I broke my promise

"In the outskirts. We still have an

hour long journey"

"We reached outskirts already?"

she yelped, getting up from her

sleeping position.

"Already? We've been on the bus

for almost 12 hours and you were

asleep the whole trip"

"Oh, sorry. I feel sleepy in moving

things" she replied with a sheepish

smile.

He wanted to say he knew that;

instead he nodded

"What about your office?" she

asked, yawning again.

"It's Sunday" he reminded.

It was half past ten when they reached their house. Karthik retired to sleep immediately while Sindhu went to bath.When Sindhu went to kitchen to cook lunch, she was surprised to

find the fridge empty and quickdy

made a detour to the vegetable

market.She prepared lunch by 1 PM and went to his room to wake him up.

"Get up Karthik. It's One O' clock"

she shouted at him.

"Go away. I want to sleep" he

complained in his usual voice.

"You can sleep after having lunch.

Now get up." she shouted, louder.

"Will you stop doing that" he