Love in Arranged Marriage (Completed)

Chapter 3 : A Day with Him

Aditi's POV

When all the guests left the house, it was already 7 pm. They are planning an Engagement for next Sunday or 2 days before the wedding day.

Priya is continuously calling me, but I didn't receive a call, As I was too much confused about my marriage and life. I didn't think about my life while departing from Baroda in the morning. My friends are always caressing and worried about me. So I dropped a message to Priya that we will meet tomorrow, she will come to my home and we will go to Nicky's home.

It's already late so I started to cook dinner. I cooked normal Gujarati food, sabji roti and khichdi. Because my Aunt is never used to cooking when I'm at home.

Everyone had dinner and my uncle's phone is ringing, He picked up and talked with someone and it's about my engagement ceremony and it was decided on Next Sunday. My uncle announced the engagement day and everyone are happy except me and my grandma. I need some more time to know about that person. But what can I do after all..??

I was thinking about my whole day while I was in the bed. My phone buzzed many times with messages tones but I don't want to see them and Within a minute I dozed off in the bed with a tight hug to my pillow.

The next morning, I wake up early and prepare breakfast and have breakfast with my grandma. This moment is precious to me. I'm ready as Priya will come anytime to pick me. She comes and I ride on her scooty and we departed for Nicky's home. She asked me more than ten times, what happened yesterday that I want to meet them both today, and we are going to Baroda tomorrow early morning, So we are going to meet tomorrow but I can't wait till tomorrow. Finally, we reached Nicky's house and her mom welcomed us. We rushed to her room.

Both of them attacked me and asked a lot of questions. I make them silent and hesitantly said them,..... "A....Actually....I'm engaged yesterday......."

.....".....What....???"......They both shouted with shocked expressions on their face. I nodded my head in response...

They both are happy for me and asked," ...who is that lucky Hunk???....."

Now I think how foolish I am....!!! I don't know his name... My family doesn't care to say even his name to me. How big dumb I am...!! when I met him, I didn't ask his name... But how could I ask him his name..Ohhh... no.

Now what to tell both about him. I thought how i***t he was, He has taken my number but neither he gave his number nor he messaged me or called me...

"...Heyy... where are you lost...?"... Nicky says.

"Nowhere.." I replied.

Suddenly my phone is ringing and it's an unknown number. I was so tense that I don't want to talk to anyone, though I picked up the phone to avoid answering them.

I said, "Hello"

"Hello".Hii...I'm Jayvin. How are you??.." His sound felt familiar.

"And that's him..." My sense shouted. He sent me a good night massage yesterday and a good morning massage today. He has sent also f******k requests. How dumb I was... I didn't respond to him yet. I'm the biggest fool. Priya played the pinch and brought me out of my thoughts.

"Hello...Hello... Hello.." sound the side. I said Hello...

"My parents say to buy an engagement ring for you, I wish if you will come with me, If you don't mind..will you come??.." He asked hesitantly. I looked at my friends, who understand who is on another side... The silence in the room made them hear what he said to me. They are excitedly forcing me to say.." Yes.." I deny them and nod my head negatively.

I tell him "No".

Nicky interrupted between calls and said loudly,.."We will come..where to go..??

He replied, "Valsad is easy for you so see you at Valsad after an hour..."

He cut the phone and the very next second I'm scolding them for agreeing with him, " Are you crazy ?? If my family will know about it, I will be finished. Don't you know that..??"

Priya says, "Nothing will happen, Don't worry and Nick, you get ready, we are going to meet our Jiju....(brother in law)." I am blushing hard hearing her. We three are school days friends. The only thing I fear is what they both think when they will see him.

I can see happiness in eyes of my friends for me. Nicky got married last year, Priya is engaged with Shreyash, So they both are worried about me, as they both know very well the rude behaviour of my family.

Within ten minutes, we left the house. We reached Valsad after twenty-five minutes of driving. Priya and Nicky stopped their mopeds at the biggest showroom of Jewellery in Valsad. "Hey,.. you i***t, why you both stop here?? Maybe they will take us to another Jewellery shop." I scold them.

Priya says, "Be calm dear, make a call to jijaji."

I nod my head negatively."Don't be so stubborn, make a call." she said.

I denied it again. We see a car is going to the underground parking, I see him driving the car. I point out towards the car. Very soon Jayvin came with his sister, we all entered the showroom. First I thought they both will tease me a lot but thank god they are a little bit silent.

A salesgirl took us towards the ring selling counters, where his sister Megha has said to show a ring for us. at a while, Priya interrupts and ask for a platinum love band. I raised my eyebrows while giving her an angry look. The salesgirl shows us so many rings, he and his sister are choosing the rings. And he often asks me to final the rings, I choose one pair of love bands which look exclusive and costly. We both tried a ring and it's perfect on our fingers. During the shopping, he doesn't say a single word, I too. All the time, he is playing with his phone. My friend and Megha Dii are talking to each other, He looks at me sometimes, I notice it, and I blush.

They also want to buy a "Payal" (an Anklet) for me so we go to another counter and very soon we choose a payal for me.

I have paid for his rings through my debit card and he paid for my ring and Payal. We left the showroom.

"If you don't mind, can we go for saree shopping ?? I wish which sarees will be given to you in the wedding rituals, you should choose them. Will you??" Megha Dii asked me.

" No thanks dii, I would like whatever you will buy for me, no need to choose," I replied. She smiled at me. She took my hand and said, " Mumma wishes to shop sarees as per your choice and Jay (Jayvin) also wishes the same, so, please. I can't say no to her and we go to the biggest clothes showroom in Valsad. There are different sarees counter on the second floor. We reached there through the lift. Dii told sales girls to show sarees. We choose some sareesé and we need to buy three sarees. Lots of insists by Dii, I finalized three sarees, one is light green and dark pink border kanjivaram saree, another one is white and golden coloured south Indian cotton soft silk saree with peacock designs, the last one is heavy embroidery work on the white net and blue coloured saree. He paid the bill. We are hell tired today and shopping is especially boring work for me. Because I rarely go shopping.

During this shopping it's already 2 pm, we missed lunch so we go to restaurants for some snacks. He has ordered pizza for all of us, we had a pizza and left the restaurant. Dii asked me to go to a beach with him, my friends forcibly sent me with him. Isn't it horrible? I doubt that I have friends or enemies under their face masks.

Priya says, "You should tell your secrets to him, today you have a chance and time, there should not be any secrets between wife and husband. He learns the truth from somewhere, it's better that you tell him all about yourself." I nod my head. Priya and Nicky go with Dii to her home and told me that they will wait there for me.

Now we both have private time for each other. It's awkward to be with him just in a single day. On the way to the beach, we don't say a single word to each other. He parked the car at the parking area and We both said together. " I want to say something.." and we laughed. He said you can sày first, but I denied and I gave him a chance. He becomes nervous, his expression has been changed. He took my hand in his hand and said, " Thank you again. I don't know why a pretty girl like you, accept my marriage proposal. I'm not so handsome hunk. you deserve better than me."

" When I agreed to marry you, I accepted you as my life partner, my everything and today this doesn't matter. I don't have a problem with you. Being pretty by face is not important but the heart must be beautiful and that you have." I said with a blushing smile.

He smiled at me, "Thank you, Thank you for coming into my life."

I smiled back at him.

He asked me what I want to say to him. We are still in the car so I told him to come out. In a few minutes we are walking at the seashore, the cold air touches us. I can feel cold. My silky long black hairs began to fly by the cold breeze at the seashore. He took my hand in his and looked at me, as he wanted permission to touch me, I gave a shyly smile and the next moment we were walking along the shore with our hands in hand.

"What you want to say?", He asked after a few minutes of silence.

" I have a different family, you will know slowly about it. I think they should have told you that I'm doing classes for competitive exams, but this is not true. My family don't have perfect information about me, they are not interested to know about me. I'm not doing any classes. I have completed B.A, M.A., M.phil. and now I'm in PhD. I'm a gold medalist in all degrees. Due to my result, I got a job as a lecturer temporarily at Baroda. I will leave the job but after completion of my PhD. It's my dream to get a doctorate in English literature." I said all these very fast. I can see the shocking expression on his face.

"You are at Baroda for the last six-year, and your family don't know that you are not doing any classes but you are a lecturer. How's it possible?" he exclaimed.

"I told you very first that my family is not interested to know more about me, there are some reasons, I will explain later," I replied.

" For Your further study, I don't have any problems but..". He said.

I asked with confusion..." But...?...What..?"

" After marriage, I do not want to stay away from you.."He said and I smiled with blush.

"You look more pretty while blushing.." He laughed.

He became serious and stopped me, " I promise you that our life will be the best, I will fulfil all your dreams, I will fill our lives with happiness, trust me. I'm not so handsome or charming as every girl wants, but I will be the best husband ever. Thanks for agreeing to marry me." I smiled at him.

" I trust you," I replied.

"I think we should go now," I said. He nodded his head. We reached the parking, he opens a passenger door for me and I seat in the car. He took his driver seat, he brought something from the back seat, he gave a red rose and big Dairy milk silk chocolate heart pop up " I don't have any idea what to give you something special, so I brought these for you, I hope you like it." He said.

" Like. No, I love it... Thank you so much for the rose and this chocolate.." I replied with happiness is visible in my eyes.

"Will you help me to finish this chocolate, it's too big so, I'm not able to finish it."

I opened the chocolate, I give him the first bite of chocolate, then the next bite for me, we finish the chocolate and he starts to drive, in a few minutes we are at her sister's home.

On the way, He told me that he will leave tonight for Surendranagar, where he is doing his job as a lecturer in engineering college. I told him that we will depart for Baroda, tomorrow early morning by train.

It's already late so we didn't waste a time and left Megha Dii's home. Priya asked me what I said to him about myself. I told her everything that happened there and what we talked about. He left me at my grandma's home. I freshen up myself and run towards the kitchen. I started to cook dinner because I'm a hell tired and too much hungry. We had dinner and I told my grandma about my day.

After washing the dishes, we go to the bed, where grandma gives some money and told me that Anita arrived in the morning, she gave it to me for purchasing a ring for Jayvin. But my grandma knows that I don't need their help as I'm an independent person. But she forced me to keep this money with me. I put them in the cupboard. I took my place in my bed and hugged my pillow. I am smiling like a mad and checking my phone. And that's for what I'm checking up my phone, his massage. I replied to his messages and say "Good night." I set the alarm on my phone. I didn't know when I was asleep rather than his thoughts.