*A FairyTale Ending* - SaJan Story - Page 45

"Samrat atleast listen to what I have to say.." I pleaded shutting the door to his room after entering. "Alright.. fine.. tell me? You read all of it, right? What do you want to say? What did you learn Gunjan? There is a reason I haven't told you all this. You shouldn't have known any of it. Not like that!" "I'm sorry.." I said sobbing softly. "I knew it. I know what you're going to say. Samrat, I'm sorry, I had no idea you thought that way.. I never felt like that, you were always just a friend.. isn't that right? I get it okay. That's why I didn't want you to read it. I didn't want to ruin our friendship, but you just stomped on it by opening that door. If you want I'll get you a flight back tomorrow." he taunted. "NO!" I yelled making him shut up. "You don't just get to draw conclusions every single time alright!" I yelled. "You shouldn't have.." he said shaking his head. "I SHOULD HAVE. I DID. And I Love You." I said looking at him. "Oh My God. I don't want pity Gunjan. I know you don't feel the same, and its okay, you don't have to lie! Pleasee. Stop it!" "SHUT UP." I yelled. I had to make him listen. This couldn't get any worse! "I am not saying that I loved you since college, I didn't. I was stupid. I didn't see anything. I was an ass, an amateur who was lost in her fantasy and just couldn't see the truth.. But why do you think I didn't marry Louis? Why do think I was able to become an interior designer? Why would I be angry with you all this time? Because every night I couldn't sleep because I would dream about you. I would dream about being with you. I needed you Samrat. During Dia and Mayank's wedding, I was imagining my wedding, and guess who I imagined as the groom? You. I tried to think of Louis but I couldn't. It was you standing at the altar waiting for me. Only you. I was an ass Samrat.." I hiccupped in the middle of tears.

"That description of my prince charming was all rubbish. I had never seen the face of that prince. It was you. And I am slow and so I realised after you left what your worth was. Remember you wrote in the note, that don't take Louis for granted, I didn't. I had always taken you for granted. I didn't understand what it meant initially, but when you went away I realised how much you meant to me. How much i loved you, and when I saw you again, that love came out as anger and harsh remarks... But I love you. And Not because you love me, but because I always have, I just took time to understand. I can't live without you, I love everything about you.. I just.." I realised how dry my throat had become. My eyes were blurry and I sank to my knees. I had finally let it out. Said everything I felt and finally I looked up at him. He had tears in his eyes too, and I could only say, "Samrat, will you marry me?" My eyes were fixed on his and he smiled as he went on his knees too. "That was supposed to be my line!" he muttered as he kissed me. Our lips met and our hearts united. It was way more passionate than the previous one. He pressed against me and I had totally surrendered myself.

He lifted me in his arms and whispered in my ears, "I love you. I love you much more than I can say.." It was magical after that. Our souls united and no one would give up. There was longing in both our hearts and so it came out as passion and strength. We were breathless and sweating. We didn't care, atleast I didn't. We were just together and happy. We expressed our love in every possible way. I unbuttoned his shirt and he unbuttoned mine. My dream was finally coming true. I was in his arms and our passion was rising above all levels possible. We didn't want to stop, we didn't want to give up. It took every ounce of energy in us. Samrats hands were around me, and mine were around him. We were desperate. Really desperate. And then the weirdest thing that could happen, happened. "Bhai, Gunjan isn't in her roo— Suhani barged into the room in the middle of it all. Samrat jumped up and I shot up too, and then realising what She was seeing I laid down again under the blanket. Suhani immediately shut her eyes, and them muttering the words, "Oh My God" again and again she ran out of the room. Samrat laughed a little and I was all red. And then the two of us got back to what we were doing.

I was smiling again, I had done it. I had told him how I felt and it was great. I was seeing him smile and he was happy again. When I was in pain, he had always healed mine and it was time to do the same for him. All these years he loved me and I didn't realise I had to make it up to him. I just have to.

Later after dinner I was in my room writing my diary again. I was happy. Finally I had everything.

Dear Diary,

This is It. Life is perfect. I couldn't want anything more. But I am scared, I want this to work, I really do. This is my last shot. I have to succeed. I love him so much and he loves me too. He has always loved me and I have hurt him at every step. I hope I can make it up to him, give him all the love he deserves.. I want to be with him and nothing more. Samrat Shergill. He is my prince charming, he is my dream man. He is everything...

"Whatsup?" Samrat said barging in. I shut my book and kept it aside. "Nothing... Was just—"Thinking about me?" he asked winking. I smiled and nodded. He came and put his head on my lap. "Genuinely speaking I never thought that you and I... that we would ever be together!" he said seriously. "But we are..." I said facing reality. "And we've already wasted so much time.." he said sitting up. "What do you mean?" "Ms. Singhania will you go on a date with me?" he asked with the typical Samrat-grin. "I proposed for marriage today and you're still stuck on a date?" I laughed. "What's the rush? This time we have together has its own charm. And I want to live it first!" "Ok fine fine." "So you'll come?" he asked. "Lets see." I said snobbishly. "What?" he said narrowing his eyes. "I don't like the way you asked me for our first date. So try again. And impress me. Why would I randomly say yes to go on a date with you?" I played my part. He wanted to feel the charm of dating. I would give him all the benefits. "Ohh.. so you want to be pampered?" he said putting his hands on his hip. "Maybe.." I said smiling. "Alright. I will come up with something!" he said laying down on my lap again. I slowly stroked his hair and he turned over and shut his eyes. "You are seriously sleeping?" I asked. "Im just loving all of this.." he said like a small kid who was just given a new toy! I smiled looking at him and stroked his hair.

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"Good Morning.." Samrat said as I opened my eyes. "Good Morning.." I mumbled. He was lying beside me staring at me. "What are you doing here so early in the morning?" I asked. "Was watching you sleep!" he accepted. "You snore!" he said. "What? What rubbish?" I argued. I do not snore. "Yes. You do. I find it charming!" he said grinning. "Ughh." I said getting up from bed. "Whaat?" he asked. "You think telling a girl that she snores will make her say yes for a date? Bad idea!" I grumbled. I don't snore! "I also said its charming and sexy!" he said. "Not enough, I don't snore." "You do" he repeated. "Shut up!" I said slamming the bathroom door. I could still hear him laughing outside.

After we were dressed and had eaten our breakfast Samrat offered to take me out. "Let's go roam around today, I'll show you around and we can have some fun!" he said. "Alright!" I agreed. We had so much to talk about and so much to do. This time seemed so little!

He took me to see the statue of liberty and then he took me to a museum. He held my hand everywhere. It was so comforting, so reassuring. He held my hand through the crowd, around the museum and he only left my hand while driving. Meanwhile I got a call from Patrick. "Maam, you were supposed to come back 2 days ago. We need your approval to start the work on Mr. Khanna's Bungalow and you need to approve the plan for Mr. Rashid's flat also. We have four new clients and they wanted to speak with you personally, so when should I fix your meeting?" he asked. "Umm.. I will be back in another 5 days. After that? And email me the plans so I can approve them and I will send it back by tomorrow." I said. "Maam, we also needed some money for Mr. Harish's flat. He said he would pay the money after the flat is made and now we are short. So can I withdraw some from the bank?" "Yes, alright. Do that and let me know!" I said. "And maam..—"Enough!" Samrat said snatching my phone from my hand and cutting the line. "I don't get so many phone calls! And look at you!" he said, "We were here to have lunch and talk. Not do work!" he grumbled. "Mr. Shergill, you have like a thousand employees to see your work in your absence, sadly all of us don't have so many employees. I have only 50. So I actually have to do most of the work!" I said taking my phone back. "But you are here with me. So no phone calls!" he said. "Alright. No phone calls!" I said keeping my phone aside.

"So you used to take therapy to forget me?" I said sheepishly. "Aah. See why I didn't want you to read it? It was so dumb. But I needed to try something!" he said in his defence. "So did it work?" I asked. "You tell me. You know everything..." I smiled and looked away. "You know what I did in these two years, what were you doing?" he asked me. "I was working, and missing you, and getting furious at you for hurting me. Thats about it.." "You know, when I realised that I was in love with you, I was so scared. I kind of knew you would never feel the same way but I still tried to give hints but everything I did you always thought I did it as a friend, that was when I realised that you never even thought of me in that way. You always thought of me as a friend, so all I did was try and tell my self to control my emotions, but then after a few months, I couldn't so I stopped pretending. Whenever I would express my love and do things for you, you would always appreciate it and call me your best friend.. and me.. I would just smile and accept it." "I wish i could change things..." I murmured. "By the way, after I was with Louis, you still didn't tell me anything. You sat there and watched me kiss him. You watched everytime and just didn't get furious. How?" I asked. "Because you were happy. I would see you smile all day and enjoy yourself. How could I be angry with him? He brought happiness into your life which I couldn't. I was sad that I couldn't be that person but I wasn't angry or agitated.. Though I was jealous!" He accepted. "I know. I heard you speaking to Dia and Benji. I knew you loved me. But that time I was with Louis and I didn't want to ruin our friendship by facing you, so I just ignored it.." I admitted. Samrat seemed taken aback but didn't say anything. He still had to open up. He was still unsure if I actually loved him. I could see it in his eyes. The confusion, the anxiety to know if I actually love him... I looked into his eyes and he looked at mine, then I held his hand and said, "I am sorry. I know I have hurt you alot in the past.." I apologised. "No Gunjan, it wasn't your fault, you were just oblivious to my emotions because I wanted you to be and that time if you would have come to know, you would have panicked and maybe we would have never become such good friends!" he said with a small smile. I smiled too.

"So, how about we go on a date tonight?" he asked again. "Umm.. NO. You seriously don't know when to ask what huh? Bad timing!" I said shaking my head. "Oh God! Now I'll have to think about something else!" he grumbled. "Can we have desert before you do that?" I asked with a smile. "Oh yeah, I totally forgot!" We called for cheesecake. I love blueberry cheesecake! He was actually treating me very well. I was impressed. But truly speaking it was awkward. A little bit. He usually treated me as an equal, you know, like a buddy, whom he didnt have to please. So now since he was actually treating me like a princess, it was weird. I wonder why I wanted to be treated this way. I suddenly just wanted to be his best friend again. He was actually behaving himself now.

At his house, I finished my work and then took a nap. I was sleepy. I could barely sleep last night, was just thinking about the greatness that lies ahead of us. "Rose & Shine Sleepy head!" Samrat said waking me up. "Let me sleep." I said. "No way! Not unless you say yes for a date!" he said. "I am out of ideas and now you just have to say yes!" "No I am not." I mumbled. He pulled the blanket from over me. "Samraaat!" I moaned. "You'll get it back once you say yes!" "You can't blackmail me!" "Oh yes I can!" he said folding his arms over his chest. "Oh really?" I said sitting up in bed. "You are in for a lot of trouble if you don't say yes! I am warning you!" he said. "I dont care!" I said getting up from bed and walking to the bathroom, and then suddenly THUD. I fell on my ass. "Ouch!" I yelled. There was water spilled here. I didn't see. Samrat started to laugh. I had understood by now what he meant by "trouble" if I didn't say yes! "By doing all this, you're not going to get a yes!" I scolded getting back on my feet. "Oh yes I am.." he said. I got up and very carefully stepped in to the bathroom making sure there was nothing on the ground. I slowly opened the door and went in looking around when SPLASH. A huge bucket of water fell on me, followed by the bucket itself. "SAMRAAAT!" I yelled. He laughed louder this time. "Is it a yes yet?" he asked looking at me in that miserable condition! I shut the bathroom door on his face and went to change. Wait a minute... he would have expected me to do that. He would have thought I would wear whatever was there in the bathroom. I stilled opened the cupboard to find a blue salwar. It was gorgeous. I picked it up and checked if it was wet or it had glue on. There was nothing. Okay.. I thought. It was my size also. Maybe he assumed I would say yes until now. Anyway I wore it and went outside.

"Told you, you would say yes!" he said grinning. "You suck!" I grumbled. "And you look sexy!" he said putting his arms around me. "You know you just forced me to come on a date with you!?" I said eyeing him. "Oh! So you'll come?" he asked. "Ok.." I said. I noticed a pair of shoes on the side so I put them on.. "Gunjan listen—SMASH. The heel broke but this time I didnt fall, he caught me. "That was just in case you still wouldn't agree.." he said laughing. "I.Hate.You." I yelled. I was so angry. He was suddenly so annoying! So much for being treated as a princess. "Here, wear these!" he said giving me another box. I opened them, and I laughed a little. He had brought me glass slippers. He was actually making this a little fairytalish. "Thank you!" I said putting them on. "Give me a minute I'll just get ready and then we'll leave. "Where are we going?" "Its a surprise!" he said rushing out of the room. I stood in front of the mirror looking at myself. Blue. Samrat's favourite. He actually had amazing choice. And everything was suddenly so perfect. Just then my phone started to ring. "Hello.." I said. "Gunjan, how are you?" Dia chirped. "I am great!" I said. "How are you? And how is Dhruv?" "Forget about me! Just because you got your best friend back doesn't mean you forget me! That is not fair! You haven't called in once in these three days!" she complained. "Dia..Dia.. Dia.. I have so much to tell you! I'll speak to you once Im back from my date!" I blurted. "DATE?" she shrieked. "WHO?" she demanded. "Samrat." I said. "Gunjaaan! I am so happy. I want details! Finally you two are together! Yay! I want all the details!" she said. "I'll call you once Im back, ok?" "I can't wait!" she said.

"Ready?" he said coming into the room. "That was fast!" I said. "Ofcourse, before you change your mind, lets go!" he said. I laughed with him and we left. It was very far, he drove for about 45 minutes and finally stopped the car. I looked out and there was nothing. "Umm, is this it?" I asked. "Yup! Let's go!" he said getting out and opening my side of the door too. "Where are we?" I asked getting down. "Come on.." he said holding my hand and pulling me along. "But atleast tell me what is this?" I could see a big looking vehicle in the middle of an empty piece of land. As we moved forward, I could see it wasn't an ordinary vehicle it was a trailer. It was lighted up with candles outside and a table for two was set up. We stopped in front of it and as I was looking around he asked. "What do you think?" "About the trailer?" I asked. "No about the view!" he said. "I looked around. It was a little too dark to make out anything but I could see a little portion of city and some forest nearby. "I can't see too clearly" I said. "Oh alright, I'll show you in the morning!" he said. "Why?" "Because this is a gift for you! Its going to be our dream house! I spent all day yesterday looking for the perfect one, and this was it!" he said. "Dream house?" I asked. I was not following. What did he mean? "Yes Gunjan, our little dream house. We can have a huge pool here, We can have a house with huge glass windows. With a huge deck where we can chill in the evening. We can cook outside sometimes. Barbeque and all. Then we can have a huge living room, and have everything inside designed by the best designer.." she look a deep breathe, "You." I smiled a little. He spent all of yesterday finding a piece of land? Wow. This must be important for him. "Wow, you've thought a lot about all this!" I stated. "Why? Didn't you like it!" "Its great!" I said. "But isn't it a little far?" "This area is developing now. This house will take atleast 2 years and by the time it will all be developed. So relax. Its going to be fine!" I just smiled looking at him. I didn't care which house we had, I didn't care where we lived, or what we ate. He was there and that was all I ever wanted.

"Oh wait, I forgot the champagne. Go inside. I'll just get it from the car!" he said and rushed away. Something had just fallen from his pocket but before I could tell him anything, he left. I picked it up and opened it. It was a small box and suddenly I realised what it could be. I opened it and there it was. A perfect ring. He was going to propose today! He was going to ask me to marry him. My eyes grew wider and wider and I jumped up and down for two minutes before I realised that now he no longer had the ring. I had it. So I could surprise him instead of doing it the other way round. I went inside the trailer. It was lit with candles and decorated with flowers. There was a small tiny bedroom at one corner just enough for a bed, and a small sofa in the middle. I kept the ring box under the cushion on the sofa and sat down near it.

Samrat came back with the champagne bottle and we went outside. He taught me how to barbeque chicken and I watched. Samrat could cook now? When did that happen? "You cook?" I asked. "I learnt." I said. I looked down blushing. He did it for me, I remembered how I went on and on telling him about mine and Louis' first date, how he did all the work, and made me happy. I smiled looking at him still struggle with the grills. I helped him out a little. He happily let me help and just like that we finished making dinner. We sat inside on the sofa eating what we had just made and talking to each other. "So Gunjan, did you like the chicken?" he asked. "Yumm.. Its damn good." "I know this date isn't the way you thought it would be..—"but way better" I said holding his hand. "You nailed the date Samrat. Its the best date I have ever been to!" I said. Once we were done eating, he felt his pockets. Oops. I guess now he realised that there was no ring. His face suddenly turned into a frown and then there was worry all over. "Samrat.." I said. He looked up at me. "I need to tell you something," I said. "Me too.. But—"First me!" I said cutting in. He forgot everything for a minute and turned towards me. "Say!" I sat on my knees, took out the ring from behind the cushion and held it up to him, "Would you, Samrat Shergill, do the pleasure of making me wear this ring?" I asked with a wide smile. I was ecstatic. This was just the perfect moment. "Will you marry me Samrat?" I asked. "No No No!" he said. "Not like that!" he grumbled. I got up and looked confused. He took the ring from my hands. "I have been practising this speech the whole way in the car!" he said. "Okay fine, say what you have to!" I said. He sat on his knees now and said, "I know I am not a prince, and I know you deserve the best, But I love you, and that is the best thing that has ever happened to me. You are the only one whom I can spend my whole life with, fighting, arguing, loving, caring, screaming, scolding, complaining, and doing everything. Just you. I want to be the father of your kids and I want to be the grandfather of their kids, and the great grandfather of—"Get to the point will you?" I laughed. He laughed after me and then finally said, "I promise to keep you happy. I will fight with you, I will annoy you. I will play pranks on you, and I will always and forever love you..! So, Ms. Gunjan Singhania, Will you do me the honour of marrying me?" he asked. "Yes. Yes. & Yes.. And trust me, I am going to irritate you, fight with you, annoy you, scold you, and love you much much more than you will ever be able to. And I still want you to love me after all of that!" I said with tears running down my cheek. He wiped my tears and then we blew all the candles and got into bed. I lay my head on his chest and he wrapped his arms around me. I was just on top of the world. This was my dream come true. This was my perfect fairytale. I wanted nothing more. Everything was Perfect & We lived Happily ever after!

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The Perfect-ness comes after the happily every after, and this is the happily ever after. There were ups and downs along the way, there was moments where I just wanted to die and some where I could barely breathe but today have no regrets about life. This is my happily ever after. She is my life. Gunjan. Mrs. Samrat Shergill. Everything about her takes my breathe away. After 8 years of marriage I can guarantee that there couldn't be anyone better than her. We have two girls and a boy. Samridhi, Samara and Gaurav. And we have our own little world within our own little house where I had proposed her.

I never thought I would be with her, but God had made her for me and so we had to be together. It took time but it was a happy ending. Well, it hasn't ended yet and hopefully it will be a long long life. I am with the love of me life, can I ask for more? My two girls love me more than Gunjan, can I ask for more? Gaurav is his mummy's boy but well, we have the majority! *lifts his collar*.

"Samrat! Dinner's ready!" Gunjan screamed. "Coming" I said getting up from bed. Everyone was there at the table. I sat down and before I could start eating, "You haven't even had a bath yet?! What is wrong with you?" she growled. Yes. My wife growls. "Relax, I was hungry I wanted to eat first!" "Dad you stink!" gaurav said. "Let the man breathe!" Samridhi defended me. "Ohkaay! Enough enough.. can we eat first?" I said looking at Gunjan. She frowned. "You will never change. You just don't like to stay clean, do you?" She bickered. Yes. She bickers too. "Do you know Gaurav, you're dad used to come from his basketball practices and eat first before changing! What will I do of him!" Gunjan complained. Without another word in mu defence I started eating. Okay, maybe life wasn't so perfect but I still loved her, even when he growled. "Mom, I topped in class!" Samara said proudly. "Wow, great! We should celebrate!" I said. "Obviously we will!" Gunjan said. "Samridhi, learn something from your younger sister!" Gunjan said sarcastically! "Momm.. I get a 70%.. And I don't see any future for me in academics. I want to be a Guitarist!" she said proudly. "Relax Sam, You're mom used to get in her 40's.." I winked at Samridhi. "Samraaat!" Gunjan said widening her eyes. "Gunjaaan" I said imitating her and the kids burst out laughing. Sometimes I actually feel that seeing the kids laugh and Gunjan happy, that is the sole aim of my life. I love them.

Now when I look back in time and think about all the ups and downs we went through, it seems like a million years ago. I can't even think about life without my kids and my wife. This is life. This is my fairytale!

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I truly want to thank each and everyone of you for sticking around and reading this fiction of mine. I have never believed in fairytales but I still love them. They amuse me because I am very practical and I believe that there is no "Happily ever after.." & I have always wondered what comes after the happily ever after.. but still havent got my answer! And so I haven't shown you anything about the happily ever after, just a small glimpse of their future life..

Hope you all loved reading whatever I wrote, and all the best for the future. Reading is a very very good habit, whatever it is you read, it helps you with your imagination, creativity, vocab, and many many other things, so please never leave reading! I am a huge fan of reading ( everything but textbooks 🤣 ) and I encourage reading.

All the little writing capabilities that I possess are all due to the fact that I read. Otherwise, I am pretty sure I wouldn't be able to write.

Okay, I am going way off topic. Just wanted to say Thank you very much for reading this fic, and hope all of you'll enjoyed this journey with us.

Here ENDS the Fiction..

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Love,

Manjari

im sorry im hd nt commented on d last 3 updts..dnt get much tym to come ol.:(

bt amazingg superbb updates yaar👏👏

really d ending ws juz perfect

loved d confession.😳.nd shunaani's bad tyming🤣

samrat asking gunjan fr d date ws soo funnyyy..🤣

d proposal ws really beautifully wriiten..👍🏼

totally in sajan dreamland nw

nd epilouge ws soo cuteee..❤️

il really miss this ff alot😔..this ff is definattly one of my favs..well actually all ur ffs are my favs..😆

keep writing..ur juz an amazingg writer⭐️