Amrutha, a girl who has a family yet longs for a loving one. What happens when a truth about her life, her utter existence comes to light? What drastic events will unfold? How will she handle it? What will she choose?
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The only excitement or newness in my mundane life is when I am out of the house. Be it a family function, dinner/lunch with my girls or just an outing. And today was such a day. There was a family function, a pooja to be exact.
Savi is my younger cousin, pursuing engineering - no surprise in that.
She never gave me good vibes. Hell, my entire family was the same. That's why I never related with my friends when they spoke about their time with their families.
Now, coming back to the family function, I was in no mood to play dress up, so I chose a simple chudidar set, the safest way out. It had a dupatta to top everything.
Put on the outfit, applied kajal - to look presentable and not like some zombie, put on a matching bindi, sprayed my favourite perfume, took my phone off charging and was ready to leave.
We reached the location in 10 minutes. The pooja was still going on, we sat in silence, praying. Once over we took the prasada and proceeded to lunch. All my favourite people, my cousins - pun intended - sat around a table. They were discussing marriage in general. It was good to listen in until it turned to me. I cursed under my breath when my aunt said
"So, Amrutha what's up with you? Any update?"
I knew what she meant. Everyone took pleasure in reminding me I didn't have a full-time job.
"No update at all..." I replied with a smile.
"Nothing? It doesn't have to be about jobs, it can be anything. You know what I mean right?"
Of course, I do. Do I look like an idiot to you? I bit down my comeback in my head and made my tongue twist a different note.
"Nope! Nothing at all." I tried to fake blush. And looking at their faces it looked like it worked.
Good going Amrutha, you fooled them, even for a little bit. I told myself.
The conversation then shifted to the other singles. I didn't want more kalesh, there was already a lot of tension going on between people in the family.
Savi's dad, Naresh uncle came up and occupied an empty chair nearby.
"Everyone saw Savi right? She's lost so much weight, na?" He asked.
I must agree she'd lost a lot of weight. Looked like a stick, not body shaming at all. It just didn't suit her.
"She wants to give competition to all heroines." He joked. "And you, Amrutha, the gym is not working out is it?" He asked so smoothly commenting on my weight gain.
I agree I wasn't serious about my workouts or diet recently. But I was aware of it. It wasn't like I did it on purpose, I was dealing with a lot mentally.
*Yeah definitely! All mental problems are for you only * my subconscious stabbed me.
"No, it is working fine uncle. Just that I didn't diet ." I said.
"Oh! You should ask for tips from Savi then." He suggested.
I smiled in return because that suggestion went above my head and god knows where it landed.
The rest of the lunch went in silence as I got up from the table with an excuse to fill my plate.
By the time we reached home, my head was hammering. It happens every time I return from a family function. My mom puts it all on nazar. I might believe her to some extent, but I'm no beauty queen to get nazar all the time.
I just slept off my headache. I was happy it worked this time - cuz it doesn't always.
Post dinner, I got on a call with my friends. It was high time we caught up. My friends, the crazy bunch had Shreya - a spoilt brat who is determined to take over her family business, Ramya - who works as a freelance artist and Sahana - who is a hiring manager.
Our girls' trip was finally coming out of the chat group and into reality. We narrowed down a few places - Delhi, Udaipur, Amritsar and Manali. Today's call was to finalise the place and get into the planning.
After what felt like days but was just mere minutes of discussing, plotting, searching, and planning, we finalised. The reasons for rejections were Delhi wouldn't be an easy convince given the safety aspect. Manali sounded like a honeymoon trip and Amritsar, well... two of us had already been there. So, that left us with Udaipur.
It was a 5-day trip that would be filled with history, luxury, good food and wildlife. I couldn't wait for it. The trip was due 3 months from now, but the excitement didn't seem to dull down. Finally, our first ever girls trip out of Bangalore. Ahhhhhh! I was jumping already.
We'd spoken so much, that we decided to split the task of making an itinerary, checking out places to visit, things to do, food to eat, etc. I was in charge of preparing the itinerary. I got straight to it, even though the clock struck 9:00. I believed everything that was pushed to the next day wouldn't happen to its fullest.
*Yeah! Really!? * my subconscious mocked me.
"Yes! And will you stop degrading every time?" I spoke to myself. It wasn't something new, I always spoke to myself.
I was so engrossed in preparing an itinerary that I didn't realise when my timer went off, indicating it was time for bed. I saved my progress and went to sleep directly. It was surprising how I was still sleepy when I took an afternoon nap today.
Anyway, a girl's got to do, what a girl's got to do! And, Beauty sleep is among the most important things in my life.
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