Love- Art Of Attractions

22. Denial

Vaishu's pov

I turned to the person who slapped me it was my cousin Santosh. Everyone was shocked and I was frozen in my place. He broke the silence and started speaking.

I have known you from childhood and liked you, I know you as a little girl who always likes to play around and be happy. Even when our parents fight and keep a distance from themselves at times, you still came up to me and made me happy.

You are the warmest person in the family and I loved that Vaishu.  I don't want you to change. I understand that if you marry me you will become someone different that I don't love.

I was just checking how much you love that person but I didn't expect you to burst out to your parents like that. It's not my Vaishu, she never hurt others even when she is hurt.

He then turned to my parents and was about to say something and that is when my parents said something and now he was the one who gets shocked.

My father turned to him and with so much composure said "You understood her really well, I apologize in place of her for her bad behaviour today. Please don't get confused by the situation. I feel you can take care of her and change her mind"

My cousin looked at me with complete sadness in his eyes and I gave him a faint smile. Like what do you think you can change your parents in one go.

Nooooo!!

We are not talking about cinema parent we are talking about the real one. It's so damn difficult to convince your parents for something you like.

Santosh turned to my dad and said "Uncle before you come into any drastic conclusion I want to talk to Vaishu in-person" My dad nodded a yes as a response.

At least my dad is not so insensible and allowed us to talk. Santosh guided me to our balcony and I followed him. When we were in a safe distance from others to hear us he gave out a big sigh and turned to me.

"Ok so our attempt is a terrible failure, so what do we do next."

Did I forget to mention that we planned this together? He was my bestie in childhood and distance can't break our friendship. Though we got busy with our own life we were still in touch.

He already knew about my love and he was not going to marry me. But if he was to straightaway reject this marriage proposal, we know that our parents will see some other guy so we acted that we are not in contact and he agreed to the marriage.

Though hitting me and dialogues he said about me was not in the plan. That words really blew up the plan and we don't know what to do next. I am really broken, it is so difficult to fight an emotional fight against your parents.

I can't control the emotional breakdown and I started crying. He wiped the tears from my face and said "we are here to plan the next step and not to cry. Nothing is over we are just at step one. So cheer up and tell me what we can do next".

That small gesture helped me cool down a bit but we can't come up with a plan. "Can time really change your heart from whom you love," I asked him breaking the silence.

"No, our love for someone can never change, you can't unlove someone from your heart. I can understand your pain"

"How can you understand if you have never been in a relationship," I asked him.

"Yeah but I loved someone, " he sighed heavily and continued  "But before I realize the feeling I had towards the person was love I moved to a different city"

"You know what, the biggest mistake is I was overconfident that one day the person will definitely be mine. Now I don't even have the chance to stand beside the person."

"How can you call it to love if your priority was not that person," I asked.

"It was love, it really was, I wanted to stand in front of her as a complete man and propose to her" He replied with complete sadness.

"I am really sorry for you but love doesn't happen like that"

"Can't a person take time to equip himself to take care of the person he loved"

"Ragu loved me when I was no one, he showed what love is and how it feels to be loved. For me, money or status was not even a matter. I was deprived of real love that I have not got from my parents. He gave me that"

"My love gave him the strength to achieve a lot of things in life. Love is all about care, affection and support in every step of life." I concluded.

He was staring at me for a few minutes and replied "I lost my love to understand this... anyway let us do something to make your love success"

"I think we should ask for some time from my parents so I can talk to them or something," I said

"Ok I will ask the time, come it's late they will feel suspicious" he went in and spoke to my dad.

"Uncle, shall we give this marriage some time before we decide anything," He asked in front of everyone after we came to the living room.

" Why you need time, we have already taken the decision, anyway there is few months time for marriage date"

Again India parents can never be sensible, my bad that I believe them.

"No uncle I want to give her some time to change her mind. Even after 3 months if she is still not ok with marrying me then I think we should support her decision"

After a round of argument, Santhosh was still stubborn about his decision and all parents agreed to 3 months time.

Literally, I faced hell during those 3 months. Everyone comes up to me to brainwash me to marry Santhosh. After one worst argument with my dad, I stopped talking to my parents and also didn't had food at home.

After 3 month time, everyone came to our house and started the discussion. I stand on my ground and my cousin was my backup.

There were some serious arguments and lots of chaos my marriage was planned. Things seem to happen fast and now I am sitting in my room after a tiring day of marriage shopping.

Do you think my parents won?

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Sorry for the delayed update.