Circumstances of You & Me ✔

7 | Privacy matters.

N A Y A N

My knuckles are pale for holding the steering wheel for long because I am damn irritated. I want to yell at her to stop crying, she is sobbing non-stop like an ambulance siren and I hate it! There are people in the world having far worse problems than her, if she think about it for a second she can control herself. I want her to shut up and stop these stupid sobs that is why I drive over here. Atleast her pain would subside. She is running like a scared cat from my car.

I sigh, shaking my head, looking at the passenger door which is left open by her. I quack it close and wait. There is nobody at her house except her puppy; I think her parents are in hospital, that’s why she is crying the whole time thinking she won’t see them again. I stop my thought when a thought occurs to me, what if her mother tries to hit her again? A muscle in my jaw tweaks. Why do I care?

I growl, looking straight ahead and check my watch again for third time. How much time does she need to say good bye? It's already been 8 minutes and I'm waiting like a butler for her!

"Dammit!" I curse getting out of my car.

I search the corridor like a maniac to drag her out from here but all my violent thoughts vanishes when I see her sitting beside her brother and they are crying together? Such a baby she is and making her brother cry too!

She looks startle when I touch her shoulder; her brother's face hardens looking at me.

"We are getting late." I whisper.

I can’t believe my voice! I wanted to shout at her but my voice turns soft looking at her tearful eyes. She nods politely and gets up, I sigh as they exchange words like take care, don't worry, fine, bye and I stand there, rolling my eyes with my hands in my pockets. Thank god, she finally turns on her heels and walking out but I'm not following her. I turn to her brother who is glaring at me.

"If anything happens to my sister, I will see you end." He warns pointing a finger at me.

He winces when I grab his finger and twist it. If anyone hurts my ego, they will be dead. He is her brother that is why he is still standing or else he would have been on floor by now with blood running down his nose.

"Nobody warns me, Bammardi. I know how to take care of my wife. Think twice before pointing a finger at me." s**t.

My wife? I'm getting anger at myself for behaving like this. I release his finger and take a deep breath controlling myself to stop beating him.

"Look, I don't want to fight with you..."

I don't know how to finish that sentence so I take out my wallet from my back pocket. I pick my card and extend it to him. He is looking at it like it is a time bomb.

"If you need any help, ring me." I forcefully place it in his hand and walk away from him.

~*~

It's been an hour with silence. I never been this silent in my life, I turn to my passenger, who is sleeping with her mouth slightly open. I sigh, speeding the car. I wish Arun is with me now; we would have talked about our business, our parties and guy stuff. His wife, my friend, Sandhya is alone in their house so he started to Hyderabad early in the morning.

She was shell shocked when Arun announced about my Grand wedding in video call last night. She showered me with ton of questions, all I did is just shrugging. She was so excited and started dancing like, My little Anand married now... in Twinkle Twinkle little star tune. Though I didn't like to think that I was married but I grinned at her dance. Arun freaked out when he saw what she was doing because she was 20 weeks pregnant.

I chuckle remembering her dance and I glance to my side when Aastha coughs beside me. I frown as she brushes few strands of hair out of her face and looks at me with wide eyes. What? She realized that she is with me now?

"Wh..where are we?" she asks in hoarse voice. Hmm..I think I like this voice better than her normal voice.

"Past Vijayawada." I reply not looking at her.

She is silent after that. She is asleep again, already? I glance at her from corner of my eyes to confirm. Nope, she is twisting her fingers like she is nervous or she wants to say something. What does she want? Oh Man, we didn’t discuss anything about US thing; I totally forget. Where would she live? In my apartment? With me? No f**king away! I need my privacy! I haven't thought about that so far. I need to make it clear to her right now.

"Umm.. thanks," She says suddenly, clearing her throat.

What? I glanced at her like she told a joke which I didn't get.

She looks away voiding eye contact, "Fo..for understanding, for letting me see my family at hospital."

I sigh, "I hate that sound, the crying sound so I stopped the Car." I say with a shrug.

"What? You..you,"

Yeah? I look to her tiny frame, her face is all red and she is gritting her teeth too. What's her problem?

"I thought you deserve some respect for understanding my pain but you deserve nothing, Mr.Nayan!" she says bitterly and folds her arms.

"Oh, come on! How can you drive for six hours when there is a crying baby beside you? I would have dropped you somewhere else by now if you were a kid!"

"How dare you! You will never understand what I have gone through! Oh wait, how will you understand? You are a living thing with no feelings at all!" she yells.

"Enough!" I shout, pulling the brakes abruptly, which makes Aastha to bump her head on dashboard. s**t. She cries out touching her forehead. Dammit, she is not wearing seat belt.

"Are you going to kill me?!"

"Me? This is all because of you! You touched my nerve! What am I supposed to do?" I glare at her, removing my seat belt. She is rubbing her head, there is small bruise already showing. I exhale heavily, getting out of the car and stretch my hands lazily with a loud yawn. Damn weather, its sunny here which is making me want to jump in a Pool right now. I stifle another yawn and stroll to her side, she looks startle when I pull open her door.

"What are you doing?" She asks in panic. I don't have a f**king clue, dear.

"We need to talk." I say, opening her door widely but she is shaking her head like a child, "You are going to leave me here on road when I come out."

It's actually a good idea. I can leave her here on road and drive away like a happy man and forget about all this s**t. But I can't leave a sexy woman like her on road so I smile sweetly at her.

"It's a great idea, sweetheart but we need to talk first."

Her eyes goes wide and she is backing away even more into the car. She is really thinking that I will leave her alone on this damn road?! Stupid woman. I lean inside furiously to pull her out; she gasps when I grip her knees and turns her body to me. I pull her forward a little by holding her knees. I wish she wore something that shows her legs but she is wearing a blue kurti and white legging.

F**k man, she smells good like roses and lavender. Her eyes goes even more wide when she realize how close we are, she tries to move her head back but I stop her by holding her neck tightly. Her chest heaves up and down in panic, I want to close that few inches gap between us and kiss her. Damn, she is not wearing any lipstick on her plump lips but those are looking lovely like this. I like her lips bare. I like when she is bare too, I smirk imaging her n***d. Her breath quickens watching my face, and she is looking scared. I narrow my eyes at her, she is scared of me? Good.

"Don't." she whispers.

What, she doesn't want me to kiss her? Why Aastha?

I gaze into her big round eyes, "I will kiss you if you won't get up this second." I say huskily. She pushes my chest roughly to make me back away. I smirk moving back but not before hitting my head on hood of car accidentally.

"F**k!"

I rub my head moving out. Dammit!

Somebody is giggling so hard inside my car. I look at her sharply, she snorts pointing a finger at me, "Karma." she says between her giggles. How dare her to laugh at me! I take hold of her wrists and pull her out.

"Noooowww..." she screams but she is already outside, standing. Her smile ceases when I close the passenger door and cage her between car and me. She squints looking around, there is nobody here, except few buses passing by. This is not the right place to talk but I need to make this clear right now. She folds her arms, my gaze immediately drops to her boobs. She inhales deeply and unfolds her amrs immediately. I smirk, folding my arms.

"What do you want to talk about?" she snaps while brushes back her hair behind her ears.

"You. Where are you going to stay?" I ask coming to the point. She makes an ‘Oh’ expression and looks away. I wait few seconds for her to speak but she is just staring at my crossed arms.

"We don't have much time, darling, you need to speak." Her lips made into thin line and she snaps, "Don't call me like that!"

I grin, I will then.

A A S T H A

Crazy i***t and a p*****t!

I can still feel the flutter in my stomach from our closeness, this is all because of him. His sleeves are rolled up to his elbows which are revealing his muscled arms. God, I have to look away because I has a thing for guy’s arms; I don’t want to agree but I like those. And, I also agree that he smells so good but I shouldn’t forget what he did.

Saru, eyes up! You shouldn’t behave normally with him, you should behave as arrogant as him.

Says my subconscious. Yes! I will.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when he spoke sarcastically and I fired back not to call me with endearments and God, he doesn’t know the word ‘Patience’ at all because we were in middle of nowhere and he wanted to talk about where I was going to stay?

He is crazy. I sigh, looking into his eyes, his think lashes are shadowing on his cheek bones. A muscle in his jaw twitches and I roll my eyes, thinking about his question. I thought about that a lot too.

Where should I stay? Of course, he is my husband and I should stay with him. Oh no, I just realize that I have to meet his parents too! How did I forget that?! I groan internally. But I don't want to live under same roof as him.

I can go to my previous hostel which I vacated before shifting home but I don't want to show up there and I can't answer the questions raised by them. I have to search another hostel to stay but… wait.

I narrow my eyes, why should I suffer like this? He ruined me, I have to ruin his life too, right? But what about his parents? I’m scared to meet them but f**k it. I should show him the Hell. My eyes light up thinking about the ways to irritate him more and more. No matter what, I have to annoy him to his death and handle his parents.

With a wicked smile, I cross my arms again and his gaze drops to my chest immediately. Ugh! I hate it when men do that! I resist the urge to smack him, and smile with tight lips and start mocking him.

"Why do you ask like that, Darling? Actually, it’s a stupid question, sweetheart because obviously I'm going to stay with you. I'm your wife, not a random woman to come and go out of your house, right, my dear husband?" I smile devilishly finishing the sentence.

The lines on forehead slowly begins to fade as his face hardens with vexation. I bite my lower lip to stop from laughing out.

My smile makes him even madder and he pushes me back and punches the roof of car with a loud thud.

"You are not going to stay with me, tell me how much do you want and I will pay you!" he spats.

Excuse me? He said, he will pay me? How dare him.

*smack!