A reason to live.

Chapter 7

As I entered my home, I was excited about the party. I was having one after a long time and I was going to wear a half sari. OMG!!!  that half sari looked lovely. It had a red pallu and gold skirt, it was so elegant with intricate designs and beads which gave it a beautiful look. I was even more excited as I was going to wear half sari for the second time, it was a surprise for all, no one knew what I was going to wear, not even my ma, although they knew that the theme was red.

I went in, hugged my parents and rushed to get ready.

I locked the door making sure no one could enter, laid out my half sari and went to take a bath. It took longer than usual, I so loved herbal and homemade treatments for the skin so I scrubbed besan and curd and rinsed it off and it worked wonder to remove my tan well and made me look brighter. I then washed myself and blow dried my hair, so that it would not be frizzy by the end of the party. I put on a simple gold necklace my grandfather had given me, a bright red and gold traditional earring and I did put on a little extra make up than usual giving blush to my cheeks and deepening my eyes with eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow and kajal. I looked up at the mirror and was happy that I did a good job. It was around 6:30pm by the time I got ready. 

When I went down, seated on the sofa was Krys, Aki, Payal, and Ria. They all chatted and when I went to them they were all shocked to see me in a full-on traditional outfit. Krys and Ria wore a knee length dress and Aki and Payal an anarkali, all of them looked just as awesome. 

There was a knock on the door and I went up to it and it was my cousin, Bella along with her son Eddie and my jiju. As she entered I hugged her careful of the bump in front of her. oh! jiju and akka made such a cute couple with Eddie being naughty as ever climbing on jiju's head and playing about, Bella ka looked at me went inside and came with some jasmine flowers, the fragrance was lingering through the whole house, she pinned it up on my hair, after she won over me fussing about not wanting it and it was perfect. 

It was 7:00pm and a lot of my family started coming, there was a small prayer session so all was quiet for a few minutes, after which the party had finally started. I was busy meeting everyone that I didn’t keep a track of who came, all were wishing  and gave me their blessing and gifts. After a while I saw auntie, uncle and Rohan come and wish me. They then went and finally my besties came and we took a nice big picture, we got into a group and started talking while I saw Rohan standing with uncle and my dad and nodding to all they were saying uninterested. I went up to him and excused us and brought him over to my friends. I introduced him and we were all having a good time laughing, dinner was served so I told my friends to eat. 

As I was about to walk away I felt someone grip my hand, I turned around and saw that Rohan was smiling wide, he gently pulled me closer, I looked at him with a questioning gaze, the music was loud and I could barely hear him so leaned his head near my ear, I felt his hair touch my cheeks and I flinched away “happy birthday.” he yelled and I in reflex held my ear, screwed my face and looked at him who was laughing holding onto his stomach. I immediately hit him on his hand and he kept on grinning “Mad fellow" I said narrowing my eyes and pursing my lips in a line and went away.

We all ate dinner by now I was laughing at some stupid joke. We spoke of comedy scenes in films and kept on laughing. It was around 10:30pm and many of my relatives had already left, bella ka and jiju left early as akka needed rest.

Each one of my besties also started leaving, wishing me and telling me to enjoy the last hour of my birthday. It was a great day indeed I had done a lot. Rohan ,uncle and Auntie were the last to leave, as they were going Rohan turned around “I'm sorry to have wished you like that, please, I hope you don't mind?" he said looking straight into my eye.

“oh God!! it’s okay....it shows that you treat me like a friend. It’s cool" I said smiling 

“Have a great year, bye, see you soon, text me anytime” he said as he sat in his car 

“Good night, bye."I said nodding and waving at him.