🍁chapter seventeen 🍁

Morning Time (Shantanu’s Room)

On a single bed, two people were sleeping peacefully, hugging each other. Unlike always, this time Rudra's face had no lines of stress. Shantanu’s head rested on Rudra's chest, and his arm lay around Rudra’s waist, while Rudra's arms tightly encircled Shantanu, as though if he loosened his grip even slightly, Shantanu would disappear into thin air.

It was 6 a.m. Rudra usually didn’t sleep this late, but today he had surrendered to sleep’s embrace. In his sleep only, Shantanu moved his legs, which caused Rudra to wake up.

Seeing Shantanu sleeping on his chest like this, Rudra was surprised. For a moment, Rudra's mind went blank. He looked around and realized that he was in Shantanu's room, sharing the bed with him. When Rudra’s gaze fell on Shantanu’s innocent face, his lips suddenly twitched upward, a faint smile unconsciously spread across his lips. He lay there for some more time, simply admiring Shantanu’s face. "He looks so adorable."

After sometime, Rudra gently shifted Shantanu off himself and laid him on the bed, sneaking out of the room quietly. He gave a call to someone  and after talking for sometime he ended the call then went to freshen up.

Sometime later, a doorbell rang, destroying the Shantanu's precious sleep. He lazily sat up, rubbing his eyes. "Who’s here so early? Can’t I sleep in peace?" he mumbled, climbing out of bed lazily and carelessly.

"Wait a minute… How did I end up in my room? I was sleeping in the hall. Did I come here when the boss went to his meeting? And I Must’ve forgotten about coming here," Shantanu said, scratching his head in confusion and frustration. The person at the door, rang the bell again.

"I’m coming! What’s the rush? Are you Planning to take the doorbell with you? Or want to break my dead with this irritating ring tone" Shantanu grumbled as he walked toward the door. When he opened it, he found a stranger holding a few bags. Yawning, Shantanu asked, "What do you want, brother? "

The man handed the bags to Shantanu and said, "Sir, these are the clothes."

Shantanu narrowed his eyes, thought for sometime but he couldn't conclude then asked "Whose clothes?"

Before the man could answer to shantanu, a commanding voice from behind interrupted them "Mine."

Shantanu immediately recognized the voice. Rudra’s voice sent a shock through him, and when he turned around, his eyes widened in astonishment.

Rudra stood there with a towel wrapped around his waist and another towel in his hand, drying his wet hair. Water droplets still clung to his bare torso. Shantanu stared at Rudra, stunned and he did not realise when Rudra walked up to him.

After taking the bags from the man, Rudra shut the door. Ignoring Shantanu’s confused and shocked expression, hele placed the bags on the table and started taking out clothes. Shantanu was trying to compose himself and understand what is going on around him. Why is Rudra at home ? Wasn't he gone to attend the meeting or did he return from there only.

He walked up to Rudra with his arms crossed over his chest and stared at Rudra's while flaring his nose in anger and frustration. Seeing Shantanu standing nearby, Rudra raises his head and looked at Shantanu with a Stoic face and asked, "What?"

"What are you doing here?" Shantanu asked seriously, not taking his eyes off Rudra even for a second.

"I told you yesterday," Rudra replied carelessly, continuing his task.

Shantanu gets another shock,

"WHAT?? " Shantanu exclaimed in shock. His eyes widened in shock at realisation that Rudra stayed at his home for the whole damn night.

Rudra's hands paused at Shantanu’s loud screaming and he looked at shan as if he was asking, "What’s wrong now? why did you scream so loud? "

Shantanu asked in disbelief, "You’ve been here since yesterday"

Rudra stared at Shantanu’s stunned face for a moment before replying calmly like it's not a big deal "do you Forgot already? You’re the one who let me stay. You even made coffee for me. By the way, I’ve ordered breakfast. You just need to make coffee for me again."

Shantanu glared at Rudra, gritting his teeth, asked "And your meeting? Didn’t you go there? "

While putting on his shirt, Rudra replied nonchalantly "That’s today."

Shantanu was now hell annoyed, snapped, "If you want coffee, make it yourself. I’m going to the bathroom!" He stomped his feet and headed to the bathroom.

Rudra simply watched Shantanu’s retreating figure as he left. Shaking his head, Rudra muttered, "This boy is totally crazy... he does anything at any time."

Shantanu slammed the bathroom door shut with a loud sound, stood in front of the mirror, and began grumbling. "Whose house is this? He did not even think, it is necessary to  inform me once before staying at my house. He may be the boss in the company but this is my house and I am the boss here. If he likes drinking coffee  that much then he should make it himself, why bother me..," muttering Shantanu picked up his toothbrush which was already wet,"What a strange man he is. I don't know how he bathed. Along with the bathroom, he has also made my brush wet."

Rudra could hear Shantanu mumbling inside the bathroom but couldn’t make out the words. By now, Rudra had dressed completely and moved to the Shantanu's bedroom.

When Shantanu came out of the bathroom sometime later, he saw Rudra sitting on the sofa, eating breakfast, and his mood soured further. "Look at him, sitting there like he owns the place!"

Rudra glanced at Shantanu and invited him to join the breakfast "Come, have breakfast. I ordered for both of us. I even got coffee, so you don’t have to make it."

Shantanu walked briskly toward Rudra and stood beside him. "Are you doing all this purposely... to annoy me? And for your kind information I don’t like coffee... I drink tea, did you get that ? " Shantanu had leaned over Rudra, while Rudra leaned back slightly.

"Why are you so irritated?" Rudra maanged to ask.

Shantanu let out a fake laugh before turning serious. "Because you’re deliberately trying to annoy me." Their eyes locked, and for a moment, neither looked away.

Noticing a bit of bread filling at the corner of Rudra’s lips, Shantanu unconsciously reached out and wiped it off with his thumb. Rudra froze at the touch, his grip tightening around his coffee mug, and his breathing turned uneven with the sudden touch of Shan in their heated conversation.

Rudra grabs Shaan's waist with his other hand and pulls him towards himself, and Shaan suddenly comes on top of Rudra. Both of Shantanu's hands gripped Rudra’s shoulders tightly to balance his body.

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To know what happens next, keep reading "Chained Heart: RuShan"

The main characters of this story are Rudra and Shantanu. This is a BL story. If you don’t like gay couples, please don’t read further, as I don’t want to hate comments.

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