Teased By Auntie

"Hey, why do you look like a drowned rat? Did you fall into the river or something?" asked Auntie Neha seeing Praveen coming home bedraggled. Praveen ignored her, just went to the room to get a towel and change of clothes.

In the living room the spinster auntie still waiting for him. Ten minutes passed, her nephew had not yet come out of the bathroom behind the house. Actually this afternoon he had taken a shower but the incident earlier, he had to take a bath again.

"Praveen, I want to talk to you," she said when Praveen had come out of the bathroom.

Praveen stopped his steps and looked back at his aunt with a surprised look.

"Auntie, what do you want to talk about?"

"Someone was here looking for you this afternoon. A woman named Ranjana. I said you were out."

"I've met her," Praveen replied curtly.

"So then she looked for you all the way to the riverside field?"

"Yes."

"Who's she? Is she your lover?" Aunt Neha asked for an explanation.

"My lover?" Praveen raised his eyebrows.

"She