20. Spilling the beans!
We are sitting in the living room after the elders left.
"Guys! I am getting bored sitting like we are in Kulkarni sir's class!" Shreya whined and both Isha and Shreya started laughing making people look at them like they were some crazy maniacs.
"Can we just sit on the lawn or terrace and have some fun?" Isha asked looking at me. We all climbed to the terrace after I nodded positively.
"Bhabi shall we play some games?" Abir asked sitting next to Abhishek.
We are sitting in a circle with Isha and Abhishek on both sides of me, Shreya next to Isha, and Ishaan next to her. Sweety is sitting between Abir and Ishaan.
"What game do you want to play?" Isha asked tugging hair strands falling on her face.
"Never I have ever and Truth or dare! Pick one!" He said getting all excited.
"Never I have ever !" Isha, Shreya, and Ishaan replied at once. They looked at each other and laughed in their unison in answering.
"I missed playing it!" Isha said to which both of them nodded in agreement. So, they used to play it before too! Maybe, I will get to know some more about my wife.
"Okay, I will get drinks!" Abir said getting up. I know what drinks he is referring to. It's not like I am against it but considering the tolerance level of my best friend he will blurt out everything about the surprise ruining all our efforts.
"Just soft drinks!" I said in a warning tone to which he smiled sheepishly and walked away with Sweety. They came back with a few glasses and 4 bottles of different soft drinks. We poured drinks into our glasses and settled down.
"So, who will start?" Abhishek asked looking around.
"I will!" Shreya replied.
"Never I have ever got locked out of the house!" She said. Abir, Ishaan, and Isha took a sip of their drinks.
"Papa punished me for getting drunk!" Abir answered the unasked question shrugging his shoulders. That was so funny. He was literally begging everyone to open the door but we had strict orders not to.
Now all the eyes turned to the siblings expecting an answer.
"Maa locked us out for pranking our school principal!" Ishaan said looking at a pouting Isha and laughing Shreya.
"Don't laugh you idiot. It was both of you who did it but I got punished!" Isha accused Shreya and her brother.
"Okay!" Shreya raised her hands in submission.
"Now your turn!" She said pointing to Ishaan.
He gave her a sly smile before speaking.
"Never I have ever got showered with Biryani and noodles!" He said smirking. Only Shreya took a sip of her drink. Isha and Ishaan fell into fits of laughter.
"That was so funny bhayya!" Isha said giving a hi-fi to her brother.
"Stop it, you guys! I would have killed that idiot if you had not stopped me, Isha!" She said.
"Okay, baba! Now whose turn?" Isha asked to which Sweety raised her hand.
"Never I have ever had a pet!" Sweety said. Isha, Abhishek, Ishaan, and Shreya took a sip.
"You?" I asked turning to Abhishek.
"I used to have a puppy while staying in a hostel!" He replied. We were not allowed to have pets at our home after Abir got an allergy when he had a dog. He even used to sleep with it.
"You had a pet?" Sweety asked Ishan.
"They both wanted to have one. So, Dad bought a cutePomeranian for them. But it stayed with me most of the time!" He said shrugging.
" That traitor! It always ran to him." Isha said gritting her teeth and puffing like a kid.
"Because it didn't want you both to try all your stupid dresses on it!" Ishaan announced to which both the best friends rolled their eyes.
"My turn! Never I have ever shoplifted!" Abir said to which three girls took a sip of their drinks.
"A chocolate!" Isha said.
"A nail polish!" Shreya announced.
"Um... perfume and lipstick?" Sweety said more like questioned looking down.
"Abhishek your turn!" Ishaan announced.
"Never I have ever got a love letter!" Abhishek sighed. I, Ishaan, Abir, and Shreya took a sip of our drinks.
Isha didn't get any? How can a beauty like her never get proposed? I am not complaining. Not a bit.
"Bhabi you didn't get any?" Abhishek dumbfounded.
"I was always sister-zoned!" She deadpanned.
"And bhai always gets brother-zoned!" Sweety teased Abhishek and hi-fi Abir.
"Bhai it's your turn! " Abhishek looks at me trying to change the topic.
"Never I have ever bunked my classes till my 12th," I said earning a shocking expression from everyone. I really never skipped my classes till the completion of my 12th. I bunked them a few times during my college though that too in my final year when I started the internship in our company and had to attend a few meetings to learn better from Papa and chachu.
"Ishu I think you should complete the entire bottles for this!" Shreya said teasing her friend.
"But Bhabi was a topper! She topped her 12th boards and University too!" Abir said surprised by the revelation.
"She was but she bunked classes. She didn't bunk any in her 11th and 12th but she bunked many in school and uni too!" Ishaan announced.
"Every time there was a match of India and Pak or India and Australia ma'am would be absent that day if that's a day match!" Shreya said earning a glare from Isha.
"Not every match!" Isha whined.
"Yeah! Only the matches in which her favorite Virat played!" Shreya said in a mocking tone.
"Of course! I wouldn't miss them for the world!" She said in a defensive tone.
"Okay, baba! By the way Ishaan do you remember her reaction when she came to know she and Virat share the same nickname?" Shreya asked turning to Ishaan.
"Of course! She was so happy that she prepared my favorite cupcakes for a month and even bought me gifts with her pocket money!" Ishaan replied chuckling.
Now I am getting jealous of Virat Kohli! How can he be so important to my wife? She admires him like anything! But I can do nothing about it like most of the other men out there.
Should I just change my name to Cheeku so that we will have the same nickname?
Cheeku Singh Rathore!
No! I will end up being a laughingstock!
"Do you know you always end up giving me the best gifts even without knowing bhayya?" Isha asked with a vibrant smile not knowing she spoke them out loud.
"Oh, of course! Firstly he gave you the name of your idol and now he got you married to your crush and doesn't even have a clue about it!" Shreya blurted out.
Did I hear it correctly?
I was her crush?
"Crush?" Ishaan asked equally surprised.
"It's nothing bhai!" Isha tried to divert the topic.
"Shreya di you say na!" Abir asked again. Isha tried to get up but I held her hand and made her sit back.
"I will kill you!" Isha warned Shreya giving her a tight-lipped smile.
Shreya shrugged at her rolling her eyes before continuing.
"So, she had this huge crush on Abhinav. She first saw him when he visited our college on our orientation day but started crushing on him when our professor assigned us to make a profile of a few businessmen and assigned her his one." Shreya said giving an embarrassed Isha a sheepy smile.
"It was just a crush!" Isha mumbled.
"Your only crush Ishu!" Shreya argued.
"So, that's the reason you have always asked me about my friends? Or should I say a special friend of mine?" Ishaan said with a teasing smile.
Isha has become a strawberry due to blushing. My blushing beauty.
She had a crush on me? I was her only crush? God! It gives me the pride and happiness I never felt even after cracking deals worth crores!
Being special to my wife is obviously more prideful than being one of the richest and most successful businessmen in the world.
She is more precious than any other worldly comfort and materialistic things! She is my life!
"Can we continue the game?" Isha asked finally deciding to change the topic to which we all nodded.
"It's your turn cheeku!" Ishaan said to which she nodded.
"Never I have ever seen fireflies in real!" She said pouting like a kid. She looks so cute while pouting. God, I just wanna kiss her like there is no tomorrow.
So, my Princess wants to see fireflies. Let's just get them for her then.