Both Varun and Sanjana were hugging for few minutes and lost in their embrace. Soon it was disturbed by a thunderstorm and they came back to senses. They were averting their gazes without knowing what to talk. After sometime, Sanjana initiated the conversation.
Sanjana : Aaama... I wanted to ask you ... How did you find out my dads number...
Varun : Un phone la irunthu than... On the other day when we were in hospital, he had been calling you multiple times and your battery was low when I finally spoke to him... So I decided to save his number.
Sanjana : She glared at him unable to believe... olunga sollu...
Varun : Decided to save than sonnen. But I couldn't as the phone was locked. Once I came back to hospital, I unlocked using your finger print 😳🙈
Sanjana : Fraud... Enna lam panni irukkan paaru saying she hit on his shoulders.
While hitting, he got hold of her hands and they locked their eyes. It remembered their first eye lock. How long they have travelled these two months... of course there is a long way ahead...
Sanjana : Sari... Pasikkuthu... Saapdalama....
Varun : Sure... Let me see what can be done.
He left to kitchen and started preparing dosai. She came along and kept starring at him while he was cooking.
Sanjana : Epdi ivlo round ah perfect ah dosai panra....
Varun : This is not that complex... If you practice, you can do it...
Sanjana : Appo Na try pannata...
Varun : Sure go ahead.
He moved away and let her stand before the cooking range. She took a laddle full of batter, she poured like him, but before she could spread it evenly, due to heat, it got teared off... she looked at him with a pout.
Varun : First time ah ...
She nodded her head vertically. He flipped the one she poured after it was cooked and asked her to try again. He lowered the flame to avoid the dosas tearing up...
She again poured a laddle of batter and slowly started spreading it. This time, it wasn't teared up but the shape was not perfect and it wasn't evenly spreaded. She made a sad face, making him chuckle.
Varun : it's okay... you have just started learning, you will eventually get it.. Try one more time...
The next time, she got almost perfect shape, but while flipping it got teared up.
Sanjana : Enakku mattum yen vara maatikkuthu...
Varun : I have told you right, you must practice and have some patience... you will surely get in time.
Sanjana : Athellam kedayathu... Naanum unna mathiri perfect dosa pannanum with a pig pout...
Varun : chuckled .... Sari vaa... I will help you... please don't make faces...
He went behind her, held her hand and took the batter and spread it evenly. While he was spreading, she turned her head and was staring at him... they both drizzled oil and flipped the dosas hand in hand. She blushed at the proximity. When he finished the dosai and looked at her, she just pushed him and started to move.
Even before she could place a step, he held her by wrist and brought her close to him..
Varun : Enga Pora.... (Base voice)
She just nodded her head horizontally...
Varun : Paaru... Perfect dosai ready panniyachu....
She just hmmed without looking at him.... He held her cheeks in his palm and looked deep into her eyes only to make her blush more..
Sanjana : Enna vidu... Na poren...
Varun : Enna aachu... Ivlo neram nalla thana iruntha ? Are you mad at me...
She dint reply anything, she just bent her head to conceal the red painted cheeks... she bit her cheeks inwardly to control becoming any more red but failed miserably.
Varun : Nee ketta nu thana I helped you making dosai, Ippo onnum sollama pora....
Is he really nuts, ithu kooda purinjukkalana Enna aalu... she thought to herself...
Varun : Enna paaru Nee.... Talk to me something...
Sanjana : Dei.... Ellam sollita iruppanga...
Varun : Dei ah .... Athu sari ... Sonna thana Puriyum (with a blank face)
Varun was expecting her to reply, but what she did next stunned him....
Oru vetkkam varuthae varuthae
Siru acham tharuthae tharuthae
Manam indru alai paayuthaeIthu enna muthala mudiva
Ini enthan uyirum unatha
Puthu inbam thaalaatuthaePoga solli kaalgal thallum
Nirka solli nenjam killum
Ithu mudhal anubavamae
Ini ithu thodarnthidumae
Ithu tharum tharum thadumatram sugam(This song is from Pasanga movie- oru Vetkam varudhe)
Varun felt breeze touched when she sang, it was honey into his ears, like sea waves, her voice calmed his mind. It was pitch perfect, she sang it with ease like a cake walk. But to the top of all, the song she chose, the lyrics which she mouthed, the expressions which she gave, oh my god... he couldn't move a bit. He was lost in her..... Sanjana raised her eyebrows in question, but he could notice nothing. She came near him and waved her hands in front of him, but nothing could move him out of his state...
Sanjana : Hello... Sir.....Varun .... Dei.....
Varun : Haan....Sanju.....
Sanjana : Enna aachu... Apdiye nikkara....
He looked deep into her eyes and she gulped on seeing him... And she shook him to bring back to his senses... varun just kept staring at her, whereas she was expecting a comment for her singing...
Sanjana : Ivan Enna ethuvum pesa maatikkaran (she murmured) Varun... Enna aachu... Ethavathu pesu....
Varun : you were supposed to reply, why did you move back after making the dosas...
Sanjana : Maramanda... Maramanda... said in a low voice to be heard by him.. Athu than Ippo sonnen la...
Varun chuckled at her choice of words and asked : Athu than yen (meaning the reason for blush)
She blushed more and instead of replying him she questioned back : Na epdi paadinen nu sollu.....
Varun sensing her emotions replied in base voice with a smirk : Nee epdi paadina nu sollata, illa what I felt when you sang nu sollata...
Sanjana couldn't tolerate this anymore, whatever might be the state of mind, she still had crush on him, might be more than that... So instead of letting him utter a word more, she placed her palm on his mouth..
Sanjana : Nee ethuvume solla venam... Vaa saapdalam....
Varun nodded his head understanding his effect on her, he dint want to tease her anymore. They had their dinner and talked for the whole night about whatever that came to their mind as sleep was faraway from them..
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RomanceStory of two young people fresh out of college from different backgrounds in the same workplace.