It was evening time and the whole garden was in utter chaos, after an hour or two the Mehendi ceremony was going to get started. The whole garden was decorated beautifully and everybody was getting ready for the ceremony.
The Mehendi ceremony signifies a lot of things, it is considered very auspicious and has been in use since old times. Once applied to the skin, it cools the skin and the color calms down the soul. It holds great importance in the marriage too, the dark color attained after the drying of the paste shows love and strength, and is highly nice for the bride to be. It is a way of wishing the bride good health and prosperity as she makes her journey in her married life. The dark color, the coolness that the henna carries is a way to relieve the bride's stress and to make her calm. The dark color of henna marks the color of love.
Sonali: Roshni, beta Roshni zara dekh toh Naina ready ho gayi hai na?( just go and see if Naina is ready?)
Roshni: Haan aunty
In the room:
Roshni: Naina are you ready? come on! everybody is calling for you. The function needs to start, and I also have to apply Mehendi on my hands.
Naina: I am almost done, see this safety pin is not coming together, I had asked Komal( Naina's cousin) to ask for mumma or anybody, but you all being ' apni duniya mein busy log' forgot I guess.
Roshni: Oh ho itni si baat give it to me let me help you.
While Roshni was tucking the pins she asked" accha Nainu you are soo big, and you still don't know how to tuck safety pins, like seriously?" she asked just the way Sonali asks her, without the seriously though.
" Please don't start for that, I tried to lean but it is soo hard, I cant!!" Naina said in a fake crying voice. " then what will you do after marriage?" Roshni asked and then it hit Naina like a rock
She didn't know these things and who was gonna help her there. " Maybe Jiju can helllppp" Roshni said in a suggestive manner with playfulness hidden which was surfaced with the long 'help' word. And then our sweet bride was red like a tomato.
Roshni( disappointed): look at you, just the name of that hunk and you are all red, what will you do my dear?
Naina finally overcame her redness and then slapped her arm, " just shut up, let me focus"
In the garden
It was now that everybody had started to assemble, a new issue was there that made everyone panic. The MEHENDI LADIES HAD NOT ARRIVED YET!!
Sonali( panicked, and sweating): ohh god, what do we do now, they are not even picking up their phone, I had last talked to them in the morning.
Naina's cousin: give me the number, I will try again
Naina was not aware of such a thing, she didn't know what was going on, she was just waiting in her room and now she was so confused, first, they tell her to gear up and then they tell her to wait it was not digestible.
Naina: kya hua hai, why I am made to wait here. Let me go and ask everybody
Roshni( nervous): arrey, Naina why did you come down, we wanted you to wait
" But I was getting bored there and then suddenly you all made me wait, what happened," Naina asked and looked at everybody. " The Mehendi didies are not here yet" one of her cousins blurted out.
Shock was not something she felt, she felt nervous and scared, if Mehendi is not applied on time, then what will she do? and at the last hour they won't even find some other person, they had already given the money for that too. Now what?
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