Falling in love after Marriage

Chapter 18

Janaki's POV

Oh my dear God!

Why me?

I have been trying to solve this problem for the past 45 minutes. Every time I am successfully getting the wrong answers, which I could not relate to the solutions given in the book in any possible way.

The worst part is I couldn't understand the steps given in the book to solve the problem and my professor taught me a method, which is totally different from the institute study material.

Great right! I know!

God! I don't even want my worst enemy to face a situation like this.

Totally irritating!

Maybe a little break can do.

Uhoooo lalala..

I switched on the electric kettle, we had in our room to heat the milk to prepare some coffee

I switched on the electric kettle, we had in our room to heat the milk to prepare some coffee. We bought the milk on our way back to the hostel from our coaching centre. Recently we are in need of more caffeine to our system to cope up with our lengthy schedule.

Vidhu decided to stay late in the night to finish her revision schedule. Now she is fast asleep and kept her alarm for next one hour. I decided not to wake her up. We are trying our maximum to go according to our schedule.

My mind focused on the major things I have to be dealt with.

I have two big things on my plate now.

Number one: Our main exam.

Number two: Prabhu mama's marriage.

We are having our main exam at the end of the month, November. We both have the confidence to crack our exams. We have made a perfect plan to cover entire syllabus with two revisions and our results of the last model test were also not so bad.

Most of my friends stopped writing model exams telling that they were studying in the meantime of getting ready and up & down travel time to the coaching centre. But if you ask my opinion, I would prefer to write exam than simply studying all the time, because writing exams would be more beneficial as I am gaining more confidence and practice in time management and self-evaluation.

After giving try to three to four times in the model exams, we might feel the main exam like a normal class test. Because it's the benefits of consistent practising.

Coming to the next big event, Prabhu mama conveyed his acceptance, a month ago, to his parents after they returned to Chennai from their vacation. Everybody is so happy about their decision. And everything is happening in the rocket's speed. The date for Prabhu mama and Nandhini's wedding has been fixed on 25th of January.

I expected a tornado from Vidhu on hearing this. But miraculously she took the information very nicely and also she promised to change her attitude towards her to be sister-in-law to maintain peace in our family.

As we both are very much occupied with our studies, the engagement has been planned on the day before the wedding. Nowadays, many families opted for this option due to lack of time and for the convenience of the friends and relatives.

They already booked a wedding hall in Kancheepuram. I am so excited as well as equally worried too about this marriage.

And Nandhini has planned to throw a party for the first year anniversary of her boutique. She asked our parents to send us to the evening party arranged exclusively for youngsters. Vidhu tried a lot to avoid going there but our parents wanted us to go there to respect their new daughter's request.

Now we have to do some shopping for that. We don't wanna get embarrassed in front of everyone by wearing odd dresses. Prabhu mama just told us to wear some chudi. He is oblivious of the party theme.

I finished my coffee and descended to my bed to continue the fight with my sum that I still have no clue how to proceed.

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(The Party day)

We are now getting ready for the party. Vidhu decided to wear with beige cotton kurti with black palazzo pants. I am wearing a blue printed kurti with white legging.

I am wearing a blue printed kurti with white legging

I called him to inform that we got ready.

"Hi mama, we got ready. Where are you?"

"Hi Janu, I will be a little late, because Akash's car broke down on his way. I am now going to get him and will pick up you guys later."

"Okay mama. Call me once you reach here. Our warden gave us permission only to reach before 9 PM. So please make some arrangements for that if you want to stay back mama."

"Thanks for understanding me Janu. Nandhini asked me to stay till the party gets over. I will make some arrangements to have you guys reach hostel safely. Don't worry about it. Bye, ma. I will call you after getting there"

"Okay mama. Drive safely. Bye mama."

I kept the phone in my purse and shared the info to Vidhu and we decided to watch YouTube to kill the time.

The song 'Neeyum naanum anbe' from the movie Imaikkaa Nodigal caught our attention as we both women are die-hard fans of Vijay Sethupathi.

[YouTube link for the song:

Https://youtu.be/dImiR3Sr8Wo

Enjoy listening ??]

We are watching the song for the 7th time with 'awe' while we are interrupted by Prabhu mama's call telling us that he reached here. We watched the song one more time before descending downstairs to join them. We quickly hopped in and greeted Akash.

My mama is wearing navy blue casual shirt with sleeves rolled up showing his forehand with Khaki pant. Akash is wearing black full sleeve t-shirt with ripped blue jeans making him look handsome than usual.

"Hey super senior, What's wrong? You're looking nice than usual?"

"Janu! Don't call me that! And by the way, I am always hot ma. You just noticing that now. It's your vision's fault. Not mine."

Before Akash starts to reply we heard someone's clearing throat. Prabhu mama is looking expectantly at rear view mirror at me.

"Hey I didn't forget you mama. You too look handsome as always."

I said with a wink. He grinned and raised his shirt collar dramatically. Vidhu started to question him to tell about his dating experience. He started narrating the whole thing happening between them. We all teased him a lot and the drive went quite jolly.

Prabhu mama parked his car. The place looked like a house. Maybe a guest house. Some people were scattered around the garden. Food and drinks are served one side of the garden. The plants and trees in the garden were nicely maintained. Loud music is coming from the house.

Prabhu mama leads us inside the house with a bunch of roses in his hands.

Awwwwwww....

What a sweetieee....

The music got so loud inside. The disco lights and the people dancing around are very new to us and it doesn't help the situation. All the ladies in the hall wearing short dresses expect us.

Out of nowhere Nandhini popped up and greeted Prabhu mama and talked with him. He almost seems to be lost in his own wonderland. But that is not my problem. The dress, she is wearing is not even covering her mid thighs. But she doesn't seem to mind that because she is jumping and hugging mama. To my shock, he is speaking with her like this is a normal thing.

Akash is the first person to shake my shoulders gently to bring me out of my thoughts

Akash is the first person to shake my shoulders gently to bring me out of my thoughts. He smiled uncomfortably. Vidhu is throwing daggers at their direction and looking disgusted at the sight in front of her. I hold Vidhu's hand tightly. She looked at me and sighed.

Akash went near mama and then only he shook his head like remembering something. He extended his hands towards us and asked us to come near him. Nandhini looked at us from top to bottom and shook her head. Akash noticed that and his face clouded with some unreadable emotion.

"Hi Vidhya and Janaki. Akash right? Prabhu often speaks about you. How are you guys?"

Nandhini spoke with a sweet voice and looked at mama lovingly while mentioning his name. Vidhu spoke

"Hi Nandhini. We are fine. How are you? And congrats for successfully running your business. All the best."

She smiled and thanked us, then enveloped mama's hand and dragged him into the crowd. Akash let out a laugh.

"What?" We both said at unison.

"She will be an interesting addition to your family." He walked inside and we silently followed him. He sat near the bar counter and ordered some fruit juice for all of us.

I saw Nandhini introducing Prabhu mama as her fiancee to all her friends. I felt someone patting my shoulder. I turned around and saw a totally handsome stranger standing there with a big grin. Something looks so familiar with him.

"Hi, I am Sanjeev. I hope you remember me. Sorry, last time we couldn't get introduced properly. We met at the restaurant in Nungambakkam. I'm Nandhini's friend."

Hmm... Now I remember this man. I didn't see him properly that day. Now I got a chance. He is actually looking so good. He is wearing a maroon half hand T-shirt with black ripped jeans. The T-shirt must be a size smaller than his actual sizes perfectly hugging him showing his well-defined chest and abs. He also wears a silver lip ring on the left side of his lower lip.

He cleared his throat. Damn! I am practically checking him out. I cleared my throat as I felt my throat dry before replying him.

"Hi, I am Janaki. Nice meeting you. I'm Prabhu's cousin."

He smiled and nodded his head. Then asked about my studies and hobbies and told about him. Vidhu and Akash joined our conversation. I still had a little alarm in my mind as I very well remembered how he behaved that day with Nandhini.

Sanjeev left after some time. Some drunk men tried to get near us, but Akash protectively stood by us and helped us by not allowing any such brats near us. We thanked him every time but he shrugged off our thanks with a smile. Usually, Prabhu mama used to do this to us. I miss his regular self.

Vidhu poked me to accompany her to the restroom. I rushed out as soon as I entered the restroom as I saw someone making out. I realized Vidhu hasn't come out yet. What the heck is she doing in there? I quickly went in carefully not wanting to see the thing and found Vidhu closed her mouth with her hand with eyes widened almost at the verge of tears. My eyes widened as my sense slowly recognized who is that indecent couple!