Author's POV:

Ram was sure of his liking towards his wife. But he was reluctant about the past heartbreak and want to give the relationship some time to grow and be sure of their feelings. But the atmosphere was not helping at all. The smell of Jasmine flowers was doing some magic to the air. It gives no idea of backing up to the already frisky heart.

For megha though it was love at first sight with her husband, she still have this nervousness in her heart. They didn't really talk to each other. She was growing up around the environment where the arranged marriages like her are very common. But she was all jumpy. She likes him but she wants to wait for them to be one. She was all confused. But where is her husband again, it's been more than 20 minutes since he went into the bathroom. She was really tired due to the hectic day. This marriage and traditional customs took a huge toll on her. She didn't even got proper sleep from 2-3 days. She felt herself a little bit sleepy. So she sat on the bed and leaned her back onto the headrest. Just when she felt that she's closing her eyes she heard a throat clearing.

Ram's POV:

I went out of the bathroom after calming myself and clear-headed. Now i should explain her to give our relationship a chance to grow before we took this big step, to let us know each other, understand each other. But i had a doubt, what if she felt rejected. There was a huge turmoil inside of me. Taking a deep breath i went towards the bed.

Here i was upto my ears in tension, there my madam was struggling to stay awake.

'mmm! My madam! When did this progress happened!' exclaimed my inner self.

'Since when she'd been my wife! Now leave me alone with my angel. Get lost' i snapped at my conscience.

'woah! What's with you and all these nicknames! When did you became this confident in things like love and romance.' Again mocked my inner self.

'Since then you're not make your presence. And she's my wife and i can call her whatever sweetnames i want. Now go and don't come back again.' i shook my head in order to shake my conscience to the back seat of my brain and went to stand before her.

I again looked at her face, it was shining like a moon on full moon night. She had her head on the headrest of the bed. Her head was sliding down the headrest due to the uncomfortable position she was sleeping but she was again placing her head back into position while still closing her eyes, seems like she was really tired.

I couldn't have the heart to wake her up. But if she shouldn't sleep properly she would definitely have a stiff neck and aching back when she woke up. So i cleared my throat to get attention. Though she was very tired and seems like in deep sleep, she jolted wake up immediately, maybe due to uncomfortable position she has taken she didn't gotten into deep slumber.

She blinked her eyes two three times and sucked a breath on seeing me near.

She immediately rose to her feet and started fidgeting her pallu(loose end of the saree) with her hands all the while looking down.

"Umm... I'm.... I'm sorry" she said still looking down. Her voice was like pouring honey in my ears. It was beautiful.

What was there so interesting on the ground that she didn't even want to look at my face. I looked at the floor and see nothing. She was just rapidly tapping the toe fingers of her left leg on the floor. She was nervous. I let out a soft chuckle seeing her cute actions.

"For what? For dozing off on our first night!" I teased her. Yes i teased her, even i got shocked to hear myself. But the moment she lift her head to look at me, her facial expression made me want to do that more. Her face was like a child who got snatched off her favourite toy by her parents. She had a cute pout formed on her face, her eyebrows were slightly narrowed like she was sulking.

"Okay, I'm sorry, i didn't mean to tease you, can we sit down and talk first?" I suggested after a minute to cool down my little kitten.

She nodded and we seated on the bed side by side facing each other slightly. She again started fidgeting her hands with her saree ends.

"Don't worry! Nothing's gonna happen to which you're not ready for." I assured her. I'm still wondering I'm taking charge in this conversation. I'm surprised of me.

She looked wide eyed. "how do you know that I'm not ready." She asked like a child. So much for an innocence.

"Because i can read minds." I wanted to tease her a bit more.

"Oh really! Then guess what I'm thinking right now." She challenged with a suspicious look. Anyone can understand with that look about what she was thinking.

"You're thinking that I'm bluffing and i know no mind reading." I said nonchalantly, trying not to laugh.

"Aaahhhh!" Saying that with a big inhale she closed her mouth with her hands. It became hard for me to not to laugh on seeing her reaction.

"Oh my god! This is insane. I can't believe it. My husband can read minds. Can you read my professors mind and tell me the question paper of electrical machines for the exam please." She begged me.

I bursted out into laugh while she was looking at me confused.

"What happened?" She asked me innocently. And i laughed more.

After a minute she understood the whole thing and said "you fooled me" she stood up facing me angrily while placing her hands on her waist. She looks sexy in her angry mode.

"Okay! I'm sorry! Sit down first." I offered my hand. She crossed her hands on her chest and sat in her place not before turning her face opposite side with a cute pout. I wanna kiss that pout. My brain warned me to control my perverted heart.

"Okay! Now I'll tell you the real reason if you look at me. I already said sorry nope." I beseeched her while holding my ears.

She looked at me. I could see a smile was threatening to escape her lips but she was controlling it by biting her lower lip. I could feel my heart crushed under her teeth literally.

"Okay" she said with a still sulky-sulky voice.

"Well, i was feeling the same, because we don't really know each other. The hell we were talked with each other just now. I want us to be understand each other, be comfortable with each other, be love each other before we take the biggest step in our lives. I want you to know about me and i want you to make sure of your decision that you want this, that you want me.

Apart from that there was a thing of my life that i wanted to share with you. But I'm not ready yet. So i want us to wait till we make sure that we want this, that we want to be US." I finished in one go.

It took a second for her to process. And she said "okay."

"That's it! You don't have anything to ask or say!" I was surprised she said okay and didn't question me.

"Yes actually i wanted to ask something." She raised her hand like she was asking for permission with her teacher.

"What?" I raised a brow.

"What should I call you?" She looked at me with wide eyes, like a child waiting for her favourite icecream.

"Is that what you wanted to ask?" I was unsure of her mental age. How could she not have any questions.

"Yes!" She urged.

"Okay! You can call me Ram like everyone else." I suggested.

"But I'm your wife. I don't want to call you 'Ram' like everyone else. Can I call you 'Koushu', i love it more than ram." She was grinning like a cheshire cat. I felt happy with her advancement showing her rights on me. It felt like she was claiming me.

"Sure you can! But i wonder you are really okay with the suggestion of knowing each other first." I pressed.

"Yes! Though i like you from the first time i saw your photo. I also like to love before marriage. It's sad that we didn't get much time before marriage. So I'm really happy with your suggestion." She said in one go, like she didn't said anything. But here my heart was going to explode due to her little talk, did she liked me from the first sight itself. It's like a miracle.

"Did you liked me from the first sight?" I asked again to confirm.

"Mmm" she said with a nod and then her eyes immediately got wide, looking like golf balls, realising what she had said. Her cheeks were painted with pink colour in embarrassment. She closed her eyes immediately when she saw me smirking and she closed her mouth with her both hands muttering something like 'stupid mouth, stupid mouth, why don't you have any filters.'

I just chuckled at her innocence. And very much happy knowing that she liked me from the start.

She cleared her throat and tried to change the subject, which was her embarrassing self.

"You can sleep on bed. I'll sleep on the floor." Saying she went to her cupboards to take extra blankets and pillows maybe.

"No! I'll sleep on the floor. You take the bed." I insisted.

"No! you'll have stiff neck and back pain. I saw you back at our home." She reminded.

I was happy at how she called that our home. Instead of mine.

"Okay then we'll both sleep on the bed. If you're okay with it." I bursted and felt embarrassed immediately. She felt reluctant.

"I swear i won't do anything to you." I clarified. But she still feel reluctant.

"Actually it's not you, it's me." She muttered after a minute.

"What?" I asked in surprise.

"Ummm... The thing is I'm a tad bit messy sleeper." She said dragging the word 'tad', and emphasizing it with her index and thumb fingers making the symbol of pinch.

I just chuckled at her cuteness and asked for more pillows.

While i was making a pillow wall between us, my wife was removing her jewellery sitting infront of the dressing table. I settled on one side of the bed and looked into the mirror to which she was facing. She was so engrossed in her work that she didn't notice me staring at her.

My mind was telling me to not drool over my wife. I was the one who suggested to stay away and i shouldn't do these things to embarrass myself. But the heart was telling me there's nothing wrong to admire what was mine and I'm not doing anything perverted. Besides she likes me too.

After finishing her work she looked into the mirror and we have an intensive eye lock for a minute. After that she averted her eyes looking down with a smile. A natural blush, which had already became my new favourite colour, was formed on her cheeks. After that she came to the bed and lay on her side muttering something like 'what would this pillow wall could do'. I don't understand why did she said that.

Due to the tiredness she felt asleep after sometime but sleep was far from my eyes looking at the angel beside me.

She has already begun her antics. She moved towards the pillow wall and throw the pillow at her legs on the ground with a kick, after that she hugged the pillow beside her with hands and legs like a koala. Her saree was raised upto her calves. My heart started to beat fast. So i quickly covered her lower half with a blanket.

Now that i understand the real meaning of a 'tad bit' in her language.

After sometime she turned opposite side along with the pillow. Now there's no pillow wall laid between us. The blanket was already on the floor. I could clearly see the curves of my little kitten through the silk saree. Her waist was looking like a sine wave. Falling from the mid threshold point at her chest to the lower threshold limit of her waist, and then again raised to the highest threshold limit of her back. God what I'm thinking! I shook my head and turned my head to looking at the ceiling. Wow the ceiling is very nice, the colour of the fan is very interesting.

Again after sometime my eyes automatically took me to the beautiful angel beside me. Now she was facing me. Her chest was raising and falling with a rhythm. I couldn't take my eyes off of her beauty. Her lips were in a cute pout. Some of the hair was falling on her face disrupting my perverted emotions. I took her hair out of her face and tucked them behind her ear. She leaned into my touch. She took my palm and placed it in her hands under her head.

After sometime i felt myself a little bit sleepy but my naughty wife here had another plans and moved to my side hugging my torso and placing her leg on my legs. She placed her head on my chest like a pillow. Though i felt nervous and didn't feel right to take advantage of her while sleeping. I couldn't help myself from kissing her forehead and secured her body with my arm around her waist keeping her more close to me.

Yet another wave of sleeplessness hit me with our proximity. Almost at dawn i felt my eyes a little bit drooping and slept with a content smile with the angel in my arms. My heart felt full, like my missing part was finally in its place.