Ladies and gentlemen, namaskar and welcome aboard Fanfic Flight no. 5 on Sabsj Airways .......
This is Jai Walia your captain, Bani Dixit and Pia Shukla your flight attendants and together we will ensure you all have a safe and enjoyable journey to Romanceland .
Any feedback, positive or negative would be greatly appreciated.
For all you underaged readers and those who find my writing offensive, please read this fanfic at your own risk, the romance depicted can get pretty descriptive at times, as per the situation, so am warning you in advance. Please refrain from reading if you do not feel upto it and if you do, then don't complain and bad mouth later on ....... fair enough I suppose.
Ch 2 pg 12, Ch 3 pg 20, Ch 4 pg 26, Ch 5 pg 34, Ch 6 pg 41, Ch 7 pg 53, Ch 8 pg 58, Ch 9 pg 66, Ch 10 pg 72, Ch 11 pg 76, Ch 12 pg 84, Ch 13 pg 88, Ch 14 pg 97, Ch 15 pg 108, Ch 16 pg 117, Ch 17 pg 127, Ch 18 pg 141, Ch 19 151, Ch 20 pg 162, Ch 21 pg 168, Ch 22 pg 175, Ch 23 pg 188, Ch 24 pg 198, Ch 25 pg 204, Ch 26 pg 221, Ch 27 on pg 228, Ch 28 on pg 233, Ch 29 on pg 237, Final part on pg 245
WOOING BANI DIXIT
Chapter 1
"You want me to marry Bani?" Jai Walia scowled, his too intense gaze piercing Bani Dixit, all the while his arm lay draped over his girlfriend's bony shoulders. His disdainful gaze skipped from Bani to his parents. He pulled the young woman closer to his side, slipping his arm around her waist. Her bleached blonde head rested on his shoulder, her silky locks cascading down her arm.
"I can't marry Bani. I'm engaged to marry Pia" said Jai to his parents.
Mortified, Bani's heart stopped for a full minute before it struck out at a gallop. She'd always loved Jai but his words and actions shattered her. He used to look at her in that special way in which he gazed at Pia now, twelve years ago when she was sixteen and he was nineteen. Now, at best, she was merely his parent's best friend's daughter and he treated her like a little sister…maybe even a pest. At the moment though, he bristled with hatred for her. It was all she could do to stand tall and hold her head up.
"They can't force you into anything you don't want to do. As long as we have each other, we'll be fine" said Pia to Jai and then tilted her head up and gazed deeply into Jai's eyes.
Tiptoeing on pointy sequined boots so that her hip-hugger slacks accentuated every line of her curvy legs, she cupped his cheek with her gloved hand. Black lace covered her arm up to her elbows. The fingers were cut out revealing black painted fingernails. She planted a slow, sensuous kiss on his lips, which he returned with relish. She then turned and offered a nasty smirk, clearly signaling that Jai was hers and everyone could forget their crazy idea of breaking them up. But her self-assurance didn't quiet reach her eyes.
When Jai returned Pia's kiss, Bani wanted to die. She wished the ground would open up and swallow her. Shifting her feet uneasily, she sent an imploring gaze to her parents to stop this torture.
As much as Jai's parents liked her, they hated Pia. Maybe they were or were not wrong in trying to break off Jai's engagement to Pia. But they were definitely wrong to wreck her life in the process, too.
Jai's father, Karan Walia, bristled the hair standing out on the back of his neck and said "Either you marry Bani and produce an heir, or you won't get one cent from us nor one share of the business. I'll have your resignation and then we'll see how long your little gold digger girlfriend sticks around." He then raked his scathing blacked-eyed glance over Pia.
Karan towered over everyone else in the room, including his son. He had to be six foot five easily despite his curved shoulders. Gray streaked his short-cropped hair liberally. His long nose was saved from being too straight by a slight bump across the bridge.
Sarika Walia, Jai's mother, wiped a tear off her cheek as she clutched her husband's arm with her other hand. "We only want what's best for you, son. Bani's perfect for you."
Sarika was a petite elegant woman with frosted, coiffed hair. Diamond studs twinkled on her tiny earlobes. At most, she wore a size three. Huge brown eyes dominated her pixie face.
Bani's parents, Dharam and Hema Dixit, stood beside the Walias, their shoulders as rigid as their expressions.
"I love Pia, not Bani." Jai's chin lifted defiantly. Fire flashed in his sable eyes. "I want to spend my life with her."
Sarika shuddered delicately as her manicured fingers wrapped more securely around her husband's, she then gazed up at her husband and said "Karan, we can't let him throw his life away."
"We'll disown you. Then your brother will inherit the entire company." Cold and unmerciful, Karan's voice grated down Jai's spine.
"Then make Ranveer marry Bani" said Jai, angered by what his father had just told him.
Ranveer was Jai's younger brother. "Ranveer doesn't care a whit for the business. He'll run it into the ground in no time. Then what'll happen to it? To all your trusted employees and their families? It's suicide to take it from me and give it to Ranveer" said Jai with strong conviction.
Ranveer, an artist who didn't have a lick of business sense, was Jai's younger brother. Jai wrapped his arms tighter around his girlfriend and deposited a kiss on the top of her head where dark brown roots peeked out.
He then looked at his father and said "you can't do this and I won't turn my back on Pia."
What was left of Bani's shattered heart disintegrated at Jai's words. She couldn't stand this. Why were their parents trying to force them into marriage when they were adults with their own minds and hearts?
Hatred brimmed over in Jai's eyes when he glared at her as if he blamed her for this mess. "I thought we were friends, Bani. How can you be in league with them? How can you do this to us?" he asked Bani angrily.
This was too much. The whole lot of them made her sick. Holding up shaking hands, Bani backed up a step, eager to be rid of them. Folding her arms across her chest, she fumed inwardly at her parents. How could they humiliate her so?
"Look, I'm just as surprised and in the dark as you are about this. Believe me," she mustered as much of her shattered pride as she could, lifted her chin and squared her shoulders. "I don't like this any better than you" she told Jai.
When she pivoted on her high heel to turn and leave, Karan clasped his long fingers around her hand.
"Stay Bani. He will do as we say and show you proper respect, or he will be dead to us" said Jai's father.
Bani and Pia gasped in unison, their eyes too wide in their faces.
Karan Uncle didn't mean what he said? Did he? Did her parents agree with his barbaric, archaic attitude? Bani gaped at the older man, stunned at the harshness of his edict then turned a questioning gaze on her own parents.
"Mom? Dad? You can't mean this, can you?" Bani asked them in a barely audible tone.
One glance at their pursed lips, grayed complexions and the regal set of their shoulders told Bani that they meant every word. Obviously they'd rehearsed this and Karan Uncle was their spokesperson. When they nodded, she knew that they were in full agreement.
"If I consider your ridiculous proposal, how long do we have to stay married? I mean, if I marry Bani and we absolutely can't stand each other, are you going to sentence us to hell for the rest of our lives?" asked Jai in a rude tone, dripping with sarcasm.
Ridiculous proposal? If he can't stand me? How long did they have to stay married?
Indigestion burned Bani's stomach, bile bubbled in her throat and she wanted to die of embarassment. She was going to be ill all over their stark white living room carpet if she didn't get out of here now. She'd never heard anything so awful and this was worse than her most horrific nightmare.
Karan, Sarika, Dharam, and Hema looked at each other, and then bent their heads together for a few minutes. Finally, they turned to face them, their expressions serious. Karan cleared his throat. "You have to give it an honest try for three years…" in a very authoritative manner.
"Three years!" Pia let out an anguished cry, clutching her throat. Twisting in Jai's arms she faced off against him. "That's inhuman! Tell them you won't stand for this" she said to Jai.
Jai growled, his scowl deepening as he rounded on Bani and said "I bet this is all your idea. Are your parents buying me for you? Did they make Dad a business deal he couldn't refuse?"
Pia's black rouged lips trembled. The bright living room light reflected the sheen of tears in her azure eyes.
"Bani you're not woman enough to get a man on your own so you have to steal mine? You've been drooling over Jai for years. It's pathetic. A mousy little creature like you will bore him to tears in no time" said Pia almost growling like an injured tigress.
Bani stood stock still, embarrassed to the core. This was getting worse and worse. She didn't know the particulars of her parent's involvement with this yet, but it was true that she had loved Jai for as long as she could remember.
Am I so transparent? Mousy? Boring? Pathetic? Bani thought to herself, eyes brimming with tears.
"Love is when you shed a tear and still want him, it's when he ignores you and you still love him, it's when he loves another girl but you still smile and say I'm happy for you ….. when all you really do is cry."
Humour for the day
Definitions Reprogrammed
1. After Marriage: A state in which husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
2. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
3. Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
4. Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.
5. Classic: A book which people praises, but do not read.
6. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
7. Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such away that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
8. Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
9. Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.
10. Criminal: A guy no different from the rest, except that he got caught.
11. Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.
12. Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
13. Divorce: Future tense of marriage.
14. Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.
15. Ecstasy: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.
16. Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.
17. Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.
18. Father: A banker provided by nature.
19. Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".
20. Love: Something You can't buy, but pay dearly for it
21. Love Affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five-day test.
22. Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master.
(Alternate) Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is a husband!
23. Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
24. Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.
25. Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."
26. Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.
27. Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.
28. Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.
29. Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.
30. Smile: A facial curve that can set a lot of things straight.
31. Tears: A hydraulic force which makes feminine waterpower to conquer over masculine will-power.
32. Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
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