“When did you buy that?”, Keerthi drew circles on her husband’s chest.
“Some time back”, Vikram answered vaguely, kissing his wife to distract her.
He didn’t know how she would react if he told her he bought the nightwear for her in the initial few weeks of their marriage.
Keerthi moaned when her husband kissed her, hissing when he bit her lip.
“Okay”, she let it go.
Vikram sighed in relief, running a hand on his wife’s back, uneasy when he saw the sticky mess between her legs
He sighed in relief when his wife walked into the washroom to clean herself up.
Keerthi felt uneasy as she washed herself. She loved their raw sex, finally, without any protection. It felt different from all the times they had used a condom, every move intensifying.
But she didn’t like cleaning herself up. And she didn’t like going to sleep either. The five minutes she lay next to her husband, she felt sticky.
It felt too intimate, and personal, lying next to him as she leaked from below.
Vikram pulled his wife over him when his wife was at arm’s reach.
He couldn’t get enough of her.
Keerthi raised a brow when her husband’s finger tip entered her.”We had sex like twelve minutes ago.”
“This is not exactly sex”, Vikram shrugged, pushing his finger upto his knuckle.
Keerthi moaned when her husband’s hand moved at a rapid pace.
She wanted to whine when she felt pleasure build her, her toes curling when her husband continued to pump into her mid orgasm, her legs quaking as she kept coming.
They had sex so often the last few days. Her insides felt sore when her husband withdrew his hand.
Though she loved sex equally, her intimate areas hurt a lot sometimes, especially when her husband got a bit rough.
Keerthi yawned after sometime, tired,”I am hungry.”
Vikram’s stomach growled,”Me too.”
“Can you call for room service?”
“We could go out.”
“I am too lazy to get up”, Keerthi stretched her limbs, snuggling into her husband’s chest.
“There’s a restaurant I want to try.”
“We can try tomorrow.”
“We are leaving for Venice tomorrow.”
“Why can’t we laze around? It’s our honeymoon. Why keep such a tight schedule?”
“You didn’t let me cover half the places I wanted to in the last ten days”, Vikram quirked his eyebrow.
“That’s not true. We roamed around Rome and Florence already, covering majority of the important places. It’s greed to want to cover more.”
Vikram stared at his wife blankly. What she said was true, but he liked travelling.
“Fine. We could order from there?”, Keerthi offered.
“It has a good view.”
“If the view is not great, I’m going to shave your head”, Keerthi grumbled, getting up from bed.
Vikram laughed,”You are like a Panda. Literally, sitting in the same place. How’s your ass even so firm with all the sitting you do?”, Vikram teased his wife.
Keerthi glared at her husband,”I do not sit in the same place all the time.”
Vikram laughed as his wife slammed the bathroom door shut, relaxing.
“The view is actually good”, Keerthi begrudgingly agreed as they took their seat on the rooftop, they could see the city brilliantly.
“I know I am right. Feel free to keep reminding me though”, Vikram shrugged, slicing the chicken.
“Wow. Could your ego get any bigger?”
“I don’t think so. Don’t worry”, Vikram laughed.
Keerthi snuggled into her husband’s chest as they spoke, sad that they had to leave in another few days.
“Do you wanna stroll around for a bit or go to sleep?”, Vikram teased.
Keerthi clenched her teeth. Her husband got so comfortable teasing her.”Yes. I want to sleep. Could you arrange a bed for me on the road?”
Vikram smiled, shaking his head, as he wrapped a hand around his wife’s shoulder, as they walked around for a bit.
**
“Keerthi”, Vikram called for his wife while she was doing some laundry.
“What is it?”, Keerthi frowned when she saw a tablet in her husband’s hand.
“We didn’t use protection last night”, Vikram said simply.
Keerthi rolled her eyes, it was kind of a well known fact.
But as she looked at her husband’s pointed stare, she couldn’t help but feel offended.
He didn’t want her to be pregnant.
Keerthi had bought pills with her when they had gone sightseeing earlier. She didn’t know her husband did too.
But her husband handing the pill to her was too much.
She didn’t want be pregnant either. It was too early, and she was young.
But her husband not wanting her to be pregnant either was rubbing her off the wrong way, she felt like a hypocrite.
Although she didn’t want to be pregnant, she would have been neutral if she got pregnant. She would be carrying a part of Vikram and herself inside her, their child.
“Take it”, Vikram said softly.
“I’m not ovulating”, Keerthi grumbled. She was so upset.
“Take it either way.”
Keerthi stared at her husband. She had her reasons for not wanting to be pregnant. What were Vikram’s?
She thought men usually wanted to get their wives pregnant.
But here her husband was, diligently giving her the next day’s pill.
Her eyes watered.
“Come on”, Vikram pushed. He wanted to get his wife naked.
Only one question ran in Keerthi’s mind, why didn’t her husband want her to be pregnant?
Not that she wanted to be, but she wanted to know the reason.
“Why?”, she asked.
Vikram’s jaw clenched,”Take it”, he stressed.
Keerthi silently took it, sipping the water her husband offered her.
She stared at her husband, her vision blurring.
Keerthi felt upset.
The thought that her husband didn’t want her to conceive didn’t sit well with her.
WHY!! She wanted to scream, as she looked at her husband, searching for an answer.
She felt like an idiot.
Their opinions matched, both of them didn’t want her to be pregnant.
But.
But why?