Pa-Abortion pannidalam di..

M-En..

Enna sonna..

Pa-Puriyalayo..

Abortion pannidalam di..

Idhu venaam..

M is so silent..

Pa-Kathir number irundha kudu di..

M-Edh..

Edhukku?

She asks in between her hiccups..

Pa- Congratulations solren di naan..

Mullai sees her with the teary, swollen eyes..

P-Apdi paakadha..

Erichal dhan varudhu..

M-Nee yen Pavi ipdi pesra?

Pa-Vera enna pesa solra?

Avan dhana idhukku kaaranam...

Apa avanukku oru congrats sollama irukalama..

Basic courtesy aachum venume di..

Her voice is filled with sarcasm as well as irriration..

M-Pavi please..

Her throat is so dry..

Pa-Please, please na enna di artham?

Pulla pethu avanta thara poriya?

Unakku oru family iruku..

Nyabagam irukaa?

Yerkanave..

Yerkanave..

Ashu ku kashtapattadhellam marandhu pochaa..

Anniku pona blood ah ipa nenacha kooda enakku bayama dhan iruku..

Evlo ratham theriyuma?

Yaara kaapathradhu,enna onnum puriyala..

Adhuve apdi ndrapa ipa sammandhame illadha yaaruko oruthanukku pulla pethu kudu..

Oor unna perumaiya pesum..

Wait..

Let me call Dheena and inform..

Oorlaye oru 10 maasam tent adikatum Ashu oda..

Amma and Appa prachanaiyo..

Avangalum venaa poi oorla irukattum...

Nimmadhiya nee inga iru..

Nobody will ask you..

Aama.. Aana Kathir veetla enna solluva?

Mutual consent na?

Arpudhama irukum di..

She slaps at her forehead..

M feels ashamed and guilty..

But then..

She can't ignore what P says..

She is absolutely correct..

Each and every word of her stands for justice, as always..

M starts crying again..

P-Dhayavu senju azhaadha di..

Iam so annoyed..

I accept that it is an accident with mutual consent..

She pauses..

This is the first time Iam using these words in my whole life..

Tears are drenching M's shirt..

Pavi walks here and there..

Mulla, u know something?

Last time when u said that you missed your dates, I was..

I was..

She can't finish..

Her eyes are filled with tears as well as with the traces of happiness...

Aana..

Idhu..

She suddenly gets something and shakes M..

Hey Mulla..

Are you sure that you are pregnant or you are assuming because you missed your dates?

M-Dates dhan miss aagirukku..

P-Did u check? With a kit or something?

M nods no..

Pavi slaps her..

Loosaa di nee..

Kalanga adichita konja nerathula..

Go and check it first..

M is confused..

Kit vaangi paaka solriya?

P-No,..I won't believe those stuffs..

Wait..

Let's go, see the doctor..

M-Naan varala Pavi..

P-Yen?

M-Naalaiku exam iruku..

P-So what?

M-Ipa ethachum irundhaa..

She pauses and gulps her guilt..

P-Solli thola..

Exam ezhudha mudiyaadha?

Apdi aana paravala..

Adutha thadava paathukalam..

Ipa vaa..

Keerthana..

She calls..

Her junior comes..

Konjam paathuko..

Naan veliya poitu varen..

Andha Thaayumanavan vandhaar na ukkara vai..

Sariya..

She grabs M and goes to her car..

Starts it in a jiffy and goes to the hospital..

She registers M's name and waits at the lobby..

Pavi is more inpatient and she bites her nails every now and then..

When the turn comes, she just pushed M to the room..

M is already too numb to realize what's happening around her..

When the doctor asked her questions, Pavi pinched her thighs, so Mullai answers them with ease..

The doctor asks her to give an urine test and she does..

They wait at the lobby again..

This isn't new to M..

The same hospital..

The same procedures..

But, she is shit scared..

The waiting time seems soooo long for them..

Full bladder...

Thirsty...

Hungry...

Cold...

Aching muscles..

Dry throat..

Her mind is coming up with 10000s of 'Iam screwed' possibilities..

Her heart beats as fast as it can..

And then, the doctor calls her inside..

The doctor scans her with her eyes and she says that she isn't pregnant with a dejected face..

For the first time, she is witnessing a patient who is happy for a negative result..

Mullai again goes to the numb state..

How in a flick she is escaped?

What if it's not?

Pavi manages to pay the doctor and say her thanks as well..

On seeing the confused look of the doctor, Pavi says..

Avanga ipo age aachu..

Kozhandha venaam nu irukaanga doctor..

Adhaan..

He he..

Thanks..

She takes M out of the hospital and they get on to the car..

Pavi starts the car and stops at a no-man place and leans on the steering..

She takes some moments to come back to the normalcy..

She takes the water bottle, drinks it and gives it to M..

She drinks too..

Pavi turns towards M..

Mulla, I may sound harsh..

But, please try to understand the reality..

See girl, all said and done, this is over..

The chapter is over..

Please dont think of it anymore..

Result vara varaikkum enakke uyir illa..

I can understand what you should have undergone..

But, please understand that this is an EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR..

U know the law, right?

If the partner files a suit, you both are screwed for an entire life..

Baby form aagirndhaa, things would have been entirely different..

Innum worst aagirukum..

If the spouse proves the adultery case against the partner, they will get divorce for sure..

Theriyum dhanae unakku?

M nods yes..

So, idhukku mela idha pathi yosika venaam namma..

And, may I know why you gave that space to him?

At what point, u have lost urself?

M explains what happened that night..

Her voice is heavy with shame, the same way her guilt weighed down upon her shoulders..

Pavi can understand her..

Inime indha velayaatu vendaam Mulla..

I want my Old Mullai back..

Don't stress yourself too much..

This too shall pass..

Sariya..

M nods yes..

They move on..

Mullai feels totally guilt..

What P said is absolutely right..

She is definitely an angel..

Being for her since ages..

A life that is lifeless, can't be imagined anymore..

Already..

Already..

She has lost enough..

She doesn't want to go back to the old days..

When the society was against her..

Humiliated her..

That's why..

She chose this flat for her mental peace..

For them..

Where nobody will question others..

Doesn't even care what others doing..

Initially it was tough for her to manage everything..

But, when Dheena and Pavithra asked her to bring MuP, she actually took it in the actual sense..

She called them up several times..

They didn't want to move from KK..

But then, Dheena made it done..

The thought of Dheena can bring her tears..

The place she stands now, is because of him..

He never let her down..

When everyone backstabbed her, he stood..

And, what she did back to him?

Burning his beliefs into Ashes..

She decides to talk to him once he comes back from KK..

*****

Dheena, who is with Ashu thinks of M..

Each and every second he sees Ashu, he can't resist his mind which is constantly thinking about M..

The struggle that they faced when Ashu was born..

Even when he was inside the tummy..

How she used to throw tantrums over everyone..

How his life changed post his entry..

He was a firecracker..

But then, he kept himself calm and composed while seeing Ashu..

For the sake of Ashu..

Cos, Mullai is also a firecracker..

He doesn't want the child to get affected..

Controlling Mullai is something he can never do..

He loves her..

He respects her..

He cares for her..

She has seen so many struggles in her life..

Still struggling each and every minute..

To survive..

He knows everything..

He stood with her in all her battles..

He never allowed her to face anything alone..

Yet..

Yet..

He couldn't come out of what she said..

But then, no options are left for him..

A life without Ashu is the worst ever nightmare for him..

Dheena has each and every frame of Ashu from the day he was born to the boy who is sitting next to him in his mind..

Yen ivana pathi kooda ava kavala padala..

He thinks and controls himself not to think of it anymore..

The endless night ends and the dawn welcomes him with new hopes..

****

Murugan and Parvathy are at chennai..

The arguments that happened in the trial kindled their memories..

Their minds went back to the kunnakudi..

Those were the days..

When the days were completely bittersweet..

When Dheena, their Maapillai, came home, 9 years back, just to ask them to vacate KK and to take them along with him to CBE..

They didn't budge at first..

They weren't even ready..

Dheena argued again and again..

They spoke with Mullai and Pavithra..

But then, nothing was important for them than their daughter and their grandson..

Her struggles with the baby could be visibly seen..

After all they were very concerned over their daughter..

She is their lifeline..

They had to settle down everything..

They vacated KK with a heavy heart and went to CBE..

It was Dheena, who took care of everything..

He did everything he could do..

The mill issue actually came out of the syllabus..

They didn't have to bid bye to anyone in particular..

They didn't even want to face PS family tbh..

The time had shown the faces of people..

The grey shades within them..

They, being the wiser and elder couple, learnt to ignore everything..

They started living for Ashu and Mullai..

Even now, Murugan is very stubborn over the mill is because, he wants to give it to Ashu..

He doesn't know why the roots of Kunnakudi isn't leaving him..

The one string that binds Murugan and Kunnakudi is the mill..

He feels happy that they won the case..

He badly wants to take Ashu to KK..

To take him to the mill..

To show him the places where Mullai played..

Where Mullai cried..

He knows well that it's not an easy task..

He thinks that time will change everything..

How it had changed his feelings towards the PS family..

He doesn't hold grudge over them anymore..

Neither does Parvathy..

They just left the town..

Parvathy, on the other hand, really missed her gossip gang at the initial time when they shifted over to cbe..

But, once they decided to vacate and entered the home at CBE, the first thing what M did is changing their mobile numbers..

And warned them several times not to talk with anyone..

They literally has no connection with anyone in KK right now..

But, they got used to it..

They badly want to go back to their roots..

But, not now..

Someday..

Like that one day when they decided to stay at cbe..

They never say that they aren't happy at cbe..

But then, KK is where their roots are..

Who knows what fate and destiny have in the store for them?

They sleep with the thoughts that someday they need to welcome some good changes..

Pala mugangal vendum..
Sari maattikolvom..
Pala thiruppam theriyum..
Adhil thirumbi kolvom..

-Will recur..