ArunaThe nature looked serene, the light fog made the view translucent. I was standing in front of our school's staff room window. The building overlooked the mountains which were now wrapped in green which glistened due to the rain. I sighed.

ArunaAs I sat in the living room my eyes wandered to the pictures hanging on the cream coloured wall to my left. My eyes zeroed on a picture of a boy wearing a white t-shirt and black half-pants holding a trophy, giving a toothy grin, there was another boy on his right who looked slightly older, wearing black trousers and a blue shirt and a man in his late 40s perhaps, wearing a black suit standing the older boy's right and a beautiful woman in her late 30s weari

Aruna"Wait. What about granny?" I asked curiously. If I was worried about one thing then that was about his granny. I couldn't help but feel sad whenever I saw her genuine happiness and how this marriage will basically give her a false sense of peace. To dupe her, my parents...I felt guilty.

ArunaNext day I woke up late. Thanks to Rashmi who asked me to video call her. So after I finished checking some exam papers, I called her. Trust me when I say that I had to give her an account, word by word of what happened yesterday. Moreover, she was arriving today, she thought of keeping it a surprise but she just couldn't keep it a secret,  she has always been like that, never being able to keep anything a secret from me. Ma too knew about it. Rashmi did tell Rohit about me finally deciding to tie t

ArunaYou might have read in many fictions about a scenario where a girl's best friend meets her boyfriend and shit hits the fan, well, something similar was about to happen and I could foresee all hell breaking loose. I gulpe