We all went to coimbatore with Mama..

We never interacted much with athai..

Probably she didn't like us..

She was from a very affluent family..

We were never that rich..

And then we were paupers..

I was wondering how the reception would be..

My heart started beating fastly as we were nearing the home..

I could sense the intense pain in amma's eyes..

I couldn't understand her then..

But now, yeah, I can..

She was feeling bad for being a dependent over someone else and she could do nothing against it..

Life was always cruel to us..

Showing the dark sides..

The thought process was disrupted as we entered the premises of mama's home..

Such a biiiigg home it was..

We all went inside behind him..

Athai welcomed us without an ounce of excitement..

After a small talk, we had our lunch..

Mama asked us to stay with them..

Moorthy anna was stubborn that he didn't want to..

He was, is and will be our saviour..

He didn't want anybody of us to get humiliated by athai at any cause..

He politely said that we could stay in the outhouse for a time being and asked him to help us for a business or something with the money we had..

Jeeva anna was in his fifth semester of diploma by then..

One more semester and he could go out to work..

We spoke with the principal of the college before coming to coimbatore..

He,knowing our situation , helped us..

He assured that only 50 percentage of attendance was enough for him to appear for the exams..

For the fifth semester, he already had..

So, he came with us..

We had assured Kumaresan mama to take him with us once we place our legs somewhere..

For the sixth semester, Jeeva anna will be staying with Kumaresan mama when he had to go to the college..

So, the plan was perfect..

Moorthy anna asked me to study as he made admission for Kanna in a Government school nearby..

I said no..

I could have said yes..

But when the whole livelihood was dancing, my heart didn't let me to take a decision like that..

So, me and Moorthy anna opened a small shop with half of the money we had..

Mama helped us to meet the wholesalers and he brought us several clients on the basis of contract too..

Initially it was tough..

But, slowly..

Very slowly..

We managed to establish the brand PS..

Jeeva anna finished his semester and joined as a junior engineer in coimbatore itself..

His scores were too good that he himself got the job without anyone's help..

As the earning of standard 15000 bucks came, Moorthy anna planned accordingly and we shifted to a small house for rent..

Mama stopped us initially but anna was too polite and stern..

He didn't want us to have the heavy heart on athai's indirect talks..

I even remember today..

She didn't even touch the sweetbox Jeeva anna brought them after getting his appointment order..

She was always proud of her background and there is nothing wrong in it..

But, she was being so judgemental about us and looked us as if we are untouchables..

That's what irked us..

I wonder how calculative Moorthy anna was and asked the outhouse for us..

Hmmm..

Anu..

She is no different from her mom..

I badly wanted her to inherit some of the qualities from Selvaraj mama rather than from Leela athai..

She studied in the so called Ooty convent..

She will be coming to coimbatore only for the vacations..

Her attitude was nothing less to athai's..

We adjusted with the outhouse for just 1 year and we shifted immediately..

We breathed the fresh air..

The brand picked up slowly..

Kumaresan mama came here as well..

And, amma was better..

She had pestered Moorthy anna to get married..

After one severe argument, anna was okay and he got married to Dhanam anni..

The wedding happened in a temple with the close relatives alone..

She is also from the same economical background..

So, they were equally happy..

The wedding got over and we all had our lunch in the hotel nearby..

We had been to hotel and had a nice food after years..

Amma literally had tears when Jeeva anna fed her the food..

From the next day, anni took the charge of the kitchen and Kanna was the one who was very happy..

Anni was too sweet to everyone..

Life was going smooth..

We grew up financially..

4 years ran by..

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My 12th exams came and I wrote it well..

The results came and I scored 1172..

My engineering cut off was 198 and I was super happy...

Pavi scored 197 and I was double happy..

We knew well that we could get seat in our dream college..

I bagged the rank of school first..

Everyone was so happy and contented..

Me and Pavi wrote the entrance exams..

My parents were not convinced at first..

But since I just wanted to give a try, we went and wrote..

An exam that comprises of Creative ability test and General ability test..

We both got the seats in NIFT, Taramani for the course of B.Des, Fashion design..

The fees was around 13 lakhs for four years including hostel fees..

We wrote a scholarship test again to get 70% scholarship..

We worked hard and in a sincere manner..

Two years of studying with almost zero distraction gave us the much needed fruit..

I was super duper happy..

My dream came true as I got the acknowledgement letter from the college..

Amma and appa was very hesitant to send me to Chennai..

All thanks to the '4 persons-4 types of talks' people..

But thanks to that one distant cousin of neighbour who explained amma and appa about the prestigious course..

And athai..

How to thank her?

She was constantly pestering and convincing my parents to let me go..

Pavi being with me was a great bonus point to add..

And, I forgot to tell u something..

Amma's perspective on Pavi had changed a lot actually..

May be because of her marks..

I heard amma telling to appa one day..
Indha Pavi ponnu kooda paravalla nga..
Aariya koothadinaalum kaariyathula kannu ndra maadhiri, velayaatu laam irundhalum padippu la getti nga..

And the most surprising part was appa accepted it..

They had accepted her visits to home or me visiting her home gradually as they found that we were really studying..

And slowly, the foods were being exchanged between the homes..

Her parents came here and rarely my parents went there..

A good bonding was developed in all these years..

So, that was one additional reason to have the trust over us and the parents accepted us to go to chennai..

We had made the arrangements for the purchasing, packing and everything..

We packed everything and we went to the college and the hostel in train..

After 10000s of take cares and be carefuls, they left us in the hostel and went back to Kunnakudi..

The second innings of life had started..

--Will brew..