The Journey Of Love (#2)

21. His Birthday

Preeti's point of view

"Bhayi..Bhabhi come fast. Otherwise I am going to miss my flight." I heard Keerti was calling us from the living room.

I was in a puja room preparing a puja thali for keerti. Today she is going to Europe for her project so we celebrate rakhi today. I immediately lit diya and put two pieces of sweets along with Siddharth's rakhi. I took puja thali and walked towards living room room, Siddharth also climbing down from the stairs while buttoning his cufflinks.

Dad was reading Newspaper while mom packing some snacks for keerti.

"Bhayi you are late.." Keerti said  while taking the puja thali from me.

"I am here right now shut up." Siddharth said while messing her perfect combed hair. He really loves to mess her hair when she perfectly comb them.

"Bhayi.." keerti groaned in anger.

"What...?" Siddharth said innocently.

"Daaad.." keerti called dad for help.

"Sid...Don't teas her." Dad said without looking from his newspaper.

Keerti smirked and wiggled her eyebrow on Siddharth.

"Keerti..he is your elder brother dear. He teas you because he loves you." Mom said.

Now Siddharth smirked on her and wiggled his eyebrow.

I laughed looking at them. They both reminds me fights between Anshul and I. But the difference is Papa always took Anshul side and mummy took mine.

Siddharth hold my hand and we both sit on the couch. Siddharth grinning while looking at me whe I put my saree pallu on my head.

Mom and Dad along with some mades looking at us lovingly when keerti started doing our aarti and performing the rituals of Rakhi.

I and Siddharth both closed our eyes and put our right hand on our head when keerti did our tilak. She first tie rakhi on Siddharth's hand and then mine.

"My gift...?" She asked while stretching her hand towards us.

Siddharth open her wallet and took out his card.

"It's yours..buy anything you want." He said while handed her card.

"Really bhayi.." she said while looking at the card with her dreamy eyes.

"Yup.." He said.

"Now bhabhi it's your turn. " she stretched her hand towards me and looked at me with her wide smile.

"But I gave you the card as a gift then why are you asking gift from Preeti?" asked Siddharth.

"I also tie rakhi to bhabhi so I want gift from her also."

I chuckled and give her a gift wrap box. She immediately tor the wrapper  and took out her gift from the box. It was a watch exact her like. It wasn't  expensive comparison to her other expensive watches but it looked beautiful than others.

"Bhabhi it's beautiful.." she said while wearing her watch and showed us.

"Indeed.." Mom said looking at the watch.

"It has to be beautiful. My beautiful wife bought it." Siddharth said while winking at me and put his one hand around my shoulder.

My cheeks immediately turn crimson when he try to flirt with me in front of our family. After that drunk incident I always walked out when Siddharth tried to get closed to me or flirt with me in front of everyone. I am still embarrassed of my action.