"Vivaan, Radhika! Wake up right now!! It's the tenth time I am calling and I am not talking to you two from now!" Nandini shouted from the kitchen and sighed to herself.
"Why do you get so hyper early in the morning?" A husky whisper against her ear and she knew who it was. The bare hands which snaked around her waist and the nose which nuzzled in her neck confirmed the identity of the anonymous.
"Manik! It's nine already and look at them!" She sighed slowly and continued frying the pancakes with her right hand while the left hand caressed his hands around her stomach.
"It's okay honey. It's anyway their holiday and they don't get it always, right? Let them enjoy their Sunday and let me enjoy mine too!" She smiled at the dotting daddy and the adorable husband and let him kiss her neck and nuzzle in her hair.
"Stephen, don't wake the babies up! Let them sleep as of now" He told a helper who was passing by while Nandini pouted and rolled her eyes, smiling to herself "You will spoil our kids with so much of love, Manik!"
"They are made of love, honey and they deserve all the love!" He said and turned around to which Nandini whispered against his chest where her face was the most near to "Mani!"
He hummed and kissed her forehead "How do you look extra pretty and extra cute, every morning?" He said and pulled her closer by her waist to which she giggled and pulled his right cheek "Stop flirting every morning!"
"That keeps us so much in love even after 15 years of marriage!" She caressed his bare shoulders and pecked his lower lip "Let me get the pancakes ready, atleast!"
He hummed and she turned around while he sat on the cabinet and started munching on an apple, making her eat in mid too.
"So, when do we have the party?" She asked continuing with the pancakes to which he thought for a while "At around eight today!"
"And when are they coming back home?" She switched off the engine and walked to him while he spread his legs and she leaned on him.
"I miss them real bad!" She said and hugged him while he smiled and caressed her hair "I guess by next Friday, they will be back!"
"Same!! Mom hoti toh you would have been on our bed but!" He made a face and said to which Nandini widened her eyes and rolling them, snuggled to him "Your little children are already nine years old! Talk with caution"
He snaked his arm around her, keeping the half eaten apple on the cabinet and pulled her closer "We didn't do any crime by making love nor are we doing any!"
She blushed and wrapped her arms around his stomach "But children should not know! Should they?"
"I knew everything by and large when I was nine! Also, I was already in love with you! And that brings to me, this is not the right place to talk something romantic about!" He said in a go and picked her up, instructing Stephen to make the children eat and call them up when they wake up, walked to their bedroom.
Gently putting her down on the bed, he hovered on her and nuzzled in her neck while she moaned and whispered his name like a fairy.
"I was just nine but heads over heels for you! Like I still remember you wearing those little ponies to school and running around the corridor while I would just look at you!! Oh my sheez, Nandiniiii!!" He exclaimed peeping from her neck and taking her in a hug again, rotating their positions which had now her above him, pulling her tightly by her waist and securing his hands around them "Babyyyy!! Why are you such an addiction!!" She giggled as he said that making him smile.
"We were so little Nandini, so so little and now!! It's more than 30 years of our love!!" He said and looked into her eyes "I cannot believe I have been in love with you since so many years and I cannot even get over you!! It's so natural and organic!!" Nandini smiled and rubbed her nose with his making him smile who turned her over and kissed her on the cheek.
"Papa!! Mom!! Open the door, no?" Vivaan and Radhika banged on the door to which Manik rolled his eyes "These kids just don't want any siblings, I tell you!!"
Nandini giggled making Manik smile and he stood up and went to open the door. As soon as he unlocked it, both the kids ignored him wholly and ran to Nandini who took them in a hug, sitting on the bed.
Manik locked the door and went to sit on the bed and Vivaan sat on Manik's lap, snuggling to his father.
Both the twins were absolute duplicate of their kids. Nine-year old, Radhika's dark brown eyes shone like her father and her fuller, pink lips twinned with her mother. Vivaan's chiseled face was just like his daddy but he had a better sense of fashion just like his mother and so unlike his mother.
"Dad!! I loved your movie!! Radhika aunty was looking so beautiful, I swear!' Vivaan said and hi-fived with Radhika who giggled while Manik gulped his saliva down and cursed both his naughty tiny-tots as he saw Nandini walking away in pretext of some work.
He made Vivaan sit on the bed and followed her, running behind her, calling out her name "Nandini!! Baby, stop acting like a child in front of our children!!"
He ran behind her when she said "I am not a child!! And stop following me!" Saying so, she walked to the garden and was about to walk past the swing when he pulled her on his lap to the swing "Shh! Bilkool thanda!!"
Nandini pouted and snaked her arms around his neck "I am trying to be thanda! But that bi-"
"No swearing, jaan!" He warned to which she pouted and hid her face in the nape of his neck "She's no one my love. I just did a movie with her, she confessed her feelings, that's it!! At the end, I am still Mrs. Nandini Manik Malhotra' little monster, Manik!! Ain't I?"
"Not a monster! You are a cutie!!" She said and pulled his cheek to which he smirked and said "Not even on bed?"
"Shut up!!" She hit him on his chest and both laughed out loudly when the kids shouted from outside "Daddd!! Karan Uncle's on call!!"
"Again a movie?" He sighed and pulled her closer to which she smiled and pecked his lips "My actor!! My superstar!! My mega star!!"
"Always your Manik!" He whispered and touched her forehead with his making her blush.
"And always your Nandini!" She whispered heavily and softly pressed her lips against his, caressing his chiseled jaw and cheeks.
A DESIGNER, LOVED BY AN ACTOR.
Do tell me, how was the book overall!
And also, did anyone notice I ended the whole story on the similar note I started with? I started with a kiss with a reel star, and ended with a kiss from his real star! ❤ ✨