Be My Belated Valentine
14 th February
This is the first valentine of AarYa after their Punar Vivah ten months ago theirs was an arranged marriage because their respective families thought it best.
Aarti at the age of twenty eight years is a beautiful confidant lawyer, with a passion for art, she enjoyed painting both scenery and portraits, she is a widow with a naughty four year old son. Yash at thirty one years of age, working in his family event management company, he also has a love for art his passion sculpting, clay his favourite choice, he is the father of two girls four and three years. Yash lost his wife two and half years ago.
At the breakfast table the topic of the day was valentine " Kids this year I want us to have a celebration at home it is the first for Yash/Aarti, and Prateek/Paridhi I understand you may not want to spend the time with the family and may have your own plans, but I ask you all to humour this old guy this time. Suraj and Radha smiled at each other they had their reasons for this suggestion.
Radha and Suraj they had met again twenty five years ago after Gayatri had found a journal where Suraj had kept his private thoughts about his love affair and the son Radha had given birth too. Gaytri became so heart broken when she realized that her life was a lie that her husband only married her because his family forced him and they wanted grand children so he did not disappoint them; she confronted her husband and he told her that he never loved her only liked her, that is why he spent so much time with his business travelling, poor lady became depressed and did suicide by setting herself ablaze in their bathroom. Prateek was a four month old baby and her needed a mothers care Radha heard about the tragedy and forgetting her past hurt reached out for Suraj the love of her life. All she thoughts were that he need her, his children needed their father so she rushed back into his life bring with her their six year old son Yash.
Throughout the years Pankaj grew to love his brother Yash who is eight years younger to him and accept Radha as his mother he understood his father's loyalty to his dadaji and dadiji and told his father that he did not want an arrange marriage so his father agreed for his marriage with Vidhi the daughter of their long time cook/ maid fifteen years ago, and they have two children a boy Vedant, and a girl Vedica.
Paradhi was disappointed she wanted to spend the day with Prateek shopping, lunch at a restaurant and the remainder of the day, and night at a five star hotel, she is a modern girl and this joint family thing was cramping her style. Prateek on the other hand loved being with his family, both he and Vidhi Bhabhi had plans to bring Aarti and Yash together on this special day which they had shared with Pankaj, and their parents.
Radha gifted her bahus packages and told that it contained outfits, along with accessories for them to wear tonight for dinner and their party, she instructed them not to open them until it was time for dinner. Suraj also gifted his son their clothes for the night.
Aarti was not into this celebration but she did not want to disappoint her in laws so she assisted Radha with the decoration. Yash on the other hand was looking forward to tonight he had planned a surprise for her in their room, so what if his parents wanted the family to celebrate together after he would give her his surprise in their room but for that he needed the help of his family, and their servants.
Prateek wanted to cook the special dinner, he had help from the servants, Vidhi ordered cakes and pastries from the local bakery. Pankaj and his father ordered flowers which the ladies of the family loves, the living, dinning, all the bedroom were decorated with these flowers, and scented candles, Aarya's room had something extra special Yash wanted to express his love for his Aarti, but he was too shy to say the actual words so he came up with a plan. Aarti wanted to tell Yash how much she loved him but was scared to confess because Yash was still heavily into his Aripta or so she assumed.
Radha ma took her bahus to the spa for a relaxing evening they had the works massage, pedicure, manicure, facial, make up, and hair dos. On arriving home Aarti was instructed to change in Vidhi's room the kids were being taken care of by a servant for the evening.
When Aarti opened her gift she was shocked it was a backless, sleeveless, yellow, A-line long gown with crystal works she had matching accessories made of silver, and gold. Vidhi had a blue cap sleeve A-lines long gown with a lace top, and matching accessories, Paridhi had a black fitted evening dress with silver accessories, she could not belief her eyes Radha ma was allowing them to wear western dresses.
When the ladies went into the living room they saw the men all were dressed in black dinner jackets and pants with white shirt but their tie was the colour of their wife's gown.
Aarya's eyes met in a eye lock each could not belive their eyes their spouse was looking gorgeous breathtakingly sexy, romantic music was playing in the background but their parents were nowhere in sight. Ramdulare their long time faith full servant came and give Pankaj a note from his Parents which he read out loud.
Kids happy valentine do enjoy your evening and night your ma and I have taken the kids out for dinner, and we will be spending the night in a hotel enjoying with our grand kids, don't worry about us enjoy yourselves love you all bauji and ma.
Paridhi was thrilled about this she grabbed on to Prateek's arm she wanted to dance to the romantic song, Pankaj came and took his Vidhi for a dance, Aarti was feeling self conscious and slightly embarrass especially as Yash was slowly approaching her with a look of desire in his eyes, he extended his hand and said " May I have this dance Aarti" Aarti was shocked she opened her beautiful eyes her cheeks red from embarrassment her self talk what is wrong to Yashji wait he called me Aarti without the ji, and he wants to dance with me, she looked around the others were enjoying themselves lost in each other in their own private world, and Yash was smiling at her waiting for her hand to dance, she took the chance and give in to the moment. In her Yash's arms she felt like she had arrived home this is where she belonged. Close to her husband, she was in for another shock when he whispered "now that I have you I am never letting you go I love you." Yash felt her go stiff in his arms Oh god I should off waited until we entered our room he thought Aarti thought she dreamt hearing his voice proclaiming his love for her until she felt his lips on her neck, so she decided to sniff her husband for signs of alcohol but he smelt good a mixture of his favourite lemon shower gel and his aftershave. Yash realized what she was up to and he smiled and continue to kiss her neck and shoulder.
When Aarti finally found her voice she said "Yash ji what happened to you?" " Not Yashji only Yash my darling" bring her closer to him " Yash you do know that I am Aarti and not Arpita right?" Aarti continued " I know my love you are my one and only Aarti my love, my wife" he expounded " Yash did you use mouth wash and swallowed some per chance?" she just could not belive this " No love there is no alcohol in my body but yes I am drunk by your beauty" even to his ears that sounded cheesy like a pick up line, but he got his desired effect Aarti started to giggle, and she placed her arms around his neck " Yash are you certain that this is what you want, there will be no regrets tomorrow no temper tantrums like after our Mumbai trip last year" "Baby that was a different Yash a confused, blind man who refused to accept the truth right in front of his eyes. You are my Aarti the only true love of my life, my true soul mate. I have always allowed other to tell me what I should do I got married to Aripta to please my grandparent they were hurt when Pankaj bhai refused an arrange marriage of their choice instead he married Vidhi whom they did not approve off. It took years for them to accept my ma and me so in order for me to get their acceptance I married Aripta to please them. I was told by them that there is only one love in your life that is your wife, Aripta made me make a promise to her that I will not give her place to another woman in my life or heart, and you know that I am a man of my word. That was the old immature easily influenced Yash. I am still a man of my word but I now take what people advice into consideration." He kept bring her closer and closer to him that they both felt and heard each other heart beat " Now has my beautiful lawyer stop her cross examination of me?" he asked staring into her beautiful eyes "Yes for now" she smiled back "Well then.." he bent and capture her lips in a heavenly blissful kiss which cause both of their, blood pressure too rise in sheer excitement " OH HELLO!! Love birds dinner is getting cold, and we are becoming hungry you two have been dancing for the past forty minutes" said Parateek " Leave them" said Pankaj hugging his Vidhi and laughing, Vidhi, and Paridhi were smiling with naughty Pari giving Aarti the thumbs up. All this extra attention made Aarti blush from her head to her toe.
Dinner was a pieasent affair with Ramdulare, and Gopie serving them, each couple were too busyfeeding each other lost in their own world. Yash wanted to continue their celebration in their room. He took Aarti's hand and led her to their room, before they entered he covered her eyes with his handkerchief, and guided her in, he removed her covering and what Aarti saw made her cry out of sheer joy. All of Aripta's photos were removed and hers, Yash and their children were instead in their place, every last bit of Ariptas belongs were removed from the room, Aarti's clothes were packed in the wardrobe instead of Arpitas; for the last ten months Aarti only had three shelves, and one draw to arrange her things most of her stuff were kept in boxes in a spare room because Yash wanted no one especially her to touch his wife Aripta things. " Yash what is all this? Are you sure this is what you want? You love Aripta, you are so possessive about her things" she could not belive her eyes Yash came to her and took her back into his arms that was the old foolish Yash, it took me months to understand and accept my true feelings for you, this Attraction I have for you, the jealousy I feel when someone mentions your dead husband or I see any man look at you, the possessive feeling I have that I want to shout at the top of my voice that you are mines only mine my Aarti my wife. I never felt any of these things for Aripta yes we were married I treated her with respect I thought I loved her but the simple truth is I did not, like I love you." Aarti hugged him back and said she understood because she to realize that she did not love Prashant she liked him they were friends but that was it; theirs was an arrange marriage their families thought that since they were both lawyers that they would have lots in common but they were so wrong both she and Prashant were two different from each other enjoying different hobbies and interest, even their friends were worlds apart. Prashant had his affair on the side and she knew about the lady. But it did not upset her because she did not love him. Now her Yashu she loves with all her heart, that why she is willing to put up with his crap.
Yash down on his knees " Aarti I am so sorry for causing you all this pain I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to make up for my behaviour I love you only you " Yash I love you my crazy mixed up man I have loved you from almost the first time we met at our engagement why do you think I tolerated your crap" she playfully hit his cheeks "Hey that hurt" said Yash standing up "Really" said Aarti giving him a playful punch on his muscular arms "Hey are you planning to beat me up tonight" Yash said "Don't you think you deserve punishment for your behaviour after that Mumbai incident?" replied Aarti "Yes but I can think of another kind of punishment that we will both enjoy" said Yash taking her in his arm caring her to their bed which was covered with rose petals. " Now woman start your punishment" "OH hello you have not wished me happy valentine yet or give me my gift" pouted Aarti "Well my lady after I have receive my punishment you will get your gift "Well then since you insist..." said Aarti moving on top of her hubby slowly removing his clothes and starting her punishment of kisses and love bites all over his sexy body, finally when Yash thought he could no longer take this love torture his darling wife decided to do a striptease dance for her hubby driving him insane with passion that he had to have her now. Their bodies joined in passion Aarti could not stop her loud cries of pleasure. Both satisfied and lying naked in each other arms Aarti started her questioning again "Is my Yashu Happy? Does my Jaan belived that I love only him? Are you ready for round two? Or are you too tired to continue?" " Honey I am never too tired for my love, and Yes I am happy." Replied Yash taking his jaan lips once again in a soul searching blissful kiss, when they came up for air he asked " I hope you are ready now it is time for me to punish you my beauty"
The following morning Aarti woke up she did not see her handsome hubby in bed with her the first thing that went through her mind was "OH God where is he is he melts down again like the last time she will surely die this time" she rushed from bed forgetting that she is naked and ran to the washroom looking for him "Yashu" she called out no response no he is not here where is he she was so worried that her only thought was to find him made a mad dash for their bed room door stark naked when she was about to open the door it came opened and the sight she saw almost made her jump for joy in her hubby's arms that is if they were free. Yash had awoke early and went to prepare breakfast for them he wanted to surprise his wife with breakfast in bed, now he was the one in for a surprise his Jaan was naked at their bedroom door all set to run out looking for him. If he did not have a strong grip on the trolley that he was pushing he would of surely fall over his feet in shock. Moving the trolley to the side and closing the door he said "Jaan what wrong? Where are you going" that was all he was able to do as his Aarti jumped on him wrapping her legs on his waist and her arms around his neck and started to kiss him, his neck shoulders, cheeks, chin, eyes and his lips Yash felt her tears wet his face while she was in her frenzy kissing spree "Jaan tell me what wrong" when he was able to talk " I am right here with you where I belong" he continues walking to their bed to sit with her straddling him Aarti said " when I did not see you in bed I went to the washroom to find you but you were not there I became so frighten that you were angry about last night that you started punishing yourself again" she sobbed " I will never leave you I love only You the old crazy foolish Yash is gone never to return my love. I got up early and thought that it will be romantic if I made and serve breakfast in bed to my beautiful wife. I did not expect a reception like this my naked lover greeting me at the door" he said smiling Aarti now realizes what she did in her worry for her hubby she almost ran outside throughout the house naked looking for Yash thank god the kids, and her in laws are not home, her sister in laws and brother in laws did not see she would off died of embarrassment. Just thinking of it had her a full body blush she hid her face in her husband chest " What wrong now baby don't be embarrass no one saw except me and I liked it" he teased she fisted his chest and said "Do not tease me I almost commit suicide in my worry for you" she complained " Don't ever say that love I would die immediately after you" he stated "Jaan if our family and the servants had seen me OMG!! I would of died of a heart attack. See what love does to me I almost shocked everyone in the house." Aarti replied a slight shiver passed through her body at the thought.
" Go and have a shower now or I won't be held accountable for my actions" instructed Yash But breakfast will get cold" said Aarti innocently "and you took the time to prepare it at least me taste it" "If you don't go and shower my love right now you will get breakfast of a different kind" Yash stated "Only if you join me" answered back Aarti daring he handsome hubby.
After an hour they did have a cold breakfast both needed the calories. "Happy belated Valentine my love" Yash give her a card and a large gift box " What is it?" said an excited Aarti "Open and see" replied Yash Aarti tore open the paper and found a large glass box in a wodden frame Yash helped her open the cover she saw clay figurines of a family it was their family, their three kids both parents and a baby in a cradle she looked at her hubby with a question in her eyes this is our family, you want a baby with me?? " Aarti I love you so very much of course I want babies with you" replied Yash "Babies not only one?" she teased "I want three more babies."" said Yash proudly "Now you are being just greedy." replied Aarti laughing. "I also have a gift for you wait here I will get it she hurried out returning with a large canvas covered in cloth she give it to Yash who quickly uncovered it and smiled "this is so beautiful when did you paint this" he asked I did it after our Mumbai trip I wanted something to remained me of the happy friendly man my husband was enjoying life with his family" she explained. Yash looked and caressed the painting it was of them with their three kids building a sandcastle they all were smiling enjoying each other company. "Happy belated Valentine my love I love you and our family so much" Said an elated Yash "thank you for entering my life and giving me back my life you are my true sole mate" "Happy belated Valentine to you too my love and thanks for entering my life giving me a chance to know what true love really is". And AarYa celebrated with another soulful, blissful kiss.