"I want to really see him in the yellow kurta. I have only ever seen him in full shirts." I mumble, looking at myself in the mirror.
We came two hours ago and after an hour of rest, we had to get ready for the Haldi function, and then for mehendi and sangeet, all had different dresses. And so I was adorned in the yellow lehenga for Haldi.
"I look like a sunflower."
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"My sunflower baby ki haldi haiii !!!" I hear my bestie Vani's voice, as I turn around to find her, adorned in a white kurti, as she hugs me.
We both laugh, "kitne jaldi jaldi bade ho gye na hum yaar" she says to me as her eyes warm up.
I nod, smiling. "Yahi same sentence I said 3 years ago when you had your haldi." "Yes, and I am saying Aaj yeh tereko."
Both of us laugh, as she fixes my hair, "So bhabhi ji-" "...ehh... don't call me that, you are my best friend !!!"
"Get used to it bhabhi ji, you know how long I have waited to call someone that!"
I smile. "Yeah, she did say that whenever she met me. She wanted a bhabhi so much. It really breaks my heart lying to her."
"Chalo chalo, everyone's ready..." Amu comes in, running.
"Oh my god, my bhabhis you both look dayummmm, mera dil" She puts her hand on her heart and acts like she's love shot. "Too beautiful you both are, my heart cannot handle."
All of us laugh, as we walk out of the room.
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I laughed looking at the decoration, "Don't tell me you all actually gave the whole haldi theme, the sunflower decoration."
"Uhu- we did not, Abhi bhaiya did." Amu says, as I get a little shocked, "how did he...."
"You like sunflowers" I hear Abhimanyu's voice, as I turn, and oh damn he looks so handsome, so ethereal.
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My imagination of him in kurta was an underestimation, he is nothing like my imagination. He looks so handsome, in the kurta and that shawl, that fucking shawl, my heart skips a beat, as he smiles and nears me, "Do you like it, jaan?"
My breath hitched, I am unable to breathe, his scent, my body is insanely reacting to it.
I couldn't mumble a word, I only am able to nod my head. From the corner of my eye, I see Amu and Vani giving me a thumbs up and then disappearing.
"I am sorry I couldn't get a custom - made sunflower on my kurta too. I tried my best, but they said it wasn't possible in two days." He whispers into my ear, and I gulp because his sound, his scent and the heat it gave off made me lose my mind then and there.
I looked up at him, he was close, his head looking down at me. Our eyes meet, and my eyes wander down his face to his lips, as I gulp.
"No no Hayat, what the fuck is wrong with you. What in the actual world are you thinking?"
Just then, the music blasts up and the family members come in, as I back off from him in a hurried manner.
"Thank you thank you otherwise my mind would have driven me crazy."
Soon, the venue is filled with guests, it's weird because I do not know many of them, I have been greetings them from as long as I can remember.
"I am impressed." "Huh? For what?"
"In such short span of time, how did you invi-" "We are the Rathore's, Hayat."
I look at Vani as she gives me a wink, "...yeah I know it's shocking. We have an influence, you will get used to it after you become a Rathore- "
I nod my head, looking around and greeting people, after a while, I find myself in the big vessel pot, sitting positioning myself while Abhimanyu was sitting in another just beside me.
I looked at him as he gave me a smile.
"Bhabhi ko haldi main pehle lagaaungi-" "Ammu-" Vani calls her out, shaking her head.
"Nahi tu kyu lagaayegi pehle, I will !!! Badi bhabhi hai meri, wow after so many years of waiting...finally I can say that!!!" Rudra argues.
Vani looks at him, her hands on her hips, she sighs, "I thought tumhe thodi akal aayi hogi, but I guess aapka dimaag sirf Bussiness mein hi chalta hai, Rudra....Papa ji lagaaenge sabse pehle." She sighs looking at Rudra, as he puts and I laugh.
"They never change. So in love then also and now too" My eyes wander to look at Abhi, who was already looking at me. For a moment I was startled, but then I smiled back at him.
"Will we ever be able to have something like this? Even a little....of what....they have?" I wonder, as papa ji starts applying Haldi to my face, as I smile at him, while the music plays.
"Aise hi muskurate rehna, mera bachaa. Sada khush raho" He says, as he applies haldi to me.
It feels weird, lying to them like this. It feels horrific to even think that when they get to know that this was all a lie....yet, I smile.
The haldi is then applied to Abhimanyu in the same order, and with laughter, sunflowers, memories, music and love, the haldi ceremony came to an end. And also with the countless side eye peaks, yes, I admit it was more than a thousand times that I looked at him.
I don't know why and I cannot understand why, but everytime I looked at him, it made my heart feel at ease, at peace, like, like....I was back.....home.
Yes, that feeling. Home.
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