Divorced.

Naina's POV

After dinner we both went to our room.

I changed into my nightdress and slept beside him.

He pulled me in his arms.

He was stroking my arm with his fingers.

I closed my eyes as his fingers were moving down to my elbow and then again moving upwards.

I was feeling a tingling sensation and I never knew something so small could affect me.

"Where are you lost?" he asked as he stopped what he was doing.

And somehow I wish he didn't stop doing it.

"Nothing," I replied making him frown at me.

"You know that you can share it with me, right?" he asked and I nodded in a yes but didn't say anything.

He sighed.

"Goodnight," he greeted and as soon I greeted him back he went off to sleep holding me tightly in his arms as if I will run away if he loosens his hold.

*****

My afternoon nap broke due to the ringing of the doorbell.

I looked at the time to see that it was 4.30 p.m..

Yesterday Ranveer came home by 6 p.m.

How can he come so early?

I got up and looked from the peephole to see Ranveer's mother standing on the other side.

I opened the door and greeted her.

"Ranveer asked me to come and visit you as you were getting bored," she said as soon as she got inside.

I remembered telling him yesterday that I got bored.

He cares so much for me.

Shut up, Naina!

If he had not asked you to marry him, you would have got a job and roaming around with Sameer.

"Naina where are you lost?" aunty asked as she came inside and sat on the sofa.

"Nothing aunty," I said as I went in the kitchen to fill a glass of water for her.

"Thank god that you came, aunty. I was getting so bored," I said as I gave her the glass of water and sat beside her.

"Don’t call me aunty. Call me Mom," she said.

"Mom?"

I never had a Mom so calling anyone Mom other than the picture of my mother was weird.

"Yes,” she said.

“As you are Ranveer's wife you are like a daughter to me," she told me and even though I tried to control my tears, it started rolling down my cheek.

"What happened Naina?" she asked.

"I had never seen my Mom as she died while giving birth to me due to some complication so I just got emotional," I said wiping my tears.

"It's okay. Now you have me and you can share anything with me," she said as she pulled me in her arms.

"So are you liking here?" she asked stroking my back.

" Yes. The house is so beautiful and big," I said.

"Yes, I know but in his childhood after me and his Dad got divorced, we used to stay in a rented house which had only one room. That time Ranveer told me he would buy a big house and after working so hard for years, he bought this house," Mom told me and I pulled myself from her arms and looked at her.

Divorced?

His Mom and Dad got divorced?

Maybe that's why he does not want to talk about it.

"Is my son treating you well? You can tell me if he is troubling you," she said and I laughed.

"He is treating me well," I said, truthfully.

"Why don’t you stay here Mom?" I asked.

Still now, the word 'Mom' coming from my mouth was foreign for me.

"Even though the house in which I stay now is small but there are many memories in that house. Ranveer grew up there. I got my first salary there, so few years ago I bought that house from the owner but don’t worry I will come here and spend time whenever you want me to. Just give me a call and I will be here. Oh there's a better idea," she said excitedly.

"What?" I asked.

"I will ask Ranveer to bring you to my home to have dinner. Once you will know where my house is you can come anytime and then I will take you to my NGO and you are always welcome in the NGO also," she said.

"Okay Mom, I will come to your house whenever I want to and if I am too lazy to leave the house I will call you,” I said and we both laughed.

"Wait I will make us a cup of coffee. You drink coffee, right?” I asked and she nodded in a yes and I went in the kitchen.

In few minutes I made two cups of coffee.

We sat there and talked about anything and everything. She didn’t seem like my mother-in-law, she was more like the girlfriend I never had. I enjoyed talking with her.

I thought she will get angry as I had not wore mangalsutra and sindoor but she did not say anything. Yesterday after we talked I realized that all these things hardly matter but if we love the person from our heart matters the most and......

"So I will leave," Mom's voice broke my thoughts.

"Okay Mom I will ask Ranveer to show me your house and then I can visit the NGO also. I want to see the NGO."

"You are anytime welcome there," she said as she bid me goodbye and left.

*****

By 5.30 p.m. Ranveer came home and today he had bought a bouquet of pink roses.

I smiled looking at the bouquet in his hands.

"Thank you," I said taking the roses and keeping it in the flower pot.

Then he suddenly pulled me towards him and kissed me on the forehead.

"Today your Mom came," I said pushing him slightly.

"Yes I know."

" I like your Mom," I said.

"My Mom is the best."

"Naina?" he called.

"Yes?"

"Can you massage my head like you did yesterday?" he asked.

"Of course. Sit down," I said and he sat down in front of me.

After I massaged his head, he freshened up, changed his clothes and came in the hall.

"So as today I am free let’s go for a walk in a nearby park," he said.

I didn’t want to go to the park but will he get angry if I said no?

"What happened?" he asked.

"I don’t want to go."

"Okay sweetheart, if you don’t want to go we will not go," he said and I was surprised.

He didn’t force me to go with him?

He was going in his room when I called him and he turned around to look at me.

"Actually, the weather is nice, let's go for a walk," I said and he smiled.

I changed myself into white top and black leggings and we went for a walk.

I asked about his company and he told me everything from the day he started running the company.

"Oh! I forgot to tell you tomorrow is a business party so I want you to come with me," he said as we were walking.

"Me?"

"Everybody wants to meet my wife," he said.

His wife.

His wife who will leave him in few years.

“What are you thinking?” he asked as he held my hand and entwined our fingers.

"What should I wear? I mean this is the first time I am going to party like this so I don’t know."

"You can wear a gown. Tomorrow I will take a day off and we will go shopping and buy everything you need," he said.

"You will take a day off just to go with me for shopping?" I asked amused.

"O fcourse!"

"But as I know boys gets bored as girls take time in selecting clothes," I said as I remembered when me and Sameer after our class ended, went to buy few clothes for me. As I was taking time in selecting the clothes, he left the place and I went home alone without buying anything.

Next day he apologized and told me that he was bored and irritated as I was taking time so he left and that time also I understood him and forgave him.

“You are not any girl. You are my wife, Naina,” his voice bought me back to reality.

"Naina where are you lost?" I heard his voice and came back to reality.

He stopped in his track and pulled me towards him and wrapped his hand around my waist.

"Please leave me. This is not our home," I tried to pull myself out of his grip but failed miserably.

"I don’t care,” he said and stood in front of me and pushed a strand of hair behind my ear.

Sometimes I feel he is too good to be true but somehow I know that this is the real Ranveer Singhania and he is not pretending.

*****