Chapter 4

That day was very busy. After the conference, me and Aniket returned to hotel and went to our respective rooms. I should have slept tight because it had been a long and tiring day but I couldn't sleep. Only thought on my mind was Aniket. I wanted him. Had I not come to USA, it would have been me, not Ranjini marrying him and that thought was killing me. Should I tell papa that I have realised my mistake and I wanted to get married to Aniket.? But I was doubtful if Aniket will be able to tell his dominating and overbearing father about this. How will he and other family members will take this?

And above all, Ranjini! She will never let Aniket go especially when she comes to know that Aniket and I love each other. She will create such drama that everyone will be forced to surrender before her wish and I will be the vamp. I was engrossed in my thoughts when there was a knock on my door. When I opened the door, I found Aniket standing there, "I can't sleep. How much I have tried to fall in line with my father's wishes, but the truth is that I love you from the first moment I saw you but did not have the courage to tell you. Today when you confessed about your feelings, l was stoned so much so that I could not even say anything. Will you accept me? Tomorrow I will talk to my father and tell him about you. I know he will be angry first but after some time he will agree. Afterall, I am his only son. ...."

I don't know what came over me but I had a feeling that if this night is spent, I will never have Aniket. I went towards him and kissed him. He was shocked because guys like him never do such things but I had to do and I said to him, " I and you love each other and I don't know what will happen tomorrow but one thing I know for sure that I want you tonight. I want the first intimate experience of my life with you; I want you to touch me if it has to be the first time in my life and nobody else." He said naughtily, "It will be only me always." I knew that he sensed honesty of my statement and after that what happened was best part of my life. His touch on my body was like drops of rain in a parched desert. His kisses were like the sweet ocean in which I was drowning deep and deeper. I forgot my humiliation and my insults; that neglect from my parents, my sufferings and everything bad about my life.

What happened in the next few days was beyond any logic, total madness. I didn't know what was going on and what will be the repercussions of my this step. I knew this was my fate that I refused what was being given to me on platter and now I was snatching that from my own sister. Instead, I should have begged the forgiveness from my father and requested him to give me Aniket back but it was not simple. I knew Ranjini who always hated me and treated me like dirt even before papa but papa never said anything to her not because Ranjini was papa's apple of eye but because papa too thought the same for me. My own mother treated me as a blemish on our family. There was no one in the family who would have stood for me.

So I decided to have my own way that, I wanted only a few days with Aniket, his love and after that I will go very far away and vanish from their lives. Papa already had asked me not to come back. Aniket will adjust with Ranjini after a while and everything will be alright. But one thing was clear that now I was not going to shut my door to the love that was coming my way."

I (avni) interrupted her (Nikky), "then…what are you doing in India?" She replied irritably, "Why don't you listen to the whole story before giving judgement" and she continued,

"What I didn't know was that Aniket already had spoken to his father about the whole thing; how he met me; how he fell in love and how he wanted to marry me and not Ranjini. "Baba, I love Nikky very much and I can't live without her. She also loves me, only she didn't know me then and refused to marry me. One thing is final that I will not marry an one but Nikky." Aniket didn't tell me about the phone call until we were on the flight for New York. I was on fire and I was angry with Aniket but I asked him calmly, "What did baba say?" "He was quite and then he called me to India. He said these things can't be discussed on phone. So I have decided to go to India because I don't want to delay our marriage. If my family doesn't agree, I will come back and marry you." I was disturbed to think about the situation in my family. Hell would have broken there and I would have been abused by everyone. The whole excitement of the trip was gone.

Now I started chalking out my plan of vanishing.