"Conversations"

Sreedevi

Kadavule coffee nalla varanum!

I strain the coffee into a cup and move to the room. Being tensed on how a mere coffee would turn out to be sounds funny but this is different. Its not like I haven't made coffees before. I had made coffees whenever I wake up early before Ajay could return from jogging. But mostly it is Ajay who makes the coffee and it tastes way better than mine.

I never cared how coffee or any other food tasted before but now I am damn tensed because it is the very first time that Ajay has requested something. I am a type of person who can never say a No. As I am a core introvert, nobody seeks my help thinking that I am of a rude personality.

When Ajay requested to make me a coffee, out of nowhere, I started worrying about the lack of taste in my coffee. I started caring how the coffee would turn out to be.

It is the first time he has requested something, and I should do my best.

I walk inside the room and gave him the coffee. I waited for his reaction after drinking it. He sipped the coffee and made a face.

I felt so bad when he said the coffee didn't taste good but seeing my sad face and voice, he started laughing and said that he was pranking me.

Wait did he just call me by my pet name?

It was my grandmother who named me Sreedevi Mohan. It was her late daughter's i.e my aunt's name who passed away when she was just 3 years old due to some disease. As Sreedevi is a bit long name, my mom used to call me devi for convenience, followed by everyone in the household. I am not a great fan of that name but I was used to that name until marriage. My day neither started nor ended without hearing that name.

But after marriage, there was nobody to call me devi. Only when I talk to my mom over phone or when I go back home, I could hear that name from hearing it everyday before marriage. It didn't bother me at all. But when all of a sudden Ajay called that name, it felt different and something unexplainable.

He finished the coffee and stood up in a flash making me jerk a step backward. He gave the coffee cup back to me and smiled at me before walking out of the room. Ajay is a person who does his job on his own. He washes his own plate, cup or whatever it is. But now he is giving it to me for me to wash it.

After finishing our breakfast, Ajay went to take a shower while I started correcting the left over papers. The open day is on 25th of April and I should correct all the papers of all 5 classes before 25th. I have finished correcting papers of VIII E and IX C. I have to continue correcting the papers of IX B which I have paused a couple of days before. I got indulged and confused in Ajay's acts that I almost forgot that I have a job.

I took the papers from the cupboard and sat on the dining table. I arranged my refer books at a side and started correcting the Roll no 34 where I stopped last time. As it is the annual exam, I decided to be lenient in correction. That is my common method. During the terminal exams, I would be very strict in correction so that the students would study seriously for the annual exams.

Ajay returned after having shower and sat on the dining table opposite to me. I raised my head and I smiled at me. I don't know why but I just felt like doing it and I did. Ajay smiled back and roamed his eyes through the papers. I went back to reading the answers on the paper. He tapped his fingers on the table and asked-

"Ama nee enna subject edukra?"

I stopped on my action and raised my head staring him.

A very nice question for a husband to ask his one and a half year old wife.

Well, if you can forget the name of his company, there is no wonder in him asking this.

"Physics" I showed the Concise Physics textbook beside me.

He gasped and stared me like I got two horns. I blinked at him confused at his behaviour.

"Physics ahhh??" He shouted in a shocked tone.

"Ama" I said not sure of what to say.

"Physics ellam epdi padikura???" He asked.

I scrunched my eyebrows "yen??"

"Cheii.. Ithellam oru subject ah?" He said sulking and I glared him.

He shut his mouth seeing my glare.

"Illa... Naa apdi sollala..." He dragged and I continued glaring him.

"Moraikatha ma... Naa apdi mean panala" he whined.

"Pinna?" I crossed my arms against my chest.

"Illa ithu evlo kashtam theriyuma? Naa school padikrapo.. Naa fail aagura ore subject physics thaa.. Evlo padichalum mandaila erave erathu.."

I smiled while he continued

"Naa 11th la Science edukathathuk ivan oruthan thaa reason... Mathapadi enak biology lam evlo pudikum theriyum ah..Physics padikanume nu thaa science edukala"

I chuckled.

"Ama epdi ma intha Physics ellam padikura?"

I shrugged "Vera vazhi illa... Physics, Chemistry, English la enak Physics thaa easy ah irunthuch.. Athaan atha chose pannen"

He nods his head and thinks something.

"Ama la.. Unak NEET Exam ezhuthi.. Athu kedaikama depress aagi vera vazhi illama thaan itha eduthurpa la.. Amma sonnanga..." He said and I laughed out loud though I tried to control it.

"Ethuk sirikura?" He asked me confused.

"Ennathu depress ah?" I again laughed remembering those days 7 years ago.

"Ama..." He blinked at me like a kid.

I stopped laughing and composed myself.

"NEET ezhuthi pass aganum nu unak romba aasai... Nee padikanum nu oru function kum varamata.. Kadaisila unak kedaikalanu amma thaa sonnanga" he paused "Ama avlo padichum yen nee NEET pass pannala??" He asked me.

"Padicha thane pass aaga mudiyum? Padikra mari nadicha epdi pass aaga mudiyum?" I said with a chuckle.

"Ennathu padikra mari nadichiya?" He sounded confused.

I shrugged "Ama.. En appak enna Doctor padika veikanum nu romba aasa... Enaka athula suthama interest illa... Ana enak appa kitta enak interest illa nu sonna enna kondruvaru.. Athunala oru master plan poten.."

"Ennathu?"

"Enakum Neet ezhuthanum nu aasa irukra maari appa amma va namba vachen.. 24 hours um padikura mari nadichen.. Ana naan padikave illa.. Exam la venum ne therinja answer uk kooda thappa bhadhil ezhuthi vechen.. Kadaisila naa Neet fail agiten... Naan romba depressed aana mari nadich.. Sapdama kollama room laye irunthen" I said and paused.

"Adipavi" he gasped.

"Ennoda antha depressed state pathu relatives apro amma ellarum appa va inime ivala re attend panna vekathinga.. Vera ethavuth padika veinga.. Seri aayiduva.. Apdinu sonnaru.." I smiled.

"Apo unak Physics thaa pudikuma?"  He asked.

"Apdi illa..Enak oru subject layum interest illa.. Ana 12th la Physics thaa highest mark vangunen... So Bsc Physics eduthen.. aprom athulaye interest vanthuduch.. So Msc Physics aprom B.Ed in Physics"

"Adengappa" Ajay twisted his lips downwards in amusement.

I smiled and continued correcting those papers. He took one of the already corrected papers and started reading it.

God how jobless he would be to sit and read these?

"The upward force a fluid excerts on an object is known as buoyant force. Formula of buoyant force :- Density p is equal to m by V, therefore m is equal to
pV" he reads.

"Athu 'p' illa Ajay.. 'rho' "I said.

"Rho??"

"Yeah its a greek letter... Indicating density"

"Ana ithu paka letter P mari thane iruku?"

"Almost... Ana athu p illa"

"Pathiya... Ithaan enak physics pudikathu nu solren" he said.

"Padikanum nu aasa iruntha padikalam.. Summa physics mela pazhi podathinga" I said suppressing my laughter.

"Aii.. Apo enak padika aasa illa nu solriya??" He said with a fake anger and I laughed.

Thats when something striked in my mind. I easily got comfortable with Ajay. I am being myself, talking more than I am used to and laughing with him. The only people I have been comfortable with was Anusuya my 9th std friend whom I have never met after 10th and Asif. It took me months to get comfortable with Asif after talking to him.

But with Ajay, I got comfortable talking to him in these 5 days. Though its been one and a half years since we got married, its been only 3-4 days since we started talking "unless necessary". I stopped laughing and wondered.

"Ennachu?" Ajay snapped at me seeing me lost.

I shook my head and smiled at him.

What is so special in you Ajay?

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