Hello everyone! I can't believe this story is coming to an end, I've grown so attached to this AU Sumo-Shravan, but alas, stories can't go on forever. It's been a pleasure writing it, and a lot of it has to do with the readers! You guys are a great bunch of people, I adore the EDKV fandom, and I just wanted to thank all you for appreciating my work and leaving me likes/comments/feedback. Anyways, I should shut up now, and let you get to it!
X-X-X-X Epilogue
"As Riya, the female best friend of Suman and femme extraordinaire, I always had a knack for just knowing things, like the fact that Shravan Malhotra and Suman Tiwari were smitten with each each. It was obvious from the first day I saw them together, actually, I had an inkling even before I saw them together. We all know that Shravan spent a year alone in Oxford, during that first year I think he missed Sumo and uske haath ka bana hua khaana more than he missed anything else. But if you asked him who Sumo was she was just his best friend!"
Riya's voice was calm and confident, but you could hear the excitement building in her voice as she stood on the stage set up under the tree for the wedding reception, lanterns were hanging off and placed on every available surface and the yard was full of tables and people. Right in front of the stage was a table that seated the bride & groom, both of them were perfectly colour coordinated, her lehenga was a heavily embroidered pink one, that complimented his gold and cream sherwani beautifully, all thanks to their mothers, who were seated by them with huge smiles on their faces as months and months of excitement and preparations came to a culmination.
"Di was no better, the first year that Shravan jeeju was at Oxford Sumo spent most of her time whining about missing him and talking to him. Her call history consisted of Shravan, Shravan, Mom, Shravan, Shravan, Shravan." Preeti added from beside Riya causing everyone to chuckle and Suman to glare at her sister as Shravan laughed, squeezing her hand. "That was the first time they were apart for more than a month since they first met."
"Their first meeting was an event in itself, we were about 7 or 8, and Sumo was new to our school. Of course, new kids get teased. There was some random guy who was bothering Sumo and Shravan Bhaiyaa wanted to be her hero even at that age and tried to defend her...Bhaiyaa ended up with a black eye and Sumo punched and broke the guy's nose for bothering her and the black eye he gave Bhaiyaa, making her Bhaiyaa's hero. Hence, the name Sumo." Pushkar revealed, Sumo's eyes met Shravan and the two of them had these nostalgic smiles on their faces as their first meeting flashed before their eyes as Pushkar continued. "They became really good friends in detention. They were like the real-life Tom and Jerry though, always bickering...although they still do that." Pushkar said and a knowing laughter ran through the crowd. "But they were so protective of each other, and they got along so well most of the times, Sumo became a part of our family and Shravan became a part of the Tiwari clan."
"I grew up watching the two of them together, Shravan jeeju was either over at our house or Suman Di was at his. They did everything together, I remember being so jealous of Shravan at one point because Suman Di spent all her time with him, and I felt like a third-wheel, something Pushkar understands well. But as I grew older, I realized that no one could ever take Shravan's place in her life, I was her sister, but he was her best friend, and now that I look back it was obvious that he meant a lot more to her. They grew older, and somewhere along the way their feelings changed. But none of us really picked up on it, because nothing really changed, and we were so used to them being together."
"As someone who wasn't a part of their family, and didn't watch them growing up, it was easy to pick up on the fact that they loved each other. When they first came to Oxford everyone just figured that they were together because Sumo and Shravan did everything together, and always referred to themselves as a unit. Anyone passing them on the street would think that they were together. Months passed and we were all sure that they were dating...until four months in, when they claimed that they were just friends. I was shocked, we all were, and I remember complaining about how dumb they were if they thought that they were just best friends and I made it my life's mission to get them together... so I pushed, a lot. Because it was sooo obvious that they liked each other, and their feelings only seemed to grow as time went on."
"Now anyone that has eyes can tell that both of them are very good looking, so it's not a surprise that other people were attracted to them. And jealousy works wonders, and has brought us here today. Little events led to something bigger, we've been threatened to not disclose any details but let your imaginations run wild." Preeti laughed.
"They got together on Valentine's Day, they are so cliche sometimes but it works for them and makes me melt. I remember screaming finally when I learnt that they were together. I watched them closely over the next few months and I saw that nothing had really changed between the two of them, they were still best-friends, but there was a new depth and comfort in their relationship as they consciously navigated from being best-friends to something more." Riya's eyes were tearing up now, and Shravan had his arm wrapped around his wife at this point as she leaned into him.
"When the family found out that they were together, everyone was ecstatic, I remember that Badi Maa and Priya Aunty couldn't stop smiling for days, they kept saying that they knew that it would happen eventually. I remember sitting there and wondering how they knew, and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that Shravan and Sumo were meant to be. I couldn't even imagine that the two of them would fall in love with or get married to anyone else, and I realized that unknowingly, whenever I thought about the future, they were always together. And then watching the two of them together when they came back that summer made me want to reconsider being a lawyer because I couldn't believe that I had missed it." Pushkar pouted making everyone laugh.
"The love that the two of them have leaves me in awe, they're so aware of each other, so in tune. If you watch them closely you'll see that every time one of them moves the other moves unconsciously, even from across a room. The way they look at each other makes me swoon, but more than that it's the way they are always there for the other that gets me. No matter what happens, the two of them work through it, with each other. They treat each other with so much love and respect that it makes your heart swell up. They have cute little fights, and make up a few hours later because they can't stand not talking to each other. And sometimes, they don't even need to talk to communicate, they understand each other so well. Ughhh, I am crying." Riya laughed, tears flowing down her face as she looked at her two best-friends. Shravan had a huge smile on his face, the moisture evident in his eyes, and Sumo was laughing with tears running down her face. "They are just so perfect together, and I am so glad that they've found each other, and that they're together. They make me believe that the fairytale kind of forever and unconditional love exists."
"As we can all see that the smiles on their faces haven't waivered since the wedding this morning, if anything their smiles have gotten brighter since they've gotten married." Preeti giggled. "I congratulate the two of you on your wedding, and I wish you all the best for the future. And to make things clear, Riya, Pushkar and I have a contract for you two to sign - we're going to be doing the speeches for every wedding anniversary party you have - especially the 25th, 50th and 75th."
"OH MY GOD CUTE OLD WRINKLY SUMAN AND SHRAVAN!" Riya squealed causing everyone to burst out into laughter and clap.
"You're crying Mrs. Malhotra." Shravan smiled wiping away her tears with his hands as their family gathered around them and the cake came out.
"You're crying too, Mr. Tiwari." Sumo teased.
"It doesn't work like that Sumo!"
"I know." She laughed kissing his cheek. "I love you Shravan Malhotra."
"I love you too Mrs. Malhotra." He whispered to her pecking her lips.
"I love how they never realize that people are watching them." Pushkar teased as everyone giggled.
X-X-X-X-X
"Hmmm. What's for dinner wifey?" Shravan whispered in Sumo's ear as he wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his head on her shoulder, the help had seen him walk into the kitchen and found other things to be occupied with, they had learnt, the hard way, over the past year and a half that Shravan and Sumo needed to be left alone.
"Burnt dinner if you don't let me go." She said stirring the daal.
"But I missed you Mrs. Malhotra." He said nuzzling her neck knowing what it did to her.
"Shravan, stop." She whispered, but she didn't even sound convincing to her own ears as she melted into his body.
"Really?" He whispered trailing kisses from the side of her neck up to her ears.
He pressed his body flush against hers and ran his nose along the column of her neck. No matter how many times he did that, goosebumps still erupted all over her body. Her head titled back against his chest as the small kisses beneath her ear turned into nips at her shoulders as he pressed against her harder, his hands caressing her sides of her stomach.
She turned in his arms and looked up at him with a smile, he was still in his work clothes, he had lost the coat, his crisp white shirt was wrinkly from wear, and the tie she had helped him with in the morning was coming lose. Sometimes she looked at him and wondered how he seemed to get sexier and sexier everyday.
"Hi." He smiled leaning down and pecking her lips. She smiled as he caught her lips with his, his hands trailed down her back and around her waist, her body hummed in anticipation when his hand slipped underneath her shirt and his fingers began to caress her stomach, causing her body to shudder. Their lips moved faster and she took his bottom lip between her teeth and bit down lightly while running her nails lightly down his back causing him to groan before she moved back and smiled up at him.
"Hi." She answered with a smile, her arms wrapping around his neck.
"Meeting details." He smiled, his eyes straying on the plate of jalebis she had made, he knew it went well because she had sent him a long string of happy emoticons since he was in meetings all day.
"Four more locations, one in Agra, one in Jaipur and two in Amritsar." She beamed. "You were right, they loved the ideas, and the presentation! Mom's ecstatic!" She ran her hands through his hair, lovingly. She had been a mess for the past week, getting ready for today's meeting with investors and partners to expand PCT outside of Delhi.
"Congratulations, I knew it would go through, you need to believe in yourself a bit more Sumo." He said pecking her lips again.
"Sometimes I second guess myself, but you never do." She said kissing his cheek lovingly.
X-X-X-X-X
"Sumo, chill. He'll be back soon." Pushkar said for the tenth time as he tossed Vidya up in the air.
"Pushkar, if you drop my daughter, I will kill you." Vandy Bhabhi warned as Vidya squealed happily, she had turned one last month and was the life of the family. She had taken after Vandy Bhabhi, straight shiny hair, a cute little button nose and a smile that was infectious. She was born a day after Sumo and Shravan's second wedding anniversary and had taken the house by storm, Vandy Bhabhi was still annoyed that she went into labour in the middle of their wedding anniversary party.
"Both my bhabhis have no chill." Pushkar murmured causing both Sumo and Vandy to whack him, Vidya giggled happily and slapped her chachu's cheek playfully. "You're teaching Vidya how to be violent!" Pushkar said as Sumo grabbed Vidya from Vandy.
Vidya comfortably sat in her chachi's lap, and curiously touched her protruding stomach. "Baby?" She asked turning her head to the side, her hair moving with her.
"He's sleeping." Sumo smiled rubbing her stomach, she was seven months pregnant and her stomach was huge. Her son had taken to sleeping during the day and kicking away at night, she blamed Shravan - even though she had no idea how this exactly worked. He probably knew though, he had a pile of books about babies on the bedside table in their room that he read religiously.
"Hrav achu?" She babbled, her eyes wide and inquiring.
"Shravan chachu went to buy me samosas." Sumo answered Vidya's question.
Sumo giggled when Vidya nodded as if she understood exactly what Sumo was saying. She could only say a few words, Maa, Daa, Daadi for Kamini and Nirmala, Daadu for Lalaji and Ramnath, Hrav achu for Shravan, Kar achu for Pushkar, Achi for Sumo and the recent addition was the word baby which she used when Sumo was around.
"Piping hot, fresh samosas for Mrs. Suman Malhotra." Shravan's voice came from the door, he walked into the house with a brown bag in his hands and handed it off to one of the servants.
"Hrav achuuu!" Vidya yelled trying to get off Sumo's lap, Shravan laughed and picked her up before placing her on his shoulders from the back, he stabilized her using his hands on her little legs, she squealed happily and played with his hair, it was her favourite spot, the world looked different from up there and her chachu's hair was fun to play with.
Sumo beamed at Shravan, both for the samosas she was craving and the way he looked with Vidya, he was so good with kids - as soon as she had seen him holding Vidya she had decided to screw waiting to have kids. There was something about the sight that made her ovaries hyperactive, Shravan was so huge that she didn't expect that gracefulness he had when handling her, he was so careful with her yet confident.
"They were open?" Sumo beamed referring to her favourite place for samosas.
"I had to beg them to stay open longer and play the my wife will leave me if she doesn't get them card." Shravan said as Vidya repeatedly hit his head with giggles.
"You're the best." Sumo beamed.
"I know." Shravan winked.
"Vids, lets go see where Dadi is!" Vandy bhabhi said holding her arms out to Vidya, Shravan took her down, making her squeal at the change in height, before handing her to Vandy bhabhi.
"Samosas!" Pushkar groaned grabbing one from the plate that was put on the table in front of him.
"Do. Not. Touch. My. Samosas." Sumo glared at him whacking his hand and causing the samosa to fall back into the plate.
"You can't eat all of them." Pushkar said.
"Still, you don't take a pregnant woman's food, she will bite you." Shravan warned Pushkar as Sumo glared at Pushkar, grabbing the whole samosa filled plate and picking one up before biting into it. Shravan smiled when she let out a happy moan and took another bite, chewing really fast.
"And then she wonders why she's getting fat." Pushkar murmured.
"She's not getting fat, the baby is growing." Shravan said whacking Pushkar, it was a touchy subject for Sumo and he didn't want her to start crying again.
"Pushkar, go bother Preeti or something, don't you have wedding things to discuss?" Sumo glared at him.
"Yaar, I don't understand her, thirty minutes ago she hugged me and said that I am her favourite in the house after Shravan Bhaiyaa, now she's ready to kill me." Pushkar murmured.
"You brought me food thirty minutes ago, now you're making fun of me!" Sumo yelled as he walked away leaving Sumo and Shravan alone in the living room.
"Are the samosas good?" Shravan asked, she nodded holding the plate out to him. "I can take one?" He asked and she nodded with a perplexed look. "You bit me when I tried to take your jalebi this morning."
"It was the last one, your son wanted it." She shrugged before biting into another samosa making him laugh.
"I love you." He smiled kissing the top of her head.
"We love you too." She said beaming up at him, samosa crumbs hanging off her lips.
X-X-X-X-X
"Samar Malhotra! You stop right there." Sumo said from the closet where she was hanging her clothes. But the little seven-month old toddler had just learnt how to crawl and didn't like to stay still. He bulleted towards the door only to be stopped by his dad who walked in at the right moment.
"Where are you going little man?" Shravan said, his voice an octave higher and softer than it usually was. Samar giggled and turned around crawling towards the bed. Shravan laughed and got down on his knees and arms, into crawling position and crawled around the room over Samar who giggled, this was slowly becoming his favourite game. "Lets go to mommy."
Sumo laughed as the two of them crawled towards her into the closet, Samar's little giggles resounded throughout the room along with Shravan's laughter and her heart melted like it always did for the two of them. They crawled around the room until Samar got tired of the crawling game and moved back onto his play area where he repeatedly liked to hit his blocks together for some reason.
Shravan laughed and got up standing in front of his wife who looked at him with a smile. "How'd it go?" She asked, she knew he had a hearing today that he was worked up about.
"Not great." Shravan sighed, a small frown appearing on his face.
Sumo put back the shirt she was holding in her arms and wrapped her arms around him, resting her head against his chest, right over his heart. She felt him melt into her, his arms wrapping around her and his head resting on top of her head. "If anyone knows how to turn a case around, it's you." She murmured against his shirt, she had seen him do that many times before.
"Your faith in me is astounding sometimes, you weren't there today though." He sighed.
"Because I know that my hubby is the best of the best, and Naanu always says that a good fight is one that goes back and forth." She said looking up at him and placing a kiss on his jaw.
"Ba-ba-ba!" Samar babbled hitting his blocks against the floor causing his parents to look at him.
"Our son demands attention." Sumo laughed.
"He takes after you in that department." Shravan teased.
"Rude!" Sumo laughed hitting his arm.
Shravan smiled and walked over to his son, falling to the floor beside him and picking him up, that's all Samar needed to start his babbling conversation with is father while poking his face and trying to stick his little fingers into his Shravan's mouth. Sumo sat beside them and Samar decided that sitting in Shravan's lap and pulling on his mother's long hair was more fun that babbling. Shravan smiled looking at the two of them, no matter how bad of a day he had, coming home to his son and his wife made everything better.
X-X-X-X-X
"Don't pout." Shravan groaned. "Nooo, stop, ugh, okay fine!"
Little giggles filled the air as Shravan grabbed the box of chocolates and placed them into the shopping cart. "You're going to get me into trouble Sneha." Shravan said to his two-year-old daughter, tapping her cute littel button nose, as he pushed the cart. She was happily sitting in the baby carrier, her legs swinging as she pointed out what she wanted to her dad, she pointed to chocolate, a lot.
Shravan smiled as Samar came running down the aisle with Sumo behind him. "Woah, buddy, slow down." Shravan laughed as he tossed things into the cart.
"I have too much to do dad!" Samar said causing Shravan to laugh and wonder what occupied a four-year-olds' time. Samar ran the other way towards where Shravan knew Vidya was with Pushkar, Preeti & their daughter Payal.
"I see more sugar in that cart than should be there." Sumo said looking at Shravan, her eyebrow arched.
"She wanted it." Shravan shrugged innocently, he couldn't say no to his little princess.
"I wuv you mommy." Sneha smiled at her mother, knowing how to get what she wanted.
Sumo laughed and grabbed Sneha from the cart so she could hold her and walk. "What are you going to do with so much chocolate princess?"
"One fo me, one fo Samar, one fo Vids, one fo Paya!" Sneha answered, she was a talkative toddler.
"Hawww. Nothing for daddy?" Shravan asked as he walked alongside them.
"Kisses?" Sneha smiled leaning towards Shravan causing Shravan and Sumo to laugh. Sumo held Sneha up so she could kiss Shravan cheek. Sumo giggled when Sneha rubbed her cheek where it had rub against Shravan's beard, something she had picked up from Sumo. Shravan put her back in the cart as Sumo grabbed a box of Samar's favourite cereal, which also happened to be Shravan's favourite - a fact that amused Sumo to no end.
"I don't think she likes the beard." Shravan murmured.
"Well, I love the beard." Sumo said looking up at him with a cute smile. Shravan laughed leaning down and pecking her lips.
"YOU GUYS ARE ALWAYS KISSING!" Samar's voice came from down the aisle followed by a groan, causing both of them to burst out into laughter.
X-X-X-X-X
"Wait, so there is no real platform 3/4 right?" Samar asked his father as they sat in the living room of their summer home in London. They both had Xbox controllers in their head as they played the Harry Potter Quidditch game. Shravan and Sumo had started reading Harry Potter to their two kids, they were only on the first book though, Samar hung onto every word at the age of 6.
"No, but they have a place set up where you can take pictures, you'll see it when we go tomorrow." Shravan said ruffling Samar's hair with one hand.
"Not the hair dad!" Samar groaned, his eyes on the screen, his hands still holding the controller, Shravan smirked as he heard Sumo's laughter filter in from the kitchen where she was baking cookies with her cookie helper.
"Why are you laughing?" Shravan asked.
"Just reminded me of someone." Sumo yelled back. "Sneha, no more chocolate chips, please."
"Okayyy." Sneha said as her mother mixed the cookie dough.
"Put it on one player, I'll be back in a minute." Shravan said to Samar as the match ended, Samar nodded. Shravan got up and turned towards the kitchen, Sneha was sitting on the large kitchen island and Sumo was beside her, both of them in their pajamas.
Shravan leaned over the counter from the opposite side and grabbed a few chocolate chips before popping them into his mouth.
"Shravan!" and "Dad!" rang out simultaneously from the two ladies.
"You can't do that!" Sneha chiding her father. "Mommy, you have to take omthing away fom him now." She pointed out, Sumo adored her speech, she spoke so perfectly sometimes and at other times she shortened words and missed letters. Sumo tried to hold back the laughter at her daughter's suggestion, they used negative punishment with their kids a lot, if they did something they weren't supposed to, something got taken away.
"What should we take away?" Sumo asked Sneha.
"NO MORE KISSES!" Samar yelled from the couch. "It's gross."
Sumo waggled her eyebrows at Shravan at Samar's words.
"Traitor!" Shravan said to his son.
"I love you dad." Samar yelled back, his eyes and concentration still on the TV.
Shravan pouted at his wife and daughter. "But I love kisses."
"Oh I know, you do it all the time." Samar groaned, Sumo couldn't hold back the laughter.
"How does a six-year-old act like my grandpa?" Shravan murmured as Sumo popped the cookies into the oven.
"Daddy I wearnt something!" Sneha said, suddenly remembering Riya's words from the morning.
"What?"
"Pick up ines!" Sneha said and Sumo giggled.
"WHY?" Shravan yelled, she was barely four, why was she practicing pick-up lines?
"Riya maasi teached me."
"Of course, Riya maasi taught you." Shravan asked with an eye-roll. "I need to tape her mouth."
"Okay Sneha, go." Sumo said ignoring her husband's cuteness.
"Awe you tiwed? Becau you been wunning thwough my mind all day." Sneha giggled as Sumo burst out into laughter.
"Princess, you are supposed to stop and wait for me to say no, why'." Shravan laughed, it was quite amusing because she couldn't even say her "r"s when they were in the middle of a word.
"Mommy you twy!" She said.
"Yes, you should pick me up Sumo." Shravan laughed, his voice suggestive.
"I don't think anything I would use would be age appropriate Mr. Malhotra." She giggled.
"Mommy! Do the snowflake one!" Sneha said.
"I must be a snowflake, because I've fallen for you." Sumo said tapping Shravan's nose, the room filled with Sneha's little giggles.
"Hey dad. Did it huwt?" Sneha asked.
"What?" Shravan asked confused touching his nose where Sumo had tapped him.
"When you fell fwom heaven." Sneha giggled high-fiving her mom.
"I think that's enough for today." Shravan said picking Sneha up off the counter and putting her on the floor, she laughed and ran to the couch to sit beside her brother, insisting to play. Shravan watched amused as Samar picked up the second controller and turned it off before handing it to Sneha.
"So about these inappropriate pick-up lines..." Shravan said moving to Sumo's side of the counter.
"Later." She murmured as he wrapped his arms around her from the back, pulling her into a hug.
"I am going to hold you to that Mrs. Malhotra." He said resting his chin on top of her head as they watched their kids laugh and yell at the TV. They both let out a content synchronous sigh.
X-X-X-X-XAnd that's a wrap! Please buddy the account "astonmwritings", it's the post right below this one, if you want PMs for future EDKV-related works!
Edited by astonm - 9 years ago
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