SS: A Bend in the Road [Wattpad link-P.126] - Page 38

Was there anything more of a cliche than this, Geet wondered.

That night was a sweet scene straight from a story book. It was tucked neatly away like maybe it never happened.

At office, he was the same boss. His sarcasm didn't dissipate, nor was his obsession with work. They didn't even behave unprofessionally with each other. They were back to being normal.

But there were minute changes in him.

She had known him long enough to see the ease in him, the increased frequency of his lips cracking into a tiny smile that is barely decipherable but still being there.

Sometimes she wondered if she was this lucky, was she this blessed to be the one to be the reason for the his smile, his happiness.

It warmed her heart as much as it teared it apart. How long will she be able to hold the tenderness before she would combust.

She had gone to his cabin one afternoon when he was away for lunch and found something gleaming catch her eye.

She wasn't the one to break through others' personal space, yet, as she had seen the tiny object sitting snugly in a small container next to the book rack, she felt herself walk to it and take it in her hands only to see the Taveez that she had been given one fateful day.

"You'd meet your soulmate today" told the woman that day.

That day when she had met Maan.

It travelled all the way in search of its owner was it?

"Hey intruder" she heard and almost jumped out of her skin and would have surely slipped like a true clumsy person, but he was quick to steady her by her shoulders.

"Too bad there aren't any Olympics for clumsy people. You would have gotten a gold medal for India for sure if there was" he said.

"This Taveez..." She said her eyes taking a sweet confusion that he found adorable.

"It's yours. It's worse than you in not leaving me alone"

"It's yours" Geet said quietly. "It is for you"

She expected him to make fun of it. She in fact waited for it.

But in a surprising move, he took a step closer and bent down just a little for her to be able to put it around his neck.

The small acknowledgement made her lips wobble into a smile even as she felt sentimentality take over and have her eyes fill up with tears that would just stop at the threshold.

She put the Taveez around his neck in reverence and had her hands stop at his chest, slowly placed next to the now lying locket over his heart.

"Hey" he said trying to decipher her sudden silence.

In a move that both surprised him and pleased him, she raised on her toes and pressed a soft kiss to the side of his cheek.

"This is probably the most cliched thing to say to any person, but I would still say it although you would end up making fun of it.

I love you, and I can't tell you how disappointing it is to not have any other word that would justify or come remotely come closer to the feeling.

Can three words fit in the universe of an emotion Maan?"

"They can't" Maan said now "But your eyes can fit all of it in"

At her surprised silence at his sweet words, he sighed.

"Talk about beating you in being cheesy"

Geet laughed a sudden surprised laugh and this time he had pulled her with a hand around her waist.

"Marry me Geet" he had said without a prelude, without a poem or a setting or even a ring.

And Geet realised how much she didn't need any of them as long as he is there.

She cupped his jaw and had raised on her toes to press a kiss on his forehead, with her eyes closed, her heart pulsating with devotion for this man.

"I take that as a yes?" He said when she parted.

"Yes, yes and yes. A thousand times and over" she said making him give a grin as he lifted her up in his arms and twirled her around.