When we were busy gossiping, my mother and aunty told us that another ritual was about to start so we all stopped talking and went to change our dresses for other rituals.
I wear a light pink colour bandhani saree with a matching blouse. To wear a saree properly my mother helps me and I wear lightweight earrings in my ears and bangles in one hand and one beautiful bracelet on the other hand. I put my hair open and put it all on one side. I wear sandals which don't have too many heels.
After dressing up properly I go to meet Meera and check if she is dressed up or not.
When I reach her room she is busy getting ready and one woman from the beauty parlour is doing her makeup and another is doing hairstyle.
When she saw me she commented that " You're looking beautiful in saree dear".
I told her " Thanks for the compliment".
She is in an orange saree very beautifully and her make-up and hairstyle get done in a few minutes.
I told her that " You're looking gorgeous my dear sister"
When we both get ready we go outside the house when a ceremony called "Grah Shanti " is performed by Pandit Ji and my uncle and aunty are seated near the holy fire and following the instructions. I sat with Meera and other sisters.
Pandit Ji called Meera's name and so she joined her parents for this ritual.
Pandit Ji gave her instructions to do the things and she followed that.
I get busy with my other sisters in the distribution of the gifts that are given by Meera's family to the people who come for the wedding.
After finishing this ceremony Meera and we all are getting ready to give poses to the photographer.
Another ceremony called " Mameru" starts. In this ceremony, Meera's mother's brother's gift is given to Meera and her family and also to the relative who is from Meera's village.
Me and Meera stay at home with other older women and others are gone to the little distant house to take all the gifts which they have to give Meera and her family and relatives from her village.
After a few minutes, all men and women and children come with gifts and also do a dance to the beat of the music. When they reached home, me and Meera also joined them in dancing.
After this ritual another ceremony was performed by relatives and women of the village. I, Meera, and others get busy doing the dancing.
When this ceremony gets finished we all are seated in chairs in the house.
After a few minutes I feel thirsty so I want to go to the kitchen to drink the water. I asked Meera if she wanted the water. She said 'Yes ' so I went to the kitchen to drink the water.
When I was drinking water one aunty came near me and asked me " Are you Aarya a Daughter of Kavita?" I answered her with a smile that " Yes aunty you're right I'm Aarya a daughter of Kavita"
Then she starts a further inquiry about me by asking me what I'm studying and in which year , from which college of which city. What results I got in my third year of college.
I answered all of her questions with a constant smile on my face.
Then she asked me the most irritable question which is asked to many Indian youngsters who are not even getting engaged and they have to face it in many family get-togethers and functions.
The question is pretty simple for the one who asks it but the worse for the one who has to answer it. Whoever has to answer this question becomes uncomfortable while answering the question still, no one stops asking them and they get tired of giving the answer to the same irritable question asked by many in any function.
She asked me " Now tell me when is your turn to get married?"
Suddenly the smile on my face disappears because this is the worst question to answer and I think for today this must be the ninth or tenth time that I'm giving the same answer to the same question asked by many relatives.
I feel like giving an answer in viva is better than to face the same kind of relative in different functions and give them all the answers to their same one question that "when will you get married?"
I answered her that " I'm still young and there is still time for my marriage because right now I have to finish my graduation".
When I started feeling uncomfortable Meera shouted my name and I felt relaxed and reviled. I look at the aunty one more time , take a glass of water for Meera and leave that place.
I don't know what she is going to ask me. I have seen many Indian aunties who didn't stop questioning even the young couple who got married. After their marriage they start asking " So when will you plan to become parents?" I think that nothing can stop them from questioning us.
I went to where Meera was waiting for me and gave her a glass of water. She asked me what's the reason that I got late and I told her the whole story. She said If I don't call you then you have to share your future planning and family planning with them and we both laughed. She told me that now I'm becoming accustomed to these kinds of questions. You will become habitual to answer these same questions in different ways with the same meaning till you get married.
When we're talking about all this my brother told us that dinner is ready. So me, Meera and my other cousins with my mother and other aunties go to eat dinner together.
The day is about to end. At night after having dinner, we all get busy changing our dresses for today's last ceremony called "Sangeet Ceremony".
I wear a red Rajasthani Rajputana dress and my mother helps me set my dupatta. I wore ornaments suitable for my dress And had a simple hairstyle. I wear Mojadi on both of my legs. I put lipstick on my lips and do a little makeup to complete my look.My mother looks beautiful in a blue Rajasthani Rajputana dress and I compliment her that " you're looking, gorgeous mummy".She gives a smile and tells me that " You're looking beautiful dear. I hope someone's evil eye doesn't affect you "After getting dressed up properly I reached Meera's room and she was wearing her Mojadi. She looks beautiful in Maroon colour lehenga and greyish white colour full sleeve blouse and matching dupatta. Her hairstyle was perfect and her makeup looked great. Two - three girls from the parlour came to prepare her for this function. She looks very beautiful.I told her, " Meera, you're looking gorgeous dear."
That person whom I don't know looks young in age. He is in a pink colour kurta which has an elbow length sleeve and on that, he has a light pink colour coty and white colour pajama. He has a black thread band on his wrist on the right hand and he has a watch on the left hand. He has worn Mojadi on his legs. He is tall, handsome, and has a beard. He takes the mike and starts singing a song on the love of daughter and Father in the Gujarati language. Music is playing in the background on the stage by a music band. He sings beautifully and we all listen to it carefully. The lyrics of the song are amazing and Meera starts crying while listening to this song. I hug her and try to calm her down. I also cried while I was listening to that song and other people in the audience also had tears in their eyes. Me and Meera both cried and people who were trying to calm us also had tears in their eyes. Meera's father and mother are also crying.Lyrics of that song are about w
It's 2:30 a.m at night. My mind is still busy thinking about him. I didn't think about this much in my past for anyone and not for someone whom I don't know.I want to give him a compliment about his singing. I want to tell him that I love his singing and his performance tonight.He looks handsome and I usually like a guy with a beard and he looks more handsome in his beard. I usually don't get attracted by looks. I got attracted by a person's talent, intelligence and character.In this matter I know one thing for sure that I'm attracted by his talent more than his looks. He looks handsome, but His talent is the main factor that made me think about him because I don't know other factors about him. I feel like I'm interested to know more about him.When I overthink, no matter how hard I try to sleep, I can't sleep easily and tonight I am thinking too much about someone who doesn't even know me.&
After seeing Meera I think that she would take my side and get angry at him for shouting at me when we both are responsible for this thing.When she sees me like that she starts laughing and that guy has an expression of surprise on his face and I know why she is laughing but I'm not in the mood to laugh.Meera told him to calm down and meet her later after that he left that place.I then entered Meera's room. I'm frustrated and my morning mood has just gotten spoiled.I asked her to please stop laughing whenever I spill something on me or spoil the work. She first checks that I'm alright or not and then she used to just laugh and her smile makes me forget what I did.But this time my Kurti gets spoiled before the ceremony and someone is shouting at me not for my loss but for the fear that it doesn't affect their clothes.She gave me another dress s
In the kitchen, she drinks the juice and this time my mother give her juice and when she gets to know that what happened before she doesn't have any shocks expression on her face and she told only that "Thanks to God you didn't spoil Aarav's clothes because if you do that what will he wear" I was like what?? My own mother has to worry about his clothes more than mine. So I get irritated and told that " Mummy you're worrying about him instead of me and this time my clothes get spoiled not his and he needs to look around also because if he was careful this won't happen" and mummy told me that " Oh dear it's not new for me that your dress gets spoiled because of many things and you looks beautiful in Meera's clothes now and it's perfect feet on you. "I'm not in the mood to argue with my mother anymore so I completely shut my mouth and my mother exited the kitchen. She told Meera to hurry up because the first ceremony is about to start.
Meera sat on the chair under the Wedding Mandap and I sat beside her to take care of her and her look.All the relatives are seated surrounding the Wedding Mandap. Children are running from here to there, busy in playing and in their own worlds.Females are seated in the groups busy talking with each other.Males are seated in groups and busy talking with each other.My brother and other cousin brothers, uncles and my father are busy with arrangements.I looked around the Wedding Mandap but I couldn't find Aarav. I feel relaxed and relieved that now I don't need to ignore him.I hope I don't see him again today and he also won't find me and talk with me.I have to stay away from him tonight only then Tomorrow I have to go back to my home. I will get busy in my life again.My cousin sist
He tells me that" Hey, listen, just drink this water if you need it."And in my mind, it's like many thoughts are going on like why is he offering me water now and he is the same guy who gets angry with me in the morning. In the morning he was behaving like an angry jerk and right now he is giving me water like a gentleman who cares for me without even knowing me when I get busy in thinking about this he seat beside me before I again get lost in my thoughts he gives me a glass of water again and this time I just take that without thinking of other things and drinks that water.He starts saying " I'm not good at giving company to someone and especially in this kind of situation but I feel like I should sit here and talk with you. I hope that you don't mind it".His words are much different than I actually thought about him and I'm feeling lonely in the house full of people including my siblings because today is the day wh
In the last, He says to me that " Goodbye and I hope we will meet soon"After telling him that I go a little distance and shout "I'm coming Raj" Because I know him. If I don't give him a reply he will shout my name again and again.If I take a long time after telling him that I'm coming he will surely start searching for me. So before he came here I told Aarav 'Goodbye'.I told him that 'we will meet soon' but I'm not sure if we will meet or not. But his reply that I hope we will meet soon makes me think that he really hopes that we meet again. I pray that his hope will come true. He is not a bad guy but he gets angry too easily.I want to look at him one more time before leaving that place completely because I don't know if in the future we will talk or not. We will meet or not without thinking much. I looked at him and smiled. He is still looking at me and he also smiled.