31. Rumors

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Swetha's pov:

i was in the car when my phone chimed and i got the message from Tanmayi....i looked at it

"who is it" anand asked, sitting beside me in the car

"tanmayi...she said Chirag is home..." i replied looking up from my phone

"oh, then you are going home with me?" he asked....there is nothing important i could do staying at home-i have to go to work tomorrow anyway so i nodded and he smiled

the moment we reached home...we heard our grandma's laugh.... happy laugh, what is she laughing about? i was so intrigued

"Swetha come here beta....see this is your grandpa" she said showing me a photo....a handsome man and a woman in their wedding dresses...i sat down on the sofa and anand sat near his grandma-sitting in between us.

"oh, he looks just like anand" i said

"yes, he does" she nodded getting lost in the past memories

"grandpa died 5 years ago" anand whispered in to my ears 

"we did not touch these albums for years, i remembered our marriage-now that anand got married..." grandma said with tears in her eyes and i nodded 

"your grandpa saw me in the neighborhood one time and fell in love.....he came to propose marriage to my parents directly-i was so young at that time...i did not even know how to approach this relationship-i said i would never marry him, the first time i saw him". she laughed while talking

"he was older than me by 7 years.... tall, charming but, i was intimidated by marriage-i wanted to stay at my parents place forever...i even said that he is ugly but he did not mind-he continuously pursued me, in the college. he brought fruits to my house...he helped my father....i fell in love gradually-i am thankful that he had so much patience...in a few years we had our own family, now that family is so big...........-he is not here with me" she wiped her tears and anand hugged her shoulder...she looked at anand and smiled

"he is here grandma..." anand said

grandma smiled.

"anand is just like him....look at these pictures" she showed me Anand's childhood pictures, his swimming trunk picture, school function picture, his teenage pictures

"look at this, he looks so handsome as a teenager-and this one time i dressed him up as a girl....." anand's mother also showed me pictures with a nostalgic expression

he looked so cute in a girls dress...i secretly took out my phone and took pictures-this is going to be my secret album i thought....

i took one photo in my hand and tilted my head..."you were in Hyderabad? in 2014" i asked anand

"yaa, my nani's house is in Hyderabad-we went there for summer" he replied

"i was there too that year for my school trip.....what a coincidence" i said and he nodded

"this? you went to vidhya unnati bhavan school?" my eyes rounded looking at the photo..."i also went there but i changed schools at the end" i continued

"i know" he replied...what do you mean i know? i raised an eyebrow at his words but he didn't explain further

taking a look at the next photo i covered my round mouth...."don't tell me we went to the same university".

"in the states...." 'he was in business and i was in tech!...this is too much of a coincidence, shit my husband was around me this whole time and...i wasted so many years' i thought

"did we meet before?" i asked and he nodded

"we sure did" he smiled.

"i have goosebumps" i said looking at his pictures, "you were stalking me?...is this a serial killer plot?".

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