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Hey di happy birthday. Stay blessed and stay safe. This is a small token of love from my side. Hope you like it

This os is slightly AU and from the Tarika's pov.

Eternity

I wouldn't say it was love at first sight. The first time I saw him was when he had arrived for some work at the forensic lab. So it wasn't something extraordinary.

But soon I caught those sideways glances and my heart would start fluttering with his deep male baritone saying 'tarika jee'.

My mind kept telling me he was just flirting. But somehow my heart felt, it was more than that.

Flirting wasn't one sided for too long as well because by then his remarks would make me blush and sometimes I would retaliate.

After a month or so into my joining, we went on friend dates and binge watched movies during the weekends.

By that time whenever we passed by, our friends would start teasing us indirectly.

But we hadn't confessed yet and we loved this unwavered bond of love.

But you might ask me, if we hadn't confessed yet, then how did I know for sure that it was love?

Well I knew because my heart knew.

Yeah maybe that sounded illogical.

But can everything be justified or logically explained ?

A few months had passed in this manner. We were 'a couple' according to everyone.

Yes . But unofficially.

My heart wasn't wrong though. Because exactly 7 months into our friendship, we became a couple officially.

The confession was out of the blue as well and that's what made it special.

It was mid October and winter had almost arrived.

We both had come to collect some evidences from a hotel.

When our work was over, we decided to grab a quick dinner from a nearby coffee shop. We'd just finished eating and were about to leave the coffee shop.

Just then an incident happened. A goon was about to harm an old lady. As cid officers , we immediately stepped in and came to her rescue.

The woman blessed us profusely and then said "sada suhagan raho" and went away before we could say anything.

Somehow the notion felt nice. So maybe that's why I didn't say anything.

But why did Abhijeet keep mum?

Anyways both of us were flustered and abhijeet seemed to be in another world.

"Kya hua? Ghar nahi jana" I asked him casually.

"Tarika wo dekho inn aunty ki baat me muje sochne pe majboor kar diya ki" he nervously started speaking.

"Ki kya Abhijeet" I faked confusion. He looked tense and obviously cute . ;-)

He took a deep breath and said,

"Dekho tarika main tumhe kuch bolunga lekin tumpe koi pressure nahi hai ki. Hum phir bhi dost rahenge. Wo..."

"Yehi na tum mujse pyar karte ho...Waise Abhijeet...Main bhi tumse bohot pyar karti hoo" I said staring at him .

"Ha wo toh...Ek second kya kaha tumne?" He looked surprised , happy and shocked.

I easily knew he was going through a plethora of emotions because so was I .

I came up to him and hugged him as tightly as I could.

And whispered "I love you Abhijeet"

He tightened his hands on back and kissed on my head.

No words were spoken, but a lot were conveyed through that kiss.

We parted after a while and were teary eyed.

He said "I love you too Tarika and I won't promise a forever because I ain't sure when a bullet will pierce through my chest and I'll breathe my last."

Tears rolled down my eyes. We both knew that this was our reality.

"But I promise you an eternity of love , trust and affection till death sets us apart"

The scenery faded from my view. I felt as if no one else mattered. It was our moment.

Just me and him.

He came towards me and looked at my eyes asking for permission.

I nodded.

Soon our lips met and no I didn't feel like a princess with my prince charming.

I felt like the luckiest human being and my reality looked better than every fictional love story I had ever read.

I could see some eyes on us as we broke apart. Some people snickered while others gossiped.

But all that mattered was me , him and our eternity.

It's been a decade since we both are together. There were happy days as well as days where everything threatened to fall apart.

But in the end, we kept our promise of being there for each other.

So I'll say it again.

It wasn't love at first sight.

But it was love at every sight .

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