Hello everyone.

Thanks to all for voting and commenting on the previous story.

Actually, I was writing another story when I got the idea for this story. So, I thought why not get it out of my head and write this short story. This story is inspired from the synopsis of one M&B book, though this story doesn't fall under the M&B series.

Regarding the logic in this story...

Finally, I am here with my bimbo heroine!

Word Count 5302

That day started off like any other.

I had woken up in the morning. Got a shower. Had breakfast with my parents while irritating my mother. Then I had gone to the flat opposite mine. Then things had changed forever.

I am Madhubala Malik. The pampered and spoiled, only daughter of my parents. My parents world revolved around me as I was their only daughter.

I had a very good and blessed life. I had my parents and then a second set of parents with Mohan Uncle and Radha Aunty.

They lived in the flat opposite to ours, with their only son, Rishabh.

Rishabh is elder to me by 5 years, but still we were friends. We were even best friends, if you could say that. We grew up together because we have been living in the same apartment building since birth. So, we have known each other since I was born.

Though the 5 year age gap gave him an added advantage, so he did bully me a lot. He have an opinion to everything regarding me. And he never hesitated to tell it, and my parents supported him always. Which drove me mad at times.

Not just my parents, now people all around us supported him and followed his saying, because he is touted to be the next big millionaire or billionaire or whatever. I don't know. I really didn't care about that.

What I cared about is his i-am-always-right attitude. I hated it. Because he is rarely right. I am the one who is always right. But does that stop him? No. He has to give his two cents on everything. Including about my friends.

Sometimes, I wish I could sell him on OLX and get a custom made Rishabh instead.

*sigh* life can't be that perfect.

Seeing Mohan Uncle and Radha Aunty, I chat with them for about a minute and head to Rishabh's room.

I open the door and stop in shock seeing him hugging a girl. Seeing that I felt someone set my heart on fire.

He turns hearing the sound and frowns seeing me. "Can't you knock?" Still clinging to the girl.

"I never knock." I tell him, still in shock, though I had this uncontrollable rage to drag him off the girl.

"Close the door." Rishabh tells me as he turned to the girl and says in a flirty tone. "Now, where were we?"

"Rishabh..." Dipali says as she shyly pushed him away. "Madhu is here."

Dipali lived in our building. We were friends with her but not that friends.

"Close your eyes, Madhu." Rishabh tells me as he flirty pulled Dipali towards him.

"Stop it, Rishabh." Dipali says blushing as she pushed him off.

"What a mood kill, you are, Madhu." Rishabh says as he turned to frown at me.

I wanted to grab him and bang his head on the wall till he bled to death.

And I had no idea why I was feeling like that.

"You both..." I say in confusion.

"We love each other." Dipali says as she held Rishabh's hand.

Rishabh with a grin winks at her.

Seeing that my heart broke. I couldn't understand why I felt like crying, seeing Rishabh in love with someone else.

Then it hit me. It is because I am in love with Rishabh.

But how? Why? When?

I turn around and runs out.

"Don't tell Dad and Mom. I want to tell them." Rishabh calls out after me.

Asshole! He is so fucking happy!

**********

I couldn't believe that I am in love with Rishabh.

And I realized it when he is in love with someone else.

Why was life so cruel to me?

Why couldn't I have realized it before he fell in love with Dipali?

Or why couldn't I never realize it?

Now, I have to watch him with Dipali.

And that pig had to flaunt her all over the place.

Wherever I go, he is there with her.

The only place that donkey didn't bring her was to my bathroom!!!

Well, if we are being honest, he didn't bring her to my flat also.

Why couldn't he fall in love with me?

Why does bad things happen to good people?

**********

I walk into my favorite coffee shop and sure enough, that pervert is there nauseatingly smiling at that Dipali.

Of all the places, he had to bring her to my favorite coffee shop.

If I didn't know better I would think he was doing it to show off his vomit inducing love to me.

"Madhu..." Rishabh waves me over. "What are you doing here?"

"This is my favorite coffee shop!" I remind him then I ask him. "What are you doing here?"

He looks at me surprised and confused. "Er... my office is next door."

That is besides the point!

"Hi Madhu..." Dipali sweetly smiles at me.

"Hi." I grit my teeth at her.

"Sir... it's time for your meeting." Sunny says as he walked to the table.

"Is there no way to reschedule it?" Rishabh asks disappointed.

"No, sir." Sunny says shaking his head.

Rishabh turns to Dipali and tells her disappointed. "Sorry, darling. I've to go."

Dipali smiles at him. "It's okay. You go. Work is important."

Rishabh hugs her and kisses her cheek. "I'll call you after the meeting. Love you."

"Love you too." Dipali shyly says.

Too bad that dog finished his coffee, otherwise I would have dumped it on his head.

Rishabh gets up and he walks to me. He hooks his hand around my neck, that I almost bend forward. "Come with me."

"Leave me, asshole." I tell him angrily as his hold was a little tight.

"I told Dad and Mom about Dipali." Rishabh says excitedly as he led me out.

"You did?" I ask him in shock. "Why so soon?"

"When you are in love, it doesn't feel like that." Rishabh says.

I wanted to smack him. "This is not love. You're thinking with your dick."

He looks at me amused for a few seconds, then he shrugs with a grin. "If my dick is happy then I am happy."

I glare at him and stamp on his foot.

Asshole didn't even feel it.

I turn to leave, he tightens his hold on me, and turns me around, pulling me. I go slamming on his chest.

"I understand when you are rude to me. We have been like that. But why are you rude to her?" Rishabh asks me as he looked into my eyes, frowning in concern. "be nice to her, she is important to me."

I look at him, and softly asks him. "Will it hurt you if I am rude to her?"

"Yes. I don't like anyone being rude to Dipali."

Hearing that it would hurt him, I realized that I couldn't hurt him.

It is not this dickhead's fault that he wasn't smart enough to fall in love with me. At the end of the day, I realized that I want him to be happy.

"I'll be nice to her." I promise him.

He smiles hearing that. "Thanks." Then he says. "I'm going to be away for a week for work. When I get back, I plan to propose her."

"Propose? You are dating her."

"For marriage, dumbhead."

"Marriage?" I almost shout, my heart breaking.

"I can't wait to get married and have a couple of Mini Rishabh running around." He tells me excitedly.

I gulp hearing that. I wanted to cry out loudly.

"What?" Rishabh asks me frowning.

I think he read my expression. So, I say. "It is such a sexist thing to say. Would it hurt you to have daughters?"

"You are the only baby girl I have been around. So, you can understand my aversion to baby girls. They are high maintenance and very demanding." He tells me with a mocking grin.

I wanted to kill him, but if he dies then I would be the most hurt, so I let him live.

Seeing Sunny come out, he says. "I might need your help to pick out a ring. I'll let you know."

**********

Rishabh went off the next day.

Though it was a relief that I didn't have to watch him having gooey eye sex with Dipali, I missed him like crazy.

Hearing my mobile ring, I check my phone and sees that it was him. I couldn't control my joy that he had called me.

"Hello?" I answer excitedly.

"Madhu, be ready. Sunny will reach in 20 minutes."

"For what?" I ask him confused.

"To pick out the ring. I told you."

Oh! I will bear the pain! I just have to kill him.

"I am busy."

"What movie are you watching?"

"I am not watching a movie."

"Then you are not busy."

"What? I am busy."

"Doing what?" Rishabh asks me. "You are the most jobless person out there."

I glare furiously. After I finished my studies, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. So, I was taking my time and figuring out my career.

"They have send me the photos of couple of options. But I am not able to judge well with the photos. And I really don't know anything about diamonds. They will show you the shortlisted ones. Just pick the best out of it. If there are better options available, send me the photo."

After giving the orders the King of asshats hung up, without even a bye.

**********

The rings were gorgeous and so bloody expensive.

And I had a hard time finalizing a ring.

In the end, I genuinely picked the best ring out there because Rishabh's happiness was important to me.

You could say, his happiness was as important as my happiness to me.

I wait as Sunny made the payment.

"The ring is so expensive. He might love her like crazy." I tell him softly.

"Yeah." Sunny replies softly without looking at me. "He even decided to not have a prenup."

I guess prenup was the norm nowadays. And he is supposed to be minding money now. If he has decided to forgo prenup then it means that he trusts her blindly and he believes that this marriage was forever.

I couldn't watch him live his life with another girl.

Later, I walk into his room and keep the cover with the ring on the table.

I look at his big photo on the wall. He was big on I, Me and Myself. But I loved him.

When I think of it, I realized that I have loved him always.

Maybe even from childhood.

And that hurt like crazy.

I couldn't watch him anymore with another girl.

I've decided to leave. I don't know to where. But I wasn't staying here.

I lean up and kiss his lips, my eyes filling up.

I turn around and hurries out of his flat. I didn't go to my flat, instead, I went down.

I needed to think. I have to plan where I can go. What I am going to tell my parents. What I am going to tell Rishabh.

Because even if my parents agree with my plan, Rishabh is going to put his foot down. He just have to interfere in every aspect of my life.

I was walking around, as I walked by the pool I hear some moaning sound. I turn around and I see two shadowy figure. It took me a few seconds to see their face and realize what they were doing.

I turn around and run in horror.

My eyes!

My eyes!

My eyes!

My poor beautiful eyes!

I need to wash it with bleach and disinfectant.

What the hell did I witness?

It didn't look as fun as porn.

I need to watch some real hardcore porn to forget what I witnessed.

Porn marathon to cleanse my eyes.

I groan as I realized I had bigger issues.

I've to tell Rishabh.

His heart is going to be broken.

But that is the least of the issues. He can fall in love with me and mend his broken heart.

The biggest issue was, whether Rishabh would believe me.

I wasn't sure he would believe me if I tell him the two people that he trusted blindly were practically having sex.

Dipali and Sunny.

**********

I couldn't look at Dipali and Sunny. So, every time, they were in my vicinity, I hid.

I couldn't tell Rishabh over the phone what I witnessed. I was waiting for him to get back so I could tell him.

I was really worried whether he would believe me.

What will I do, if he didn't believe me?

How will I save him?

**********

The day Rishabh was to reach, I went off to my friends place.

I still didn't know what to tell him, so I decided to avoid him.

But I knew I couldn't hide forever.

That dumbfuck might just go propose the horny pervert straight from the airport.

So, I head back home. I walk in to find my parents just about to leave.

"Ah Madhu, you are here. Come, we have to go to the hospital." Papa tells me.

"Why? what happened?" I asked him, getting worried who was sick.

"Rishabh had some kind of accident. Radha had called. He is in the hospital." Mama informs me.

"What?" I shout panicking as I ran out to get to my Rishabh as soon as possible.

I will die if anything happens to him.

I start praying hard to God to keep him safe.

I started promising him that I would give up all my bad habits.

I had a lot of bad habits.

As Rishabh loved to point out.

My biggest flaw being that I am selfish.

So, I promised to be selfless.

Oh... only of I knew...

... that I was going to break that promise in 5 mins.

**********

"Radha Aunty..." I call out as I ran to her. "How is Rishabh? I want to see Rishabh."

"He is okay now." Radha Aunty gently tells me.

"Where is he? I want to see him."

"Dipali is with him now. Just give them few minutes privacy." She tells me.

The bitch has come to play the doting girlfriend.

I've to protect my man.

"What did the doctor say?" Papa asks them.

"It seems Rishabh has some kind of amnesia." Mohan uncle tells him.

"What?" I shout in shock. "He doesn't remember us?"

"No.. no... he just doesn't remember what happened in the last week. He has no memory of last one week."

"One week?" I ask in confusion then I ask him. "What happened actually?"

Suitcase fell on his head?

This clown has to have the most clownish accidents ever!

The door opens and Dipali comes out. Seeing me, she smiles at me.

It took me all I had to not claw her eyes out.

"I have to go, Radha Aunty. I'll come home later." Dipali says and leaves.

I run inside to see Rishabh, to know for sure that he is okay.

"Rishabh..." I call him as I ran to him and sat next to him, hugging him.

"I'm fine." He tells me. "Just this terrible headache."

I sit back and look at him, then in confusion I lean around him to see the back of his head.

"I am not hurt." He declares.

Not even a tiny scar.

"Then?" I ask him in shock.

"Let's see, I wake up with this terrible headache. I realize that I am in hospital apparently someone opened the overhead compartment and a suitcase slid down and hit me on my head and I passed out completely. But I can't stay in hospital for long, because tomorrow I have a flight to catch and my parents tell me, I actually took the flight, and I was on a flight back home. Which I don't have even the slightest memory of. That is what is happening." Rishabh tells me.

"Why did Dipali come?" I ask him.

"What do you mean? She is my girlfriend." Rishabh tells me then he asks curiously. "That reminds me. I had plans to get a ring. I had thought of asking you to get it. Did we get it?"

"Ring?" Radha Aunty asks in surprise.

"I am planning to propose Dipali." Rishabh tells her smiling.

And I said the first thing that came to my mind. "But Rishabh, you love me."

"What?" Rishabh turns to me in surprise and confusion.

"Rishabh loves you?" Mohan Uncle asks me in confusion.

"Er..." I couldn't look at Rishabh, so I turn to Radha aunty and tells her as I build up a lie. "Yesterday, Rishabh called me. He told me that he loves me. What he felt for Dipali was just infatuation. He asked me to marry him and I said yes."

"I told you my feelings for Dipali was just infatuation?" Rishabh asks me in shock.

"Yes."

"But Madhu... Rishabh loves Dipali." Radha Aunty gently tells me.

"Are you sure he said he loves you?" Mama asks me.

"Yes... why won't you all believe me?" I ask panicking.

They awkwardly look at each other, having no idea how to react.

"If Madhu says so, then I believe her." Rishabh says.

I turn to him in shock. "You believe me?"

"If you say so then yes. You never lie."

What the hell is he talking about? I lie through my teeth.

Another one of my vices that I promised to give up.

But then, he looks perfectly fine.

So, I guess those promises were moot points now.

"You lie, but not like this. This is such a big thing and I know you would never lie about something of this magnitude." Rishabh says.

I nod.

Honestly, was there anything else I could do other than nod?

Besides telling the truth, that is.

"But then Dipali didn't say anything about breaking up. She was talking as if everything was normal." Rishabh says confused.

"You planned to do it face to face." I lie.

"Oh." Rishabh thoughtfully nods then he looks at me in confusion, "But I love you?"

"Yes."

"How? When?" He asks me confused.

"Er... you said you realized."

"Something should have happened for me to realize such a thing, right?" He asks me confused.

"You didn't give me details."

"Maybe it will come back to you in a few days." Mohan Uncle says hopefully.

Oh God.

"You take rest." Radha aunty says.

"I just want to go home. I don't want to stay here."

**********

"I told Dipali we should take a break."

I gasp and turn around in shock and sees Rishabh leaning on the doorframe.

I didn't see him after hospital yesterday, he had been resting and sleeping the whole day, so I didn't disturb him.

"I feel, after everything with her, I should give her an honest explanation. If I tell her that I realized that I am in love with you and I fell out of love with her, during a time period that I have no recollection of, she will say that you're lying."

"Do you think I am lying?" I asked him worriedly, wondering if he realized that I had lied.

"No. But then Dipali doesn't know you like I do. So, I thought I will just wait till I get my memory back, so I can end things with her with clear clarity of events. I will be able to give her proper explanation also."

All I could do was nod.

"I really can't remember what triggered these feelings for you, Madhu."

"That is okay, Rishabh."

"No, it is not." Rishabh tells me as he walked to me.

"What are you saying?"

He takes my hand in his and says. "I've told Sunny to clear my schedule. Spent time with me. Maybe something will trigger these feelings."

**********

He took me on a date.

Oh my God, Rishabh, my best friend and worst enemy, the love of my life, took me on a date.

He was the most amazing, attentive and even romantic boyfriend, and it was a perfect date.

Not that I had much experience with dates.

Or for that matter, with boyfriends.

It was simply perfect.

But Rishabh kept looking for that trigger, that changed everything.

He wasn't able to recreate it because the poor man didn't realize there wasn't a trigger.

I did feel guilty for cheating him, though the selfish part in me wanting Rishabh to fall in love with me because when the memory returns, even though he would be angry with me, he would still choose me because he would be in love with me.

**********

For the next whole week, we were on dates every night.

And each date perfect and more beautiful than the previous one.

I was falling in love with him all over again.

I was falling so deeply in love with him.

He is such an amazing boyfriend and lover.

He bragged he was a very generous lover.

That asshole is not a virgin.

I have no idea how he lost his virginity without me knowing.

He had laughed when I asked him.

Castrating him would affect my sex life.

He is so fucking lucky that I am a selfish bitch.

Otherwise I would have castrated him with the butter knife I was holding.

**********

"Hey..." I answer the call seeing that it was Rishabh.

He called all the time now. Through out the day and night.

We didn't fight like before.

It seemed like he went out of his way to please me.

"Come over. My parents aren't home." Rishabh says.

"Okay." I hang up and run to his flat excitedly.

He opens the door for me and I didn't know whether I ran in or he pulled me in.

I didn't get time to ponder as his mouth was on mine.

Kissing me.

My first kiss.

I hug him as I returned the kiss with equal excitement and eagerness.

The kiss was everything I wanted my first kiss to be.

We part and happily grins at each other.

"Come." He holds my hand and runs to his bedroom and I run with him.

He closes the door and turns to me.

I jump on him, my mouth on his.

My mouth caught his laughter as we hungrily kissed each other.

He picks me up and walks to the bed, then he falls on the bed, with me beneath him. *sigh*

He hungrily kiss me down my face, moving to my chin then to my neck, to my collar bone.

When he reached my boobs, he stops. He looks up at me with a lazy smile and says. "I love your breast."

I blush and grin.

I have big boobs and I am proud of it.

Hashtag body positivity.

He takes my nipples in his mouth over my clothes. I grip his shoulders as I writhe in pleasure. Then he kneads my other breast and I moaned in pleasure.

"God, I've been wanting to do this forever." Rishabh groans.

I moan in pleasure as he devoured me.

Then I feel his hand on my top and lifting it up.

"Rishabh, what are you doing?" I ask him in shock.

"What?" He looks at me in surprise. "We are getting married. But why wait till marriage?"

"What? You mean..." I panic in shock.

"I want to make love to you, Madhu." Rishabh says as he took my lips in his.

My panic increased ten fold. He didn't say sex. He said make love.

Because he thought he was in love with me.

If we make love, and once his memory returns and if he isn't love with me then, he would still be honor bound to marry me.

And I realized I couldn't do that to him.

I understood that I loved him more than I love myself.

And I could no longer cheat him.

"Rishabh..." I gently push him off.

"What?" Rishabh leans up as he looked at me then cheekily says. "Yesterday you seemed damn pissed when you thought I gave my virginity to someone else."

What? He is still a virgin?

He leans down and takes my lips in his. "My virginity is for your taking, Madhu. Take it."

Oh God, no.

I can't.

Not like this.

"I lied, Rishabh. I lied." I say as I pushed him off.

"What?" Rishabh asks confused. "When?"

I push him off and get off the bed. Panicking I look at him.

"What lie, Madhu?" Rishabh asks as he sat up.

"I lied that you told me you love me. That your feelings for Dipali was just infatuation." I tell him, wanting to cry in panic and fear of losing him.

"Why?" Rishabh asks as he frowned at me.

"I saw Dipali and Sunny doing the tango standing." I inform him.

"Dance?" He asks confused. "Sunny dances?"

"No! As in like dogs in heat."

"Hmmm." Rishabh thoughtfully looks at me. "What does that have to do with the lie?"

"Sunny is your right hand man and Dipali, the one you love, so I didn't think you would believe me over them."

"You thought I wouldn't believe you over them?" Rishabh asks offended.

"You would?" I asks him feeling touched.

"So you lied to me?" Rishabh asks getting angry. "For what? To protect me?"

"Because I love you." I tell him because I couldn't keep it in myself and I wanted him to know how desperately in love I was with him.

"You love me." Rishabh says then he says. "I guess, I understood that when you got all jealous and murderous when I lied to you that I wasn't a virgin."

"I love you a lot, Rishabh. I know I betrayed your trust. You trusted me. And I cheated you. I was being selfish and manipulative. I tried to break you and Dipali up, because I was so desperately in love with you. I couldn't see you with anyone else. When I saw you with Dipali the first time, I understood that I love you. I swear, Rishabh, for your happiness I was giving up and moving away, then I saw Dipali cheat on you. I realized that she didn't deserve you. I thought if you see me in that light, maybe you will grow to love me."

"You were moving away? To where?" He asks me frowning angrily.

"I hadn't thought it through. I was out on a walk to think about it when I saw Dipali and Sunny."

Rishabh nods.

"I am sorry, Rishabh. Will you be able to forgive me?" I ask him as I knelt in front of him. "Even if you can never love me, it is okay. But please don't stop being my friend. You're my best friend."

He starts chuckling.

"Why are you laughing?" I ask him in shock.

Then laughing, before I could even understand his intend, he wraps his hands around my waist, lift me up, and throw me on bed, and he rolls on top of me, holding me down.

"You're not angry with me." I tell him in shock.

"No." He tells me happily.

"Why?" I ask him in shock, though feeling happy.

"I told you I would believe you. when you tell the truth, even if the whole world is against you, I would believe you." Rishabh says then arrogantly he adds, "because sweetheart, unlike you, I can actually tell when you are lying."

I frown hearing that. "You knew I was lying?"

"Of course."

"What?"

What the fuck?

This asshole had me fretting for no reason.

"Asshole, you had me worrying for nothing." I tell him.

"Why do I care? You lied to me. Not any small lie. Big one. I could have actually lost the one I loved, if I had been actually in love with Dipali."

"You are not in love with Dipali?"

"Let's start at the beginning?" Rishabh asks me.

I nod as I frowned at him.

What a drama queen?

Couldn't he get to the matter without all these beating around the bush?

"Dipali had come to me." Rishabh starts.

I frown as I listened.

"She was crazily in love with Sunny. But Sunny being not of the same social status as her and she being 6 years elder to him, Sunny has been denying his feelings for her. But she was sure he loved her. So, she asked me to help her make him jealous."

"That was all an act?" I ask him in shock.

"Yup!"

"Do you know how hurt I was?" I ask him.

"That was the whole plan." He tells me.

"What?"

"When she asked me that, I thought why not kill two birds with one stone. I was getting sick and tired of you taking your sweet time realizing that you are crazily in love with me, and me having to chase away all potential boyfriends, I told her that she will have to help me make you jealous. She agreed."

"You love me?" I ask him smiling.

"You're the most selfish, vain, snobbish, immature, brat I know, Madhu."

I glare at him.

"And I have been in love with you since you were in your nappies."

"What?" I couldn't hold my smile.

"So, everything was an act. Though the ring was for you. I wanted you to pick one that you love. Plus to make Sunny scared that I might marry Dipali."

"That ring is very beautiful." I tell him then I remember. "You told your parents you were going to marry Dipali."

"I can always tell them the truth and they are going to be crazy happy."

I smile. Yeah, they will be.

"Then I find out in the hospital I lost memory. I immediately called over Dipali to ask her whether we had succeeded in our plan or we were still in the middle of it. She told me that Sunny and she got together. But we were still not together. She promised to help."

"Then I lied to you."

"The moment you said that I told you, Dipali was just an infatuation, I knew you were lying. I would never say that to you. I would have cleared it beyond doubt that Dipali and I had nothing between us other than common goals."

"Why did you go along with my lie?"

"Because I wanted to know why you were lying."

"You could have asked me."

"I saw an opportunity to bring in the much needed romance into our dynamic." Rishabh says shrugging. "So, I took it."

"You played me." I tell him in shock.

"I did." He says rather arrogantly. "And, after resting and sleeping for a couple of hours, my memory returned that night itself."

"It did?" I ask in shock.

Rishabh grins. "Yeah." Then he says, "Oh just to clarify. When my dick is happy, I am very happy."

I scowl at him remembering he had said that to me in regard to Dipali.

"And where you are concerned my dick is always happy. But Madhu, you've my whole heart."

I grin hearing that. "So, did you send your parents out to seduce me or did they really had somewhere to be?"

"I send them out, told them I need the whole house to seduce you to confess that you are as crazy about me as I am about you."

"You did not." I tell him in shock.

"I promised them a mini Madhu in a year. Then they left."

"What?" I shout in shock.

"I keep my promises, love. There won't be family planning for us."

"You really did not." I tell him turning pink.

"For the record, I am not that keen on Mini Rishabh. I want couple of selfish, vain, snobbish, immature, brattish Mini Madhu."

"Rishabh..." I grin at him.

"Yes?" He grins back.

"You can take my shirt off."

*** The End ***

I know Madhu and Rishabh were pretty manipulative in this, so we can safely say they deserve each other.

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