Journey towards 'Happily ever after' ➳❥

Chapter 2 ~ One long night!

I entered my dorm room at around 9pm after finishing my shift at the hospital, freshened up and snuggled into my bed and pulled the blanket over me. It was getting colder and colder as the days passed and my pajamas felt too thin to bear this low temperature. Tomorrow I have the taken off from my hospital duty to meet Dr Kunal. We both had discussed and decided that our meet would be tomorrow as he had some medical conference to attend today in this city. I have been nervous the whole time, this was my first blind date, haahaa who am I kidding, I've never even gone for an actual date yet!

I know 27 years and not a single date might be embarrassing but it's not my fault if I never found an actual amazing guy outside my books.

Let anyone say anything I still stand by the 'fact' that fictional men >>>>> real men!

But that wasn't the reason I didn't go to any date with guys, my life at high-school was shitty! In my college, guys were shitty! med-school didn't even let me breath, and most importantly I would always manage to scare the shit out of any guy who would try to go any further from the friendship zone.

And now I'm stuck with this stranger guy and the marriage alliance! uff. Like the smart person I am, I have come up with my new plans to scare this guy.
These are the plans to ruin tomorrow's date.

Plan A - Go with zero makeup!

I know all these men keep saying online they'll take women for the first date to pool to wash thier makeup! Women look scary without makeup, some need surgeries to look good etc. All of these clearly shows how much they hate 'No-makeup look' I'll flaunt my natural beauty.

Plan B - Fill the table with your ambitions.

As much as men need working women they still want a good homemaker too. It's like they want a combo offer, double lottery. a woman who will work outside just like them but also come home, cook, clean and take care of thier husband. I'll make him believe I'm none of it.

Plan C - Hurt thier ego through rejection.

Men have the biggest ego. Hurt it crumble it, Work Done!

This might sound as if I'm stereotyping all men, but what do I do that's how I feel and believe. I hate men, I hate marriage, period. Urghhhhh.....

For a moment I thought why do all this drama and even go to meet him, just explain the situation and text him directly to stop this whole marriage thing.

I unlocked my phone and started typing,

'Hello Dr Kunal! I know we had agreed to meet tomorrow but I guess it's not necessary because I don't want to marry you! Infact I don't want to marry anyone. Anyways I'm not going to be there at the decided venue, so please do not wait for me! This marriage is not happening. hope you understand, I'm sorry!'

I read for the nth time and pressed the send button! uff!! I sighed quickly locked my cellphone and kept it aside before changing my mind.

Within a minute, I heard my phone vibrating! My heart started beating faster, did he reply so soon? what will he say? Is asking for the reason? Will he let my parents know?

With all these questions in my mind and my heart racing, I opened the inbox, relaxed seeing my mom's text!
but why is she texting me this late at night, and this text seems pretty long.

'heyy sweetie! I got to know about your and Kunal's first date tomorrow from his parents. I can't tell you how happy I'm knowing that my small little Anisha has finally grown into a big lady and is about to get married! my heart is filled with pride Ani. I know I know, your marriage is not fixed yet but the mere thought that you are all ready and willing to get married is making me so happy dear. You must be nervous and tensed about , tomorrow that's why this text, Good luck for your date, Both of Kunal's parents are really nice, so thier son must be nice too. Everything's gonna be alright Ani. I want you to know you have always made me and your dad proud of you sweetie, you've always been the best daughter for us. And I know you will not disappoint us in this matter too. Sleep tight okay! Good night❤️.'

Just as I finished reading the text, I went straight to the text I had sent to Kunal a few minutes back and saw that he still hadn't read my text yet! that's good because I deleted it immediately. And again went back to my mom's text read it again and again, why do they have to do this to me? my parents always push me to the edge. There is constant feeling of dilemma whenever I have to decide something about my life because of them. I sigh, and laid my head down on my pillow.

From my knowledge about my parents, in a broader perception I feel they both are always trying to be the best parents they can be, they keep pushing themselves to do things out of thier league to make me and my little sister happy and so we lead our life better. but they keep failing and end up making us feel distanced and disappointed in them. I'm not sure if my sister understands it yet or not but I have understood over time that though our parents are not perfect they are best parents because they are doing what they can. All kids forget that thier parents are an individuals too! and my parent's fallback as parents' is majorly due to thier individual personality. They think something's best for thier daughters but are not considering whether thier daughters really need that best thing or not. Both of them are ambitious and successful in thier professional life, wouldn't say the same in personal life. If I keep thinking there are lots, someday I hope to share this with someone, my life story. The true fact is I haven't been the best daughter too. I have done my own set of mistakes and blunders, I am no perfect, no one is perfect. We must embrace everyone as they are. And whatever I am today is solely because of my parents and thier support, presence/absence everything they have done to me. I'm forever grateful for them. We should all be.

About tomorrow's meeting, it is going to happen, I should choose my battles wisely if I have to win the big game, and now is the time to loose. I will meet this Kunal guy, and make sure he will be the one to reject me.

I was really tired tonight, with my boxing classes in the evening and the whole days work had made me strained. My final exams were within a month's time and I have to prepare a lot. With all these thoughts running, I gradually slipped into deep sleep. It was indeed one long night.

Author's Note:

Let me know how did you guys feel about this chapter. And I have a question for y'all!

What's one big complaint you have about your parent's parenting style? Let me know with your comments.