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Part 19:
Mayank got up to the smell of Henna(Mehendi) and opened his eyes to see Nupur's hands in front of his face, having a flourished red-brown colour. She was very close to him and now her hands were both in between their faces. He realized that she may never sleep in a single position ever. He smiled to a beautiful morning in his life, looking at her beautiful face.
He kept looking at her while he realized that he had made a mistake yesterday. This escape from saying anything would never help. She had behaved even stranger when he behaved strange enough. It was not supposed to be that, they were more sensible than that for sure. Maybe Nupur didn't at all feel the way he did, but that only made him more responsible for taking things ahead for them.
He was still lost in thought when he saw Nupur open her eyes slowly. She opened them and looked at Mayank yawning twisting her mouth. When she looked at him, she started to smile slightly and then it dawned on her how close she was to him. She sat up with a jerk and tried to comprehend the way her habit would have made her do it. She realized Mayank may not have a very good opinion about her for this. Her doubt confirmed when she saw Mayank sit up next to her with a smirk and grinned at her for her reaction.
He couldn't help it. The way she reacted at her own actions was adorably cute, as if she had made a big mistake and was being almost shy for it. Her cheeks talked of her embarrassed-ness.
She looked at him from the corner of her eyes. She so didn't want him to think that way of her, the way she was thinking he would.
He smirked again, she had looked him as if she had theft away something from him.
Nupur now turned to his side and glared at him, since it made it easy to hide her embarrassment. Mayank raised his eyebrows at her change in reaction. He was amused beyond limits.
Nupur asked defensively, "Kya tum?...Hass kyun rahe ho?"
Mayank didn't say anything and just kept looking at her with his eyebrows raised still at her reaction.
When she didn't get a reply back and was getting up thinking it was the best before she made any more fool of herself than she already had, she felt her hands being held by Mayank, with a grip enough to hold her back in the postion she was now, half way out of the bed.
She felt nervous as she saw him. What was he upto now? Did he want to declare what she wanted to escape; she definitely didn't want to hear what he had come to think of her acts today.
Mayank chuckled again, his sarcastic remarks to her always made Nupur more nervous . He left her hand while she was now sitting in front of him, a bit distant.
Mayank didn't change his reaction much when he said, "Nupur...kya hum thoda mature aur sensible logon ki tarah behave nahi kar sakte? I mean come on humne shadi ki hai, toh isme itna pressure kyun le rahi ho apne dimaag mein?"
Nupur was startled beyond limits. She didn't know whether she wanted to listen to this yesterday or not. But today this had made up for whatever he had not said yesterday. She felt like giving him a hug for saying the words which overwhelmed her pointlessly now. She didn't know if she smiled or stared or what but she saw him chuckle again at her reaction.
He continued, "Naa hi tumhe badalne ki zaroorat hai aur naa mujhe! Hum jaise hain waise hi rehna chahiye naa Nupur! Dekho mujhe bhi utna hi kam experience hai iss Marriage business ke bare mein jitna ki tumhe, so you are lucky enough ki main tumhari utni galtiyaan shayad naa nikaloon jitna kit tum sochti hogi". He always wanted to tease her for this. He remembered how she had said earlier that he points out her faults too much when she wanted him to meet her Bauji. That was very interesting for him to listen to for sure. Her irritated face today at these words gave him some contentment now. She was probably back in her own elements now rather than the "trying-to-be-a-perfect-bride" act which she was upto in sometime that he had seen her lately, not just yesterday but for the whole time when marriage preparations went on. It scared him a bit!
'There he goes again' Nupur thought and cancelled out her want to hug him just now. She felt irritated again. Will she ever understand him properly? Once he says all the sweetest possible things to her, okay not sweetest but yes 'convincing enough' stuff to her and baselessly enough she felt those words having some connection to romantic stuff which she hardly doubted she may listen to from him. Okay she knew she was over-reacting, there was no need to expect the total opposite from Mayank now. What if he was her husband now ?
However, rejecting all her assumptions and presumptions, for it was too early a thinking for all this, she replied back most innocently and honestly, "Pata hai Mayank, kal toh main darr hi gayi thi...naa tumne kuch kaha aur naa mujhe kuch samajh aaya ki kya kahoon?"
Mayank again smirked at her such a clear-cut honest answer. He knew he had married the right girl this just confirmed it now more. It was like he waited to witness every small little reaction from her and her untimely and unassuming relies to him.The way she said that, she almost looked like a small child who finally got to speak her mind. He was glad now he intervened he moving away.
Mayank saw her reaction change again at his smirk when he realized, he was much more relaxed today with her than he had been since they had started discussing her marriage soon turning into their's. He was now out of his 'much- confused-over-his-feelings' zone. He now knew, if ever that keeps developing, it will only be for the better.
He replied back to her, "Par phir bhi you got comfortable soon enough, as expected" He plainly referred to her way of sleeping and unfortunately she got just that at the way he spoke. She again got embarrassed, recovered, glared back and giving an angry look replied, "Dekho, meri aadat ka mazaak mat udao...mujhe aadat hai pillow pakad kar sone ki...tumhe hogi aadat statue ki tarah jamm kar sone ki...toh ispe mujhe baar baar sunao mat samjhe!!!" She was glad she was finally able to speak so much once again in front of him which she had started to think probably she wouldn't be able to again, given the way things were progressing.
He repeated glaring back in disdain, "Pillow?"
Nupur glared back even more.
Mayank slightly smiled at her "seeming anger". If only it was meant to scare him, he loved how cute her anger seemed to him. He replied back still very much in calm, "Maine kahan kuch kaha...its good that you are so comfortable. Main bhi tumse sekh jaonga jaldi hi, am sure" and gave a soft laugh when he saw her make no change in her anger and she headed for the washroom.
Nupur was left all confused with his statement what was that supposed to mean anyways? But she realized one thing for sure; it would be so so difficult for her to live with his smirks and chuckles to her on a daily basis!
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Nupur got all ready. Mayank had given her room to herself so that she didn't feel more embarrassed, atleast no more for the day.
She went ahead to help Shilpa Sharma in the kitchen. She was not very proud of her inexperience in culinary skills. Still she hoped to go ahead and take it in her stride. She was determined that she must learn it soon since she was such a foodie, she must get to know and use flavours well enough. Shilpa Sharma had most certainly been the most co-operative mother-in-law she could have asked for. She was having a feeling that her own Mother, who was no more with her in this world, must have blessed her enough so that she got had been lucky enough to get this.
Nupur had a small tiny fear that Mayank may get more critical of her when he got to know about her incapacity to do a multitude of things that there were to do in general. He had said that she may not take pressure of sorts, but even she knew the fact that her being her may not seem so fanciful to him since he was what he was! She prayed things never get unmanageable for them!
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