chapter 60

He smiled and said, “How can I know?”Divya - I prayed to God that you always stay with me. He smiled pleasantly to hear that. I continued, “I prayed to God that I always stay with you.”Raj - Hmm…I turned my face towards Raj and said, “You love me and I love you. We also want to stay together for the rest of our life. Then why not make our relationship a permanent one. Let’s get secured lest anything bad happens.”He became a bit anxious, “What are you trying to say?”I said beaming at him, “Let’s get married, Raj.” He was taken aback to hear that, “Hey, what are you saying? Don’t start playing with me now.” He faked a laugh. I said in a very serious tone, “I am not kidding with you, Raj. I am damn serious. I have realized that you are the best boy for me. I am in deep love with you. I can’t live without you even for a moment. You also love me na, then what’s wrong in marrying?”He said anxiously, “Divya, you have just turned sixteen and I am just eighteen years old. Legally, we can’t marry!”I said confidently, “Don’t worry, I have a solution to your problem. We will not marry in court. We will just go to a pandit. He will do his rituals and perform our marriage.”He said anxiously, “Don’t be crazy, Divya. I am not financially dependent. I don’t have any career yet. I will not be able to support you. How will we be able to live together? Moreover, our parents will get angry. We will not be able to tackle our parents.”I looked deep into his eyes and said, “I have a solution for this problem too. We will marry but we will not tell anyone, not our parents.”Raj - What are you saying? I said angrily, “I love you damn it! I don’t want to lose you under any circumstances. I want to feel safe! Don’t you want to make me feel safe? I am not asking you to give me anything. I just want to marry you. Even that you can’t do!”He said anxiously, “But what about money?”I said, “I don’t need any money. I just want to be with you. You get pocket money. I get my pocket money too. For me my pocket money is enough. You are not going to incur any financial burden by marrying me. I don’t want gold, I don’t want any mangalsutra. We will live after marriage as we are living now. Your parents will be sending you money as they have been doing.”He was confused to hear all this. He had no idea what to say now. Divya - You live alone on rent here. If I talk about my mom. She also said to me yesterday that her brother's health had deteriorated. She had to go and live in his town because he is alone there. She has already asked me to find a room on rent where I can buy food easily so that my education will not get interrupted because it’s my board class. You are already living on rent. We can live together in your room as a husband and a wife. Raj - What about your present home?Divya - Our present house is also a rented house. My mom came here for my education. Our real house in our village.Raj - But…I said, dominating him, “What but? Everything is set. My mom is leaving tomorrow. We will marry right now and tomorrow I will shift into my new house which is your rented room.”He said, “Divya, please… I think it’s going to be a very wrong step. Now, we are boyfriend and girlfriend. I promise I will never leave you. How can I leave you, mad girl? I am in love with you. You have become my breath. You are my heartbeat.”I said angrily, “No, you are lying. You are trying to evade our marriage. If I were your breath, your heartbeat, you would have at once accepted my marriage proposal. You would have at once agreed to marry me. Now, your intentions are becoming very clear to me. You just want to time pass with me. That’s why you are running away from marriage!”His face became red to hear that. He said, “Divya, I am not a cheater. I really love you a lot. I can never leave you. I don’t know how can I prove this to you?”I said, almost ordering him, “Today, you have to prove your love. And don’t ask me how can you prove it? You know how you can prove it. Just marry me! It’s as simple as that.”He was hell confused, “Oh, Divya, Divya, what happened to you?”I said in a commanding tone, “Okay, I'll make your problem simple. You have only two options today and you have to choose one of them. First option is to marry me and prove that you love, make me feel secure and I will be yours forever. Second option, don’t marry me. I promise you will never be able to see my face again ever in your life!”He begged, “Divya, please don’t do this to me.”I said looking at the temple, “We are standing in front of the temple. Today, I want to see, is your love true for me or you are just playing with my emotions?”Finally, he said but his tone was full of anxiety, “Okay, you want me to prove that I love you. I will prove it. I will marry you today itself! Let’s go to the pandit (temple priest) right now!”I became very happy to hear that. We again entered the temple and walked up to the pandit. He was man of about thirty five years of age. Raj said to him directly, plastering a smile on his face, “Pandit ji, we want to marry.”He said in a straight tone, “Where are your parents?”Raj was scared to hear that. He lied, “Our parents passed away long ago.”Pandit - Your aadhar cards?(It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment and please don't forget to follow me and become my superfan. You will be able to read all the locked parts of all my series for free and you will also be able to chat with me and my superfans directly.)