Author's POV
Umaiyazh sat on her bed, gazing at the saree her mother had chosen for her to wear on the date with the groom her mother had selected. She couldn't quite recall his name, but she had agreed to marry him, hoping to please her mother and to distract herself from thoughts of Bairavan.
She caressed the saree, imagining how joyful she would feel if the date were with Bairavan, not with a man in whom she had no interest.
She knew her mother would have chosen the right man for her after much consideration, and he did seem like a nice man, but Umaiyazh couldn't bring herself to wholeheartedly invite him into her life. Rohit appeared to like Umaiyazh a lot from their first meeting and persistently asked her out on a date before their engagement. He wanted them to talk and get to know each other before marrying. Umaiyazh kept making up excuses to avoid going out with him, so he asked Geethanjali for help. Now, Umaiyazh couldn't ignore the request since it came from her mother.
Inhaling deeply, she lifted the saree, positioned herself before the mirror, draped it across her shoulder, and studied her reflection. The pastel blue saree adorned her beautifully, accentuating her dusky complexion, and she found herself reminiscing about the day Bairavan had admired her during his visit to Revathi Illam.
"Would he look at me like that if I wear this saree "
Unaware, she mumbled to herself. Upon realization, she sighed in defeat, tossed the saree aside, and settled back onto the bed ran her fingers through her wet hair and gripped it tightly and whinned..
"Umaiyazh you are going to meet Rohit today not Bairavan so stop thinking about him....."
Saying that to herself she took a deep breath took the phone and unlocked the screen only to see his picture in wallpaper...
"Avana manasula irunthu edukaratha pathi yosikura ana unala un wallpaper la irunthe ipo vara eduka mudila"
Umaiyazh's inner voice taunted her as she crumpled the picture, resolving to delete it as the day's first task. Navigating to the settings to remove the wallpaper, she hesitated at the 'remove' button. Taking a deep breath, she reminded herself that she was marrying someone else, not Bairavan, and with her engagement to Rohit next week, it was time to let go of Bairavan's image as her wallpaper as well as from her heart and mind......about the later at least she should try and this would be the first step.....
She gazed at his picture, the one she had secretly taken during that month of admiring him from a distance, when her feelings were merely assumptions of a crush. She smiled, revisiting the nervous yet joyous emotions she had felt, looked at the picture one last time, and clicked to delete it and the final conformation popped up she was about to click Ok her phone pinged with a notification her eyes widened...
"Message from My Mooradan🙈 "
Her heartbeat quickened, reaching a frenetic pace. She could have read the message in the notification bar, but instead, she tapped on the name, opening the WhatsApp chat.
You are getting married to someone else?
That was it. There was nothing on her screen except that message, his number which she'd had from the beginning but never mustered the courage to use. Yet, his message to her meant he also had her number, an unexpected twist. And his first message? No greeting, just straight to the point.
Umaiyazh felt offended, Madam was angry with him now simply for sending this question instead of asking, "How are you?" forgetting every other valid reason she have....huffing she sent
Who is this?
The screen showed Typing.....she waited for his reply and it came and took her breath away again
So you are going to act like You don't know me when you kept my number in emergency dial in your phone really madam🤨
She face-palmed herself while reading it. He found out about this when she was unconscious and he took her phone to call her family members. Since he didn't know her password, he accessed the emergency calls, and the dial list goes Appa, Peiyanna , Mooradan which was his own number.
"Ama intha emojiku onum korachal ila"
Umaiyazh mumbled to herself and started typing reply to him
Now what do you want? why did you messaged me now ?????
I already asked you
Came the reply he pinned the first message and replied to that.....Umaiyazh rolled her eyes and sent the reply
Yes and I don't think it will be your concern ACP sir, I am doing what exactly you asked me to do, so be Happy🙂
Umaiyazh sent the message and sighed. However, she accidentally initiated a video call. Her eyes widened in surprise, and the phone slipped from her grasp, clattering to the ground. She stood up, shocked by the sudden turn of events.
As she is only wrapped in a towel it slipped off due to her excessive sudden movement...and he picked the call..................
Her eyes widened when she saw his shocked face in the screen...... Without picking the phone from the floor she ran towards her wardrobe naked.............
"Aiyaiyooo pathutaan pathutaann"
Author's Note
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