A reason to live.

Chapter 18

I was happy, pleased and grateful for his gesture to worry about anything else. I tried reasoning out why I kissed him and surprisingly I had many reasons. All which only I can accept as a reason.1) I saw him after two anxious days of losing contact 2) He got me a gift, means that he thought of me when he saw the chain 3) He respected my parents.

Isn't that more than enough, for me to give him a kiss?

Making a mental note/overthinking, I dozed off to sleep.

Ma, Pa, Mummy and Papa were leaving tomorrow morning and Krys and I in the afternoon. Rohan in the evening as his friend had wanted his help with some important work.

The next morning

Ma gave me a list of things I shouldn't forget to bring along. I went around putting all the things, I bathed and dressed up and waited for Krys, she came 9am.

We prepared a simple breakfast of 'ready to cook noodles' and ate it as we spoke of our good old days: our school times and how times have changed

“After your wedding you'll go off and everything will be different after that, I'll really miss you" she said as she got emotional and controlled her tears.

"I didn't tell you right?? Rohan might get a job here" I said as I side hugged Krys

"oh!!!! Grreeeaaat, how??? And why didn't you tell me??” Krys hit my hand, wiped her tears and got excited.

We rinsed our dishes and I told her everything about yesterday: about how happy, warm, secure, and how right it felt to be with him and most of all it felt natural.

“OMG!!! I don't believe it?, really? ” Krys asked her eyes wide with expectation

“Really, what? ” I said narrowing my eyes in confusion

“ I can't believe that you are so dumb, what are you??, you have fallen for him, you're in LOVE!!!  She exclaimed,

I thought of it for a moment and a realization hit me,  I started blushing yeah! I’ve fallen for him, I guess.

It was 11am, we decided to get ready and leave. We were done by 12, closing the doors, windows, and cylinder. We kept our bags in the hall and decided to chat a while before leaving.

I was telling Krys about how I imagined my wedding to be, I heard Rohan's voice? “Hi girls”

We both turned to look and Rohan stood there smiling and waving his hand at us,  but there was something more to his smile which I didn't understand.

“Hey, what are you doing here" I asked

“I was told that you both were leaving in the afternoon so I came here to drop you guys" he said like it was a fact.

“Oh, that's so sweet, thank you so much" Krys filled in for me.

We went to the car and found a bag already there "is this your bag?? I thought you were leaving in the evening" I asked

“yeah, I'll leave as soon as I complete my work, so I brought my bag along" he said.

We put the bag behind and a few were kept with Krys also, we had four bags.

I went and sat in the passenger  seat, Rohan sat, turned on some music, but it was only instrumental and drove off.

“Where are you going? The station is that way” Krys told

"oh yeah, what happened??Why are you going this way?”I asked pointing the road we were on with my hand

“Remember what I told you'll? I'll drop you'll” he said with a mischievous smile on his lips.

"ohhh, I get it, hehe " Krys chuckled from behind. "In that case I don't want to disturb you 'lovebirds' so I'm going to doze off good night" she said and I frowned at her although my cheeks were blushing and she closed her eyes and drifted away.

We remained silent for a while "how were you're school days?" I asked not knowing where to start.

"mine were great, happy with my friends and had some fights too” he said as he stuck his tongue out

"Mine was also good, I made good friends and I'm happy for that" I said

We spoke of our friends, our grand parents, just then Krys woke up and we were hungry even though we had plenty of snacks, we wanted a break at 6pm we stopped at a hotel where we had bondas and left again.

I told him “I don't know to drive, when did you start driving?"

“Its not tough I'll  teach you, if you want, I started as soon as I turned 18." he said

"wow, that's a long time" I said. We spoke a lot but took breaks to look out and I kept on thinking of the marriage. "so tomorrow morning the functions start right?“ I asked

”yeah, this week is going to be so different, our lives will change, and ..." he started to chuckle

“And?? “I asked not understanding what he was trying to tell

“and you will be mine" he said coming closer and whispered in my ear, I felt ticklish and smiled

"ahem...ahem...I'm also here, though I'm minding my own business, you'll shouldn't take liberty" Krys said, then laughed and winked at me, my face was red with embarrassment, Rohan rubbed his neck looking at the road.

We reached Coimbatore at 9pm. No one knew that Krys and I were coming with Rohan, we found out that my parents were with Rohan's parents in my dad’s youngest sister Dahlia's home.

It was a cozy home which always had guests and never remained quiet, it would be buzzing with activity and happiness tomorrow.

All the elders were discussing something when we three walked together and surprised them. we told them that Rohan's work got over so he brought us here.

In Coimbatore people cared a lot about food!!! we were asked to eat instead we decided to go to a nearby chat stall.

I love chat, we decided on pani puri, it was different, standing on the road and gulping down pani puri, although it was a little spicy it was perfect. It always has an after effect, where your eyes are watering but you still feel great.

Once we had finished, we walked to go back, no one was there outside on the road I guess they are watching the daily soaps.

The chill breeze was calming, Krys was talking to her ma on the phone and was behind us.

I went near Rohan "it was fun right?" I asked

"hmmm" he said and stared at the moon

“what are you looking at?? It's bugs bunny right?? In the moon?”I chuckled, he turned to look at me like I was some weird thing and started laughing.

"nooo, it's a deer, anyway, I've heard that one can see the face of their loved one in the moon and I'm trying to see your face" he said as he turned to look at me, my eyes went wide at his open statement and I started to blush. Not wanting to stay on the topic for more time, I turned and started to walk. We were outside the home and we heard the sound of chatting getting louder and realized it was time to leave.

We bid our goodbyes to all, went home and slept quickly.