Rahul finalized a photo and threw it. The breeze brought the photo towards me and it fell on the ground with back side top. Something was written on it. I watched it closely and it was "Soumya". I picked it up and turned it to see the girl that Rahul selected. A close up face of a beautiful girl with hairs open and a smile. I jumped from the couch and ran towards Rahul's mom. I handed over the photo to her and the emotions on her face was worth watching. She was too happy to know that her son finally selected the bride. But I knew the truth. Rahul is not going to get married. It was just a trick to make the situation a little better for him till he left to join his job. Rahul's parent were overwhelmed by his selection. What I came to know is that Soumya is the single daughter of her parents. Her parents have own a big garment shop in the town and Soumya is considered the most beautiful girl ready to get married in their community. Her family is humble, intelligent and respected in the whole marwari community. So Rahul's parent thought this proposal is the best of all and got ready to make it happen. It was decided to see the bride after two days and the preparation started.
A list of people that needs to go to see the bride is prepared. It starts with Rahul's parents, his uncle, aunt, their son and daughter-in-law, his two cousin sisters, his mom's sister, husband and their daughter and son in law and a lot of people involving both short and long distant relatives. After a lot of discussion, inclusion, exclusion, a final list is made with 17 people in a three hours duration. Being an family affair, I kept my name out of that list. Though I have been a part of their family in the last one month and his parents forced me a lot to go with them, I preferred to deny. Rahul was ignorant all bout this. In the evening dinner table, his parents revealed it and Rahul blown out. "I am not going with you" the only thing Rahul said on the table. His parents got worried again and tried to convince him. I also joined and tried to make him understand the thing. But Rahul was adamant.
"I am not going with you. If you want me to go, I will go alone or with Viji." Rahul declared.
With no other option, his parents agreed. But I shouted "Not me, I will not go". Rahul's mom rolled her eyes on me and I kept my mouth shut. The list came down from 17 odd people to 2, Rahul and me. Soumya's parents get informed about the plan and everything has been set. Rahul left the dinner table and as soon as he left, I told his mother that I am not interested to go. His mom got emotional and started
"Look Viji. Don't misunderstand me. We have a good reputation in our community and we don't want Rahul to mess that up. It is not like that I don't care for his emotions or choice. If he rejects her, we will not utter a word. But, if he does anything stupid or asks her anything that is not acceptable, we will be in a mess. The whole community will talk about it. So, we just want you to be with him and curb him if he intends to do something like that". I got speechless after her speech and could able to say just one word "Okay".
Watching girls in mulls, disco is immaculately different from seeing a girl in her house with presence of her parents. No parents will love to see a guy scanning her daughter from top to bottom and mostly the guy like me and Rahul. The day before the bride selection was a night mare for me. I couldn't sleep at all. I was in a dilemma. One side is my nature to scan the girl which I couldn't help and the other side is Rahul's moms expectation. I couldn't decide what to do, how to behave, how to stop my eyes, my mouth and my nature. Seeing a girl in disco, we scan her from all the top to bottom, the hips, the legs, the breasts everything. If everything is well in shape, we give her a rating from A to D being A the most sexy and beautiful. But here the case is different. I couldn't decide how to judge whether this girl is beautiful or not. Rather a right girl to get married or not. Then I gave some more deep thought and find out that nobody wants to marry a item girl though the item girl is the sexiest girl ever. Everyone wants a caring, nice, lovable girl for marriage and being beautiful is the second thing that comes. So I finally decided to control my eyes and look for the other things that makes a girl a good wife. Anyways, its is for my best friends's marriage.
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