RECAP-- SHIVA PROPOSES RAAVI FOR MARRIAGE

Next morning, Raavi wakes up when sun rays fall on her eyes. She rubs her eyes and lays on her elbow. A moment later, the surroundings sink in her mind. She notices Shiva sleeping beside her and remembers last night. They had not done anything, but still a blush crept her face.

Noticing their positions, with their legs tangled with each other, and their pelvic areas rubbing against each other, the fact that both were not wearing anything underneath those slitted bathrobes made her flushed.

He looked too cute while sleeping, his lips had formed into a pout, and a feminine urge of kissing it took over her. She placed her fingers on his jaw and bent down to kiss him. She just gave a quick peck and pulled herself up, untangling from him when he woke up and started staring her right into her eyes.

Embarrassment took over her, did he wake up due to that kiss? What would he think of her, how desperate she was that she kissed him in sleep. She came out of her thoughts when he suddenly pulled her down, her whole form on him, each inch of their bodies touching each other, and staring game still on.

S- Neend mein kiss karna buri baat hai Raavi...

R- Vo....Main to bass aise hi...

Shiva turned them over, with him on top of her. Her bathrobe had come upto her thighs with slit completely open and right thigh totally visible.

S- Vaise it was nothing, asli kiss to...

He didn't finish his sentence and crushed his lips over her. She closed her eyes and responded by sucking on to his lips. His hands reached her skin on the thigh and started rubbing against it gently. She moaned lightly and he entered his tongue into her mouth.

They kept on kissing passionately until the need for breathing took over their urge for eating each other up. Breaking from the kiss, she again turned them over and started kissing his neck. She bit him mercilessly under his ear and then licked and sucked on the spot, unless she could clearly see the purplish mark there.

Her hands travelled downwards on his body and rested on the knot of the only piece of cloth he was wearing. She tugged it open, and his breath hitched.She was just about to remove it off his body when her phone rang and their moment broke. Both groaned and she rolled back to her side and got off the bed.

He tied it again and sat on the bed, back supported on head stand as she searched for her phone in her dress.

S- Kiska hai?

R- Karan...

She sat beside him and put the call on speaker.

R- Hii Karan!

K- Raavi bhai tumhare saath hain? Man kab se unhe call kar raha hun...

R- Haan vo yahi hain, bolo...

S- Hii Karan, shayad mera phone discharge ho gaya hai, kya hua...

K- Bhai time dekho aur ghar aa jao...Maa puch rahi thi aapke baare mein, maine bol diya kisi friend ke ghar gaye ho..

S- Hmm thik hai...Main aata hun..

He cut the call and they both looked at each other helplessly. He pecked her lips and stood up.

S- Next time pakka...abhi ghar chalo...tumhari Mummy bhi wait kar rahi hongi...

R- Fine...

They changed into their clothes and checked out of hotel. Raavi phoned Naina and told her about the proposal.Raavi called her home and they told Prafulla and Jagat about her and Shiva in the evening. They approved happily, having known Shiva from before, it was greater surity as compared to Naina and Karan.

Other side, Shiva also talked to his family and they were more than happy to even imagine of this alliance. Dhara told Shiva to call the Narayans for dinner tonight and he obeyed.

Raavi got dressed in a white cotton kurta and pants with bandhani dupatta. The families met and talked about further arrangements. Shiva recalled what Raavi had told him about her wedding plans and he convinced everyone for a mandir wedding.

They all mutually chose to skip engagement as wedding season was getting over and they didn't have much time. Priest was called and a date of one week later was finalized.

All were happy, they laughed like never before on the dining table while Shiva and Raavi kept stealing glances. Noticing their situations, the families told them to go and have a talk.

Shiva took Raavi to his room and locked it. He hugged her tightly, signifying how happy he was. She kissed him in response and they kept on doing it until her eyes fell on Siya's portrait on the wall and she broke from the kiss.

A strange feeling of insecurity overtook her and she ran to his window. She felt disgusted, on the thought of being insecure from a dead person. Siya was his first love and he had all rights to keep her pictures, then why was she getting affected. This wasn't right. A tear escaped her eyes and he got worried.

S- Raavi, kya hua...tum theek ho na...is everything fine?

She hugged him

R- Main bohot buri hun Shiva...

S- Raavi, aisa kyon bol rahi ho tum, achanak se aisa kya hua...please tell me...

Raavi didn't have the guts to tell him what she just felt. She herself hated this feeling, he would be very hurt. She didn't say anything and just looked at all the pictures of Siya in the room, without breaking the hug.

Shiva looked into the direction of her vision and realised what was bothering her after a few minutes.

S- *to himself* Raavi ki ye feeling galat nahi hai, usse ye insecurity hona normal hai, maine hamesha Siya ke baare mein usse itni baat ki hai, room mein har jagah ussi ki pictures laga rakhi hai...ab Raavi ki bhi meri zindagi mein aur mere room mein ek important jagah hone wali hai...I have to make sure vo ek outsider jaisa na feel kare....

He broke the hug and cupped her cheeks. She had her eyes down in guilt. He wiped the tear and lifted her chin up through his fingers.

S- Ae Raavi, I love you...

R- I love you too...

Shiva went to the bedside table and picked Siya's pictures and kept it on bed. He removed all her frames from the wall, shocking Raavi. She felt guilty for making him do that. He was doing that to make her feel happy, but she couldn't be this selfish.

R- Shiva ye aap kya kar rahe hain...

S- Ye saari pictures rakhne jaa rha hun...

He said with eyes closed and a tear escaped his right eye, not unnoticed by her. He loved Siya and it wouldn't be easy for him to let go off all her memories, and she knew that. She held his hand and nodded her head in a no.

R- Aap aisa kuch nahi karenge...

S- But...iss wall pe ab tumhari...I mean hamari...

R- Chup...bilkul chup...

Raavi went outside his room and got a  shelved wall table from the corridor.

R- Arre help me...its heavy...

He ran to her and got it inside. She removed all the show pieces that were kept on it and placed the table adjacent to one of the walls. She kept all the pictures of Siya on all those shelves and they looked beautiful that way.

R- How does it look?

Shiva looked at her stunned and a happy tear rolled down his cheek. He took her in a tight hug and kissed her head.

R- Ab ho gayi na jagah...mere liye bhi aur unke liye bhi...maine aapse kaha tha na Shiva ki main kabhi bhi Siya ki jagah nahi lungi aapki life mein...I promise main kabhi aapki life mein aisi situation nahi aane dungi jab aapko kisi ek ko choose karna pade..

They stayed like that for few minutes until Raavi was called on by Prafulla to head to home. All the dates have been finalised and they were all very happy.

Next few days passed in a frenzy for all of them, but Shiva and Raavi enjoyed these days to the fullest. Both had taken 10 days off from work and spent maximum time together, knowing each other deeply, shopping for wedding and eating out. They hadn't consummated their relationship because whenever they were together, they couldn't just have enough of each other...

Also the fact that Raavi got her periods in between stopped them from moving ahead of kisses, but they didn't mind. Raavi was amazed when he said that they have whole life for it, but he couldn't pleasure himself at the cost of her comfort, never.

6 days had passed and now it was their haldi morning....sangeet and mehendi had happened last night, where they both danced their hearts out and he even put some mehendi on his hand too. She wrote S on her wrist so clearly, just like his name had gotten engraved on her heart.

It was their marriage the next day. Raavi felt like she was the happiest person alive on planet today, she wondered what would happen tomorrow.

She wore a beautiful yellow saree with sleeveless red blouse, which Shiva had bought for her the other day and she liked it too. He really had amazing choice in dresses, she had it many times.

She looked at herself one last time in the mirror, before going out for haldi rasam where he was already there sitting beside her with a curtain between them. But that transparent cloth couldn't stop them from looking at each other and admiring each other through eyes. They smiled throughout the whole ceremony.

That's it for this part guys..

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