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23. Holi

"You are going to Aarsh's house for Holi tomorrow?? That's cool!!" Vithika said through the phone.

"No its not cool! I wanna play Holi with my friends. I wanna play it with Richa and Monika, and they want Aarsh and me to be the first one to put colors on each other, I mean yeah its Romantic and all but I can't even play with them at all because obviously it will take us a lot of time to come back and until then they probably would have bathed already."

" Just chill babe. You play with them every year. This is the first time you will be playing with Aarsh aren't you excited." she Squealed with excitement.

"Well Yeah but... what will it be like to play with him?? Will they play really sophisticated or like normal persons" The thought has been going in my mind since the talk about going there has started or maybe even before that. The time I have spent with them shows that they do not act like all Richi Rich type but you never know.

"What do you mean by sophisticated? Do we play like junglees?"

"NO! What I mean is that..you know..like 'use organic colors, oh please only a tika, don't put colors on my hair,don't play with water' etc etc types you know"

"Or they could be like what they show rich people in daily soaps are. Having a grand party type." she said dreamily.

"Yeah that could be possible too. But either way, I wish everything goes smoothly"

***

Why hasn't he came yet??

I'm at Aarsh's mansion and just like Vithika said, it is decorated with Holi decoration similar to the ones shown in Indian daily soaps. They have called many but not too many people here, their relatives, close friends office staff and all. Both of our families are here except the one and only, my fiance. We have been waiting for him for about half an hour now and he still hadn't come. When Mom went to call him, he told her he's in the middle of some meeting. Is he crazy? why did he even have to take a meeting today? I don't even know about this meeting. But what I'm sad about is that since he isn't coming I can't even play Holi. And since I'm not playing others are not playing either.

"Bhai is here!!!" Shreya yelled and everyone looked towards him.

He's wearing white kurta pajama and walking towards us greeting the people that he crosses, though nobody is coloring him as in the beginning Dad announced that no-one will put color on me and Aarsh, and we will put put color on each other first. I'm also wearing white kurta with red patiyala and multi color dupatta but when he lay his eyes on me I felt like he can see through me. I felt self-conscious, and it seemed like a bad idea to wear white today. He passes me and get blessing of my family. Mom start to scold him that how he has wasted everyone's time but she was not even halfway through when Martin came wearing white and told Aarsh about the important client on the phone. He excused himself and left but not before giving me a glance.

"Great now we have to wait again!" Shreya whined.

"Mom why don't you guys go and play? Its about me and Aarsh playing with each other first, why are you guys wasting your time. You guys go and play, I'll wait for him and join you when he's back." I said looking at all of them.

"But beta..."

"Its okay Mom, you don't have to do these formalities with me. I'm no outsider." I smiled and she smiled back.

"Okay but don't be too late." I nodded and everyone went to play Holi with others.

I looked towards Aarsh and he was already looking at me while taking a call. We stared at each other for few seconds and then I averted my gaze and looked towards our families. Everyone is so happy, splashing colours at each other and playing with water guns. This is my family for which I'm going to marry Aarsh, for the happiness of this family. And the next year it could be possible that I might not only be the daughter of my parents but Aarsh's wife and daughter-in-law of his family. Everything will change then, my room, my home, my friends, my martial status, thankfully Aarsh has the same surname otherwise I have to change it too. I have to leave my parents and my family and start a new life. A life with my new family.