I looked at the time. It's five in the evening and I just finished a project and mailed it to the company.

It has been what like two weeks since my marriage to Maha- Mahalakshmi and I can't say it's all bliss but it's not worse either.

I wake up early in the morning and she wakes up to my bare minimum sounds. She helps me do my daily chores and I help her eat, which she has not been doing quite much nowadays as it is making her nauseous a lot.

One day Ma cooked aalo and dal, just so she could have it happily but she puked that day hard and started crying. I never realised how crybabyish she was until then, and when everyone got to know she cried because she was not able to eat even though my mother cooked it for her dearly, my family became even more concerned and lovable that it was nauseating. To a point where even my father who never gave a flying fuck went and sat beside her and told her that it's alright. So imagine my surprise.

When I told her to stop crying for minimalistic things she glared at me so I realised that the kitten was cute for everyone but would open her claws at me.

She goes all meowy at everyone around but when it's me, she goes his and I am waiting for Vaishu. After that fateful day aka my wedding where I scolded her for talking about Kushi, I did not talk to her and neither did she, but I called her again this morning because well yeah, you can't ignore your best friend. Even she apologized for sounding a little unfeeling.

Today we are going out. IPL cricket matches started and it was our ritual to watch the first match in our usual drive-in spot where the owners put on a big film and play the matches. We might miss some but the first and last are mandatory.

Yesterday I took Maha...Lakshmi out and she just made me roam and roam and roam until I was too tired. We again came back at night after eating something to which she pushed the food away again in the middle saying that she is not able to.

My mother and sister in law told me that its normal for her to act like that but its unsettling how much less she is consuming.

While I was lost in my thoughts I heard meow and snorted. I was just thinking about cats and I am now hearing a meow?

I again heard another one and suddenly i felt something jump in my lap making me shriek in surprise. And now I see a furry ball jumping on my leg while soft white hands reached out to me to get the thing back. But that furry thing is clinging to me and I just sat there, letting its tiny tiny paw touch me.

I glared at MahaLakahmi who grabbed the cat away from me.

"What the fuck is a cat doing here ?" I asked her. And she glared at me. When I say glare, like the ones I give. Is she fucking imitating me?

"Why do you have a problem with a cat?" I heard my mother's voice and raised my eyebrows. Why is my family against me now?

No! Don't get me wrong, they are all in hoots for this troublesome lady but when I was a child I begged them for a dog and I was told no? So now a cat?

"Well, you don't like animals, mom!"

"Did I ever say that to you?"

"No, but you said that you did not want any pets in the home!"

"And when did this conversation happen again?"

"When I was 10?"

She folded her hands and raised one eyebrow at me as if she was proving a point.

I don't understand how MahaLakshmi gets away with everything and I get reprimanded for being a good boy.

"Well well, do I see a cute cat here?" The evil witch cat in disguise, aka my best friend, came inside holding a box of something.

"Yes you do!" replied my wife with a cheeky smile and Vaishu laughed as she started petting the cat in my wife's arms.

Did I just call Maha Lakshmi my wife twice?

"Isn't it cute?" Mahalakshmi said looking at the cat with adoration and something twisted in my stomach. I don't know what that is.

"No" I snapped at her making her glare at me again. See this is why I am not nice to her. She is all smiling and giggling at each and every single molecule on this planet but shuts her face down when she is talking to me. As if my presence is irritating her as if I am loathing her.

"What can a pig know about pickle's flavour?" I heard her muttering under her breath making me open my mouth wide ajar! My mother and Vaishu are laughing at that sentence of hers.

"Did you just compare me to a pig and that cat to a pickle? What the hell Maha!?" I said and only after saying I realise the cheeky smile on my mother's and Vaishu's face and the flushed look on Mahalakshmi's face.

I called Mahalakshmi Maha, that too in front of people that I shouldn't have. Fuck my life.