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​The story started many years ago in a small lane in Faridabad. They were enemies turned lovers with a world of differences between them.

Sundari was the bravest of all her siblings but she could never express the love she felt for Muddy. Muddy the quietest of his siblings could effortlessly express.

It was this charector Muddy that attracted Sundari. While she stood first in ellocution contests, Muddy was sending poems through pegeons.

Times were different and it was unimaginable in that road that children would choose there own partners.

Yet Sundari believed they will marry and live happily ever after. Yet she shared her outpouring of love with no one barring when she met Maddy during her English Tutorials.

Both families were prominent, with Maddy's father leading the University and Sundari's father a key and respective businessman.

The usual happened when one of his poems got into the hand of the boy's sister in law. The news was kept under wraps as the family prestige was involved. But both parents exchanged notes to ensure the boy had not done anything to embarrass any one.

Sundari was also updated by her sisters of the incident and being a hopeful young woman she prayed that Maddy will ask for her hand in marriage and be approved. But she kept quiet, so quiet that her family thought she did get a feeling of the boy's emotion but chose to distance herself completely as a proper sheltered girl should.

Only her sister had a doubt and she asked Sundari directly ,"Do you like the boy?" Only to be brutally scolded by their mother.

"Sundari is being the most proper woman infront of an improper young boy and you are asking her the unthinkable."

Her sister had just smiled and said , "I am ensuring mother that she is not trying to be quiet like she is during festivals to get all her demands met as people go over board to see her smile, often at the cost of others."

Her mother brushed her elder daughter aside. She knew Sundari was spoiled but that was because she deserved it, with her beauty, grace, intelligence and gift of conversation. Unlike her elder daughter who always spoke the truth and the unpopular truth that often embarassed the family.

Unfortunately Sundari misunderstood the scenario. The boy was severely scolded by his parents. His brother asked his wife aside and scolded her too for causing their family embarassment by sharing the letter openly before asking him. His brother Maddy was his lifeline, always being his support and...