It was past 10 o'clock ...time for their little angels to go to sleep.
Together they opened their daughter's room and went inside to find both of them oblivious to their presence merrily playing with pillows ... Throwing them at each other.
Thanks to their mother's genes their daughters loved playing pillow fights.
They smiled looking at their 13 year old twins.
They looked much like their father but their habits were more like their mother. They loved eating sweets, playing games and making friends. They loved watching television too and were die-hard romantic at this small age all because of watching lots of romantic movies and serials.
"Stop you two ok" a fake angry voice of their father brought their pillow fight at a stop and they turned to face their parents.
"Sorry daddy" they apologized softly looking down guiltily for fighting with each other even though their dad had told them not to fight even if with pillows.
Arnav smiled inwardly Oh how cute these angels looked now' he thought as he felt proud to be the father of these cute little angels.
"Ah...its ok but it's getting late you two should go to sleep"
They sat down on the bed and their father also sat along with them while their mother looked around the messed up room.
All the cushions and soft toys that were previously on their bed and some on the couch were scattered around the room.
She started picking them up to places them on their right place and clean the room which was a mess due to her angels and their antics.
Arnav made his angels lie down on the bed and tugged them under the covers.
He lightly kissed them on their forehead and wishing goodnight was about to leave but they stopped him.
"Daddy" they called their father in unison.
He looked back at them.
"We want to hear a story before going to sleep please daddy"
"Oh god no.. you both know na.. I don't know any story !"
"But daddy the story we want to know is the one you very well know...please daddy" they pleaded with their puppy dog faces.
"Which story are you guys talking about " asked their mother still busy cleaning their room.
"Yes which one ?" asked Arnav.
"Your love story mummy daddy!" replied Anya the elder one.
"Yeah you said na you both have a love marriage then you both must have had a love story" added Kirti the younger one.
Anya and Kirti were their little naughty angels... their whole world was now around these two smiling little girls.
"hummm..and it must be full of drama and romance right ?" asked Anya while kirti nodded in agreement.
"Wrong.." replied their dad
"huh..it wasn't ?" asked kirti.
""Nope it wasn't full of drama other than the drama your mom created" arnav said while chucking a little remembering Khushi's crazy antics...how she used to fuss over small things...how she forced him to go on his knees to propose her adamant that she would not accept to marry him till he didn't go on his knees and asked her.
"So how did you both fall in love Daddy ?" asked Anya.
Both of them had thought their parents would have a love story with lots of drama a little romance... some separation and emotional scenes , fights ,with misunderstandings and at the end happily ever after.
Of course this was result of watching television serials because in fiction a love story is incomplete without all this.
And looking at Raizada and Gupta family it all was meant to be happened according to them.
"It was simple me and your mom worked in the same office...we were assigned a project together and between this we fell in love with each other after being sure of our feelings and confessing it to each other on one fine day we decided to tell our respective families about us and they were very happy about our relationship. Soon we got married and then you two came into our lives to make it perfect" Arnav simply narrated their love story.
"WHAT!" both of them said in shock that nothing of the sort they imagined happened? Their mouth took the shape of a perfect O' just like their mother's when she was shocked.
"No drama ?"
"no misunderstandings ?"
"no fight and villains too ?"
And Arnav shook his head in negative thinking how crazy his angels were. He had to put up with craziness of three most important girls in his life.
"Nothing of that sort ok? It was very simple and now you both go to sleep"
So they closed their eyes disappointed that their parents didn't have an interesting and masaledaar love story which they could share with their friends and tried to sleep.
Arnav again kissed them and looking at one last time he turned to find khushi looking at him with a loving content smile on her beautiful face.
She was happy and his daughters were happy that's all what he needed in his life.
All this while when a\Arnav was telling their children their love story she had looked at them.
She smiled at her kid's crazy questions.
As a child even she had wanted a love story full of drama just like in serials that she had watched.
It looked so fascinating back then but now when she thinks of it she was happy she didn't have to go through all the pain of separations and misunderstandings. She had now understood that pain of love is the greatest pain and she was glad she didn't had to suffer that pain.
She was lucky that her Arnav loved her and trusted her..
She has realized that she can't live without this man who is now her husband and father of her children.
Their love story maybe simple without any drama and misunderstandings, villains and separation but whatever it is ...however it is... it is theirs. Their simple tale of love...
She too kissed her angels goodnight and then both of them returned to their room to fell asleep in each other's arms and dream about the other.
Together they opened their daughter's room and went inside to find both of them oblivious to their presence merrily playing with pillows ... Throwing them at each other.
Thanks to their mother's genes their daughters loved playing pillow fights.
They smiled looking at their 13 year old twins.
They looked much like their father but their habits were more like their mother. They loved eating sweets, playing games and making friends. They loved watching television too and were die-hard romantic at this small age all because of watching lots of romantic movies and serials.
"Stop you two ok" a fake angry voice of their father brought their pillow fight at a stop and they turned to face their parents.
"Sorry daddy" they apologized softly looking down guiltily for fighting with each other even though their dad had told them not to fight even if with pillows.
Arnav smiled inwardly Oh how cute these angels looked now' he thought as he felt proud to be the father of these cute little angels.
"Ah...its ok but it's getting late you two should go to sleep"
They sat down on the bed and their father also sat along with them while their mother looked around the messed up room.
All the cushions and soft toys that were previously on their bed and some on the couch were scattered around the room.
She started picking them up to places them on their right place and clean the room which was a mess due to her angels and their antics.
Arnav made his angels lie down on the bed and tugged them under the covers.
He lightly kissed them on their forehead and wishing goodnight was about to leave but they stopped him.
"Daddy" they called their father in unison.
He looked back at them.
"We want to hear a story before going to sleep please daddy"
"Oh god no.. you both know na.. I don't know any story !"
"But daddy the story we want to know is the one you very well know...please daddy" they pleaded with their puppy dog faces.
"Which story are you guys talking about " asked their mother still busy cleaning their room.
"Yes which one ?" asked Arnav.
"Your love story mummy daddy!" replied Anya the elder one.
"Yeah you said na you both have a love marriage then you both must have had a love story" added Kirti the younger one.
Anya and Kirti were their little naughty angels... their whole world was now around these two smiling little girls.
"hummm..and it must be full of drama and romance right ?" asked Anya while kirti nodded in agreement.
"Wrong.." replied their dad
"huh..it wasn't ?" asked kirti.
""Nope it wasn't full of drama other than the drama your mom created" arnav said while chucking a little remembering Khushi's crazy antics...how she used to fuss over small things...how she forced him to go on his knees to propose her adamant that she would not accept to marry him till he didn't go on his knees and asked her.
"So how did you both fall in love Daddy ?" asked Anya.
Both of them had thought their parents would have a love story with lots of drama a little romance... some separation and emotional scenes , fights ,with misunderstandings and at the end happily ever after.
Of course this was result of watching television serials because in fiction a love story is incomplete without all this.
And looking at Raizada and Gupta family it all was meant to be happened according to them.
"It was simple me and your mom worked in the same office...we were assigned a project together and between this we fell in love with each other after being sure of our feelings and confessing it to each other on one fine day we decided to tell our respective families about us and they were very happy about our relationship. Soon we got married and then you two came into our lives to make it perfect" Arnav simply narrated their love story.
"WHAT!" both of them said in shock that nothing of the sort they imagined happened? Their mouth took the shape of a perfect O' just like their mother's when she was shocked.
"No drama ?"
"no misunderstandings ?"
"no fight and villains too ?"
And Arnav shook his head in negative thinking how crazy his angels were. He had to put up with craziness of three most important girls in his life.
"Nothing of that sort ok? It was very simple and now you both go to sleep"
So they closed their eyes disappointed that their parents didn't have an interesting and masaledaar love story which they could share with their friends and tried to sleep.
Arnav again kissed them and looking at one last time he turned to find khushi looking at him with a loving content smile on her beautiful face.
She was happy and his daughters were happy that's all what he needed in his life.
All this while when a\Arnav was telling their children their love story she had looked at them.
She smiled at her kid's crazy questions.
As a child even she had wanted a love story full of drama just like in serials that she had watched.
It looked so fascinating back then but now when she thinks of it she was happy she didn't have to go through all the pain of separations and misunderstandings. She had now understood that pain of love is the greatest pain and she was glad she didn't had to suffer that pain.
She was lucky that her Arnav loved her and trusted her..
She has realized that she can't live without this man who is now her husband and father of her children.
Their love story maybe simple without any drama and misunderstandings, villains and separation but whatever it is ...however it is... it is theirs. Their simple tale of love...
She too kissed her angels goodnight and then both of them returned to their room to fell asleep in each other's arms and dream about the other.