Chapter 48 - The Punishment

Twenty hours later, dressed in a teal green satin Crisscrop knot backless tank crop top and white skirt, hair covering her bȧrėback in her signature style, Shanaya was sitting with Avni.

Avni had worn teal green satin gown with hair tied in a lovely bun and long silver oxidised necklace as an accessory and was smiling at the Mehendi design the Mehendi artist was making on her hands.

It was her Mehendi ceremony and all the females' relatives of the Rathore family, Shanaya and Riya were sitting together in the hall.

They were around fifty of them and, ten of the Mehendi artists were present for them.

"Huhu, soon to be bride is blushing at seeing her soon to be husband name on her hands" teasing Avni, Shanaya brushed her shoulder easily with her's when the Mehendi artist wrote Anubhav's name on her hand.

It was not a ritual, but it was a part of the fun of the wedding. Every bride would allow the artist to write their soon to be husband names on their hands hidden in designs in such a way they would not be able to see it. But the fun was, every groom would try his best to see it, as the bride would not allow him to touch her without finding his own name.

Shanaya find it romantic and whispered, dreamingly" I really want someone to try looking at his name in my Mehendi design.."

"They will once you will accept someone. Alteast date someone to find if they are worth you" looking at her, Avni spoke with seriousness.

"Ah dee, stop it. I do not want all of this. I am happy and, I was just kidding" replying to her, Shanaya looks at Riya and found her watching the same way a cop look at the thief lying.

"Come on, just because you are getting married does not mean you also want me to get ready for it. And, I am happy" emphasising on 'happy' Shanaya looks away scoffing when she saw Riya not taking her lies.

Her gaze collided with Vihaan and, she looked away immediately. Since that incident of him yelling at her, none of them was talking to each other. Their eyes had collided many times, but just like it, they would always withdraw their gaze instantly.

The meeting of their eyes reminded Shanaya of the incident on the previous night, and, she looked down shyly. She could not believe she actually did it.

On the previous night, during the game, when Avni had called "Shanaya and Saaransh" Shanaya was more than happy.

She was comfortable with Saaransh, and, the bonding was getting great every day.

She remembered the night very well, it, was the best night of her life. They had so much fun, but the thing at the end had turned her best night into a nightmare.

On hearing her name, Shanaya stood up and moved toward the centre and saw Saaransh coming toward her with a teasing smile. She welcomed him with the same gesture and moved toward Avni to hear the title of the movie.

She moved back to Saaransh after listening to Avni and passed an amusing look at Saaransh and spoke:" Darling, are you ready?"

Calling darling, baby, love, sweetheart had become a daily routine for them, and that too without any awkward feeling.

"Yes, sweetheart, I am" replying to her, Saaransh stopped just in front of Shanaya with his back toward her, both of them facing the other members.

As soon as Shanaya wrote a single word on his back, Saaransh started laughing and stopped her from writing any more.

"What?" with a confused but laughing look, Shanaya asked him, with all others stares on both of them.

"Saar, what is this?" looking at both of them, Avni questioned.

"Sorry dee, but her hands on me made me feel a shiver and giggle." still laughing, Saaransh looked back at Shanaya and pulled her cheeks.

Shanaya stood shocked at Saaransh's behaviours and, before she could react, she feels someone's or to be exact, the devil's eyes on her, boring deep down on her. She did not look at him at all and asked Saaransh" What is this, dear?

Why are you not letting me do it!" and forced Saaransh to face others by turning his back to her by his shoulder.

"Shana, why do not you marry me? I really love your touch" flirting with her, Saaransh laughed more when he found Shanaya hitting her on his shoulder and heard her saying" Shut up Saaransh, no joke now."

No one but Vihaan knew what Saaransh was doing when he failed to decipher the title of the movie. He hated it and spoke up irritatingly when he saw Shanaya writing on Saaransh back for the third time and Saaransh refusing to tell the title"Saar, would you tell the title? We can't afford to lose the points."

"Bro, I really do not know it. I surrender" stopping Shana from writing more by turning his back, he looked at Avni and asked," What is the punishment?"

"Wow! Finally, someone loses it. Ofcourse you have to dance, two of you together." Avni spoke excitedly. She had eagerly waited for someone to lose the game so that she could see some romantic dance.

Vihaan had a hint of Saaransh's mischief but, he did not react and saw Shanaya refusing and heard her saying" But dee, why I have to dance? He lost it not I" and saw her glaring at Saaransh when she heard Avni" Because you failed to make him understood."

He heard her saying" this is not fair" but saw her moving back to Saaransh and hitting him, hard on his arms.

It sucks the breath out of Vihaan!. He could not tolerate seeing such an intimacy between them and stopped looking at them by keeping his head down. He did not see them when they started dancing, did not see them when he heard others teasing them by saying loudly how hot couples they look, how beautifully they are dancing and how they wished them to be a couple.

It took him a lot of self-control to not see them for the five minutes, but, he could not control it and glanced upward to see them dancing beautifully. He hated it but could not deny they looked beautiful together.

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