Mr and Mrs Unromantic

Reception

It was evening and Sreeja was draped in a parrot green saree beautifully by the beautician. She even dozed off to sleep due to the tiredness from getting up early morning while the beauticians were busy doing make up and braiding her hair.

Later she came out to the stage and did namaskaram to everyone. After reciting few mantras and performing some rituals she was given a different saree to change.

The same was done for Venkat before Sreeja came to the stage and he has gone to change to the new dress.

Sreeja felt like a doll which would dance according to the key. From morning most of her time was spent on changing the saree and make up. Half of the time on the rituals.

After changing to a new saree, she came out again to the stage performing namaskaram and participated in the rituals. Once everything was done, the bride and groom were asked to stand together and take blessings from others.

Sreeja had a close look at Venkat now as he was near her. He was dressed in a formal wear with the maalai(garland) on his neck.

He was wearing the watch which she has gifted him. Seeing it she felt happy and a small smile creeped on her lips. After taking few photos, Sreeja was asked to go change to Lehenga for the reception. While Venkat too went to change his attire for Jaan vasam.

While waiting for the makeup to be done, feeling bored and tired , Sreeja took her mobile to while away the time. She saw lot of messages from Venkat both in whatsapp and normal messages.

"hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii......."

"what are you doing..........."

"you look gorgeous in that saree............"

"want to talk with you"

"love you darling....."

and so many more...

Sreeja laughed looking at it as she clearly knew it is not Venkat. May be his friends or relatives are playing prank and chose not to reply.

On the other hand , as Sreeja guessed, his friends were the one who was doing this.

Ramya: "hey Venkat, what is this da? no reply at all from her. Will she use mobile or not? And I am not sure whether she has seen the message in whatsapp, it does not show blue tick as well"

Venkat who was combing his hair " hello madam, she has updated her setting such that no one will know if she has seen the message or not. And don't expect any reply from her. Even if she sees, she will not reply. My experience speaks"

Ramya: "how da? then what were you both talking with the long courtship that you had? Won't she not feel like talking with you or see you at this time? I feel she is little unromantic"

Venkat : "not little, she is the definition of Unromantic"

While they were talking Venkat was called to go to nearby temple to offer prayer and then start with Jaan vasam.

After a long tiring hour, Sreeja was made ready wearing a lehenga with a free hair style braided with flowers. She chose to go with simple makeup as she hated them the most.

Once Jan vasam was over, Sreeja was asked to come down and stand along with Venkat. Aarthi was taken for both of them and invited to the hall again. Since it was evening time, most of the friends,relatives,neighbors and office colleagues came for the reception making the marriage hall flooded.

Lots of cinematic songs were played by the light music band in the marriage hall. Venkat and Sreeja entered the hall together holding their hands. Both were very nervous of what is happening around them. The entire focus of everyone in the marriage hall was on them , and the videography made them even more shy.

They were not able to romance or talk about anything else even if they are both together. Once they are inside the hall, the youngsters asked the DJ to play latest trending romantic songs and made Venkat and Sreeja dance.

Venkat was not comfortable with dancing as he does not know. Due to constant pestering he performed few steps. On the other hand Sreeja too, was not comfortable to dance with the lehenga but managed to perform few steps like him.

After the dance performance, the bride and groom stood on the stage. The guests at the marriage hall started to form a queue to give their gifts and take photo. It was a tiring evening for both of them standing for a longer time.

Once most of the guests diverted to the dinner, the couple got some time to rest. Few people in the crowd sitting were waving hands and was signalling something at Sreeja who was standing without any reaction.

"hey Sreeja, looks like they are someone you know. I guess they are waving hands at you. Why can't you respond"

"oh is it?" she said and waved hands.

"what happened you look weird.They might be your friends or relatives but you are not giving any reaction"

"how will I give when I don't know to whom I am waving hands. I can't see people if they are farther from my sight.I have short sight"

"what? seriously? that much less eye power you have?"

"ya, can you see properly?you too wear specs right?"

"ya but I don't have poor eye sight like you. And now I understand why you were constantly looking at me when I came to your house for the first time"

While they were immersed in the conversation, the photographer came again asking them to give different poses and were then flooded with guests. After the reception got over, the couples went to have the dinner.

Though there were many items to eat, the couple or their parents did not feel or have time to enjoy leisurely and eat the food. If it had been a normal day or someone else wedding they would have loved to try different dishes.

Now everyone are busy with next things that are to happen and simply ate dinner for the sake of it. After finishing the dinner, Sreeja walked towards venkat. The youngsters present there gave a chorus "Ohhhh" teasing the soon to be newlyweds.

Venkat felt shy and surprised for Sreeja taking initiative to talk in front of everyone. While he was eagerly waiting for her, she came near him and took the tissue paper. Hoping that after wiping her hands she would talk, Venkat was waiting with anticipation.

But Sreeja did not talk anything and looked at him.

"what? do you also need tissue paper?" she asked showing him some tissue papers

Venkat saw through the corner of his eyes, his sister and other cousins who were unable to control their laugh witnessing their talk.

"Its all my mistake to expect some romance from this girl" he thought. " ah.. no I don't need" he said and moved towards his cousins.

Just then, Sreeja caught his hand.

Venkat turned to look at her with an amused look. He did not expect her to do that in front of everyone. Her touch gave him a different feeling which he liked.

"what?" he asked looking at his cousins who were having an open mouth at them. He turned back to her.

Sreeja came near him and pulled his collars. Seeing her coming very close to him,Venkat's heart started to beat fast.

"Hey what are you doing? everyone are here" he said in a low voice afraid of what Sreeja is doing.

Since he was tall, she came even more near him and lifted her toes a little . Venkat swallowed a big lump in his throat thinking 'ivaluku neram keta nerathula dhan romantic mood varanuma?"

(why does she need to get this romantic mood now?)

"let them see" she uttered, making Venkat's eyes widen in shock.

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Do you all like this bold side of Sreeja?

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