CHAPTER-3

Ketu

My brother came and wake me..and said me to get ready...on seeing the time is seven ..i went to bed again and slept.....and by 8.00 my dad came and woke me. As I opened my eyes To see my dad sigh.. And calling varun...

Dad-"didn't I said you to wake her up?" asked varun..

Varun-"s..and I woke her up by 7 itself..didn't I ketu?" as he saw me still in bed

Me-"s..you woke me up by seven...and I slept again as only by 11 we are going out.."

Varun-"hmm... I woke you up and said we are going to have breakfast in ram uncle house ..and didn't I said you to get ready soon"

Me-" I heard only the get ready part and not about the breakfast part...sorryyyy..."

And dad and varun sighed and my mom came in and laughed on hearing...and they decided that it was already late as it takes one hour to reach their place, they left saying me to get ready.....

After they left .....I done my morning routines and got ready...And had biscuits as my breakfast and saw the time as 10 and called varun to know where he is and he said ..i am on the way ..but nadan will come and pick me up..i called nadan ...he said me to lock the house and come down and he will be here in another 10 minutes...

Nice thing mom and dad have extra key and I locked the home and came down stairs and waited before my apartment. Nadan is my mother's sister's (Maha) son. He is my parallel cousin and he is 25 turning 26 years old...he is doing his PG Surgery here ...he done his M.B.B.S in my college...we both are like tom and jerry...but we both like each other but we fight for anything and everything when we were younger but now not that much but still we fight... his father Baskar loves me too much like I am her own daughter and more than his son Nadan.. And does thing if I ask..

Nadan car came ino my view...he has duster..and I got into passenger seat

Me-"u are five minutes late"

Nadan-"hello ketu..how are you" said with sarcasm

Me- "was about to say..after pinpointing your mistake..."

Nadan-"oh..."

Me-"I am fine and u?"

Nadan -"good ...how did u wrote your exams?"

Me-"will pass" and nadan smiled at my answer "were we going to pick others or they will come straight?"

Nadan-"unlike you....Everyone know their way to come...."while smirking cockily .....

Me -"hmm...u would have said that everyone is coming on their own ...why to pull my leg?" See everyone knows the chennai city well as they done their college here and now living here...but me..I come here only during my holidays to meet these idiots and how can he say that...uhmm....

Nadan -"it's fun seeing ur reaction"

And so I decided to give silent treatment ...but my luck he got a phone and unlike my father he uses Bluetooth to which I am okay.... But I don't like that too....so I have to keep my mouth shut and he ended the call as we reached express avenue mall...by 10.45 a.m. and parked our car in the parking lot and started walking towards escapes theatres

Nadan- "ketu ...you reduced weight...looking slim and beautiful!"

Me -"thanks..."you see he is also handsome like varun....one inch shorter than my brother varun 6ft and my brother is 6'1" and both are Indian fair with slim feature they have muscles but not 6 or 8 packs muscle both have fan followers....

Nadan- "wait here ....dont move..I go and check whether others came or not?"

Me -"ok"

Nadan booked the ticket.... We don't have a tamil film that we all haven't seen.... So we planned to watch Nut jobs, animated English movie....but we don't got tickets for 7 peoples in a row.. And so our next option went to telugu movies, see we were reddiars and we all know telugu to speak and understand but not to write and read ..and went with yevadu..and we got ticket to this film that to I think because it was a morning special show .... And not many know Telugu...Nadan is currently asking everyone to come fast as no one came still now....see he done a overnight shift to compensate todays shift ....actually everyone is on Saturday holiday ...but his professor made him to do a night shift to get today leave...he and his professor has mutual understanding to not like each other and made each other's life a living hell..

Nadan -"come out of your thoughts..preethi..came.." I glared at him.... See what can we do when the other person you know is speaking with someone in phone...u have your own thoughts right...

Me -"where?" and looked the direction he pointed out..and saw her coming..and she saw us ..started walking towards ..

Preeti is my dad's sister's (shavatri) daughter. My cross cousin but I call her as sister too....actually I call all my brother or sister with their names except when I want them to do me a favor or due to any circumstances.... she is 23 years old....now working in British Airlines as something like maintain their database. Finished UG and not planning to do PG ....she is shorter than me by one or two inches.....I am 5'6"ft. she has a short black hair ...I have a long black hair ... she is wearing a blue jean with simple red gurtha with small embroidery around the v-neck ... she is also fair but I am fairer compared to others in my family... by the way she had got many proposals and still there is fan followers for her..... We both have a good sister bonding

Preeti-"hi ketu....hi Nadan.."said as she reached us

Nadan -"hi Preethi...how r u?"

Me- "hi preethi.."

Preeti- "fine ...u guys?"

Me-"excellent.."

Nadan-"was marvelous till I met this" pointing me...and earning a slap on the head from me. Preeti laughed seeing us...

Preeti-"where are others?"

Nadan-"on the way"

Preeti-"ketu...u are looking good .....reduced weight and looking beautiful"

Me-"thanks....u are looking good as usual...nice gurtha.."

Preeti-"thanks"

Nadan- "bhanavi and Gokul has came "and we watched the direction he pointed and saw them coming....As they came we exchanged greetings and they too said that I look beautiful as I reduced the weight...and we all said its really been six months meeting like we all met....we done it in bhanu's engagement ...and then when varun took off his flight .....then we all got busy with our life to hangout like this....

Bhanavi and Gokul are my dad younger sister's (Radha) children. They are also my cross cousins. gokul is elder one, he is 24 years old. Finished something in engineering and right now working as a teacher (lecturer) in a college doing his PhD. He is shorter than everyone of us ..Would be 5ft tall. He is black in colour . See in hindu religion, there is a practice of marriage between cross cousin ....so when I was younger..the grannies used to make us like a pair ... both of us don't have any ideas like that...and I think that made us not to have a better communication between us .....so we don't share great bonding like I share with Nadan....

Bhanavi also known as bhanu is 22 years old..3 months older than varun...varun, bhanu, preeti all were of same age... she is a same height as preeti ...she is not fair or not black...she has a cruly hair unlike preeti whose hair is straight..while mine is wavy ...she has a beautiful facecut too.....she has finished B.A and M.B.A.... She IS working to a private company ..as a some consultant...and she is going to resign her job next month ...reasons ..one.. she don't like working ..... two..her husband ..don't want her to work...but will adjust if she wants to work...so she decied to quit before her marriage..and she is now engaged to Praveen, a 25 turning 26 year old software engineer earning monthly Rs.60,000.It is a arranged marriage two months from now..... he is a good person too ..he is okay with me calling bhanu ..bhanu itself and don't want me to say bhanu vathina(vathina is a term to show respect to elder cross cousin sister in telugu). He is also supposed to come here today ..... but due to some matter ..he couldn't come today..

me, preeti, bhanu share a good sis bonding...while Varun, Nadan, Gokul share a good bro bonding...

wait there is still half an hour time and why didn't Nadan cancelled the ticket till now ...stupid I have to say him so we could get refund ..

me-"nadan ...praveen is not coming.. go and cancel the ticket we could get refund..."

nadan -"mm..I know ...but varun said me to buy an extra ticket and I shipping that ticket to this"

me -' for who?'

"for him" heard varun voice coming from my back and turned.....

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