The storm had ended, the seas had calmed down, only peace remained. Yesterday's tsunami had stopped with serious damage. Now everywhere I go I was bombarded with stares and whispers. Not by my family no, They promised that they would ignore the video and it was deleted from the insta page so no more tension on that.

But Adhi's family, not everyone cares about me there. For them im the girl who Adhi scored. Its like that for boys isn't it? Always the girl is the slut, not the boy who was with her the whole time, he's a player. But Adhi has tried his level best to shush the whisperers but still there are some. I mostly ignore it since now me and adhi spend our whole day in his room. Now that we have permission and I dont have an asshole of a father to worry about I cant spend my day with him carefree. And since the lockdown was going to lift after 21 days we had to cherish every moment we could get.

Now as I lay on his bed, his lips on my neck driving me to insanity, I dont want to think about anything else. My planner with today's event lay scrambled on the bed as my hands plunge into the dark locks of my fiancé. Yes fiancé. You know how powerful that word is ? To say that this man is now mine and no one can say anything about it. Im in seventh level. Mentally and physically. Adhi's hands drifts from my waist to my breast and I nearly cry out, but the press of his tongue against mine just drifted me off to that moment of bliss. My nail dig into adhi's hair and he groans. That sound reverberating across my body.

I want more, I really do. But we cant, Not here not now. Im sure he does too. If that stupid video hadn't showed up that day, we would've crossed that line by now. Adhi and me would have been one in all senses. But NO... We had to be interrupted that exact moment.

Adhi's lips move from mine to my cheek and then down to my neck. Adhi is not a neck kisser, he's a neck biter. And I absolutely love it. His teeth clamp down on the soft skin on my neck and I arch off the bed. My phone buzzes with the timer I had set and Adhi groans as he moves away from me.

"One day ill break both of our phones and take you to an abandoned island. At least then no one would interrupt us every single time we are.... together" He mumbled.

"Not even then, Im sure maybe a shark or a crocodile will knock on our door and deliver some bad news right before you ravish me" I say as I try to straighten my top which had indecently rose above my chest.

I move off from the bed, turn the timer off. My planner has been scattered across the bed, considering that's the excuse I used to get inside his room, and we did plan something but well you know how it ended. I try to pat down my messy hair, when I see there is no use I untie my hair tie and use adhi's comb to set my hair. Im using Adhi's comb! oh my god why am I getting excited over this. Stupid me.

"You really have to go now? Its only 2pm" Adhi whines as he wraps his hands around my waist.

"You really have no idea how much time it takes for 4 girls to get ready. And then there's Tara."

"I feel like we need to spend more time together after this Friday we have to go our separate ways. I have no idea when we will get to spend time like this" He pouts.

I pinch at his adorable pout and say "You know I may have a solution for that."

"What solution?"

"We are both Mumbai based. We both work there. Arjun and Tara are gonna live there. So we always have a chance to be like this" I hug him tight and whisper " And way more than this"

"Oh yeah" Adhi says as his lips press against mine. My phone buzzes again. This time with a text.

Adhi groans loudly "See, we are cursed. I think some sort of buzzer goes off every time I get horny with you"

I shake with laughter as I see who texted me. Its Preethi! God its been ages since ive talked to her. We do skype call like once a week but since the last couple of weeks were kind of hectic for me I haven't been able to talk to her.

"Its Preethi!" I tell adhi

"You are still in touch with her?" Adhi asks.

"Of course I am. We live next to each other" I say and I open her text. She is all out worried that if my father has killed me or I have killed adhi. Right! she doesn't know about our recent improvement. Oh boy that's gonna be one hell of a talk.

Her text reads : Maya! please tell me youre alive. I understand youre busy but so busy to check your phone and all? You know what dont tell me, I dont care!!!

"Ohh youre so dead" adhi says as he puts on his shirt. Oh did I forget to mention he was shirtless all this time, oh yeah he was. After that time in the roof I really dislike his clothes.

"I need to call her. She doesn't know anything after I panicked and called after the Engagement. I might have also been drunk. So she barely understood anything I said. That's gonna take sometime to explain. There goes one hour off my makeup time. " I say as I hit the call button on Preethi's contact. I press a kiss to adhi's cheeks and I walk out the room, but not before he pulls me back for a full on French kiss.

Preethi picks up on the second ring. "OHHH YOURE HIGHNESS. WHY BOTHER TO CALL ME NOW? DID YOU FORGET ANOTHER TICKET?" she yells.

I keep the phone at an arms distance and let her rant, It goes on for another five minutes and then her voice calms down so I put it back to my ears.

"3 weeks. You went without even texting me for three weeks, And with that adhi over there I could barely breath here, all that was left was for Jeeth to come and-"

"Oh jeeth's here too" I said.

"What the fuck did you just say?" Preethi yelled.

And then I told her everything. If it wasn't for the lockdown Preethi would have been here for the wedding. And if she was I was 200% sure that she wouldn't have let me anywhere near Adhi. The 3 years she spent at college after I left was filled with pure hatred towards Adhi. So technically Preethi not being here is actually a curse and a blessing. When I told her about Jeeth and Taniya aka Khushi, Preethi was silent. Because Khushi not only pretended to be my friend but also of Preethi. She was equally heartbroken when we came to know about the betrayal and now this.

And at the part where adhi proposed to me I made sure the story extremely spicy before the dropping the depressing part. And to hear her gasp was pure serotonin for me. Its like when we used to tell about Hindi serials episodes we missed during college. But no Hindi serial has drama like my life.

"So everything's fine there?" Preethi asks

"Yup all sorted"

"And you and Adhi are engaged?"

"Yeah" I squealed.

"OH MY GOD!!! Mihika congratulations! oh god I wish I could be there. You must be glowing now. Sent me a picture of the ring. okay?"

"I will babes." I say as I see Dhriti screaming at me through the other side of the room. I quickly rush over there and tell Preethi I will call her later. I disconnect the phone and rush over to tara's room, not before I send a picture of me and adhi at the rooftop.

Mehndi was the most colorful and beautiful function of the whole wedding event. Why? Because I got to hold maya's hand without looking around. Because everyone's eyes were on us and we didnt care.

Tara's hand was filled swirls and lines of mehndi by the engineer turned artist Varun. Varun's two adorable daughters Aditi and Adha and my sister Arya was waiting next in line. Me and Maya still got stares from people, mostly youngsters, but it didnt seem like angry stares or 'you should be ashamed stares' No those eyes were filled with envy. Envious of us, we were the hot couple of the hour.

I mean they should be envious. Me and Maya were practically making out in every dark corner, caught countless times but we didnt care. I was in heat!

I look over to my left where my goddess sat. Clad in deep violet lehenga and a heavy stone violet blouse with a dupatta lying lazily around her neck, by baby was looking absolutely heavenly. Her hands colored with the red shade of mehndi as the bridesmaids all got their mehndi's done earlier. I often find my fingers tracing over the patterns in her hand which will make maya squirm with ticklishness.

Maya rested her head on my shoulder as we posed for a photo. After we admitted our relationship everyone seems to be shipping us. Isn't that the word- shipping? Well everyone did! Including Amumma she turned out to be the biggest shipper. Jeeth and Manny together were clicking pictures of everyone. Jeeth was clicking while manny was having fun pinching jeeth's butt every time he got close to a click. I ship them.

After the mehndi was done varun stuck some kind of tape over Tara's hands and legs so she could move freely and eat. Then came the dance. Tara and arjun slow danced. Of course Maya chose "Didi tera dhevar deewana", She was Madhuri, I played the part of Salman khan as we celebrated through the night. The wedding was tomorrow. My brother was getting married, his bachelor party was interrupted yesterday with all that mess but today we were getting him drunk.

"Wait wait wait, there is a task for the grooms" Dhriti bit her tongue "I meant groom"

She sat me and arjun opposite to Tara and Maya "See there is a ritual in North India where the bride will hide the groom's name in her mehndi and the groom has to find it. It is usually done during the first night, but we cant be there now can we?" dhriti says and the crows erupts in laughter.

"Now Arjun find your name in Tara's hands and now since we have another couple here" The crowd starts hooting, Vivek's voice the loudest. I see maya's cheek warm with red " Adhi you find your name in Maya's hands. Whoever finds first gets the... biggest piece of the cake"

"Adhi find it right now" Maya screams as I get to work. The swirls of brown were so tightly packed that every line looked like adhi to me. But I found it was written under maya's engagement ring, right under it as if she had planned it. My eyes lift to hers and Maya smiles back contently but she gestures at me to not say that I found it. I pretend to search for a few more minutes before Arjun screams "Found it!"

They won the game. Maya fake pouted but I think Tara understood that we were deliberately failing. She just gave us both the biggest hug and shared the cake with us. Sweet, yummy, melting in my mouth cake. And guess who made it... nope not maya, Not Tara. Vivek. That's right. The software engineer turned out to be a baker. That explains why he is so sweet.

After eating we slowly said our goodbyes. Maya lingered by my side for a few minutes but I had to get to the bachelors party. When the guys started making fun of us maya slowly let my hands go and went back to the house with a shy smile.

The bachelors party rocked. Loads of booze and dirty truth or dare. Lap dances from imaginary strippers and condom balloons. It was fun. Even vivek warmed up to me. He gave me drink and said only one thing to both me and arjun "Please dont hurt my sisters".

Tomorrow there will be a wedding. My brother will become a husband, I will have a sister in law. Tomorrow will be the happiest day in my life. No, happiest day till date. Im sure when maya is in my life every day will be better than the other.