Finding us

Chapter 84

"Meri achchi mummy ho na?? Please zyada mat dalo!!! You're my sweetest mummy right? Please don't put too much on me!!" Diya squealed at her mother.

But her mother only grinned with malice as she scooped a generous amount of the haldi and smeared it on her daughter's face, making her groan.

"Smile!!!" Priya smirked as she clicked the picture. Diya scowled.

"Allleee meri behen ki haldi hai!! Aww it's my sister's haldi function!!" Aarna was sniggering now as she approached Diya.

"Di... Please!!!" Diya tried to cover her face. But Priya moved forward and held both her hands in a firm grip, whilst Aarna smothered her face with the haldi-chandan paste.

"Diiiii!!!" Diya groaned. Her whole face must be yellow now she knew!! Aarna just sniggered but before she could dip her hands into the paste to smear some more onto Diya's face, Diya tugged at Aarna's hand, making her fall onto Diya's lap.

"Aww my di loves me so much!!!!" Diya giggled, nuzzling her cheeks against Aarna's so that the haldi-chandan smeared onto Aarna's face as well!

Everyone roared with laughter. Priya was practically on the floor, laughing till her eyes watered.

Adi was howling as he recorded it all on his phone.

But Diya dipped her hand into the bowl of haldi chandan paste and taking a large quantity of it in her hand, smeared it all into Aarna's face - taking her by surprise.

"I laaaaav you di!!!" She then grinned, hugging her as Aarna still sat on her lap, looking shell shocked, her whole face smeared with haldi!

Everyone chuckled. Priya was still clutching at her stomach and laughing.

"Haldi hai ya holi?" They heard some older woman of the family grumbling from somewhere in between the crowd.

"Haldi that's played like holi!" Diya grinned, smearing more haldi onto Aarna's face.

Priya recorded it all on her phone before she forwarded it to Nikhil, with the caption - congratulations on landing this child-woman!

"She's MY child-woman ❤️" Nikhil's reply came in a matter of seconds.

Priya looked up to gaze at Diya and then sniggered as she clicked another picture of her best friend's face covered in the yellow paste, with Madhuri and Adi holding Diya's hands in a tight grip as Aarna began smothering Diya's face and even hair with the paste, Diya squealing and groaning in disgust.

"Aww she's your perfect match indeed!" Priya replied to Nikhil with the picture.

"What the... How dare they irritate my love? I'm coming there!!" Nikhil replied in an instant.

Priya's eyes flew wide with shock but she chuckled - only the bride's family were allowed here today! Nikhil had his own haldi to attend too!! No way he's gonna be able to come down here!

But a strange flutter began in Priya's belly and she turned around, only to gape in shock at the entrance from the haveli.

Three men were walking in, peering around interestedly.

Priya's eyes however were on the tallest and broadest of the men, who was grinning in a very shy sort of a way, his eyes hidden behind a pair of glares.

The moment he found Priya, he froze, the smile vanishing from his face as he took off his glasses.

Even from this distance, Priya could make out how intense his gaze was as Rohan gazed at her with unmistakable longing and... Love!