A reason to live.

Chapter 22

"Wake up your going to be late otherwise" I heard Cathy akka wake me up. It was 6am, we all got up quickly and started to do our morning routine, at around 6:30am the beautician came and started with my makeup, I was going to wear a cream banarasi sari which had gold designs on it,   in my family our wedding thread was red unlike the yellow of other customs, the white sari would compliment my wedding thread well.

I laid my sari out and, was asked to eat my breakfast first.

I was too eager and tensed with all butterflies in my stomach as to how is life going to change, I didn't feel like eating anything, especially all the masala stuff I love, like spicy chutney and sambar, made my stomach churn, I wanted to go light on my stomach, I didn't want to look full from eating in the ceremony, so I had a sandwich of butter and sugar.

I sat down to start with the makeup, when my phone rang, "h.hello"

"hello?"I replied almost questioningly

"uhmm,Just wanted to tell you good morning and,waitingtomakeyoumine" Rohan said, the last part in a rapid whisper,

"good morning, what did you tell??in the end?wai, what?? " I played dumb as a blush crept upon my cheeks,

"wai...waiting to see you, don't be late, I got to go" he said a little slowly and carefully so that I don't doubt what he said, but I could feel him blushing through the phone when he disconnected. I looked at his contact picture and chuckled to myself at his craziness.

I kept my phone down and the beautician had started with my foundation, she applied it so well, like it was a massage and I had a good nap. When I got up she was putting the blush on my cheeks, I looked at the mirror, I had gold with pink eye shadow and a lot of make up, I felt like a different person but was very happy with all the effort she had put in. I put on a pinkish red lipstick; so that it matched my makeup.

After that I was ready for my hairdo. It was raised in the front and at the back it had the messy bun effect. I used a wig for the bun so that it looked neat.

I draped my sari, with help of course. I then put my jewelry; it was a gold necklace, a short chain and a long chain, a hip chain, bangles, an armlet, a big jumki, and finally a maroon bindi.

After all was done she finally put on my veil and checked it for its length. My bridesmaids got ready, with their silk suits: the smaller ones wore pattu (silk) paavadai(skirts) and the older ones wore silk half saris.( now a day's brides maids do wear gowns...but I wanted the scene to look traditional)

It was a little past 8am when my relatives and besties came to the room after having their breakfast. All my besties wore saris, and each of them looked so gorgeous. A few my other friends had also joined them, they all came to in and congratulated me.

I was called out and was asked to kneel down, while all who were present came up blest and congratulated me, finally my parents came, ma was emotional and held back her tears, but her expression gave it away, a few of my aunts were also emotional, I tried hard to control my tears, generally if I see someone crying in front of me I start to get tears and now so many people!! Krys somehow sensed the uneasiness and came up to me with all my friends, they hugged me, and also started to teased me that my make up will get spoilt and that if I look bad, Rohan would not want to marry me, we started to laugh and the mood changed to a happy one again.

I was led out to the church, I went to the entrance of the church with my veil over my face, and a bride's bouquet of red and white roses with green branch type plants in my hand.

I saw Rohan smiling at me, my heart fluttered, I went over with the bridesmaids holding my veil," You both have done your confession right??" His uncle asked, and we nodded our heads in agreement."Here put this on" his uncle told, as he handed us our garland.