"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

CHAPTER-6

ARVIND POV:

After a lot of arguments, I asked her to tell the science behind religion later. My sister knows many scientific reasons which most of us in India are not aware of.

We reached the temple, a lot of coconut sellers selling coconuts for an offering to a god or for Puja (a religious offering to God in the form of food.)

I asked my sister, "why do we use the coconut for the prayer?"

"The coconut is offered instead of the head of a human because the marks on the coconut make it look like the head of a human! It infers, breaking our ego to enhance our personal and spiritual development. In later decades, the practice became widespread and became a regular part of Hindu worship."

"OK, sis... I want to lead a good life without any ego. I will come to the temple at least one day in a week, "I said with pouty lips. I was defeated in front of her spiritual knowledge.

She laughed and said, "It's not about the temple or masjid or church. Every religion strives and preaches only for good, for every religious belief, there will be a scientific reason behind it, if that's not true, it might not pass through several generations."

I kept listening to her. She becomes motherly when she starts to preach about spirituality.

Amidst all this, somewhere deep in my mind, my sweet drug pill, my angel kept bothering me.

The rings of the temple bell brought me back from my beautiful fantasy world to the real work. I saw my sister ringing the bell of the temple.

"You seem to be thinking about something deep."

"Do you know why we ring the bell in temples? "She asked me.

Anyways, she knows that I don't know the answer to it. So, she didn't wait for my response and started to explain.

"The Bell's ring clears our brain and encourages us to stay sharp and keep our full concentration on god while we enter the internal sanctum, and also during the olden days worship places were full of trees, so when we ring the bell, if any of the animals or snakes in that place, may get off so that we can be secure" she detailed everything.

"Now, spend your time with God. You can think later about other things", she ordered me.

We spent 30 minutes in the temple and returned home.

While sitting near the television, she came to me – " Arvind, is something bothering you? You seem too much out of the box since the day I cam home. Is it about your exam results?"

I remained silent as I wasn't ready yet to tell her about my angel.

"Oh... Don't worry Arvind, you will pass... Don't think too much", saying so, she patted my back.

"But, once you are done with your college, make sure to come to Bangalore and look for jobs there. In that way, you won't be having any trouble with the stay and place. Here you can't concentrate much as you have more friends."

She is always right. Sometimes, I feel that I need not think much about my future with my father and sister around. They make the most complicated things as well to look comfortable and doable.

I nodded in affirmation.

Post dinner, I directly hit the bed as I was feeling tired. It was a busy day.

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ARVIND POV:

Just like any other day, I woke up, had a shower, and got ready. I finished my breakfast in a rush and hurried to meet Sunil at our favorite familiar spot.

"Bro, I searched the whole passenger list, and there was a total of 34 girls in the age group of 20-24", said Sunil with gleaming eyes.

"So, ultimately, your love should be someone in these 34 girls," he concluded.

I was on cloud nine.

Saying so, Sunil took his mobile and placed a dummy new SIM into it and dialed to one of the numbers in the passenger list.

"Hello... Who is this?" a tone responded from the other end. Sunil switched onto the loudspeaker.

"We are from Orange travels, sir... Miss Anitha has traveled through Orange travels. May I know your feedback, please inorder to betterment our services", Sunil asked professionally.

"She came for the first time to Hyderabad. So, we are a little scared about her journey. But the bus reached on time."

"Thank you for the feedback, sir," he cut off the phone.

"She cannot be my angel as she came for the first time, and I saw my angel already twice in Hyderabad," I confirmed Sunil.

"That's right."

He called the next number and concluded that she was already married.

"Do you think my love also might have got married?" I asked him in a hushed tone.

"huff...come on bro if she was married you wouldn't have seen her in the park alone, and moreover the second time when you had seen her at the bus stop, it's a girl who came to pick up her."

I somehow got convinced by his theory as it would curb my negative thoughts.

He went on to call the other 32 passengers. Finally, 8 girls met our search criteria. So our search from 34 girls filtered out to 8 girls now. We managed to get their address as we lured them about a lucky dip option.

"Bro! Our work is done. Now I need to remove this dummy SIM else I will be flooded with calls for a lucky dip," saying so, he removed the SIM with a naughty smile.

Really Sunil is a genius in these matters. He has got a criminal mind. I couldn't believe it. I saw a girl two times in Hyderabad city, which has a population of more than one crore, and here we are, having 8 addresses filtered out.

"Bro... I want to tell you good news", Sunil said.

I was curious to know what it could be.

"My father and Kavya's father are planning to start a software company."

"wow, bro... That's great news."

"Kavya and I have to take care of the company "

"Oh... That's great !!" I exclaimed.

"So, you can't flirt with anyone, bro !! she would be with you every time in the office," I chuckled.

"Oh come on, Arvind....", he said, by controlling his smile.

"I want you to join my company," he laid an offer in front of me.

Taken aback by this sudden offer, I stammered, "Bro, I would try a job by myself outside."

"No worries, bro... Anyways, it will take at least a year to start my company. But, if you don't get a job or placed somewhere by then, you have no other choice except to join me."

"OK...", I laughed at his persistent determination.

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