How About a Sin Tonight? by Novoneel Chakraborty

Author:Novoneel Chakraborty
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788184002928
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Love was like darkness. The more she got used to certain portions of it, there was a whole lot left to adapt to.

Three months had gone by since Rakesh proposed to her. It happened one day during their lunch break. As a response, she only smiled at him. Rakesh didn’t know a woman’s smile is a catalogue for the rarest of colours which can never be accurately labelled. Rakesh mistakenly labelled the colour in her smile as love. He opened his bank account to her that very night over phone.

‘Listen, baby,’ he began.

‘Baby?’ Nishani intercept.

‘People in love call each other silly names. If you are not comfortable, I can call you Nish as well.’

‘Nish’ brought back memories of Balloo to her—her one friend in school with whom she experienced the first kiss of her life. Did he also love her? She would never know because Balloo had suddenly left. But, did he really love her? Then what about Rakesh? If he too loves her, and so does Rehan, and the man who stalks her harmlessly, then it meant that one person could be loved by many at the same time. So why can’t one person love more than one at the same time?

‘Anything but Nish,’ she clarified.

‘Then baby?’

‘Hmm.’

‘So here’s the thing—I have saved four lakh rupees till date. My mother said the engagement expenditure would be from your side.’

‘Engagement? I’m not even a graduate.’

‘Nobody will stop you from completing it. Anyway, the marriage expenditure will of course be from the girl’s side as per tradition. The reception however would be from my side. I shall use two lakhs for that and a lakh for our honeymoon. Mom is already talking to a travel agent for the best deal for three.’

‘Three?’

‘You, me, and my mom.’

If people’s words were medicines, then Rakesh’s banter would have had the side effect of her throwing up, Nishani realized and said, ‘Don’t you think we are going too fast, Rakesh?’

‘Call me baby, please.’

‘Okay, don’t you think so…baby?’

‘It’s important to plan everything. You know my father isn’t alive and I’m the only one.’

Her father was alive, but she still was the only one. She could have died of an emotional choke then and there but she held on somehow.

‘What I can’t understand is the need to plan everything right now. Why are we deliberately deciding a destination? Can’t we just wait and go with the flow instead?’ asked Nishani.

‘But you love me and I definitely love you, so what’s the point in waiting?’ Rakesh sounded confused and a tad disappointed. Nishani was about to retort when she heard a beep. It was another call. The name read: Shweta AD.

‘Rakesh, I will just call you back.’

Before Rakesh could react, she was on the phone with Shweta.

‘Hi, how are you?’

‘I’m fine, Nishani. I wanted to inform you that one of the three shortlisted candidates for the sanitary napkin ad is you. Please confirm if you can come to our creative office in Mahim tomorrow around one in the afternoon.’

‘Count me in.

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