Our journey from engagement to marriage by Shipra Saini (animal farm read .txt) 📗

The friend's wedding

Preeti's point of view

Love...

This is what I am feeling right now for the person who came unexpectedly at the most unexpected time. I wasn't ready to meet him yet after meeting him it feels like I knew him from ages and if don't meet, my life would be meaningless.

I have never been in a relationship with someone, though I have crush on a boy in my school but what it feels like to be in a relationship I am still unaware if this feeling but now I am folded the some new pages of my life which I never aware of. Fir me the true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets and no lies. I don't have any secrets in my life but still there are some things which I never shared with anyone but I did share that things with Siddharth  and I never thought sharing those feelings to him made me relax somewhere.

I never expected him to understand me as he is a boy and born in America with all kind of independence. I just wanted him to know what I feels and why I underestimate myself sometimes. But he understands me and tell me it is okay to be vulnerable sometimes, he is always there to hold me.

The best feeling in the world is when you look at that special person and they are already smiling looking at you, like him right now.

We both are looking at sneaking the gaze of each other and smiling forgetting the fact that we have people around us in the living room. Though everyone was busy in their own work, no one give a damn to us which I am very glad of, especially Keerti who was bickering with Anshul on some point, I don't hear and Papa, Neeta maa and Akhil was busy discussing some points of mine and Siddharth's wedding, discussing about the guests and venue of the wedding.

On the other hand, Siddharth has laptop opened on his lap, pretending working while I was pretending to be busy in some work which mummy gave me earlier.

When my gaze again met with him, he was already looking at me with a soft grin on his face. I immediately looked down and my cheeks get pink feeling his heated gaze on me.

"Preeti.. leave all this. You and Anshul have to leave in my friend's daughter wedding." I looked up when mummy came hurriedly from the room with a mobile phone in her hand.

"What happened Isha..?"Papa asked to mummy.

"I forget that one of my kitty members daughter getting married tomorrow. They held a mehndi ceremony tonight and someone has to go there. I will go to wedding tomorrow but my friend insisted me to come today also." Mom said with little panic.

Mummy is right it is not appropriate if mummy go to the function on both days as we have guest in our house and it not good to missing from your when you are the host and guests are non other than your daughter's-in laws.

"It is not an issue. Preeti and Anshul go today's mehndi ceremony from our side and you can tomorrow." I looked at Siddharth who was already looking at me with a sad face. Going to function means 4 to 5 hour without seeing him. I know it's not a big deal but after I want to be with him as much as I want before he leave for U.S.

"Mummy, I don't want to go there. It will be so boring." Anshul whine like a child.

"Anshul, Preeti can not go there alone." Papa use his harsh tone him while he win a glare from mummy. I smiled inwardly because it's rare he got scolding from both mummy and papa.

"Do I have a choice?"

"No.." Mummy and papa both said in unison.

"Okay fine. I will get the free food anyway." He shrugged and every one laugh except Siddharth has the frown settled on his face and now he was looking at the laptop.

"Aunty can I go also?" Keerti asked.

"Of course beta..." Mummy replies with smile.

"Bhayi.. please you should also come with us." Keerti asked and I looked at Siddharth with hope.

"No..I have a project to work on." After saying this he leave the living room with a laptop with him and did not bother to look at me which made me sad.

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It's already evening. Sun set behind the horizon. I and keerti got ready in beautiful dress. I wore the pink rose lehnga while keerti wore green lehnga which I give it to her.  Siddharth still not out from his room. Earlier I sent Anshul to him to convince him to come with us but he declined the offer. I don't know why he is angry or what makes him upset but I really want him to come with us.

I looked at keerti who was still getting ready. I opened my almirah and take out the dress which I bought for Siddharth when I went to shopping with Anshul to buy the gift for the mehndi ceremony for which Anshul and Keerti teased me to death. I know he doesn't carry any suit with him so I bought one for him from my Diwali bonus. Keerti helped me to pick the three-piece of Siddharth's choice as I am unaware of that. She also helped me to select the perfect size of him as she told me she shop sometimes for Siddharth.

I took a deep breath when I was standing at the front on his room's door, battling myself if should knock the door or not. I kicked out all my fear from my brain and decide to knock the door.

knock...knock..

I knocked the door but there was no reply from the other side. I knocked again but still there is no response. Taking a deep breath, I turn the knob of the door and open the door slowly. I entered inside the room and looked around. He is no where in the room then my eyes fell on the balcony. He was standing there, leaning to the balcony and looking outside lost in his thoughts. I put his dress on the bed and walked towards him. My anklets and bangles are tinkling when I was walking towards him. He must aware of my presence but he did not turn around.

I slowly bring my hands around his back and hugged him from behind. I put my head on his back and inhaled in his scent. This is the bold step I took. It's not like that we never hugged each other. We did but this is the first time I am initiating it. His body stiffened for a moment when I hugged him but he relaxed after sometime. My heart was beating faster with our closeness but I allow myself to be in his warmth.

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