Shraddha's POV:
It was lunch time for Varun, so the nurse brought Varun a plate of food along with his medications. He looked at me and at the tray of food placed with his medications. I shook my head negative knowing exactly what he was going to say.

"Absolutely not!" I say and he frowns.

"Why not?" He pouts.

"You need to get better obviously." I say bringing his tray table closer and placing his tray on the table.

"I know I do, but I can easily do that when I have you by my side babe." He says with a smirk that sends a blush to my cheeks. 

"You are so annoying." I say covering my face, by burying myself in his chest to which he winced.

"Ow." He winces and I immediately sat up, concern stated in my eyes.

"What? What happened?" I asked cupping his cheeks. He winces once more before he opens his eyes and has a smile playing on his lips.

"Nothing." He laughs.

"You are an absolute idiot!" I exclaim, slapping his chest to which he winces.

"Shrads, that hurt!" He groans and I smile.

"Good!" I smile and he rolls his eyes. "Now shut up, and open your mouth!" I say giving him a spoonful of the food that the nurse brought.

"Shrads, this is disgusting." He says and I look at him in question. I take a spoonful and put it in my mouth.

"The food tastes absolutely fine Varun." I say chewing.

"I know, I just wanted you to eat something." He says and I don't know how much I could ever love this guy. He still cared about me despite the fact that I put him in this condition. I continue to feed him and he showed me he was full and began to feed me the rest. I stared at him in awe as he fed me making sure I ate right infront of him. I then finished the plate, and he had this bowl of fruits and I watched him.

"You are going to eat that." I say, pouring him a glass of water to take with his medication.

"We are going to eat that." He corrects me and I shake my head.

"Here, take this with your medication." I hand him the glass of water and he manages to sit up and takes his medication. I then fluff his pillows and make it comfortable for him. He smiles at me when he sees me tidying up his hospital room. I was going to tuck the sheets in at the end of the bed, when he grabs my wrist making me stop in my tracks.

"Thank you Shrads." He says as I raise my eyes to look at him. He tightens his grip a little bit on my wrist and pulls me a bit closer, which makes me fall ontop him. His hands immediately wraps around my waist as my hands were placed on his firm, muscular chest. My hair strands fall infront of my face, to which he pushes them behind my ear.

"Why are you thanking me?" I question looking at him with curious eyes.

"Thanking you of course for taking care of me." He softly smiles placing one hand on my cheek.

"Shh, I'm not doing you a favor so it is not needed to thank me." I say.

"I know but," I cut him off by pressing my lips against his for a moment before pulling away.

"You talk way too much." I say making him slightly chuckle.

"Well thank you for shutting me up then." He winks as he adjusts himself in the hospital bed, as he makes me lay next to him. I rested my head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat gently beating against my ear. His breathing was slightly even, so I looked up to see him fast asleep. I ran my fingers through his hair, before kissing his cheek and placing my head once more on his chest. He held me tighter pulling me closer to him than ever, as if he never wanted to let me go. I wouldn't want him to ever let me go either. I didn't realize when I ended up closing my eyes, falling into a peaceful slumber.

Varun's POV:
I slightly woke up from my slumber, feeling Shraddha squirm under my arms as she turned on her side to face me. Despite the small space of the hospital, she fit perfectly with me on the bed. I stare at her angelic face, as she slept in peace. Her smile had stolen my heart from the stars. She had that whiskey sipping skinny dipping smile.  I look at her and I began to wonder out of all the faces in the world, how did I find one that was so perfect for me.

Her hair strands fell and covered her face, which I assumed would bother her in her sleep. I gently tucked them back behind her ear, as I rested my hand against her cheek.

She stole my heart with the simplicity. I wish I could explain her eyes and how the sound of her voice gives me butterflies. How her smile makes my heart skip a beat and how every time I'm with her, I begin to feel so complete.

The door then opens which makes me move my attention from my sleeping girl to the door. It was the doctor, who came to check my vitals and give me another IV drip. He then leaves, leaving me and a sleeping Shraddha alone. I keep my arm around her as she snuggles closer to me. I enjoy this moment with her and slightly close my eyes. I feel her squirming under my arms and I open my eyes to see her slowly waking up.

"Well good morning sleeping beauty." I smile down at her before leaning down to peck her forehead.

"How long did we sleep for?" She asks sitting up placing her legs over mine, stretching her arms.

"I'd say an hour and a half." I say looking at the clock.

"I have to leave soon." She frowns, looking at me.

"I know, but I don't want you to." I pout.

"I don't want to go back there." She says.

"I know, because I'm not welcomed there." I say and she slowly nods, tears filling her eyes.

"Hey Shrads, everything's going to be okay." I pull her against my chest, slowly rubbing her back as I feel her tears slowly wetting my shirt. "It's going to be okay, listen to me. No one can take you away from me. Not even your father can keep you away from me or me away from you." I whisper, stroking her hair as she sobs against my chest. I decided to stop talking and let her cry it out. I know she's holding something in and she's hurting because of it. Not too long later, she calms down as she lay in my arms against my chest.

"My eldest sister," she begins to speak. "She was in love with a guy too. Papa didn't approve of him for some reason, but slowly liked him only for Di's sake." She says as her throat hitches as I slowly nod.

"They got married and had a happy life for a month. I don't know what went wrong between them after a month, but Di refused to meet us for a while. Then we surprised her by going down to their house to see him abusing her." She lets a tear roll down her eyes. "We then brought Di home after a long argument with Papa and her husband. A few days later, he came to fight for her back realizing his mistake. Papa let him prove it to us that he has changed, and Di began to forgive him slowly and they left. Unfortunately, he didn't change. He got worse overtime, he began abusing her even more, drinking, insulting her even cheated on her. She sent him divorce papers, and that same night he abused her so bad along with raping her and dropped her off in front of our house, leaving her with her luggage and a note, saying not to send her back." A few more tears rolled down her eyes, and I pulled her even closer to me.

"Everyone tried cheering her up and we thought we did, but I guess we were wrong when we saw her hanging from the ceiling fan in her room." She begins to sob once more but I have no words on how to comfort her, instead I just let her cry against my chest. She calms down after a while as I peck her head, and she looks at me.

"Listen to me, now that I understand why you're being forced for an arranged marriage I will change it. Everything will be like you wanted okay. You just need to do me two things." I say.

"What?"

"No more crying, and trust me." I say and she nods.

"I trust you Varun!" She says and I smile pressing my lips against her forehead.

"We came at the wrong time Sid." We hear her step sister Tara's voice. My eyes looked behind Shraddha and saw the duo standing next to each other looking at us.

"Shut up and buzz off." I flip them off making Shraddha giggle as she turns to look at them.

"I can't buzz off, I came to pick up my sister which you are romancing." She glares me.

"Oh please as if you aren't romancing my best friend." I say and her eyes go wide as she starts to blush, letting Sid scratch the back of his neck.

"We both know you two like each other, so just blurt it out and get together already." Shraddha says making me chuckle.

"Anyway, shall we leave? It's getting quite late." Tara quickly changes the subject, making Shraddha and I roll our eyes as we laugh.

"But to answer your question, yeah we should leave." She says and I look down at her. She looks up at me and pouts which makes me know she doesn't want to leave me. I don't want her to leave me either, but she has to. She then puts her sandals on and kisses my forehead before leaving with Sid and Tara.

*Next Morning*

"Doctor said you can go home now." She said while laying down on my chest and playing with my shirt's button.

"I'll find somewhere to stay till I get to see your dad about us again." I say and she nods.

"I really hope he changes his mind." She says biting her lips and I gently press my lips against hers, slightly tugging her bottom lip, as I pull it between my teeth. She moans slightly in my mouth, as my tongue swipes across her lips. I pull away smirking at her.

"You were biting your lip, so I wanted to show you that it is my job to do so." I say smirking pressing my lips softly against hers once more.

"You're annoying." She rolls her eyes before pressing her lips against mine. We then get discharged and Sid drops Shraddha home and I look at my phone to see if my manager found out where Shraddha's father would be. Sid drove me to her dad's office and I went to his floor to see him drinking tea, to which he walked past me and went out.

"I told you that I don't want to see you here again." He said as he walked past me.

"Sir, I already told you that I'm not leaving without Shraddha." I said. "Sir, you can't be against love as you yourself had a love marriage with Aunty." I said.

"I see that you met Shraddha and she told you this." He said. How'd he guess?

"She didn't have to tell me sir. So you aren't against love just a few incidents have hap—" I was cut off as he grabbed my shirt's collar.

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY DAUGHTER!" He whispered through gritted teeth. "Listen, this is my last warning to you. Leave Shraddha alone and leave this village and go back to Mumbai. Else it won't be you who returns, it'll be your corpse." He added and left in an angry state.

Shraddha POV:
"Papa!" I said loud and clear as it was only Ayaan and Papa and I in the living room. "Can't you see how much Varun loves me? He came back for me even after being beaten up so badly." I added.

"So, he shouldn't be here. I told him that." Papa said.

"Why? Why can't he be here? Huh?" I asked.

"Shraddha, watch your tone of how your speaking to Uncle or else..." Ayaan said.

"Or else what Ayaan? Are you going to hit me too? Are you going to hit me because I'm standing up for what I believe? Huh?" I asked. I'm surprised at myself for speaking like this to Ayaan and Papa, but I don't care. Ayaan stayed silent, where as Papa looked at me and Ayaan. "Papa, why can't you give Varun a chance? He's back. He's back for me. For our love. He loves me." I added.

"He shouldn't be loving you. He shouldn't have fallen in love with you." Papa said.

"I've fallen in love with him too Papa." I said.

"Well get over this so called thing of love." Papa said.

"I can't get it over it." I said.

"Too bad then! Keep crying then." He said.  "You won't understand the pain a father goes through when his daughter's house breaks." Papa added glaring me.

"Papa, you can't bring up Di's situation in everything." I said. "Papa, not every guy will turn out like Mr. Raichand. Varun isn't like that. I know him. He loves me too much to do that to me." I added. I wrapped my arms around him tightly and shedded a few tears on Papa's chest.

"Papa, please just give Varun a chance. Please Papa, Please. Just one chance. Please papa!" I begged.

"Fine. Okay, call him." Papa said.

"Thank you Papa. Thank you!" I said and went to my room. I grabbed my phone and immediately called Varun's phone that was answered within a ring.

"Hello?"

"Get someone to drop you here, Papa has called for you." I say smiling with tears in my eyes.

"Are you serious?" He asks and I nod.

"Yes." A tear rolls from my eyes as I speak to Varun.

"I'll be there soon Shraddha, just wait for me okay." He says and I nod. "I love you." He says as I smile hearing those three words.

"I love you too!" I say before wiping my tear and disconnecting the line.
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End of the chapter💘

I love writing Varshra scenes because it's like in a way how I would like to have my own relationship with my partner if I ever get one😗

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