Annika's POV

Whoever invented the word happily ever after as the end of a fairytale, well, screw you! Marital life is nothing called happily ever after. Well, at least not mine! Not with my idiotic Sadu husband.

I met my husband, Mr. Shivaay Singh Oberoi a year and a half ago during my internship in Ahaana Authentics. It wasn't a love at first sight. In fact, we loathed each other during the initial days. But however, we gradually fell in love as fate and destiny keep bringing us together. By fate and destiny, I mean to say our friends and families. They had an elaborate plan of bringing us together and went to the extent of organizing a vacation together! Eventually, we realized our feelings and got married. It was a very lavish wedding despite us having very little time to arrange everything. I thought that's it! This is my happily ever after! But no, I was wrong.

I was ultimately wrong. Ever wondered why Disney Princesses never had a sequel after the tag 'happily ever after'? Because, my dearies, that term doesn't exist and a sequel to that will contradict that term! Except for Cinderella, and The Little Mermaid of course. And was it about happily ever after? Nope! It was indefinitely about the trouble in paradise! About how the villains had returned with a deadlier plan to separate them.

Actually, have you ever wondered? Why does a villain always concots on separating the lovebirds? Three main motives, usually, from what I've read. Firstly, for love. Secondly, for money. And thirdly, for revenge in this case, there are so many miscellaneous reasons in it.

In my case, however, the villain is none other than my husband, my very own Mr.Imperfect Sadu Singh Oberoi. How did I even agreed to marry him? Just two days into the marriage and we're nowhere close to finding a key to our disagreement. This usually happened during our dating period. But eventually, we can agree to one person's or the other's idea. Now, it's just complicated. Urrghh! I hate my marriage.

Just then, I heard a knock on the door. Oh! He's come to appease me? Great! This better be worthwhile, otherwise, Shivaay is going to be sleeping on the couch for a week straight from tonight onwards. If you're wondering what such had happened between us, allow me to bring you back in time for about 30 minutes from now. Buckle up your seatbelts because the journey is going to be quite a bumpy one. Ready?

*

"Shivaay, I don't think I'll be able to do all these everyday! I mean, a day in the week is fine, but who vacuums the whole house and washes clothes every single day?"

"I was doing it everyday even until the day before our wedding. A week actually, since I left to Mussorrie earlier. So, why can't we now?"

"We already work for God knows how long in the office and you expect me to come back and do these chores?" Annika began to lose her temper.

"That's where you're wrong. I don't expect you to do it all, but we can do it together! It's like our thing!" Shivaay suggested, trying to make it sound a little less than burden to Annika.

"I want a maid. We can afford her. That's it! No more discussion over this!"

"A maid? The presence of a maid will snatch our privacy, do you realize that?" Shivaay retorted.

Annika plainly glared at him, waiting for him to finish.

"Privacy? I'm not gonna ask her to shift into our bedroom or something. She's just gonna be somewhere in this huge house!" Annika lashed out. She couldn't believe how strange her husband was sounding right now.

"Anywhere in the house, still, our privacy will be gone. She'll be lurking around the house, and we can hardly be ourselves in front of her!" Shivaay pointed out.

"I can't believe this! You'd rather spend the only free times we get from our hectic lives doing household chores rather than just have to tolerate the presence of an extra someone, who would barely be visible to us as she would be busy the whole time doing her work!" Annika snapped as she began to walk towards their bedroom.

"Well, in my defence, we would be spending that time together. It would be our quality time! Just like how any other regular couples would do!"

"Shivaay! Other regular couples would be spending their free time watching TV together or doing anything but chores! And with your demand of cleanliness which I can never live up to, it would be the best for us to get a maid, don't you think so?"

"No, I don't think so!"

"Fine, then! You know what? I'm gonna hit the bed, you sleep here tonight. On the couch, since you just dusted it clean a while ago, it would be so fresh to welcome you!" Annika stomped her feet throughout the way to their bedroom.

*

Present

"I told you to sleep on the couch, right? What are you doing here?" Annika questioned him as she knotted her hands in front of her frame.

"Will you listen to me, first?"

"What is it?"

"I cannot sacrifice my cleanliness level and at the same time, I don't want you to be sulking around as well. I'll do all the chores like I used to do it before. Fair enough?"

"Are you dumb? Shiv, I wanted the maid because I want us to spend some time together! God knows for how long I'm repeating this same sentence since the past hour!"

"Urggh! Then what do you expect me to do?" Shivaay groaned as he ran his fingers through his messy hair.

"You don't get to do that! I'm supposed to do that! Urrghh! You neither agree to cleaning once a week nor having a maid! What am I supposed to do?"

"Why are you asking me?"

"Because, I don't know! I swear to God!"

"This is so annoying, Annika!" Shivaay grunted.

"Really? I didn't knew about it!" Annika huffed.

*

See, this was what I was talking about! It's a simple issue and we can't resolve it. Who the hell invented 'happily ever after'? Well, guess what? Screw you and screw your happily ever after!!!

This is my Life With Mr.Imperfect Sadu Singh Obeori!