Unbreakable

Chapter 7-Part 2

The flight from Vancouver to New York is around 6 hours which isn't that bad. Kat had earphones in and started jamming to music. I looked out the window upon the realization that I am actually going back to New York. I started to drift away deep into my thoughts.

"Karan!" I screamed at him through my phone. "So is this how our relationship is going to be like?" I questioned angrily. "FaceTiming and all?" I added on.

"Shraddha. It's not that bad." Karan laughed. "At least, we can still see each other." He added on.

"Yeah, through a damn screen! We've only been together for 4 months. And two of those months, we were physically together! And the rest was literally with a screen. It's like my boyfriend is a robot" I defended to make him realize that we cannot go on like this.

"I know babe. But what can I do? My work in New York was finished and I had to go back to India." He put in trying to reason with me.

"Shraddha puttar (dear)" my mom called out. "Hanji maa! (Yes mom)" I yelled back as I immediately put my phone in my back pocket and took out my left EarPod as she stepped into my room.

"Shraddha. Look I have so many rishtas (marriage proposals) for you. They're nothing like Abhi and they're from New York too." Mom said as she sat down next to me on my queen sized bed and tried to show me the pics from her phone. "Look at how handsome they are."

"Shraddha! You better not accept any of those bloody rishtas!" Karan roared through the EarPod kinda making my right ear a bit deaf.

"Mama, can you scroll back to the previous pic?" I asked as if I was actually interested.

"Okay." Mom said bringing back the previous pic.

"This one is really handsome, mom," I revealed. "What does he do?" I asked trying to make Karan jealous.

"Shraddha! I know you're just trying to make me mad." Karan seethed on the other end.

"His name is Karan. Underneath his description, he's a doctor like you. If you accept his rishta, you two would make a perfect pair." Mom bubbled excitedly.

How funny is that his name is also Karan! Time to make my Karan boil with jealousy.  "Yeah, mom. Karan also has blue eyes! Hopefully, our children will have blue eyes as well!" I said.

"My mom has green eyes! Our children have a higher chance of inheriting green eyes Shraddha! And my name is Karan too if you haven't realized" I heard Karan growl angrily.

Now, this is getting fun! It's so hard not to laugh.

"Shut up. Idiot" Mom said. "Already thinking about making children with him?" She added. "So should I take that as a yes to this rishta?"

"Shraddha! I'll marry you! I'll take the next flight and come to you!" Karan blurted out anxiously.

My eyes widened listening to what he just said and I quickly took out my phone from my back pocket. "What?! You'll marry me?!" I asked acknowledging what he just said. "You're not joking, right?!" I questioned while putting my mouth over my face as I stood up from my bed. 

Oh my God! I can't believe that he asked me that. Honestly, hearing those words it felt like as if I was on cloud nine.

"Yes! I want to marry you!" Karan admitted as he smiled big on my phone.

"Who wants to marry you?" My mom questioned. My eyes went big as my mouth formed an "O" shape and saw Karan's tensed look as well.

"Uhh.uh..um..Maa.." I stammered as I slowly put my phone down to my side. I was dumbstruck and couldn't formulate the words together. It felt as if my tongue lost its control and I began to perspire a bit.