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Preparations 💝

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After that, we had our dinner, and then her parents went to their room, quite happily. My parents
and I had a brief discussion, planning some of the things at a personal level, especially for the
engagement which was a month later.
She is differently happy today. It seems she wants to tell me something. And I am asking—What?
But she is taking her sweet time. I hear her turning the pages of newspaper. Then she speaks up.
‘neil’ And after a moment of silence she adds, ‘Your promise to me about that boozing thing
…’
‘Hmm …’
‘I want to set you free from that promise.’
‘What?’ For a moment, I cannot figure out the context. But, still, I am happy. I again hear the
sound of newspaper pages.
She says, ‘You kept your promise for the past seven months. I’m sure alcohol won’t turn you
bad.’
I doubt that’s the only reason and ask her again, ‘Are you sure? Is this the only reason?’
Mischievously, she reveals the whole truth. She reads out an article from the newspaper which
describes the various positive aspects of limited alcohol intake. It also says that a couple can make
their romantic moments special with a glass of champagne.
I am smiling.
She says, ‘I respect you for keeping your promise to me till the day I ask you to break it.’ I
don’t say anything, but I smile. I am feeling nice about this.
She says ‘It’s been a long time for you. Do you feel like enjoying a drink with your friends
tonight?’
‘No.’
‘Why?’
‘Haha … Well, not tonight.’ I am laughing. ‘I am glad that you are setting me free from this
promise and I am happier that I could keep it. I only booze in order to give company to my friends.
Maybe the next time they want me to, I will be able to drink with them. I am in no hurry, though.’ She
says she feels so comfortable with my last line.
It was Friday afternoon and, as usual, I called her up before lunch. I had to tell her that we had made
our reservations and also when we’d be arriving at her place. And I wanted to know what all was
happening at their end. Actually, I already had an idea; still, all these things related to our
engagement
were so beautiful that we loved to talk about them again and again. It happens with everyone, no?
‘Hey.’
‘Heyyy! Hi, my cute baby.’
‘Listen, I have completed my next task too. We have got our …’
But she interrupted me to say, ‘Arey, wait. I’ll tell you about my task.’ She seemed very excited
and, of course, completely ignored what I was saying. She was very happy. I mean she is usually
happy, but that afternoon she was differently happy.
I heard her jump off her bed onto the floor.
‘Give me a second,’ she said and started singing to herself. Lala … Lalala … Lala.
‘Weird,’ I thought and waited for her one second to complete.
‘Ok! Do you know what I have done?’ she asked in her cutest voice.
‘Hmm … No. Tell me.’
‘I have just painted some flower vases. And some candle pots, you know the kind? Bowl-shaped
earthen pots which will be filled with water, and fresh rose petals and a few small, lighted candles
will be floating on the surface.’
‘Wow! But what are you going to do with this?’
‘Arey buddhu! We will place them on the podium where we will be exchanging our rings that
evening. To add an aesthetic touch and sweet fragrance to the surroundings.’
‘Oh … Wow! Nice yaar, this will be awesome.’
Then she got busy again. Probably working again on those candle pots.
‘Achcha, listen. I have made the reservations,’ I tried again to tell her.
‘Wow! You know what? I have made an awesome design on it. It’s looking good … It’s looking so
beautiful!’
I don’t know what had happened to her. She was completely ignoring me and enjoying her
preparation for her engagement evening. She was singing, she was laughing more than I ever
heard her, she thought everything around her was so beautiful.
La … Lala … Lala … Laa …
‘Heyyyyyyy you know what? The entire menu is selected. Yes! I’ve done that. And dad has given
the order accordingly. Everything is purchased apart from small accessories. I will buy them
tomorrow.’ And she kept narrating her entire list, what she was going to buy and wear on the
engagement.
‘Arey, dekthe reh jaaoge. In that first look, I’ll take your breath away.’ she started jumping and
singing again, this time at a higher pitch.
‘What’s happened to you?’ I heard her mother ask.
‘She’s gone mad,’ I heard riya say.
And avni? She kept laughing and dancing.
‘Arey, Mumma, I am going crazy …. coz … coz … three days later,
IT’S MY ENGAGEMENT!’
La … Lala … Lala … Laa …
And then, I think, she made her mother dance with her. She was crazy. The madness of being in
love … Her dream coming true with every passing day … She was on cloud nine.
All of a sudden, her mother took the phone to talk to me.
‘My daughter’s gone completely mad today … She’s been laughing all morning. She’s so happy,
I’ve started worrying … kahin kuch …’
‘When you were getting married you must have felt the same!’ I heard avni shouting in the
background, her voice fading away as if she was going out of the room.
‘Did you hear?’ her innocent and worried mother asked.
‘Haha. But Mumma, today I like your daughter even more. You don’t worry. Just let her enjoy the
preparations.’
From her mother I found out that, since morning, she had been trying on her dress for that evening
every now and then, her sandals, her bangles. She had not even eaten breakfast in her excitement. All
morning her hands were dipped in the paint she was applying to those vases and candle pots.
‘Do you want to talk to neil?’ her mother asked her.
And from outside came her faint, childish, arrogant voice, ‘Mumma, tell him I am busy planning
my engagement, so don’t disturb me.’
She was so lost in the euphoria of her engagement that she probably forgot the person whom she
was getting engaged to!
I left my cute princess to her work. But before I hung up, I let her mother know about our
reservations and the time when we’d be arriving at delhi. And I heard avni’s, ‘La … La …
Laaaaa …’
I was wondering how she was handling all this. On one hand, I was struggling to get everything
completed for the ceremony. My life was screwed up: booking tickets, calling and planning all my
friends’ schedules, buying clothes and jewelry. And shopping for all the ‘miscellaneous’ things—
which was the biggest headache of all. I was tired. I was frustrated. On the other hand, avni was
handling all this so easily. Laughing, kidding, enjoying each and every second. Planning, shopping
and
trying everything on, one more time. I envied her for being so relaxed amid all this. And I loved her
for this very reason.
Done with my lunch, alone in the food-court of my office that afternoon, I was laughing recalling
her euphoria. I felt happy for her and for myself for having her in my life.
Avni’s funda of life was so simple, yet fruitful—she wanted to live and enjoy every moment of her
life. She kept saying, ‘Forget what others think when you wish to dance in the rain. Just do it. It’s
your moment. It’s your happiness.’ She was correct when she said engagements, marriages, love (or,
to be precise, first love)—all these are one-time occasions. Therefore, they are precious. You have
to celebrate them. You have to make them memorable.

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