Hey, that cute girl in that room with that mad man, yes, thats me. Lets not start my side of the story with that idiot though.
I am Nandini Murthy, I know I don't look my age but yesterday was my 21st birthday. I am usually a very happy person, I love my little brother and I also love music, actually I am a trained Carnatic vocalist, and am pursuing a degree in business .... Oh sorry, I am blabbering again. So, my birthday... Navya, my second cousin who lives in Los Angeles convinced Amms ( my mother's mother- Ammamma, I call her Ams) to send me for a holiday to Stay with her and her parents in the USA. I was born here in the US, and lived here until my parents died in a car accident. This was my first trip to the US after the accident, so Navya wanted me to have as much fun as I possibly can. She didn't want any negative memories clouding my time here in America. Somehow using her charms, she convinced her parents to let us travel to Las Vegas with her friends for the last leg of my American expedition. She forcefully brought me to President's Bar  to celebrate my 'legal drinking age' yesterday (She definitely has her way with people!). I told her clearly that I was not interested in drinking and that it was against my principles, but somehow I think I ended up doing just that. Maybe I went overboard, but thats not the point. How can a man just take me to his room and the next day some random lawyer says we are married. What even happened last night. I hope we didn't do the deed...
What do they think I am? Some toy? And that idiot! He arrogantly said in his manly voice " give her 1 Crore in alimony." Bla bla bla bla... Like I care for his stupid money. That lawyer spoke again, "both of you calm down. There is more, but you will not like what I have to say. According to the law here, a married couple has to give the marriage one year before they call it quits. You both have to spend the one year staying with each other trying to work things out."
Both that arrogant idiot and me shouted again "WHAT"
I said angrily " I have family, I cannot just leave them and move in with some random rich moron"
I think me constantly calling him moron, idiot and arrogant is really annoying the guy! How cool, I should think of other names too!
Again with his deep voice he said "Why do you think I want to live with a dimwit like you? I have a beautiful fiancée and we are getting married later this year".
Why does he add so many unnecessary details? I really don't care if his fiancée is beautiful or ugly or whether he has a fiancée in the first place. And what did he call me! Dimwit, how dare he! His stupid lawyer spoke again. That guy scares me. Each time he speaks he throws another bomb in my direction. What does he have in store for me now?
"Manik, I know you are engaged to Alia, but there is nothing I can do to get you a divorce sooner than in a year." 
Not a bad name, Manik. Arghh! Why am I even thinking that. There seems to be no way out of this disastrous marriage!
I asked in my very sweet musical soprano voice "So, what do we do now?"
Navya felt really guilty for the situation. She came and hugged me immediately and said " you don't have to do this!"
The lawyer stopped Navya and said "actually, you, both of you (pointing to that Manik idiot and me) have no choice other than living together for a year before parting ways."
That idiot of a man spoke again, he does have a good voice. Why am I complementing him again? He said "ok so you are moving into my apartment in Mumbai. "
What does he even think he is? Why will I move into his apartment? So I shot back " No, we are staying at my Amms's house in Mangalore."

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Thank you so much for the wonderful response! From next week on, I will post two updates per week- one on Friday and another on Sunday. ( or that might be Sat & Mon depending on your region.)

So"'3: Manik" coming up in 6 days.... until then happy reading!

Lots of love,

MaNanonymous