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RINA

"How can they just call off the wedding right before the engagement ceremony?" My mom stays silent, not knowing what to say. She has been silent since noon. Since they had called.

"Atleast they would have given a reason? Or they didn't?" I ask again, all this shit is making me lose my temper.

And I don't understand why my dear mother isn't replying to anything. She should have atleast told them something or maybe she did, but I don't know. Obviously how will I know she locked her room door as she talked with them. "Mom!"

"Huh!?" Finally she comes to her senses. Looking at me, here eyes red after crying for twenty minutes. Gosh, why to cry, I was so furious that I wanted to make them cry.

"Are you even listening to me? Did they reasoned, that why they suddenly called off the wedding? " she nodded twice wiping her tears she stands up. The melodrama, Narayan help me.

It was my wedding for God sake. I was the bride, but why can't people take me seriously.

"They said the groom's aunt doesn't seem to like you." My eyes widen.

What the actual fuck?

That twenty five year ass old man is supposed to marry me not that oldie. It should not matter. He liked me (yeah he said it to everyone like a shy bride), his parents liked me, even his little niece hugged me while complementing my saree. Now his aunt does not like me. And now they do not want this marriage to happen?

What am I? A dress? Your family doesn't like the dress so you return it.

Even dresses do not have bear all this shit.

"I told you, I did not want to marry this early" mom looks up at me, more like glaring, but am I concerned about it? The answer is no. I grab my phone and walk out of the house.

The pearl on my pendent shines in the rays of the setting sun as I twirl it around.

The Last thing I have of my dad. I look up smiling, the orange sky smiles back. I know he is looking down at me. I have seen it the movies. And he loved sun sets, and I do too.

I wish you were here with me. With mom. "I miss you, dad" I whisper as if he will hear me.