loving you..

Aditi could feel the warm sunshine on her face. She opened her eyes slowly, but did not feel like getting up. Turning the other side she saw Rahul cuddled under covers, still sleeping like a baby. "He looks so sweet and child-like when he is sleeping, no wonder i love him so much",thought Aditi. She kissed softly on his forhead and whispered into his ears, “ Wakey-wakey now, sleepyhead”. “You think I am sleeping huh??”, said Rahul as he suddenly opened his eyes and wrapped arms around Aditi and started showering kisses all over her face. “Hmm..naughty!!”, Aditi said though she knew she was melting in Rahul’s warm and loving embrace.

After coochie-cooing on bed for sometime, they finally got up. It was a weekend, so holiday for Aditi and Rahul who were both software professionals in a reputed IT firm. Rahul and Aditi had been dating for five years now, starting from college days and for the past one year they had been living together. Rahul is thinking about popping the question to Aditi for sometime now but he knows Aditi is very scared of marriage. She is afraid she will hinder her free spirit and career. And she is also against the institution of leaving her parents and living with the guys parents. She thinks its demeaning to women. Sometimes to pull her leg Rahul will call her “ my little feminist” and see her going red in anger. “I am a humanist, not a feminist”, she will declare proudly.

Rahul really wants to marry her and start a family. He has always been a romantic person and dreamt about a fairy tale ending to his long relationship with this one woman of her life. But Aditi is just too stubborn about her ideals sometimes. Today he decided enough is enough. He cant take this live-in relationship anymore. He will ask for her hand today and tell her how much he wants her to be a part of his life. If she still refuses, he will have no other option but to move on. His family wants him to get married as soon as possible but the only girl he loves doesn’t want to marry at all. It also hurts him to go against his family and not get married because after all they are the persons who bought him up with love and care. He don’t want to hurt them either.

Aditi knows how much Rahul wants to marry her. But she is always afraid what if like many other guys he also changes after marriage and expect her to cook and clean for him? What if getting married and having children becomes a hindrance to her career? She wants to start a family too. Rahul is the only person she can ever marry if she does get married. She loves him so much. But she is just too afraid. What if her in-laws don’t accept her free spirit? She would not give up her ideals at any cost. She has tolerated enough crap from the whole world. She wont do that anymore. But she wants him so bad. She wants to spend her life with him. Its so confusing for her sometimes.

Saturday is a cleaning day for Rahul and Aditi. After a whole day of working hard to clean up their messy house, in the evening, both sat on the couch really tired. “I am in no mood to cook today”, declared Aditi with a sigh. “Neither am I, lets order Chinese and rent watch movie together on the couch and spent a romantic evening, what say??”, suggested Rahul with a mischievious twinkle in his eyes. Aditi agreed with a smile. After making some phone call and ordering food they settled on the couch to watch the movie they rented a few days back but never watched.

They snuggled into each others arms as the movie started. It was a romantic movie and towards the end of it when the guy was proposing the girl, Rahul decided to make his move. He pulled Aditi closer and kissed her saying,”I dunno how to say such romantic lines as the guy in the movie but I really really want to spent my life with you, Aditi. The things that you are so scared of may not happen also, you know. Atleast give me a chance to show you that I will never hurt your ideals but I will love for what you are for forever and always. I am sure you wont regret it.” He looked at Aditi’s face. It was expressionless and she was completely silent. He was breathless. If she says no today he has decided to leave her and he knows it wont be easy. But he has got no other choice. After a few seconds, two tears rolled down Aditi’s cheek. “I love you and want you so much, Rahul. I want to spend my life with you. You bet I do. Never let me complain,ok? I was stupid so I was even afraid to give you a chance. I am sorry.” and Aditi hid her face in Rahul’s chest. “You are stupidly cute sometimes, you know that?”,Rahul lifted her face and they kissed like they have never kissed before.

Suddenly the doorbell rang. They got startled. Rahul got up and opened the door.It was their Chinese food delivery. He bought it back to Aditi. Aditi said,”Now my sweet caring to-be hubby,I want to eat on bed tonight” and gave a naughty wink. “Oh, you bet you do”,said Rahul with a grin and swung her up in arms and carried her and the food off towards bedroom.