Prema (Pranushka)

Chapter 9

Anushka

I comb my hair softly as I listen to my friend Pranathi telling me about the trip she went on recently. We have been friends since college where we had a lot of common classes so we spent a lot of time together.

"I know the food looked so good in the pictures you posted," I exclaim, picking the phone up as I talk so she can hear me.

"It was Anushka, like I can't even tell you how much I ate," She says, going on a little more about that as I start to put on my jewelry. My outfit is pretty casual, consisting of a pair of light blue ankle-length jeans with small rips at the knees and a short sleeve t-shirt that is coral pink in color and is cinched with drawstrings on both sides of my body. I leave my hair down and use a small hair elastic to tie a small ponytail in the back of my head to make a half up half down look.

"Yeah, I think I can do dinner on Wednesday, my last meeting is at 3, so I should be out at 4 or 5 at the latest," I tell Pranathi as we plan a time to meet up this week.

"Yeah I'll text you once I check my schedule too," She replies before we say bye to each other and I hang up and set my phone down. I swipe some peppermint chapstick over my lips and grab my crossbody bag off my dresser and take my phone as well. I put my bag over my shoulder and keep my phone in my hand before I glance at myself in the mirror one last time and walk out of my room.

Genelia's room door is still closed so I am guessing she is still getting ready while Nitya and Samantha are sitting at the dining table.

"You look so cute," Samantha says as I walk towards them with a smile on my face.

"Thank you my sweet Samantha, so do you," I reply, squeezing her cheek softly with a giggle as she rubs her cheek with an annoyed grumble. Nitya laughs with me as Samantha shakes her head and pouts, complaining how she just did her makeup.

"I didn't mess it up, it still looks good," I reassure her, tapping her shoulder as I take my phone out of my purse and set it down in front of me.

"Ahem, ahem," Nitya coughs into her hand, which is made into a fist, as she uses her other hand to twirl a piece of her hand around her finger.

"So sorry sorry Ms. Nitya you looked beautiful as per usual," I say and Samantha follows me by saying, "You look so pretty Nitya, green really is your color." Nitya dramatically wipes fake tears under her eyes before bursting into laughter along with us.

"Ok, ok we can just all agree we are a hot group of friends," Samantha blurts out as she plays with the bracelet on her wrist looks between the both of us as we nod.

"My legs are going to be so sore tomorrow after playing 3 hours of volleyball today," I complain, resting my head on my arm softly as I look at Nitya who is on her phone.

"Same, I'm gonna be so shaky tomorrow," Samantha says, agreeing with me as we talk about our early morning. Genelia stayed over with Ram, so just the three of us got up pretty early to go play volleyball at the sand courts nearby and we lost track of time and played for so long. Even though we are complaining, we are all for sure happy we got a good workout in and got to play together like old times sake.

"Sorry, I took so long, did I make you all wait," Genelia bursts out of her room and walks towards us.

"No you're fine, we just got ready a little early," Samantha tells her, as the three of us turn to look at an out-of-breathe Genelia.

"Ok, ok then just give me a few minutes and I'll be ready," Genelia tells us before turning around to walk back to her room.

"There's no rush Genelia calms down," Nitya says to Genelia as she hurries back into her room to finish getting ready.