So there are two options.

1. I will write five chapters at once and update it everyday.

Or,

2. I will update one chapter a week.

What will you guys choose?

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Naveen's POV

In almost fifteen minutes we will reach my house. Yesterday, we left by 7 p.m. and it takes almost 10 hours to drive from Nagpur to Pune. I looked through the front mirror to see Nivedita sleeping peacefully and I was happy to sit at the front seat otherwise she would not have slept so peacefully due to the wind blowing directly. I looked at the muffler and a smile escaped my lips. She cares so much about me. I think that I made the right decision to meet her.

Everybody was sleeping except for uncle and me. I looked outside the window and a numerous thought clouded my mind. Like, how will I keep this princess happy? I don't even have anything. What will they think of me when they will see my house? I know princess will not say anything, but I know her dad will make some comments, and I am ready to it for her sake.

'You have to take a right turn,' I told him and mom woke up as she heard my voice.

'Oh! We are almost here,' mom said and everybody woke up. I looked at Nivedita from the front mirror and she was looking fresh after almost four hours of sleep.

'Now take a right turn,' I told him and he followed my instructions.

'We are here,' dad said and uncle stopped the car and we looked around to see the road was almost empty as it was just 5 a.m. 

I opened the lock and everybody came inside.

I switched on the light as it was still dark and uncle kep their bag aside and roamed around the whole house.

I only had a hall, a bedroom, kitchen which I never used and a washroom. I rented this house when I came to work here. I keep all my clothes in suitcase so that I didn't have to buy a cupboard, and I didn't even have television. In the kitchen, I only had few plates and glasses, not even a gas as I don't know cooking. In the bedroom, I only had a bed to sleep.

'Nivedita will stay here?' Uncle asked aunty.

'I had made the second floor after she was born. I wanted to give her the best life so I decided to make a whole floor for her,' he said.

'Dad, I loved this house,' she said and he glared at her.

'Uncle, trust me, I will work very hard. Till now I had not bought anything but slowly I will buy everything.' I reassured him.

'You don't even have a sofa to sit? Where will we sit?' Uncle asked.

'We all can sit in the bedroom,' Nivedita said before I could say something.

'Let's go,' Uncle said and looked at her angrily. For me she has to face his anger.

'Uncle, I bought a sofa, queen size bed, wardrobe and everything which we need in the kitchen for mom and dad for their house,' I told him.

'You bought everything on EMI?' he asked.

'Yes. So, after everything got cut, will you have enough money to buy everything for both of you?' he asked.

'Dad, I will manage. After their EMI gets clear we will slowly buy everything,' she said.

'Keep quiet, Nivedita,' he shouted making us flinch.

'Don't shout,' aunty tried to calm him down.

'You don't understand anything, Nivedita. His whole life will go in serving his parents and both of you will not be able to live a comfortable life due to them,' he said, almost shouted.

'Half of his money goes in paying rents, and still I believed him when he said that after giving rents, some money is saved, but now I am hearing most of his salary gets cut due to EMI,' he continued.

'If you have so much problem, you can take your daughter and leave,' I shouted. I can hear anything for me but not about my parents.

'Naveen, calm down,' mom tried to cool me down.

'Naveen control your anger,' dad said. I looked at Nivedita to see her looking at me as tears were rolling down her eyes.

Shit! I messed it up.

'Uncle, in few months EMI will be cleared and after that, slowly I will buy everything for both of us,' I said and looked at her and tears were still rolling down her eyes.

Shit!

'I will be back in few minutes,' she said and went out. Mom looked at me angrily and followed her.

'Because of you she got upset,' aunty said to uncle.

'I will go and check on her,' dad said and left and we all were silent.

'I will not go after her as I am sure, his mom and dad will make her feel better,' aunty said.

I ruined it. I wanted to go and check on her but I know that if she sees me now, she will be more upset. My intention was not to make her upset but when he talked about my parents, I could not take it.

In few minutes, my parent were back with her. They sat on the bed and she sat beside mom and did not even spare a glance at me.

'You are okay?' aunty asked and she nodded her head.

'You don't have to worry about everything. I will give you everything after marriage,' uncle said.

'No. I will not take anything,' I said.

'What?' uncle asked.

'I will not take dowry,' I repeated, again.

'Then, don't take it as a dowry, take it as a gift,' uncle insisted.

'You can give her jewelleries as a gift,  if you want, but for our house, I will buy everything,' I said and she looked at me as soon as she heard our and why will it not surprise her, when I got surprised myself after hearing that word coming from my mouth.

'You will not take anything?' he asked again.

'I will take your daughter and I think, that itself is the most important thing. It's not that she is a thing but I hope, you guys got what I meant,' I said.

'We understand, beta. And, I am glad, we gave you a chance,' aunty came towards me and kissed my forehead.

'Nowadays, very few people are like you. Her previous engage....

'Okay then, we can talk about the engagement,' aunty was saying something but uncle cut her off.

'Engagement and marriage both will be done by us and you can't say no to that,' uncle said firmly and mom and dad agreed.

'Both the occasions will be kept in our hometown. You all will be coming to Mumbai. After we talk with our astrologer, we can fix a date and you can tell us how many people will be coming from your side, so that we can book hall like that,' uncle told us.

'Not many people will come from our side as we don't have any relatives as we had done a love marriage and we were looked down upon by people due to the work we did, so we don't have anybody,' dad said making me flinch. I don't like him looking down on himself.

'Naveen can ask his friends and colleagues to join,' mom added.

'It will be maximum four to five people from my side,' I said.

'You will not ask your friends to come?' I asked dad.

'And, you will not ask your friends to come?' I asked mom.

'But, they are auto drivers,' dad said.

'And as you know, all my friends are maid. Will they be okay with it?' mom said.

'We...

'We will be okay with it,' aunty said before uncle could say something.

'But, I think, let the engagement be between the family. In the marriage, we will call everybody,' dad said.

'Then we can have the engagement party at our home,' aunty suggested.

'Yes, as we are also thinking of calling our friends and neighbours in the wedding. Let the engagement party be a small function at out home. We will call some of our close relatives as some of them broke the relationship with us when I got successful but didn't lend them money when they asked for it,' uncle said.

'And some of Nivedita's friends will also come,' aunty added.

'Okay, then you can ask your astrologer and fix a date for engagement,' mom said.

This whole time, Nivedita didn't even utter a word.

'You want to say anything, beta?' mom asked Nivedita and shake her head.

She has not even uttered a word from the time she came back. She got upset because of me.

'Then, let's all have some rest as me and Naveen has not slept the whole night,' he said and I looked at him. I am surprised that he thought about me too.

'Then we will go to have breakfast and from there we will go to her friend's house warming party,' uncle continued.

'Both of you can rest on bed. We will sleep on the floor,' mom said.

'Okay, as you wish,' uncle said and mom took out the rug from another suitcase and placed it on the floor and we lied on the floor.

Surprisingly, uncle had become quiet after the incident happened between both of us. Maybe he was quiet as he does not want to upset his daughter.

Mom gave Nivedita duet, and she went and laid on the floor quietly and mom and dad laid beside her and I laid beside dad.

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I noticed that Nivedita got up and went towards the hall. Finally, god answered my prayers. I wanted to talk with her privately.

Sleep had not come to me as I was hoping and  waiting for Nivedita to wake up and go to washroom so that I will be able to apologize to her.

 I looked around to see everybody was sleeping. I started walking towards the hall when she bumped into me and looked at me.

'Can you please come in the hall for a minute?' I asked, and she followed me.

'I am sorry for shouting. I didn't shout at you, but it hurt you,' I apologized.

'You want to break the engagement as you said earlier?' she asked.

'I know my dad is wrong most of the times but I can't change his nature but still I try to talk on your behalf but if you don't want to get engaged because of my dad, then it's okay.' she continued before I can even say anything.

'I am taking your side and talking with him and making him angry so that we can go further into this relationship, and you want to break it. It seems as if I am the only one trying and it doesn't matter to you if this relation gets broken.' she further, added.

'I also want to get married to you,' I told her the truth.

'Really?' she asked.

'Yes. But then, your dad comes and says something which upsets me. And, I was okay with that also but then he talked shit about my parents which I could not tolerate,' I explained.

'I can understand but still when you said to break the marriage, I got hurt,' she said.

'I am sorry,' I apologized, again.

'It's okay. And everybody who came to see me, knew that my dad is rich and they will get a dowry and that was a part of the reason they agreed to meet me, but I was surprised when you refused it.'

'My mom told me this a long time ago, that nothing is precious than a girl so I should never ask for dowry,' I told her.

'Aunty is a sweetheart. Now go and take rest as you had not slept the whole night,' she said and we both went in the bedroom and she went and laid beside mom and I laid near dad and closed my eyes.

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I hope you liked the chapter.

Will he able to know that her engagement got cancelled?

If yes, how will he react?

What do you think about Nivedita?

Did you realize the start their story will be like this, when you saw them in Insecure Love?

He didnt have anything and from that he came at top.

And, Nivedita supported him from the beggining. Rught?

Please COMMENT and VOTE if you liked the chapter.

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