Sanskar Maheshwari had seen many thing in his life but none  more pleasing as his wife,  when she was on the mood for a tantrum especially when it was out of concern for him . 

      
" It was a slight fever Swara "he spoke up when she refused to let him get up from the bed few minutes ago which made her launch into a speech  and that was the  first time he had seen her that angry .

     
" A slight fever ,yeah that why you were almost out of your consciousness  . Now look your temperature is still high and you should be taking rest instead of talking with me " She answered back unwilling to accept he was already feeling fine . 

     
  Last night when he woke up to see her crying , he really wanted to console her but all he could voice out was asking her to stop crying and his body was too weak that it prevented him for staying awake longer 

             
  So he decided to follow her instruction and went back to sleep as the medication kicked in ,  what he didn't know was that Swara was awake the whole night taking care of him . She kept changing the wet towel on his head for every hour , checked upon his temperature every hour and so on.

     
  It was why  sanskar woke up feeling much better and found  his wife right beside him still sitting  on the bed and sleeping while leaning on the bed rest.

   
  He slowly got up and went to freshen himself up  as  he was feeling pretty okay. She woke up few minutes later and found her husband missing, she quickly scanned the room and spotted him on the balcony  where he usually likes to spend each morning  with both of them sipping some hot beverages .

      
She quickly jumped out of the bed and ran towards the balcony and the first thing she did was to check is temperature and she broke into a huge smile when there was no sign of fever. 

   
" Thank God your temperature is back to normal. Now where are you getting up , you are supposed to stay in bed for the whole day " She greeted him early in the morning and her smile dimmed when he failed to follow her rules.

   
" The whole day but who will go to the movies we are supposed to watch today and also did you forget today you get to see a women finals of the  grand slam tournament. "Sanskar asked her but she wasn't budging from her stance of complete bed rest.

    
" Well come on Sanskar, you were sick the whole night and here you are standing in this cold breeze , first get in and then we will talk ,also we are not going anywhere .Cancel all your plans .You are going to stay on the bed the whole day and that final. Either you like it or not i don't care." She told him few minutes ago and he had been valiantly trying to change her mind for sometime but when he realized it only made her angry ,he decided to give up .

    
And that why they spend the whole day in the room, the doctor visited in the morning as promised, he also came in the evening and when he finally pronounced Sanskar had recovered faster than he expected did Swara finally felt happy , in spite of that Swara basically didn't even let Sanskar do anything at all .

    
The next day she still made him cancel all there day plans and forced him to stay in the room and also told him that they are not going to the Men's Final either.

        
Sanskar cant have her miss the match when she was that excited about it before he got sick. And he felt back in shape that he didn't feel like missing it out. So he decided to get ready first and convince Swara .

     
And he did just that , they were out of the room and was about to hail a cab ,when Sanskar accidentally slipped on an discarded brick in the pathway which caused him to sprain his right leg and left with few scratches on his hand as well .

      
And it was  Swara who once again helped him back to their room and called for the doctor who soon bandaged his sprained leg and adviced him to not to strain his leg for the next one week

   
  " You heard the doctor , i am quite okay. Why don't you go alone this time while i can limp my way into the match , it will only slow you down. I will watch the match from TV this one time" he spoke up after the doctor left and yet again he got a glimpse of his angry wife .

   
" You got to be kidding me Sanskar, if you think i am going anywhere with out you , i am not going to any match. I can watch it in TV too there is not much difference between Tv and live matches after all" she answered back .

     
  " Swara please don't lie on my account , i am perfectly fine and i do know how much you wanted to watch the match live. It not like i am having fever like last time and the match will last for just few hours and i can ask the hotel staff for help if needed. "Sanskar tried valiantly again because he knew  how much she wanted to watch the finals . 

   " You think i can leave you alone and can go and enjoy the match without you i cant, so let stop this discussion now shall we." She replied back with a firm tone that left Sanskar unable to change her mind yet again .

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Sanskar Maheshwari looked at his wife who was leaning on his shoulder and watching a Grand slam final in the cozy hotel room instead of the Stadium live.

  
She was not on the brightest mood not because she was not able to watch it live but because her favorite player is losing the match and Swara doesn't like it one bit.

   
During this past two week he can predict Swara mood and the player she is supporting just by watching her face and the score of the tennis match. She will be  super happy when her favourite player won a hard fought match, super sad when he lost a hard fought match.

    
Right now she is super sad. And it was  better to give her some time so that she come back to her normal mode as trying to change her mood soon never worked for him .

  
While he admired her passion for tennis , the one thing he didn't admire was how much she loved those players like Roger, Rafael , Stan  and so on ,she would even drag him to watch them practice on the courts during the last two weeks .

  
At first he dismissed it has nothing and after two week he knew that it was a bit of jealousy that those players are the center of his wife focus and admiration when she was watching them.

    
Sanskar knew when to accept the reality and he accepted it. He was jealous  and instead of finding why he would get jealous, he did the opposite of trying to stop being jealous , he doesn't know how but he is going to try nevertheless he decided until two days ago .

But realization take small steps and today Sanskar now knew why he was jealous for the past two weeks, he actually felt immense happiness the moment his wife decided to forego watching the match live and stay with him, in a way she choose him over the match.

   He realized he wanted to be the first in Swara heart and that could only mean he is in love with her he was so  stubborn not to realize it sooner , and when did he actually realize he was in love, it was yesterday the moment he woke up and found Swara sleeping by leaning on the bed rest after taking care of him the whole night.

   He was so moved by her gesture, he was still feeling weak but he got up from the bed and walked to the balcony to gather is thoughts because the whole night when he was too sick and unable to move or speak is mind was constantly filled with the memories of Swara and Swara alone.

 
  His body was too weak to over think anything , his mind was too tired as well and that when he finally was able to listen to his heart and it was crystal clear that Mr. Sanskar Maheshwari is madly and deeply in love with his wife.

 
 He knows it now and every cell in his body wanted to tell Swara that ,but he knows it might force her decision or influence her decision and while it not going to be easy , he decided to keep it to himself till Swara fall in love with him as well.

    He hoped she will because he cant imagine living with out her and in the mean time he decided to spend as much time as he can with her and try to keep her happy always even if it means taking her to every tennis matches and watch his wife focus on other guys .

   That why he tried so hard to take her to today match and his plan failed due to his sprained ankle. Because her happiness became his priority .

    Soon he hope she falls in love with him and till the magical day comes, he will wait for her and try to keep her happy always.

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Juanita Reid