Destiny or Coincidence?

Chapter 9

Athira Patel

I stood in front of my house thinking about what my dad is doing while ringing the bell. After a few minutes door opened to reveal my dad who stood with only his shorts and drinking juice from the cartoon.

"Dad. How many times I need to tell you to use glass for drinking juice. You should not drink directly from the carton like that." I said snatching it from his hand and going to the kitchen to find the glass for him. "Did you eat breakfast?" I asked pouring the juice in the glass.

"No. Just woke up a few minutes ago. And you know me well to know how lazy I can be on Sunday mornings. So please don't ask me to cook today" He said entering into the kitchen and taking a seat on the breakfast table. I placed carton back in the fridge after pouring the juice in the glass and walked back towards him to give his glass of pineapple juice.

"I asked if you ate or not. who said anything about preparing. This is my last day here, let me cook for you today" I said sounding emotional looking at him. He caught my left hand and nudged me to take a seat beside him. I sat beside him and hugged him from sidewards. "I am going to miss you dad" I said sniffling.

"Shh. I thought my princess became strong nowadays. But look, she is the same crying baby as before." He said hugging me back and placing his right hand on my head. "I am going to miss you too my princess. But this is what you have dreamt all along and worked very hard for this day. Now you cannot be emotional like this, It is the day to celebrate, not to cry. Common, Will prepare some breakfast. I am feeling very hungry" He said making me stand up along with himself and patting me in the back. " I am proud of you my girl," He said kissing my forehead smiling.

"What do you want to eat?" I asked after composing myself and entering into the kitchen once again.

"Not your omelette again. Maybe Poha or Parathas?" He suggested looking at me. I know that those two are his favourite and he would suggest them.

"Sure. Will go with Poha for now." I said getting the required ingredients from the fridge for preparing it. I started chopping vegetables "Do you know, that yesterday in the pub I met someone and for the first time I got attracted to this someone very quickly?" I said looking for a pan.

"Wow. Now I can definitely say that he is an interesting person if he got the attention of you." Dad said laughing. "So, what happened then? Did you both talk with each other? Exchanged phone numbers? Should I expect any news in the near future?" He started firing back to back questions without giving me a chance to explain.

"Dad!!! Stop it ok. None of them will happen. Ya, only one thing that we spoke yesterday. But nothing else will happen. I cannot get distracted from my goal. So I said to him that I cannot be in contact. That's it. Nothing else happened. So hold your horses together." I said all at a time in one sentence without breaking in the middle. I released a deep breath after saying it and looked at my dad. He is staring at me with an unknown expression on his face.

He started laughing without saying anything. Now I am confused about what happened. Why everyone is laughing at me after saying about Abhilash. "You kissed him," Dad said still laughing. To say I was shocked is an understatement. I didn't think that my dad would have caught it immediately without even saying it.

"No... I mean Yes... Shit... How did you know? I never told you about the kiss part." I asked confused while looking at him.

"Even if you won't say it, I can know it by looking at your face princess. Your mom used to have the same look on her face whenever I used to kiss her. You are same as your mother. It's easy to identify you both. You both are like an open book to me" He said smiling and coming towards me.