GUYSSS,
THE PREPARATIONS OF THE WEDDING HAVE BEGUN.

ALSO, SHUBMAN IS THE CAPTAIN OF THE INDIAN CRICKET TEAM ON ZIMBABWE TOUR 🥹🥹🥹

I'M SO SO SO SO PROUD OF HIM, I'M SO HAPPY I CAN'T TELL YOU GUYS. I PRAYED TO GOD EVERYDAY FOR HIM TO GET SELECTED AND HE BECAME THE CAPTAIN......LIKE I COULDN'T STOP SMILING WHEN I SAW THAT NEWS, MY HEART WENT KABOOM!

AND IT MAYBE NOT A BIG NEWS FOR MANY PEOPLE BUT IT IS HUGE FOR ME. ALL HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS ARE!

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HIM PLAY!

OK NOW ENOUGH OF MY EMOTIONAL ASS, LET'S GET IN THE STORY.

🎀

Aashna's pov:

Everything is blurry, rushed and filled with enthusiasm because today, Shubman's family is over at my place to fix the wedding dates and discuss the preparations and shopping and guests and all that stuff.

I decided to wear a designer suit because...well why not?

Yeh bol na ki sasural walon ke saamne point banane hai!! Why not ki amma!

My inner voice needs to calm the fuck down.*sighs*

So this is my outfit.

But right now, I need to focus on more important things, like matching our kundalis.

This is very stressful, in order to get married, your kundalis should match and that's exactly what the bald pandit ji is doing in front of us.

I need this fearful pit in my belly to calm down. I hope everything goes well. I feel Shubman's hand rub on my bouncing knee to calm me down.

I looked at him with stress lines and he ran a hand through my hair while the pandit ji looked focused on his laptop.

Ab kucch bata bhi de buddhe! Tension de rha hai!

(A/n: Sorry guys, ik it's bad to disrespect people like that)

He looks up at us with a smile tugging at his lips, "Bohot bohot badhayi ho aap dono ko! Aapke 36 mai se 35 gun mil rahe hai! Iska matlab yeh hai ki aap dono ka vivahit jeevan phalibhut aur sukhi rahega!" He said.

Bhala ho in pandit ji ka!

I smiled when I heard him telling our parents this and everyone started congratulating us and each other.

Apparently, Shubman's mom also looks happy with this....maybe she had accepted?

Shubman locked his fingers in mine and gave my hand a reassuring squeeze, I looked up at him and leant upwards but stopped when I remembered that we are with family.

Thoda control kar le, ek baar shaadi ho jaye toh kar liyo jee bhar ke kiss.

Fir toh kiss hi kya pta nhi kya kya karenge! Hehe hehe!🌚

I settled back in my space and our elders re focused on fixing the dates for everything.

"Bhai congratulations yaar!" Jugnu patted Shubman on his back.

"Bhabhi you too!" He extended his hand which I took happily to shake.

"Aaj toh tum dono ko blush ki zarurat bhi nhi hai, naturally aa rha hai!" He said and I looked away saying, "please!!!"

But it got too much and I got up and went to the kitchen to calm down the butterflies.

I buried my face into my hands and muffled a happy scream.

"Kaash yeh glowing, shining pink happy face mai daily dekh pata"

I turned quickly to see Shubman standing against the wall of the open kitchen with crossed arms and a smirk.

I rolled my eyes playfully and turned around to hide my more blush that he had induced. "Ab tum bhi mat shuru ho jao! Dekhte rehna ek baar shaadi ho jaye toh. Control! You know?" I said with my hand gestures and filled a glass of water to drink from.

As I touched the glass to my lips and drank a little, I felt his arms snake from behing to lock themselves at my stomach.

"Accha? Who was the one who lost her control and tried to kiss me in a room full of people? And don't even get me started on the way you're blushing, so you are the one who needs control baby." He said in my ear in a low tone.

I turned in his arms to face him and he locked me, holding the counter.

I raised my glass in front of him. "Paani pi lo! Flirt karte karte thak gaye hoge!" I said and he smirked.

"Save it! Because you're gonna need it after what I'm going to do now!" He said and took the glass from my hands to place it on the counter.

I looked at him in confusion before he held my hips and lifted me to place me on my counter.

"Shubman koi dekh lega!" I warned him.

My breathing got heavy and my hands went to his shoulder when he leaned in and placed his lips on mine, kissing me roughly.

Haye! Meri lipstick!

"This is what you wanted? Fireworks?" He whispered keeping his forehead on mine and started to kiss me again with the same intensity.

"Shub agar kisi ne dekh liy-" He didn't let me finish.

I moaned in the kiss and my legs closed involuntarily but couldn't because Shubman was standing between them.

His one hand came up to my neck while his other hand dug lightly into my thigh.

I'm getting wet! I'm getting wet!

After kissing me for a good minute, he separated and looked into my eyes. Breathing heavily and placed his hands on either side of my face.

After looking at my face for a while, he pulled me closer and hugged me over my shoulders covering me fully with his tall frame.

Kabhi daddy kabhi softie!

He pulled apart and pulled out a handerchief from his pocket and wiped around my mouth to clean the smuged lipstick.

🥹itni care?

I took it from his hands and cleaned his mouth too.

He held my hand and helped me down on my feet.

"Abhi karlo thoda control, kyuki shaadi ke baad mai nhi karne dunga and neither will I control myself from spending my entire nights fucking you." He whispered and I looked at him in bewilderment.

Oh accha? Esa kucch bhi kucch hota hai kya? Mujhe toh kisi ne bataya hi nhi!

He picked up the glass and made me drink a gulp of water and holds it to his own mouth to drink it while I still looked at him wide eyed.

He stepped back, "Ab jaldi se bahar aa jao Mrs. Gill warna log galat sochne lagenge hamare baare mai!" He said with a wink of his right eye and walked out of the kitchen leaving me in heart somersaults.

I don't know how long I stood there staring into space before I felt someone shook my hand.

"Shawn the sheep! Kahan kho gayi? Koi bhoot dekh liya kya?" I looked to see Aarya looking at me with worried eyes and shook my head no.

Then the blush came back with the realisation that I have to go out to look at the same man who talked about fucking me so casually like he thought about it daily.

But God! Do I wanna be fucked by him?

Fuck yes!

Yaar come on! Itne gande thoughts kahan se aate hai tere virgin dimaag mai?

I sighed and went back in the room to see that our parents were still talking about fixing the date.

"Arey arey aa gyi Shona, beta batao konsi date sahi hai?" Dad asked me.

"Umm....konse month mai nikli hai date?" I asked him and sat in my prior seat beside Shubman, hardly having any control to avoid looking at him.

Kya karun? Ab hai hi itna cute!

"Saare muhurat April mai nikli hai! Ham aapko bata dete hai." Pandit ji said to me and I gasped looking at Shubman.

April is IPL season!

"Nhi....agar April mai nhi ho paaye toh fir kisi aur mahine mai ho sakta hai kya?" I asked him.

"Chinta ka vishay hai kyuki aapki kundali mai toh iss saal bas April mai hi muhurat hai, aur agle saal bhi, usse agle saal hai baaki muhurat." He said and I refrained myself from making a face.

I looked back at Shubman for a solution. He had narrowed his eyebrows, probably thinking for a solution.

"Aap iss saal ke muhurat bataiye. Shaadi toh isi saal hogi!" He said to him.

"Shubman! I can't let you miss the IPL! It's important for your career!" I said to him.

"Ok! Then let's get married later this year without a muhurat, that's ok with me!" He said with a straight face.

"What? No! I want us to get married on an auspicious day!" I said.

"Aap April ki dates bata di jiye." He said to the pandit ji, but I was still at war with myself.

I feel guilty and bad.

"Theek hai, pehla muhurat 15 ko hai subah 2 baje se, dusra 18 ko hai subah 3 baje se, theesra 20 ko hai raat 8.30 baje se, aur chautha 30 ko subah 4 baje se, ab aap bataiye." He said to us.

Shubman looked at me.

"Tum batao." He said to me.

"It's alright, you can tell....I'm already robbing you of IPL." I said without any hint of a smile on my face.

"Baby.....you decide that on which dates you are comfortable getting married....you know." He said and cleared his throat.

Is he talking about.......

Okay!

I thought for a moment before answering, if the wedding will be on 20, then we'll have to begin the functions around 15....and by that I'll be free from my shark week.

"I think 20 will be great! What do you think?" I said to him.

"20 is completely fine with you?" He asked me.

"Completely!" I said giving his hand a light squeeze.

"Theek hai, fir aap 20 fix kar dijiye." Shubman said to pandit ji who then began explaining the rituals to our parents.

"Aashu! 2 mahine hai sirf! We'll have to rush things! Your wedding lehenga! And the venue, nothing is fixed!" Shahneel di said to me in a rushed tone.

There are 2 months left in our wedding.

OMG! Two months! Fuck!

Kucch zyada hi jaldi nikal rha hai time, I'm not ready to be someone's wife!

I was not able to answer her so I simply nodded mt head but a lot of things wired through my brain at the moment.

How I'm going to manage everything?

"Accha toh mai soch rahi thi ki jaldi se aap log roke ke liye hamare ghar aa jaiye." Shubman's mom said to my parents.

"Haan ham bhi yahi soch rhe the behenji!" Dad said.

But my mind again wandered off to the preparations, how I'm gonna do it, I have no idea!

Moreover, yesterday, I was just my parents' daughter and now I'm someone's official fianceé, "Excuse me." I said quietly and went to the front porch and sat on the steps resting my head on the palm of my hand, feeling overwhelmed.

I heard the door open but didn't look to see who it was until Shahneel di sit beside me, "Kya ho gya baccha?" She asked adorably.

"I don't know what to do! I want everything perfect but...di mujhe kucch samajh nhi aa rha hai ki kya karun, mese karun? Itna kam time hai, even my outfits are not decided!" I said to her.

"Ok I was definitely gonna help you earlier but now we will do everything together, sab ho jayega, Tu tension mat le! She said to me.

"We are here to help you! Mai nhi karungi help toh aur kon karega? And you know what, to be honest, koi bhi wedding se related stuff choose karne jayegi toh bass ham youngsters kohi le jaana kyuki mummyion ki choice toh ab purani ho gayi hai!" She said making me giggle feeling relieved that she was here with me but still that dull ache of the marriage is within me.

My smile faltered in a moment's time and got replaced by a long face, "Ab kya hua?" She asked me.

"I don't know how I'm gonna manage everything! After the wedding! Mujhe kucch nhi pta aapke ghar ke baare mai di! Mai kese karungi sasural mai?" I asked her.

She smiled before answering, "Don't worry, wahan par mai hu! Shubhi hai, ham sab hai toh sahi to help you out! Aur thode time ke baad toh tum dono akele hi rahoge! But yeah I'll come to disturb you guys sometimes!" She said in a playfully warning tone.

I smiled at her and hugged her tightly.

Officially my favourite Gill!

Actually she is! She was there with me when Shubman wasn't, so she is really my favourite in the fam.
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After a few days:

"Shubman I swear to God I'm gonna kill you!" I said chasing after him all I could in my saree.

He giggled and climbed on the bed trying to escape my wrath, "Ab kucch nhi ho sakta! It's already done baby!" He said.

"Shub! Take back your account! De-merge!" I shouted and tucked my saree pallu around in my waist.

He got down seeing my pouty face and joined his hands in front of me to say sorry, "Maaf kardo mohotarma, I know aap strong independent woman ho but now we're getting married so you should be having full access to my bank and money. That's why I merged our accounts." He said.

"Jo bhi ho, tumhe mujhse pucche bina nhi karna chahiye tha!" I said angrily and sat down on his bed feeling like crying in my throat.

He came to sit down beside me and held my hand in his.

"Look, I know it was non-consensual but baby, but tum kabhi haan nhi bolti and is it so bad to want to spoil my wife? I don't want you to live on a budget when you have the potential to buy everything!" He said.

"Buy everything? On your account, your money!" I said.

"It's not my money baby! It's YOUR money! It's your account now! It's merged!" He said to me.

"Spare the shit! It's the money that you earned shub! I can't spend it on my luxuries!" I said.

"Jo mera hai wo tera hai!" He said.

"Please!" I snapped at him.

"Accha dekho, you don't want to spend my money right? But you can surely spend your own money! That's why it's not my account anymore, it's merged with yours, my account is merged with yours!" He tried to explain.

"Chup ho jao! You're gonna make me cry!" I said already half crying.

"Arey! Isme rone wali kya baat hai? Please spend your money! Please do it! And look at the plus point, I thought of ditching the IPL but you insisted that I should play the first few matches so I'm complying to your wishes, and you're handling all the wedding shit yourself, so the least I can do is help with the finances!" He said.

"Ab ro mat, nhi toh makeup kharab ho jayega! Fir roke ki pictures acchi nhi aayengi!" He said hugging me.

I still think it's wrong that he's paying for the things I want.

I glared at him one last time, "Ab kya ghoor rhi ho? Kya mera itna bhi hak nhi banta ki mai apni wife ko ek pyaari si aesthetical shaadi dila saku?" He said.

I simply hugged him under his arms tightly and sat there for a while.

"Kya guys? Ho gayi ladai solve, pit gya tu?" Shahneel di came in wearing a pretty blue coloured suit and said to us.

"Nhi pita! Tujhe lagta hai yeh kuchu puchu mujhe maaregi?" He said.

"Chup ho jao! Warna sach mai pit jaoge!" I said pointing a finger to his face, "Aur wese bhi mene saree pehen rakhi hai, so I can't run! Baad me milna, fir kutungi acche se tumhe!" I said.

"Kutne ke liye pehle pakadna bhi padta hai madam, you think you can catch me with those tiny legs?" He said pointing at my legs.

Accha? Abhi batati hu ise!

"Hey! Did you just call me short? I'm not short! I'm 5'3" Alright!" I said feeling proud of myself.

"Yeah, of course, 5'3" And still you barely reach up to my shoulders with no heels." He said and laughed quietly.

Iss aadmi ko toh mai baad mai dekhungi!

Ab tum khamba ban gaye toh mai kya karun? Tumse toh baat hi nhi karni mujhe! Chalo di, ham chalte hai!" I said getting up and holding her hand to walk us out of the room.

So you see, what happened was that, today is our roka, so we are in chandigarh at his house with all our close family and friends.

I, however, got a shocker when.....

*flashback*

"Ma'am wo, we'll need our first installment to begint the work." My wedding planner, Riya messaged me.

"Ok, you can send me your account number, I'll pay you right now!" I said.

I have always been like this, I hate buying things on EMIs and like to settle the payments on the spot.

I opened my account details and I was shocked to see that my account had ₹112 crores.

It is a shocker, but it could be a scam as well, or a glitch!

I checked my emails and messages to find out an email that said that "the account no. Xxxxxxxxxxx under the name Shubman Gill has been merged under the account no.xxxxxxxxx of Aashna chahar.

Wtf, did he do this?

I looked around for my dad in the crowd to see him talking to someone.

"Papa! Yeh kya hai?!" I asked him shoving the notification in front of him.

"Arey yeh kya hai, mujhe nhi pta?" He said.

"Papa please! Jhoot mat bolo, Shubman ne apna account mere mai kese merge kar kiya? Where did he get the details?" I asked him pulling him in a corner.

"Mere account ki saari details aapke paas rehti hai, iska matlab aapne mujhse pucche bina usko saari details de di!!" I said.

"Arey toh mujhe laga tum logon ne aapas mai discuss kar liya hoga?" He said.

"Toh ek baar mujhse confir- you know what? Aap chhodo! Mai seedha usi se pucch lungi!" I said and stormed towards Shubman's room.

I found him on a phone call with someone but as soon as he saw my angry expression, he kept the phone down.

"Haye ab maarne ka irada hai kya? Itni sundar lag rahi ho saari mai aur upar se yeh gussa? Wese kya hua?" He asked with a toothy smile.

"Bakwas band karo! What is this?" I said showing him the email.

"Oh....this....this happened yesterday." He said.

"Mene yeh nhi puccha hai ki yeh kad hua, I'm asking you why did you do this and with whose permission?!" I shouted.

"Baby calm down, mujhe pta tha ki tum kabhi nhi manogi so that's why I did this and I'm sorry that I did not respect your decision but I needed to do this!" He said backing away.

I took a step forward.

"De-merge!" I said stepping closer and he stepped back again.

"Lol, no!" He said walking back.

"Shubman! De-merge!" I said charging at him and he ran around the room to escape.

"Nhi baby! Merge hi kyu karta agar de-merge hi karana hota toh?" He said.

"Shubman I swear to God I'm gonna kill you!" I shouted.

*Flashback ends*

Anyways, there's nothing I can do now, so I guess I'll just have to do what he wanted.

I pulled out my phone and payed the wedding planners.

"Shubman! Aashna! Jaldi aa jao, muhurat shuru ho gya hai!" Keart aunty said and Shahneel di excitedly dragged me to the area where our roka was gonna happen.

Shubman also came out of the crowd and held my hand and we both sat down on the sofa.

It wasn't a very fancy affair, just close friends and immediate family and simple decoration at home with plants and flowers.

But it is exactly what I wanted for my roka. It's perfect.

I had decided to wear a red coloured saree and pulled my hair up in a bun that turned out to be huge because I forgot that my hair is very long and now I had to take migraine pills because of it before leaving the hotel.

I just hope I don't fall asleep mid-roka, lol!

Shubman had worn a short white kurta with golden patches on it.

Now, the ritual had finally started and my mom came forward first and did tilak of Shubman and kept a pile of notes in his hands.

"Arey mummy, yeh kyu de rhi ho?" Shubman said avoiding it.

"Nhi beta, yeh shagun hota hai!" She said.

"Accha theek hai fir!" Shubman took out one note from it and returned the rest.

"Shagun ke liye le liya, baaki nhi lunga mai!" He said.

"Accha theek hai lekin sone ki chain leni padegi tumhe!" She said.

"Arey mummy itni formality kyu kar rhi ho?" He said.

"Chup raho tum! Yeh formality thodi na hai, yeh toh hamara pyaar hai tumhare liye!" She said and placed the gold chain around his neck.

Then she fed her a laddu and pushed it all in his mouth making me giggle.

Next, Shubman's mom came forward and did my tika and took my hands to place gold kangans on my wrist but they were very loose🥲.

"Arey sorry beta, hamein tumhara size nhi pta tha isliye, koi baat nhi, mai tumhe baad mai tight karwa ke de dungi!" She said nicely.

"Koi baat nhi.....mummy." I said hesitantly because it's the first time I've called her mummy.

But it's the first time she has called me 'beta'.

"Arey bahu yeh bol ki tujhe khila pila ke mota kar denge, kangan ko tight kyu karwaenge?" Shubman's dadi said making everyone laugh.

Then she put a coconut, some fruits and some dry fruits in my saree's pallu which I had been told to spread in my lap.

Then she fed me a laddu and just like shubman stepped back.

After that, everyone exchanged gifts with each other and then the dates of lagan were fixed.

(A/n: so lagan is basically a ceremony that just includes giving gifts like sarees and clothes and sweets from each family to the other)

After the whole ceremony was over, we ate our lunch very late and shubman's not-so-close relatives left while mine did the same.

I, however was not able to eat so much because my saree was tightly tucked around my waist and tbh, it was very uncomfortable now that I've eaten.

So now it was only the very close people who were relaxing after this tiring event.

I was sitting beside Shubman and was trying hard to keep my eyelids up.

I felt like I had reached in 2021, repeating my 10th grade physics period.

Physics nhi aati mujhe🥲🥲.

I felt so sleepy I leaned on to Shubman who put his hand over my shoulder and let me rest on his.

I didn't know when did I fell asleep in his arms and moreover, why was I feeling so sleepy?

Haan aur kya? 1000 mg ki migraine ki dawaiyaan lene ke baad bolti hai neend kyu aa rhi hai!

I felt someone carrying me and I opened my eyes and stirred to see that it was Shubman.

"Shhh, so jao don't wake up. I'll leave you to your hotel." He said and placed me in his own car and inclined the car seat backwards to help me.

Then he moved to the other side and sat inside. He bent over to me and took hold of the seat belt and tucked it inside the lock.

Awww.

But I was too sleepy to react so I went back to sleep.

I intuitively woke up when we reached the hotel and got out of the car without saying a word, too sleepy still.

Shubman walked over to my side and helped me up the stairs to the hotel and accompanied me till my room.

He placed his hands on either side of my face and bent down a bit to look at me, "Ok so I'm going, bye, change and sleep tight! Don't be on your phone, go to sleep, I can see how sleepy your eyes are." He said.

"Hmmm." I moaned and hugged him, more like fell on him and he caught me.

"Baby, you're sleepy, that's ok but it's concerning that you took 1000 mg of meds." He said softly.

"Please avoid doing that!" He said.

I pulled apart and he pecked my lips once before pulling apart.

"Bye." He said.

"Bye Shubhi." I said and he left.

"Don't forget we have to go see our house in the evening!" He said loudly as hebwalked away.

"I'll not! Bye!" I said back and retreated to my room to get rid of this saree and get some sleep.

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BYEE, SEE YOU WITH THE NEXT ONE! ❤❤❤.