Nandini is sitting in the lawn looking at the sunrise, Raghuram brought her a cup of coffee along with few cookies shocking her.

"From where did my husband learnt this?" asked Nandini as this is the first time her husband did something like this. Even though her family is modern, they live in a society which believes Women run home while Men earns

"From your son-in-law" he answered making her jaw drop.

"Did you inform Abhi about your fracture?" Knowing the answer Raghu questioned her.

"Your stupid son will get a reason to avoid marriage if I say the reason" Nandini shook her head thinking about her son who is running away from topic of marriage.

Last time when their daughter came with her kids Nandini wanted Abhiram to marry so that family gets completed. She didn't pressurise him till now but the way he is ignoring the topic of marriage worried her.

Her leg got fractured while playing with her granddaughter, she hid this incident from her son knowing how much attached they are. He would leave even important projects and come to look after her.

For his career already he took a blind leap, she didn't want make his life more difficult.

"Raghu.. " she stopped continuing thinking, "I know Nandini you are thinking about Abhi, What happened?" he asked seeing her worried face.

"Why is Abhi reluctant to marry, I don't think it's for his career. There is some other reason" Nandini said worriedly.

"If you feel so then it is, you know him better. But don't jump into conclusions" he warned her before she imagines anything which she does normally.

She decided to use her last weapon to know what is in her son's heart. Her daughter Divya

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Abhiram eagerly wanted to inform his mother that he is ready for marriage but his ego didn't allow him.

Whenever his mother called before she used bring the topic in some or the other way. She didn't leave any opportunity but now she sounded like his marriage is something not so important.

Once he shouted on his mother for always pestering him about marriage proposals. Now he is regretting for doing so. The pressure of his career took a toll on him.

It's been two months since the realisation and his mother didn't bring the topic.

He banged his head thinking Is he that desperate to get married

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"Hey Di! How's my little cutie?" Abhi asked immediately when his sister called.

"After she is born everyone are bothered about her, who cares for me" she faked sad tone.

"What will happen to my Di? She is a superwoman" Abhi said truly from his heart.

"Definitely I am not a superwoman Abhi, your little cutie is the reason. This girl became so naughty, you don't know last time when we went home she made mom fall down" Divya closed her eyes for letting those words slip.

"What? Nothing happened to mom right. Is she..."

"Nothing happened to mom. She is fine" Divya immediately lied to save herself and the whole family from Abhi's anger.

"But there is something else which is worrying mom" Divya cleverly diverted the topic.

"And what is that? Are you happy with your husband?" Abhi asked thinking his mother is worried about his Di.

"Oh my dear Mr.Perfect, you are the reason for your beloved mom's worry. Don't you dare to blame my husband ever" Divya said angrily.

"I am almost settled in my new job, financially stable, ready to marry. Then why should she worry about me? So I thought it's related to you" he said honestly.

"Wait what? You are ready for ... Oh god! That's what mom is worrying about" Divya said happily as the task assigned by her mom is successfully finished without any effort by her.

"I didn't want to sound desperate so haven't informed you" Abhi scratched his hair saying it.

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Created account on matrimony site ✓

Informed relatives ✓

Horoscope updation ✓

In short the process of selecting a bride for Abhiram started with much zeal.

Many matches were brought from relatives and family friends. In the process of filtering  very few matched.....

Financial status, caste, earning capacity, Job location, native place and most important horoscope played their role. This made their job tough and what Abhi noticed is these girl's parents became very choosy.

Why won't they... In this world daily we are seeing so many unbelievable things on media. He mentally thanked God that his sister got a good guy.
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Every week it became routine for Abhi to travel from Bangalore to his hometown and then to prospective brides places.

All this just resulted in energy drain, nothing more than that. Slowly Abhi started to come once in a month only if its necessary.

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In this visit he has three matches on hand, he decided to select one.

"Mom what if none of these three like me. I am not going to come next time" he said raising his hands.

Even Nandini felt the same, it's becoming difficult for Abhi. She cursed herself for rejecting few matches at the start.

On Saturday evening they went to see a bride in their city itself. The girl and her family are good. From both sides it seemed like a perfect match.

"May be tomorrow we need not travel for four hours to see other two matches if this gets settled" Raghuram and Nandini discussed.

"We have a big business here and only daughter, so can you try to resettle here? You can be with your parents and look after them" bride's father proposed his idea.

"We will discuss and inform you" Raghu said while leaving. He knows his son may not agree and his wife is very happy at the idea of Abhi staying with them.

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Abhiram didn't like the idea of leaving his job or career which he built with a passion.
That morning they started in car to visit remaining two which are same town

On their way they came to know one of the family are not available due to some emergency.

They called to other prospective bride's father, as fixed they were requested to come in the evening as their daughter went to attend some seminar.

"Shall we return back? What is the use in waiting? We should agree for yesterday's match" Nandini commented.

" Let's have lunch in this restaurant" Raghuram parked their car ignoring his wife's words. He understood that Nandini is being stubborn as she got lured to stay with her son, in this madness she is not able to see what Abhi wants.

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They went two hours early than specified time on Nandini's insistence and were received warmly which was not expected.

Raghuram explained how other match was cancelled and they didn't have any option than coming here.

" It's not a problem, we informed our daughter she will be back as soon as possible for her" bride's father Srinivas said with a bright smile.

Both the families started discussing various things and there were many similarities between their lifestyle except that Srinivas's family being orthodox.

Abhiram discussed about career, sports, movies etc.. with Varshith, bride's brother. He liked this family and thought Varshith could become his friend even if the match doesn't get fixed.

Nandini questioned about many things regarding their daughter and finally about her absence.

"Harshini has an exam and a seminar as it's the last day of her one month Management and communication skills programme. She cannot skip even one day otherwise she should do this again" Varshith answered in detail.

Nandini felt bad for asking all those, for her selfish reasons she tried to find reasons to cancel this match even before they meet the girl.

While everyone where talking Abhiram heard footsteps on the stairs of the Ground plus one individual building in a pleasant locality.

He felt those steps were of the girl and he had an urge to see her immediately. "Abhi! Let her get freshen up and come. We will not throw our scanning dagger looks at her this soon" Nandini said making everyone laugh.

Harshini placed her bag outside, washed her feet and entered inside hall hurriedly knowing that Abhiram's family is there.

She went inside in a swift pace but Abhi managed to have a look at her foot which had a silver chain with an intricate design and studds.

Abhi felt like she entered in his life and the aura she created made him feel like she's the one for him

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A/N: Is Harshini the one made for Abhiram? If yes, will she agree to marry Abhiram? Will Nandini agree for this?

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