Mr and Mrs Unromantic

Bienvenida a Madrid

Completing all the immigration process, picking up her luggage, Sreeja came outside the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport.  Her heart was more than elated and felt a satisfaction after reaching Madrid.It is a dream come true for her. To experience the local street travelling, she hopped on to public transport rather than car, and explored the nature and people on her way to hotel.

After an hour of travel, she was waiting impatiently in front of the receptionist who was taking time  to feed her details to the system.

"Cual es la contrasena wifi?" asked Sreeja after getting the keys from her 

(What is the wifi password?)

"Esta aqui" said the receptionist and gave her the  password in a small paper

"gracias" (thank you )

Upon receiving the password, she configured it immediately while standing in the reception and dialled him in whatsapp. With the phone ringing, she picked up her luggage and got in to the lift pressing the button named as '4'.

When he attended the call, it got disconnected inside the lift due to the network issue. Heaving a long sigh, Sreeja went in to her room and kept her belongings. 

It was a beautiful room with a  cozy bathroom to the right side of the main door entrance, followed by a spacious room with a double bed. There was  a wall mounted TV, study table at the left near the wardrobe,a small sofa set on the right side of her bed followed by a small balcony which had a chair and small table.

Keeping her belongings in to the cupboard ,she went to freshen up. Changing in to comfortable pyjamas ,hopping on to the bed, took her phone to dial Venkat. 

Just then, she received call from her parents and spent time talking with them about her travel. Once they were done, her inlaws called with whom another half an hour was spent. 

Finishing her lunch in the hotel , she messaged venkat about her jet lag and dozed to sleep stating to talk later. 

Since it was saturday, after a good amount of sleep due to travel tiredness, Sreeja woke up to the sounds of rain hitting the window door. She went there to see the beautiful view of garden in the hotel with the clean and neat roads now wet with the rain that starting to pour heavily. The chill breeze made her hands automatically hold herself. 

After closing the window shutter, she searched for her hoodie and wore it. Deciding to call Venkat , took her phone to see the time in India which was around 10 PM for them. Her mind won the battle of whether to call him or not and her hands automatically went to make a video call in whatsapp to him.

He picked up the call with a surprised look.  Subhi and others too came to talk with her in video call. ,She did not expect subhi and others to be awake at 10 PM. In her house, it is very strict, as every one sleeps at 10 PM and wakes up at 6 AM sharp.

Spending around 30 minutes with her inlaws chit chatting about her travel stories and other jokes,Sreeja felt she will not be able talk to him alone.

She was super brisk after a long sleep and moreover  it is just evening for her, but it is 10.45 PM IST. While she was lost in her own thoughts, her inlaws bid bye to her and went to sleep. Subhi too went after 5 minutes of talk. Now it is Venkat and Sreeja alone in the call.

"is it raining there?" asked Venkat

"ya it is , but how do you know?" She asked with a surprised look

"Madam Sreeja making phone call to me is a big thing. But Making video call is another wonders of the world which is happening now. that's why"

"I will cut the call" she said with a sad face.

" why are you getting tensed, I was just joking,you seem to be more sensitive person,even for little things either you cry or worry about it"

"I don't cry often"  she uttered with her eyes starting to glisten

"Ayo, Sreeja, first stop crying, thank god my parents slept, if they come to know about it they will think I made you cry" he said with a little strict tone to stop her before she cries.

"I did not  cry" she said wiping her lone tear which was about to escape from her eyes

"ahan... ok then why did you cry when you were at the airport?"

"That's because my mom was crying, so I cried. I have this habit of crying when  I see someone cry. Tears will flow automatically" sreeja said with a childish face

"hmmm....Ok I will try to believe you. By the way did you like my present? I did not get time to buy you anything at the last minute, so just bought a key chain "

" why did you buy it? I did not ask you "

"I thought to give it as a send off gift to you, don't you like it?"

"Ah... actually to be frank, I really hate when someone gives this kind of gift" 

Hearing it Venkat felt humiliated as it  did not seem to be a joke from her side.

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