Roommate (ASHAANGI)

Fourteen

Saesha slowly opens her eyes and finds her hugging the pillow placed between them.  She slowly lets out a sigh of relief when she realizes she has just been cuddling the pillow and not Akshay. Her eyes slowly trails up to Akshay, who looks peaceful when sleeping. He has his one arm tucked behind his head and the other one thrown at the pillow. She chuckles slowly when she realizes he looks like a peaceful kid. Her eyes follows his hairs which has been covering his eyes and she so wants to move them away. Fighting her urge, she sits up and leans against the headboard. She stifles a yawn and searches for her phone, which is plugged to the charger. Quickly picking it up, she notices a new message from satya. She opens them and chuckles at the insults thrown at her way.

Satyaaaaaa: Have I ever told you how ugly your hair is?

The insults started when satya found everyone in their office finding  Saesha more beautiful and loved. He then made a deal with Saesha, that he will be deflating her ego with text insults. Since then, he has never stopped his insults via text and this makes Saesha chuckle everytime she looks at them.

Grinning, she closes his contact and looks at the time to see it's 7 in the morning. She locks her phone and walks to the closet, and grabs her pink kurti and a legging and walks to the washroom. Quickly taking a shower, she dresses herself and walks out of the washroom to see Akshay leaning against the headboard with his eyes closed. Not knowing what to do, she steps out of the washroom and combs her wet strands of hair surprisingly without any struggle.

The room is instantly filled with the lavender scent of Saesha and Akshay finds himself dangerously drowning in her Cologne. He keeps his eyes closed and hears all of her movements.

After drying her hair, she unlocks her bedroom door and steps outside, and quietly closes the door behind her, making sure she doesn't startle Akshay. Humming to herself, she turns towards the stairs to descend downstairs but abruptly stops when she hears a deep male voice yelling. Her ears perks up at his words.

"Kandavella veetukku kootitu vanthu, kudumbam nadathurathu nallava irukku? Yevalayo innaki kootitu varran, nalaikku inno oru ponnaiyum kootitu varuvan, neenga ellarum inga avanoda senthu kummi adichittu irukkinga. Chi.." The man yells and Saesha's heart sinks at the words. She chews her bottom lip and continues to eavesdrop on their conversation.

"Yenga, sathampodathinga. Avangalukku kaathula vilunthurapoguthu" Akhila speaks on the other side.

"Vilattum. Nalla sathamave vilattum."

"Pleasenga koncham methuva pesunga. Ithu Avanga kaathula viluntha varutham" unable to stand this, Saesha slowly walks downstairs, very well aware of everyones eyes on her. Her hands starts to tremble at the new attention and she so wishes she hasn't walked downstairs. She quietly walks over to the living room, to see the kids nervous glances and the elders nervously sweating over the situation. She stands beside Akhila and gives her a smile before landing her eyes on the man in front of her. He looks old with grey hair. She realizes Akshay is the replica of his father.

"Hi Appa, I'm saesha" She nervously introduces herself, and he looks at her before shaking his head. He simply walks away from them to his room. Akhila sighs behind her and Saesha's eyelids start to get heavy.

"Sai" Parvathi comes out of nowhere and links her arm with Saesha.

"Hey" Saesha smiles at her friend and Parvathi walks them to the kitchen. Once they enter the kitchen, she leans her head against Parvathi's shoulder and shuts her eyes.

"You good?" Parvathi asks

"Hmm.. Just tired" She replies, her eyes still shut.

"Is Akshay Awake?" Parvathi asks, moving the strands of hair from Saesha's forehead.