Avneil - One Shots

Sneaking Into her heart (Decisions part 2)

It had been a couple of months since Avni and Neil had gotten married. At first, Neil was sleeping on the couch, and Avni on the bed, but slowly, Avni had told Neil to sleep on the bed as she trusted him. She had started to take Kareena to the NGO with her, as well, to Pariek Industries, as she was helping Neela Ma and Amol out. Slowly, Kareena was coming out of her shell, as Avni had persisted, and Kareena was interacting with her family. Shweta, Prakash and Bebe were amazed at the change in Kareena, just in afew months, that Neil and Avni were married. Prakash called Avni his Angel. They treated Avni as a daughter, not a daughter in law. Avni started calling her inlaws by Papa, Mummy and of course Bebe, as she got close to them. They understood when she was calling them Uncle and Auntie, they had realized that with her history, actions spoke louder than words, so when Avni had started to call them Papa and Mummy, it was one of the happiest days they had in the house in a long time.

Neela came over with Amol, for tea as the whole family was home that day. Neela had started to complain to Shweta that they had stolen her daughter, as her daughter want to spend time with her inlaws rather than her. When Neil heard this, he stated, "Don't worry Neela Ma, if Ma has taken your daughter, your son, Neil, is with you."

"What! You can't steal my mum from me" yelled Avni.

"Why not, you stole mine" stated Neil

"I didn't steal your mum, you gave her to me, so there. She's my mum now. Neela ma is my mum and so is Mummy ji . I am sharing my mums with Kareena. You are already have Bebe on your side."

"Oye, Mummy ki bachi." said Bebe

"Sorry Bebe. But I am not wrong. Neil is your baby. He can do no wrong in your eyes."

"So he's my grandson, and your my granddaughter as is Kareena."

"So, we are one big happy family...the Pariek-Khanna family." stated Amol. "Now, let's not fight anymore."

As the days went on, Avni helped Kareena alot. The most important thing was Kareena's confidence was returning. She started to help Neil out in the office a bit at time.

Slowly, Neil and Avni started to do things together, one day a week, they would cook for the whole family. Neil would tell Avni about his day, sometimes he would ask Avni for advice since e helps out with Neela Ma's business. Avni started to depend on Neil, waiting for him when he was late, asking his opinion, asking him to go out with her. Slowly they were starting to act like a married couple instead of strangers.

Ali and Riya were the sounding boards for the couple. Ali was Neil's friend, while Riya was Avni's cousin and friend. Neil knew he had fallen for his wife, but his wife seemed untrouble. Neil was at Ali's cafe, talking to him about Avni.

"So how is Tubelight Bhabi?" asked Ali

"Tubelight Bhabi?" asked Neil

"Well, if Bhabi can't understand your hints, that you are in love with her, you want to be with her, that you want her to be the mother of your children...etc..." laughed Ali

"Ali, it's not funny. Yes, I want her. I am in love with her but she seems to shy away from anything love related. Her biological family has shunted her ideas of love that she seems to shy away from anything related to that. She was so amazed that our family accepted her the way she was, even with her family background." smiled Neil

"But she is amazing. Bebe calls her a good luck charm. As soon as she became part of the family, our dynamics has changed. Everyone is smiling. Our house has become a home. The other day, Kareena was chasing Avni around the house laughing. I haven't heard my sister laugh in years, and Avni made it happen." said Neil smiling.

"Neil, are you grateful for what is has done for your family or do you truly love Avni, cause if you are confusing gratefulness with love, it will hurt both of you in the long run. So please be sure that you are in love with Avni Bhabi, cause you both deserve happiness." responded Ali

"Ali, do you know that I saw Avni before I actually met her. I was stuck in traffic, and she was buying ice cream for a few kids. She had a beautiful smile on her face, she was carefree. She had seen the kids working on the streets and bought them ice cream, the kids were so happy. The kids had grabbed her clothes to say thank you, which had gotten dirty, and she was okay with that. There was only a smile on her face rather disgusts. Then a couple of days later, my family had asked me to go over to see Avni, as they had seen her at the Mehta's house visiting Riya, but the family was treating Avni very badly, yet Avni didn't speak rudely to her family, she spoke firmly yet politely. She impressed my family, so my family found her family history and decided that they wanted her to be my wife. I wasn't gonna say yes but I thought why don't I meet her. I wanted to meet the person that impressed my family so much that they wanted her to be their daughter in law. So, we went to the Pariek House and met Neela Ma and Aman. They explained that Avni would never agree to marriage as she hated the institution of marriage, as both her mothers have been hurt. I was surprised to see the girl that impressed me a couple of days earlier was the same girl that had impressed my family. Avni was straight forward. She wanted me to reject her. I surprised her when I said yes, so she thought to tell us her family history, which we already knew but we heard her version. So, I had told her my history which Ma was uncomfortable with all that, but I told them everything. In the end, i asked her if she wanted to be my wife, without any pressure from anyone. And she said yes. We are taking things slow as Avni wants. Karan, before he left for Delhi, said that he liked her, that she was what we needed in our family. " stated Neil

"So how slow is slow?" asked Ali

"Well, we talk, we cook together, shop. We basically do everything a married couple does except we haven't had our wedding night. But we do share the bed now. Which makes my nights long and torturous."

"What do you mean?" asked Ali in confusion

"Well, she likes to hold me while she sleeps. She cuddles into me, and during the night she holds me. All I want to do then wake her up so she can put me out of my misery. I want to take her on a honeymoon but I don't know if she will be receptive to my advances."

"You poor man!" clapping Neil on his back while he laughed uncontrolably.

"Only you. Mr. Perfect Husband and Tubelight Bhabi. Why don't you tell her"

"No. I want to be so entrenched into her heart, that she doesn't even realize when I have taken hold of her heart. She will know that once I have stolen her heart, she won't get it back. Its mine for eternity. That she is mine for eternity." stated Neil

"Neil, your wife is a tubelight. She is never gonna know unless you smack her in the face with your declaration. Just tell her that you love her. And that you are taking her for a honeymoon. The rest will come" stated Ali.