Fear & Love

Forty Seven

The two months went by with little fights and lots of laughter for Anand and Gitanjali.

Gitanjali had gone for a weekend to her parents house and they had insisted on Anand coming for dinner but Gitanjali knew what an awkward fest it would be, so Gitanjali asked her parents to not call him for stay.

The rare times that Anand had met her parents for dinner, it was her mother pestering him to eat more and Anand being reluctant to try his non diet food and her father and him would speak for sometime. While Gita insisted her parents to not call him "Anandji" (denotes respect) and just Anand, but her parents always addressed him with utmost respect.

After that incident, Gita always goes alone to her parents place so that she can be spend her time with her parents, without them stressing about Anand and trying to make him comfortable.

Gita was excited and couldn't calm down to plan for tomorrow. It was their anniversary! Their wedding anniversary. The first one! Oh, how the year went by. She smiled thinking about this and wanted to plan a special surprise for her husband.

But first, she should know his schedule and only two people could help her out. Actually, they can help her to map out the plan better.

She called Priti and asked her to take Prakash on concall.

"Tell me about his schedule for tomorrow." Gita demanded like the wife she was.

Prakash told her his entire schedule along with their special dinner in the end. With Anand, there were no surprises. He had told her a week back that he is taking her out for dinner on their anniversary.

"Ma'am, sir has booked The Grand Empire and Platinum League for your stay. Do you wish for any changes in that?"

The Grand Empire was the elite of hospitality industry in the county. Only people like Anand could afford a stay there. The prices of The Grand Empire were infamous as they would cost you easily around lakhs. Gita was still the same girl whose mother taught her to keep a check on her spending habits and not to indulge in unnecessary temptations.

"Yes, tell him to cancel the stay. We can just go for dinner." A stay at such an expensive place was unnecessary. She knew she can't cancel the dinner as it is his gift for her but canceling the stay is something she can do.

"Can you both please help me choose a gift for him? I am thinking of giving him some gaming console or I don't even know what is it called....but help me!" Gita urged both of them. She had checked Anand's closet. He had everything and beyond - from watches to clothes to apparels. So Gita thought of giving him something related to gaming - in hopes that it would bring smile on his face and the excitement that she wants to see.
Promptly like the superhumans they were, Priti and Prakash sent her the links of various games and gaming equipments she can gift Anand.

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Anand came at 1AM at home and by that time, it was already their anniversary! To Gita's surprise, he brought a cute bento cake to celebrate their anniversary at midnight. The one where it was just the two of them. No staff or security around them.

"Anand, did you even know what was bento cake?" Gita asked giggling, knowing very well Anand would have no clue about these cute small round delights and this was definitely Priti or Prakash's idea.

"Ugh. Definitely not. I gave my PAs a brief about something cute for tonight and they suggested this. But isn't this just a cake in small size? Why is it called bento?" Anand asked genuinely curious about the story behind the name. Gita was his own quirky Google. Her excessive reading of lifestyle and food newspapers and magazines made her knowledgeable of amazing facts and stories. Her being a teacher to curious kids also required her to read vastly about different topics.