Arohi's POV

Yudhi left around 6 PM huffing and puffing, after I slapped him, and now it was 8 PM and still no sign of him.

I thought of giving him some time to cool off, before I start calling him. Two hours looked very reasonable, so I took out my phone and called him.

Ring...ring...no answer ..it went to his voice mail.

"Yudhi, it's Arohi. I am sorry, please call me back asap. We need to talk." I left him a voice mail hoping he would call back immediately.

Time 9:00 PM.

Still no call from Yudhi. I called my dad to see if he knew Yudhi's whereabouts.

"Hi honey! What's up?" Dad asked.

"Dad, do you know where Yudhi is? I tried his cell and office numbers, but no response."

"No Arohi, I actually called to congratulate him, but reached his voice mail."

"Congratulations for what?" I asked.

"Oh! He successfully finished phase 1 of his project and now Europe and other countries have come forward to join his project. It is going to be huge and Yudhi is going to be very famous. This is going to be the biggest space project for this century and Yudhi is going to be in history books. I am really proud of him."

After hearing from Dad, I understood why Yudhi barged into my room as he wanted to share the information with me first and I ended up slapping him and spoiling his mood on his big day. I felt so bad.

Just then my sister came from her friends place and we both had dinner together. She was updating me on the school dating scene. Who started going out with whom, who broke up with whom and who was double dating. Aah! Teenagers so busy these days.

I barely managed to hear her story as I was very worried about Yudhi. I asked her to call Yudhi and see if he answers her as he was not picking up my calls. Even she got his voice mail.

After dinner Abhi went to her bedroom and I ended up sitting in the living room waiting for Yudhi.

Time 11 PM

I was getting desperate with guilt as Yudhi didn't come or call me back. I started calling his friends and anyone I knew hoping to get some info about his whereabouts, but no luck. I left voice mails on his friends phones asking them to call me back if they have any information.

Time 12 AM

Finally Roger called me around 12:15 AM.

"Hi Arohi, did you call earlier?" He asked immediately.

"Yes Roger, I am trying to find Yudhi, do you know where he is?" I asked keeping my fingers crossed.

"Yes Arohi, he is with me. We are at a Irish bar in downtown. Any problem?"

"Thank God, can I talk to him?" I don't know why I was screaming even though I was home and they were in a noisy bar.

"I don't think he is in state to talk. He is pretty much drunk. I am taking him to my place."

"No, bring him here."

"I promised I will take care of him and he is very drunk, I don't think you can handle him."

"Please Roger, I will owe you big time, if you do this favor. Please bring him home, I can take care of him."

Roger agreed and brought Yudhi home around 12:45 AM. I helped him to take Yudhi to his room and laid him on his bed.

"Arohi, call me if you need help. Okay, I will see you later."

"Sure Roger, Thanks for you help." I closed the main door and returned back to Yudhi's room.

I was happy that he was home and in front of me, though he was quite drunk. I removed his shoes and socks and set his legs straight on the bed. Then when I tried to remove his tshirt, he woke up.

"What are you doing? Why am I here? I told Roger to take me to his place." He was a bit slurry.

"Not Roger's fault. I asked him to bring you here."

"Wh.hhh.yy?"

"So that I can take care of you."

"Nooo! You are not taking care of me. I am done with you. You won. You don't love me. Our bet is over. I am leaving tomorrow and will never bother you again."

I got really mad. I got on the bed and sat on him straddling his waist and pulled him by his shirt.

"How dare you say such things? Just because I hit you, you are gonna dump me. Do you love me or my body?"

"It doesn't matter anymore since you don't love me. Just leave me alone."

"Sorry, can't do that. If you want my body just take it. If you are still mad about todays slap, go ahead have your fun." I said and removed my tshirt and threw it down.

"Stop Arohi! If you think so little of me, put your shirt back and leave. I want your love not your body."

"Go ahead Yudhi, have your fun." I said trying to unclasp my bra.

Yudhi tried to reach for my tshirt but couldn't move as I was sitting on him, so he removed his tshirt and tried to put it on me as I removed my bra too.

"Arohi please, don't do this and leave me alone. All I ever wanted was your love and I am not mad because you slapped me, I was mad because you are not willing to declare your love." He said trying to cover me with his tshirt.

I bent forward and took his face in my hands. OMG! there were tears in his eyes and he was crying. I started crying too, holding his face and wiping his tears with my fingers.

"Yudhi, I thought you would understand me by now. I refused to be born until my mom and your mom declared me as your wife. I spent every moment of my life loving and daydreaming about you until of course I saw a fake picture of yours. After that I did hate you for few years, until I saw you again at Newark airport. Since that day I have been loving you again and treasure every moment I spent with you. Ofcourse circumstances forced me make some bad decisions, but remember I never stopped loving you. You are my life, my destiny, my heart beat. You are there in the air I breathe, the food I eat, the sounds I hear and beautiful sights I see. You are there in every cell of my being. If you want to hear me say I LOVE YOU , I can say it a million times, write it or scream it from the top of Empire State Building. I will do whatever you say, but never doubt my love for you. I have always loved you and will love you forever." I was still holding his face and crying.

We both were crying in each other arms trying to console each other. Our emotions over took our feelings and tears of joy were flooding down both our bodies helping us to become one.

We didn't need words anymore to express our love for each other, our hearts and bodies were in sync and that is how we slept in each other arms. At that moment our love was speaking with a single voice, our heartbeats. We didn't care what the outside world would think about us. There were no worries in my head, just him and me in each other arms.

I couldn't have spent that night without talking to him, so I did everything to get him home and back in my arms.

Time 6 AM next morning

Still sleeping. ..

Time 7 AM

Still sleeping

Time 7:30 AM

I didn't realize that I was still sleeping in Yudhi's arms. I felt like the bed I was sleeping on was perfect and comfortable. It was my perfect sleep number like the sleeping ad said. It had the the perfect elevation and depth where required and moulded exactly to my body shape.

Just then I heard loud door banging. I tried to ignore it for few minutes, but it wasn't stopping.

"Coming" I shouted out of habit.

"Arohi! You in there!" It was my mom.

Suddenly my eyes flew open and I looked around. I was half naked and sleeping on Yudhi, who was shirtless too. I was in Yudhi's room.

I quickly jumped off the bed and searched for my shirt. I found it lying on the floor, which I pulled on in a hurry and opened the door.

My mom was standing right in front of me and her look was very serious. With raised eyebrows, she started scanning me top to bottom.

Unruly hair, messed up eyes because of crying, swollen lips and then when her eyes fell on my shirt, her eyes went wide and her jaw bone almost dropped. I quickly looked at my shirt and realized I was wearing it inside out. Okay, officially I am toast now.

"Mom, nothing happened. .I can .." she cut me off with her hand and pointed with her eyes towards the bed.

"Better pick that up. Freshen up and come downstairs. I will be waiting for you there." I followed her eyesight and realized she was pointing to my bra lying under the bed. This couldn't get any worse I thought.

It was D-day of my life.

A/N: Dear readers, question for you - How would your mom react ?

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