Chapter 2: crushes

                                    

                                          

everything, in time 
🧸Ruhanika
Stairing at the reflection shinning in the mirror the girl in front of me looked nothing like Ruhanika Sinha,the blood red lehenga made my small curvaceous body  enunciate perfectly, a set of expensive diamonds adorned over the neck, the flowers arranged in hair radiated fragrance around my vicinity.
I looked flawless, how I could I when my entire life was flawed.
"Hammari gudiyaan tayyar ho gayi?" A voice peeped through the door.
"Baba",I cried, engulfing him into hug, is this my last time hugging him, 2 hours  later he will be handing me to someone else, why do marriages need to be so harsh on women, why is it just her who walks away from her one perfect life.
Hugging back he replied "aree aise rote nahi,itni pyarri lag rahi ho, tumhara makeup kharab ho jayega."
"Baba I don't want to leave you, hume nahi jana aap ko chodke.", shifting my weight over my toes I wrapped my arms tightly around him. 
"Achha thik hein,Avyann ko bolte hain baarat wapas leke jaye." Hann....what NO.
"Nahi nahi,kyun?"with the velocity my head snapped out of his embrace might give an Bugatti run for money,the teasing over baba's face made my cheeks turn a shade darker than the lehnga.
It was yesterday morning when he had proposed my marriage with Avyann Raichand,I knew about the deal and  I also understood how important this was our family, no matter how hard baba tried to keep me away from our drowning financial menace, I knew we were suffering and the only out was this marriage, and I didn't think twice when the Raichand offered for this particular arrangement, if this was going to bring back smile over my father's face, I will happily wear the sindoor.
"I am sorry beta, I never wished to drag you into this, only if Rehan could have handled his own mess..." he started as tears of guilt, helplessness and shame pooled into his eyes.
"Baba aap ki nazar jhuki hui hame bilkul pasand nahi hai" I said making him stand straight "aur rahi baat iss shaddi ki toh aapko bhi paata hai mein ye shaddi apni marzi se kar rahi hu."
I said I would happily wear any sindoor if that would make my father happy, but if the said sindoor is named after Avyaan Raichand I wouldn't mind bathing in it everyday 
Avyann raichand.
He was the boy who had caught her when she had fallen from the tree, he was the boy who had shooed of the guys who had bullied her in school and he was the guy who stayed with her when she bawled her eyes out after losing her pet fish. She was too young to know what love meant, but whatever she felt for him was equivalent to that emotion.
He was my prince charming how could he be not, with his curly locks and beautiful almond shaped hazel eyes...
"Achuuuu"a loud sneeze made me and baba turn towards the door.
"Sorry it's the jet lag which has got my body rhythm disturbed", a voice with sheepish smile replied, oh my god it's her!
"Badi maa ne ye khandani haar behja hai,Ruhanika ke liye, Waise Sinha ji aapki goodiyan suchi mein aaj princess se kam nahi lag rahi",she beamed walking towards baba.