Aarohi kept looking blankly at his figure for a minute,
before she asked him curtly, "my bag?"
Advaith, who waited for her reaction, was shocked to see her
all calm. He was now confused that whether she heard him talking to Aamira or
not!?
"How are you feeling now?", Ignoring her previous
question, he focused more on asking about her own health.
"Where are my luggage?", Aarohi asked once again,
not at all giving importance to his care, or may be fake care!
"In that corner.", Advaith replied pointing in the
corner where their luggage was kept.
Aarohi simply walked to the corner where their luggage was
kept before taking out fresh pair of clothes to change herself into, and walked
into the bathroom, not at all glancing at Advaith even for once.
Advaith kept looking at her until she entered into the
bathroom, and though he hated to admit but her ignorance for very first time
since their marriage, bothered him a little.
He himself was taken aback for a minute when he realised
that how offended he is feeling with Aarohi's ignorance, yet he choose to
ignore them.
He simply came inside the room and threw himself on bed,
with his both hands tangled below his head, and his legs dangling down the bed.
His eyes were concentrated on ceiling and mind was constantly thinking about
how his life changed in a blink of the moment.
~~~~~~~~~
Here, as soon as Aarohi looked at her reflection in the big
vanity mirror in the bathroom, she couldn't control herself and a lone tear rolled
down her eyes to her cheek.
How her life changed!
This was not what she had thought about her future husband!
This is not what she had imagined her married life would be!
However much she ignores or tries to forget, but hearing
your husband confessing his love for someone else in front of yourself is not
something you can let it go so easily.
Though she knew from the first day of their marriage that he
loves someone else and though she had not hold any real hopes from this
marriage, but still today when she heard Advaith talking freely to Aamira,
which he never did with her, hurt her, and his confession was enough to break
the last string of her holding her emotions.
Today all her beliefs of a fairytale which she had heard
since her childhood, was proved wrong.
And the first thing she realised, is that, she has to
protect her heart from him!
No, she won't give up on being an ideal wife, nor she will
come in between Advaith and his love life, atleast not until she fulfills the
promise she had given to Aashi, but also she will never let any emotion or
feeling erupt for Advaith in her heart.
It isn't like she does not want to fall in love with him, or
not want to have any feelings for him in her heart, but she is simply scared of
holding those false hopes which will never come true.
Rubbing off those useless tears which she was shading for
the person who does not even care about them, she changed herself into an
another pair of clothes, before dumping the old ones into the laundry basket.
~~~~~~~~
It was already midnight when Advaith's sleep broke due to
chilling sensation spread all over the room.
He glanced here and there to find Aarohi but when the
darkness in the room didn’t allow him to look properly at anything, he fished
out his mobile phone and turned on flash light before switching on dim lights
in the room.
There she was sleeping on couch...in total uncomfortable
composure!
He checked the time in his wrist watch which showed exactly
three hours and twenty minutes in midnight, which means he or may be they both
had already skipped their dinner.
He wondered that how come he slept so much and why didn't
Aarohi wake him up!?
Chucking all the thoughts he went towards Aarohi who was
still sleeping on couch, before he silently crouch on his knees beside her.
Unintentionally, his eyes wandered on her face which was
shining under the fade moonlight coming through the balcony window, and he got
lost in her...yet again!
Vermilion was adorned in the partition of her hair,
mangalsutra (nuptial chain) was hanged in her neck and chooda (bangles) were
cladded in both her heena filled wrist, which was enough for anyone to know
that she is already taken.
....and without his realization, he was already started
liking her in her bridal look!
Slowly his eyes travelled back to her serene and calm face
before they rested on her pink luscious lips and sudden urge of kissing her
erupted deep in his heart.
His heartbeat raced only at the thought of tasting those
rosy lips and before he could control himself, he was already advancing towards
those tempting lips, to feel them, to taste them, to savor them.
His lips were so much touching hers' that a single moment
from either side and they would already kiss each other, when she stirred in
sleep, and immediately realization dawn upon him.
He can't do this!!
He can't betray his Aamira!!
Drawing a thick line of distance between them, Advaith
picked her up carefully not to disturb her sleep, before laying her gently on
right side of bed.
Once covering her body with comforter, Advaith straight away
dashed inside the washroom to grt grip on his uncontrollable emotions.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Advaith stood under shower from which chilled water was
running all over him, giving him much needed strength to clear his clouded
mind.
How can he loose his control over his emotions!?
And once again he felt Aarohi responsible for all that
strange things happening inside him.
He hates to admit, but he didn’t felt something strong like
this for even Aamira in all this years of their relationship, which he started
feeling for Aarohi in less than a month from their marriage.
But still he refuses to accept it. He refuses to even think
about any other girl other than his Aamira.
Finally after what felt like ages, he dried himself before
getting changed in fresh pair of night suit, Advaith came out and once again
his eyes travelled directly on the girl who was responsible for all those alien
feelings he was experiencing inside him.
Since sleep was far away from his eyes, Advaith decide to
distract his mind from Aarohi with help of his work.
He took his laptop and was about to sit beside her on other
side on bed when he remembered that Aarohi doesn’t like lights switched on
while sleeping.
He sighed tiredly and turned off dim lights, before walking
out to the mini living room which was connected to their bedroom.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Next morning, it was almost quarter past eight when Aarohi
woke up due to strong sunrays and first thing she noticed was that she is now
sleeping on bed instead on couch that she had slept on last night.
Did she again sleep walked to the bed!?
Sighing at her own stupid thoughts, she looked here and
there but didn’t find the person she was looking for.
‘May be he already left for office. But he should have
atleast informed her.’, Aarohi thought before getting up from bed and dragging
herself towards bathroom.
‘Why should I care when he himself does not even care
informing me.’, Aarohi thought once again.
but who was she kidding?
She was clearly trying to reason out for him, so that she doesn’t
feel hurt in her heart because of his ruthless acts.
For how long will she keep up with the act of not getting
affected by her husband's words, when all she was feeling was hurt each and
everytime.
She doesn't want rights of wife but all she want is little
bit comfort from him side, atleast until they are binded together in this
unwanted forced marriage.
Chucking all that was coming in her mind, Aarohi quickly got
ready in a beautiful peach colored palazzo suit, after taking long relaxing
shower.
Standing in front of mirror, Aarohi was combing her hair
when she saw their bedroom door opening and Advaith entering inside the room.
‘So he has not left yet!’, Aarohi couldn't help when her
lips teased to curve for a small smile that was threatening to form on her
lips.
Aarohi, when felt Advaith's intense gaze on her, felt
goosebumps all over her arms, while she dared to look back into those deep
brown orbs through the reflection in the mirror.
However as soon as their eyes met, Advaith avert his gaze, breaking
the eye-lock before he left straight inside the bathroom to get ready for
office.
Though Aarohi was disappointed with his ignorance once
again, at the same time she also felt like Advaith was purposely not meeting
her eyes.
‘Did something happened yesterday night after I slept!?’,
Aarohi thought confusedly.
Aarohi slide those thoughts away and quickly got ready
before taking the menu from cocktail table and ordering breakfast for both of
them through intercom, as she was already hungry specially after ditching
yesterday's dinner.
Around twenty minutes later breakfast was served and settled
perfectly on cocktail table, while she sat on bed waiting for Advaith, when her
cellphone rang with Aashi's name, making her grin as wide as possible.
She answered the call and walked to the balcony as Aashi
started asking about their journey and they talked about anything to everything.
In between she also talked to Priya and shortly she disconnect the call after
bidding them bye.
When around fifteen minutes later she came back in their
room, she noticed the bathroom door was unlocked which means Advaith had
already got ready for the office, but still she couldn’t find him in the room.
She checked in the living room but he wasn’t there as well.
Coming back into their room she looked at the breakfast kept
on cocktail table and that is when she noticed an empty cup of coffee which was
ordered by her for Advaith, but the breakfast was still left untouched.
That means he is already left for office!
Her lips twitched downwards in a sad smile as she suddenly
lost her appetite.
Though she had decided yesterday night to not to get
bothered with his unwanted attitude, but her heart was still carrying those
little hopes that some day he will surely acknowledge her presence and her
efforts which she is making just for their unwanted forced marriage to work.
Throwing a last glance at the same untouched breakfast, she
walked straight to the balcony to get some fresh air.
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