Sneha over the terrace, speaking on phone "Daddy! Afternoon. What are you doing?".
Dad replies, "Thinking about you."
Sneha smiles, "Of course, you miss me."
Dad gets emotional, "Right now, it's more than just missing you, dear!"
Sneha too gets emotional, "I am already going through a lot. Everything is going to change, and I feel scared of that. Now you too say all kinds of weird stuff that I just can't understand. Tears are rolling out, listening to your voice now."
Dad tries to calm her down, "Why would you cry? A lot of good is happening to you."
Sneha replies, "Dad, you are speaking as if you know everything."
Dad says, "Yes, I know everything. Raj spoke to us. We are convinced. The path is all cleared for you. He himself made all the effort."
Sneha gets uncomfortable, "Dad, we are not having this conservation now. I am hanging up the phone."
Sneha is full-fledged crying now. She is very emotional. All the comfortable and perfect life she had with her parents roll in front of her eyes. It's a big deal for her to pull in another person into her sacred personal space and call him a family, call his family as her family. Also, she even feels slight guilt over being rude to Raj all this while. She is impressed, he took over the responsibility to convince her family, and it's already done.
Raj phone ringing "Raj, Sneha's dad here. Hey, she is crying. Go to her. My little girl is very sensitive". Raj worriedly searches for her in the garden, her room, balcony, and even terrace. A hide and seek game's going on. He finally finds her hidden, behind a small wall, silently crying.
He sits beside her and asks "Hey, how do you think I can see you crying".
Sneha looks at Raj with her red puffed eyes, tired of tearing up! "Sorry. I taught you as a big idiot and behaved rudely to you in the starting. I feel guilty. Please, sorry ok!"
Raj replies, "It was time for me to man up."
Sneha continues, "I will miss Mom and Dad so much. I used to call them every day, and several times a day. After you came and disturbed me, I stopped calling them regularly. After a long time,
I called them today. Until I spoke to dad, I didn't even realize I missed him."
Raj questions, "Want to blame me?"
Sneha's crying session does not really end, but she smiles. "Yes! Idiot. And, I too should not change my bonding with them just because I have you. I thought it would be quite a drama to bring up your topic. But you already sorted it off."
Raj responds, "As said, it was time for me to man up. And I am not really good at this Daughter-
Daddy stuff, I was very nervous. But it was too easy. Your dad is super!"
Sneha enquires, "How did you convince dad so easily? In the past, he said you didn't have a stable and settled life. Now, what happened?"
Raj replies, "Partially, I too kept myself away from you for the same reason, that I'm not settled. Now, I am fine with my carrier, I love my work. But your dad just said one sentence, one impressing sentence."
Sneha adds, "That when sincere love is in the picture, nothing else should matter."
Raj adds, "And my daughter is lucky, you can take her."
Sneha is still crying, and even more this time. "I am the idiot. I didn't think you had such matured thoughts. I only saw you as any other flirt I have seen to date. I... I am the Idiot here".
Nervously, he takes his hand to reach her hairs and softly brush through them so as to console her "Hey, your anger is also genuine, although none of us did any wrong, it just turns up to be so".
After a few moments, Sneha gets up and says, "Every time I cry, it used to be Granny with me. Now it is you. There is already so much change that I don't want to accept."
Raj worriedly asks, "Ok, so shall I bring Granny now."
"No need, it was supposed to be you itself this time. By the way, why did you come searching for me?"
"Your dad called."
Sneha again crying more, "Daddy, you sent Raj to console me. Daddy, who will take care of me like you. I always want to be with you".
Raj is clueless! "Please, calm down. Now, what do you want me to do."
"Don't know."
"I'm literally clueless. Come on Sneha, now stop crying."
As the phone conservation ends between Sneha and her Dad (Rajeev), he has a big emotional smile on his face. He is looking at the wallpaper set on his phone and kisses it saying "My little princes, you have grown up so well. When did all this happen?" His wallpaper is the childhood picture of Sneha. While Rajeev is sitting on a wooden swing and feeling the pride of being
Sneha's dad, Varu (Sneha's mom)is leaning on the swing, watching the same childhood picture, and says "Did she agree, do I get to decorate my doll as a bride?"
Rajeev interrupts, "Hey, wait. I don't understand your hurry. She has not decided. She is crying over there. Oh no! She is crying. Let me call Raj."
Varu replies, "My daughter is one drama queen. Just like you."
Rajeev responds, "As if you didn't cry for days after marrying me?"
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