CHAPTER 2: Saru

Monday 8:30 a.m., another day when an IITian was here to meet me and I was ready to get rejected by him, I wanted to cope with this feeling of failure so, just started to make rangoli as it was a special occasion for my family but not for me they were just praying that this time I don't get rejected. My whole family was full of joy and pretending that they were happy but, initially, they were just hoping for me to get married, I had a typical Indian family who believed in rituals and their teachings they were orthodox and religious full of tradition and culture. My Nana ( Father) was a man of honor who loved his respect and tradition more than anything, he was driven by his principles, My mother was a simple housewife she only cared about my father's anger and his rules I think she was also driven by his laws and My sister Jessie who was a chubby girl and different from me and she always wishes me to get married as soon as possible as I was the only speed breaker of her love story, as I was the eldest so, according to the ritual I was the one to get married first but unfortunately that was something that is not happening so, I was the reason for sorrow or a topic of conflict between her and Sam (her boyfriend). My mother stepped towards me and popped the bubble built in my head about not getting rejected by another boy and getting married, she asked me to get ready but I was not interested in seeing any boy who was there for me to judge me about my looks and all but I have to follow her order. Suddenly the phone rang Nana picked up and I just heard that my father and mother were talking that the boy was not coming to see me anymore and now I am getting rejected by the 10th guy. I was upset so as my sister who was just blaming me and crying like hell for her love, my whole family environment became awkward and distressed. My father told me to get ready as he decided to go to his office and drop me off at the central library where I worked. I just picked up all my stuff and stepped out of the house with my Nana. He was angry and distressed I could tell his feelings by seeing his facial expression although his facial expressions seemed to be the same all the time. 

Now he approached for the lift but, it didn't come up so, we decided to walk down the stairs. Nana became more frustrated and angry as he was a short-tempered man and easily lost his temper. As we walked down the stairs we saw a boy standing shirtless and grabbing a girl in his arm, it was an embarrassing moment for me and Nana, he shouted " what is going on in this society, such inappropriate behavior " but they both so indulged into each other they didn't even care about us, Nana told me to get out of this quickly and asked me to follow him. As we get down the building Nana was talking to himself and mummering about the guy upstairs , as we moved on we met our society secretory on our way Nana started shouting again " here you are Mr. Vijay , what all this nonsense going in our society ? " secretory got a little confused and asked that what is he talking about , Nana said in a rough tone " the boy living in my neighbour is crossing his limits , we live in a cultured and mannered society this type of behavior will not be accepted " , I think secretory got the hint about whom he was talking about , secretory seemed to be a little irritated by Nana as he was yelling like hell and secretory said " I know whom you are talking about , he has a very strong background and he is the legal owner of apartment we can't take any legal action against him" , Nana gets more into rage , he said with a tone full of anger " If you are not capable of taking any action so, you can resign we can elect someone else " , secretory felt disrespected but, Nana didn't care about it and we left to catch our bus .