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Father:
Here comes my sweet daughter...
Ishana:
(Sweet? My foot!, I said to myself, not even looking at the people who came to see me. I just ignored them and placed the tea on the table.)
Boy's Father:
Hello, daughter. How are you?
Ishana:
(What do you think? How am I?)
Good, uncle. How are you?
(Still, I didn't look at the groom!)
Boy's Father:
I'm good, beta!
Boy's Mother:
Dear, do you know how to cook?
Ishana:
(Of course, that's why I'm here, huh!
I don't even know the "C" of cooking—besides making Maggi and tea! Hahaha!
They would faint if I told them that.)
No, aunty.
Mom:
Of course she knows how to cook! She can cook everything!
She's a very good cook!
Ishana:
(Huhhh! What the hell—I'm dead now...)
Boy's Mother:
Oh, good, beta! I think both of you should go and talk in private.
After all, it's you two who will be spending your lives together!
Mother:
Of course! Ishana, take him to the terrace and talk to him.
(Damn, I don't know what she'll do to him once they're alone...)
Ishana:
Oh, okay!
(Here comes the moment I've been waiting for. He's dead now.
Let's see his face...)
(I turned my eyes toward him—and I was shocked!!)
His face looked familiar…
I know him!
Damn!! He's the doctor from the hospital—the one I had been staring at for 2 whole months!!
Shit, what is he doing here…?
Abhi:
Hello, I'm Abhishek. Nice to meet you.
Ishana:
Youuuu!!
Mother:
Do you know him...?
Ishana:
No! I don't know him!!
Let's go to the terrace...
(What the hell! How is he here?
But still... I have to reject him.
So sad.
I don't want to get married at all and suffer!)
Abhi (thinking):
(How did my parents bring me here?
I thought they were coming for a check-up...
I guess they tricked me into coming to see a girl!
Hmm... well, I don't really mind marrying her.
But before seeing her, I had already decided I wouldn't marry anyone.
I didn't want a complicated life...
Wait—did she say she doesn't know me?)