Wedding Gone Wrong!

~Chapter 13~

It was just another day for Kavya, she came home from work and started writing some articles for a website, when it turned not so normal as she heard loud sounds from the basement. She ignored it for a few minutes but as the noise was disturbing her writing process she slammed her pen on the table and went downstairs to the basement to know why his brother is being such a maniac at this hour.

As she reached downstairs she saw Shreyas was mercilessly hitting a punching bag, after a long long time he has walked down to the gym that he himself set up two years back when he had a happy normal life. She walked inside and leaned on the door.

"Kis nalayak ka gussa nikal rahe ho is bechare punching bag pe?", She said with a tilted smile.

"Don't act like you didn't knew!", He said stopping the punches, and she stood up straight.

"What?", She asked as she went inside and Shreyas turned to face her.

"Kal Ramisa ke parents aa rahe hai humari shaadi ki date fix karne ke liye.", Shreyas said and Kavya's jaw dropped listening to this. She just stood there in silence.

"And you agreed?", She asked him.

"You think I had a choice?", Shreyas said taking off the glove from his hand.

"Why did no one tell me?", She said as her eyebrows furrowed.

"I thought you knew."

"If there's anyone who hates that girl with passion, it's me. You think that if I knew I would've agreed?", She said, clearly frustrated.

"I can't do anything for it. Maa aur Papa bhi apni jagah sahi hai.", Shreyas said as he walked out of the room with Kavya following him.

"So you're just gonna give up on your love?", Kavya asked as she noticed the sudden change in his behaviour.

"Do you think I want to? Bohot easy hai na tumhare liye ye bolna just because you don't like Ramisa, I have 1023 genuine reasons on why I don't want to marry her, but Papa ko explain kar paaogi tum? Please ek baar try karna and then we'll talk.", Shreyas said and stomped up to his room slamming the door, Kavya was very mad at her parents but refrained from doing anything at that time and waited for morning.

She went to her room, and took out an old family photograph from her cupboard, it was a happy smiling picture of her, Shreyas and her eldest brother from their Japan trip when Kavya was 18.

"I am still not sure why you did what you did Bro. But if this is how you were being treated too, you did the right thing.", She said looking at her eldest brother and a tear drop fell from her eye, she quickly wiped it away and kept the photograph inside.

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Kavya freshened up as early as she could and walked downstairs to face her parents. Even her early wasn't very early and Shreyas, and her parents were already there in the dining table.

"Good morning Kavya.", Anand greeted her with a smile, without responding to him she sat down on her seat.

"Koi mujhe batayega ki aaplog kya kar rahe ho aaj?",  She asked as she looked at her parents.

"Oh right, kal raat tum late aayi thi isliye we didn't tell you, aaj Mrinalini aa rahi hai, hum Shreyas aur Ramisa ki wedding dates finalise kar denge.", Suchitra answered with a happy smile.

"Aur aaplogon ne bhai se pucha ki unhe us ladki se shaadi karni hai ya nahi?", Kavya asked furiously.

"We all know him, he doesn't say anything, and silence doesn't means a no.", Anand said and Kavya furrowed her eyebrows, shocked at her father's words.