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She really should carry out her plan and steal a couple of those figurines.
She really should carry out her plan and steal a couple of those figurines.
Contrasts
She knew she was heavily attracted to him by the time the following night came along.
She didn’t know if it was a good idea though. Who falls for their Tinder date? I mean? Really?!!
Am I so desperate?
“No certainly not”
She stared at the mirror applying moisturizer
“These eyes are supposed to launch a 1000 ships, and here I am falling for the first guy that paid me a crumb of attention
Class was 3 days away. She had no plans for the weekend
She hated her job, it paid little the drama was mind boggling. The coaching contracts were more of a time such that financial incentive
She spent an hour searching for corporate jobs on Saturday morning, soon after she oiled her hair.
She scrolled through albums of her parents pictures. There was 100s, memory was slowly fading, she could remember less and less about them
She began to weep softly
“How does any one recover from losing both parents so absruptly?”
“Ajji is an angel… how could she dedicate her entire life like this, did she ever want to be remarried?” “She has no responsibility to care for us, why did she?”
She pestered Ajji immediately to go with her to get her nails done.
This was a routine fight, ultimately Ajji relented and went with her, she tricked her and got her a facial as well
Ajji covered her head and hid her face in her pallu on the walk home, she was so embarrassed to have neighbors see her sparkling black head free skin
“I think you are being silly” she pulled Ajji’s pallu down from her head
“You are foolishly generous” Ajji’s voice broke up
“Spending Rs. 1000 in a beauty parlor?”
“Haa teacher salary me”
“Ajjeeeee HINDI?” she giggled
“I don’t want to speak in Hindi I love my Marathi” she countered
Ajji rarely spoke Hindi, she was pretty adamant about it
“Listen to me… just cancel Dubai, just forget about it, we can go some other time”
“I will not get a refund, I booked already”
“Why do you do such stupid things?”
“Because ALL you, Praju and Pratik have ever known is school home, TV and phone”
“Not true, we went to Goa, we went to Rajasthan”
“Truck drivers go there Ajji”
“Because they have a job”
“I am not changing it”
“YOU go with friends, we will stay home, we can save money”
“NOOO”
They argued all the way home
Shasini Deshmukh texted her
“Hey if you don’t mind… I can pay you extra can you come do revision with him on Sunday? He has a chapter quiz… ABHI bola mere ko” she added a shock emoji
“Oh?” Punky thought through what she had planned for Sunday afternoon
She was going to go check out a BPO office with a friend that worked there.
Alpana wanted Sulu and her to go over to her place for dinner
“Oh… I am already booked for two things Suhasiniji” she returned her text with a call
“Don’t decline, please please?”
“I don’t know, both are at different corners of Pune, Kharadi mein kidi ke office jaana hai, and then Shivane
“Can you come here from Kharadi IT Park? Shivaji Nagar is on ur way”
“So much traffic”
“My BIL Indraneel works in Kharadi only”
“Great” she muttered
“Have you met him?” Suhasini asked
“I HAVE” she muttered
“He is never home, uske saath mera wohi hai, he is not home, he is alays focused on his life, magar joint family mein aisa kaisa chalega”
Punky really didn’t want to know
“He only helps out when my husband talks to him” “Joint family means every does equal work, everyone pitches in (financially?) Suhasini didn’t say so explicitly, but anyway…
“Sorry”
“Its OK, abhi mere ko use ho gaya… my FIL is very nice”
“Great”
“Aaap aana haa?”
Punky realized Suhasini was offering bits of the emotional drama to persuade her
“I will try”
She did end up going, and spent more than an hour, she was paid for cab and for the hours in cash
Punky knew some teachers had been caught taking
cash under the table for extra hours from contracted families
But she was reckless enough not to care
She took a cab home, gave the cash to Ajji
She wondered if Suhasini meant, Indraneel was stingy or selfish
She really didn’t care
She was going to arrange the figurines today but his room was locked
Apparently Kunal frequently used his large monitor to hook up his video games, and once trashed a keyboard around a month ago
Punky could never be so strict with her own siblings, Prajakta was careless sometimes and lost many water bottles and thermoses that Punky had bought
She loaned earrings to friends and never asked for them back
It irritated Punky but she didn’t scold
She wore dramatic eyeliner, to go with a black and white chevron printed sleeveless shoe string strap evening dress
Her beautiful green eyes stood out like jewels
When she arrived at Alpana’s house it had begun to rain…
Jay her husband took the umbrealla from her, as she shook it laughing
The corner of her eye she caught a familiar image
It was Indraneel!!!
Nature wise both won’t see eye to eye.
Let’s see what brings them together apart from attraction.
Her beautiful green eyes stood out like jewels
When she arrived at Alpana’s house it had begun to rain…
Jay her husband took the umbrealla from her, as she shook it laughing
The corner of her eye she caught a familiar image
It was Indraneel!!!
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Pleasure at the Party
Of course they made eye contact, she quickly looked away, and tried to focus on other people in the room,there was Marathi old hits playing on the audio system.
Alpana introduced her to 2 of the 5 women there, there were over 7? Or 10 men at first glance
“Sabka intro karegi main”
“No, its OK, I will talk to the two friends you have brought over here” Punky smiled raising a vada pao toast, Poonam and Chandra
Some people were speaking in Marathi, some in Gujarati some in English
Some were too posh for Punky
She slowly wandered to the tiny balcony and tried to cool her face down, it was still drizzling
Some neighborhood kids were setting off fireworks
“Did they have to take permission?” Punky leaned over to stare
at a sparkling spiral of light
The guy standing next to her was confused also. He turned to look at her eyes, and then quickly looked at the next shower of light and nodded “Not in my society, inka kuch hoga”
“Shaadi?” Punky muttered
Indraneel was barely 5 feet away, leaning on a wall, staring at the fireworks reflecting off her green eyes
He sipped his drink and slowly made his way toward her
“Pankaja” he muttered
She almost dropped her glass of wine
“Umm”
“Indraneel Deshmukh” he smiled extending his hand
She continued to stare at the firworks
“I know who you are”
“So the freezing off was intentional”
“Umm.. no… I mean… I don’t know” she quickly recovered
“Intentional then?”
She turned to him
He stared at her beautiful eyes
“How do you know Alpana & Jay?”
“Alpana is Sulu’s friend”
“Who is Sulu?”
“MY friend, MY best friend… she is not here” she mumbled
“Ah”
“Ab bas hua?” she muttered mockingly staring at his eyes
“Nahi” he muttered back
She hadn’t expected that
“Abhi Sulu ka address, Aadhar Card copy bheju?”
He burst out laughing
She didn’t want to make him laugh
She saw the laugh tears in his eyes
“Beep” she muttered under her breath
“How about yours first?”
“Abhi… ek dum abhi” she said not smiling
“Do you want to know how I know this couple?” he mocked
“Nahi…”
He just smiled
“I could tell you”
“I am good” she smiled shrugging
“Were you avoiding me?” he smiled, tilting his head toward the living room
“No? Was I?”
“I asked first”
“I wasn’t I didn’t even see you” she mumbled
“You did”
“I don’t mix business with pleasure” (This party is pleasure, teaching your nephew is business)
“Thank you” he chuckled assuming a completely different reason(Our Tinder date was pleasure, this is work related since Alpana had just started some kind of a teaching gig and so Punky was there to support her)
She stared at him dumbfounded
He was so irritating she thought
I am really really amazed. Every story the leads have different way they connect with each other . The social background of each of them has been different.
You are an amazing writer.
Though have heard from friend that people has met on tinder and got married.
I wasn’t sure how a hookup site could lead to long term relationships.
This story does wonders for me in understanding that 🤣.
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