***Sahana's P. O. V***

"Fort!" I pouted.

"Valley!" Arush grunted.

"Fort and that's it!!" I hissed.

"Valley and that's it!!" He hissed.

"A happy wife equals happy life Arush... Remember that!" I grunted.

"Oh yeah?" He smirked, his arms winding themselves around my waist before he pulled me towards him.

"I meant... You have to agree to me" I bit my lip as he ran his lips along the length of my jaw, his beard grazing my skin and tingling along the length.

"I did agree to you and you too agreed to me all day yesterday... And even all night long!" He winked as he reminded me of our intimate act from yesterday.

"I want to visit the fort Arush!" I whined, trying to not blush and not get lost to his touch as he moved his hand inside my shirt, his hand grazing my skin.

"How about we make a quick tour of the fort before we head out to the valley for a nice romantic evening?" Arush suggested, pecking my lips.

"That sounds good!" I grinned.

"Well, since the fort opens at 11 o clock... And it's still 6.30 in the morning...." Arush winked suggestively.

"Yeah we have some time..." I flushed as his hand reached the side of my breast.

"Hmm some time to kill..." His voice was the seductive growl as he kissed my cheek.

"So let's go for a nice treck come on!" I grinned, pushing his hand away from me and getting off the bed.

Arush looked confused as he sat up on the bed and blinked at me, whilst I giggled.

"This is unfair yaar!!" He whined, fisting his hair in frustration.

"All is fair in love and war yaaaaarrrrrr!!" I giggled, before rushing to the bathroom.

*******

"C'mon grandpa!!" I giggled as I stood at the end of the curve, panting hard, and looking down at Arush who was still a long way down from where I was.

We were trecking on the nearby hill and apparently the view from here was majestic - the fog still hid most of the morning sunlight.

Grumbling under his breath and huffing and puffing, Arush slowly walked ahead, sweating heavily.

"Such a romantic place and such a nice hotel room ... But no!!! Hummari biwi ko toh trecking karni hai!!! Romance nahi karni!!" He grumbled, glaring at me as he slowly inched towards me.

"You have a rock hard body! Who would've thought that the guy who looks physically fit can't climb up a tiny hill?" I shook my head in disapproval.

"Never... Judge.... A... Book... By .. it's .. cover!" He huffed, panting hard.

"I'm sure.. . You're dear brother.... Too. . can't. " He trailed off, halting and huffing before gulping down water from his bottle.

He swore and looked around, before groaning at hoe much we still had to walk to make it to the top of the hill.

"Bhai is physically fit... And he can climb up hills like this with such ease.... Did you know that he got Ahana bhabhi also into trekking?" I crossed my arms across my chest as I glared down at my slowly walking fiance.

"Well... Boo hoo for your bhai!" Arush swore, as he finally stood in front of me, still panting hard.

"Wah such a romantic place and look at my hot fiance!" I rolled my eyes at him.

"Hot toh hum hai hi!" He winked, clutching at my hand and tugging me towards him.

"Arush!" I gasped, looking around for people but the area was deserted.

"You wanted me to do some romance...." He smirked, his hands moving underneath my shirt.

"I wanted you to walk faster!" I grinned, easily getting myself off his grip and runnig ahead.

"C'mon Sahana this is not fair!! I did so much of mehnat it's only fair I got my reward!!" I heard Arush whine as I turned and paced up the hill.

"You come atop the hill, you'll get your reward!!" I yelled back, turning only to find a sour faced Arush slowly walking up.

Making my way around the hill, I walked ahead, turning back to check on Arush time to time.

I know bhai and Ahana bhabhi were here, but I'd told bhabhi that today Arush and I would be here so she better not be here today as well!

Ahana bhabhi and I had a deal that Arush and I wouldn't spoil their day as they roamed around the place yesterday, and she and bhai wouldn't spoil our day ad Arush and I would roam around today.

Given the fact that my bhai loves to treck, I surely hope he's not here this morning!

"I'll buy you... A platinum... Ring.... Anything... But please... Let's.... Just... Stop .. I... Can't..."Arush trailed off, panting heavily, and making me turn back to look at him.

He was a few meters away from me, bending over and panting heavily. Sweat trickled down his face and he was looking around, huffing and growling.

Smiling at how cute he looked, I made my way towards him, before squatting in front of him.

Wiping his forehead, I cupped his face before brushing my lips to his.

"We are so close to the summit... We can't give up now" I smiled at him.

"It's so difficult" he pouted, still panting.

"We started off a little rocky in our relationship, and now look where we are? Gonna get married soon!" I smiled at Arush.

"But... What if... What if I find our marriage difficult too?" He asked, standing straight and looking very worried.

"You love me Arush... Now think if our marriage will be difficult?" I smiled, holding his hands.

He shook his head in denial, now looking little mollified.

"Hand in hand we'll walk and sort everything out, right?" I smiled at him, tightening my hold on his hand and moving forward with Arush.

"Together" he nodded his head, smiling at me.

And together, we walked hand in hand, to the top of the hill.

************

"Are you a fruit?" I scratched my head, rolling my eyes at Arush.

"Nope" he grinned.

"Are you.... A vegetable?" I sighed.

"Nope" he chuckled.

"Arush it's 20 questions and I'm already down to my last 2 questions! I've talked about every possible thing on Earth and you're saying no to everything!! Wait... Are you something extra-terrestrial?" I asked.

"Firstly, you've not talked about everything on Earth because you still didn't guess what I'm thinking about. And secondly, NO!" Arush chuckled, looking as though he was enjoying himself thoroughly.

Well someone was enjoying themself! I definitely wasn't!!

"I give up!" I huffed, crossing my arms across my chest and looking away out of the window.

I was already pissed off that we were returning home tonight - a day earlier than planned, because Arush wanted to take me shopping tomorrow and personally choose a lehenga for me... And on top of it, he's being so irritable....

"I was thinking of the share market buddhu!! Such an easy thing and you couldn't even guess it!" He chuckled, like yeah I could easily guess that out of every possible thing on Earth my dear finance was thinking about the share market?!

Biting my tongue to stop myself from swearing and cursing Arush, I looked down at my lap, to my hand, and the stone glinting on my ring-finger - why was my guy so stupid?

"...and then there was a dip in the market exactly like I'd anticipated!! And man, they all suffered such losses!! On the other hand..." Arush's voice went on and off in the background, hardly falling into my ears, as I continued to glare at the ring in my hand - why was Arush so.... Unromantic at times?

"... So now they're all like oh Arush you're the smartest man please suggest where and how we can invest!" He chuckled, bringing me to reality.

"How can you be so unromantic at times? Like really Arush? Stock market is all that you can talk about right now? Our effing weekend together has been cut short by a day and now instead of spending the last couple of hours with me in this romantic drive you're frickin'talking about stocks?? What's the matter with you Arush?!" I yelled, unable to take it anymore.

For some reason I was feeling exceptionally irritable and all I wanted to do was spend some quite time... Probably alone... And away from this disappointment. What was happening to me?

But instead of speaking, Arush pulled the car to a halt, making my blood boil.

"What the fuck Arush??" I hissed, turning to glare at him.

But he just pursed his lips and shook his head before indicating me to look front.

And turning my gaze to the front, I gasped - for we were halted right in front of a home-stay!

"I wanted to spend one day here... This place has a beautiful private pool, and private hot-spring... They even have a private waterfall! Just wanted a good end to this weekend..." He trailed off, looking nervous.

"And if you've forgotten... We've already decided on your lehenga and jewelry before coming away for the weekend! " He smiled.

Oh shit how come I'd forgotten that?

"And it's Valentine's weekend... They had a couple's special..." He bit his lip.

"So if you're done shouting at me, shall we?" He asked nervously, pushing his hand forward towards me.

And as quickly as I'd become angry on him, I also had this explosion of love for him, making my eyes water - of course he loves me and he always does things really special just for me! He always goes the distance for me!

He never complaints if I go on blabbering about movies or about some book I've read! He always listens to me patiently. Why did I get pissed at him just because he said we better go back home and prepare for our wedding?!

Why have I become so moody?

Oh fuck!

"Damn!" I cursed under my breath, biting my lip and looking through my phone nervously.

"What?" Arush asked me sadly.

"Oh shit!!!!" I groaned as I saw the notification from my period-reminder app - I was PMSing!!

WHY GOD WHY?? WHY MAKE ME PMS DURING THE MOST ROMANTIC WEEKEND OF MY LIFE SO FAR?

"What??" Arush asked anxiously.

"I'm PMSing!" I groaned, shaking my head.

"You're what?" Arush asked, sounding thoroughly confused.

"PMSing... Pre-menstrual syndrome... Like almost around a week before periods, we girls get this crazy mood swings.... Hormonal ups and downs, that can usually be solved by chocolate. When I'm at home and PMSing and bhai's there, he gets me loads of chocolates and just spends the entire day out of the house because I end up being a pain in the ass!" I chuckled.

"Oh mood swings... Ahana gets them too... So she usually just sleeps the whole day if she's at home, or locks herself in her room saying she wants to be alone" he shrugged.

"Well then my bhai is lucky but I'm afraid you're not! I get bitchy moody and can go from happy to sad to angry to romantic in a jiffy! Like just in the past 5 minutes, I went from pissed off to sad to angry to happy to preachy!" I shrugged.

"So all I have to do is get you chocolates?" He asked, gulping nervously.

"And leave me alone but cuddle with me but don't breathe too loudly but kiss me on top of my head but don't hold me too tight but hold me tight but feed me something nice and spend some time with me but don't annoy me" I shrugged.

"Um.... So what should I do?" He cleared his throat.

"What the fuck I just said Arush! Don't annoy me!! Itna sa bhi kaam nahi hota kya tum se?" I hissed, feeling very irritable.

"So what should I do?" Arush asked again.

I turned to look at him as he looked at me helplessly. The love in his eyes and the helplessness on his face made my heart well with love, and my eyes well with tears.

"What did I do now??" Arush gasped, cupping my face and looking at me with shock as tears poured down my face.

"I don't know!" I whined, sniffling and pouting at Arush.

Through my blurry vision, I could just make out Arush's confused face before he wiped my tears with the pad of his thumb.

"How about we to upstairs, freshen up and have a nice dinner on the river boat? There's gonna be chocolate fondue, and fresh fruits and cheese and nice dessert..." He finally asked.

I couldn't help lick my lips at the prospect of chocolate fondue and cheese and crackers to which he chuckled.

"And then we could cuddle and watch a movie in bed?" He kissed my forehead.

"That sounds good" I nodded my head.

And with that, he kissed the top of my head before getting out the car.

True, reality wasn't as romantic as I'd anticipated, but it wasn't so bad either now was it?

To be continued...

A/n - So sorry for the delay but I have an exceptionally busy month ahead. I have a lot of personal stuff going on and I'm barely getting time for office stuff. Please forgive me for the delay.

I can come up with another update before I get super busy with life... I won't be able to update till at least March after that.

Please forgive me, and I do hope you can understand my situation.

Hope you liked the chapter,
Love,
Megha

P. S - happy Republic day everyone ❤️