"I don't know, I didn't like anything." I said.
"Accha okay, mom is sending a designer to your place, just try out the clothes he has in store." said Tushar.

"Okay. Bye." I said.

"Niti Niti wait.." He stopped me before I cut the call.

"Yeah?"

"Are you sure about this? Soch le ek baar phirse.. Please don't make decisions just for the heck of it. Its a life long commitment Niti. Think about it again. Please." He said.

"I'm.."

"Don't say you're fine with this and you want this and blah blah blah! I know you don't want this. Teri voice se he pata chalta hai what you want. I know aunty ne tujhe kaha hai and I know you're doing this for uncle aunty.."

"Tushaaar! Cut the crap. You can back out if you want but I cannot! You can have a reason, valid or invalid but I cannot have even a valid reason for backing out. Mumma phirse hurt ho jayegi, phirse royegi and papa ko kya bolungi? I know Tushh, its not your baby, I know its very difficult for you that is why you can say a no to this affair. But I can't.. Anyways we'll talk later, bye." saying that I cut the call. For once I wanted him to think over it and cancel this wedding drama. I could not say anything to mom about this or else she'd start with her emotional blackmail and flood the whole town! Moreover, I didn't want to hurt her again. I had already disappointed her as a daughter, I couldn't again do that. I had committed for this, and I had to do it. But I did hope for a miracle to happen!

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"Niti! Your clothes are here! Come down !" Mom called me downstairs.
I was sitting in my sister's room to avoid trouble. Trouble that was inside my room, locked up. He someone how loved being in there but I felt bad, though I hadn't given up fighting yet I didn't like him locked up that way. Ugh! Why did he had to come? My brain wasn't ready to give up. It was ready for another battle, a last battle which I wanted to lose.

"Maa please yaar.." I heard my sister say that when I walked out of her room.

"Kya hua?" She looked irritated.

"Mom happened. What else? I'm going in, I'll sleep. You stay out." She stepped into her room and locked the door without even waiting for my reply.

"Di lekin I have to try some clothes, I would need your room..." I knocked the door.

"Niti yaar apne room mein ja! Please! Let me sleep my brain will burst!" She shouted.

I went downstairs into the kitchen, and asked my mother. "Mom why is she boiling ?"

"Niti not right now, go try your clothes. In fact wait, I'll come with you to your room and I'll help you choose."

"No no no no no!" I freaked out. "Nahi mumma main kar loongi khud choose, I mean... Di hai na, main uski help le loongi." I couldn't let her come to my room where that monster was.

"Lekin kyunn? I will help you na, you try and come out and show me.." She insisted.

"Mumma nahi na.. Main.."

"Ya you can do nothing! Kal tum dono behene gayi thi.. Kya lekar aayi? Kuch nahi! Just go to your room.. There's so less time left jaldi jao" she pushed me out of the kitchen.

Okay, this was a big problem. I rushed up to my sister's room and knocked, rather banged the door but I got no reply. "Di ye sone ka time nahi hai!" I was panicking. Next I went to my room and again knocked.

"Kholo jaldi!" I hurriedly knocked at the door.

"Password?" Gah! There was no time for this shit!

"Parth mom aa rahi hai please open the door you can't be so irritating all the time!"

"Okay fine." He said disappointedly and opened the door. I grabbed his hand and pulled him to the bathroom.

"Woah!" he exclaimed when he most tripped over the mattress. "Kya hua aisa that you're hiding me again?" he asked.

I pushed him into the washroom and got in locking the door. "Mom will be here for I don't know how long, stay here, don't make noises varna hum teeno bahut trouble mein honge." I told him as I panted because of the 'marathon' I just ran. "Please Parth please don't create trouble here Please!" I pleaded him because him and trouble went hand in hand, best friends forever!

"Nitii come out! Look who's here!" I heard my mom and another voice enter my room.

"Please please please! No noise. Keep shut." I gave him the final look and went out.

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Parth's POV

I was standing in front of the mirror in her bathroom, looking at myself, thinking.
What a turn my life has taken in the past few months. I was living my life, trying to get away from my past and things were just normal. But then, she happened. She who changed me, my life, my everything! I fell in love and for the first time it felt like it. Everything was perfect! And then we fought, I let my insecurities ruin our relationship, my past won't let go off me! I hurt her, I broke her, I made her cry oceans of tears, I left her when she needed me the most! I was such a terrible person to do that. But now, I'm back here, for her, for our baby. I'm here, hiding in her room since 3 days, no one knows of my existence in this house besides she and her sister. And I get to know that she's getting married! To that douchebag! But, I know she loves me. I know she's hurt, she's angry, but at the end of the day she loves me and I will not let any other jerk marry her, she's MINE. I'll take her back to where we belong. Mumbai, where we happened. But how..?

My thoughts were broken by the sudden opening of the door. I turned back to see and it was her, with a pile of clothes in her hands.

"Ye sab kyun?" I asked whispering.

"Shhushh!" she stared at me with those wide beautiful eyes and keeping the clothes aside on a slab, she opened the tap of the basin. "Let the water run, or else they'll hear us." she whispered.

"They?"

"Maasi has come." she went back to that pile of clothes she had brought.

"What are these for?" I asked pointing at that pile of clothes.

"Mom wants me to try these and then she'll choose the one in which I look the best." she said blandly. She was not a bit interested in this marriage drama, and why would she be? She loved me and she knew it. She just didn't accept it. "You turn around and don't look back while I change." she pushed me to go back and turned me around.

"It's not like I haven't seen anything before." I said but she managed to turn me around and face in the other direction.

"Are you done?" I said tapping my feet restlessly on the floor. "5 minutes se zyada go gaya hai! Jaldi karo!" The water was still running so no one could hear us outside but we still talked in whispers.

"Shut up." she said. She was still pretending to be angry but little did she know that no matter how much she tries, she'll always end up losing.

"Fine then don't say ki main baat sunta!" I said as I turned back and wow! Frozen again.

She looked so BEAUTIFUL. I was captivated, spellbound, dumbstruck all together! I wanted to move but I stopped to capture her in my eyes for a moment. She had her hair on one shoulder, no make up on her, just the simple usual her. The pretty usual her. But what made her look unusual yet beautiful was what she was wearing.

A light orangish-hot pink lehenga covered the part below her belly flowing seamlessly and stopping 5 inches away from her feet. It was sequenced with utmost delicacy, not too much. I didn't know much about the work on that but whatever it was, it was heavenly! She wore a same colored choli covering just a little part of her upper body (the one I had viewed quite a few times :p), it stopped 6 inches above her belly button exposing her milky white, soft skin. The back of it had just a single dori that would have kept the little outfit intact. She didn't notice when I turned and was busy struggling to tie that dori into a knot but her small hands couldn't reach her back.

My eyes were fixed on her, traveling every part of her body that was exposed to me. Her perfect hourglass frame, her milky white skin, and that birthmark, captivating yeah? Well that's what I was. She looked so voluptuous, I couldn't get my eyes off her. Her tresses were falling over her face from the other side, touching her soft cheeks, causing tickle over there while she struggled with that one piece of thread. She was so delicate, so beautiful. A warm smile took over my lips and then it widened seeing her struggle.

I started moving and stopped behind her. "Need some help here?" I whispered into her ears. I looked into the mirror where my gaze met hers.

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Niti's POV

He was standing behind me, smiling, looking into my eyes. I met his gaze through the mirror.

"I'll help you.." he whispered in sultry manner bringing his mouth so close to my ears that I could feel his warm breath on them. Focus! Don't forget, you have to hate him. He took the dori that was entangled in my fingers. No focus! Focus! Don't forget..
He pulled me close, my back hit his torso. His fingers lightly brushed against my bare back as he tied that single thread into a knot. His light feathery touches ignited fire inside me. I could feel the adrenaline rushing in my veins. Push him back! Push him. Go out. "Done." he moved his hands from my back and slid one onto my waist with sheer delicacy. You're giving in! Fight! Fight him, he's trying to seduce you and you are letting him. Oh shut up, brain!
His grip tightened around my waist. My breathing rate was increasing with every breath of his that I felt on my neck. I had no control, my brain had no control over me. "You are so beautiful.." again that sultry seductive tone of his got goosebumps all over my body. I gulped some air in, my throat and my mouth were dry, I couldn't breath, I needed more air but I couldn't move even an inch. He was tantalizing me. Evoking all the desires inside me. I breathed heavily, yet slowly. His lips brushed against my nape, moving up and down dropping long kisses everywhere. His one hand gripped my waist tight and the other moved up and down my arm. It was like he was feeling the goosebumps over them. He slowly kissed the back of my shoulders. I felt his grip loosen on my waist, I feared he'd stop, I thought he would step back. I turned back to face him and put my hand over his, the one over my waist. I moved my head in a no and he knew why. I didn't want him to stop, not now. I was free from my brain's control and I wanted him in that moment more than anything.

"I love you, Niti." he said as he bought his face close to mine but it seemed like he didn't want to wait even for a minute. He didn't let me reply back and took my lips into his mouth. My hands traveled the back of his neck up to his hair and I clasped some of them in my hands. His hands slid further onto my waist, he wanted to pull me closer but there was no space left. The gap between us was already filled. He moved his mouth from mine for some air, and then again took in the lower part of my lips into his. I replied back this time, with every emotion inside me, I kissed him. I had been longing to feel those lips over mine, just like they were now. I had been wanting to be wrapped in his arms and to wrap him in mine. I had missed him so much. Staying away from him was equally a torture for me. He was in front my eyes, in my room since the last three days and I had pushed him away. The weeks of torture, the oceans of tears that I had shed seemed to be of worth in this moment. His hands moved up and down my naked back feeling every nerve of mine. He finally pulled the thread he had tied just then. Our lips were in complete synchrony, angling our heads in opposite directions we kissed with utmost passion. He was the food for me, for my desires, for my urges. He was the food I craved for, he was the air my lungs needed. He knew I had lost the battle that I had been fighting with myself. I knew I had lost it too. Lost myself to him once again. Lost myself into him. I was panting in between but I still didn't want to pull my mouth out of his. He felt me running out of breath and stopped.

"Niti!! Niti!!" I suddenly felt my sense striking me back and I heard my mother bang the door.

"Parth, Parth! Leave me!" I hit his hands that were gripping my waist. "Parth!" I widened my eyes and looked into his. He was gazing at my face. "Parth!! Sun rahe ho!?" I shook him by his shoulders to snap him out of the lalala land he was still in.

"Kyaaa?" he nuzzled into my neck.

"Parth mom bula rahi hai.. Please, chodho.. Please?" I said making the puppy dog he couldn't resist.

"Ugh! Tumhari mom aisi kyun hai?" He said grumpily.

"Aisi kaisi?" I turned my back to him so that he could tie the thread he had opened.
"Pyaar ki dushman." He said whining.

"Shut up". I said as I washed my face and closed the running tap. And walked towards the door.

"I choose this." He said. I turned back and found him staring at me smiling with his arms folded across his chest. I smiled back. Had my brain given in? Had I lost the battle? I turned back to the door.

"Phew! Lights, camera, action!" I said to myself and opened the door.

"Huh, mumma.. I'm sorry.. Vo main.." I made a tired and drained expression and I tried to sound weak.

"Kya.. Kya hua? Itne der andar thi! Are you okay?" she made me sit on the bed and wiped the sweat (water) from my face. "Why are you sweating? Are you okay Niti?" she asked again.

"Mumma weakness ho gayi this, suddenly I felt as if I'll faint, isliye I was just gathering my energy in there. Yeah, right. Gathering energy. Very well.

"Accha tu relax kar, please rest." She didn't even look at the clothes I was wearing. She got so worried for me that she left lay me under the blanket and took maasi outside with her. "If you want something, give me a ring on the phone, don't get up. Please rest kar beta.." she said as she left the room closing the door.

"Aa jao bahar!" I said as I removed the blanket from me and stood up.

"Wow!" he came out clapping "Tumhe toh best actress ka award milna chahiye!"

"Oh shut up." I went to the cupboard to fetch for my casuals.

"If you don't remove this right now, I swear I will. No matter how drop dead gorgeous you look right now." I felt his breath on nape once again.

"You stay away." I turned back and pushed him away. My brain, was again in power. Heart had had its moment sometime back, but my brain was still fighting a lost battle.

"Andar jo bhi hua, I wasn't in control. Tumne jaan kar mujhe seduce Kara. You think I don't know your tricks?" I said, firmness in my tone.

"Lekin.. I thought.."

"You thought maan gayi Niti, I won't have to struggle more, I'll get her back again and blah blah blah! But no Mr. Samthaan, you are highly mistaken here! Itna easily you won't get your way so don't already loosen up." I said as I moved him aside and walked into the washroom.

"You know I literally feel used right now, like seriously!" He said though I knew he was smiling and I didn't miss out his special emphasis on 'like seriously'.

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Yay! Managed one today! Phew! Hope this one gave you all you've been wanting ;) *giggles*