Recap: IshRan temple visit.

After two weeks

Sharan and Ishana have finally started adjusting to each other, you could even say that they have started understanding each other. He didn't want to change his lifestyle for her but he has finally learnt how to give her some place in his life.

Isha continued to help Sharan in his life though he didn't really want it. Just like he had feared he is now dependent on Isha for a lot of things that he initially used to doing by himself. But one thing that didn't change was their equation. They would fight at least once a day. And it is a must for both of them.

They had also decided on a good solution for the sleeping arrangement. They would use the bed alternatively, Sharan on one day and Ishana on the next ...then Sharan and then Ishana and it has been going on like that.

One good thing that happened was that the bond between Isha and their family strengthened further. Durga garu is very happy with the changes in his family, Veena and Varna treat Ishana like they would treat their mother, she too tries to help them in any way possible. Sharan is at times jealous of their bonding.

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Monday morning

Ishana's POV

I am working for the past three hours in the kitchen. Veena and Varna have their lunch from the canteen but now they are used to my food and are not liking it there so I decided to pack their lunch boxes. Janimaa is helping me. Another thing is that Sharan too is used to my food now. So I have to pack lunch for him too.

I ran towards our room when I heard Sharan's call. It is better if I call it scream. I still don't understand how even after having the same food that we have, he has so much energy. He screams; goes to work, he works, he gets angry, he screams; he gets back home, he gets angry, he screams. I am tired just thinking all this and he is still screaming. I walk into the room to see him busy searching for something.

"Isha where is my blue file?" he asked me.

"God, please search where you kept it instead of everywhere else. I have a lot of work in the kitchen" I said faking anger.

"I looked every where, I searched in the entire room but I still can't find it" he said.

"What you have done is turned the entire room upside down" I chastised as I started putting things back in their places.

"What is this?" I pointed towards the file on the table where the file was kept. 

"I looked everywhere, I searched the entire room." I mimicked his voice as he took the file.

He scowled at my impersonation of him.

"I married a blind man. You tell me that you don't need my help but you can't even see the thing right in front of your eyes and call me for every single thing." I say as I continue putting things back in place.

"It's all your mistake, you are spoiling me. Before marriage I used to do everything by myself but now I am becoming very lazy because you are doing almost everything" he said.

I rolled my eyes,"I have to prepare lunch and I don't have any time to talk to you"

"What! You want to have lunch this early in the morning, god we still didn't even have our breakfast and madam here wants to have her lunch" he joked.

"Wow! Mr. Rude can joke. I didn't think that you had a sense of humor" I said.

"I have a sense of humor but what to do, my wife does not even have some sense" he said.

I clutched at my chest as if I was acting,"God, two jokes in a day! What have I done to earn this honor"

"You were about to go and prepare lunch" he pointed towards the door. Okay, he got angry again just for that. Fine, at least he has started making jokes.

"Not just for you but also for your sisters. Okay then" Just as I start going out of the room he calls me again.

"What now?" I asked him.

"My watch...." he asked and I want to throw that watch on his face. Can't even do one job by himself.

"You always keep it in the cupboard, there is absolutely no need to ask me where the watch is" I said.

"Ohhhhh...... I forgot" Arg! I want to bang my head against the table.

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Sharan's POV

I came down to the dining room after getting ready. Isha and Janaki aunty are serving breakfast for dad and the twins.

"Come fast Sharan" Isha chastised me. Wow, everything I do is a mistake. You just shouldn't get married or maybe not, I thought as I look at the breakfast served on the table.

I sat between Varna and Veena and eat my favorite breakfast. I look at Isha who is neither eating nor looking at me. She is arranging books in angels' bags.

"Angels, what is this? It is your duty to arrange your bags. You are making her do your work and becoming lazier day by day" she looks at me with a teasing look on her face but I ignore her. Yeah, yeah, I know what you want to say, that I am becoming lazy too but I have to make sure that my sisters don't.

I look at I am pretty sure my expression says don't.

I look at her replying expression and I am pretty sure it says watch me.

"Well when their brother is becoming so lazy nowadays that he needs his wife to find every single thing then even their sisters can become a little lazy"There you go. She said it.

"Bhaiyya, Ishudi is on our side so you can't scare us anymore" Varna announced proudly. I am irritated, my sisters are siding with her more than with me. It is better to stay silent what with all of them in the same team that is hers. I have my breakfast quickly and start to leave when Isha stops me.

"You forgot your lunch box dear" Arg! I can't bear this over action at all but well lunch box is important.

"Bye angles I am leaving to work" I take the box from her hands and nod at her too as I leave to the office.

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In the night

I was sleeping peacefully until it is disturbed by a scream. I wake up by the second one only to realize that the scream is coming from my room itself. I turned the light on and looked at the couch first. When I didn't see her on the couch I panicked immediately. What happened to her? Where is she?

I look at the other side of the couch to see her sitting on the ground with her back resting on the couch. She seems to be asleep but she is mumbling something in her sleep. I throw the covers aside and rush to her. I then notice that she is sweating too much. I shake her but she is not waking up. She is saying amma and appa continuously. 

How do I wake her up? God! How? How? Without thinking too much I kissed her forehead holding her head close and she woke up at my touch. Wow, I shake her and she doesn't get up but when I kiss her she does? Hats off to you Isha. I still stay there and while I expected her to push me off she surprised me by hugging me back. 

I wait for a second but when she doesn't react I lift her into my arms and place her softly on the bed. She looked at me shocked.

"What happened? Nightmare?" I ask her while holding her face in my palms. 

She tries to hide her face but I pull her back. I don't say anything more but just look at her as she looks back at me.

"After my parent's death I ..... I am scared of darkness. It reminds me of the fact that they are no more. I am not able to sleep in the dark" She held her forehead in one hand as she tried to massage it. Her words managed to melt my heart so this is why she did fight for the lights. She didn't want to admit that it affected her.

"Isha don't worry, I am with you. You are not alone then why are you scared?" I asked her as softly as I can. I can switch the lights on but then she will not be able to get over her fears and this is not a world that lets people survive with such fears.

A single tear streams down her face and it breaks my heart. I wiped the tear and hold her face and kiss her on the forehead again but this time softly. I didn't move my lips from there till I felt like she has relaxed completely.

She is still shaky but her eyes have lost the distant edge to them.

"I am fine Sharan. Thank you. Now, sleep" she tried getting up from the bed but I hold her hand and pull her back towards the bed. She stumbles and I steady her with a hand on her arm.

"You are not fine and this is not the first time I have seen you like this. When you asked to turn the lights on on our first night, I didn't realize that you were scared of darkness. I thought you were asking about it to irritate me like you usually do with every thing else" I added the last part to get her back to our original track.

She glared at me and I relaxed, she was fine.

"Sleep on the bed today, actually you will have a better sleep if you sleep on the bed so sleep there everyday" I added. She looks at me surprised.

"What?"

"What about you?" she asked.

"I will sleep on the couch" 

"No Sharan, that is not fair. You don't sleep that well on the couch but you make up for it the next day, if you sleep there regularly you shall have no good sleep at all" How did she notice that I don't sleep that well on the couch? She always manages to melt my heart with her concern and attention towards me.

"And I don't want you to suffer from back pain because of me."she added.

"Don't think about me and sleep now. I decided to sleep on the couch and from today it is my bed" I faked seriousness while pointing towards the couch.

"Sharan-" I interrupted her before she could say anything else. 

"Sleep"

"Fine then let's play football on the bed" she said. This mad wife of mine is capable of anything. I wonder where she gets all these thoughts from. I simply ignore her and start walking towards the couch. I learnt one thing in all this time, the more I argue the madder she gets. 

"Good night. Unlike you I am not mad to play football this late in the night" I say in a calm voice as I walk towards the couch.

"I am saying that this bed is so large that we can play football here" she started laughing. She must be back to her complete mad style by now if she is laughing at her own stupid jokes. I sigh in relief, she is fine.

I ignore her stupidity and wait for her to come to the point.

"Why don't you sleep on the bed, beside me? Of course if you can't tolerate me during your sleep then fine" See? This madness is what I am talking about.

"Okay, fine. I will sleep here, anyways I don't have the strength to argue with you now. Let's sleep" She smiles at me and I walk to the other side of the bed. We both fall asleep on opposite corners of the bed.

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Final Editing Done On: 31/10/2018

Edited By: k21pt11