This Time, Her Turn [Completed]

Chapter 4

Ramit was in the hallway when he suddenly thought he saw her. He squinted his eyes and he still saw her. He walked to the group of 3 ladies and he still saw her. He called her name and she looked at him.

Damn, "What are you doing here?"

His greeting became an incomprehensible question.

His mother slapped his shoulder, "What do you mean by that? Didn't you go to pick her up?"

"No... I... when did you come?"

"Landed at four fifteen. I was here at five."

"You could have called me."

"Ah, I was in a hurry to rush back." She did not get a chance to tell him before the flight and to call him when she reached would make her wait 45 minutes. "I had only one bag, so it's fine."

"And brother, you only told her yesterday?"

"That..." Was it time for him to run?

"Whatever, but di is going to stay for a fortnight this time! I don't even want to get married anymore."

Their mother slapped the three of them on the shoulder one by one.

"Do you not wish for your wife to be here for the wedding? Tsk," she said to her son.

"How did you get so many holidays now? What about your own wedding? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Everything had to happen so quickly!" she said to Geetha, who got the tightest slap. Geetha rubbed her shoulder. "I was promoted so I could negotiate a little... and I don't have a heavy workload now, maa..." she defended without guilt for only taking out the five day leave her company designated for marriages.

"And you, stop chatting with the groom so frequently! And she says she doesn't want to get married!" Ria pouted, hiding her phone from her mother.

She turned to Geetha, remembering something. "What about mama and papa? When are they coming?"

Geetha looked at Ramit instead. When he raised his chin at her from behind his mother, she looked back at her mother-in-law and said, "They'll come."

"That's good," she said and left. Ria also got busy on her phone.

"When did my parents say they are coming? Geetha then asked Ramit.

Unable to catch her frequency he said, "I don't know. Papa invited them."

"Don't you usually have a word with them even if it's papa who called?"

"..." Did she forget everything? They were not supposed to be talking at the moment. How could he not feel awkward to talk to her parents given how they had fought. His dad had walked a few steps to give him the phone, saying that uncle wanted to say hi. But he escaped it somehow.

"It's okay. Not a problem. I'll ask them now."

Ramit quietly looked at her. Why did it sound like she was solving something for him?

She whipped out her phone and typed, 'When are you coming to Ria's wedding?" and sent it to her father, then to her mother.

Her father responded first, before she even set her phone down. 'One day before. That should be fine, right?'

'Yes,' she replied.

"Come on, let's go have lunch," she said.

Ramit gave up trying to reason and followed.

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Until Ria's wedding was over, they spent the time busy and light hearted.