Rikara One Shot Story Collections I

He Said He Loved Me

"No. she is so reserved with me." Om says exasperated.

"Oh my!" Rudra suddenly says grinning.

"What?"

"In 6 months you are going to be 30, right?"

"Yeah... so?"

"A 30 years old virgin!" Rudra chuckles.

"Shut up!" Om snaps at him.

"Mr. I-will-wait-for-marriage, now see what it has got you." Rudra teases him.

"I don't regret it."

"I don't remember your wife much... is she hot?"

"Damn." Om sighs remembering Gauri.

Rudra starts chuckling softly.

"What is so funny?" Om snaps at him.

"Cold showers... huh?"

Om furiously looks at Rudra then giving up he says, "I can't sleep at night."

Rudra chuckles.

"We won't talk about that... tell me what should I do? I want to make this marriage work but she is so..." Om says helplessly.

"Hmmm" Rudra hmmms as he thought what possible way could help Om and Gauri and then asks, "Why don't you try with sex?"

"What?" Om asks shocked.

"Don't act so shocked... marriages works on many things... at times, to build the base you need to start with physical relation."

"What are you saying? She doesn't love me."

"Do you love her?"

"No."

"But you want to bed her."

"She is my wife." Om says.

"Right... So start with sex, once you attain physical compatibility work on others."

"But... how? What about the other things?"

"Om... not every marriage starts off with love... the truth is most of the arranged marriages starts of with physical compatibility. We get physical first then develop a deeper bond and love. It is not always like in the movies that you wait to fall in love to consummate your relation." Rudra tells him.

"It's not?"

"No... a marriage is just as complex as humans... there are no set rules on how you make it work. You tried other things, now try the physical relation."

As Om came out of the shower, he had made up his mind and he calls up Bittuji to book flight tickets for Gauri and him. They were going to take a trip and maybe a change in surroundings would help them along.

Om comes out of his bedroom to find that Gauri had already kept his tea on the dining table. Oh God! He could predict that in exactly 7 seconds Gauri would be hurrying out with biscuits for him.

And just like that, Gauri hurries out with biscuits and seeing him she says, "Tea is ready."

Om pulls up a chair and sits, and Gauri sits opposite to him, not because she wanted to because he would ask her to sit, and he knew that also.

Om sips on the tea and mentally flinches, Gauri still hasn't learned to make tea the way he liked it but then she never knew that he liked his tea with less milk and cardamom.

"I have an office trip coming up." Om tells her.

Gauri nods her head in reply.

"I want you to come with me."