Suddenly

Prologue

SUKHI's POV

"Mum, I have already told you that I don't want to get married at this age. I really don't want to take all these responsibilities" I explained for the hundredth time. This was not the first time, for many people, desi precisely, the age of eighteen it was a "go" signal towards the path of marriage, a path that for me was very far away. I had dreams and many other wishes to fulfil but marriage was never in my list of "to do" list. After saying that to my mum, I locked myself in my room but I guess, she wasn't done.

"Sukhi listen, what will people say? Marriage is really important for a girl of your age" mum explained standing on the other side of the door.

Isn't that clear people already talk about you, even if you do something right and even if you do wrong? That's how they are, right? Moreover, I am nineteen and not thirty that people need to talk about me. I am not saying that I will never get married, I will but not right now. I took my phone and started looking for what I have been thinking to do for a month now.

After about ten or fifteen minutes, I opened my door and I found her sitting on the sofa crossing her arms.
I slowly went to her and kneeled down "I am not ready for that, you know that really well. I want to work and be an independent person. I've studied hard not to stay at home cooking or being a good daughter in law" I softly said "Give me a chance to make you and dad proud of me, please" I held her hand and she sighed before thinking "Okay, one year will be enough for you?" She asked me and I laughed "Yeah, it can be" I stood up and she smiled.

"I will pack my stuff, then" I said heading back to my room "Where do you think you are going?" Mum asked confused following me. "I am going to Neelam's house now" I said taking a suitcase "But..Do you know that currently you are in Italy and she is in London, right? " she asked me surprised and I laughed at her question.
"Yes M'am" I replied with a smile "I have already booked a flight to England and I am leaving tomorrow at 12 pm but I need you to take me to the airport" I said while sending a message to Neelam that I was coming which she immediately replied me with a "what?" and after sending all the details she finally replied with an "Okay, I will be waiting!".

I smiled at her message and my mum sighed "Do whatever you want, kids nowadays never listen to their parents" she complained and went out of the room.

I rolled my eyes and run to her "You know that I love you, right?" I asked her "Yeah Yeah, I know how much you love me that's why you don't listen to me, right?" She asked and I hugged her trying to convince her "I promise, I won't do anything that will disappoint you and dad" I said and she hugged me back "Sometimes you make me go insane" she said sighing and I chuckled "I know".

~At the airport~

"So you are really going?" my mum asked and I simply nodded "Ok listen, find the job you always wanted to do and don't live just on Neelam's money, help her and be nice, Okay?" she explained worried "Okay" I said while nodding "Take care and I will miss you" she finally said hugging and I hugged back smiling. "You too, don't worry about everything and take some rest and take care of dad" I said while breaking the hug and she nodded while wiping her tears.

After saying one last goodbye I started walking towards the entrance of the airport while thinking about Neelam.

I don't want to be cheesy or something like "She is my darling or my love" but she really means a lot to me. The person who I can trust and show myself without any masks.
The first time we met was on her birthday party at our friend's house. Back then, I didn't know how to communicate since I was never a person with many of words. I wasn't so nervous, in fact, we started communicating with each other right about our hobbies, which were really similar and it seemed like we knew each other from a very long time. I remember that we talked about our passion most precisely about South Korea. She is really different from the other girls that I have ever met, when I met her she acted coldly but when she found me as a trustworthy person she gave me a small space in her life. In fact, Neelam needs time to open herself with someone but I was glad that she gave me the chance to be part of her life.
When she went to London to start a new life, luckily, we stayed in touch thanks to video calls and messages. In point of fact, there wasn't a day where we didn't talk to each other.

We spent years of crying and laughing together in front of screens as if we were talking face to face. Whenever I was sad she was always there to give me an advise, a shoulder and encouraging me to go forward.
She is really important to me.

Just then I heard the metallic voice of the airport and started going towards the check-in.

NEELAM's POV
Who has said life is beautiful?
I don't believe it.
I know I am not a positive person but it's not my fault if I think negative.
At school, for example, I was that girl who never really talked to anyone, I have always been that girl who preferred the silence over everything. When I started making friends, things started getting better but because of some misunderstandings, I never get the chance to talk to them again and neither they did make a move. I was afraid to make a move because I was scared about what they would have thought about me. Maybe it can be my parents' fault, since they kept moving to new countries every two years. Whenever I was about to feel happy with people I had beside me they would tell me that it was time to move to another place again and again always telling me and my brothers "For your future to be brighter". I still hate the word "Moving" because it turned my life into hell by ruining my memories. I felt that I didn't have a place to call "home" and this made me a person with small words. For some people, it's a good thing to move to other cities again and again but for me, it was the most difficult part to forget about your schoolmates, the college and the places I used to go whenever I was down. It was not easy to say goodbye to all these things. When we moved to UK, I didn't know that I was going to like to place or not but I was tired. I made my mind to stay here, complete my studies and focus on my career as a hairdresser. I had always dreamed about working on a cruise as a hairdresser, since travelling and discovering new places were my passion. I won't lie, it wasn't easy to convince my parents and to find this job but somehow I managed to make my dream come true. After I got the job, I moved to London, where my main office was located, the Cruise Oasis. Afterwards when things started going as I thought, I found a house and lived there for a few days since most of the time I was on the cruise.

Luckily, I was at home when I received Sukhi's message yesterday. I couldn't believe that she was going to live here with me. Talking about her, she is the cutest and sweetest person I've ever met. She is perfect. A person who understands me, who's been always there for me with my small and big problems, she always stood beside me. Sometimes, I feel like she is older than me from the way she gives me advices about my daily problems and the way she helps me. I know that I can count on her on my good days and my bad days. Even when she got her own problems, she tries to solve them by herself. She is always able to bring positivity in my life and makes it perfect.
Sukhi can be a quite person, in fact she has got her own flavour that makes her like the other girls of her age but at the same time different from them. The day we met for the first, on my birthday party, I don't know how we broke the awkwardness between us but we did it naturally as if we were meant to meet each other. From there, our roller coaster started from laughing to crying and from complaining about parents to our life problems. The way we used to complain about wanting someone who can love us the way we were, was really funny, since at the end we always ended up saying that we were good being single. Every moment I spent with her it was always something I look forward at the end of the day. That's what she is for me. My medicine but at the same time my angel, that I am sure she will never leave my side.

I looked at the time and I noticed it was almost the time to go to there airport to pick her up.