trope: secret meeting, contemporary romance, romance on the marriage eve
mc: hridhay × lavanya

[note: kissing sequence ahead, a little only, though. also more than a oneshot, i'll call this as a snippet]

Clad in a black tank top and beige shorts, Lavanya was marching across the room anxiously.

Why, though?

It's her wedding tomorrow. With the man she's in love with for the past ten years.

It all started with a handshake that he made for wishing her on her sixteenth birthday. The simple touch that made her heart race. Sure, she already did have a crush on him. She had a thing for him after a month she transferred to his school.

She thought it was just a simple infatuation that girls around her age get. But it turned out to be not. She was sure that this feeling wouldn't last long. But God had different plans. And here, she's marching across the room, nervous for her wedding with him tomorrow.

“Stop being so anxious. After all you are going to marry the guy you dated for ten years. Unlike me, who saw your dad for the first time in our marriage”, her mom said upon entering her room and watching her only daughter, all nervous.

As soon as Lavanya saw her mom, she rushed towards her and squeezed her in a tight hug.

“I'm so happy that I'm going to marry Hridhay. But at the same time, it's so sad to think that I'll be leaving you guys alone. It hurts to think that I'm going to leave the home where I was born and lived for my whole 28 years of existence”, Lavanya sobbed through her tears, which was wetting her mother’s shoulder.

“That's how life works, my little baby”, her mom squeezed her nose and said with a smile. “Okay, you need to wake up early tomorrow. So sleep now and don't watch your phone now. Otherwise you'll be having dark circles for your own marriage”, her mom said with a chuckle.

Lavanya nodded as her mom patted her head before leaving the room.

————— 𐙚

It was one in the midnight, but sleep was miles away from Lavanya. Without much thinking, she called her boyfriend, uh- I'm sorry, her fiance, Hridhay.

He picked up the call within a ring.

“You weren't asleep? You picked up the call with a single ring”, Lavanya said, surprised.

“I was too busy thinking about a girl who managed to steal my heart at first glance. She's too tempting to stop thinking about her”, he said, mischief evident.

That's how he is. He never leaves a single chance to not make her blush. Sometimes she even thinks that she will soon become a tomato if she blushes at this rate.

“Oh stop”, she said, trying hard to suppress her smile. Though, it still made its way on her face.

“Tell me. Why did you call me at this hour? With our wedding tomorrow”, he asked in his deep voice.

Oh my lord! Why does his voice sound so damn sexy? His voice is simply enough to turn me on.

That's what was running in Lavanya’s head upon hearing him.

“Umm… I missed you?”, she said whatever that came to her mind. She was still in a daze listening to his voice.

“Why does it sound doubtful, though?”, he chuckled.

“Hridhay! Let me tell you something. Your voice is doing some things to me. It does, always. But right now, it's too much. If you were in front of me right now, I'd have fucking kissed you. Fucking so damn hard. So damn hard that we both go breathless for the next few minutes. I know I sound horny. But that's how I feel right now. A few hours ago I was weeping, saying to my mom that I'm anxious and I'm sad that I'll be leaving my home. Crazy! Crazy, how my mood swings are”, she said, she said whatever came to her mind.

“And I need to tolerate your moody ass for the rest of my life. Not that I complain. To be honest, I would be honoured”, he said with a laugh. “And about missing me, what would you do if I say that I'm outside your house, leaning on my bike, and waiting for you to open your bedroom balcony and wave me a hi?”, he said in a single go.

“What?”, she jolted up on her bed and rushed towards her bedroom balcony and hurriedly opened it.

And there he was, waving at her in one hand, with a whole ass smile on his face, while the other hand held his mobile near his ear.

“When did you come?”, she asked through the phone. Her legs went weak upon seeing him. She was so fucking much in love with him.

How she wanted to hug him so hard that there won't be space even for air between them. She wanted to be in his embrace. For sure, their love language was touch.

“You may not believe it. But I came exactly a minute ago before you called. Our telepathy always seems to work”, he said with a wink.

“It fucking does”, Lavanya said, not able to control the smile that creeped on her lips.

“You look fucking pretty”, he said, checking her out shamelessly.

“You always say that”, she said, chuckling.

“And will, always. Truth needs to be said out loud”, he said with a wink.

“Seriously? I'm literally in my shorts with a messy bun and you call this pretty? Sure your eyes are fine?”, she said, rolling her eyes.

“My eyes are absolutely fine. But yeah, I was wrong. You’re not pretty. You are so fucking hot in that tank top and shorts, and not to mention, your messy hair makes you look so damn hot”, he said. He sure was a loser for her.

“You are hopeless”, she said, chuckling at his comment.

“Hopelessly and madly in love with you, woman”, he declared, with a pretty smile.

There was a pause. They both were looking at each other with love. The birds and the moon were witnessing their romantic idyll.

“So…”, he paused.

“So?”, she asked, raising an eyebrow looking at his mischievous gaze on her. She knew he was up to no good.

“Are you going to keep your word and do what you had said earlier?”, he asked with a flirty smile.

“What did I tell you earlier?”, she asked innocently.

“You sure you want me to say it out loud?” he asked, making her go weak.

She paused. She knew what he meant. But she wanted to hear it from him. It might sound silly and cringe. But not to the one in love.

“Yes”, she whispered.

“If you were in front of me right now, I'd having fucking kissed you. Fucking so damn hard. So damn hard that we both go breathless for the next few minutes. I know I sound horny. But that's how I feel right now.”, he repeated her exact same words. “Now you remember?”, he said with a smirk.

“Why did you have to mimic it so well?”, she said, flabbergasted.

“There are a lot more things I can do, love”, he said, with a fucking innocent smile. A fucking innocent smile.

“You never leave a chance, do you?”, she said with a smile that never left her lips upon seeing him, tonight.

“Never. Only for you, though”, he said, blowing a flying kiss. “You want me to sneak up into your room?”, he asked.

“I want that so damn much. But if my parents find us, we both are dead as meat”, she said.

“Don't worry they won't know”, he assured.

She was standing on her balcony, without making a move and both were looking at each other.

“You want me to climb up to your room or are you planning to open the door for me?”, he asked.

“Oh! I thought you were going to climb up to my room like a movie hero. Sad to know that it happens only in movies”, she said with a teasing pout.

“Shut your pretty mouth and open your house door”, he said, tired of her teasing.

“Sure”, she said with a teasing smile.

————— 𐙚

It was one hell of a task for Lavanya to open the door without making noise and it was another hell of a task for both of them to go to her room which was on the first floor with a pin drop silence. But they succeeded. After all, with the number of times Lavanya has sneaked out of the house in the midnight to go on for a night bike ride with him, she probably can get a PhD degree on sneaking out.

Upon entering her room, Hridhay went flat on her bed.

“Damn! That was one heck of a task”, he said, exhausted. “Honestly you need a standing ovation for sneaking out every time we go for late night bike rides”.

“Sure, I do”, she said. Lavanya sat down beside him, on her bed.
“And whose idea was it to sneak in?”, she huffed, rolling her eyes.

“And whose idea was it to put that thought in my head”, he said, resting his cheeks on his palm as his elbow rested on the bed.

“I don't know. Probably your inner demon”, she said with a playful laugh.

“You sure you want to see my inner demon?”, he asked, with a smirk and a gaze that made her stomach go upside down.

“Shut up”, she said as she turned her head to the other side to hide her smile from him.

In a split second, she was pulled by her hand and was spooned by him. Her back was in contact with his chest. His one hand pillowed her head while the other, on her stomach, drawing circles.

“You were supposed to tell me before doing such acts that make my heart go crazy”, she said as she was still dumbstruck with what happened a few seconds ago.

“You are making me go crazy, love”, Hridhay said as he nuzzled into her neck, kissing her skin wherever his lips touched.

“Hridhay”, she moaned at the tingling sensation of his feathery kisses.

“Hmm?”, he hummed, still continuing his ministrations.

“We don't want to look like we had sex the previous night, at our wedding”, she whispered.

“We won't, love”, he said as he turned her to let her face him and smashed his lips on hers.

The kiss was definitely not slow. It was rough. He slipped his hand into her tank top and drew circles on her love handles. Both were trying to have dominance in the kiss.

But the kiss didn't involve any lust. It was a result of their ten years of love turning into something more beautiful, something official, the wedding, with their parents' blessing.

“I can't wait for tomorrow”, Hridhay said, in between the kisses.

“As though I can”, she whispered.

“I fucking love you so much. Fucking so damn much”, he said as he gave a final peck on her lips before kissing her forehead.

“I love you more, though”, she said playfully, rolling her eyes.

“Bold of you to assume that, love”, he said.

a/n: ahem… so this is one of the scenarios that i imagined myself with a blurred face guy during my night imagination session. wanted to write it down for a long time, but never got the time. so here's it, finally!

as usual, I'll share a few tmi

tmi:

1//

Hridhay means “heart” in Sanskrit and also in Malayalam. It's one of the names I love so much.

2//

Hridhay also had a crush on her, from the moment he saw her. So it was never one-sided. He finally proposed to her after their twelfth board exams, that is two years after they first met.

3//

The oneshot was supposed to have another ending. But I changed it at the last minute. Will keep that ending for another oneshot that I've planned. (Hope I will write it down asap ToT )