Prologue
Arnav woke up to the shrill ringing of his phone. Cursing the caller, he reached for the phone to find out that it was his Di calling. He contemplated turning off the call and going back to sleep, but thought against it.
"Di do you even realize it is past midnight here. What is so urgent that you could not wait till it was morning here in London." Arnav grumbled.
Anjali realized that in her haste to ask Arnav about his travel plans she completely forgot to find out what time it might be in London. She felt guilty of waking up her brother this later, knowing how hard he worked every day.
"I am really sorry Chhote I didn't think the time before calling but the materials here are really getting out of hand. Dadi is freaked out seeing the amount of work that is to be executed in two weeks. Even you are not here to supervise the decorations and all other stuff. Shyam has completely lost his patience with the doers. In short the house is in bedlam. When are you coming Chhote? I truly need you here at the moment." Anjali said in one breath.
"Breathe between your words Di. Foremost of all, you just calm down. I was getting to talk to you about coming home first thing in the morning, but now that you have called let me tell you that I am leaving the day after tomorrow and will reach Delhi within a day." Arnav explained to calm down his frantic sister
"Thank God both of you will be here in 2 days. I will have two more people to assist me." Arnav suddenly realized why he Di was talking about two people.
He strained to think of an excuse to get out of this situation, but he knew that his family wouldn't heed to his excuses this time. So he answered what he thought was in his best interests.
"Yes Di we will be there in 2 days. Just handle everything till I come." Arnav said
"So Akash and I are finally going to take on our mysterious Bhabhi. Make sure you brief her about the family before you guys get home. I must have roused her up too, so say sorry to her on my behalf. See you soon Chhote now go back and sleep."
"Ok Di. No you didn't wake her up as I got to the drawing room when I saw that it was your call. Bye Di see you soon." Arnav ran a hand through his already messy hair exasperatedly. He thought that if he didn't take his wife with him now he would be in very deep trouble.
"Now how am I supposed to get myself a fictional wife within a single day?" Arnav thought.
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