A/N: Friends I'm back with the next chapter. Hope you'll enjoy this one too.
Chapter 2: ViveSha
Spring
"Excuse me? Are you Rohan?" Asked a girl.
The boy to whom the question was directed stopped in his tracks and looked at the girl.
"Yes." He said. But it sounded more like a question as he tried his best to remember where he had seen her before.
"You don't know me." Said the girl as if she could read his mind. "Neither is it important. My friend Shriya loves you. Can you please meet her once in front of the canteen during break time tomorrow?" She added.
"Yeah. Ok." Answered the boy perplexed.
The girl did not spend another moment there and ran off to tell her friend.
Next Day
A group of 5 girls stood near a tree, their gaze fixed near the school's canteen. They were waiting eagerly for someone. After a few minutes they spotted Rohan standing near the canteen. But he did come forward to talk to Shriya.
"Tasha, what's going on? Why is he just standing there like that?" Shriya asked her friend nervously.
"I don't know. Wait! I'll just go and ask him." Said Tasha. She had not yet taken the second step when her friend pulled her back.
"You're not going anywhere." She hissed angrily to Tasha.
"I need to know why he is just standing there." Said Tasha and walked over to where Rohan and his friends were standing.
"Are you going to talk to Shriya or not?" She asked as she approached Rohan, who just nodded his head from left to right nervously.
"You could've said that yesterday itself, you know. We wouldn't have wasted our time then." Snapped Tasha and went back to where her friends were standing.
"What did he say?" Shriya asked her nervously.
"He's not interested." Said Tasha. She could not believe that her friend actually heaved a sigh of relief at that.
After a few hours
"Hey Miss Helpful!" Called out a voice behind Tasha.
She turned round and found herself facing a rather handsome boy with hazel eyes. She remembered him being one of Rohan's friends.
"What the hell are you thinking Tasha? You're supposed to be angry." She mentally scolded herself.
"What the hell is it?" She snapped at him.
"Whoa! Chill mate. I just came to say sorry on behalf of Rohan." He said.
"No need to say sorry. My friend deserves someone better." She said and started to walk away.
"Miss Helpful-"He was about to say something else when she was cut short by Tasha.
"That's not my name." She snapped.
"Then what is it?" The boy asked. "By the way, mine is Vivek." He added, extending his hand, when he realized that he was asking Tasha's name without introducing himself properly.
"Hi! I'm Tasha." She said shaking Vivek's hand.
Summer
Vivek pulled the car to a stop just outside Tasha's home. They had gone out for dinner before. But this time it's special and he was damn nervous.
After being a couple for seven long years finally they decided to take their relationship to the next level. But it was Vivek's idea to officially propose Tasha for marriage.
"Vivek did you ever reach anywhere in time?" Asked Tasha who had been waiting for his arrival for the last ten minutes.
"We'll get there in time Tasha." Said Vivek in a laid back drawl which only earned him a poker-face in reply.
This made Vivek drive themselves to the restaurant in absolute silence.
As Vivek pulled the car to a stop, Tasha noticed that they were at the restaurant where they went for their first date. Vivek knew that it was not a place where someone can actually propose his girlfriend for marriage, but at the same time this place held immense importance in their life.
Finally Tasha understood why Vivek had asked her to dress casually and not for a date.
Unfortunately for them, the place was filled with college students and they did not quite fit into that crowd. It earned them quite a few stares from the other guests there. Some of them were just taken aback while others did not bother to hide their smirks.
They went avoided all the gazes and went to a corner table where they had sat together, holding hands years ago as college freshmen.
On that day Vivek had proposed Tasha to become his girlfriend. And today he will be proposing her once again to become the significant other in his life, his better half. But Tasha was not yet aware of what was to come. She placed the order for both of them while Vivek took out something from his pocket.
He handed it to Tasha as she completed ordering the food. She was flooded with memories as she turned the pages. It contained pictures of the years together. But she found the last few pages empty except for one photo. It had had her name written on it but her surname was striked out.
"What's this?" She asked, not liking the fact that Vivek did that.
"It doesn't suit you, you know." Vivek said with what was his best attempt at an innocent smile.
"Do you have a better suggestion?" She asked sarcastically.
"Actually yes." He said, grinning broadly. "Mine suits you better." He added.
"Why would I take up your sur-" Tasha stopped in mid-sentence when she realized what he meant.
"Just ask your dad to give an ambulance as dowry." Vivek said.
"Don't you know dowry is illegal?" Said Tasha.
"Don't you know after marriage it's my duty to keep you safe?" Vivek imitated her. "If you kill me accidentally then how would I do that?" He added.
"Don't you know I can handle myself?" Said tasha, hitting him on his arm lightly.
"See, you are just proving that I'll need an ambulance after our marriage." He grinned.
Autumn
"Tasha! Where's my white shirt?" Yelled Senior Inspector Vivek from his room. [Or rather Vivesha's room]
"It's with me, Dad! I'm wearing it today." Yelled 18-year-old Vishesh before his mother could say anything.
"Look Vishesh I need to wear it today. I've got a meeting with DCP Pradyuman." Vivek explained as he entered his son's room.
"Dad! I'm going on my first official date with new girlfriend. I need to wear it." Said an indignant Vishesh.
"Tasha, why don't you tell this brat something?" He said to his wife who stood watching them, not saying anything.
"I think both of you are matured enough to not get late over this. Just sort it out and come down for breakfast." She said and turned to leave.
After sometime
Vivek and Vishesh came down for breakfast together with the latter wearing his dad's shirt and Vivek wearing another shirt.
"Can you please drop me at college?" Vishesh asked, eyeing his parents expectantly.
"I thought you were going for a date." Said Vivek as he started applying butter on the bread that Tasha had just served him.
"Dad, I'm going after my college gets over and not bunking it." Said Vishesh
"Fine!" Said Tasha putting an end to the discussion. " Vishesh, we'll drop you only if you can finish your breakfast before we leave."
It took only five more minutes for Vishesh as he almost gulped down his breakfast and ran to his room to grab his satchel.
"He's becoming a brat." Muttered an exasperated Vivek under his breath.
"Reminds of you." Said Tasha without looking up." Making her husband's mouth form a perfect 'o'. He had no idea that he had voiced his thoughts.
Winter
"Vivek, if you don't hurry then we'll miss our flight." Said Tasha as he saw her husband pull out almost everything trying to find some stuff.
Vishesh was working abroad and this was the first time that his parents were visiting him. After visiting their son in London, Vivek and Tasha had planned to go on a Europe tour to celebrate fifty years of them being together. But they hadn't told told their son and daughter-in-law about it yet.
"I can't find our passports and visas." Vivek complained.
"Vivek, you asked me to put them in my handbag." Said an exasperated Tasha.
Vivek just grinned sheepishly at her.
"Now d'you mind repacking? Else we'll miss the flight." She said and watched as her husband messily stuffed one thing after the other in their travel bag.
She shook her head as if to say 'he's incorrigible'. She took them from his hands and folded them before keeping them back in the travel bag. Vivek looked at his wife and wondered how bland his life would have been if this woman had not been in his life.
As Tasha finished putting their stuff back, he found him staring at her. She raised her eyebrow as if to ask 'what?'
"I'm sorry for always messing things up." Vivek said.
"No. Don't be sorry. Just be the way you are. It makes me feel good." She said smiling at her husband.
Tasha knew that Vivek was nowhere near perfect but that's what made their relationship so unique…
A/N: I don't know how I've fared with this one. Please let me know what you think of it.
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