Untouchable

Chapter 2

It all started like this...

It was dinner time. 

I could smell mum's biriyani all the way up to my room. I waited until she shouted that the food was ready. Finally, she called "Divya! Divya! Come down!" she shouts with her Indian accent.  

"Coming!" i shout back at her and quickly get up from my bed. 

I quickly ran down the stairs to our dinner table. Dad was already sitting at the table. Mum came out of the kitchen and sat down.

I took a spoonful of biriyani in my mouth. 

"We need to find you, someone, soon. You are getting old!" Mum says with her Indian accent. 

I looked at my mum with a disappointed facial expression. I looked at her and told her that i wasn't ready. She looked at dad. I felt like they were talking with their eyes. My dad was always on my side, so i didn't have to worry about that. I continued to eat my biriyani. 

"Fine...." my mum let out. "You get 1 year. Only 1 year," she says with an Indian accent. 

I started coughing. I taught myself how 1 year were enough to find "The one". I was very picky when it came to all that. I wanted to find "the perfect one" as people might say.  I looked at dad and gave him the "You know i don't wanna get married now, back me up" glance. He took the newspaper in his hands and covered his face with it. Which meant; "Don't look at me".

The next day...

Dear diary

Today is gonna be a good day, it's Sneha's birthday today. Sneha! Where should i begin? I have known her my whole life. She is my other half. She is amazing! She is honest, reliable and kind. Three things that i had always wanted in a friend. We have known each other since we were babies. I love her to death! Today she is turning 20, and my friends and I are gonna celebrate it, at the beach.

I laid the journal down on my nightstand and got up. I started walking over to my walk-in closet. I stroked my hands through the finest dresses i had. The most dresses i had, i got from my uncles and aunties. They always bought me clothes.

I hear a message sound on my phone, and walk over to the nightstand where my phone is. I see a text message from Suriya. Suriya is kind of the leader in our group. His parents own several big companies in the world. He is dead rich!

In our friend group, we are 3 girls and 3 boys.

The boys are Suriya, Karthik, and Krish. One thing we always made fun of was their age. There was a week between their birthdays. So in that week, we would always lose money quickly. They were all 25 years old.

The girls consisted of Sneha, Tara, and me, and were all officially 20 years today.

(I don't really need to tell anything about them, you'll learn them throughout the story)

I looked down at my phone.

"Be ready in an hour ;*"  there was written in his message.

I smiled at my phone thinking of how fun tonight was gonna be.

In the afternoon

I was ready. I had everything on. My white dress. It was a bit transparent, but it was okay. It was getting dark anyway. I was sitting in the hall and looked at my giftbox. I had bought Sneha a necklace she had talked about for as long as i can remember.

I hear a high honk sound, and then i know that Suriya has arrived. I quickly take my jacket in my hands. I hear my parents shouting; "Have fun!" as i open the main door.