Wedding In Pandemic ( Completed ✔)

MISCHIEF RUNS IN THE FAMILY

Walking to Maya's grandmothers room in absolute silence was almost traumatising for me. Maya didn't even look at me while passing through the endless corridors of her tharavadu. it was a humongous place and even then I was crowded with relatives. the rooms weren't enough and because of that some of her relatives were sleeping in the terrace.

Reaching the double doors for the main hall Maya paused. she turned around to face me. her eyes slowly cutting me up in seven thousand pieces.

"No one here knows what happened." she spoke to me for the first time today.

"They all think I dropped out because im too stupid to understand law. except tara, not even my dad knows you here. your face was clearly invisible in that video. he thinks im some slut who made out with someone. so please don't do your modest act and start apologising or anything. your in the clear, like always. " maya snapped.

I tried my best to keep my face expressionless. but my pain must've been visible on my face. maya gave a satisfied smirk and pushed open the door.

"amumma you call I arrive" she shouted and walked in.

I felt frozen to the floor. I thought about my gains, my mother's name, to save my family from defamation. but instead I pushed an innocent girl into that. I deserve to burn in hell.

"Where is Adithya?" her grandmother's voice boomed "I called for him too"

"He was behind me.." maya started and at that moment I walked into the hall and flashed a smile.

Her grandmother smiled and asked me to sit in the nearby chair. I refused out of respect but she kept insisting and I obliged. I heard maya scoff, I chose to ignore it.

"I called you kids to ask for a favour." amumma flashed a motherly smile at me. this women projected love and kindness. too bad if she knew what I did to her granddaughter I wont be on the receiving end of  this smile.

"What favour? and why does he need to be here?" maya asked. her irritation clearly on her voice.

"Because I cant ask your cousins to be your fake husband now, can I ?" amumma said a sheepish smile spreading on her face.

"WHAT?????" several voices asked at the same time. that's when I got a good look around the room. the whole cousin gang was sitting behind me on the couch in the room and I didn't even notice. was they there when I came in?

Tara jumped up from her seat and stood next to maya. her head shaking wildly from side to side saying no in every single way.

"NO NO NO. that's not gonna happen. why do you need him to her fake husband?" Tara shouted

"Why does anyone need to be my fake husband?" maya snapped.

Shouts and protests filled the room and all I could do was to stay silent and dwell the shock from within.

"Shut up!!" tara's father walked into the room shouting. "why the hell are you guys shouting like this? is this a way to talk to your grandmother? don't you guys have any respect for her?"

"Jeevan uncle I have no idea what's going on, why would you want me to fake a marriage amumma?" maya snapped.

Amumma sighed and stood up from her seat, and walked upto maya " it is my fault, I did something stupid". amumma sighed again.

"Don't say that mom, its not your fault. we did that to get rid of Raji from maya's tail." Jeevan uncle said.

"Raji aunty? The astrologer's wife?" it was varun or vivek. I still wasn't sure of their names. The unmarried one spoke. " dude, that lady has been trying to get maya marry her son since like you turned eighteen. she is kind of obsessed with you"