Narrator's POV
Standing in front of the mirror, Kabir was struggling to tie his necktie and thinking "How can a piece of cloth be this complicated?". But the fault here wasn't of the poor tie, but his shaking hands and his thoughts'. "How will it go? What if something happens and our plan fails?"
After some tries, he huffed in frustration and let his arms fall beside his sides.
"What's the matter, Inspector?" asked his husband, who's been standing by the door watching the love of his life getting irritated by a piece of clothing.
"I can't tie it. It's too complicated." he said, turning back to look at Vansh.
Vansh took some steps to close the space between them, and reached for Kabir's tie and started to knot it. "It's okay, sweetheart. Everything's going to be fine."
Kabir kept looking at Vansh and asked "How can you be so calm?"
"When am I not calm?"
"That's my point. How can you? It's been a week I've been thinking about it and kept asking myself the same questions."
He finished tying the neckwear and looked into Kabir's eyes. "Because I know everything's going to be okay." he said in a soothing voice, and hugged his Inspector.
"What if it doesn't? What if he doesn't like us? Or something goes wrong with the paperwork?"
"Then we'll deal with it. After all we've gone through these past years, together we'll survive this too."
"But..."
"No buts." he pulled back a little and continued "We are ready, and now we will go there, do the paperwork and bring him with us, okay?" he finished and gave a peck on Kabir's lips.
Vansh wasn't as calm as he was showing to Kabir. He was feeling an uneasiness that he had never felt before, even if he tried to calm himself down, there was this lingering feeling.
He never doubted himself before and now wasn't any different, but he was worried about what was going to happen. He wasn't even concerned about himself, but for Kabir, that if things didn't turn out the way they wanted, he would be disappointed.
Vansh stopped the car in front of the building and Kabir took a deep breath.
"I can do this." he said and turned to Vansh and remarked "We can do this.
Unlike the other times today they were alone in the car. They thought that it was better to go without the driver in a manner in which the person they were going to meet wouldn't feel overwhelmed.
They got out of the car and walked together toward the entrance of the old but big building.
As soon as they entered there were already the secretary and the psychologist waiting for them.
"Good morning, sirs." they said in unison.
"Good morning, ladies." said the two men together.
"We were waiting for you guys. Your lawyer is not here but we can go and talk about other formalities while we wait for him." said the secretary.
"Sure." said Vansh.
"Follow us then." The two husbands followed the two women in their office.
Once they took their seats in the quite old but clean office, the secretary started asking the same old questions: how they were doing, if they wanted anything to eat or drink.
After refusing to have anything, Kabir got straight to the point. "How is he doing?"
"He's doing very fine. He couldn't control his excitement yesterday and kept talking about how much he wanted to go with you guys."
"Really?" Kabir asked, his nervousness slowly fading away after hearing the secretary.
"See I told you." Vansh piped.
"I'm so sorry, I'm late. It's just that some clients don't listen to me and continue to talk even if the time is up." Came in the lawyer suddenly, getting the full attention of the four people in the room.
"It's okay, Mr Kuldeep. We weren't talking about anything."
"Good. Should we start then?"
"Sure." said Vansh, holding Kabir's hand.
"Then... all the formalities have been done, you've paid the fees, the only thing missing is your signature that confirms that you're the one who's doing this without anyone forcing or pressuring you."
Vansh looked at Kabir and started saying "Actual-" but Kabir interrupted him and said "We're not doing this here or ever again."
"Okay. I was just saying that you..." Vansh tried to defend himself.
But Kabir just ignored him and started to talk with the lawyer. "It's the only thing left to do?"
"Yes." said Mr Kuldeep giving the papers to Vansh.
Once he got the papers he started to read them very carefully to check if everything was okay, and when he was sure he finally signed them.
"Very good, now we're done."
The two lovers looked at each other and smiled. They were really doing it. They were really adopting a kid.
"Since everything is done, I'll go and get Veer." said the secretary.
The name of the kid, brought Kabir back to the first time they came here.
They entered the room full of kids playing together except for a boy who was playing alone with his car in the corner.
" These are the lovely kids." said Miss Drishti, the secretary. "Bhumi, don't steal Ayush's toy." she scolded a cute girl with a pink dress.
"I wish we could also adopt a girl." Kabir said to Vansh, watching the mischievous girl.
The other man looked at him and nodded. "Me too."
"Are these they're real names?" asked Kabir.
"No. We gave them these names. Since they were small when we found them, we had to do that by ourselves. But you guys have the possibility to change the name if you don't like the one we gave them."
The two soon-to-be fathers nodded their heads.
The younger man was then taken by the kid playing alone." Why isn't that kid playing with others?"
"He is still new in this adoption agency, he still has to open up with the other kids. Would you like to talk to him or any other kid?"
Kabir looked at Vansh and slowly started to go near the new kid. "What's his name?" questioned before approaching him.
"Veer." answered the secretary.
The moment the two husbands heard the name, they knew he was the one. His name seemed like their names fused together. And the talk with Veer confirmed it.
The inspector was brought back to reality when he heard Veer's voice. They both got up to greet the kid who just ran straight to Kabir and hugged him. Kabir picked him up, and hugged him back, surprised by the action of the four years little boy.
Vansh smiled looking at his son and husband hugging each other and he knew straight away that he was going to be spoiled not by him, but Kabir. "Are you not going to hug me?" pouted Vansh.
The boy glanced at Vansh. He pulled back from Kabir and reached out to the other man, signing him to pick him up. Vansh took Veer from Kabir's arms and hugged him, kissing his forehead. "Should we go?" Vansh proposed.
Both the kid and Kabir bobbed their heads up and down. They then bid goodbye to the three people assisting their meeting.
Once they were sitting in the car, with Vansh on the driving seat and the other two guys sitting in the back seats, Kabir asked Veer if he was hungry.
"Yes."
"What do you want to eat?"
"A lot of chocolate ice-cream." beamed the kid, just thinking about the ice-cream.
"If you want ice-cream, ice-cream it is. Vansh, take us to eat lots of chocolate ice-cream."
"As you wish sirs." He started the car and drove away from the adoption center.
And from here, began their journey to their happily ever after!
THE END