"Enagaka ipadi yarum bayandhadho, akara patadho illa", Kathir said in a low tone, him looking at the floor.
"Eii en ipadi solra..Naan apadi onum ...", she started only to be cut off by Kathir.
"Appa ku aparam, amma ku meeting ends itself was a challenge. Engaluku daily sapadu kedachudanum, veetuku vadakai katidanum..school fees katidanum..adhan avanga kavalaiya irukum..Enga kuda time spend panradhu elam koranju poiduchu.
Not that I'm saying she doesn't care. Idhu elam akaraila than panni irukanga. Ipovum panranga..
Aana oru odambu seri ilana kuda..Leave potu pathuka mudiyadhu. Avanga sogama irundha kata kuda mudiyadhu. En'na adhu engala badhichudumnu.
Kovama thita kuda Matanga. Appa iladhadhu therijudumnu. Akarai irundhalum, adha sollika Matanga. En appa irundha apo sirichutu irundha ammavum, ipo enga kuda irukara amma'vukum neraya vidhiyasam..
Nila Chinna ponnu. Avaluku pathi theriyadhu, puriya kuda puriyadhu. Velaitayu thanama irukaradha vittuda kudadhunu thonum Enaku. Kastam theriyama irukanumnu "
"Kathir...", she whispered instantly feeling bad. He has been through so much and he never told anyone.
"Nee vandha aparam than en kuda sandai poda, edhirthu kelvi kekka, kovam katta, akarai kattanu , Ella unarvum nadikama unmaiya katara mathiri oru feeling", he said in a low tone, tears threatening to fall.
She hugged him, wrapping her arms around his waist and slowly comforting him. She can't change whatever he suffered in his past, but she wanted to make sure he gets all the love he deserved.
Mullai after few minutes, regained her senses and parted away from him.
"Never in my dreams would have guessed you can be sentimental too.", she said to distract and divert their minds.
He smiled weakly "Vera enna nenacha? Moradan? Porrikina?"
"Cha cha..Avalavu gethu elam unaku illa", she said with her tongue on her cheeks and continued before he could react "Person with anger issues, Insensitive to others, Selfish..Aparam...", she was counting her fingers while listing it.
"Seri podhum. List perusa pogudhu..Niruthikalam. Ipovum apadi than nenaikariya?"
"Pinna? Ippo kuda time kedacha enna vechu seiyariyey. Aparam, oru project work enga veetuku vara vekka kuda evalavu padu pattu irukenu enaku theiryum...", she sighed loudly, and Kathir ended up chuckling.
"Idha vida mosama nenachu irukavey mudiyadhu", he said.
"Nee matum enna? Enamo enna pathi nala opinion irundha mathiri than. Enaku therinju ippo kuda enna pathi thita sonna, 4 page ku content readya vechu irupa"
"Nee behave panadhu elam patha apadi than elarum yosipanga"
"Apadi enna behave panean?"
"College la first year la irundhu unga gang class, playground, canteen nu enga irundhalum you will get noticed. Yaraiyum madhika matenga. Oru air of authority and posh irukum. Nanga elam class la irukomnu kuda you have not acknowledged in these three years. So, panna thimirunu nenachu irukean...", he said his voice fading in the end.
"Sorry...I was wrong", he said, and her eyes opened in shock.
"Pahhh. It's a medical miracle. Sorry elam solra.Indha naal en calendar la kurichu vechukarean", she said in Rajini tone and he looked at her with one eyebrows raised.
YOU ARE READING
Thoorigai
General FictionIf life offers a chance to help someone and change their life, would we take it? Even if it's a person who we hardly know about? A simple college story of Kathir and Mullai, whose worlds are far apart from each other.