away with you? Seriously? You think forgetting everything everything I will? Cause you are my husband and oh my god how much I am just in love with you!!! Shumedh? Who the fuck is that!"

Biting out all the poison she could gather, and throwing the towel she had in her hand away somewhere, she moved passing him. She strode towards the closet and with a forceful tug she opened it.

Standing there dumbstruck Shuvro realised that someone just had squeezed his windpipe and was crushing it with all of their might. Then he understood there was nothing but the words her heard. The words- he was hearing after months. Months ago he used to hear them again and again. He got immune to them.

But today as they came pouring down unexpectedly he was standing with out any shield - unarmed.

Tuli was holding both the plank-lid open , as wide as she could. Her face, which was shoved among her dresses, distorted. If Shuvro could see the vividly visible guilt and regret could confuse him more than he could take.

Damn it! Why did she say all those things? She never wanted to say them. Why! Damn how sorry she was!

As she was biting her up for what she had uttered, Shuvro's mumble got her attention.

"Its just, well, you asked - you said there was on other option, so- so I talked to Bagchi, my boss, and he said you could come if you wanted to." His cautiously uttered words were fuelling her regret. Fuck! It would have been easier if he would have yelled, she could just yell back and get rid of carrying this guilt. "Don't take it otherwise Tuli." He talked again and sounded so exhausted that it made her sigh deeply in frustration. "I had no other intention. I am sorry if I hu..."

"Please don't say it!" Tuli's shrieked but being shoved into the clothes, it came out like a restrained groan. "I am not. I am not!"

"I didn't..."

"I said don't!"

"I am sorry!"

"Stop fucking saying that!"

"What?"

"Oh god! What the fuck is happening!!!"

"Tuli?"

"Oh shut up for once Shuvro!"

Shuvro stood there looking at his wife leaning over a pile of clothes and shoving her head into them.

'Won't she have problem in breathing?'

He stood there with moth open in ajar and eyebrows knotted together as she groaned into the dresses.

And then he did something he could never imagine himself doing. He felt something came over him as he stride towards her and griped her left fore arm and turned her carefully making her face him. As she did his left hand raised upwards to cup her chin making her lightly frowning face looking at his.

"Tuli," gently and mildly he took her name to ask, "Do you want to come with me?"

She looked at his eyes, that were behind thick glasses of that nerdy specks. Expectation was sparking in those light brown eyes of his.

Lightly she nodded looking into his eyes.

"Then that's it. Simple."

He uttered and that was it. She was starting to believe that was it. It was simple.

***

"You must be kidding me Tuli did! You are coming to Delhi and you won't be staying with us?" Poulee roared over phone.

"Its not my decision. Shuvro doesn't think it would be a good idea..." Tuli smiled at Poulee's raging voice looking at the suitcase that was open infront of her. She was packing.

"Oh hush! Its mu house. Let me see who will have problem with me having you guys over! I will see to it!" Pulu glared over the living area to the kitchen where her husband was standing looking at the T.V. screen, stopping at middle way of bringing the warm milk for his pregnant wife. As Butu's eyes caught her scowling face his brows raised up, as he failed to understand now on what reason be was being scowled at.

"Poulee, it will be fine, anyway, Shuvro will fly out tomorrow for Delhi and I will be there for just the weekend before, heading to Shimla..." Tuli tried to pipe her down but failed.

"So what? You are saying that weekend here. And ask Shuvro to come here tomorrow straight. End of discussion!"

And the line went dead.

Tuli chuckled staring at the mobile as she locked the screen imagining what Pulu was going to do to Butu.

Shuvro walked in the room and saw her best friend smiling after what seemed like a birth. Standing at the doorway he took a moment to drown the picture in his mind.

God how pretty that damn smile was only if he could tell her through all those words he had recited in his mind again and again. Her full lips would stretch creating a perfect cleft just to let her perfectly shaped and white teeth to have a peep.

She looked up at him having that smile still adorning on her face. Could she notice the appreciation in his face?

"Pulu asked to stay us at them." She spoke, still smiling.

Shuvro heaving a sigh strode towards her, how he wish to have her in his arms. Damn those little creatures that were fluttering inside his stomach pit as she smiled.

And damn that pull at his lower abdominal!!!

Fuck it! He was not 16 anymore!

Behave you asshole!!!

Get your shit together.

"That won't be good idea." He shook his head.

She was still smiling though!

"I told her. But Pulu is Pulu!"

"Hmm..."

Not one of them notice the decreasing closeness. Or did they just avoided it for once!

He could smell the shampoo of her, and he took a lung full of it.

Damn it!

"Are you done packing for tomorrow?" She asked looking at him. He nodded, looking at her with moony eyes.

The hairs at the back of her nape stood up as she stood under his gaze. She felt a warm feeling running through all her body towards her face and hitting up her ears, cheeks, leaving goose bumps on every inch of her body - even after Shuvro headed to the washroom...

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