Nyaabagam Varuthe

Pirivenum Thuyar Theendaamale

[A/N : So after a long break I managed to finish the next chapter..this is a continuation from chapter ' Enna Kaayam Aana Pothum' where Mullai reminisced about the days just after the accident]

Somewhere around the 10th of September 2020

Mullai lay looking at her sleeping husband fondly..

He had his hands flung around her ...

A rarity with this Kathir..they slept on the cot...but he always took care to keep a distance lest he put weight on her stomach...causing any discomfort

But today she had seen glimpses of that Kathir...that anger...that vulnerability....

The husband she was married to and had known for a year before the accident had taken a back step and allowed the more expressive Kathir to make an appearance in the eight months leading to his birthday

She looked at his sleeping baby like face..the face she had gradually fallen in love with even in those initial days...his tendency to keep to himself...speak so very less...everything she thought he did out of hate and spite she realised was actually space he gave her to come to terms with what had happened on that fateful day...

He was always called a rough guy...quick to pick up a fight...oh and they had fought...a looootttttt...but the hate was gone...it was more adjustment related arguments...

She slowly extricated herself from his hold and went out to make his tea ...

She knew it wouldn't be long before he got up...

He was sleeping more because of the medicine's effect...otherwise he was not the afternoon napping kind..

And soon enough she saw him going to the backyard...

And then to the front of the house ..the hall she presumed ...

This was another thing...the Kathir from the last 8 months would come and stand next to her...she said would tell him to move away...lest somebody see them like that...

She heaved a sigh...

Took the tea to him

Ey nee yen kashta padara...

Tea podrathula enna kashtam

Ille intha nelamaila kanda neramum tea pottu kittu athaan sonnen...

Aara kulla kudinga she said

Naan kudikkarthu irukkattum nee vanthu ukkaaru he said ...

And there were the similarities...this care ...for her well-being..

She wanted to test something

She went and sat in the hall on the floor against the pillar

Moorthy and Jeeva were there already...and seated on the 2 seater...the single seaters were empty...

Kathir looked very uncomfortable like he was deciding something in his head

Saadhana was getting much better at walking though she was still capable of losing balance and falling down

She was busy doing just that...and she went and fell on her mom...

Kathir saw his opportunity

Ntha nee ippudi mela vanthu ukkaaru..Saadhu kutty oru mudivoda irukka..mela vizhunthuda pora...

Ada athellam onnum aagathu vidunga she said

But having none of it...he got up from where he was sitting and coming over to where he was sitting...he held his hand out