SaiRat story Embrace the love

Part 1

Embrace the Love

Part 1

Sai Joshi was waiting in the cafeteria in Mumbai. She was continuously looking at her watch. Its been 15 minutes past the scheduled time but he still hasn't come. She was getting irritated now. She still couldn't digest the fact that she is just 22 and her parents have been pressurizing her for marriage and she is here to meet the prospective groom. She started thinking how she landed in this situation-

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Inspector Kamal Joshi from Gadhchiroli police and homemaker Alka Joshi, were her parents, her overprotective parents. But it was not their fault completely. Sai was their only child. She was born to them after 10 years of their marriage and then doctor had said that her mom will not be able to conceive again. So Sai was all her parents got and because of that they were over protective for her, so much so, that it was sometimes suffocating for Sai. 

Sai had completed her college in Gadhchiroli only and she wanted to pursue photography as her profession. For that, she wanted to go Mumbai to join the course but her parents had never let her step outside Gadhchiroli. When Sai had told them about their dream, her mother Alka brushed it off saying what good will photography do for her life instead of it she should join cooking classes so that she can make new dishes for her future husband and in laws to please them. After that Sai understood that there is no point of sharing her dreams with her simpleton, village housewife mother. She then expressed her wish to her father. Though her father understood her dream but expressed his inability to support her against her mother wishes and also the fact that she will have to go away from them, that too, to a big city like Mumbai, made him say no to her.

Sai gave up all the hopes. She thought that this was the limit of their fears and worry for her. But she was proved wrong when her parents dropped the ultimate bomb on her. Sai had returned home with her best friend Karishma after shopping when she found their family pandit ji was leaving their house. She hated this fact that her parents still believed in all this kundli and shubh muhurat nonsense and never do anything without consulting this pandit ji. 

As she came inside the house, her aai shared the bad news with her. "Sai, since you have completed your college education, we were thinking about your marriage so we had given your kundli to panditji to check if everything is fine or not and today he told us that you are manglik. So either we should marry you in 6 months or there is no muhurat of your wedding for 12 years." Alka said as she made Sai sat down on sofa because she knew Sai will not be able to take it so easily. 

"WHAT??" Sai screamed at top of her voice. 

"Sai please try to understand...."Alka started but Sai didn't let her finish. 

"You try to understand aai. I am just 22, in no way I am going to marry now. And whats wrong with you people? You were not allowing me to go Mumbai for photography course, now you guys are talking about marrying me off in just six months. Tell me, this way are you not sending me away from you?" Sai asked them furiously.