Thanks to all for voting and commenting on the previous story.
Here is the other twin story. I am hoping that you all have read Sum of All Kisses, because the backstory for this story is pretty much the same as that story. So, I am not writing it all over again. Just remember that in this story it is Shiv and Nitya who had kissed and fell in love, and just for the clarification, Om and Gauri doesn't flirt in the dance floor at that time. another change to note is, in this story also, it is Gauri, who is the dancer and Nitya the poet. The backstory is the same till they go down to inform their family about only one pair of twins are getting married.
Gauri was nervously sitting at the foot of the bed. She wasn't even sure why she was nervous. Maybe this was the first time she was going to sleep with a man. Hearing the door open, she nervously sits up as her heart started slamming against her chest. She looks at Om and sees him closing the door and locking it.
"Hi." Om says politely smiling at her.
"Hi." Gauri nervously smiles as she stood up.
"You alright?" Om asks her gently.
Gauri nods her head.
Om smiles. "I'll go change then."
Gauri watched him walk to his dressing room. She sighs in relief. She didn't know why she was so nervous. They had been friends for months now. she was engaged to his twin brother and he was engaged to her twin sister. But as fate would have it, her sister fell in love with his brother. The problem arose when her father said that he would let only brothers marry his daughters as he wanted his daughters to go to the same house. She loved her sister too much and he loved his brother too much, and they had decided that they would get married so their siblings got their love. Their siblings had vehemently tried to dissuade them, saying that now they knew the joy of love they wanted Om and Gauri to also find their love. But they had replied that their marriage would be like an arranged marriage where they would fall in love after marriage. Gauri sighs, it was easier said than done. Because the few months she had been engaged to Shiv, try as much as she could, she could never develop any kind of romantic feelings for him. She really suspected that was the case with Om too, as he wasn't even bothered that his fiancé was in love with his brother. If anything he looked happy.
Hearing the door open, Gauri turns to look and sees Om come out in a tshirt and pyjama.
"I'll change." Gauri tells him as she walked past him to the dressing room.
Om sighs as he walked to the bed and sat on it. He was so nervous and he had no idea why. Gauri was his friend, why should he be nervous? Was it because this was the first time he was going to share the room with a girl? He wasn't this nervous when he had gone for his first and only date. Maybe because it was because when he was in first year of college and young or because that was the first time, the date had been so disastrous that he realized romance was not something for him. Even when he was engaged to Nitya, he had felt a little bit of detachment to her and had consoled himself that things would change after marriage. Then fate played its cards and he ended up marrying Gauri. They had said that they would fall in love after marriage, and he wasn't even sure if it would happen. He really liked Gauri, there was no doubt in that, but love? Compared to his brother, he was always comfortable with the opposite sex, though it was all in a friendly platonic way. Girls were always comfortable with him as he was not a flirty guy and if any girl showed him any interest that would freak him out. Even the girls he was crushing on at that time. he had always felt that there was lacking something in him or that he was waiting for something else when it came to romance.
Hearing the dressing room door open, Om stands up and turns to look and sees Gauri stepping out in a full length night gown. His heart started beating fast as the reality of their first night hit him. Gauri walks to the bed as she looked down nervously.
"We'll sleep?" Om asks her gently.
Gauri nods her head in yes.
Om smiles and sits on the bed.
"Om." Gauri softly calls him.
"Yes?" Om turns to look at her curiously.
He sees her extending a glass of milk to him.
"I don't drink milk, Gauri." Om informs her.
"It's a ritual, Om. we have to drink this." Gauri tells him.
"I don't believe in these rituals, Gauri."
"I do." Gauri tells him then she tells him, "Just take one sip, I'll drink the rest."
Om takes the glass from her and takes a sip.
Gauri watches him making puking faces as he extended the glass back to her. she couldn't help smile. She takes the glass from him and drinks the milk. Finishing it, she keeps it on the bed.
Om watches her drink and once she was done, he says "Don't know how you drink."
Gauri smiles. "I like milk."
Om smiles. "Any more rituals?"
Smiling Gauri shakes her head in no.
"We'll sleep?"
Gauri nods and gets on the bed.
They were lying on two ends of the bed. Gauri was gripping her hand in nervousness while Om was shaking his legs in nervousness.
"You're nervous." Om says softly.
"Even you're." Gauri replies.
"Yeah." Om says sighing.
"Why are we so nervous? We're friends, Om." Gauri says in confusion.
"We're husband and wife now."
"that is making us nervous?" Gauri asks him.
"Yes."
"Why? Shouldn't we be more comfortable?" Gauri asks him.
"We should but we are not." Om tells her. he knew why he was nervous; romance was something that always freaked him out.
"What do we do?" Gauri asks him confused.
And that is when an idea occurred to him and he sits up excitedly as he turned to face her. "You know, why we are nervous?"
"Hmmm?" Gauri asks as she sat up.
"Now that we are married... there are certain things that are associated with marriage..." Om says.
Gauri looks at him confused not understanding.
"You know..." Om says as slightly turned his head and with his eyes gestured to the bed.
Gauri curiously looks at him and then asks, "You mean?" she also turns her head slightly and with her eyes gestured the bed.
"Yeah!" Om says relieved that he didn't have to spell it out to her.
"Okaaaay." Gauri says as her cheeks turned slightly pink.
"So we should have a pact." Om tells her excitedly. He was already feeling relaxed.
"What pact?" Gauri asks confused.
"That we will not go in that direction..." Om thinks for a while and says, "till you can tell me apart from my brother and I can tell you apart from your sister."
Gauri looks at him utterly confused and asks, "What does that have to do with this?"
Om's smile drops hearing her question. That is true. He just wanted to be comfortable with her and he hadn't thought this through.
"Om?"
"You know, they kissed because they mistook each other, right?"
"Yeah." Gauri replies thoughtfully then she asks, "So, you think we might do the same?"
"No... no." Om hastily says.
"And I do think Shiv and Nitya can tell us apart now."
"Okay." Om says deciding to come clean to her. "The thing is, that aspect of our relation is actually freaking me out. It's scaring you also, right?"
"Yes." Gauri admits as she looked down.
"So, I thought if we keep aside that aspect of our relation, this way we can be comfortable with each other. We are friends and we could continue our friendship till then. Get to know each other."
"Hmmm." Gauri thoughtfully nods, "But why this condition of telling you apart from your brother?"
"That's all I could think of." Om tells her.
Gauri thinks for a while then nodding she says, "Right... we can't go on forever like friends."
"Right... we need a point where we have to start our that relation." Om says. "And being able to recognize each other means that we are like any normal husband and wife."
"Yes." Gauri says smiling feeling relieved. "Let's do that then." Gauri says as she put her hand out for him to shake on it. Then she asks, "Are we talking about just that or all the things that happen before that?"
Om stops in shock hearing that, he felt the nervousness come back, he quickly tells her, "Everything romantic."
"Okay." Gauri says feeling relieved extending her hand to him.
Om takes her hand. "It's a deal then." Om smiles feeling relieved.
"Yes. Deal." Gauri agrees.
"But Om..." Gauri says thoughtfully.
"What?" Om asks curiously.
"What if one of us want to... you know... before that point?" Gauri asks turning slightly pink.
"Come on, Gauri... I can control myself." Om says smugly. "No breaking the pact unless you are like..." Om ends with a cheeky shrug.
"Yeah right!" Gauri rolls her eyes. "I can control myself. This is the first promise we are giving each other after our marriage, so no breaking it."
"Yes. No breaking it." Om agrees.
Smiling Gauri starts to lie down when she cheekily tells him, "Just so you know, I know how pretty I am."
"And I know how hot I am." Om replies cheekily as he lay next to her.
Gauri chuckles feeling relaxed and happy.
Om was happy and comfortable that the awkwardness between them was put to rest and now they were back to their friendship. Lying on his side with his head resting on his palm, he asks her "So, where you shocked when you realized what was going on between Shiv and Nitya?"
"Yeah! It took me awhile to figure it out." Gauri tells him excitedly as she turned to face him. "I was more shocked to realize that Shiv could be romantic."
Om bursts out laughing hearing that. "I was also too shocked when he told me they had kissed. I just didn't know what to say. First time he was romantically talking to a girl and straight to lip lock." Om says in astonishment.
Gauri laughs hearing that.
Having taken off the expectations of marital bed from the table, they both were relaxed, comfortable, happy and no longer scared. They stayed up half the night chatting with each other.
**********
Stretching sleepily, Gauri rolls to her sister and throwing her hand over her stomach, she says "Good morning."
"What the hell, Shiv? Get off me!" Om mutters as he shrugged his upper body to dislodge his brother.
Hearing the male voice, Gauri opens her eyes and sits up in shock.
Damn! She forgot she was married.
Then she sees Om frowning sleepily and realizing he was waking up, Gauri quickly lies back down and pulls the duvet over her head.
She feels him getting up and a second later she felt him taking the duvet off her head. She quickly closes her eyes tight as she bit her lips in embarrassment.
"I thought you were my brother."
Gauri opens her eyes in embarrassment. "I thought you were my sister."
"And here I thought it was all for me."
Gauri's eyes widen in shock.
Om teasingly smiles at her.
Blushing, Gauri gets up from bed and hurries to the bathroom.
"And Gauri..." Om calls out to her.
Gauri curiously turns to look at him.
"Good morning to you too." Om tells her grinning.
Turning around she runs to the dressing room. Closing the door, she leans against the door. She blushes happily. For the first time in her life, she felt butterflies in her stomach and she had no idea how that happened. But she was feeling happy.
Chuckling happily, Om lies back on the bed. He keeps his hand over where she had kept her hand, that part of his body was feeling different and he had no idea why it was like that. but he was happy.
**********
Gauri had come out after her shower and then Om had gone to take his shower. She had waited for him in their room. Few minutes later, she hears the dressing room door open and gets up from the couch. Om steps out and sees her.
"Didn't go down?" Om asks curiously.
"I was waiting for you."
"Let's go then?" Om asks her smiling.
Gauri shakes her head in yes smiling.
Om opens the door and steps out with Gauri.
"GAURS!" Nitya excitedly calls her.
Gauri excitedly turns to the sound and sees her sister running towards her with Shiv walking behind her.
Nitya hugs her excitedly.
Gauri hugs her sister happily.
"I missed you! I missed you so much last night." Nitya says as she hugged her tight.
"WHAT?" Shiv asks offended and outraged.
Gauri chuckles, and sees Om also grinning as he patted his brother's shoulder.
"First time we are sleeping separately." Nitya says as she hugged her.
Gauri was surprised. Last night, at first she had been too nervous and then she had been talking to Om till they had fell asleep that it didn't register in her mind that she was for the first time sleeping without her sister. She had always believed that she would need time to adjust to their sleeping arrangement once they both get married.
Gauri looks at Om and sees him watching them with a smile.
"Come... come!" Nitya says as she held her hand and ran back into Gauri's room.
"What's up with them?" Om asks Shiv curiously.
Shiv shrugs in reply then turning to Om, he asks. "How are you?"
"I am fine." Om replies at the strange question.
"Are you happy?" Shiv asks him.
"Why wouldn't I be happy?" Om asks him back confused.
Shiv smiles seeing his confusion.
"Are you happy?" Om asks him since Shiv had asked him that.
"Why wouldn't I be happy? I married the love of my life."
"Oh!" Om finally understands why Shiv had asked that question. "Gauri is nice. I like her."
Shiv smiles as he put his hand over Om's shoulder and they started walking.
"Tell me! How was last night?" Nitya asks Gauri too excited to hide her excitement.
"How was your night?" Gauri asks her back grinning.
"It was magical." Nitya replies blushing excitedly. "What about yours?"
Gauri smiles in reply. Though for a second she wondered if Om and she could have a night like her sister and Shiv. Then shaking her head, Gauri turns her attention back to her sister. They will cross that bridge when they get to it.
Noticing the change in her sister for that split second, Nitya asks worriedly, "You and Om will be okay, right?"
"I like Om." Gauri tells her as she held her hand.
"But will you be able love him, Gaurs?"
Immediately, Gauri thought of the way, he had smiled at her that morning and she starts blushing. "I hope so, Nits."
Seeing her sister blush was all the answer Nitya needed and she hugs her sister happily.
**********
Few minutes later, the sisters come down and finds their husbands waiting for them.
"Dad and mom are waiting for you both to have breakfast." Om informs them as he stood up.
Nitya hurries to Shiv and takes his hand. Gauri watches as they held hand and walked to the dining room. She turns to look at Om and sees him waiting for her. She hurries to him.
"Let's go?" Om asks her.
Gauri nods and they walk together to the dining room.
After breakfast, they had gone to Gauri and Nitya's house for the pag phere rituals. By night, they got back home.
**********
Om was waiting in bed for Gauri. He hears the dressing room door open and looks at her. For a second he gulps seeing her in a satin shorts and short sleeve top. Gauri smiles at him as she turned to close the dressing room door.
Om shakes his head to get his thoughts straight then he smiles at her as she got on the bed. Gauri turns to lie on her side as she faced him. Om also turns to face her.
"Last night, I should have checked whether you were okay." Om says a little disappointed at himself. "Shiv and I have slept apart. But you and Nitya have never slept apart. But it didn't occur to me. I should have made sure you were fine. Gauri... I am sorry."
"Please don't say sorry. The truth is it didn't occur to me also."
Om was surprised to hear that. "Ahaan." Om smiles as he leaned up to look at her. "I am going to tell your sister that." Om tells her grinning.
"No! she is going to feel bad." Gauri says frowning.
"Please let me tell Shiv at least." Om tells her then laughing he asks, "Did you notice how shocked and outraged he was when Nits said that?"
Gauri laughs hearing him. "You have such a cruel streak, Om!"
"Hahaha... it would be so much fun." Om says laughing.
"No."
"Please, Gauri... can I tell him?"
"No. It's a secret between us, husband."
"Don't pull the husband card on such silly things, wife!" Om says offended.
"I am pulling it." Gauri tells him sternly.
"Now who has a cruel streak?" Om mutters as he laid down.
Gauri chuckles.
Om looks at her with a grumpy face. Gauri couldn't help and she smiles at him. When she was smiling at him like that, he couldn't help it and he smiles at her.
"So what else did your sister say?" Om asks conversationally.
Remembering what Nitya had said about their night, Gauri blushes slightly. "Shut up, Om."
"What??" Om asks confused.
Gauri shakes her head at him.
"I was asking is she comfortable here. Is she having any difficulty and all." Om replies utterly confused.
"Oh, she is very happy." Gauri says smiling happy.
"And you?" Om asks her softly.
"Me too." Gauri smiles, even though not as much happy as her sister, she was very happy.
Om smiles hearing that. then confused he asks her. "Why did you ask me to shut up?"
"Nothing." Gauri tells him blushing lightly.
"Why are you blushing?" Om asks shocked then realization was quick and his eyes widen in shock. "On their first night itself... huh?"
"Ohmigod, shut up, Om!"
"Never thought my brother would be this fast. That guy doesn't even talk only." Om says still reeling from his shock.
"When you're in love, it might be like that." Gauri tells him smiling and giggling.
"Hmmm."
"Om... do you think we would get to a stage like that?" Gauri asks a little nervously.
Leaning up, Om asks her in a flirty tone, "Why, Gauri? You want to get to that stage? Can't wait... huh?"
Gauri's eyes widen in shock then blushing uncontrollably, she says "Shut up, Om!"
"Told ya, I know I am hot." Om tells her with a flirty smile.
Gauri quickly pulls the duvet over her head as she blushed.
Smiling happily, Om lies back. Then he realized with amazement, he had just flirted with Gauri, and like usual he wasn't nervous or awkward, it had felt as the most natural thing to him. That's new. Om thought with a smile.
"Gauri?" Om calls her name as he turned to look at her.
"Hmmm?" Gauri replies from under the duvet.
"Gauri?" Om calls her again.
Removing the cover from her head, Gauri answers as she looked at him "Yeah?"
Leaning a little close to her, he tells her, "We are going to get there."
Blushing and smiling, Gauri pulls the duvet over her head.
Grinning Om tells her, "Good night, Gauri." Then he just couldn't help himself, leaning further closer to her, he whispers hotly, "Sweet dreams, Gaur."
**********
Gauri rolls to her sister and starts to hug her, as she said "Goood..." then she stops quickly remembering that she was sleeping next to Om and not her sister.
"Morning, Gauri." Om finishes for her. then Om opens his eyes and sees Gauri's hand stretched up in midair.
Gauri quickly brings her hand down as she said, "I think it is going to take a while."
"There is no hurry." Om tells her then he asks, "Why no hug this time?"
Gauri's eyes widen in shock and sees the mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Because you'll shrug me off." Gauri replies with a teasing smile.
"Awww Gauri, it happened only once."
"Even the hug happened only once, Omkara." Gauri tells in a mocking tone.
Om makes a face at her.
"And it is not going to happen again. I am getting used to waking up with you."
"Maybe you should sleep with your sister a few days and come back and sleep here with me." Om tells her.
"What dreams, Omkara." Gauri teases him as she got up from the bed.
Om grins as he watched her walk off.
That day, the sisters had their pehli rasoi ritual. The brothers had left for work immediately after that. the rest of the day, the sisters had spent in unpacking their luggage together then spending time with their mother-in-law.
**********
By evening the brothers had come back home. Immediately Shiv and Nitya had gone to their room while Om had gone to shower. Gauri hung around the living room for her sister to get back. After a while, she realized that her sister wasn't going to come back down. Gauri was feeling a little gloomy realizing the marital bliss of her sister. Then she remembered what Om had told her about they getting there, and she started blushing. She had blushed so much that Dandi who had passed by had given her curious looks. Gauri realized she needed distraction, so she had gone to her bedroom and grabbed her ghungroo and her speaker, she then went to the lawn at the back of the house. Connecting the speaker to her mobile, she had played the music and started dancing.
Trying to catch her breath, Gauri sits down on the loan to remove her ghungroo.
"Hey." Om says smiling as he walked out to the lawn.
Seeing him, Gauri starts smiling. "Hello."
She gets up and turns off the music. As she collected her things with one hand, with the other hand, she starts wiping off the sweat from her face and neck using the end of the dupatta.
"I looked for you everywhere." Om tells her as he took her stuff from her.
"You wanted something?" Gauri asks him.
"No." Om shrugs.
"Then why were you looking for me?" Gauri asks confused.
Om looks at her and replies as he shrugged. "Simply."
Gauri couldn't help the smile that spread across her face.
Seeing her face filled with so much happiness, he smiles happily.
"How was your day?" Om asks her as they walked back to the house.
"Nice. We unpacked finally."
"Ah good." Om smiles.
"How was your day?" Gauri asks him as they entered their room.
"Good. But was a little hectic as I hadn't gone to the office for a week. So there were pending workload."
"Ah." Gauri smiles as she took her stuff from him. "I'll go take a shower and come?"
Om smiles at the question, "If I say no, you won't?"
"Why would you say no?" Gauri asks him, then in a teasing tone she asks him, "Why Om, you can't even stay away from me for that much time?"
Om was surprised to see her flirt with him and he was even more surprised to realize that he wasn't nervous, he was actually enjoying it. He moves closer to her and says, "I stayed away from you the whole day, can't stay away even a second longer, Gaur."
Blushing and laughing happily Gauri says, "Chup!"
Om chuckles as he stepped back.
"I'll come back fast."
"I'll wait." Om tells her then he says, "Actually, I am already waiting for you to come back."
Blushing happily, she hurries to take her shower.
**********
They were having breakfast. Gauri takes the paratha that Dandi had specially made for her. then she takes the casserole and asks Om as she turned to Om, "How many Parathas do you want, Om?"
Om who was busy on his phone replies without look up. "Two."
Gauri stares at him without serving him.
When she didn't put parathas on his plate, Om curiously looks up and sees her staring at him.
"What happened?" Om asks as he extended his hand to take the casserole from her.
Gauri moves it further away from him and tells him, "No mobiles during meals."
"This is office mail." Om tells her.
"No mobile." Gauri tells him.
"Fine." Om says as he kept the mobile on the table.
Gauri puts out her palm in front of him, "Don't trust you, husband."
Om keeps his mobile on her palm. "You're such a bully, Gauri."
"Get used to it, husband." Gauri keeps his mobile away from him. Then she serves him his parathas.
Gauri sees Nitya and Shiv grinning at them. She smiles at them and starts to eat.
Seeing Nitya dabbing a tissue over her parathas Gauri tells her, "Nits, if you didn't want ghee on your parathas, you could have just told Dandi. He made parathas without ghee for me."
"I didn't think of it." Nitya replies regretfully.
"You don't eat ghee?" Om asks her curiously. "Or is it part of your diet because of your dance?"
"No." Gauri replies shaking her head. "Can't eat ghee and oil, first thing in the morning."
"Ah okay." Om replies smiling at her.
**********
"Do you want to go out?" Om asks her as they sat together in the living room. He had come back from office sometime back. Even Gauri had come back from her dance classes. She was a student cum teacher. She was still learning Kathak while she taught a small batch of the first year students at her institute.
"Where?" Gauri asks him as she turned to look at him.
"Don't know. Let me check with Shiv if they are in the mood to go out." Om tells her as he took his mobile and messaged them.
The moment Shiv and Om had come back Shiv had gone to their room with Nitya.
"He is not checking the message. Should I message your sister?" Om asks her.
"I don't think they are going to check your message." Gauri giggles.
"Huh why?" Om asks her as he curiously looked up at her.
Having his eyes on her and the conversation they were having, made Gauri's cheeks turn pink.
"Why are you blushing?" Om asks confused then he realized. He quickly leans towards her and whispers in shock, "Ohmigod, Gaurs! Your sister gives you a minute by minute update?"
"Of course not!" Gauri says shocked.
"Then how do you know?"
"I am just guessing." Gauri says shrugging.
Unable to control his jealousy and possessiveness, Om asks her, "Why are you sitting here and thinking about my brother doing it?"
"WHAT? Are you mad?" Gauri asks shocked. "I am not doing that."
"Then?" Om asks frowning.
"I was just making some general observations." Gauri says turning pink.
"Just don't make such observations on my brother." Om tells her in a stern voice.
Gauri frowns and asks him, "Why are you getting so possessive about your brother?"
Om was unable to believe his ears and he asks her in exasperation. "You think I was being possessive about my brother?"
Gauri looks at him confused for a second then she realizes what he had meant, she blushes as she looked down. "I haven't thought of anyone else in that way." Gauri shyly says as she looked down.
Om's first reaction was to scream out, 'anyone else? Then who the hell did you think about?'
But then he saw the way she was happily blushing and he couldn't hide his joy. He leans further close to her, that they were almost touching and he asks her sensually, "So, you think about me like that?"
"Shut up." Gauri replies blushing.
"Come on, tell me." Om says wanting so desperately to hear her say it.
"You do remember our promise, right?" Gauri asks him as she looked at him shyly.
"Yeaah." Om says disappointed then he says, "Wait, we said not doing. We didn't say anything about talking about it."
"What?" Gauri's mouth drops open. "We said romantic."
"Not do everything romantic. Not talk romantic. Loopholes, Gaur." Om tells her winking at her.
Gauri was feeling trapped, though she was feeling ecstatic at the same time.
"So?"
"I am not going to answer it." Gauri says stubbornly.
Om sighs disappointed.
"So, are we going out?" Gauri asks him.
"Let's go." Om says smiling.
"Just you and me?" Gauri asks smiling happily, excited at that thought.
"yeah." Om replies happily.
They were getting up from the couch when Om's phone buzzes.
"It's Shiv." Om says as he checked the message.
We can be ready in 20. But where are we going?
Om turns to look at Gauri and sees her a little disappointed.
Gauri looks at Om and sees that he was disappointed. Then Om smiles at her, and he quickly replies to Shiv.
Another time, bro.
"Let's go?" Om asks her smiling.
"Yes!" Gauri replies excitedly.
**********
Since they had no particular destination in mind, they had decided to drive around.
Om looks at Gauri and sees her looking out the window as she listened to the song playing on the radio. Om smiles as he looked at Gauri. He really didn't understand what was happening to him. Romance was something that had freaked him out. But now, with Gauri, he was having a hard time controlling his urges. Every morning he wakes up hoping that Gauri would hug him in her sleep and would be disappointed when she doesn't. every time he looks at her, he is tempted to either hug or kiss her. it is not that he never had these urges before, but none with this intensity. He was starting to regret asking her for that promise because nowadays there was nothing that he thought about other than being one with Gauri. Maybe that was why he had reacted possessively when Gauri had told him about his brother.
He had noticed the way his brother behaved with his wife. He could see how happy they were. They were so blissfully in love. He wasn't really bothered that his brother's married life was already rocking. He was happy for them; he wasn't even jealous because he knew that Gauri and he were going to get there. The time he had spent with Gauri ever since they got married has been proof enough for him. And he knew Gauri was happy with him. It showed in the way she always smiled at him. So, he knew they would get there, the only problem they were not getting there fast enough.
He turns to look at Gauri and she also looks at him at the same time. She smiles it. And he gave into his temptation and cheats. He keeps his hand over her hand.
Gauri looks down at her hand in shock.
"Om..." Gauri nervously says his name as she felt herself blush.
"Hmmm?"
"Our pro... promise." Gauri shyly reminds him.
"Not romantic, Gauri... Companionship." Om tells her and was rather proud of himself for saying that blatant lie with a straight face.
Gauri couldn't help laugh happily. "What a cheat, you are."
Om chuckles and was about to take off his hand when he felt her hand over his. He looks and sees that she had cocooned his hand in both her hands. Smiling, Om interlocks his fingers with hers, making Gauri blush as they squeezed their hands together.
**********
"You guys are back!" Nitya says happily as they walked back in.
Gauri and Om smiles at her and Shiv.
"Where did you guys go?"
"Drive." Gauri replies.
"Nice... Let's eat? We were waiting for you." Nitya tells her.
"Yeah." Gauri replies.
"We'll come in a few minutes." Om tells them. "Gauri..." Om gestures her to go with him.
"Nits, I'll come soon." Gauri tells her as she followed Om up the stairs.
"yeah, no problem." Nitya replies as she turned to Shiv and hugged him happily. Shiv hugs her back smiling at her.
Om opens their bedroom door for Gauri.
"What happened?" Gauri asks as she stepped in.
Om closes the door and leans on the door.
Gauri turns to him curiously.
Then he grabs her hand and pulls her. Gauri comes crashing on his chest. Gauri gasps in shock when he wraps his hand around her.
"Om..."
"Not romance, Gauri... companionship."
Gauri giggles as she leaned back to look at his face. "You have become a liar, Om."
Om cheekily grins at her.
Gauri hugs him happily. When she hugged, Om couldn't control his joy and he happily hugs her.
"No more cheating, Om." Gauri tells him as she hugged him tight, as her body came alive with feelings.
"Hmmm."
"We should always keep the promises that we make to each other. We should never break it, no matter what... okay?"
"Okay." Om replies and he kisses her cheek.
"OM!" Gauri says shocked as she blushed feeling the desire that kiss was generating in her body.
"It's just a cheek kiss, Gaur." Om tells her slyly.
Gauri leans back to look at him. Then she just couldn't control herself and she lovingly caresses his cheek.
Om winks at her and gestures with his head, cutely asking her for a kiss.
Gauri shakes her head in negative feeling too shy.
Om again cutely gestures her almost begging her.
"What happened to your self-control?" Gauri asks him cheekily grinning. "You were so confident."
"I didn't realize that my self-control would be tested against Gauri Kumari Sharma. I didn't stand a chance."
Gauri blushing hugs him as she hid her face on his chest. Smiling happily, Om hugs her tight. And then he felt the soft light kiss on his chest. Sighing loudly, Om hugs her tight.
**********
Gauri blushes seeing Om roll to her at night. Shyly she pushes him away, keeping him at arms distance.
"Keep to your side." Gauri tells him giggling.
"It's very lonely here."
"Shut up." Gauri blushes.
Om sighs loudly as he laid back on the bed.
"Om..." Gauri gently calls him.
"Hmmm?"
"Every day, I always check what clothes you are wearing so I don't mistake Shiv for you. Last evening.... You had worn a white shirt with your blazer to office. Then you came back and you were not wearing your blazer, just your white shirt."
Om holds Gauri's hand realizing what had happened. "It's okay, Gaur. It happens."
"I was so happy to see you come home so early. Seeing the way, I was smiling, Shiv realized that I thought him to be you. He said he had come to get something and that you were still in office. I didn't know that Shiv had worn a white shirt, I never noticed."
"It's okay, Gaur." Om says as he moved to her and hugs her.
Gauri keeps her head on his chest, "Please Om, let's not break the promise. I want to tell you apart from your brother before we start our marital relation."
"Okay." Om tells her as he hugged her, he kisses her forehead to calm her.
"I know even you can't tell us apart. Last week when I was standing with Nits, you weren't sure who was me."
Om nods. "Yes."
"Can we sleep like this?" Gauri asks softly, loving the feel she was getting while being in his arms. She felt safe.
"Of course, Gaur." Om replies without pointing out to her that he had been begging her for something like that since they had come to sleep.
Gauri sighs as she snuggled into his arms.
Om couldn't see Gauri like that. ever since they got married, he had never done anything that would cause pain to her, that would upset her and now she was upset and it was killing him. He wanted to change her mood a little.
Then realizing how he could distract her, he asks her with a cheeky smile, "So, how disappointed where you when you realized that I wasn't home yet?"
Blushing, Gauri snuggles into his arms, "Shut up, husband."
**********
One evening, Gauri and Nitya were in the lawn, as Nitya worked on her poetry and Gauri was practicing Kathak. She was so engrossed in her dancing that it took her a minute to notice that Shiv and Om had come out. Seeing them she quickly stops. She looks at Shiv and Om trying to figure out who Om was. They both had were not wearing the clothes that they wore when they left for work. She had started taking special note of Shiv's clothes too so she doesn't mistake them ever. Seeing her darting glances between both of them, Om who was standing behind Shiv smiles at her. realizing that was her Om, Gauri smiles at him.
"Shiv, you're home!" Nitya says noticing her husband happily. "Why didn't you tell me you were home."
"You said you were going to work on your poetry so I didn't want to disturb you." Shiv tells her as he walked to her and hugged her.
Smiling at Om, Gauri kneels down and starts removing her ghungroo. Om switches off the music for her as he smiled at her.
"Gauri..." Shiv calls her.
"Yeah?" Gauri looks at him as she stopped what she was doing.
"Nits told me that you are an amazing dancer, but I didn't think you were this good. What little I saw, it was amazing."
Gauri smiles at him, "Thank you."
Gauri slyly looks at Om to see what he thought of her dance and sees that he was busy with packing her speaker.
"So, when do I get to see you dance?" Shiv asks Nitya.
"After that..." Nitya points at Gauri, "Never."
"Why?" Shiv asks disappointed.
"Because I am not even half as good as her." Nitya tells him and walks back into the house grabbing her things.
"That is not fair."
"You take me clubbing, I'll dance there."
Om and Gauri look at each other as they chuckled with the way Shiv and Nitya were talking.
After they went in, Om turns to Gauri, "Let's go in?"
Gauri nods as she removed her ghungroo. She was feeling a little disheartened that Om didn't say anything about her dance. Everyone who had seen her dance has praised her, but now it felt like if Om didn't say anything good about her dancing, then all the praises she had got all her life were all lies.
**********
That night, they settle on the bed. Gauri lies on Om's chest as he hugged her. ever since they had slept hugging each other, they were not able to sleep apart.
"So, how is Nitya's poetries coming along?" Om asks her.
"I really liked them. They are so beautiful but she isn't satisfied."
Om smiles hearing that, Nitya's dream was to publish her poems.
Gauri wanted to ask him whether he liked her dance, but then she was worried. what if he hadn't said anything about it, because he didn't like her dance?
"Gauri." Om softly calls her then she felt him kiss her forehead.
"Hmmm?"
"One day, will you dance just for me?"
Gauri looks at him in surprise realizing that he did love her dance.
"Only for me. whenever you want. But only for me."
Hearing that she felt it so intimate and she blushes as she hid her face on his chest.
Om smiles understanding her answer then he asks grinning, "Why are you blushing so much? I asked for your Kathak dance not some striptease."
Gauri looks up at him and asks him in jest, "You want me to do a striptease for you?"
Om leans up in shock as his heart slammed against his chest in excitement, "You would do that for me?"
"What wouldn't I do for you, husband?" Gauri asks fluttering her eyelashes at him.
Realizing she was teasing him, he sighs sadly and lies back. "You shouldn't tease a man like this, specially one who has been living in regret."
"Regret?" Gauri looks at him confused then remembering their promise to each other she laughs out loud.
"I will, husband." Gauri whispers to him.
"Kathak or striptease?" Om asks curiously.
"Let that be a suspense." Gauri tells him grinning.
Grinning Om hugs her, "Thanks Gaur, that way I can dream of both."
Gauri giggles as she hugged him tight.
**********
The next day, Om walks into his room. He sees Gauri sitting on the couch. She looks up at him and he stops in shock.
That's not my wife.
"Erm... where is Gauri?" Om asks as his heart slammed against his chest.
"She is in the dressing room." Nitya tells him smiling. "You're early. Is Shiv also here?"
Om nods his head, his mind elsewhere.
"Okay, I'll go see him. Just tell Gaurs when she comes out." Saying that Nitya hurries to meet her husband after closing their bedroom door.
Om didn't hear all that. all that was in his mind was the realization.
For the first time, he was noticing the difference in his wife and her sister. Gauri had more beautiful smile compared to her sister. Gauri's eyes were much more beautiful than her sister's. Gauri had the perfect cute nose. Gauri was perfect in every way.
"You are home?" Gauri asks happily.
Om turns around and seeing her, his heart was filled with joy and calmness. This was his wife.
"Nits went?" Gauri asks as she walked to him.
Om immediately holds her hand and unable to hide his joy and excitement he says, "When I came in, Nits was here."
Seeing the smile on his face, Gauri's face breaks out into a big smile. "You knew that was not me?"
"Yes." Om says excitedly as he hugged her.
Gauri jumps excitedly as she hugged him happily. "You did it, Om."
"What about you?" Om asks as he looked at her.
Hearing the question Gauri sobers up and she looks down in guilt.
"Don't worry. Soon, love." Om cups her face lovingly.
Gauri sighs as she hugs him.
**********
At night, Om walks to his room after dinner. Gauri had decided to skip dinner as she said she had some heavy snacks in the evening. Seeing the room empty, Om walks to the dressing room and calls out, "Gauri, you in there?"
"Yes. Coming."
"Okay." Om replies and walks to the bedroom door and locks it.
He hears the dressing room door open.
"You sure you don't want dinner, love?" Om asks as he turned to her and stops seeing her wearing a salwar and her dupatta tied around it.
"I can't dance if I have food." Gauri tells him.
Om's heart started beating fast realizing that she was going to dance for him. Gauri walks to him and takes his hand. She guides him to sit.
"I'm not going to wear my ghungroo and I won't use the speakers. I don't want anyone to hear me dance and come." She tells him then cupping his face, she kisses his forehead. "This is only for you."
Gauri plays the song and O Re Piya from Aaja Nachle plays as she started dancing without taking her eyes off him. Om didn't take his eyes off her for even a split second, as he sat there mesmerized watching her dance. Every few seconds, his eyes would go to her eyes and her heart was in her eyes.
Gauri had never enjoyed dancing as much as she did that moment. She had two identities, the two that gave her the most joy, one as a dancer and the other as Omkara Singh Oberoi's wife. And today, she was merging these two, so she could confess her feelings to him. Tell him what he meant to her. the joy she felt in this moment could not be explained. And she knew, this peak would never be achieved again. because the joy of dancing for Om the very first time would never come in her life. And that is why she chose this moment, to tell him that she loves him, and that too through her dance.
As the song got over, Gauri gracefully ends the dance. But she holds the pose and doesn't move as she looked at him. As his heart slammed against his chest, Om stood up and walked to Gauri. Then without a word he hugs her. Gauri hugs him happily feeling elated.
"I've never seen anything more beautiful in life." Om tells her as he looked at her.
His voice was filled with emotion and there was a hint of tears in his eyes.
"It was so mesmerizing... so amazing." Om tells her as he cupped her face. "Gauri... it was..." Om helplessly sighs, "I just don't have any words to tell you what it meant to me."
Smiling as her eyes filled with tears, she says as she lovingly cupped his face "You did."
Softly laughing happy, they hug each other.
"When are you starting your dance school?" Om asks her as he lay on his side facing her.
Gauri smiles, it was her dream to start a dance school. "I have still lots to learn."
"It didn't feel like that to me." Om tells her smiling.
Gauri smiles hearing him.
They were happily looking at each other. When Gauri with a cheeky grin asks him, "Are you sad that you got my Kathak dance instead of the striptease?"
Hearing that question, Om's smile drops. Then he lays back as he got lost in thoughts.
Gauri was surprised to see him go silent like that. usually, he would have said something to counter that.
"Om?"
Om turns to her and his eyes were filled with so much passion. He moves to her and leans up on his elbow. "I thought I will tell you when we make love for the first time."
Hearing about their love making, Gauri's cheeks become red. "What?" she asks in a soft whisper.
"No striptease can ever come even close to what you told me through your Kathak today." Om tells her. "I was struggling to hold it in. but I just can't hold it in any longer."
Realizing where he was going with this, Gauri smiles happily as her eyes filled with tears.
Leaning down, Om looks into her eyes and whispers to her, "I love you too."
Breaking out into an amazing smile, Gauri hugs him as she pulled him down on her.
Om leans up and kisses her on her forehead. Om kisses her on her cheek. Then he starts trailing down her cheek as he placed soft kisses on her cheek.
Realizing his intent, Gauri says blushing "Remember our promise, Om?"
Om sighs as he looked up at her. "Can we break it?" Om asks her.
Blushing Gauri shakes her head in no.
"Me and my big mouth." Om mutters.
Gauri giggles hearing that.
"Any loopholes?" Om asks her cutely.
"The first promise we made after our wedding. It shouldn't be broken." Gauri reminds him shyly.
Sighing loudly, Om rolls away and lies back. Gauri watches him and then she just couldn't control herself and she rolls over and lies on his chest. Om wraps his hands around her and hugs her tight as he kissed her forehead.
Then leaning his head up, a little, Om tells her, "You know, even boyfriends and girlfriends do kiss. Not just husband and wife."
Blushing Gauri looks at him and then tells him as she tried to fight the temptation, "Shut up and go to sleep, husband."
Sighing Om lies back, "You'll be the end of me, Gauri Kumari Sharma."
"It's Gauri Omkara Singh Oberoi, husband."
Feeling so much joy, Om looks at her and says, "That definitely requires a kiss."
Blushing she covers his eyes and slightly pushes his head back on the pillow. Smiling Om lies back as he hugged her tight. Then Gauri, just couldn't control her emotions, she leans up so they were face to face. She drags her hand down and covers his mouth. She leans down and kisses his lips over her hand. He opens his eyes and they were eye to eye. As they stared into each other's eyes, Gauri felt him kiss her palm. Blushing profusely, she wraps her arms around him and hugging him, she hides her face on his neck. Om hugs her tighter and pulls her even closer to him.
**********
Since the sisters wanted to go for a movie, the whole family had decided to go for a movie. Gauri was walking to their room to check on her husband who was getting ready. She was about to walk to their room when she finds him outside their room checking his mobile.
Gauri frowns as she stopped. That is not my Om.
Om didn't stand like that.
He looks up at her. seeing her, he smiles at her.
Her heart didn't beat fast in joy when he looked at her. that is Shiv.
Gauri couldn't control her joy and she asks Shiv, "Where is Om?"
"Don't know. He might be still in your room. I was just booking the tickets." Shiv replies to her.
"Don't book for us. we are not coming." Gauri tells him.
"You are not coming? Why?" Shiv asks confused.
"You guys go." Gauri replies.
Hearing the door open, she quickly turns to the sound and sees Om step out.
Seeing him, her heart started dancing in joy. This is my Om.
"I'm ready. Let's go?" Om asks.
"We are not going." Gauri declares.
"We are not?" Om asks confused. "Why?"
"I don't want to go."
"You said you wanted to go."
"Not anymore, husband." Gauri declares.
Om looks at Shiv and sees him looking at them.
"Should we postpone the movie to another date?" Shiv asks confused.
"We are not going?" Nitya asks as she joined them.
"We are not going. You guys are going." Gauri tells her.
"Why?" Nitya asks shocked.
"I'm no longer in the mood to watch a movie."
"But Gauri..." Om starts to argue.
"Trust me, husband. We don't want to go."
"We don't?" Om asks confused.
"We don't." Gauri confirms.
"Okay then, you guys go." Om tells Shiv and Nitya.
Seeing Nitya was about to argue, Gauri tells her, "Don't argue, just go."
After everyone left, Gauri holding Om's hand runs to their room.
"What happened?" Om asks confused. He had never seen her so excited or so sure of herself before.
Gauri closes their bedroom door and locks it.
Om grins seeing her do that. "Gaur, I can see that you are not having any honorable intentions. Should I be scared?"
Gauri giggles hearing that. then she says excitedly, "When I came up, Shiv was standing right outside our door."
Seeing her excitement, Om asks excitedly, "And you knew it was not me!"
"YES!" Gauri says jumping excitedly.
Then they both move forward. Om leans down and she leans up, and their lips met for the first time.
Happy, spent and satiated Gauri was lying on Om's chest.
"What are you thinking?" Om asks her softly.
"Nits."
"WHAT THE HELL?" Om asks outraged.
Hearing his furious outrage, she giggles and looks up at him. Then she explains, "After her first night, she told me that their night together was magical. And I wondered whether we will ever have a night like that."
Om smiles as he caressed her cheek lovingly.
"And it was more beautiful and magical than I thought possible." Gauri says as she leaned towards him and lovingly kissed him on his lips.
"Was it worth the wait for you?" Gauri asks him nervously.
"If I knew loving making between us would be so moving and beautiful then I would have happily shaved off my head so you would be able to tell me apart from my brother."
Laughing happily Gauri hugs him.
"It was more than worth the wait, love." Om whispers to her lovingly.
Gauri smiles happily.
"And now..." Om whispers as he rolled her over and came on top of her. "I'm not going to wait ever."
Gauri smiles and tells him as she pulled him closer to her. "and if you come with anymore of such challenging deals, I will kill you."
Om starts nuzzling her neck and asks, "How about an easy challenge of making up for all the time we lost?"
"I would love that." Gauri softly moans.
*** The End***
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