Cascade of memories

PART 1.                                                 I Watched him carefully, as he walked towards the closed doors. My heart did a flip-flop movement and unknowingly i started the counting 10,9,8,7.........amidst of all this, a cascade of memories begun to fall on my grief-striken eyes.

Cascade of memories, YES! those memories, which i will always cherish, which will always give me a sense of happiness, although now i know the reality that it was all fake, just for name-sake, but still these are special to me, they are the best part of my life, they mean so much to me. These memories are my life which i'm going to loose soon.

FLASHBACK-------

It was a bright-sunny day. Yes!  a sunny morning of summers which i usually hate but today was not any other day, it's my sister's wedding day. The house was full of hustle-bustle, everyone was busy in the preparations of wedding and me the youngest member of house and off course the naughtiest one was busy in my own chores. All my cousins were busy in giving their unique & brilliant ideas to my elder sister Reena and here's me rejecting each one of them. This really irks Reena and i enjoy this.Guessing my intentions of teasing her, Reena stood-up and walked towards me, just to hit me, i ran from her beating and here comes my mom to my rescue.

MOM(while holding Reena): What are you doing? You are the bride today and behaving like kid dosn't suits you now dear.

Reena (annoyingly): mom please take Sheena with you and make her busy in some work or she'll have it from me.

Sheena: oh! whose scared of you? hmmm......... me? not at all. yeah might be your would be husband and yes he should be, after all you look so scary even after make-up. ( and starts laughing loudly to irritate Reena).

Reena: mumma! will you? or i will?

mom: ok ok baby, you just be calm, you know her she's joking. sheena you come with me right now. 

Huh.... mom dragged me with her, but me being me i stuck my tongue out to Reena just to irritate her and yes it did work.Mom took me to kitchen area and started on lecturing on behaviour and all that stuff which i won't listen. I hugged my mom lovingly to assure her that i only do this for teasing purpose as i love my sister so much. Mom gave me a smile with a nod then we started working together on some dishes.

Now, the time has arrived for which everyone was waiting. It's evening now and all the necessary rituals, ceremonies have already started. Reena aws looking absolutely gorgeous in her pink bride's dress, to accompany her i wore my favourite light blue coloured dress. Everybody was waiting eagerly for the groom's side to arrive and our wait ended soon. My dad, uncle and cousin brothers welcomed groom's side while me and my cousins followed our beloved jiju ( brother-in-law) who's looking dashing. We took him with us and started joking with him some of his friends also joined us. Meanwhile, mom called me for some help, i was on my way when i heard someone calling for me from backside. I turned around to see the person and there was Piyush standing and smiling cheekily. Piyush, Reena and Aarush (my jijiu) are all friends since college. He was looking quite nervous and stepped towards me.

Piyush: Hey Sheena! where's Aarush? i'm extremely sorry for being so late. I'm scared he's gonna kill me and where's Reena? i hope she doesn't know about my late coming else she won't leave me.

Sheena: ohh relax! jiju is busy in rituals and di is in her room. so now you are safe. but it's really bad. why are you so late in you two bestie's wedding?

Piyush: ahh! nothing important. By the way someone's looking beautiful today (and winked at Sheena).

Sheena: oh really! then go and tell that "someone". what are you waiting for?

Piyush: ok fine. I know i can never win from you, yes! you are looking beautiful. happy now?

Sheena: huh! who's waiting for your compliment? i know i'm beautiful. By the way you are making me late now i have to go to  mom and you better rush to jiju.

Piyush: ohh yes! sure sure.

apart from di's and jiju's friend Piyush is mine friend too so we share agood bond between us.Gradually the rituals of wedding night proceeded to end and finally, the wedding completed with beaming faces all around.

On the same night when i was missing Reena terribly, i decided to call one of my friend Pihu, just to talk to her and relieve myself but accidently i dialed Piyush's no. i was about to cut the call when he picked up and started talking, so i decided to be on the line for sometime. That day we talked so much, almost about everything and from that day onwards it became our habbit. We use to talk like this daily. Let it be for half an hour only but we make it sure for us that this is our time and we discuss our all day routine starting from morning till end, all the happenings of the day like work stress and many more. Our bond grew stronger, apart from being friends now which we both are well aware of so we decided one day to catch-up together on coming weekend. Since, the wedding day we haven't met each other i was damm excited about this plan so was he.

Finally, after a long and desperate waiting, sunday was here, the day we planned to meet. I woke up as soon as my alarm rang and without wasting a second rushed to get ready. My mom was bit surprised to see me like this as i'm not a morning person. I got ready within seconds, did my breakfast and left the house informing mom about the same. When i reached the destination, my favourite coffee cafe, i saw him there in a corner waiting for me a small smile crept on my lips and i moved in.