Anu And Her First Love

Chapter 37

He stared at me, grinning for a second.

"Are you ready?" he asked and that makes me nervous. What now?

"For what?"

He sat beside me as he pulled out his phone from the pocket of his coat and started tapping it on the screen. Already the sun starts to burn my skin. I don't need to take the sunbathe to get my skin tan. I'd already enough sun tanned in my skin. I was losing control each time I felt the burn in my skin.

My head was scanning for nothing in the swimming pool like if I get a chance to push him in it, I would do it without any doubt because I was done with the day. Yesterday Arjun scolded me, okay but today I made coffee for him as if the apologies for yesterday but at last what'd happened he yanked the spoon away and walked out of the room even without any backward glances. And here I was sitting in the center of the sun and getting my angry temperature high second by second. Arjun was saying about going out with him to apologize but before he could finish he dragged me from there. I can't scold Krishna for this even in a playful tone because he came all across the world to wish us and he was also my best friend, how could I?

The next second all I know was he placed his phone right in front of me just an inch or two away from my face. And all I felt was, I was crying and felt the teardrops in my eyes as it slides through my cheek like a fall. The screen I was seeing in front of me was my amma, appa, Jo... my whole family who I didn't call, after I landed in New York.

I was such a stupid girl with zero memory. I promised my amma to call her once I landed here in NYC but the first day itself not that great opening for me. So I didn't feel like sharing my worry with my family and make them uncomfortable or making them think that Arjun didn't talk to me more than five words a day, god knows how many words.

"Amma! Appa! Jo!" I shouted in excitement. To be honest, now I didn't care whether Arjun will get disturbed by my voice. At that time all I cared about was I get a chance to talk to my family. Seeing my sister remembered me of my wedding day of how we exchanged our hugs with a tear in my eyes and sadness in my heart. When I see my amma and appa behind Jo I was crying out loud, my appa told Krishna to comfort me and he put his arms around my shoulder and squeezed it, then relaxed and tried to concentrate on family.

"Amma, appa, Jo ellarum yeapdi irukeenga? (How are you guys?" we used to speak in our mother tongue, Tamil but when I married Arjun, the situation got complicated. I didn't even know whether he knows any language apart from English? I also know that some of the Americans take Spanish as their second language but who knows? Right?

"Fine," they all said at the same time.

"How about Arjun?" amma asked about his health.

"Fine,"

"Where is he?" appa stared behind me as if there was an option to visit us now via phone.

"Taking a nap. He was always a busy person and a hard-working boss." I said as I was truly proud of Arjun.

We talked for a while, shared a happy smile, sad smile, laughs, giggles and it all felt like home again. But then one big question put the end card for that all different varieties of a smile.

"Is there any good news? How he was taking care of you? Do you like him? Do you love him?" amma continued.

"Amma!" I complained.

finished my sister joined her.

all forgetting that I was sitting beside a man and

I groaned.

all interrupted by a bold

away from my back. He pointed my sister with his finger and said, "And you, that's our private things not for the public."

lying? Or was he doing me a favor? I thought lying to them was better than saying the

person who can't control his temper.

in the hell she'd have to mention something that was out of the league. Amma was scolding her as appa was plucking her ear. She was acting like she was screaming in pain. Krishna was laughing a throaty laugh beside me. Arjun

front of my old and new

was her memorable gift that she'd ever gotten." He said, staring at me as

them all laughing except the person

talking about which kiss? This was because of my sister she was always like she can't control her emotions when it comes to her older sister, to embarrass me in front of everyone. And there were no mistakes by

guys talk, and I'll be back," Krishna said as he stood

near and sat beside me where Krishna sat before he left, and put his arms around my waist, and tightened his grip. It was all his activities

Uncle? And my sister-in-law

They all said

to me aunty. I can't bear her. She always not listens to

come there and you know what

to me but he was complaining about me? He can't bear me? What did I do wrong for him to couldn't, bear me? Then what he said... Ahh! I wasn't listening to his words. Always. He barely even spoke ten or twenty words from the time I hear his voice and he was saying that I didn't listen to his words. "Be fair!" I was

I opened my mouth to say that he didn't mean anything but I was cut off by him as his hand's grip on my waist gone tighter and I jerked by the sensation of his hand in my waist. When his hands on my waist I couldn't speak anything, only the air was coming out of my

you, Shiya?" He asked smirking at me. He used my nickname which was given by Krishna to me. He was the one who always calls me with that name since we were

not thinking still, except, "I will." I nodded and

"Bye, call you later."

He yanked me to sit with him and I sat with a thud. His gaze was on the swimming pool with stern eyes and clenched his teeth inside his closed mouth but can hear his teeth's sound

groaned in pain. "Leave me.

a statue pretending he

"Let me go."

me and landed on the ground as I took a deep breath. That's when I remembered that he was being pushed by someone I turned my head and found Krishna standing beside me with a stern look on his face, his hands to his hips as if he was standing like a 'Bada Bheem'. Arjun pause where he'd fall and calming himself to get some energy to fight back this giant beast. Once he felt calm he stood from the ground and

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