Yudhi [# A Love Story - Completed]

Part 31

After spending two days at Yudhi's home, Arohi went to Hyderabad along with her parents and sister to attend her cousin Padma's marriage. Since she didn't visit India for a long time, two days were gone just in visiting family and friends. She met so many of her cousins, that she lost count. Finally they made it to the marriage venue along with all the family members.

For Arohi the entire marriage ritual was new as she never been to a traditional Indian marriage. Although the Sangeet ceremony is part of North Indian tradition, it is becoming part of South Indian marriages too.

Arohi's POV

I was sitting with my cousins and their friends for the Sangeet ceremony to start. The actual wedding ceremony is supposed to start from tomorrow night. I was wearing a traditional Indian dress that mom picked up for me. Abhi was busy with her age group friends.

The DJ already started playing songs and the girls were busy checking out the boys and vice versa. The girls were all dressed up in traditional Indian dresses and waiting for the actual dance to start. They were looking at the boys and commenting about them. Since I didn't know anyone, I was just happy to listen to their conversation. Once in a while one of the guys would venture to the girls side and become fodder to their comments. But later they started coming in groups as it was much safer.
Every girl had her own mental list of boys she wanted to dance with and the ones they wanted to avoid. As the time got closer, texting activity reached frantic pace and I could see smiling faces and a few sad ones too.

As for me, I decided to sit on the sidelines and watch as I had no interest in dancing with anyone. A part of me was hoping that Yudhi would magically appear and sweep me away, but that was just my imagination and I was still working on the process to completely remove him from my system.

My cousin Vani tapped my shoulder and asked me for the hundredth time, if I was interested in dancing with some X . Lucky for me, no one had access to me directly, so they were approaching me through her. She was my gateway and I kept on rejecting all requests. "Arohi, you better take my phone and answer, as all requests are for you and none for me." She complained rolling her eyes.

"Thanks Vani, please I am not in the mood, so please make up something." I used my puppy face.
Suddenly there was a hush and all the girls turned towards the hall entrance as if they were all attached to the same remote.

"OMG..OMG..OMG ..He is here." was all I could hear repeatedly.

I turned and looked towards the hall entrance to figure out this person of interest. My eyes started scanning all the people around there, when I noticed people circling around one person. He suddenly turned in our direction and scanned our group. I suddenly blushed as he locked in my vision for a few seconds, before his eyes moved away, but then he did a reverse sweep and there I was still looking at him. "Damn me! I was blushing." I quickly turned away and tried looking anywhere else other than him.

Something about him was different. He was tall and handsome and you can feel the confidence emnating from him as he was at ease with being the center of attraction and knew people looked at him when he entered a room. He had this authority around him, that made people around him stop and wait for him to give directions.

The silence was short lived and as soon as he moved to other side of the room, the chatter started again and girls got busy trying to look their best.

"Who is he?" I asked Vani, hoping I didn't have to define the 'he'.

"Oh him .. he is Sid...Siddharth! You don't know him?" She asked as if I committed a crime. "He is world famous." She quickly added, not giving me any chance to claim my non-local status.