Bittersweet

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People smile, laugh, and there are ways to show that we are happy to the world.

But there is this kind of happiness which is unfamiliar to sense yet it is so alluring to feel inside.

This happiness, we don't know the actual reason for it.

It doesn't demand you to share with anyone, it won't push you to smile either. But the happiness is there within you gently brushing against your skin and make you feel as you got everything in this world even though you have nothing.

Perhaps is that because of... him?

Raghu? She asked her inner-self.

Yeah, but you shouldn't be happy, he is not what you think! It replied in angst.

Sathya was not in the state to listen to her heart or anything that will ruin the bliss of her love, her first love that she acquainted recently even though the rest are stressful and scary about Raghu.

After yesterday's reconciliation Sathya's heart has grown bigger to accommodate the increasing love on her husband.
Love, she doesn't know when it entered her but now she is in the preliminary stage which will show symptoms of racing heart, irresistible thoughts, and unaltered mindset to see him and to think only him.

The morning when the moment she opened her eyes, she saw Raghu sleeping so peacefully beside her. She gazed at him mystically like he is the endearment of her life.

Once we start to like someone we search for opportunities to show it. Sathya today prepared a nice breakfast with payasam. Perhaps Raghu liked it so he had two full cups and left only a few spoons for Sathya. As always she is happy to have that small amount.

Though they reconciled Raghu deliberately tried to maintain a distance. Not even his fingertip touched her skin intentionally. That small thing made Sathya feel sad.
When he dropped her at the hotel he gave a small smile and left mesmerizing her. For few moments Sathya stood blankly staring at the road where he left. That moment she wanted him, and the yearning started there.

When Sathya was thinking about ideas to make him fall for her, Bhuvan called her.

"Sathya your husband is here," he told standing at the doorstep of the kitchen.

"Huh?" she knotted her eyebrows since he was early today as they still have customers.

Head chef Velayudham is on leave so today Bhuvan was in charge of the kitchen. Sathya's heart raced to know her husband is here.

"Shall I go and see him?" she asked Bhuvan.

"Sure, go," he smiled.

She didn't feel like she is walking on the floor, when she came out she gazed among the tables. Raghu was solemnly sitting at the corner table looking out.

Sathya moved closer and closer to him. When she is near the table Raghu perceived her presence.

He smiled, there is a strange thing that Sathya like about his smile when he smiles his eyes it will smile too. Raghu has a black eye that is sharp and clear, his gaze speaks so much but it is very hard to understand.

"What you like to order? Sir?" Sathya smiled.

Raghu again smiled. "Anything you recommend?"

She nodded and turned with a grin on her face.

When she came back into the kitchen, she starts to prepare red sauce pasta. Once she is done she carried the plates to Bhuvan.

"Hmm, I know it will be good, take it," he approved and she headed out carrying the plate.