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And I could did admit that it surely was one.
I followed in as Asha gently smiled and dragged me inside. Everyone was already settling in. I took my seat on the single sofa by the window and watched as the jet soon started to take off. It was remarkable how smoothly it ascended, not at all like how I had heard about the first experience that was usually described to be. I watched Asha get up and head towards a bedroom, yawning. She sure looked exhausted today. I could make out sleep in her beautiful eyes.
"Why did we take the plane instead of the helicopters?" I couldn't help but voice out after a while. Not that I didn't like the plane, I loved it and was so relieved to be out of those helicopters but I also happened to love being so close to Viaan. But now that he was sitting on the three-seater couch with Neel. Away from me and out of my reach...
"Why? Did you miss being snuggled against your husband?" Daksh voiced out with a knowing smile as he stared at his tablet, to my utter horror.
"No!" I wanted to kick myself for my immediate denial but at the moment my deer in the headlights eyes told otherwise, "I mean I thought we were going to travel through the helicopter and had tried to mentally prepare myself. Isn't it the same, flying via a plane? Or flying via a helicopter?"
I tried to save face with the most reasonable lie as well as distract everyone from the reason Daksh had so insensitively spilled out. But I wasn't fooling anyone here. All the brothers had a tiny smirk playing on their lips which indeed made me roll my eyes.
Great! Just great!
"Jets are faster than helicopters. While it would have taken us around eight hours to travel through helicopters, this jet will have us there in not more than two hours," Viaan lifted a newspaper off the teapoy and started to go through it. I nodded in understanding even though he wasn't looking at me.
I sighed out in bliss as I turned to look out of the window. The cities and greenery below us looked very lovely.
I had a feeling that it was going to be an amazing vacation with my in-laws, myself and Viaan. I was looking forward to it.
36. CHATTEESPART I
Theflight landed just as smoothly as it had taken off. And true to Viaan's words, we roughly spent about two hours through the journey minding our own businesses.
The brothers were still busy sorting out their works for the week.
I, having nothing else to do, just stole glances at my husband who was busy staring at the laptop screen before him. At some point of time, I even heard clearing of throats which caused my blood to flush to my cheeks making me look away.
All the time, I had been cursing myself mentally for acting like a love-struck high school girl. I was really glad that Aaryan wasn't present along with us otherwise he wouldn't let me live through the journey with all the teasing.
No... I was definitely not in love with Viaan... Only attracted to him. A lot!
I felt a touch over my shoulder grabbing my attention. Asha smiled and nodded after the walking figures of my husband and two of my brother-in-laws who were making their way towards the gate.
"Go, it's going to take me some time to complete some protocols. I'll meet you at home." She slightly squeezed my shoulder bone reassuringly.
"Okay," I nodded as I replied before mindlessly slinging my handbag over my shoulder and getting down the plane before following after the three brothers that were busy talking to each other. Neel had been conversing with the officers by the terminal when Asha approached them. It didn't take much longer after that for them to enter the airport through the private terminal.
I adjusted the handbag over my shoulder and looked ahead at the remaining three family members of mine with whom I had to travel the rest of the two and half more hours of journey. Presumably, we were about eighty kilometers away from our actual destination. I already felt the fatigue set into my body. Or was this what they called a jet lag?
I watched Daksh jog ahead after announcing that he will find out what the problem was for not allowing the cars inside the apron. Viaan and Vikrant didn't stick around for him to come back, instead, they also proceeded towards the VIP gates making me follow. The vibration and the loud ringtone from my bag made my hand dive into my handbag fishing till it felt a smooth metallic surface that vibrated.
Viaan had got me a new phone the very next morning after that incident. And not just any phone but the latest iPhone that these guys were using even after I repeatedly asked him not to.
The only reason he gave that expensive object to me was the unbelievable privacy that the Apple guys provided before he went on explaining about encryption and satellite service and all. I still didn't get any of it, at all...
Instead, I just ended up nodding as if I understood him. How could I not understand all that explanation even after being a technical student? Well, let me put it in another way, I hated the subject of the networks then and I hate it now. Everything about that subject flew above my head. It was a miracle that I managed to pass my course. But the score was just over the threshold marks by one point. Yippee me!
Mom calling...
I smiled at the caller ID as I answered it, "Hello, ma! How are you?"
"I'm fine, dear. Where are you? How long will it take to reach there?" I heard my mother's usual worried voice from the other side. It was very rare that I traveled without my parents. Honestly, this was my second time in my whole life!
"You won't believe it, we are already here. They took a private jet."
I looked up to find a four-lane road outside the gate empty. The hugeunder-constructionsign boards stood majestically on either side of the road. Some jelly stones and drums of tar laid unmoving on the side waiting to be poured into the potholes on the other half of the unmended road. About four expensive cars stood on the other end of the road, waiting for us.
"You already reached? Oh my! It must be really cold out there, right? I have heard it was quite windy in the North," I heard the surprise in my mom's voice making me chuckle. She was yet to get used to what the Raivardhans could do. I looked at the blaring sun, nope definitely not cold though the air here was a more humid than that back in Hyderabad.
