Anu and Ajay sat down silently.
Meanwhile a man in formal suit walked in.
"Mallika, is the lunch ready?" Asked he.
"Yeah" she replied.
Amar's call ended.
"He is Vijay uncle. Grandpa's elder son and my friend's father" said Ajay.
Anu and Vijay greeted each other.

"Did you recognize her Vijay? " asked Amar. As Vijay was trying to figure out who she was, Amar said, "She is Surya's granddaughter. " Vijay was still in thoughts....
" Vinod's daughter! " said Amar.
"Oh!! She is the one who told that I'm too big for a chocolate..." and laughed out loudly.
Anu didn't understand anything. She was just looking at Vijay with question marks on her face.

"Let me show you...." saying this Vijay took Anu to a photo on the wall which had Vijay , Vinod , Anu and two other kids, all of them sitting on a bed. Anu was in Vijay's lap and was pushing his hand away . There were many chocolates in front of Anu and she was giving a chocolate to a boy of her age group sitting her. Vinod was to the other side the boy with another girl in his lap.

Vijay pointed towards it and asked, "do you know the scene here?" Anu nodded her head in no.

Vijay continued, "I bought all these chocolates for you. I asked you for one but you told me that 'big' people like me are not supposed to eat chocolates... we would become fat and ugly but you would get cuter since you're a kid. And you shared them with Dev. "

"Whenever Vijay sees a chocolate, he remembers you for sure, cutie " said Amar.

Everyone laughed.
"Sumitra, is the lunch ready? " Amar gave a voice to Sumitra but didn't get a reply.
"I will check out." said Mallika and hurried towards the kitchen.

Sumitra, Vijay's wife was naive, beautiful, extremely caring and an exceptional chef. She was literally Amar's ideal daughter in law.
Anu wanted to leave as she had to travel for 2 and a half hours by bus to reach home. But Amar and his family didn't agree.
She has her lunch at the Varma Mansion.
Ajay leaves after lunch as he had important practical classes and he couldn't afford to bunk them.

Amar personally accompaies Anu home.
Anu's family also welcomes Amar with lots of love and affection.
Surya and Amar have long conversations starting from their college time to current affairs.
Since Anu was joining from the very next day, she gets busy in packing as soon as she reaches home.

All of them have dinner together.
Amar tells Anu to come along, as would have start early to reach college on time and travelling with so much luggage wasn't an easy task. She agrees.

But she was very emotional. Amar says," Sweetie, Surya and I are not only friends but brothers too. For us, Vinod and Vijay are the same. So will be you, Dev, Priya and Abhi. So stop worrying and getting emotional. That is also equally your home and your family but the fact is that you haven't seen them for the past 15 years. Moreover, you can come and go anytime you wish to." Anu calms down slowly.

Both of them leave for the Varma Mansion.


© Radha