Heey beautiful people,
So this is my first OS, I hope you like it.
Please ignore my grammar and spelling mistake.
Love,
San
Always &Forever
Beep……Beep……..Beep…..
Raavi was startled awake by the beeping sound. Where does that sound come from, she wondered?She sat up in her bed but the sound was gone. ‘’Had she really heard something or did she just dreamed it’’, she thought. Next to her she felt a movement and she heard the rustling sound of sheets, she looked in that direction and looked into the open but sleepy eyes of her husband Shiva ''Raavi are you okay'', he asked her. She grabbed his hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze. ''I feel fine Shiva. I thought I heard something but it turned out to be nothing. Go back to sleep'', she said to him. He looked at her one more time and gave her hand a squeeze back before he closed his eyes again.
She also laid down on her back and stared at the rotating ceiling fan. She followed the movement of the fan. After 10 minutes of staring at the fan she still couldn't fall asleep. She turned on her side and looked at her sleeping husband. Her husband,they have been married for two years and she loved to call him her husband. She lifted her left hand and gently stroked his jawline, forehead, eyebrows, and his lips. He was beautiful, he would laugh at her if she said that to him. He rather be called rough, masculine and hot. He looked so innocent now that he was sleeping like this, even though she was aware that her husband was anything but innocent. He had a big heart and would do anything for his family. When his family is in danger, he was the first to be ready to take on the fight and in doing so he did not care about his own safety. She grabbed his hand and put it around her waist, she moved closer to him and laid her head down on his chest,resting her left hand where his heart beats. She felt his grip tighten around her waist and he pulled her even closer to him. Affectionately, she rubbed her nose along his neck. With a smile on her face, she closed her eyes, she listened to his beating heart and finally fell asleep.
She felt a warm and tingling feeling on her forehead and a smile appeared on her face.Every morning Shiva gave her a kiss on her forehead before he left to go to work.She felt him get up and she opened her eyes and watched her husband go to the bathroom. Why did she still feel tired, she wondered? She looked at the clock and saw that it was only 03.00 AM, she had only slept for a few hours, not strange that she still felt tired now. Usually she wakes up before him, she would help Dhara bhabi to make breakfast for everyone. But sometimes he had to get up earlier because he had an appointment with suppliers in another city.Now that she thought about it, he didn't mention having an appointment today. ‘’So why is he already up’’, she thought. She would ask him that when he returned from his shower. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of the shower before she dozes off.
With his towel wrapped around his waist Shiva came out of the bathroom. He saw that his wife was sleeping so peacefully that he found it ‘’almost’’ pitiful to wake her up. He would wake her up anyway because he had a surprise for her. He walked over to the closet and opened it. He grabbed a boxer and black jeans from the closet and dropped the towel to the floor, he put on his boxer and jeans. He grabbed a black shirt from the closet and put it on. He closed the doors and picked up the towel from the floor.He looked at his sleeping wife again, but this time he threw his wet towel right on her face and she woke up. She sat up and pulled the towel off her face and looked at him. Her hair was now tangled, and her face was now showing traits of irritations. ''Shiva, why did you do that, it's still so early, you could have let me sleep'', she said. He looked at her pouting mouth, his wife looked cute. He walked up to her and gently stroked her hair behind her ears.With a finger under her chin, he pushed her face up a bit. The irritation immediately disappeared from her face and was replaced by an expectant look. He looked into her beautiful hazelnut-coloured eyes. He bent over and first gave her a soft kiss on her forehead where a frown had appeared after he had woken her up. Her eyes automatically closed when she felt his lips on her forehead.He then kissed one eyelid first and then the other. He gave her a small kiss on her nose, then he first kissed the left corner of her mouth and then the right corner. He pulled back a little and looked at her. Her eyes slowly opened; the frown was gone but the expectant look not. ''Go take a shower and get ready I have a surprise for you’’, he said to her. He took a step back but she grabbed his hand and pulled him back to her. Their faces so close together that he felt her breath on his lips. She looked straight at him; her eyes had a dangerous gleam ''don't play a game with me Mr Shiva Pandya'', she said. She bridged the distance and pressed her lips to his. He grabbed her neck and kissed her back. He bit her lower lip, which earned him a soft moan from her, he let his tongue go past the spot where he had just bitten her to ease the pain and gave her another kiss before he pulled back and looked at her. Slowly she opened her eyes and looked at him, her expectant gaze had been replaced by a satisfied look. He grabbed her by her neck again and pulled her softly towards him. She rubbed her nose gently against his nose. ''Good morning, Shiva’’, she said to him. ''Good morning Raavi, please take a shower. I have a surprise planned for you'', he said to her. He let her go and left the room. In the doorway, he stopped and turned to her one more time. Her gaze was still on him. He winked at her and disappeared.
With a smile she looked at the spot between the doorway where Shiva was standing a few seconds ago. She had really hit the jackpot with her husband. Surprise, he had a surprise for her, she got super excited. She got up and walked to the bathroom. She was standing in the shower, brushing her teeth when she heard her name. ''Shiva I'm in the shower I can't hear you’’, she yelled back. After a few seconds, she had no reaction. ''Shivaaaa, are you still there you called me’’,she asked. She didn’t get a response from him, she figured out that he probably hadn't called her. If it was important then he would have come in, she thought.She got out of the shower and got dressed. Since it was only 3.30 AM, she did extra quiet because the rest of her family was still sleeping.
She walked to the mandir and like every day she said her prayer. '' halloooo bhogilaljiii, I want to thank you for my family and loving husband. I want to thank you for all the love I received from them.Thank you for bringing Shiva on my pad. When my marriage with Dev didn't work out,I was in a wrong place. With time I knew he wasn't meant to be mine. He wasn't the one I needed, wanted or craved for. That place was only for my Shiva. So,thank you so much bhogilaljii. Please keep my family happy and healthy ‘’.
She walked into the kitchen expecting to find Shiva there but he wasn't there. ''Where did he go'', she thought. Should I make breakfast for us now or not. She decided to prepare tea and a sandwich. She grabbed a pan and filled it with water, she put it on the gas stove and turned the fire on. She walked to the fridge to get cheese, lettuce, tomato and cucumber for her sandwich. She put all the stuff down on the counter. She washed the tomato and cucumber. She was just cutting the tomato into slices when she felt two arms around her. He pinned her against the counter, ''you don't have to make breakfast Raavi”, he told her. She turned around in his arms and looked at Shiva, he looked at her with a look full of adoration. ''so, you couldn't have said this in advance mister?'' she asked him.
Shiva looked at her, his beautiful wife in his arms, he couldn't hold back his smile.He bent over and gave her a kiss on her nose. “Let's go”, he walked over to the stove and turned off the fire, he grabbed her hand and walked out where his bike was standing. He grabbed a helmet and put it on her head. She was still pouting. He secured the buckle under her chin. She looked cute he thought. He grabbed his own helmet and put it on. He sat down and waited for her to sit down. He felt her arms resting around him and her hands were resting flat against his chest. She laid her head down on his back. He felt her breathing in deeply. He chuckled, are you smelling me, he asked her. ‘’No, why would I do that’’, she said to him. “She loved the smell of him, it was a combination of spices,soap and just Shiva”, she thought. He knew that she lied to him, she was smelling him. He brought his left hand up to her hand and brought it to his lips to give her a kiss on her hand. He placed the hand back on his chest and gave her a squeeze in her hand before he started the engine and drove away.
Raavi enjoyed the early morning ride, even if she was very curious about her husband's surprise. Where would he take her at this time? They were driving for 40minutes before he stopped. She stepped of the back of the bike and took the helmet of her head. She went through her hair with her hand. She looked around it was still dark and they were surround by big green trees and mountains. It should have been scary but it looked beautiful, a bit surreal. Shiva took off his helmet and grabbed her helmet from her hands. He tied the helmet to the bike. He turned around and looked at her, “are you ready for your surprise”, he asked her. She nodded her head. He holds her hand and they start walking. ‘’So where are you taking me?Are we going to meet your bhoot family'', she asked him. He looked at her with a mysterious glance, ''you know what a surprise is he Chipkali'', he said to her and winked at her. So, she decided to follow him and ask no more questions.They walked in silence and she was truly enjoying the beautiful mountain view.''We are almost there'', he told her. There was a steep path, so like the gentleman he was, he helped her to go up. ''we are here'', he said to her. They were at an open space; she had an amazing view of the mountains. She was so mesmerized by the view. She let go of his hand, and looked around her, she even made a twirl. The stars were so bright. She could see so many of them.''Woow this is so amazing Shiva'', she told him. ‘’Why didn't you showed it tome before'', she asked him. He didn't answer her question, he took her hand and lead her to the only bench there. They both sat down and looked to the beautiful sky and view. The light of the stars made the trees shine.
He turned his body a little bit so he could look at her. She also turned her face to look at him. “Raavi, when we married almost two years ago it was not an ideal situation. We were both forced to get married. We fought a lot, nothing new, because we always did that since we were young, but with time that changed”, he said to her. They both looked at each other and thought back to that moment 1.5 years ago.
The first 3 months after they got married, they were still the same people who fought a lot, they cared about each other but at the same time they didn’t. After the three months they had a silence understanding. It started with some sort of friendship, they get to know things about each other, what does the person, hate, loved or liked. They would do little thing for each other. She wouldn’t eat dinner, she waited till he was home from work and they would dine together. They would talk about their day. When she wasn’t feeling alright, he would take care of her and vice versa. When they were alone they could talk for hours about everything and nothing. But they also talked about what they want for the future, what they expect from each other. Slowly their friendship turned into something more, they both always had some kind of weird attraction but they supressed it.They still had their silly fight but now they truly cared about each other.They put the other one first, both had fallen in love but were afraid to admit it.
One night they had a fight, it was about something small and so stupid but they both were raging with anger. They were screaming at each other when Raavi shouted, ‘’so you don’t care about me’’. Shiva was fuming with anger, he grabbed both of her arms and pressed her against the wall. She wasn’t scared of him and looked him in the eyes. She was surprised, she didn’t saw the anger anymore, he looked at her like she was the only thing that matter. ‘’Care? What I’m feeling for you is more than care Raavi. I’m in love with you’’, he said to her. He saw her eyes turning big, he saw the shock in them but it quickly faded away, her eyes got softer and he saw the love in them. ‘’Does she love him’’, he thought. She cupped his face, ‘’I love you too Shiva’’, she said to him. They both had big goofy smiles on their faces. ‘’I love you, Always and Forever’’, he said once again and she repeated the same words to him. That night their relationship changed.
Both were looking at each other with a big smile on their faces. That day their lives become one. They watched how the sky turned lighter and lighter, when the sun was rising. ‘’You are the bright star in my life and you light up my world like the sunrise every morning. You filled my dark world with light and so many colors’’, he told her. Raavi couldn’t help it, a tear escaped and it rolled down her face. “Yes, you are a bit crazy and you talk way too much, but I love that about you”, he told her. She couldn’t suppress a little smile. He took her face in both of his hands, and with his thumbs he wiped the traces of her face.He brought his face closer to hers, I love you Raavi, Always and Forever, he didn’t give her time to respond before he pressed his lips against hers.It began very slow, but soon the kissed turned into an all-consuming fire. Their tongues were involved in a passionate dance. After a while they both were out of breath. She kissed him once more and looked him in the eyes, full of love,Shiva pressed his forehead against hers. ‘’Thank you for loving me, keeping me happy and giving me a family, I never had. I will always be grateful for that. The love that I felt for you two years ago is nothing compared to how I feel about you now. I love you Shiva, Always and Forever’’, she said to him. They both looked at each other with so much love. They were sitting there watching the sunrise. After a while they decided to get backhome, they were holding each others hand and walked back to the bike.
Beep......Beep...... Beep....
Raavi was busy in the kitchen when she heard that sound again. This was the same sound she had woken up from last night. She turned around, where did it come from.She looked around but couldn't think of anything that was causing this sound.Why did she keep hearing it she thought? She felt a slight headache coming up, probably because she hadn't slept well. She resumed her activities, when she heard Shiva calling her name ''Raavi'', so close as if he was standing behind her. She turned around but he was not standing there. What was happening to her, why did she hear that stupid sounds and Shiva calling her name. Her headache got worser by the seconds, she brought her hand to her sleep and rubbed it. You just need sleep Raavi she said to herself. You hear things that aren't there. She would prepare breakfast and then sleep for a few hours. She would feel better after that. But her surrounding was changing, it faded, it got dark around her. What was happening.She grabbed her head between her hands. She heard Shiva calling her name, she smelled the fragrance of roses, the sound of that irritating beep and the warm and tingling feeling on her forehead. She rubbed against it with her hand. ‘’She was going crazy’’, she thought. She tried to call for Shiva but her voice didn’t work. The sounds were clouding her mind, her legs couldn’t hold her anymore and she fell down, still holding her head between her hands and then the memories came up. She felt the tears rolling down her face, this wasn’t real, she was stuck in her own mind. Then she heard the voice of Shiva clearly in her mind “ Heey beautiful”.
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It’s time”, the doctor said when he entered the hospital room. Shiva looked up at the doctor and nodded his head.
He looked down at the face of his beautiful wife, his chipkali, his Raavi, lying in a hospital bed. She was a bit pale, she had dark circles under her eyes and there was bandage on her head but she was still beautiful for him. She was hooked on to different medical equipment. One of them made a beeping sound, beep……beep…….beep. His thought flooded with memories from a week ago.
After their amazing date, Raavi wasn’t feeling very well for a couple of days. She probably had some kind of virus.Everyone told her to do no household chorus and just rest but she was stubborn and she wouldn’t lie in her bed for the whole day. When he found her that day,unconscious on the kitchen floor with the blood streaming from head, his heart stopped. He ran to her, he tried to wake her up but she didn’t wake up. He took a towel and pressed it against the head-wound. He stood up and took a glass of water and threw a couple of droplets on her face. He saw some movements behind her eyes and finally he could breathe again. Slowly she opened her eyes. He wanted to shout at her for being so careless, but he didn’t. He carefully picked her up and brought her to the hospital. That head wound looked deep. At thet ime they reached the hospital, she was completely conscious. She told him that it was nothing much and that she didn’t have to go to hospital. He didn’t answer her but only gave her a look that told her to just shut up for once and listen to him. So, she didn’t say a thing and walked inside the hospital. The doctor came and he gave the nurse some instructions to get the wound stitched.He did some little test and asked her some questions. Raavi told the doctor that she was working in the kitchen and felt dizzy, she tried to steady hersel fon the counter but she didn’t grab it. She couldn’t exactly say what happenedn ext. She also told him that she had a very bad headache, saw a bit blurry and was feeling sleepy. The doctor told her that she had a concussion and that she should take rest. If the pain was too much, she could take some paracetamol. He told Shiva to wake her up every two hours for the first 24 hours and that he needed to come to the hospital if she didn’t respond, if here headaches increased, she gets nauseous or if she is drowsy.
When they got back home, the whole family was waiting for them, they were so worried about her. They alle asked questions at the same time. Shiva told them to be quit cause Raavi had a bad headache, he would talk to them later. Raavi said to everyone that she was fine. Shiva took Raavi to their room. She was feeling sleepy, so he helped her in bed. He sat down beside her and was going through her hair with his hands. She looked him in the eyes and told him she loved him. He kissed her softly on her lips and told her that he loved her, always & forever. When she was a sleep, he kissed her forehead and stood up to bring his family up to date.
He woke her up, every two hours like the doctor has told him. She felt a lot better; she had eaten something and they talked till she was sleepy again. When he tried to wake her up that night for the fourth time, she didn’t respond. ‘’Raavi, wake up’’, softly he was touching her face. There was no reaction from her. He was still patting her face and calling her name. ‘’Raavi please open up your eyes, what would I do without you, come on open those beautiful eyes of you’’, he said to her. He screamed for his family and everyone entered the bedroom.His Dhara babhi took a glass of water of the nightstand and splashed some water on her face, but there was still no reaction. Shiva his heart was beating so fast, he was scared. There was no time to panic now. He took her in his arms and rushed to the hospital. The doctor immediately took her to a room, he did some test and took her for a CT scan.
He was so worried, he couldn’t sit still,he was walking from left to right in the waiting room. When the doctor walked in. His whole family had arrived and were also sitting in the waiting room,everyone stood up to listen to the doctor. The doctor told them that Raavi had a bleeding in her brain and that they had to operate her immediately. Shiva followed the doctor to her room. The doctor gave him a couple of minutes before he would take her to the operation room. He took her hand in his and kissed it,he placed a kiss on her wrist and then on her forehead. He rested his forehead on hers, ‘’Come back to me, I will be waiting for you, I love you, always and forever”, he whispered and he left the room to join his family again in the waiting room.
He paced around in the waiting room, his family keeps asking him if he wanted to eat or drink something, but he couldn’t, he would probably throw up. He would eat when he knew that his Raavi was fine. One hour turned into two hours, he rushed a hand through his hair. Finally,after 4 hours of surgery the doctor came to the waiting room. When he saw the expression on the doctor’s face, he knew that he wasn’t there to give them good news. The doctor told them that there were some complications during the surgery. Raavi went into a coma. They would do some test to see if she can come out of the coma. He told them that they will bring her back to her room soon and then one member of the family could visit her.
Everyone was in shock after hearing the news. Shiva looked at them and saw the tears in their eyes. Gaumbie walked up to him and hugged him. “She is a fighter it’s going to be alright”,he said. Shiva looked his brother in the eyes and saw that he also had tears in his eyes.
He let go of his brother and walked out of the waiting room and went to the mandir in the hospital. “God please help my Raavi, bring her back to me, I demand that you bring her back to me! You brought her in my life when I didn’t want her, you forced her in my life and now she became my whole world, what would I be without her. She changed me in a better person’’, his voice broke and he couldn’t hold his tears anymore. He didn’t know how long he sat in front of the mandir begging God to give him his Raavi back when he felt a hand on his shoulder, it was Krish.
Krish sat down next to his brother and he hugged him. His strong brother, was broken and he tried his best to comfort him. “Everything is going to be fine with Raavi bhabi, she is so strong and she has so much lust for life”, he told his brother. Shiva nodded his head and wiped the tears away. “The doctor stopped by and told us that you can go to her room now”, he said to Shiva. Shiva immediately stood up and ran to her room.
She looked so tiny in that bed; her face was pale. He sat down beside her and hold her hand in his. He told her to fight, fight for her life, fight for him, to fight for their future. He rested his head on her chest, he could hear it beating, the silence tears escaped and left a wet place on her dress.
Every couple of hours the doctor came into do some test. The doctor and his family said to him to go to house and take some rest but he didn’t listen to them. He wouldn’t leave her alone in this hospital. He slept in his seat, never letting go of her hand. When he was awake,he would tell her how much he loved her and that she has to fight for them.
The next day the doctor called him to his room. He sat down with Gaumbie at his side. “I’m so sorry Shiva, but the tests we did showed that there is no brain activity anymore. Raavi isn’t coming back from this”, he told them. Shiva heard every word what the doctor said but he didn’t understand him. He felt the arms of his brother wrapped around him. “No,the doctor is lying, his Raavi was a fighter. She would come back to him”, he thought. ‘’We give you some time decide if you want to stop the treatment or not” the doctor told him. “NEVERR”, he shouted to him and walked out of the room. He went back to her room. He sat down in the seat beside her bed and took her hand in both his hand, ‘’the doctor told me that you are not here anymore but I don’t believe him, you are right here! You didn’t leave me. You will comeback to me’’, he cried. For one week he wouldn’t leave her side for too long,he went home to take a shower and changed his clothes. He would eat, because he saw the worried faces of his family. On the way to the hospital, he would stop at a flower shop and buy her some of her favourite flowers, red roses, for her room and he would sit in the chair beside her bed, holding her hand. He would call her name and tell her some stories about their childhood, about them, what he loved about her and sometimes just repeating how much he loved her. He would kiss her hand and forehead.
After that week the realization came, it hit him hard, and he completely broke down. She wasn’t here anymore, yes, her body was lying in a hospital bed but her soul, her soul left him a week ago. He was so angry. Angry at her for not being careful, angry at God for taking her from him so soon. “Why, why is this happening, why”, he screamed. He threw stuff around his room, he fisted his hand and hit it against the wall. He took a picture from the nightstand, it was a picture taken on last Diwali, they looked at each other with a smile full of love. Who would have thought that that would be the last Diwali? His anger left his body, he on his knees and cried. She wouldn’t wake up; she wouldn’t come back to him. He would never hear her voice again; he would never hear her make or see the glimpse of mischief in her eyes. He wouldn’t see her beautiful smile again; he wouldn’t see the love in her eyes and they wouldn’t live their lives together till they were grey and old like they promised each other. He wouldn’t see her pregnant and glowing when she carried their child. They wouldn’t see their children and grandchildren grow up. He couldn’t stop crying and he screamed. He felt the arms of his bhabhi around him and after a while he finally stopped crying and looked at her. Her face was wet from the tears.“What am I supposed to do now bhabi?”, he asked her. She looked at him and wiped the tears away “you know what to do Shiva”, she said to him. She took his hand and put in on his heart. “Listen to your heart”, she said and she stood up and left him to think.
He didn’t want to let her go. He would be lost without her. He didn’t want to live without her. But he knew he was being selfish by holding her back here. His heart beats for her but it was time to let her go.
So here they were, the whole family, to say their last goodbye. His maami was holding Raavi her hand, she was crying uncontrollably. He wrapped his arms around her. She turned around and hugged him. She took a couple steps back and gave him some room. He took Raavi her hand in his.
Heey beautiful. I’m going to miss you so much Raavi. It’s going to be very hard to live without you but I’m going to promise you this. I’m going to live my life for both of us. You changed me, you made me a better man, I promise you that I’m not going to be the person I was before I fell in love with you. Thank you for coming in to my life. Thank you for giving me the most precious 2 years of my life. Thank you for loving me and giving me the right to love you back. This lifetime we had our love, I can’t wait to find our love in our next live. I love you Raavi, Always and Forever and he kissed her forehead for the last time.
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The tears were streaming from Raavi her face but there was also a smile. She touched her forehead; she felt the same warm feeling she always got when he kissed her. She knew that her Shiva would fulfil his promise. He would live his life for both of them, he wouldn’t turnback to the angry young man. She didn’t want to leave him but destiny had other plans. She would always be there by his side, in his heart.
She looked around her, everything changed,she wasn’t in the kitchen, it wasn’t dark anymore. She stood up and startwalking. There where so many roses around her, the sky was so clear, she felt the warmth of the sun on her skin. He was right their love story was short but she would meet him in their next live. ‘’I love you Shiva, Always and Forever’’,she said for the last time.