The Falling Petals...🌺

High-priority-defects....

It was Friday afternoon and, as usual, I called her up before lunch. I had to tell her that we had made our reservations and also when we'd be arriving at her place. And I wanted to know what all was happening at their end. Actually, I already had an idea; still, all these things related to our engagement were so beautiful that we loved to talk about them again and again. It happens with everyone, no?

"Hey."

"Heyyyy! Hi, my cute baby."

"Listen, I have completed my next task too. We have got out...." But she interrupted me to say, "Wait, wait. I'll tell you about my task." She seemed very excited and, of course, completely ignored what i was saying. She was very happy. I mean she is usually happy, but that afternoon she was differently happy.

I heard her jump off her bed onto the floor.

"Give me a second," she said and started singing to herself. La la.....lalala....la la.

"Weird." I thought and waited for her one second to complete.

"Ok! Do you know what I have done?" she asked in her cutest voice. "Hmm... No. Tell me."

"I have just painted some flower vases. And some candle pots, you know the kind? Bowl-shaped earthen pots which will be filled with water, and fresh rose petals and a few small, lighted candles will be floating on the surface."

"Wow! But what are you going to do with this?"

"Aigoo Pabo! We will place them on the podium where we will be exchanging our rings that evening. To add an aesthetic touch and sweet fragrance to the surroundings."

"Oh... Wow! Nice, this will be awesome."

Then she got busy again. Probably working again on those candle pots.

"Okay, listen. I have made the reservations," I tried again to tell her.

"Wow! You know what? I have made an awesome design on it. It's looking good... It's looking so beautiful!"

I don't know what had happened to her. She was completely ignoring me and enjoying her preparation for her engagement evening. She was singing, she was laughing more than I ever heard her, she thought everything around her was so beautiful.

La... La la... La la... Laa...

"Heyyyyyyy you know what? The entire menu is selected. Yes! I've done that. And dad has given the order accordingly. Everything is purchased apart from small accessories. I will buy them tomorrow." And she kept narrating her entire list, what she was going to buy and wear on the engagement.

"You will again when you see me. In that first look, I'll take your breath away."

she started jumping and singing again, this time at a higher pitch. "What's happened to you?" I heard her mother ask.

"She's gone mad," I heard Nari say.

And Dae? She kept laughing and dancing.

"Aigoo, Eomma, I am going crazy.... coz... coz... three days later, IT'S MY ENGAGEMENT!"

La... La la... La la... Laa...

And then, I think, she made her mother dance with her. She was crazy. The madness of being in love... Her dream coming true with every passing day... She was on cloud nine.

All of a sudden, her mother took the phone to talk to me.

"My daughter's gone completely mad today... She's been laughing all morning. She's so happy, I've started worrying......"