Her Second-Hand Husband! novel Chapter 25

Anika's PoV

"Come in, Anu. Nithya is in her room. Go in, I will bring tea for you." Nithya's mom opened the door for me.

"Thanks aunty." I ran to her room.

"Come, Anu." Nithya was sitting on the bed with her phone on hand and a little smile on her lips.

"What's up, new bride?" I asked her, jumping on the bed near her.

"Nothing is up. They are coming tomorrow in the evening. I have mehendi cones in the fridge, can you put mehendi on my hands?" she asked me.

"Ofcourse, Nithu. But we have to put it on at night. If you keep it on overnight, it will be beautifully reddened by tomorrow eve." I told her.

"Then ask your mom's permission to stay here tonight."

"Hmmm wait." I called my mom and let her know that I will be staying with Nithu for the night.

"So you are texting him?" I asked her when I caught her more than once smiling looking at her phone.

"um... yes! He's been texting since the afternoon." she said with a little blush.

"Adi pavi (sinner), does aunty and uncle know?"

"No. Don't shout." She covered my mouth.

"ok ok, let go. So what does he say?" I asked her, swatting her hand away from my mouth.

"Nothing important. We are just chatting in general."

"Hmmm, so how do you like him?"

"How many times are you going to ask me the same question? I like him so much!"

"I just want to look at you when you answer this question. But I wonder how you can like someone even before meeting him in person?"

"I told you, it is a magical feeling. You have to be smart enough to know that feeling when it happens to you. You will just know in your heart that he is the one." she said.

"Where do you get these cheesy dialogs? I agree that you didn't like anyone as your life partner before but don't tell me that you are in love with your fiancé already!" she can't be serious.

"I don't know how to explain this to you. But I strongly feel that I am going to spend my life with him even before mom and dad agreed for them to come home tomorrow. They still had another alliance at hand for me. I didn't feel anything when I saw the other man's picture. But I felt butterflies in my tummy when I saw him in the photo. It may sound very naïve, but I don't have an explanation. Pch, enough of my talks, now tell me about Arjun." she asked me.

"There is nothing to tell about him. We have just met three times now and I hate him completely."

"Oh really? I have never seen you hating someone with just three meets. So he has made you think about him in some way." She said. Talking about him gives me mixed emotions. Happy and Angry.

"Shut up, Nithu. He is an arrogant rich man. He loves to... um... show off his wealth to people like us." I told her.

"Really? From what aunty said to me that he had done, I think he has helped your family at the most needed time. He even extended his helping hand for after too. You know that too. You know that you are indebted to him and he is good. Yet you decide to degrade him of something which he is not, that is why you stumble upon the words when you said that. I think he is disturbing you."

"Argh Ok, I agree, yes, he is disturbing me. I kinda like him. I like his looks and his manliness. And I also feel disgusted with myself for my cheap thoughts." I blurted out to her.