Someone is pulling my legs.

I mean literally.

I screamed and opened my eyes.

I know this guy...

SHIT! It's my brother.

What??

And there starts our morning exercise.

Our usual banter...

After 10 minutes of our Tom and Jerry section, Ma's scoldings, Grandma's traditional lecture and lots of glaring.

I went to do my morning chores.

I called Rits and checked up on them making sure they didn't sell themselves for an icecream or a sandwich.

After having breakfast Ma told me she wanna talk to me.

Okay...

I am surely not getting any good vibes about .

I entered my parent's room.

This is one of those rooms which give me a sense of comfort the moment I enter it. Maybe due to the familiar heartwarming scent of my parents filling up the room or the memories filling up my mind.

Wish I could turn back the clock and savour those moments under the wings of my parents protecting me from the evils of the world.

Growing up is tiring...

Mom made me sit on the bed.

My alarms started going off...

And she started:

"Aaru you know right you are already turning 23 in 2 months"

I KNEW IT!

" We got a proposal two days back.

They are from North India.

They have two children a boy and a girl. The guy is well settled and owns a company in the USA.

And soon moving back to India. Apparently, the guy saw you when he was passing by your campus"

I wanted to scream

'What am I? A showpiece? Saw it, liked it then? Buy it?!'

"All of our family members liked the alliance, even though Ani is having a bit of apprehension. See there are some small financial differences but both the families are okay with it. They are coming to meet all of us especially you tomorrow.

We want you to meet him, speak to him, and then decide.It's your decision.And yeah the guy's name is Abhimanyu Shekhawat"

What I felt at that moment is that

I am tired, I can't fight anymore against my family. This time I am sure as hell even my Parents won't stand by me.

Marriage in our family for girls is usually done before they turn 20 or 21. But in my case, my parents stepped back.

And yeah from what Ma told, except Anna everyone liked the idea.

So there is no point in asking Ma or Pa for time.

But accepting defeat is not my cup of coffee.

So I started by googling his name,

I was not interested in his face I wanted to know him.

Wait.

He is 'The Abhimanyu Shekhawat"'

Founder, M.D, and current CEO of 'Veracity International'.

And yeah the heir of 'The Shekhawat' clan.

Is it the smaaaaall financial difference that Ma told?

Ma really has this quality of making small things big and big things small.

Okay, the thing is every field in Indian Industry is literally owned by the Shekhawats.

And this Abhimanyu Shekhawat owns the IT and other Engineering fields around the Globe.

And coincidentally it's the company where I'm gonna do my internship.

That's why the name felt familiar.

Just my luck!

SHIT!

Moving on to PLAN:B

I called Leah, the gossip girl.

"Hey, Sexy!"

"Leah.." and the line went dead.

After a couple of seconds, my phone started ringing.

A Skype call

At that moment seeing the familiar faces encouraging me to let it all out I knew I can even fight the world with them by my side.

"What happened Arundhathi?"

I wanted to laugh because this is one of those rare moments Leah called ne by my name.

And I told them everything.

"But you guys told me. He didn't come for the interview right?" Leah asked frowning at three of us.

"Yes, I think he may have seen her photo I guess. Since she got selected"

Rits suggested

"What is she? A toy? Saw her liked her and then What? I want her??

He doesn't even know her.

Does this shit even make sense?"Dan shouted

Then we went quiet.

After some time Leah spoke up

"As far as I know he is a nice guy. Never had a relationship, the nerdy good boy type.

But I am not sure anymore"

"The flight lands at 7 pm pick us up from the airport"

Rits informed typing away something on his mobile.

****

I called Anna after that.

He told, he will pick them after his shift.

Ma started making food for everyone, I helped her. She didn't say much but I knew she was happy.

Grans don't like them much.

Especially Leah mostly due to her dressing sense. Dad is at the Hospital with some surgeries till tomorrow morning.

They reached at around 8 pm.

Leah bragged in and greeted Ma with hugs and kisses everyone followed her.

Okay! I'm the invisible one.

I waited for 5 minutes.

And I lost it.

I turned to leave and suddenly the room filled with laughter.

And I started throwing couch pillows at them and the pillow fight started and finally, they called a truce.

Huh! I am pretty sure I won.

Leah is staying in my rooms. Rits and Dan in the guest room.

I kindly offered her Anna's room which she rejected.

Dare I say reluctantly.

After dinner 4 of us and Anna went to the terrace.

I could see the night sky which provided me comfort yesterday but today it didn't help with the inner turmoil creating havoc in my mind.

"Do you really think this is a good Idea? She is just 22!"

Rits not so politely asked.

"22 is not a small number in our family. Neither that's gonna work nor is that a reason we can put forth Rithwin" Anna explained.

"What about her dreams? She is just going to start her life for crying out loud! Anirudh" Dan shouted.

"Not a reason. Let me make this clear. At this point, only two things are possible(to stop this)

1.Picturing him as a bad guy

or

2.He himself rejecting the proposal."

And the wheels started turning in our heads.

This is gonna be a long night

Hey,

So 5 brains are storming.

What do you think about the Small status difference?

Do you think they will find a way out of this?

How did this happen?

Aren't you curious about what happened in Shekhawat mansion leading to this marriage?

Please do comment, vote, and share

Leah😉

(Ps: Do you guys need a update? )