Ey 🎶 Paadal ondru 🎶 Kathaiyum Ondru

Thedum Kan Paarvai Thavikka Thudikka

🎶 Thedum kan paarvai thavikka thudikka
Thedum kan paarvai thavikka thudikka
Sonna vaarthai kaatril ponatho
Verum maayamaanadho.. 🎶

Kathir stood kicking himself for not thinking of this sooner...

She had challenged him this morning..Intha sattaiya innikku night kulla ungalukku vaangi kudukkaren..eppudinellam theriyathu..aanaa vaanguven..she had affirmed

Her usual style..raised eyebrows..that charming smile..twinkling eyes and her big beautiful jhumkas dancing merrily

Almost 2 hours since they started searching for her..and he realises it now..he turned to Senthil and said ava antha mall ku thaan poi iruppa..enakku antha shirt vaanga..

Kaalaila pona mall ka senthil asked incredulously

Padma was a little doubtful but Kathir was adamant and they went to the mall Kathir fretting and fuming all along the way..All efforts by Senthil to calm him being futile

They went in and freely roamed about inside the mall hoping to encounter a lost Mullai any moment now..any moment now she would come running out from one side panic writ large across her face..only to be replaced by relief the moment she set eyes on him..she would be freaked out..crying even..he braced himself..he would have to be strong..her tears could bring him to his knees he knew..so he prepped himself to be strong

But the security had stopped them..disallowing them the free right to roam the insides of the mall like they had been doing

If Senthil saw an impatient Kathir till then he saw him quickly becoming livid..knowing that this would not help them Senthil took a different route and managed to coax the guard to take them to the CCTV room..

Kathir : poda kenjikittu irukka..enna soldraaru

Senthil : cctv footage paarkalaam da..athulla therinjudum..Mullai inga vanthaangalaannu

They had done that spotted her and gleaned the general direction in which she had moved

Kathir didn't wait any longer..left to his own device he would have gone to that shop straight..this detour was only so Senthil and the guard would believe what his instincts were screaming at him..

He made a beeline for the shop..this was the only place she would have come without telling him...

This mall was new..he walked around a little in circles but reached the shop..as expected it was locked..Senthil and the guard had been deflated..suggesting that they go to a police station Senthil and the guard left..but Kathir couldn't..he was drawn to the shutter like a magnet..actually he was drawn to who he knew was standing behind it..he knew..he instinctively knew..

He banged a couple times on the shutter and the fourth time he followed the banging with a loud Mullai..he hardly spoke at this decibel level..people often would miss what he had to say if they were not paying attention..that was how softly he spoke normally

Hearing the clangs the guard and Senthil came back and they discouraged him from doing that and urged him to leave

Just as he turned around

🎶 Thedum penn paavai varuvaal thoduvaal
Thedum penn paavai varuvaal thoduvaal
Konja neram neeyum kaathiru
Varum paadhai paarthiru 🎶

That clattering sound..this time from the inside of the shop...

Mullai had been ecstatic having found the shirt of her choice..but at that exact same moment the entire shop plunged into complete darkness..before her eyes could adjust to that sudden lightlessness..all the people had left leaving her stranded inside the shop alone..