Tera Mera Pyaar [FF] [Link to Thread 2 on Pg 151] - Page 84

Arjun groaned. He could hear someone banging the door. "Go away," he mumbled and turned to his side. He then felt something warm on his face. He frowned and opened his eyes partially and saw that it was someone's face. His brain which was still trying to wake up took a moment to make him realize that the face belonged to his wife. The moment he realized it, he was fully awake and he then remembered where they were. They were on a holiday and last night his wife had asked him to share the bed with him. He remembered exactly how he was scared initially to share the bed with her after the kind of games his body was playing with him. It had taken him some time to fall asleep knowing that his wife was beside him. But somehow he had calmed himself and had finally fallen asleep.

But now looking at his wife's innocent face he could not help but think that it was a good idea. He could wake up to this sight every day. How nice it would be to open your eyes and the first thing in the morning you see is the thing, or in this case the person, who is very important to you. Arjun couldn't help but smile. Last night when he was couldn't sleep he was thinking about Arohi and him, the 4 months of their marriage. And he had realized that she was very important to him and that he felt very strongly for her. Her tears pained his heart and he could not even think of hurting her by letting his wild side out. He had promised her that he would always keep her happy and he will stick to that no matter what.

He came out of his thoughts when he heard a loud knock on the door. He faintly remembered some banging while he was sleeping; now he understood where the noise was coming from. He looked at the door and then back at Arohi. There was a frown on her face because of the noise was disturbing her sleep. He glared back at the door, he was now irritated because the noise was disturbing Arohi's sleep.

He pushed the comforter aside being careful not to wake Arohi up, got up from the bed and walked towards the door. Whoever was at the door needed a piece of mind. He opened the door partially to see that Jai and Dhruv were standing there. One of Dhruv's hands was between Arjun and him, hanging in the air as if he was just about to knock on the door again. Arjun narrowed his eyes and glared at Dhruv. Dhruv immediately took a step back and put his hand behind his back getting scared of Arjun's glare.

"What?" Arjun asked through his teeth, making sure that his voice is not too loud that it would wake up Arohi. Dhruv gulped and stammered, "We-We-Came-to-yeah- came to-wake you up." Arjun kept on glaring at him and then Jai said, "We'll reach Goa in sometime and before that we have to have breakfast." Arjun's face softened a little and he nodded his head. "We'll be there, just make sure that you are not 'too' loud next time?" Arjun said, the last part was said looking directly at Dhruv. Both Jai and Dhruv nodded their head and immediately left from there.

Arjun closed the door and looked at his wife who was still sleeping peacefully. He thought that he would get ready first and would then wake up Arohi so that she could get a few more minutes to sleep. He picked out his clothes and went to take the shower.

~*TMP*~

Jai and Dhruv were walking to the restaurant where everyone would come for breakfast when Dhruv asked to Jai, "What do you think?" Jai smirked and looked at Dhruv, "I think our plan worked," he said. "Really?" asked Dhruv, his eyes going wide with happiness. "Yes," said Jai with full confidence. "How can you be so sure? We could not even look in the room," asked Dhruv with curiosity as he remembered that Arjun had opened the door partially and from where he was standing, the bed was not visible. "When you were busy getting scared of Arjun, I was looking at the sleeve of his T-Shirt," said Jai. "Why were you looking at the sleeve of Arjun's T-shirt? You were supposed to look in the room and make sure that he had not slept on the floor," Dhruv said getting angry at Jai. It was the only chance to know if their plan had worked or not.

While Jai and Dhruv were allotting the cabins to everyone, they had made sure that Arjun's and Arohi's cabin was at the other side so that no one would go in their room at any hour and disturb them. And they had also made sure to make the housekeeping remove the couch from their room. On the top of that they had also told the housekeeping manager that if they get any call from Arjun's and Arohi's cabin for mattress or a couch, then tell them that they cannot provide by giving any reasonable excuse.

Both Jai and Dhruv had waited near the counter to see if the calls come but it didn't come. They had assumed that their planned had worked but they also knew that if required, Arjun would sleep on the floor only to make sure that Arohi was comfortable. Before going back to their room, both Jai and Dhruv had prayed to God to make their plan work. And according to Jai, God had listened to their prayer.

"Well, his sleeve had a stain a red, which looked like sindoor," said Jai with a smile. "Wow!" Dhruv exclaimed, "So our plan did work huh?" he asked and saw Jai nodding his head. Both their faces broke into a big smile and they high fived each other before entering the restaurant.

~*TMP*~

Arjun came out of the bathroom wearing a dark grey cargo pant and a white shirt. The sleeve of his shirt was folded till his elbows and his hair were sticking on his forehead because it was still wet from the shower. He was keeping his clothes on the suitcase when he noticed something. He picked up his T-Shirt and looked at it sleeve. There on the sleeve was a red stain which looked like powder. He frowned, where did that come from? He thought for a while and then shrugged his shoulder leaving his thoughts there and kept the T-Shirt back on the suitcase.

He then went and sat on his side of bed. He looked at his wife who still had a frown on her face but this time it was because of the strand of hair, which was irritating her. His hands on their own accord moved towards her face and tucked her hair behind her ear. He then caressed her face lightly, his finger barely touching her face. He then noticed the red smudge on her forehead and it clicked him. The red stain on his T-Shirt was from the sindoor Arohi had applied. That means at some point in the night he had been too close to Arohi. He pulled back his hand when Arohi stirred.

Arohi felt a feather like yet warm touch on her face and she opened her eyes slowly only to see her husband gazing at her. She smiled and said, "Good morning," once she remembered where they were. Arjun gave a sheepish smile back and wished her the same. Arohi sat up on the bed leaning her back on the head board. There was an awkward silence between them; Arohi kept on stealing glances at him and was fidgeting with the corner of the comforter whereas Arjun was drawing imaginary circles on the bed and was a little nervous, what if he might have done something embarrassing which Arohi wouldn't have liked? He should not have been so careless, he should have slept on the floor. Both of them didn't know what to say, how to break the silence.

The knock on the door broke the silence between them and that's when Arjun remembered about the breakfast. "That must be Dhruv," he said shaking his head at his forgetfulness and he stood up. "We'll reach Goa soon and before that, there's breakfast," he added as he walked towards the door. Arohi pushed the comforter aside and stood up as well.

Arjun opened the door, thinking that it might be Dhruv. He was just about to apologize when he noticed that the man was not Dhruv but was from housekeeping. The keeper said to him that they have come to mop the room. Arjun nodded his head and gave the man space to enter the room. By now Arohi was by her suitcase, retrieving her clothes. She looked up at Arjun and just pointed towards the bathroom as to say that she was going in there and Arjun just nodded.

Arjun was sitting on the bed and was checking mails in his phone when he heard the bathroom door open. He looked up and he took a sharp intake of breath. His wife was coming out of the bathroom and walked towards where her suitcase was. She was wearing a yellow sundress which ended just above her knees. She had just applied kohl and lip gloss. Arjun's eyes lazily moved over her body, drinking in her every curve. And just one word came in his mind to describe his wife's look, that is, beautiful. She was looking just as beautiful as she was looking at the day of the party. Arjun immediately looked away when he saw Arohi turning towards him.

Arohi had felt his gaze and had turned around just in time to catch Arjun looking at her. He was looking at her with same intensity with same passion which she had seen in his eyes just a couple of days before. Seeing how beautiful she looked in the black dress, Archana and Shefali had forced her to buy a few more simple dresses for their trip. She had hardly worn dresses, not that she didn't like them; she just never got a chance to wear them. But now when she had the chance she was a little worried about what Arjun thought, if he liked it or not. But her worry had vanished the moment she had caught him. The way Arjun was looking at her, it made her feel comfortable, it made her feel beautiful.

She quickly got ready with Arjun stealing glances at her and they left to have breakfast.