Petrichor to his Heart

5.3

It had been a few days since he started helping her after lunch and she felt it was not so bad with his occasional mean comments and taunts, a lot of times she was struck in simple things and every evening he would send her a file containing notes and sample programs to run.

The saying that people good in certain areas were certainly good in whatever they did, he was a good teacher though not everyone's tea.

She smiled to herself as she pushed her slim cell phone in her jeans pocket and made her way to the restaurant. Her Aai and baba were coming to meet her and since they had to visit someone so they planned this real short visit to her.

"aaho, there she is, our Pallu..." her aai said excitedly and left her seat to hug her.

"Aai..." she hugged her and went to her father. "Baba...how are you two."

"What happened to you, aren't you eating properly Pallu?." the scrutinising eyes of mothers always found their kid's health deteriorating so she shared a small knowing smile with her father on that topic.

Soon they indulged in the normal talks and their talks shifted to all the topics they could.

"so what are thinking beta after you finish the course..." knowing very well Pallavi's difficulty in coding her father asked her.

"you are Impossible Vijay ji, we are here to meet her after some three months and you started her future plans..." Sharda scoffed at her husband.

"it's okay Aai . and Baba, I am trying to work on my coding skills there is this guy in our batch he is helping me... he is so good in it though he is a little impossible just like you." she smiled teasingly and kept telling them about him.

Unknown to her her mother has started noticing the glow that covered her face when she talked about this certain guy her daughter insisted was a great tutor.

"so what did you say, he is in the same batch...hmmm." her father heard all her sense and non-sense from the time she was a small girl and here also he kept hearing her talks with occasional Yes, No and WH words enquiry when needed.

After two coffees and an early dinner, they decided to leave her to her hostel and go wait at the station for their train.

Stuffing the bag of homemade goodies inside her bag and a few other things her mother kissed her forehead as they left the restaurant.

"Please come home for a day or two Pallu..." Sharda whispered to her when her father went to look for a taxi or something.

"All of us miss you."

"You know Aai I can't come, to come home I need at least a week, one or two days end in stretching and yawning only." she joked and politely denied her mother's request.

"Whatever you say...ok take care of you and keep eating na, why do you stop eating Pallu, late-night study doesn't help..." the usual set of warnings started by her mother and she nodded to every one of them with a pout.

"ok listen, share the laddus with your friend as well," her mother whispered the words as if she was saying something awful.

"i always do Aai and anyway your laddus are hit with Apoorva." she kept away a stray hair strand behind her ear.

"Paagal..." Sharda mumbled on her daughter's innocence.

"with your guy friend... I mean he seems a nice guy to give you his time." her mother put the words in a sentence with difficulty wary about some other meaning being taken by her daughter.

"Oh, you meant Raghav...cant say," she scrunched her nose on his name.

"why this Raghav Guy is an alien, he doesn't eat sweets?" Sharda was always a friend of her daughter and such banters were common between them.