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"I can't take this tension.."
"What to do?"
"I don't know"
"Inform your Deva.."
"Don't take the name.. My tension is going to peaks.."
"If you continue like this, then one fine morning, I will stand in front of him and ask him to decide if he wants the baby growing in my womb or kills us both.."
"Osei.. If you do that, he will not kill you. He will kill me."
"Will he take me in the family after that?"
Naagulu hit his forehead in the nearby wall.
"Naa karma.. Antha naa karma!"
"That is not karma.. That is a wall!"
Naagulu wanted to hit even harder.
"Osei naa Gangamma.."
"Naa peru Ganganamma!"
"Edo okati.. Listen to me.. Let Vennela's kid be born without any problem. Then I will talk to Peddanana about us."
"Ekkada oka saari peddanana tho meeku pelli anipinchandi.. Talk to him about you first. If you have guts for that then talk about us."
Ganganamma said and turned showing her back to Naagulu.
"Ala seppake bulli. I will talk to him for sure."
"You talk, then come to see me. I am going to Macherla and then I am going to Pasuvemula."
"Why?"
"What why? Pasuvemula is my hometown. Macherla lo I have some work."
"What work?"
"My Pinni has looked for a boy in Macherla for me. Vaadini sudaniki yeltunna. Yen?"
"Boy ah? Mari Nenu?"
"Only if you gather guts."
"You did not tell me all this when you proposed me."
"Even you did not tell me that you are frightened of your peddanana before you fell for me kada?"
"Osei!"
"All that later. My bus will leave in sometime. So see me off smiling. Okay?"
Naagulu gave one smile like in peppermint commercials making Ganganamma hit her forehead. Then he left her in the bus terminus and returned home only to see his whole family sitting the living room and looking at him standing at the entrance.
"Enti.. andhuru ikkade panchayat pettesaru?"
He thought to himself. Trying to smile, he went inside.
