Rebuke

Smartha

I turned back and saw Sheena standing afar. Amayra took long steps and exited. Sheena came running as she smelled something fishy between us. I was in no mood to talk about it as I did everything according to what she told me. But I spilled the beans.

Amayra, the girl I met yesterday was scolding me today. And in my defense, I stood speechless because it felt like I had almost hurt her sentiments and I don't deserve to argue further because I knew it was my mistake.

I just watched her scolding me and this was the first time, that after my parents, it was a girl who was rebuking me.

I walked inside the dinner table with Sheena which formally appeared bizarre to the rest of the people. I should have walked with Amayra.

I repented.

I do not know how her parents gave a thought about us returning in separation.

I maintained a pleasant face and passed a glance at her and she was looking down at the table. She did not even care to see me.

To prevent everyone from thinking anything suspicious between us, I went and sat beside Amayra and Sheena sat next to me.

Once the dinner got over, her parents departed to their home. I touched their feet and did the formal things as my mom had taught me. My parents went to sleep after their departure and I and Sheena returned to our rooms. 

Sheena was like a family member and thus my parents had no objection to her staying in our house. We had a guest room and so I took her there. Sheena desperately wanted to know what happened between us because it was her idea to romantically talk to her, in such a way that she would melt.

That,

 Might, I see her true colours?

It was Sheena who told Amayra looked moderately like a small state girl, carrying fake innocence and nothing approachable.

I believed her then.

Instead, the opposite happened. Her features said she was not even 1% interested in me.

I assume, how can someone say no to me? I mean, look at myself, thick eyebrows and black smoky eyes are a rarity, they are portals to a place of grey love.

If only Amayra could spare a minute and look into my eyes, she would fall in love…. I mean this is how I made other girls fall in love with me, basically in my college days...

And,

Do I not look sexually alluring to her in the bare chest and trimmed beard that she did not care to even flinch for a moment when I picked her up and took to bed so romantically?

Girls like these romanticize moments from their partners and if Amayra does not like all of these, which means she was not at all interested in me, and perhaps when I clearly told her to wait for me, she went downstairs without caring to even inform me.

This was what made me think she was either faking her pain to get my attention otherwise why couldn't she wait for a while? And when she did not get the required attention, she left.

My reason for going downstairs with her was to make sure she did not get hurt again by any chance and secondly for whatever reason she came into my room, I wanted us to go together happily in front of our parents.

When I exited my room, I saw Amayra and Sheena together downstairs. Sheena managed to come to my house despite her busy schedule and so I hugged her like a good friend. I turned back to introduce her to Amayra but she was gone again.

"What is wrong with her? Can't she even wait to know whom I am talking to?" I did not like this gesture of Amayra. 

I asked Sheena if they had a quarrel because she looked provoked

"Is this the girl you are getting married to?" furiously she asked me.

I explained everything from top to bottom, from past to present and the shock waves hit her like they had hit me in the past.

She was worried more than I could worry for myself. I had that sloth cute face and I dramatically cried on her shoulders.

"Oh, dear! I cannot believe you love me so much."

"Honestly I don't care a single thing about you, but I cannot tolerate seeing you marrying her, living an austere life with zero romance and pleasure."

I patiently listened to her. Only a girl can speak evil of other girls. Otherwise, we boys just enjoy catfights.

LOL!

"I mean look at her and look at yourself …she is negatively opposite." She continued. "How can your parents even like her? I will talk to them."

"You better not" I interjected. "I am tired of telling the same."

"I don't think she likes you even…. "I nodded my head.

"Even I think the same," I told her. "The first day, I met her, I did everything I could do to hate me but the next day my mom told me she likes me…. I was devastated."

A girl can never take insults and Sheena told if she is not reacting to the insults then she is probably after my money.

But then a big question arises......…

Sliding aside everything, why did she say I agreed to this marriage?

I never said such, instead, the news came from her side. As far as I remembered, my mother came up to me and told me that she likes me.

So, why did she say that I agreed?

OMG!

Returning to my room, I could not sleep because there was something I was missing. I and Amayra had only a petite conversation, attractively small and usually consisted of a fight. Neither did she tell me anything of her feelings if she really likes me or is interested in any relationship with me, nor did I tell her anything about myself.

Laying on the bed and watching the rotating fan, I realized where I was going wrong.