A reason to live.

Chapter 15

“Uhh, who on earth is calling me at umm? at 1:30am?”I crankily took my phone," huh? Rohan,

“Hello Rohan what happened?"

“Hello Sara, you didn't come, so I thought of calling” he said as I straightened up to focus on what he was saying

“Come where? Rohan, what's wrong with you?”

“hey Shh...so you forgot, It’s okay, I'm leaving now, your parents are here and they told me that you were very tired so you didn't come" he said as I tapped on my head at my short term memory and bit my tongue

“Rohan, sorry I did forget, anyway, all the best, don't worry, I'll pray for you and do keep me updated bye, take care" I said

“Bye, see you soon and miss you" he said while I gave a slight chuckle to myself I've felt it weird when people say they miss each other when there is loads of work to be done and they've known the other only for a few days, but some how hearing the words from Rohan made my heart flutter.

We ended our call and I kept the phone on the side table and I don't know how but I fell asleep.

Ten days later

These ten days were so full of preparations getting the invitations, every evening went in distribution of invitation, ma and pa were in Coimbatore for a week doing all the preparation there, checking the venue, finalizing the decorations, the theme was white and blue, and the many things that were necessary.

I was going for marriage counseling, work, and inviting my friends and his friends also with help from Soniya, I was introduced to her on our engagement and she was newly married, we could connect with each other well and so I asked her help for inviting Rohan's friends as he wouldn't be here. I texted Rohan a few times to clarify the theme and the invitations for his friends but we couldn't actually talk properly, it was like I would leave a message and he would reply sometime when I was sleeping or busy, but it was fine at least for me, we had to get our work done.

My phone beeped I looked at the screen and flashed a wide smile it was Rohan!! ”Hello Rohan, how are you?” I said as my heart beat fast and I was excited to talk to him after ages.

"Hey hi, I'm fine, I wanted to ask you, what's the problem with you girls?" he asked with a little irritation in his voice

“huh? excuse me?? Who did what to you?" I asked fully knowing that someone had bothered him

“This girl at office, she keeps looking at me and winks whenever I look at her, it's irritating, this has happened before and my friends have told to ignore it but now I want to tell you, what do I do her?"

"Hmm...leave that to me and your friends are right, ignore people like her, they are not worth it” I said as I felt sad for him aww my poor ‘to be husband' oh God!! Did I just think that, what's happening to me...?

"Ok, but I need your help, we need to show her that we are a couple so put some of our pics and some nice status, is it okay??”He asked

“yea sure I can do that, but I'll have to get the pics so give me a day okay?"

“that's okay take your time, umm...how are you? and how are the preps going on" he asked in a much calmer tone

“all is good and I'm going to the marriage counseling and it's going great, am learning and understanding a lot of this union of God with us" I said the counseling is really useful it makes us realise the deeper meaning of marriage and the Holy spirit’s role in our bond

“that's great, I'm also going for counseling here and it's good, Umm, I'm sorry but I got to go." he said in an apologetic tone

“no problem even I got to go, bye"

“bye, take care" he said and we ended the call.

I was happy he called me, I felt like our friendship was becoming stronger and that would help this bond of ours to move forward.

In our case, since love was still not on our cards, we had to become friends in order to know and accept each other and let love happen in its own flow. (All of this happened during my lunch break) after such deep thinking I went on to continue with my work.