THE DISTANCE!
VEER
'Ghazal! Please sit down. Can you? ' she asked bhabhi, who's running here and there. It's her third trimester.
Her baby bump is quite big, she is always roaming around the house placing her hands on the bump, looking all cute and adorable.Suddenly, my eyes diverted to her.
This sudden marriage, made everything turn upside down.
The love, I had for her long gone. It's now replaced with only hate. A pure hate!
Truth to be told, I felt a sudden relief when I married her. But, whenever I think of the reason of marrying her. The thought of despising her made me feel a breath.
'Aadhini, Veer will pick you up from college. Is that okay for you? ' bhai said to her,
For a second, she looked at me. From my peripheral view, I can see she's looking at bhabhi. 'Okay' bhai said,
I think, she might be said yes for me picking her from college.
'Aadhini, go and get ready beta' Maa said to her, still she didn't get used here. Finding her in the day time in the house is quite rare. I never seen her roaming here and there.
This three days, I saw her during breakfast, lunch and dinner. She's always with Bhabhi.
When I get down the stairs all ready, I hear her payal sound. I looked behind me, she's coming downstairs.
She looked at bhabhi, she nod her head. Then she crossed me without looking at me.
It hurted my ego!
I stride towards her. My mind couldn't accept the way she ignored me. I couldn't handle her ignorance.
'Aadh-' she looked at me before I call her, I stopped in a midway, I couldn't process what I should say, I felt calm looking at her.
She looked at me, her eyes locked the hurt that she's been feeling.
'Come' I said breaking the eye contact.
She went to sit on the back seat!
'Aadhini, for God sake behave well. Don't treat me like your driver. Sit. In. The. Front' I said looking directly at her,
She paused for a moment. I looked at her, she's looking at me.
'Now' She wasted no minutes and sat in the passenger seat.
The ride from the home to her college is a utter silence, she didn't turn her head towards me.
Sudden thought of the reason behind the marriage made me furious, I hate her.
You hate her, Veer!
You hate her!!
How could she!?
AUTHOR
He stopped the car with a jerk. Aadhini about to hit the front, he suddenly placed his hand in front of her.
'What the? You didn't wear the seatbelt?' She looked at him,
'Oh, who am I expecting to be careful, the great Aadhini Rathore' Veer muttered,
'Yes, forever it'll be Rathore Not Malhotra' with that she get down the car,
His eyes are turned red hearing her, with a thud he also get down the car. In the centre of the road, he pulled her towards him.
'Next time, if you say this again. I'll let you know, whether you're Rathore Or Malhotra in my Way. You get that' he said,
'Get. In. The. Car' he said and went towards the car,
Silently she sit in the car, the least she wanna do is to be late to the college.
'Aadhini ma'am' one of her collegue came towards her,
'Hello sir' She waved at him,
'You didn't come in your scooty. Is he your brother? ' He asked looking at veer,
Veer eyes shot up in utter anger,
'Ahb, No. He's not my brother' Aadhini said,
'Then? ' he looked so confused,
'Mr. Bhatiya, it's time to punch the biometric' Aadhini said while looking at her watch,
'Oh, yes. After you' he said signalling her to go forward,
Aadhini looked at veer, who's keep on staring at Mr. Bhatiya.
'You don't have to pick me up at evening' Aadhini muttered to Veer, his eyes travelled from Mr. Bhatiya to her, his eyes settled on her nose ring.
'Why? ' he raised his eyebrows,
'Because I'm going to the bookcafe' she said,
'Oh, anyways it's didn't concern me where you are going! ' he said and went from there,
With a heavy heart she went inside the college, even though she said to not pick her up. The corner of her heart wanted him to say that he's gonna pick her up.
'Aunty one hot chocolate with extra sweet' she ordered and went to sit in the corner,
Still she's in utter disbelief that she's is married and she's hiding in her in-laws home.
After an hour, she finished writing and stand up to go. She really doesn't want to meet him. He's making her feel depressed,worthless and sad. 'Aadhini?' The cafe aunty called her,
'Yeah Aunty' she said to her, ' beta, your boyfriend is waiting for you' she said to her, Aadhini narrowed her eyes at the side to witness Veer standing infront of his car.
'if I enter the house without you, bhabhi will feed me to bravo' he said looking at her
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