My Dear , Ashwineyy ! ✅

Chapter 18

Sivaangi's pov

It was the next morning, most of our relatives already left. Now it's just us and Ashwin's uncle who stays with his grandparents. So, the morning was pretty silent. I got ready for the day by wearing a simple yellow top with leggings, I matched it with yellow earrings. I went down straight to the kitchen to help Meena aunty prepare breakfast but since my mom was already helping her, they didn't need my help. So I just roamed around the house to fill my boredom since Ashwin was out with his dad and Sam Sri were not here. I roamed cluelessly until I found an old room. I figured it was the store room, so I entered hoping to find something interesting. The room was very neat with even couches. It was filled with old toys, trophies and photo albums. Jackpot ! I took the albums and went sat on the couch. The first album looked the oldest so I opened it first. It was Tata Patti's wedding photos. I looked at each photo carefully not wanting to miss any highlights. Then, I moved on to the next albums, it's was all Ashwin's mother and uncles childhood pictures. Then, the last album caught my eyes, I opened to find it was Ashwin's childhood album. The album contained all the pictures from him being a newborn to adult. Seeing his baby pictures put a smile on my face. He was literally the cutest baby ! I took photos with my phone for future use. I was smiling widely while flipping through the album and someone opened the door, it was Ashwin.

"I searched for you everywhere. Inggeh enna ma pandre?", He asked.

Before I could I answer him, he noticed I was holding his childhood album and said

"Hey how did you get that ? It's so embarrassing", he said while sitting next to me.

"No way. You're the cutest baby I've ever seen", I exclaimed.

"Well I know a baby cuter than that", Ashwin said sheepishly.

"Who's baby ?", I asked curiously.

"Our baby", he giggled.

I elbowed him and he giggled more. Then, we both spend hours looking at pictures and Ashwin told me the backstory of every photo. I felt more connected to his family. We had a great time, glad I found the store room.

Afternoon came, and we all had lunch together. After lunch, as usual we were bored so we decided to watch a movie, just me and Ashwin. So, we went to the movie room and started searching for a movie to watch. Finally we settled on Home Alone. We both sat on the couch. The movie started and we had a good laugh. In middle of the movie I noticed that Ashwin fell asleep on my shoulder. I smiled seeing his innocent sleeping face. I slowly moved his head and made him lay down on my lap. He snuggled me and continued to sleep. I ran my fingers through his hair which made him sleep more comfy. Even after the movie ended I didn't wake him up, I just let him sleep. Soon, evening arrived and it was time for us to leave to our home. I have no choice but to wake him up. So I slowly whispered to him,

"Ashhh...Ashwinnn...Mannaa.."

My attempt failed so I tried again,

"Ashwineyy", I whispered and he immediately woke up. It made me giggle.

He woke up cluelessly looking around him, and when he saw me he calmed. He smiled and hugged me, tried to sleep back but I woke him up again. He's a real baby when he wakes up from sleep. I told him that we need to leave and he slowly woke up. Then he was fully awake and realized it's time. So we both left. Our parents were already done packing and we also quickly packed and got down. We got blessings from tata paati as we won't see them until the wedding. Our everything settled we got on our cars.  Sadly, I didn't get to go with Ashwin today since Sam took his car. He will drive his father's car with his parents and Saranya while I will go with my family. We waved our good byes and started our journey back home.

To be continued...