Chapter 15

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Aditya was channel surfing on TV when Anjali finally walked in the room for the night. He had been waiting for her for past hour and half, fighting fatigue and boredom. He had been forbidden to use the laptop, of course, by her, and his phone was also taken away. He was ordered to rest by her and his mom who had stopped by earlier to check on him.

Anjali turned to close the door and lock it, and then turned towards him and frowned at him, but he ignored her look. Uh oh, she thought to herself, he looked mad. "Why are you still up? You should be resting." He gave her a smoldering look and went back to channel surfing.

She decided to leave him alone for the time being. She took out her nightclothes and went in the bathroom to change. When she came out, his hand paused on the remote, when he noticed she was wearing his favorite green nightgown instead of her usual simple sari. When she noticed him looking at her she smiled, but he looked away.

He pretended to ignore her and continued to change the channel on the TV, but his whole attention was on her and what she was doing. He watched as she removed her jewelry, then apply some cream to her freshly scrubbed face. Without any make up she looked twenty instead of twenty-four.

Anjali glanced at him from the corner of her eye and smiled. She knew he was mad because she took too long to come up, when she had promised him she wouldn't take too long. She had tried, but the family members all wanted something or other after dinner, then Maa and auntie had wanted to talk about the Janmasthami celebrations. She got up from the chair and went and stood beside him. She took the remote out of his hand to turn the TV off. He glared at her before turning away from her. She went to the other side of the bed got under the covers to wait for him to say something. She looked over to see his eyes closed. She realized he is not going to say anything so she moved closer to him, she knew exactly how to get his attention.

She just stared at his handsome face for few moments. She can feel her heart pounding at the thought of touching him as she pleased. Should she? She brought her face close to his, leaned in closer and touched her cheek to his stubble cheek, rubbing back and forth. She moved back a fraction and gave him a small kiss on his cheek. When she made to move back his left arm snaked around her to pull her hard against him, at the same time he moved on his back so she was half on the bed and half sprawled over him.

Aditya had pretended to be unaware of her, but was alert for her every move. He had purposely stayed silent to see if she would speak to him. In the past few days, he had been the one to make the first move towards her. While she hadn't rejected him, she hadn't been welcoming either. She had known what she felt for him, but hid from those feeling and kept her distance. When she ran to the hospital earlier that evening, she had basically told him how she felt about him, yet he still wanted her to be the first to come to him tonight.

He moved her hair from her face and gave her a disapproving look. "You made me wait for over an hour, then put on my favorite nightgown when I am injured and can't do anything about it, and all I get is a kiss on the cheek? I don't think so."

Anjali smiled at him, but was unable to hold his gaze for long and looked away shyly. She had never done anything like that before, so she wasn't sure how to respond to his teasing. He turned again so now she was on her back, he rested his right arm on the bed, brought his left arm out from under her. She looked at him in concern, "What are you doing? You are going to hurt your arm." She tried to move him back but he wouldn't budge.

He placed his finger on her soft lips. "Shh.....don't say anything, I am fine, my arm is not hurting, and you still owe me for making me wait and for wearing this nightgown tonight. Now be quiet while I collect my reward for being good." She flushed at his sensual look.

She closed her eyes when he kissed her on the forehead, then moved to her eyes, he then gave her a kiss on both cheeks. He hovered over her lips, but didn't close the distance, instead he kissed each corner of her lips before pressing his lips firmly to hers. At first the kiss was sweet and tender, just rubbing of lips back and forth gently, but soon it turned deep and passionate.

Aditya forgot everything but Anjali and feel of her lips on his, he broke the kiss to brush his lips down her neck and below. He wished he hadn't injured his arm, he wanted to remove both of their clothes and make her completely his, but then if he hadn't been injured, it would have taken them longer to be where they are at right this moment. He will stop in few moments, but for now he wanted to taste her and pleasure her just a little longer. He moved down to her cleavage and nuzzled her there, he felt her hand on his head. He didn't know if it was to pull him closer or push him away. He couldn't resist taking the flesh between her breasts in his mouth and sucking it hard. She gasped and pulled him closer. He was finally able to move back up her neck and to her lips, he gave her few gentle kisses to bring her back. He then pulled away from her to lie on his back to take several deep breaths to slow his racing heart.

Anjali put her head on his shoulder and her arm around him, while Aditya put his left arm around her to bring her closer. They stayed that way for several moments, silently comforting each other. He looked down at her, "Are you ok?" She looked up at him, smiled and nodded her head yes.

He wanted to talk to her about her brother, but he didn't know if she was ready to talk about Raj. After a while Anjali stirred from his arms and got up from the bed to turn the lights off. She came back after few moments, she put her head back on his shoulder and her arm around him again. They both slept dreamlessly in each other's arms that night.

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Next afternoon Anjali walked into the house still in daze. She couldn't believe who Kajal wanted to marry. At least the family will approve, she won't have to worry about that. She wanted to talk to Aditya about it first and together they can talk to the family. Kajal had been little apprehensive about Aditya's reaction but Anjali assured her that he would definitely approve of her choice, smiling secretly.

When she walked into the room she didn't see him and she frowned. Where did he go? She turned and walked back down. She went into the kitchen to see Hina auntie making tea.

She gave her a smile, "Anjali you are back, good. Aditya is outside in the garden, he wanted me to send you out there as soon as you returned. You can take the tea also."

Anjali was curious when she saw that the tray was set up with snacks and tea was for more than one person. She shrugged her shoulders and thought may be he had company. She took the tray and went towards the garden.

She stumbled a little when she saw her brother sitting with Aditya. She took a deep breath and walked towards them, she placed the tray on the table and kept her eyes on the tray.

Aditya could see she was unsure. "Anjali, where did Kajal drag you to now?" He needed to distract her for a moment.

She knew exactly what he was trying to do and was grateful for it. She smiled at him to let him know she was okay, "I will have to tell you about it later." She then glanced towards her brother.

She could see he looked unsure and was watching her closely. "How are you Bhai?"

He gave her a relieved look and smiled at her gratefully. "I am fine."

She took the empty seat between him and Aditya. She looked at Aditya who gave her an encouraging smile and squeezed her hand. Anjali turned towards her brother. "I am sorry about yesterday, I.." 

She trailed off when Raj shook his head.

"Don't, you don't need to apologize to me. I should be the one saying sorry. I wish I could go back and take everything I said to you on that day back, but I can't. All I can do is say I am sorry for all the pain and hurt I caused you that day and ask for your forgiveness, but if you can't I will understand." Raj was unable to look his sister in the eye. He could feel his eyes burning at the thought of what she must have felt when he had turned away from her.

She could see that her brother regretted hurting her, and it was causing him indescribable pain for hurting her. She hesitantly put her hand on his and squeezed he looked up at her. "Bhai, I do forgive you. Yesterday I realized that life is too short, for us to waste time on holding on to the past hurts. We were victims of some people's greediness and jealousy and I refuse to let them continue to gloat over the fact that they were able to cause a rift between us. I just regret that I didn't try hard enough to contact you once you left."

Raj wiped the tears on his sister's face. "Thank you, and you are not the only one who regrets this, I also should have contacted you when I realized what happened. There are things you don't know, that I have to tell you about, but we will save that for another day. I just came by to see Aditya, I had heard about his accident. I have to go now, but I promise we will have our long talk soon." He stood up to leave but stopped when he felt her hand on his arm. He turned to look at her. She surprised him by hugging him, Raj hugged her back and knew that she really forgave him. He looked at Aditya over his sister's head and mouthed a thank you. Raj kissed her on the forehead and bid them both good bye. He didn't want his sister to see the tears in his eyes.

Anjali watched as her brother left, and finally felt as though a huge weight had been lifted off of her shoulders. She turned when she felt Aditya's hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay? She gave him a watery smile and nodded her head yes. He put his arm around her shoulder and hugged her to his side, giving her a moment to compose herself before they went inside the house.


A/N: Sorry for making you guys wait. I got caught up in work and didn't have time to update this past week. Will post more chapters in next couple of days.

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