Chapter 2
Author's note (Important): All right people, to begin with remember I had given u some homework😆. I asked u to think about the following description:
The girl sat hugging her knees, her thick hair rippled around her face while falling to her waist in gorgeous swirls. Any man would be tempted seeing the promise of those sweet lips, tempted enough to ignore the warning of that stubborn chin. He would try to drown himself in her grey eyes surrounded by their extravagant eyelashes, eyes as changeable as the sea with the power to hold the attention of an onlooker for hours on the end. Eyes saved from being merely conventionally pretty by those slashing eyebrows surmounting a broad noble brow.
Well now, I want u to re-read Kripa's description:
Kripa, the youngest of the three had nothing to declare her lineage except the nose. Her eyes while beautiful were a stormy gray and expressed their owner's every emotion. Her hair though thick was horrendously curly and virtually untamable. Moreover, it had a tendency to eat combs. Her eyebrows looked like they had been drawn on with a ruler giving her a serious expression and no amount of threading could get them to arch. She was quite half a head shorter than her sisters both of who were around 5'6" and still retained some of her puppy fat at 20.
Yes people, it's the same person. I wanted you to read this because it's important to realize that every person is beautiful in his or her own way. Kripa IS pretty and the first description was the correct one. The second description (which was the one you read in chapter 1) was from Harshini's skewed perspective. And I hope you realized from the 1st part what kind of a person she is. Not that Harshini's evil, she's not, in fact there are no outright villains in this ff, just ordinary flawed human beings. Harshini's main fault is that she's shallow and she blindly imbibes the images fed her by the media. And she's not the only one; all of us at one point or the other have hated some aspect of our appearance. It's ok if that happens occasionally. The problem begins when we start to accept this twisted image of ourselves. (hope that clarifies the issue irsa😊)
Re-cap: "Harshini", said Sapna as she and Kripa hugged Riddhima, "How could you forget Armaan?!!!!!"
(Contd.) for a moment Harshini looked blank, "Oh, of course, Armaan! Yes, sure, but Riddhima, while Armaan might be a wonderful guy, I'm not saying he's not, but Angad!!! And he's just an intern right now and then his family, excellent of course, but there's not much Money there, I mean...love is wonderful and everything, but well, one must be practical as well you know", she continued.
"Practical, yes…" said Riddhima
I don't understand why Sapna can't marry him" Kripa said suddenly in her sweet husky voice.
"Kripa!!! How can you say such an idiotic thing?" Sapna exclaimed angrily
"Whaaat!!!, I mean it's not like…."
"Kripa, Enough!"
"oh sweetie", said Harshini with her irritating fake accented drawl, it's Riddhima he wants, not Sapna"
Kripa shook her head, "it's the Name that's important. And Sapna is the next Gupta daughter; I don't understand why mom didn't suggest Her."
"Really Kripa," said Sapna angrily, "Of course mom couldn't say such an idiotic thing, besides even if I do get married, it will be to someone Very different"
"Actually I like a flirt, and he is sooo handsome, not to mention sexy," said Harshini who understood what Sapna meant.
"Well I think mom could have suggested Sapna"
Riddhima hugged her and said, "I know you want me happy darling, but it would have sounded very strange if mom had said that".
"Are u being forced in to this marriage Ridzy?" Harshini asked in a sickly sweet voice eager to scent out potential gossip.
"Not at all Harshini, you know how sweet and understanding mom is"
Of course, of course, aunty's an angel, I knew she would never do such a thing" Harshini replied quickly and in a totally fake voice disappointed by her failure to scent out a scandal.
"Yeah right!!! Cow" muttered Kripa under her breath
"Kripa!!!" hissed Sapna who had unfortunately heard her, but Kripa just tossed her head and ignored her middle sister. She worshipped Riddhima who was more like a mother to her than an elder sister. The relations b/w Sapna and her was more prickly, all three sisters shared a deep love but Sapna was rather prim and proper and extremely particular about minding the 'Ps and Qs' and would often get exasperated at her younger sister who was tended to be distressingly frank at times.
I'm sorry guys, I know I promised to introduce Armaan in this chapter but it's the monsoons here in Kerala and I've come down with a fever and I'm feeling extremely miserable n woolly headed right now🤢. My brains' stopped working completely😕. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow and can continue then.
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