Chapter 1 :- Aarya and her Family

Today my exams are finished. Medical exams are hectic but after finishing my third year of college exams I feel relaxed. 

So after finishing my last paper I call my Mother and I say "Hello, Mummy "

she told me "Hello Aarya.how was the paper? You left the hostel or not?"

I said to her that "my paper was good and I will leave in twenty minutes "

And after that, I cut off the call.

Then I left my room after checking one last time in the room that I didn't forget to take anything.

My college campus is quite big. It has different faculty colleges. It also has many hostels. Hostels are different according to fees and facilities. Boys and girls hostels are at some distance.  

After finishing the exam I'm going back home after a month so it feels good.

My home is in Ahmedabad two hours away from my college in Baroda. Going back home after finishing my exams is a very different feeling. My close friends are from different places and my other classmates who are from Ahmedabad take too much time to get ready for going back home and I don't like to wait when it comes to going back home. So I prefer to go home alone. While walking towards the campus main gate I was thinking all this.

After changing the rides I reached the bus stop. I love the window seats on the bus so I took that seat before someone else could take that. Sitting on the window seat and listening to music are my favourite things.

I plugged the earphones into my phone and started playing music.

I feel like music has the power to change my moods. I have Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, English and South Indian languages like Telugu and Malayalam  language songs in my playlist. I don't understand all languages but I love music so I have all these languages songs in my playlist.

I feel like music is like an emotion. Sometimes I don't understand the lyrics of different languages but I  feel the music and emotions. Music works as a healing process for me. 

The bus starts and my songs playlist also starts on my phone and with the background music, my thoughts also start to rewind my memory of how from the first time going to university to today my love for college increases and how my friendship gets stronger and stronger day by day with my lovely friends. I write a list about which movies and web series I have to watch during this one-week vacation. And after travelling for about two hours, my journey ends on the bus.

I reach home and hug my mother, father, and my little brother. They all are waiting for me since I have called them saying that I left the hostel and I'm on my way back home.

I have always felt blessed to have a lovely family. After a long time eating home food is a great feeling.

After eating food I sat with my little brother Raj and we had a little talk about everything and I got to know that in December we have to go to my cousin's sister's wedding. I know that she is going to marry this year-end or maybe next year but I don't know if the dates will get fixed soon. So after hearing this news I called her.

I said "hello Meera"

and she told me "hello Aarya" 

and I told her that 'today after finishing my exam I came home and got to know that your marriage date is fixed after one month.' 

She told me that As my exam was going on so she did not call me for this matter because she didn't want that during the exam. I got busy thinking about her marriage and got distracted in exam study.

So she has decided to call me after my exams are finished. 

She asked me 'how were your exams?' and I told her that' the exams were good'.

She told me how she wants me with her on her very special day as her dearest sister to be with her in all her rituals.

so I assure her that I will be with her in every ritual and after talking about many things I hang up the call. 

After talking to her I felt a little emotional because it's her wedding and I will miss her. After the wedding also we can be in touch but a wedding is something that is going to give a change in her life and as well as the people close to her. 

She is very close to me and after hearing that her marriage is after one month I got excited and emotional because she is the one after my friends with whom I can share anything without any hesitation and I love her.

Weddings of a sister always bring happiness with tears in the eyes. There is only one month remaining in the wedding so I have to do lots of preparation for the wedding. I have to buy dresses and also a very charming lehenga for her wedding. 

At night I asked my mother when she was free so that we could go shopping. My mother has a very good test at shopping so it's good that we both will go shopping together to buy clothes. My father has always stayed away from coming together for shopping. My father does not hesitate to give us money but gets hesitant when it's about his shopping. They never say no to us about our shopping but when his turn comes he starts making excuses. But this time no excuse because my whole family is excited about Meera's wedding. So we all planned to go shopping together on Sunday.

So this Sunday I will go shopping to buy everything I need to wear in different rituals of her marriage. 

A whole week passed by watching my favourite movies and web series and to my surprise, I had not left anything from my list.