[ (n.) the ritual of enjoying life's simple pleasures. Friends. Family. Graciousness.]

Rishita was getting ready for the day, she was going to visit the Pandya's again today, they had to be finalising a lot of things, considering how quickly the wedding was coming up, they were only a few weeks short. As Rishita was about to head downstairs, she got a call from Dhara.

"Hi Dhara Bhabhi, good morning, mai abhi start hone waali thi" Rishita spoke

" Arrey Rishita, hume aaj shopping jaana padega, tum ruk jao, hum aake sab samjhadenge tumhe," Dhara said hurriedly and cut the call before Rishita could reply.

Shaking her head, Rishita went and sat downstairs in the living room, her mom was present there speaking to someone on the phone, and for once even her aunt was there. She greeted her aunt and engaged in some pointless conversation till the time the Pandyas arrived. Soon enough Dhara, Gautam and Dev were at the doorstep. Her mother and aunt welcomed them in and they sat down to talk for a bit.

"Dhara, aaj tum sab kyun aye Rishita ko pick karne woh to vaise bhi aane hi waali thi," Kamini asked

"Voh Kamini Buaji, hum yaha aapse permission maangne aaye the, hume Hyderabad jana tha, ghar ke remodelling ke silsile mein, saara furniture wahan ke stores mein se select car rahe hai hum, aur humne socha ki Rishita ko bhi saath lejaye, kyunki shaadi ke baad toh woh uska kamra bhi hoga na, toh uski choice bhi maine rakhti hai" Dhara explained.

Rishita was pleasantly surprised with Dhara's thoughtfulness and appreciated how they valued her opinions and choices, such understanding people were usually quite hard to come across, and she was very happy that she was getting married into such a family. Although her mother seemed hesitant to send Rishita to Hyderabad by herself, her aunt readily agreed and together with Dhara's assurance and Kamini's support they were able to convince her mother. Rishita went upstairs to pack her bag on Dhara's insistence. While she was packing her bag Dhara came upstairs and joined her.

"Rishita hum soch rahe the ki aaj kyuna shopping chale jaye, Hyderabad mein hume 2 hafte ka kaam hai, aur Raavi ko vaise bhi thodi cheezein leni thi, mai bhi soch rahi thi ki kyun na thode naaye naye kapde kharid loon, tu chalna chahti hai humare saath?" Dhara asked.

Rishita could not help but agree at the prospect of shopping. They were set to leave tomorrow at 5 am to catch the morning flight from Keshod airport at 8 am, and then a 3 hour flight to Hyderabad. Soon Dhara, Gautam, Dev and Rishita were on their way to the shopping centre, which boasted of a lot of stores. On the way Rishita found out that Raavi, Shiva and Krish were going to join them at the store itself. Rishita could not help but get excited at the prospect of observing the couple a bit more. By the time they had reached Raavi, Krish and Shiva were already waiting for them.

Rishita watched on with amusement as Raavi dragged Shiva into one of the stores and proceeded to use him as a shopping cart. The look of annoyance on Shiva's face was something that Rishta had anticipated but what she had not anticipated was that Shiva let Raavi drag him around everywhere, she had expected him to get angry at Raavi but instead he was being a dutiful boyfriend.

Soon enough Rishita found what ever she liked and proceeded to go to the trial room, she went into the trial room and was trying on her clothes when she heard voices outside her room. Her curiosity got better of her and she peeked out to see Shiva standing there helping Raavi with her clothes. A few moments she heard the door of Raavi's trail room open and she strained her ears to listen to the conversation that the two were having.

"Shiva Kaisi lag rahi hoon? Mujhe toh yeh dress bohot pyaara laga?"

"Saach bolun? Chipakalion ki beauty queen lagrahi ho"

"Seedhe seedhe tarif nahi karsaktha kya bhootnath, Hamesha chipkali hi bulatha hai mujhe"

"Ab chipkali ho toh hi bulaonga na, Anarkali thodi bulaonga?"

"Shivaaaaa"

"Achha chod na chudail, doosra try kar"

"Bhootnath kahika"

Rishita then heard Raavi's door click shut once again, but a bit louder than it should have, showing her evident frustration with Shiva and his unique way of complimenting her. Rishita decided to pay more attention to herself and her clothes as of now.

They soon finished their shopping and proceeded to move to the mens section, Since Rishita did not have anything to buy she just followed along with the group. Dev and Krish disappeared into one of the shoe aisles and Dhara took Gautam along with her. Rishita noticed that Shiva was not there and looked around to see Raavi selecting some clothes, thinking that they were Shiva, she wondered where he had disappeared off to. Wandering around she found Shiva leaning against one of the trail room doors, soon enough she spotted Raavi and Dhara who had their arms full of clothes.

Raavi then dumped all of the clothes on the chair next to her, she then took a plain white shirt and handed it to Shiva. Who protested as soon as he saw the fabric.

"Ae chipkali yeh kya leke aayi, mai nahi pehene waala ye, Kitna pheeka kapda hai"

Rishita was taken aback by his brashness, and looked on in surprise as Raavi shoved the shirt onto his hands and pushed him inside.

"Ae Bhoothnath jo mai layi chup chap trial kar, zyada nakhre math dikhao samjhana" Raavi spoke just as heatedly. As Shiva was about to protest once again, Dhara intervened and said

"Shiva, lad kyun raha hai, tujhe bhi pata hai ki tu yeh pehenega hi, time waste mat karo"

Rishita watched shocked as a scowling Shiva took the clothes and went to trial them as Raavi looked at him with a smug expression on her face.

The rest of the time that Shiva was trying on the clothes, there was not a single protest from him, even though he painted his signature scowl, while Raavi was simply looking smug throughout. Soon they finished shopping and were on their way back.

During the car ride back, Shiva and Raavi were dropping her back home, she was again in the back seat and had just taken out her earphones when Shiva and Raavi started bickering.

"Shiva speed kam kar, yahan race nahi chal rahi hai"

"Ae chipkali, itni si speed se darr lagraha hai kya"

"Kaun darr raha hai, mai nahi darr rahi" Raavi spoke courageously even though her facial expression clearly stated otherwise. Shiva took one proper look at Raavi and slowly got the vehicles speed down to a regular pace. Her house soon arrived and she was about to get down when Raavi said

"Rishita kal subah mai aur Shiva tumhe pick up karlenge"

Before Rishita could reply in affirmative Shiva said

"Arrey Maami ki Behen ki Beti, pick up karne ke liye uthke ready hona padhtha, aur tu toh kumbhkaran ki tarha soti hai"

"Uthjauni na Bhootnath, warna tu aake uthale"

"Haan Yahi kaam bacha hai, tera personal alarm clock bhi banjaun kya?"

"Haan"

As Rishita exited the quietly leaving the bickering couple alone, she was about to enter her house when she saw them looking like they were still bickering, but Raavi had head on Shiva's shoulders much like yesterday. As she saw them leave she thought back to the events of the day, both of them bickered at the drop of a hat and made up just as quickly, no matter how much they fought at the end she noticed that Shiva always Raavi's wishes. She had never seen such an eccentric couple in her life before and she began wondering how they even got together in the first place.