Eyes on you

26 | London

~~~~~~~~~~Vignesh~~~~~~~~~~

Its been two weeks since me and Neeraja landed in London. On the day of our departure from India, more than Neeraja's parents , my mom cried.

Not for leaving me, but for Neeraja. My parents always wanted a girl child for them but it never happened. Hence they had immense care and love for Neeraja.

Deva, my close and best friend for 9 years , came to the airport to bid farewell for me. For the past few days, his face was kind of dull. Yet he managed to cloak a normal face.

One way or the other I was the reason for the start of his fight with Sandhya. I genuinely asked apologies to Devan.

In return I got a hard beat on my back with a smile on his face for asking apology.

That is Deva. He never gets angry on anyone or anything. But if he gets , it is difficult to pacify him.

He is too stubborn as well in certain matters and does not share his personal problems or burdens with anyone.

During Anjana's marriage, he had a financial crunch. Yet he did not ask any help from me. When I stepped in to voluntarily help, he politely declined it.

Upon knowing about his fight, in a polished manner I informed Neeraja about me eating NV. Surprisingly, she did not make it as a big issue.

Coming from a very orthodox family, I assumed she would not be ok with it. Sandhya being a friendly and jovial person I assumed her to not take this seriously.

But everything happened reverse. From then on I too stopped eating Non-veg. Neeraja might be ok with it now. But I don't want to take her for granted and do all this. Hence I too refrained.

And I hope Deva's problem gets sorted out soon. He has been searching for jobs for quiet some time but nothing clicked so far. At the end I wanted only good and best thing to happen for my dear best friend.

Through him , I have got another best friend Krishnan. After our trip to ECR, we became a small gang. And I am going to miss my bike outings and other travel trips with them. But we have ensured that every month we would have a video call.

To the present, I am travelling to my house. Its friday evening and naturally I got a happy feeling, hence I started early from office. Neeraja is staying alone at our house. An hour later, I reached my house and ringed the calling bell.

Neeraja opened the door with a smiling face. I reciprocated her and stepped in kissing her cheeks , only to find the living room a total mess. We have rented a 1BHK apartment.

"Neerajaaa.. " I called out her name with gritted teeth. The happiness that my face carried instantly went away.

"why is this so clumsy? Clean this out soon. I don't like it if it is too clumsy and untidy" I said and immediately started picking up the items that were scattered here and there.

Neeraja was lazily helping me. Sometimes I find it doing by myself as the best. I have OCD. And I get too much angry if the house I live is not clean and organized.

And Neeraja is exactly the opposite of my character. Most of the time I end up doing the cleaning work. My hands would automatically go do the organizing, though I wanted Neeraja to take up the responsibility for her act.

That's is the problem with OCD people. People like Neeraja would take advantage of us. How much ever we shout, at the end we ourselves would do the cleaning and organizing.

Its been just 2 weeks, since we came to UK. These 2 weeks, setting things right, buying the items needed for the house, all these took time for us. We did not get time to go out anywhere.