Gautham bend down to bury his head on Sindhu's shoulders and said, " Will you say 'Yes' already!" What surprised Sindhu was the tinch of desperation in his voice. How did Gautham end up feeling so much for her in a matter of a month??? Even Gautham did not know how desperate he was to make her his. Just now when he saw Sindhu make such adorable face, he felt something break inside him at the thought that she will be showing such faces to someone else if she ended up marrying someone else. "Its driving me crazy you know. The things that you are making me feel.", Gautham said with a slightly annoyed voice. Sindhu did not say anything. She just tightened her hold around him and stayed in his embrace. After a while, Gautham finally let her go. He took one last look at her face, quickly said his bye and left. He feared if he stayed any longer, he would start begging her. There is no backstabbing ex or a greedy relative or a dark haunting past. This is a pleasant light love story of two people facing arranged marriage. A slightly messed up wild woman and a very normal clumsy man.
View MoreHer long dark hair perfectly curled and tucked behind a golden pin, Nera Bradford wore a white ball wedding dress paired with a cathedral-length lace veil. The dress was very expensive, not bought with her family's money as they could not afford it but she loved it. She kept examining and gashing over herself in the mirror.
She wore little makeup, allowing her green eyes to stand out. Her eyes were one of her physical features that he admired the most, so she did not want to deprive him of the opportunity to be taken out of breath during the wedding proceedings.
Being his wife was always her dream ever since she first lay her eyes on him. Growing up in San Antonio, a rural area with limited resources, most young ladies wished to marry into rich families and that was what she was about to do.
She had other ambitions, but financial constraints prevented her from pursuing them; however, being a bride came free. It was one of those dreams that only required finding someone special, someone who understood her on an emotional and spiritual level and cared about her happiness. Someone who admired them understood her and inspired her to be a better person.
That special someone was Greg Blair, her high school sweetheart. He was tall, with dark curly hair and brown eyes. He drew a lot of attention from the opposite sex, but he only had eyes for her.
He was her first, first love, first kiss, the first touch, and she willingly gave up her virginity to him and never looked back.
He was the only man who had ever seen her naked, and she made sure of it during their five-year relationship. He treated her like a princess, so it was only fair that she treated him like a king.
After five years, he finally proposed. They were moving from high school sweethearts to husband and wife in a matter of hours. She had always imagined the day but never imagined it would come so soon. Her dream was going to come true at the age of twenty-one.
She looked at her watch as the door opened and her best friend, Nicole, walked in, all excited and screaming. She was medium height with blond hair and blue eyes. She was the more popular between the two and more outgoing.
"The time has come," she said as she tucked a strand of hair that had fallen out of place.
"How is the atmosphere outside?" Nera, who was nervous, inquired.
"Huge, Greg's mother invited the entire town," Nicole responded with a sigh.
Nera's uncle, Luke Bradford knocked on the door, and he slowly opened it. He was tall with a bit of a potbelly and practically raised Nera on his own, and now he had the honor of walking her down the aisle.
Luke approached Nera, his eyes welling up with emotion. "Butterfly, you look stunning. Your mother must be beaming with pride looking over her precious child," he sobbed as he kissed her on the cheek.
Nera smiled sadly, she would have given anything to have her mother with her on her special day, but death had other plans and took her too soon.
Her uncle noticed her nervousness and took her hands in his. "That man is one of the luckiest men in the world to have you. Don't worry, you'll make an excellent wife."
She smiled again, "I think it's the other way round and I am the luckiest," she replied, tears of joy running down her cheeks.
"Hey hey...this is the most beautiful and happiest day of your life and has no place for tears," he tried to lighten her up.
The two were interrupted by the sound of the bell.
"I think that's us," her uncle stated.
Nicole knocked at the door, calling on the two to hurry.
Luke hugged his niece tightly before extending his arm for her to wrap her arm around.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine," he reassured her.
She smiled as the two walked out to the music.
The bridesmaids were the first to walk in, followed by Nicole, the maid of honor. The cute flower girls followed, and it was finally time for Nera and her uncle to enter the church hall.
She took a deep breath in, trying to calm herself.
"Are you ready?" he inquired.
"Yes, I am very ready," she replied with a smile.
When the door opened, Nera looked down the long aisle. The hall was tastefully decorated in green and orange colors. The two colors were not her favorite, but Greg's mother insisted on them being fashionable, so she had no choice but to comply since the woman was sponsoring the wedding.
Greg stood at the end of the aisle, handsomely tucked into a tuxedo and his hair perfectly trimmed. He was stunning, and his presence took away all of Nera's nerves as she began to take the steps in.
The entire crowd turned, mesmerized by the beautiful bride in her beautiful gown. She looked like a fairy tale princess. Girls her age were envious while the men wished they were standing at the end of the aisle.
The niece and uncle pair were almost halfway down the aisle when the screen behind the groom and pastor began flashing, drawing everyone's attention away from the bride and toward the big screen.
A video of two people having passionate sex started playing on the big screen, and it didn't take long for everyone to recognize the two people having rough sex. It was Greg, the groom on top of the maid of honor, Nicole, Nera's best friend. The two were moaning loudly and screwing each other to death.
Nera came to a halt, her eyes fixed on the screen in horror. Her skin turned chalk-white as she let go of her uncle, her hands twitching spastically. He tried to hold her, but she pushed him away.
Nera gaped, uncertain whether to breathe or scream in horror...
The marriage was exactly one month away. Sindhu was sitting in her room with all her lights switched off and doors locked shut. Her mind was messed up and in a daze. She did not know what she was feeling. Her heart was in a twist.This room... It has been her safe haven and her hell at the same time for as long as she could remember. She had not lived here for 4 years but still, this was her home. She always knew she could come back to this one place no matter what and it will give her solace. But after these weeks, this won't be her room. This will not be her home. She did not know how to digest this fact. Her heart was in a twist. She felt so terrified all of a sudden.The voices in her head won't stop. She kept remembering all the things she ever experienced within these walls- some good some bad. It was so overwhelming that she felt as if she was drowning. She felt so lost and helpless. And the silence surrounding her was almost deafening.All these days she
When they reached Sindhu's place, it was almost midnight. Gautham stopped the car outside Sindhu's place. Then he turned around towards Sindhu who was happily sleeping with her seat pushed down to the max and her legs hoisted over the dashboard in the front. She looked extremely peaceful and content. Gautham almost did not want to wake her but then he reached out and shook her awake. Sindhu blinked several times. She lifted her hands to rub over her eyes. But seeing as she never bothered to wash her hands after having snacks, Gautham hurriedly grabbed her hands. "Your hands are not clean. They still probably have spices from the potato chip you had earlier", Gautham said but Sindhu was still not fully awake and a little groggy so she did not comprehend what he was saying. By reflex, she tried to reach her eyes with her other hand. Gautham let out a sigh and held back both her hands with one of his hands and reached out with his other hands, tidied her hair that was falling over her e
That night, Gautham came back late after distributing all the invitations. But to his surprise, he actually found that Sindhu was not back yet. He freshened up and came down to the lobby and sat on the stairs waiting for Sindhu. John and Steve were already back and already off to bed. They were long used to Sindhu not showing up at night, unlike Gautham. Even when he was worried and anxious, Gautham still waited patiently for her. The cold air stung his skin making the hair in his hand standstill. At last, just before dawn, the roaring sound of the car awoke Gautham from his daze. He looked up only to see Sindhu get down from a red Audit. It was John’s car. Since Gautham had driven the car they came in, Sindhu borrowed one of John’s cars. “Why are you still up?” Sindhu asked coming towards Gautham. He just shrugged his shoulders and answered perfunctorily, “I couldn’t sleep…” Both of them knew he was lying. After all, he could har
Sindhu sipped on her drink and looked out the window with a blank expression on her face. Her eyes stayed steadily looking at nothing in particular. Her eyes were as if everything around her was invisible somehow while vehicles kept zooming in front of her leaving behind exhaust fumes. They were not invisible but Sindhu just did not care enough to notice anything in particular.Everything and everybody around her was busy with something or the other except for her. Nobody seemed to have the time of the day to notice anything around them… everybody was rushing to someplace or other… they seemed to be moving in a rush all the time. They all seemed to have somewhere to be at any point in time… but she one the other seemed to be always lost!This was not the first time she had noticed this… This scene is the most common sight no matter where one goes… She just never been able to figure out how to make sense of it.After all,
After about one hour, Sindhu finally actually woke up and went to freshen up. Gautham went in search of John. He asked around the staff and finally found him in what looked like a study room.He knocked on the huge door before entering.The room was brightly lit. Both sides of the room were covered with shelves and they were all filled to the brim with books.But the wall straight opposite to the door was fully empty except for a huge piece of a painting of the mansion with a sunset in the background. The mansion was actually small compared to the background sky. And from the looks of it, it was probably painted by Sindhu. It was not a realistic painting. It was slightly abstracted. And like the ones in her apartment, the whole painting was done with reddish-yellow shades and blacks peeping here and there."That's Sindhu's handiwork, isn't it???" Gautham asked out loud. But the question was actually rhetoric.John looked up then followed Gautham's
It was dead of the night. The streetlights were flickering away. Everything was quiet and tranquil until suddenly the rumbling sound of several bike engines was heard which was accompanied by several rogue male voices shouting profanities.There was one bike in the forefront, driven by a girl. She seemed hurt and very disoriented. Her bike was not steady. The bike was going zigzag without any pattern. There was blood all over her torso. Blood dripped down on the road making a red trail behind her. Her vision was blurring out from excessive loss of blood. But by sheer determination, she drove the bike as steadily as she could and as fast as she could. She knew help was on the way. All she had to do was to hold these thugs off till then. But it was getting so hard to keep her eyes open.There were about a half dozen bikes following her. Even when the guys following her did not seem to be hurt, their bikes were nowhere near being any steadier than th
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