Another day

It was a fine morning, Aravind hated these mornings as it was time for him to wake up and proceed to his usual work after a long weekend. But no other go he had to start. When he woke up he saw Arthi still asleep in her bed. It was so sweet to look at her sleep like a kid. Arthi was in her sixth month of pregnancy. He was wondering nobody would ever believe she is going to be a mom soon in just three months. The way she behaved and the way she slept like a cute little kid. He was happy she was sleeping at least today otherwise she would wake up early in the morning and start doing house hold chores, though doctor has denied her not to do due to her health conditions.

Thank god his mom is here to see she is not doing work. Otherwise it would be tough for him to run behind her telling her not to do this and that. Except for him she listens to none. Only his words can make her eat or sleep properly. She being so adamant in her food habits troubled him a lot. For her sake he decided to travel back home for lunch to make sure she ate well and on time. He was happy that she was taking good rest today. It took him so much pain to make her sleep the previous night.

He started to office, Arthi was still sleeping he didn’t want to disturb so he just went nearby and whispered in her ears ‘Bye dear, take care’ kissed her on her fore head and left the place. She was deep in sleep that she didn’t even react a bit.

Aravind informed his mom and left for office. His mom reminded him to be on time for lunch as she won’t be there to take care of Arthi, since she was going out to visit a relative. Thank god she reminded him else he would have forgotten.

First thing he did after reaching office was to set the alarm in his mobile to reach home on time for lunch. Also he reminded himself to call Arthi every one hour to make sure she was fine. But unfortunately he got too much held up with his office work and meetings that he totally forgot to call her up.

Arthi was all alone at home she was upset that she wasn’t awake to wish Aravind bye when he left for office. After her mother-in-law left, she felt even lonelier so didn’t feel like doing anything. She thought Aravind would call her but he didn’t. Out of boredom she dint want to eat too.

It was lunch time Aravind forgot to switch on his phone after the meeting and was involved in solving some issues in the project. After 1 hour he felt hungry and looked into the watch to see it was late for lunch and he didn’t even bother to call her at all. He didn’t want to call her then and give excuses he rushed back home in his car to see her.

She opened the door when the door bell rang and asked him if he would eat. He just asked her sorry and if she ate. She didn’t reply at all. He knew she was angry on him as he didn’t bother to call her at all. She went into the kitchen to get his food, Aravind just followed her and tried to start a conversation with her but she wouldn’t
To cool her he hugged her and said sorry and promised her that he would spend sometime with her before he returns back to office. She just smiled. He brought her food and started to feed her. Out of anger that was just for him but happy she started to bite his fingers whenever he fed her. She just enjoyed him say ouch! He would say ‘Ammu please eat properly don’t bite my fingers’.
When he was repeating this again and again the door bell rang to his surprise Arthi’s parents where there. Seeing him feed her Arthi’s mom volunteered to feed her so that he could eat. When Aravind just looked at Arthi and saw her face turns blue hearing that, He understood she didn’t want that to happen. Aravind replied to her mom saying she is done I will complete.

After she ate Aravind went to have his food when he was about to leave they got a call and Arthi picked it up it was her mother-in-law asking her if she ate and if Aravind came home. She was explaining things and finally she ended her call saying Aravind will come and pick her up in the evening. She had no other go except to say bye to Aravind as it was time for him to leave for work.

Returning back in car Aravind just couldn’t understand why Arthi reacted so, but he knew what it meant. Arthi was so close to her mom she loved eating from her mom’s hands he knew it well but her behavior today was very unusual. He dialed her and asked why suddenly she just replied saying I just wanted you to feed me that’s all. He couldn’t understand the sudden change.

Though he had no proper explanation he understood the fact how adaptable women are with time and situation. Aravind was a stranger for her once though husband now but her mom is always her mom but she had to change priorities after her marriage. He was wondering how women managed to handle such things he had no answers as he knew god only had answers to these.