'I have so much of you in my heart'
               -John keats
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Haldi-Mehendi

Sadhvi’s POV

I held my mother’s hand who wouldn’t stop crying. She was crying happy tears, my mother was very happy that both of her daughters are now settled and living a happy life.

“Stop it mummy, you are ruining the make-up” I tried wiping her tears clean as she sobbed in front of me, her nose red and eyes puffy,
“I am so happy, it’s like every responsibility of mine is done except for Sanidhya, I mean”

I laughed hugging her,
“He is hopeless if you ask me”

She herself laughed at that,
“No deny to that”

I cupped her cheeks kissing them,
“I need to go the grooms side now, the haldi is about to start. You will be okay on your own or should I ask Rajveen to stay with you?”

She patted my back,
“I will be fine, and you need to stop pampering me. Go”

I beamed, “I am so excited you know?”

She laughed wiping her face completely once again and following my gaze.

Together we looked at a happy Meheka, talking giddily to her friends. My sister was glowing, shining, there was this smile on her face that wouldn’t seemed to stop ceasing since the past week.

I smiled once again at my mother and went to my brother in law’s side of the function.

I met Rajveen in between the way to the groom’s side,
“You look amazing” I complimented the lady in orange

“Oh you look rather ravishing, my woman” Rajveen winked at me. I laughed,
“Kids with their grandmother?”

“Yes, she just arrived this morning and I rushed here almost without a second thought”
we both moving in opposite directions, Rajveen to brides’ side and me to the groom’s

“So eager to leave my kids behind, I see” I pointed now entering the backyard where the function was

“Sadhvi, hurry here” Mom called me as soon as I appeared in the lawn

Rajveen laughed,
“Temporary bliss doesn’t hurt much”

I smiled at her and joined the group of ladies singing folk songs. I touched the feet of elders and joined a few of my age dancing a little with them.

“Sadhvi, you are the Bhabhi so you will be applying haldi on him after me and don’t forget to ask for your neg later”

I winked smirking at her,
“I am not planning to either. I have a huge amount in plan”

The ladies laughed.

“Oh here comes Avesh”
they pointed and I followed their line of sight

The groom was eye catchy but the man escorting him looked delicious; my eyes couldn’t seem to leave Avrudh even for a moment.

The man was an eye candy and I had every right to devour him whole.

I smirked looking at him. The maroon sherwani he wore did his looks good, from complimenting his shine to outshining his physique. It exhibited him like a porcelain vase. Well, he probably is.

Our eyes met and my smirk remained. If eyes could talk mine were screaming lust and  on the contrary his looked mesmerized.

The function commenced with me applying haldi all over Avesh’s face and neck. The guy being courageous smeared some on my face too. It was his day so I let it slip.

Avrudh finding everything hilarious laughed his ass off during the whole event but everytime our eyes met they screamed something intimate and passionate. It was clear we had googly eyes for each other.

I smiled when I remembered the look of his face, Avesh smeared a mixture of sandal wood and haldi on Avrudh’s cheek and the man almost strangled him to death. Avrudh was shy in public but it appeared like an angry tantrum to the crowd, if you know him you know him.

By now I was inside kitchen mixing sandal wood paste and turmeric paste together and using rose water as a binder.

A pair of hands wrapped themselves around me, from the warmth of the palm and calloused feel I knew it was my husband being daring. Yet again.

“If this is the dress your mother had chosen for you then you were crying for no reason. She certainly has better taste than you” he whispered against my ear

“The dress is all out. I mean look at the amount of skin”

Avrudh only rubbed his cheek against mine when I turned to look at him, a little pissed—not really—with the stubble,
“Hey I am not complaining”

I laughed, “Of course you won’t”

I continued mixing the mixture turning back around and now pouring some more rosewater realizing the thick consistency.

“What I need to do to have you all to myself tonight?”
he asked, his lips biting my earlobe

My heart hammered against my chest and stomach almost churned,
“We have mehendi function tonight and the other night is the wedding. We have too much work to be done. I don’t think…”

He stopped my blabber turning me to face him and pulling me inside the store-room with him.
“Avi, I think this isn’t the right tim…”

He pushed me lightly against the wall and caressed my cheek with his knuckles,
“I want nothing but to have dinner with you”

“We always have dinner together Avrudh, if anything this should be Meheka and Avesh’s line. They wouldn’t let them eat outside their bedrooms”

Avrudh chuckled,
“Meheka even stopped video calling him”

I laughed scratching Avrudh’s cheeks with one hand and the other toying with the button of his sherwani.

“You both sisters got some serious issues regarding torturing…”

“You two brothers?” I completed the sentence for him patting his chest and beaming

“Yes, exactly” he said looking serious but the dimples gave him away

I laughed wrapping my arms around him. The man was awfully taller than me but everytime in closer proximity he seemed to be at my level. Always.

“I have to be at the Bride’s side soon”
I reminded him

Avrudh pouted but smiling I kissed him.

A slow guttural moan escaped his mouth when I cupped both of his cheeks with a dominating  kiss.

With the slipping of my tongue inside he looked as if gone crazy, the hold of his around my naked waist tightened and the other hand started to feel my chest, squeezing and pressing. I was smiling against the kiss.

As soon as I heard another groan I pushed him off me, “I need to go”

A very breathless Avrudh looked at me dumbfounded, almost bewitched he only blinked. He looked like a lost puppy.

His eyes remained on my lips when I licked them, I was about to run my fingers on them to wipe them when he did that for me, “You are an amazing kisser” he pointed

I blushed nonetheless the ego boosting compliment

“I want to say I’ve been told but you are the only man I’ve learnt this from”
I said wiping my lipstick round his lips.

“Go Sadhvi before I stop you. I have dirty things right now in my mind”

Even though I wanted desperately to know about the ‘dirty things’ I stopped myself right there. We were lacking time and so many things.

“You are not coming with me?”

He shook his head,
“Not right now, I have another situation to handle” he pointed southwards

“Your imagination sure is running wild” I commented and a very shy husband looked away

My eyes followed his line of sight and met his face with widened eyes. Avrudh was under serious stress right now and I wouldn’t want him embarrassing himself.

I scratched the side of my ear,
“I will wait for you, cool yourself down and meet me there?”

He nodded.

I licked my lips once again. I had to leave but didn’t seem my legs wanted to.

Reluctantly meeting his eyes I held the door knob and was about to open it when a thought came to my mind,
“I think we should stop using protection from now on Avi”

Avrudh stood there with his hands on his waist, lips biting and eyes devouring me.

“You are not helping my condition right now Sadhvi”
he said almost painfully

“I think I am ready” I said biting my own lips

Avrudh pulled me with a force to him and crashed me in his arms, locking my wrist behind my back,
“You need to set yourself free before I eat you here alive”

I gulped not moving.

Our eyes danced and when no one said a word Avrudh scooted me up in his arms and made me to sit on the table kept in the corner, “Now there’s no way going back”

He nuzzled my neck tickling me, I laughed, “It tickles Avru…”

He continued sucking and licking on my skin, “You smell delicious”

I laughed holding his head when a knock from outside broke us apart

“Its okay you guys, torment the soul outside listening. We don’t have a bride waiting for her sister to come and give the haldi. Take your time love birds”

Almost with a rocket speed I pushed Avrudh off me and opened the door knob, upon turning to look back at my husband I found him adjusting himself in his pants.

I blinked blushing.

“Hi” I said to Rajveen

“Dear lord, you guys are like rabbits. I was outside since that caveman dragged you inside the store-room”
she covered her face with her hands taking a deep breath in

Blushing I moved to complete the paste when Avrudh walked out of the room,
“Who are you calling caveman, you tarantula?”

Rajveen gasped clutching her heart, “Excuse me?”

“Oh it’s okay take your time comprehending what I just said”
and with that he left the kitchen with me gaping at him

He didn’t just called my best friend a spider and left.

“Do me a favor and give him blue balls” she asked

I laughed whole heartedly. “I did”

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'He smiled and all I could think of was 'OH SHIT''