Married To A Stranger

Karthik Pov:

When all the girls, including my wife playing with Ved’s life, all of us guys were hiding in the next room to watch his misery. We’re stifling our laughs when he started complaining about how evil the three of them are. But damn, Sree was so hot when she’s warning him.

If only this day ends soon.

“My wife is so hot giving all these threats” I wondered loudly, which earned me a smack on my head from Tej and a teasing smirk from Nihal.

“Don’t talk about my sister like that in front of me” Tej warned glaring at me while I just rolled my eyes at him.

“You guys can come out, you too monkey” Anju yelled at us, most importantly at Nihal, using her nickname for him, which suits him more than his actual name. He muttered a string of curses under his breath saying how much of a spoiled brat Anju was.

I dragged both Tej and Nihal to where the girls making Ved’s life miserable. It’s not like he doesn’t deserve that though.

I would never forget the day we first met. He literally fooled me by giving me the impression that he was back here to take away Sree from me. I would like to watch his misery all my life. That would be the best revenge ever.

“As if you’re Miss. India” Nihal mumbled glaring at Anju who was watching Ved with an amused look. Ved started pleading or should I say cursing all of them giving them a lecture about corruption in India.

Thank god, they are not there on my wedding night. Who knows how uncomfortable it could have been? They could’ve eaten me alive. Just thinking about the situation made me shiver thinking about Anju’s evil plans.

When Anvika slipped the master key into Ved’s hands it took less than second for him to sneak into his room when the three evil girls scrutinizing her by their looks.

“Okay now, all girls in one room and all boys in another” Veni ordered, it took me a few seconds to sink in what she just said.

I was about to protest but Anju warned me about not helping me with the surprise I planned for my Sree. When Sree questioned me about it, I kind of told her half-truth that is sending Ved and Niya to Paris. They left sassily linking their hands to each other leaving us behind.

“Dude, stop drooling over your wife” Nihal teased smirking.

“And you stop drooling over my sister’s best friend,” Tej said glaring at him.

“As if you’re not doing the same with my best friend,” he said emphasizing my best friend.

“Eww, why would I drool over my jiju ? For your information, I’m straight” Tej half-yelled.

“You know very well whom I was talking about,” he said gesturing Anvika’s retreating figure.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“I did not drool over her. Why would I? She was 3 years older to me” Tej half-yelled.

A thud sound pulled us out from the awkward conversation, but we stilled when we realized who it was.

Anvika.

She stood there for a few seconds with a blank look. Then she bends down to pick something she dropped. Money? The money Ved gave them.

“They want you to give this to Niya and Ved from three of them in the morning as they will be busy distracting Sreesha” she said in an emotionless voice, handing money to me. She left giving me a nod.

Tej stood there with a look of regret and staring at Anvika’s retreating figure longingly.

“You better go apologize and make things right between you two,” Nihal said pushing Tej forward.

“It is better this way,” Tej said dejectedly shaking his head.

I think there is more to the story than they’re letting us know. After a few minutes, Tej left saying uncle is all alone in the home leaving us puzzled. He had been living with Jayanth Uncle for a while now.

Next day is the day I’ve waited for a long time. Niya kept Sree busy saying that she needs her in help packing for their honeymoon, while Veni and Anju went to my home to pack Sree’s luggage for our honeymoon.

Yup! You heard it right. I finally planned to take her somewhere. A smack on my head dragged me to the real world.

“Stop daydreaming dude! You look like a creep with that creepy smile on your face” Nihal mumbled stealing glances at the front door of Niya’s house every few seconds.

“Stop looking at the door, your to-be girlfriend will come soon. Don’t worry” I said smirking.

His eyes went wide for a second “Please tell me you’re not talking about that Jerry, I mean eww who wants a death wish to make her their girlfriend? Not me” he said making gagging noises.

“As if I’m dying to be this monkey’s girlfriend, eww how could you even think about that?” She said making face.

And then Ladies and Gentlemen they started their daily routine. I wonder when they are going to accept their feelings for each other.

“Thanks for the help, Veni,” I said taking a seat beside her enjoying their bickering.

“Just tell Sree that I’m not the one who packed her luggage,” she said looking at the now physical fight well… including verbal of course. They used almost every ugly animal’s name in their fights.

As if they left any species lives in water…

Too bad they included some birds too…

It’s better to use some popcorn to enjoy this show.

“Want some popcorn?” Veni offered.

“You just read my thoughts,” I told her ” It’s too early for popcorn, where is Aadhya ?” I added wondering where the baby is.

“She’s sleeping. I asked Ved’s mom to look after her for a while before leaving to your house. I directly went to check on her before Anju started her fight” she said looking at Anju who was tackled by Nihal.

“Woah! Guys behave like adults. What’s gotten into you two this early in the morning?” Ved said coming downstairs. Just he was about to say something a pillow hit him hard making him groan.

“Do you think you’re capable of stopping their fight? Think before you mess with them, they are behaving worse than 5yr kids these days” Sree said coming downstairs with Niya who’s trying hard to cover her blushing cheeks.

“Aww, my baby is blushing. Let me guess the reason behind your blush” Anju said leaving annoyed Nihal behind while reaching Niya’s cheeks and whispered something making Sree and Niya gasp.

Sree slapped her shoulder and informed Ved that Niya was ready to go. As planned Niya asked us to give them send-off as she’s very nervous right now. Woah! My sister can act better than anyone.

“Karthik, umm do you have time to go send her off?” Sree asked me, fidgeting with her fingers. Me doing a happy dance inside. It is really hard to act like this and giving her, the-things-I-do-for-you look. When all I wanted to do was sweep her off of her feet and carry her all the way to Airport. I just gave her a firm nod and following them out of the house.

“Good luck bro” Nihal yelled from behind, I glared at him.

Ved and Niya took their car while we took mine, Sree started to apologize for making me late to office. As if I’m planning to go.

“I’m really sorry to bother you Karthi, I know you’re a lot busy with all the pending works due to this wedding, but I couldn’t say no to her” she apologized again looking down.

I just gave her a nod and switched on the radio to keep me from talking to her. If I even utter a word, I’ll tell her all my plans without thinking twice.

We reached the Airport in no time and made our way to Niya and Ved. They already separated our luggage went inside bidding us goodbye. Ved shook my hand and smirked at Sree. Later Niya hugged her muttering something to Sree. Whatever she said made Sree blush furiously.

“Come on let’s go” Sree said “why did they bring extra luggage when they don’t want it” she added with a puzzled look.

“Take a guess,” I said scratching the back of my neck.

“Are you going somewhere? Why didn’t you tell me beforehand? Wait I’ll call someone to pick me” she said tapping her phone.

God! Why does she have to be this dumb?

“Not just me, we. We. Are. Going” I said emphasizing each word.

“We? Where are we going? ” she asked innocently.

“To hell” I said frustrated. Why can’t she understand what I’m doing?

“Hell? I’m not interested to go there. You go ahead and enjoy while I wait for you here. Say hi to Lord Yama for me okay?” She said seriously with a smirk on her face.

“You knew it already?” I stated.

“Took you so long to you to figure out,” she said sticking her tongue out.

“How the heck does you know? I planned everything secretly no one other than our friends and parents know about it, not even your bodyguards” I said running my hand through my hair. She laughed at me like I’m some joker.

“Mom called me this morning and said be careful and gave me a to do and not to-do lists. What I’m not aware was the place we’re going” she said in one breath.

“Mom” I growled. She knew that it was a surprise for Sree yet she has to open her big mouth and ruin my efforts.

“So, tell me, hubby, where are you taking me?” She asked me with a smirk.

“You know all the way, then why were you acting like you don’t know anything,” I asked her to know why in the world she acted so innocently a while ago.

“I didn’t want to ruin your excitement and the idea of surprising me but you’ve to act cocky and ruin the moment” she muttered.

“I was not being cocky okay? Umm I.. I was a bit nervous” I mumbled.

“Aww you’re so cute” she said pinching my cheek “so tell me again, where are you planning to take me?” She added widening her eyes and pouting her lips making it hard on me.

“Shimla,” I said smirking “tease all you want right now, you would never get a chance again for three days” I whispered way too huskily making her shiver. She opened and closed her mouth like a fish to say something, but nothing came out.

I’m so proud of myself for making her speechless.

“Let’s go before we miss the flight” I added dragging her with me.

Let’s hope everything would go as I planned.