IPKKND FF FELONIOUS

Part 2(A)

"But you said this week you will surely come to ask about my hand in marriage? Why are you delaying this so much? I started working there on your insistence isn't it? But I can't delay the process anymore you need to speak to my family about us. If not today tomorrow they will surely fix it and I can't escape it with excuses like freedom before marriage, job etc."

"Baby, don't worry there is no one out there who have the dare to hold my love's hand in marriage, you trust me, right? so keep the trust intact "

"But..."

"No, if's n buts' now let's get you home before your family starts searching for their princess and hunt us down here"

Once she hopped on to her seat he started his bike and moved towards her home.

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"Welcome Mrs. Saini."

"Please have a seat, please have some water or here taste this tea or you can as well have coffee"

"We don't eat in the house before fixing the marriage. We came to see your daughter. All this can be done after we fix the dates if at all it happens, which I hope we both want. So it's better you get her rather than wasting time with all these pleasantries."

Here she is worried sick with tension in the air and the lady is not doing any help with her heated intense stares and dialogs. It's better she gets her daughter here before she faints with the looks she is thrown at by the groom's mother.

"Ah there she comes"

She had to push her daughter to come forward and whispered in her ears to take blessings from the family.

It is very clear from her daughter's stand that she is not interested in meeting the family; hope the groom's family assume it as shyness rather than rigidness. Wish her husband was alive to deal with all these stuff. What can a single mother do rather forcing these arrangements because if the decision of getting married is left to her daughter she is worried if at all she will be privileged to see it before she dies? Maybe once her daughter meets the groom she may like the whole idea of marriage and go forward with the proposal.

"Madhumathiji maybe we can let the boy and girl have some privacy talk as we decide the marriage dates here." By one look at her son, Mrs. Saini was sure he liked the girl.

"Yes, sure sure. Beta you both can talk in the lawn backside while I send some snacks for you " Madhumathi was more than happy.

"I'm sorry Mrs. Saini but I don't think there is anything which needs to be speaking further as I'm not interested in this marriage." Saying so she left the room leaving her mother to deal with the jibes from the groom's family.

When your good-for-nothing daughter acts too dumb to get the simple message, maybe you have the right to yell and slam the door in her face. That's what exactly Madhumathi did with her daughter after Mrs.Saini left lecturing her about the morals and values one needs to teach while upbringing a girl child. She never forced her child for anything until it's for her own good and this type of behavior in society will never leave a chance for her daughter to have a proposal from the good family in future.

"Bua..?."

"Aman! Beta thank god you came, Now at least you put some sense into her brains. What does she want to do? I'm trying to fulfill the role of her father too here and she is nowhere cooperating with me. Didn't I let her lead a life as per her choices? Even now I'm not forcing any man on her. I'm giving her the choice to select and she? She doesn't even let me know what's the problem? And moreover, with all these, I even have to listen to the lectures on upbringing." What all one has to do being a single parent.

"Did I ask you to arrange for a meet with Saini's? No right. Then? I still sat there to keep your respect but I couldn't take it anymore when she started speaking about fixing marriage dates. That's why I had to speak because you wouldn't say no to them, and I couldn't say yes to them."

"Why couldn't you say yes? That boy was good looking, hails from a good family, he doesn't have any problem with you working after marriage and even his parents won't stay with him here. What else do you want?" she is never among such parents who raise voice against their children just because their opinions differ, she always thinks that a cool mind and smile will sort everything but her daughter is just forcing her to have high BP.

"Bua. Bua, you please calm down. I will speak with her."

Giving a cold stare to both Aman and her daughter madhumathi went away, staying there, listening to her daughter's answers would only make her heart beats rise.

"Now, now sissy tell me. Tell me what's making you postpone this so-called new chapter in your life."

"It's nothing I don't want to get married."

"You don't want to get married now or you don't want to get married at all?" he wants to make sure if at all his sister is completely against marriage.

"Now. I don't want to get married now."

A sigh of relief escaped his lips.

"So what are the qualities you are looking for which these guys lack ?"

"I don't know" she has no other answer.

"Sissy, we both know that you are hiding something. It will not help you way in any if you keep it within you. Tell me, I will try to help you out. I will speak to bua if there is any problem, we will solve it together but one or the other day you need to take this step in your life, you better have a good explanation why you are delaying this?"

Saying so he started to leave his sister to think about his words. standing at the threshold of the door he turned to back to ask something which made her heart skip a beat and eyes to go wide.

"By any chance, are you seeing someone?"

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It has been two days since she last met him and there is no further news after that. Maybe visiting his office would reap the results, she can't wait till he makes his appearance all by himself. Will he accept her gesture of visiting his office uninvited? But then it's necessary for her to see and speak to him. It's half past 9 in the morning and there is not enough time to drop by his office and go back to her workplace, now she has to wait until evening to meet him.

Huffing she stood in front of the one-storeyed building painted in brick color, with name board "Jha Consultancy" in bold. She glanced towards her watch which is showing it's 7:30 in the evening. Usually, there will not be much of work but then today it's like the whole world is conspiring against her she had to skip her lunch and break time to at least make it by this time.

There are few lights here and there illuminating from inside the building but other than that it's clear that the staff left long back, hoping for him to be there she moved inside. There was someone hunched behind the desk so involved in the work that whoever was there didn't know of someone entering the office.

"Excuse me,?"

"haa!" startled he looked up.