What just happened man! I sit on the couch of Mahir's room. If I stood there one more second, I would no way be able to control myself and end up taking her on bed. 

That girl is unbelievable. That time in the morning she almost saw my medical report. I hope she didn’t. I had to shout at her so she wouldn’t dig about this matter further. And it felt awful. I saw her hurtful tears.....I promised that I would never make her cry ever again, and there I was...hurting her in the worst way. But what can I do? She doesn’t need to know about those dark years of mine. I don't need her sympathy. I already had it enough. Still I was feeling too terrible to bear that teary face of her, so decided to go to the kitchen to apologise to her.

And there she was, standing beside a flaming paper mat lost in her own world. I nearly died today seeing her at that state. God knows what would happen if I weren’t there at that time. What if the cylinder pipe....!!!

Well, you could expect a little bit of sensibility from her. But no. She went all about how it was not my concern if something happened to her....and again those Juhi shits. Has she lost it or what? Otherwise how could she talk so liberally about her own murder plot!! That too in front of me! It took all my power to stop myself from slapping her today. And the next second she was laughing like a maniac. I really don't understand her. She added chilli in my chatney, just to teach me lesson, right? Then why did she even come running with the honey pot and poked her tongue inside my mouth?

Well, I must admit that was great!! One of best passionate smooch we've ever had. But I guess I'm the Only one who's feeling like this. For her it was nothing but a guilt repay.

"What are you thinking so hard, hmm?" I hear Mahir as he sits beside me.

I snort, "That never thought marriage would give me such chilling experience."

"Why bro? I think 'chilling' should be replaced by 'exotic', hahaha!! Finally you got your girl, Man!!" Mahir slaps on my back laughingly.

I sigh. Yeah, finally got my girl who doesn’t want me. Who doesn’t trust me.

"Veer....." Mahir calls me seeing my mute expression, "Tell me the truth... What is it? Didn’t you two sort your issues last night?"

I shake my head, "I've already sorted everything on Sankranti's night. There is nothing left to sort out."

Mahir looks at me sharply, "Veer!! I hope you're not being unfair to Bani? After all this time..."

I scoff, "Me?? Unfair??? Now you're also saying that? Just because I kept quiet for all the time, doesn’t mean I didn’t go through anything. You know as much as I do that the only person who faced the most unfair experience is me here."

Mahir nods patting my shoulder, "I know. But why are you bringing up this topic now? Bro what happened exactly? You want me to talk to Dr. Parikh?"

"No need. Just forget it. Can I have a glass of water?" I look at the side table.

"Sure!" Mahir gets up and brings the water.

"Wanna go out for some time? The beauticians will be coming soon to makeover your wife for the reception." Mahir informs me.

"Do we really need to do all this??" I ask him making a face.

"Yes! It's your first and I hope would be the last marriage in your life. You already missed those pre-wedding rituals, now at least let the girl have a decent reception, Man! After all every girl has dream about their marriage. That's why I'm requesting, whatever it is that you're angry on, still don't crush her one." Mahir says.

"Did you talk to Bella?" I ask him avoiding the topic.

Mahir replies looking disappointed, "Nah! When did I get time? Everything happened so suddenly and now it doesn’t seem the right time to bring up our topic."

I nod my head understandingly, "Try to talk to her today."

"I'll see. Now let's go, have some fresh air. You won't be needing makeup anyway." Mahir ushers me out.

Fresh air. Yeah, maybe this is what I need now.
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In the evening, guest starts coming like storm to see the new bride. The reception has been collaborated with another ritual called 'Muh dikhai'. I haven’t seen Bani since that kissing stunt. She has been locked in our room with those beauticians till afternoon which seems totally unnecessary waste of time and energy to me. My wife is already a natural beauty, she doesn’t need so much brush work to look good.

I have changed into a blue kurta in Mahir's room and now standing at the door, welcoming the guests.

"Namaste uncle, please come inside." I greet one of our maternal relative.

"Bless you, dear. Where is your wife?" uncle asks me.

"She'll be coming soon." I reply though I have no idea when she's gonna come down.

Suddenly Abhi bhai taps my back pointing upstairs, "There comes your wife."

And I see a blue human coming down. I can't really call her with any other adjectives right now as she's covered by a veil. And what makes her the most wonderful art piece to me is the purity of her eyes and that innocence of that face that I'm missing right now. Well, Bani Sharma Singhania wife of Veeranshu Singhania can be nothing less than gorgeous anyway.

Soon my bhabi makes her sit on a cushion in front of a big table which is placed I guess for the gifts. The guests start lifting her veil up one by one and gives her the gifts.

Bani's family comes after sometime. She hugs everyone but doesn’t remove her veil.

Most of the guests are done giving gift and seeing her through veil. I don't get it, all of them are watching her, right? Then why can't they just remove the veil at once and let everyone see rather than deprive some desperate soul?

"Why bro?? Too inpatient to see your dulhan?😉" Mahir pokes me.

I look at him irritatedly, "What makes you think so, huh?"

This time Kunal bhai replies, "Ahem ahem....I guess we heard something about '..let everyone see rather than deprive some desperate soul'??  some dialogue from a movie I guess, huh?" and all my brothers crack over each others.

Damn Me!!!😑🤦‍♂️

"Wait, I'll make your wish come true, bro!" Mahir grabs my hand.

I look at him alarmed, "Dekh Mahir...abb sabke samne mera nak mat katwana!!😐" I warn him.

But Mahir is Mahir, "Aree nhi nhi...nak nhi katwaungi....balki nak to aur 2 inch lamba bana dungi 😉." saying this he pulls me towards the table.

"Ahem ahem....." Mahir looks at everyone, "...well, everyone is giving our new dulhan gifts seeing her holy face😉... Umm as her jeth ji.... I too should give her something, right?..." then he turns to Bani, "...So Bani, as your Jeth ji, I'm gonna gift you something very precious yet useless thing of this house. But please bura mat manna...gift is a gift right?? And since I've already seen your face millionths of times, so this time my gift better sees your face. Please allow him.." saying this that bustard shoves me inside her veil. None of us could handle the push and fall on cushion, me on top of her, our face still under the veil.

Ahh!!! Here is my bride....my one and only wife😍. The colour of veil is giving a blue gleam on her face making her look more and more heavenly. I can feel her heavy breath, as she can feel mine.....both lost into each others eyes. Vaguely I hear giggling sound from far far away but who cares! Bani looks at me with her beautiful wide eyes and pinches me hard whispering, "Get up, Veer, everyone is watching."

I still cannot process what she said, but her heisty pinch makes me get up, moving out of her veil and of the beauty trance of her too. I see everyone laughing at us.

That Mahir Fucker!!!😡😌😠

Bani sits up quickly tidying herself.

"Did you like my gift, Bani?" Mahir mocks.

Bani replies in small but calm tone, "I'll tell you. Just wait for the function to end." ahh!!! You can feel the threat behind that calm voice.

"Wow Mahir...shagun to bada achcha diya tumne...par Veer beta, tu apni dulhan ko kuch nhi dega?" my second grandma asks.

"Aree...diya hein na, dadi. Uska dil😉." says that Mahir and everyone laughs.

This fucker is talking too much!!!

"Aree, dil to dena hi padega...itni sundar bahu jo hein meri....par puttar, kya tere pati ne tujhe aur kuch nhi diya?? Saste dilwale bato se hi kam chala diya kya???" dadi asks Bani.

Bani shakes her head. And I become red. Who knew this 'Muh dikhai' ritual is not just to see the bride's face, but also to doom the groom's face😑.

But this is not the end. Then Bani slowly lifts her left hand up points her ring finger, then says softly, "No, he gave me this." and she shows my plain platinum ring that I put on her last night.

Whoa....she's still wearing it? I didn’t give it to her as gift. I gave her that....'cause I felt like giving. 'Cause I know that even though this marriage doesn’t mean anything to her, still she will always be the queen...the boss. 

"See....this is our daughter-in-law. Always knows how to honour her husband." Bua says patting Bani's shoulder. I see my in-laws too have a satisfied smile on their face.

I wish I could be that satisfied with this marriage. But I can't. Not untill I know why she agreed to marry me.

Finally they remove her veil exposing her blissful face. She seems well composed. I must say, she's way more tactful about public show off than I am in this relationship.

"Whoa.....you people done with the 'Muh dikhai' without us???" I hear a unmistakably familiar voice.

I turn back to see Sid, Adi, Piyush, Sara...the whole gang. The last time I saw them was in a bar for reunion just after one month of Bani's gone, but the meeting was not so pleasing as I got into a fight with a random guy for assuming his girlfriend as Bani and ended up being a blood mess.

"Aree, Sara, Adi...come guys, come. Honestly speaking, I didn’t expect you lot here in such short notice." Mahir says.

I look at him and he mouths, "Surprise!"

"Why wouldn’t we come, bro. It's our Veer dapper's reception. How could we miss?" says Sid.

Piyush: Yeah...it's already a loss that we missed the wedding.

Then Adi comes patting my shoulder, "Oho bro!!! Finally got married to your dream girl!!!"

Shit!!! They don't know anything. Neither does our family!!!😳

"Hey Bani! Finally we meet you, huh? Where did you two disappear by the way, humm?" Says Sara looking at thunderstruck Bani and Bella.

"You people know each other from before?" my father asks being surprised.

"Who? Bella and Bani? Of course we do. Who doesn’t?  The famous Sharma twins!" Sid exclaims.

Shit! 😶

Updated
Sorry for being late
Have some connection problem
Just like I said, behir part will come later.
Happy Reading
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