Epilogue
Ishita felt a faint brightness flashing on her facea and her forehead tightened in reflex. She was feeling to comfortable to get up and hence turned her face straight. A brief moment passed when she felt the sensation of warm lips over her's, pressing a long peck. She dint have to open her eyes to know whose lips it was - this was one feel that she would recognize no matter in what state she was! As the warm lips inched back, her lips stretched sluggishly in to a sleepy smile; it felt home, it felt beautiful.
Another second passed and she again felt those warm lips on hers. Her heart fluttered in response. Automatically her hands moved to engulf the person's neck and respond to the kiss. It was passionate and gentle kiss. She opened her eyes, unable to hold back herself from looking at her love.
He sat there, right beside her with a grin across his fresh looking face. Her heart again stirred as if in reflex after seeing his loving smile.
Framing a side of her face, he leaned closer with a loving gaze. "Good morning princess"
Her smile grew wider sluggishly like a cat drunk on cream - she actually felt like a princess after meeting him because he pampered her badly since the time they confessed their love. "Good morning..." she replied lazily; never in her life has she been spoilt to this extent where she was even lazy to get down from the bed.
He beamed seeing her cute sluggish reply. "Utho... Come"
Taking a breath, she gluped and fluttere her eyes to look at him properly. Only then did she notice his fresh look, hairs were neatly combed and he was wearing a fresh pair of tee and shorts; he seemed to have already freshened up.
Her brows twitched in puzzle wondering when did he wake up and why didn't she realize it. "aap kab uthe?' she saked in the same sleepy voice.
Smiling, "Bas thodi der pehle" he replied.
She slowly got up and sat upright in a cross legged position, holding the bedsheet in front of her torso to cover it. "aur aap to naha bhi chuke hai?" her eyes still heavy closing slowly.
He found her real cute when she sat like this. All her hairs were messed up and face looked puffy yet she looked the most beautiful woman for him. "Haan..."
"Mujhe bhi utha dete tabhi... main bhi uth jaati" she mumbled again sleeping keeping her head over his lap.
This brought the impish smile on his face. "Kyun... saath nahane ka maza miss kar rahi ho? I don't mind having a bath second time"
Hearing this, her cheeks went red and she turned her face away with'not again' expression.
A small laugh escaped his throat. "are baba... tum bahut pyaar se so rahi thi.. isiliye tumhe nahi uthaya" he replied back lovingly. "tumhe uthane ka man nahi kar raha tha" caressing her hair.
She smiled, not looking at him... when her gaze fell on the tea tray in the side table. "yeh kya hai?" asking, she looked at him with her heavy eyes in puzzle.
"Chai hai Jkr... Aaj mera man kar raha tha ke hum dono yaha akele main chai peeye... so I brought it up" he answered.
"Ohh chooo chweet my Ravan Kumar" she said pinching his cheeks and nuzzling his tummy with her face.
"Aree yaar sweet mat bolo na" he said irritatingly with a smile.
Ishita laughs seeing his expression.
Seeing her smile he also smiles.
"Acha drink and tell me how is it?" Raman asked eagerly
"Raman yeh pehli baar todi na mein pee rahi hun aapke haath ka bani chai" she replied seeing him curious and anxious for her answer.
"Are but pehli baar after marriage na JKR. The first time I made coffee for you was a disaster I remember."
Flashback
After their first confrontation in the lobby, they hung out most of the time. Every girl was jealous of Ishita as The Nerd was so close to the Handsome Hunk of the college. But they seemed to care the least. Their friendship ment much more both of them knew but were hesitate to take the first step. Both Raman and Ishita got a job in the top companies. The last day of the college Raman couldn't help but voice out his love for her. Hearing him confess his love Ishita had hugged him tight to never let go. But the proposal was a dream come true for her.
Raman had called Ishita for dinner date. When she reached the place she saw that it was a small garden. The moment she entered she saw bunch of rose petals spread on the ground in the entrance. She blushed and walked on it to enter the garden looking for Raman. When she went further inside she was astonished to see few tables beautiful decorated with flowers with a box on it. She also saw a big board with bold letters written "Adventure Begins here" and arrow pointing to one of the tables. She approached that table and opened the box, took a paper folded in a circle with a ribbon tied on it. She untied the ribbon and opened the letter.
"Hairan toh tum hogi, yeh soch rahi hodi ki ye sab kya hai... thoda sabar karo, dheere dheere tumhe sab pata chal jayega.. darasal tum isse ek game jaise samjho... hare k box mein you have something special and a letter which will tell you the gift and its importance.. this box only has a letter because gift toh maine tumhare swagat mein use kar liya. Just like how those rose petals make you feel like a queen while walking on them.. I want to make you feel like a queen who rules my life."
She felt happy from his surprise and eagerly went to the next table. She opened the box and found chocolates in it. She opened the letter and read
"First eat the chocolate and then read" she did. "This gift is special because just like how the melting of the chocolate in your mouth brings a smile on your face I want to fill your life with sweetness that you always stay happy..."
She walked towards the next table did the same. She found a cute little teddy bear in it..
"Cute right?" she nodded " I know, all my girl friends liked teddies" she made an angry face Ravan Kumar Kahika' " Mazak kar raha hun yaar.. I know in childhood every girl has a teddy it become their best friend and she hugs it and sleeps when she gets scared, she talks to it... and when they grow up they hug it not out of fear but to cry when they are upset... in your life I want to be that teddy whom you can talk as free as you talk to your best friend, get angry on me, play around with me, hug me when you are scared and cry when you are upset just like a little.. if it's a horror movie the its much better.. because horror movie with you is something I love a lot.." she chuckled
she paced towards the next table and opened the box, she confusedly took out a dairy from it.
"Confuse ho?" she nodded "Don't worry I wont tell you to start writing in it... even I don't have a habbit, but many people have this habit. They write their secrets, their feeling, any incidents they write everything... likewise I want you to consider me as your dairy and tell me anything and everything ... I don't want any secrets between us in our relationship... we should be like best friends (which we are)...
she walked to the next table. She took out the family picture of his and hers edited to be shown together. Next to that she saw a photo of theirs which they had taken when they had fought over some matter where he was trying to irritate her by getting close to her. She blushed.
"Tu sharmati ho toh mujhe bahut acha lagta hai.. okay this is our family.. I want you to consider this mad family as yours always. I know they can be irritating at times but they will love you a lot..."
she walked to the next table and opened the box. She dint find any gift but only a letter, she opened the letter..
"there is no gift in this box so don't search... I want to give you this gift personally.. now what is written in this read it aloud" she started reading aloud.
"hum tere bina ab reh nahi sakte, tere bina kya wajod mera..tujhse juda agar ho jaye toh khud se hi ho jayegnge juda, kyunki tum hi ho ab tum hi ho zindagi ab tum hi ho..chen bhi mera dard bhi, meri ashiqui ab tum hi ho.."
Suddenly the song start playing, she felt a hand on her shoulder, she looked back and found Raman smiling at her. He took her hand in his own, he slid his arm against her waist. She kept looking at him, without saying words, he spoke of his love. Tears reflected in her eyes, she rested her head on his chest, listening to his heartbeats. He held her tight in his arms and closed his eyes while swaying in the soft beats of the song. Till the end of the song, nobody uttered any word, she looked up to meet his eyes, he brushed her tears with his thumb and kissed her forehead.
The song finally ended.
"Raman my last gift" she asked teasingly.
"pehle mudo.."
"kyun??"
"aree mudo nah.." She turned back.
"ab phirse meri taraf mudo.." She turned again but didn't found him, she frowned.
"aree niche dekho.."
She looked down and found him on his knees with beautiful ring in his hand. Before she could ask anything, he spoke "I love you a lot ishita, will you marry me?"
She gasped and smiled wider. She had tears in her eyes.
"Yes Raman" she whispered.
Raman slowly slipped the ring into her finger and stood up. Ishita hugged him tightly. Raman also hugged her back.
"I love you too Raman" she pecked his cheeks.
"Aap sach mein mere diary ho, chocolate ho, teddy ho aur mera sab kuch ho" Raman smiled widely listening to this...
"Now come lets have dinner."
Soon they told their parents who willingly accepted their relationship. They got married in both Punjabi and south indian style owing to their mothers world war. Soon after their marriage Raman and Ishita came on a long honeymoon to Mauritius.
Back to present,
He loved her giggle very much - it seemed as if his whole day has been brightened up. "So lets have tea then..."
"Umm...nahi let me get freshened up first" she said and yawned.
"Okay..." saying, he leaned closer to press a kiss on her forehead and then bent his torso to the right to pick her small nightie from the other side of the bed.
"Here you go..." He handed her the nightie.
Taking the nightie, she blushed along with a smile. He smiled along naughtily and started inching closer, but she just pushed his face away and moved down the bed. Getting down from the bed she quickly slipped the nightie on her torso and glancing at him once, moved towards the washroom.
He smiled gazing at her lovingly until she disappeared behind the washroom door. Then, he got up from the bed to pick the newspaper that he'd bought along with the tea tray and began reading it.
And this is how their life changed. Their friendship began in Manali and their love continued in Mauritius.
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