Unexpected Love [Completed]

Chapter 4: Why him

I don't understand why it had to be him. I laid in bed staring at my ceiling thinking. After mandir, my cousin, Vani had come over. When I'd told her how Shona had decided to ship me with one of the boys she laughed and said, "yea, she did that to me too. I wasn't even talking to Karan and she knew. And now I'm married to him."

My stomach plummeted. Marry Vijay? Or Avi? I shivered. I'd honestly never thought about it. I'd never even thought about how easily we could date...ok I had but that was one of the reasons I'd ignored him. I didn't want to date him! I didn't like him!

Fuck.

My life was getting really screwed up. And that wasn't even the worst part.

All week I was trying to find opportunities to talk to Avi. Shona kept telling me to just say hey and start a conversation, but it's not that easy. Ok I mean with any other guy it is but not with Avi. I have two classes with Vijay and we don't talk so imagine how much worse this is. And not even that, I had a dream about Avi Sunday night but Monday night I dreamt about Vijay. It was creepy. I don't remember what the dream was about but I do know that he was in it.

That's kind of scary. I'm not trying to be a hoe. And the last time I couldn't decide between two brothers was Raj and Prem, and that hadn't ended well.

But then on Sunday, our mandir had this rally, and my aunt wanted me to talk to Avi but for some reason we spent most of the time talking to Vijay and his mom.

I looked away and tried to stop my heart from thundering. Shona was laughing with Aunt Sharda telling her she could adopt me. Aunt Sharda said yes. And so did Uncle Rahul. I laughed with them. They were one of those families you just had to love. Their good nature and kindness always warmed me. They never stopped helping, never stopped smiling. And Aunt Sharda always encouraged me. Sometimes I swear she saw more talent in me than my own mother did.

Whichever girl married into that family was most definitely lucky.

Especially if it was someone as sweet as Vijay.

WHOA

No no definitely NOT. I didn't like him. I didn't.

I spent all Sunday night chanting to myself that I didn't like Vijay. But then I saw him the next day in class and my heart unraveled. Goddammit.

So I told Shona, and she somehow made me bet her $100 to say hi to Vijay. I didn't have that money to give her. I looked at Vijay at lunch as I text Shona. Saying hi couldn't be that hard could it?