A broken bond

Riya took a dose of sleeping pill, pulled her blanket and closed her eyes for a peaceful sleep. Even after taking those Flunitrazepam tablets she was unable to rest. She felt a rush a blood run into her brain…with much discomfort she tightly closed her eyes telling herself not to open it again.
The next thing she saw a bright sunny day, the curtains where pulled to the corner which let a beam of ray disturb her eyes. She opened her eyes wide welcoming the new day, got up from the bed and walked to the window to find if the computers shop across was open.

Riya gave a silly laugh thinking its only 7.30 am and the shop doesn’t open till 9.00 am. She heard her mom busy working in the kitchen preparing breakfast for her family. Riya knew today was going to be a big day for her and her family. She didn’t want to think about it anymore and escaped to take a shower.

After 20 minutes, she pushed her bathroom door open and came outside wrapped up in her blue towel. Slowly walking towards her closet deciding what to wear …thought the black sari will look good. After a minute she realized that she had packed that sari in her suitcase last night along with her other favorite dresses. Again pushing away those thoughts from her head she took a normal green color sari given by Sanjay last year for her birthday.

As she was combing her hair the aroma of hot Saambar and Pongal took her away. Not able resist Riya went and sat on table, giving glances to her dad and mom. She was looking at them as though she has never seen them for years. Riya “go put flowers to the god” yelled her mom from inside.

She placed the flowers by the god, closed her eyes prayed for the first time in her life, “ dear god…I really don’t know how other people pray to you… but all I wanted to say is to take care of my family when I am gone". As she was praying tears rolled down her cheeks. She quietly sat down to eat; her cell phone ring tone broke the silence in the house. She ran to grab it and stood near the window to notice the computer store open and Karthik standing in front with his red car. 10 minutes passed and she was still standing at the same position thinking what to do. Riya was waiting for the right time to make a move. Her mom went to the bathroom and her dad was busy watching his news. Utilizing the opportunity, she ran to the door with her suitcase and opened the door slowly. As she was about to step out she heard her mom say” Riya, don’t forget to pick up Arjun from school”. Riya hesitated for a minute, but nothing was going to stop her.

She ran down the steps quickly towards Karthik, sat in the car with him…abandoning Sanjay and Arjun, her husband and son.

Ramblings

With a temperature of -20 and a wind chill of -26 degrees blowing in my face, I made my way to the bus stop walking like a sea gull wading in the snow. I was 1 min late ..that the bus left me in the middle of the road, I was stranded there for 15 minutes till I could see the blue lights from the next bus flashing and only to find out that it was a express and wouldn’t halt at my stop.
Frustrated with the things happening I thought of playing with the snow, i picked up some snow in my hand and started meddling with it, that I suddenly heard some weird noise from the top, by the time I could look up…I was covered with snow which was on top of the bus stop roof. If you had just left me there for few minutes I could imagine the children make a snow man out of me.
Now being even more frustrated, that too at 5.30 am in the morning, I thought of walking till the next stop, so that at least it would keep me warm for sometime until the next bus comes. As I was walking through the snow,


I saw the bus pass behind me, freaked out I started to run, it was very slippery and I "almost" fell on my face, regaining my thoughts and the dream that I used to get often about me falling and breaking my front two teeth….i walked so slow that the bus driver exclaimed when I got in to the bus “ WOW…that was pretty fast ”…with a sarcastic look.
Avamaanam thaangama nan appdiye bus a vittu erangidalam n ninnaichen…but intha maari nerathula ego la parka koodathu n yaaro solli irrukaanga….so appdiye quite ah bus ulla poi ukkaarndhutain…: )
The good thing is that I didn’t miss my connecting bus to my university, or else I would have had to wait for another hour.pheww..
I was on time for the class so I thought, why not grab a coffee. The line was so big that I had to wait for 10 minutes and the class had started. I saw one guy walk into my class and hoping that he would hold the door for me I walked right behind him. But unfortunately andha paazha ponnavan let the door slam and I ended up dropping my coffee in the floor and making a big scene in the entrance that the prof had to stop the lecture for few minutes.: (..
At that point too I thought, cha class um vendham oru mannum vendham…innikki namma day ve seri illa….then again thinking about the lose that class would encounter without my presence… I went and sat at the back. Opened my laptop and was downloading some new songs…everything was fine until I heard a phone ring…it kept ringing and ringing…and I noticed people looking at my direction…but i was so confident that it wasn’t my ring tone. Within few seconds I saw the prof walk close to me and said “ it would be appreciated if you please turn off your cell”. With much disbelief I took my cell phone out from my big pink bag filled with lots of other junk. Guess what…it was my phone :)…
Then I remembered that last night my mom’s friend’s son, a very cute one indeed was playing with my cell and god knows what he did to the ring tone…that it sounded like someone barfing.
Adhukku apparam class la enna achi n nan solla maatain…ennoda maanathe ippdi air la naane parake vida maatain…:)

Moral of the story- never let kids play with your stuff…noooo I am kidding…they r too adorable to resist…:P