New Beginnings....

🌌 Beneath the starry sky..🌌

M: Paarvae illae... Nee di sollamae....vera yaar sollu va?

Kathir stares at her slack-jawed.

With a seductive smile that should be outlawed because it is so dangerous...

And leaving behind a lingering fragrance she takes the stairs...

The words echo in his ears...

And he grins and grins...

Mh: Uncle ethuku ippadi smile pannitu irrukingae?

K: Athu...onnum illae ungae mummy oru joke sonnangae...

Mh: Ennakum sollungae please...

He wracks his brain for one...

Mh: Naan sollavah?

K: Happa...sollu ma...

And she tells him one and he laughs extra hard just to please her...

*****

Later that night, just before midnight... Mullai softly makes her way up...

Hmmm...him not locking the door certainly has its perks.

She softly tiptoes across the hall and sees him sitting on the dining chair, his laptop in front of him...

He is typing away furiously...

She places her hand on his shoulder and laughs when he gets so startled...

K: Mullai...Nee ennae...

M: Hi Kathir...

K: Ummm Hi...

He has on these adorable screen protecting spectacles...

She sits on his lap, removes the specs and puts it on...

He is so surprised...

But his hands go around her waist...

He wants to memorize this feel of her in his lap...he doesn't know if he'll ever get another opportunity like this...

M: Happy Birthday Kathir...

Of course he has forgotten all about it...

Men!!!

K: Thanks Mullai...

He plays with the silky ends of her hair that flows down her back.

M: Unnaku rendu choice irruku...

He is so happy that she is here that he can't stop smiling and touching her just to make sure that she is real, and not a part of his desperate dreams.

K: Hmmmm sollu...

To be honest, he is a bit inattentive...

All the blood from his brain is flowing downwards to another body part...

M: Kathir... Are you even listening? She asks shifting a bit...

That did not help at all...

M: Rendu choice... Oru gift ippo,  Innoru gift innum konjae naal leh varum... Aana renduthulae etho onnu dhan tharuven... Ethu nu nee mudivu pannu....

K: Ippo tharae gift....

He says immediately before she could even complete the sentence...

M: Orae oru kiss...

He grins at her...

K: Naan tharavae, nee thariyah?

M: Ohn birthday dhanae... Naanae tharen...