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Mythili's POV -
The next few weeks went by in the same monotonous ways. Shivaay was extremely busy with his work and there was a party in the next two days where he would officially announce that he has taken over the other firm.
I had my college going on and then I'd go for work. We were working on a branding assignment for an apparel launch in the coming months and luckily for me, my contact with Shivaay was at its bare minimum in workplace.
But at home, I'd wait for him at dinner where he would ask me how my day went and would tell him the details. He also goes on to advice me here and there. Much much, but enough for me to get some good ideas.
Tonight was no exception. Maa always believes in having a very early dinner after she comes back from her NGO and then go to bed by ten. Shivaay on the other hand wasn't coming home before 10:30 these days. I was just sitting in my work clothes so I decided to go and change before he comes back.
Mythili's Fit -
As the bell rang, I went on to attend the door and found him standing there and he looked really, really tired.
" Maa is going to scold you very soon if you keep coming home this late." I said, taking his laptop bag from his hands and keeping it on the couch as he took his shoes off and then went to get a glass of water for him.
" The work load will get better after the damn party." He groaned, taking the glass from my hands and I could not help but laugh.
" Not a big fan of parties, I see." I remarked.
" Oh I enjoy them as much as you do." He replied, keeping a straight face but I knew it was a joke and I couldn't stop myself from grinning.
" Hate being the centre of attention?" I asked, raising a brow and followed him up to the room.
" What makes you think that I am the centre of attention in all the parties I attend?" He shot back, helping himself with his clothes.
" I have attended enough of these parties to know that people are somehow always talking about you." I told him the truth, shrugging my shoulders.
" Then how did I never see you in these said parties except for that once when your sorry parents introduced you to me?" He asked, suddenly very interested.
" I keep to myself in these parties Mr. Rathore. I don't exactly fit in with the likes of the invitees there. I am not a very interesting person, you see." I said very frankly before deciding to walk out and let him change.
" On the contrary, you are the most interesting person I have had the chance to meet Mrs. Rathore. I would rather prefer to sit in our dining room and eat with you than attend any fucking party in any corner of this world." His confession was unfiltered and raw in the truest of senses, making me feel all the things that I had been stopping myself to feel for this man standing in front of me.
I have no idea what came over me and instead of running out of the room like I had planned to, I took two steps closer to him and with a shaky hand, placed it on his chest while loosened his tie from the other one but did not dare to raise my eyes to look at him.
What if he gets angry or does not like it?
Although he froze for a second, he then decided to close even more distance between us by taken one step towards me, leaving barely inches away from each other.
" Look at me Mythili." He demanded, just like he had when we had danced for the first time and this time again, I could not find it in me to comply to him. I was already feeling embarrassed enough!
All I did was shake my head in a no and was about to withdraw my hands away from him but he caught hold of them in his, rooting them to his chest and this time my eyes automatically found his to find out what was he thinking.
" Stop fighting it." Was all he said and I instantly knew what he meant as my eyes widened at his words and I squirmed under his scrutinizing gaze.
" You....you must be hungry." I averted my eyes away again from him but he placed both his hands on my cheeks and gently lifted my head again.
" Stop fighting it." He repeated himself before he leaned in and placed a small kiss on my forehead and I couldn't believe that it just happened! I felt like I would burst into flames any second now when he finally let go of me, stepping back.
I fiddled with the end of my dupatta and tucked the hair strand on my face away furiously before lifting my eyes up to him and found a upwards tug on his lips, leaning back with the support of the closet door, crossing his arms in front of his chest looking the most relaxed that he did all week.
" You change and come down to the dining table." I said and turned around to walk out, succeeding this time.
" What did I just do?" I cringed at myself as I proceeded downstairs and sat on the chair of the dining table. The food was already set.
" You are the biggest idiot among all Mythili." I told myself, gulping down the third glass of water down my throat and reaching for the fourth.
" That is enough." I don't know when had Shivaay come here and was sitting on his usual seat when he took the glass of water away from me.
" How long have you been here!?" I shrieked, getting out of the chair immediately, horrified. Please god! Did he hear me ranting to myself?
" Long enough to know that any more water will make you sick." He replied, taking a bite of his dinner, taking his eyes away from me.
That could only mean that he had heard it all. Bravo Mythili.
I got back to my seat, refraining to look at him or embarrass myself and played with my spoon and rice for the rest of the time. I couldn't eat anything anyway because of the amount of water I had just had.
Once he had eaten, he kept his plate by the sink and I kept it in the fridge because it was totally untouched as we made our way back to the bedroom to sleep.
Just as usual, I built the pillow wall and took my side of the bed and not soon after, sleep took over.
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It was almost as if a series of embarrassing moments was being orchestrated by God for me because the next morning when I opened my eyes, I found my right hand on Shivaay's torso and my leg on his leg.
" Shit shit shit." I muttered to myself and took my leg away just as soon and while I was about to withdraw my hand away, I found him opening his eyes and mine widened for the second time in ten hours because of him and just like yesterday, I wished for the Earth to open up and swallow me instead of dealing with this first hand embarrassment.
" I am sorry." I muttered, taking my hand away from him as he pulled his weight up on his elbow and turned to look at me, furrowing his brows.
" For what?" He asked.
" I accidentally came over your side of the bed." I told him, meeting his gaze.
" You have been doing that every night Mrs. Rathore. You sleep like a baby." His confession shocked me and I sat down, still looking at him.
" I WHAT?" I let out a horrified squeak and stood up on the bed as he let out a laugh.
" You like to hold my hand or run your fingers through my hair or throw your legs around me when you sleep." He said and I stared at him to see if he was lying to pull my leg but it seemed like he wasn't.
" Why didn't you wake me up or say anything? I have been ruining your sleep ever since?" I asked him.
" I'd give you the answer to your question but you will start gulping down water like your life depends on it." He teased me and I folded my arms in front of me.
" Not funny." I said, shaking my head.
" I wasn't going for funny, I was going for the truth." He continued to pull my leg.
" Ha Ha." I fake laughed but then I tangled my foot with my comforter and fell down at his side and on top of him, placing my arms on Shivaay's shoulders for support but before I could even scream, I fell on my face and my lips touched his in the process. I was frozen, completely and utterly frozen as I felt his soft lips on mine and my heart raced like I was in trouble. For a moment, it was all I could think of!
In turn, he placed his arms at both sides on my waist, stabilising me.
I.KISSED.HIM.
I pulled myself just as soon, shutting my stupid internal voice which was asking me to kiss him as I meant it but she and I rarely agreed and I wasn't starting now, even when the offer was as tempting as I could see.
My face must have been as red as a beet as I tried to wiggle free of his hold and eventually, he let me get away.
" I.....I....didn't....I didn't....I mean....." my ability to form a normal sentence had flown out of my body and I was afraid that it was never coming back in front of him.
He got out of the bed giving me a nod and I took it as a chance to get out of the room just then.
I was walking as fast as my heart was racing perhaps when I saw Snowflake making her way to me and going around my feet. She does this every morning.
I bent down and sat on the floor in the corridor as she climbed my lap and I held her in my arms in an attempt to calm myself down.
" You wanted him like a wife wants his husband. You wanted him to touch you just as much as you wanted to touch him." My inner voice started making its assumptions.
" Shut up, shut up, just shut up." I replied back, keeping my hands on my ears.
" Mythili, beta what happened?" I heard Maa and took my hands off the ears and stood up, Snowflake jumping out of my arms to give attention to Maa.
" Nothing Maa. I just fell like something was tickling my ears." I told her the first lie. She looked at me funny but dropped the topic.
" Tomorrow is Shivaay's party and I want you to go there as his wife and host. Not as his intern. So you are going to go to the venue today and supervise things and tomorrow, just as his wife and host. I don't want you working tomorrow." She demanded and how could I say no to her!
" Done Maa. What are your plans for today?" I asked her. She didn't need to go to the NGO today but since Anamika and Nupur were coming back in an hour or something, they must have definitely planned something.
" They both are taking me for lunch and then shopping." She replied and I gave her a huge smile.
" Do you want me to go and talk to Shivaay to give you an off so that you can join us too?" She asked me, hoping I'd say yes.
" I really wish I could say yes Maa but I have a lot of work today considering that the party is tomorrow but what will stop us from from chilling together on Sunday?" I asked her, grinning and she nodded her head with a smile.
" Go and get ready. The breakfast is almost ready." She asked before leaving me. Snowflake followed her away.
" He clearly was not the okay with what happened and how would anyone be? Oh god!! I'm going to hide from him all day today and tomorrow." I spoke to myself and then went to the terrace for a while till he had left for work. When I saw his car leave, I sneaked back into the bedroom and quickly got ready.
After breakfast, I bid Maa bye and when I saw my friends in the college, I couldn't stop myself from telling what happened to them.
" YOU KISSED HIM!?" Amrita exclaimed and I cringed.
" Accidentally." I hissed, indicating her to keep her voice down.
" So what? He is your husband bro." Hritik was being himself.
" Yes and it would have been a problem had to kissed someone else." Viraj added and I rolled my eyes.
Boys.
" You're missing on to the point. I said that I might have made him extremely uncomfortable. Not that I intended to kiss him but it accidentally happened!" I clarified and defended myself for the third time.
" Him not liking that you accidentally kissed him? You've got to be out of your mind Mythili. Have you not seen how he looks at you?" Viraj was repulsed by my words again as he threw his hands in the air.
" Don't try to make me feel better." I sat down by benches and they followed.
" He's not wrong. The man looks whipped." Amrita defended Viraj.
" He dated Riya Khan, you remember? Then he had to marry me." I clarified the facts again.
" What kind of a perennial idiot are you M? Past tense, he used to see her. Now he is married to you and if you still feel that anyone can pressurise Shivaay Singh Rathore to do anything he doesn't want to, you're crazy." Hritik said.
" Exactly. Plus, you undermine yourself too much and that is why you don't see what we do. He may not have fallen in love with you yet, but he clearly is going to and I think you already love him. No matter how much you lie to us and to yourself." Amrita added.
" I am not." My cheeks must have turned pink.
" Look at yourself." Viraj gave a punch on my shoulder, laughing at me and others followed.
Then they started to tease me which went on till the end of the college.
I called my boss up to let her know that I'm directly going to the venue to keep a check on things and she was okay with that.
I had lunch in the car on my way and after that, completely busied myself with work till my phone went off. It was Maa who had asked me to get some of her medicines while getting home.
It was almost 7 when I got home. Anamika, Nupur and Maa were in the living room.
" Finally she is back home!" Anamika said and came over to give me a hug. Nupur joined soon after.
" I missed you two!" I exclaimed.
" We did too but we have something to show you." Nupur said and they both extended their ring fingers of their left hand towards me.
They both had a ring on.
" Oh My God!! Congratulations you two!" I shouted and hugged them once again.
They told me how they both were planning to propose each other but Nupur was the one who did it first and then Anamika took the ring out too!
" When when are you planning to get married?" I asked them, extremely excited.
( A/N - Yeah, I know gay marriages are still not recognised in India but in this book, they are. Love is loveâ¤ï¸â¤ï¸ )
Maa then asked me to go and freshen up which I did. I also had my dinner with mom because Anamika and Nupur were going to wait till Shivaay gets home and right now, I don't think I was ready to face him.
" Maa I have a bit of headache. I am going to go and sleep." I told them after a while.
Maa gave me a tablet to take before telling me to give her a call if I need anything. I assured her that I would and made my way upstairs.
" I don't know if he'd like me to sleep on the bed anymore." I muttered to myself, taking the pillow and comforter with me to the couch and making myself comfortable there.
I turned and twisted, recalling the events of today morning and shut my eyes again in embarrassment.
I had been crossing the pillow wall daily and he didn't say a word until today. Oh God!!
" What's done is done Mythili." I spoke to myself after over thinking for more than two hours before letting sleep take over me.
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The next time I found myself getting up was because I suddenly felt that I had been picked up and was about to fall.
" It's okay. It's okay, go back to sleep. I have got you." I heard that voice which had been providing me with comfort in these past few months and involuntarily, I felt myself snuggling even more into his chest for his warmth as I found myself humming before losing myself back to sleep.
As my alarm went off and I woke up in the morning, I found myself to be in the bed. How?
" How am I here?" I asked to the air in the room like a crazy person.
I turned my eyes around to find Shivaay's side of the bed unused and the couch on which I had slept initially to be occupied with his comforter now.
" Shit. Did he sleep on the couch?" I threw myself out of the bed and without a thought, climbed downstairs to find him.
" Good Morning Mythili. We are making the breakfast today so come on quickly. Shivaay bhai ditched us and left for the office after his phone went off and Maa had to go to the NGO." Anamika told me.
" Give me twenty minutes. I'll get ready and join you guys. By the way, where is Snowflake?" I asked them.
" Your Snowflake in sitting under the table ever since Shivaay bhai refused to pet her anymore because he had to leave. She's having a temper tantrum but don't worry. He is well fed." Nupur replied and I chuckled before going back to the room to get ready for the day but that hollow feeling never left my heart.
All I wanted to do was just talk to him once to clarify what had happened!
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