Siddharth punched the wall in frustration, as his knuckles went red and blood oozed out of them. He yelped in pain but he was enraged. What was he thinking? Why did he kiss her?
He knew was enthralled by her when she held his hand. She was very shy, and that little action of holding his hand, got him to the margin of kissing her. The way her luscious pink lips invited him to taste them, made him grow hard even now. Her sultry mouthwatering lips made his mind go blank, and when she licked them delightfully, he did the only thing he could reckon.
He kissed her senseless. She wasn't responding to his kisses at first, but when she started kissing him back, he felt the pleasure inside him as heat passed through his centre of male anatomy. He kissed her hungrily and felt the chocolate taste of her mouth as he slowly parted her lips and entered her mouth and his tongue danced in her mouth, tasting every inch of her, and that certainly had him drowning in the pool of ecstasy. He could feel goosebumps on her skin as their bodies pressed together, her soft breasts pressed against his rough chest. Adrenaline rushed through his body when she was kissing him just like he wanted to. The kisses became more urgent and passionate and he never wanted to part away. His voracious hunger to savour her palatable lips was never ending, but he dejectedly stopped only to be more captivated by her beautiful hazel eyes, that had such strong emotion of exhilaration that he realised what mistake he had done.
The memory of kissing her was making him insane and he was too shocked to discover that that was her first kiss. Anger boiled inside him. It was challenging to believe that that was her first kiss. For such an amazing kisser, she had to be lying! How could she remain a Virgin and not have her first kiss when she was bloody 27 years old. Even the thought of somebody else kissing her or taking her virginity made him furious.
Why did he feel so possessive towards her? He never let anybody enter his room, not even his mom, dad or Arjun, let alone the fact to touch his things. She touched the frame that was close to his heart, and she broke it, but he wasn't agonised because she touched his things and broke the frame, he was at first but it disappeared as soon as he saw her in pain. In a jiffy he was in front of her carrying her bridal style, failing to remember anything about that frame.
It was the only photo he had with her. He couldn't trust Tithi. In his eyes every girl was the same. He had to stay away from her he decided. He is just marrying her. Nothing else. He will clear this thing to her as soon as possible. He could never feel the same emotion with any other girl. It was time to bring out his cold self back that he was losing control over the last few days.
***
"So bhabhi. I need a treat." Arjun said looking towards her.
"Treat? For what?" Tithi said raising her eyebrow in confusion.
"Because today I gave you a romantic moment with bhai now, didn't I?" He said while driving the car.
She didn't reply as her mind drifted towards the kiss. One moment she was on cloud nine and the other she felt like she would break down. He regretted kissing her she didn't need to hear from him. It was clear on his face that he didn't want to kiss her.
"You know bhai never lets anybody enter his room." He said as she looked over him on shock. So it was his planning all along to take her to his room.
"You knew he was back home. Didn't you?" she accused him.
"Sorry." He said sheepishly, a moment later his expression changed. "I hope everything's fine between you both."
"Yes. Why would you ask?" she blurted a little too suddenly.
He shrugged, "Because as soon as you came to have dinner, I saw you didn't look happy. And even bhai didn't came down to have dinner."
"No. Everything's fine. Don't worry." she gave him a little smile.
"You know I am always there for you right."
"I know bhaiya." She gave him a genuine smile. Atleast there was someone in that house who actually became close to her. Even her in-laws she scolded herself. The only person who wasn't happy with her presence seemed to be her soon-to-be husband.
"When I came to know bhai was getting married I thought it would be some model looking like girl. And don't get me wrong, you are very beautiful. But the girls he usually dated were just beauty without brains. I'm glad bhai found one with brain."
She laughed. "Let me guess you thought I would be some kind of egotistical girl who would talk about fashion all the time."
"Not only that. That you'd be some spoilt kid who would only talk about herself. But." he huffed.
"But?"
"You are very sweet. And kind hearted." He said smiling at her.
"By the way, I am a little spoilt and how do you know I am kind hearted? You've known me for only what? Two days."
"Its good to be a little spoilt. And about that, let me tell you, everybody in my family including the most criticising people told mom that they liked you. That they selected the perfect girl."
"Really?" She asked him unsure, but on the inside she felt jovial.
"Yes really. And you are nice to everyone. Only a crazy person will not like you!"
She scoffed. Yes. That crazy person is your brother she thought.
As they pulled into the parking lot, she got out of the car and asked him to come upstairs and meet everyone and then leave. But he refused saying that it was getting late so she didn't force him.
She was lucky to have a brother-in-law like Arjun as he made her foul mood disappear. She made her way towards her apartment and without losing any time, changed her lehenga into pj's and tee and slept after the tiring day.
***
Days went by and Tithi didn't hear from Siddharth not even once. She was going to meet Shiviksha before heading for her School reunion when she heard the doorbell. Who would have come by so early she thought. So she went out to see what the commotion was about.
As she closed her door behind her, she was astounded to find her in-laws sitting there with her parents.
They saw her and she immediately regretted her decision of wearing the jumpsuit.
They had already seen her and it would be rude not to greet them and run off inside her room to change. With a little bravery she bent down to touch their feet feeling awkward.
Her mother-in-law came towards her and wrapped her arms around her.
"My daughter-in-law is so pretty and beautiful. No wonder my friends are jealous that I found her before them." She told her as she broke the hug.
"Yes. We are indeed lucky that she's not only pretty but also has values and respect for elder." Her father-in-law said looking proud.
"Actually it was her school reunion she was going to attend. I forgot telling her that you all were coming today." Her father explained them.
She was in awe as she heard them. They didn't care if she was wearing western clothes. Instead they appreciated her. She couldn't help but give them a smile.
As if on cue to make her smile disappear, she saw his cold hearted husband entering. She didn't want to even look at him. Sure he would be looking like a Greek God, but at that second she didn't want to even look at his gorgeous figure wearing his suit that got her heart fluttering.
She was curious to know why they were here.
"Tithi. We have to decide a wedding date. Pandit ji would be coming soon." Her mother told her. She nodded her head. She went to call Shiviksha to tell her that she won't be able to make it today, and she'll head directly to her reunion.
Pandit ji came and started doing some calculations which nobody could understand.
"I have some important projects coming up that need my attention." Mr busy told everyone and Tithi just rolled her eyes. Of course. He was the busiest person alive on earth. How could they decline his request.
"Any date would be fine for me." She announced.
"There's only one date after 14 days and then there's no date before next year." He told everyone as my eyes widened and so did everybody else's.
"It's fine by me." Mr busy announced. Who does he think he is? It was not only his decision
"Tithi. What do you think?" His father asked for her opinion. Finally.
"Wouldn't i-it be too soon?" She said stammering.
"Tithi. I know that two weeks time is really less. But then the next date is after an year. Don't you think it would be really long?" Her mummy asked her.
"Okay." She took a courageous decision. She had to get married someday anyway. Next week or next year, same thing.
"Oh I am so happy!" Her mother-in-law rejoiced.
They didn't get the time to celebrate as they realised that all the preparations needed to be done and everyone got busy in that.
Meanwhile Siddharth got up to leave and so did she. She had a reunion to attend.
"Siddharth why don't you drop Tithi to her school reunion while you're leaving for your office?" Her mother-in-law asked him.
"No. I mean it's not needed mummy. I can manage. I have my own car." She politely said trying to refuse her request. Siddharth was the last person she would want to go to her reunion with.
"Okay then. Have fun."
"Thank you. Bye." She said as they both exited for the elevator. She gave him no attention and acted busy in her phone, having no idea how he looked or what he was wearing.
Without saying a word, she left in her car. She was excited for the reunion and to meet her schoolmates.
As she entered the banquet, she saw her old mates, looking different. She rushed to her group of girls giving them a big hug. She missed them. A lot. They had so much fun when they were together in school.
***
He was sitting in his office trying to work, but his mind had been somewhere else. She looked stunning in her outfit, and the ridiculous idea of hating her because she was not her type jumped out of the window when he saw her. She was going to her reunion and he wanted to go check on her. Trying to concentrate was out of question as he was terribly failing at it.
"Rose." He called for his personal assistant who was like a mother figure to him.
"Yes sir." The aged lady stepped into the room.
"I want to know where in Bhopal is a School reunion happening. And make it real quick." He told her.
After I few minutes she returned and gave him the address. Apparently there was only one School reunion happening in the city. That was easy he thought as a smirk made its way into his face. It was in one of the hotels banquet that he owned.
He got in his car and made his way to the hotel.
He entered the banquet and the security guard stopped him. He called the hotel manager, who realising who it was asked the security guard to apologise to him.
He pushed the door open and his eyes straightaway went to the group of girls that were laughing like maniac. He cringed a little but when he saw Tithi among them, he was in awe. Oblivious to his presence, he saw her laughing. It wasn't the type of laugh that was sweet or good to hear, it sounded more like pig laughing. She was laughing so freely, clutching her stomach as she leaned on her friends for support. She was wiping her tears from all that laughing and trying to control herself when she failed miserably and laughed hard again. She was beaming with happiness and looked cheerful, she looked different. The Tithi he had come across wasn't like that, she was more of a shy girl. He never saw her laugh like that till now. How would he? All he did was to make her sad.
"Excuse me. Are you invited here?" A man in casual shirt and jeans asked him approaching.
"No. But my fiancé is here."
"Oh. Who are you talking about?" He asked him.
"There. Tithi."
"Oh. So you are the lucky guy. She told us about her engagement just now. Congratulations dude." He said bringing his hand forward to shake which he gladly did.
"Thanks."
"Aryan by the way."
"Siddharth Saxena." He replied.
Tithi still didn't know he was here and he kept on to not go to her until she realised he was here. He wanted to keep it that way so that he could see her actual self.
Aryan had disappeared and he headed towards the bar. He got himself a drink when a pretty girl approached him. Not exactly. She was trying hard to play, he had experienced this too many times to be sure of it. He didn't give her attention and kept on staring at her charming and cute Fiancé.
"Tithi certainly got your attention." The girl spoke observing him.
"Has she always been like that?" He asked her out of curiosity, not because he was interested in talking with her.
"Like what? Kind hearted, generous, caring, compassionate, sympathetic, altruistic and benign person?" She scoffed.
"What?" He said a little loudly which caught attention of some people.
"You see everybody in this room? Everyone considers her the best behaved girl since school. She had this aura that made everyone like her. She had always been perfect. Had good grades, selfless and thoughtful. Even the baddest boys of our class talked to her with respect. Still do." She said emotionless.
He could feel that she didn't like Tithi, even after telling him all the good things about her. She was jealous of her. Jealous because even if she had the looks, Tithi was better than her in every aspect. Everybody loved and respected her. He smiled as he knew she was like that.
"You don't like her?"
"Not really. She looks fake to me." She said and he wanted to kick her for saying that. Anybody in the world could make out that Tithi was genuine and the girl sitting with her a bitch.
"Oh you're married?" She said with a little shock.
"Engaged." He said with gritted teeth.
"To-"
"What are you doing here?" He smiled as smelled her familiar chocolate scent in the air.
***
Tithi was having fun with my friends when she heard a overfamiliar voice. No. He couldn't be here. He couldn't possibly be.
She turned around to find him sitting and smiling at Nishita. What the hell was he doing here? He wasn't supposed to be here. He was wearing a grey coloured button up shirt folded till his elbows and black pants that fitted perfectly. He had his black vest and tie which made her contemplate he came here from.his office. He had a five o'clock shadow that made her heart miss a beat.
"Is that-"
"Yes." She closed my eyes trying to control my exasperation.
"I'll just be back." She told her friends as she went towards him.
"What are you doing here?" She asked him aggravated.
"Nothing. Just enjoying with my beautiful company here." He said which her heart swell with sadness.
"You know him?" Nishita asked her giving her best fake smiles.
"She's the one I am engaged to." Siddharth replied her that made her look baffled.
"Nishita. If you don't mind can I have a word with my fiancé?" she asked her politely.
"Why? It's okay if she stays here. She was giving me company here." He was purposely making her mad.
She was about to snap at him for testing her patience when his old friend appeared asking her to come dance with them. She saw everybody on the dance floor and she loved dancing, so without glancing at Siddharth she marched with him to the dance floor.
She knew he was trying to make her jealous. She didn't want to spoil her reunion and so she made a decision to neglect him for the rest of the evening. He was behaving like a jerk. Never Mind.
She loved club dancing and though she wasn't very good at it, she loved dancing freely. She swayed her body and did those sexy club moves, which she had gotten mastery at.
As her favourite track Sia-cheap thrills played in the background and she couldn't help but dance madly, not caring about anybody. She faced Abhimanyu, the guy who asked her to join them. He whispered in her ear that she looked beautiful to which she just smiled.
She was exhausted and went to get some water. She gazed towards where Siddharth and Nishita were sitting. She felt a pang of jealousy hit her. He was very close to her and she had her hand on his thighs. She felt tears brimming her eyes and when she couldn't control them, she rushed towards the washroom and locked herself.
"Tithi. Are you in here? Open the door." Her best friend Aliya pleaded.
She didn't want her to know she was here but a sob escaped her mouth and she clamped her fists to her mouth to not sound pathetic.
***
Yet again he was getting hard just by looking her dance. The way she was moving her hips, was making him out of control. She could even be sexy when she wanted. As he saw a guy whispering something in her ear to which she smiled, he wanted to punch him and kick him. Who gave him permission to get close to her girl?
Nishita was getting more flirty with him and he wasn't liking it. He felt her hand on his thigh and that when he lost it. He was about to tell at her when he saw Tithi looking towards them and she rushed somewhere.
Panic arose in his body as he quickly got up and went after her.