Dressing up on occasions is a fun time for me and my little sister. Well, we are girls and no matter how much we dislike dolling ourselves up, once in a while we do want to look pretty!

Mira wanted to wear a pink ruffle lehenga with a dark blue blouse. She wanted to have minimal makeup and her hair in a messy bun. After helping her with her makeup and hairdo I started getting ready. I decided to wear a dark blue lehenga set with a golden floral designed dupatta. I decided to wear golden jhumkas with a thin chain and my favorite golden bracelet ring along with a thin golden waist chain. I don't know why but I love thin accessories like bracelets, waist chain and anklets. I prefer accessories over heavy jewellery any day. I put my hair in a half updo and let it down in waves. I don't prefer makeup much since my skin has its natural glow so I just applied a nude matte lipstick, some mascara and I am good to go. Looking at myself in the mirror I started admiring myself. I used to have a lot of insecurity issues when I was a teenager. I have a fair complexion, and I am 5'5 so I don't think I am that small. I have a slim but curvy body, my stomach is flat with a bit of baby fat but, I am gifted with good amount of fat in my assets. My boobs are a 38C and my ass is huge with my hips flaring out a bit. Told you I am curvy. The teenage me had a lot of issues with my body but I learned to find beauty within myself. My dad always said I look exactly like my mother and my mother is beautiful so why should I think any less of the fact that I am beautiful?

As I was busy lost in my thoughts I heard someone whistling and turned around to see my sister looking at me mischievously.

"Wow di! you look beautiful! I bet all the boys will lose their minds looking at you!" She exclaimed rounding me up making me blush. I am not at all good at compliments and my cheeks started heating up. "Shut up Miru nothing like that will happen! and you look so gorgeous that maybe you should worry about making those boys lose their minds on you" I said looking at her. My sister is a beautiful girl indeed with her dark brown eyes and petite yet curvy form. She is a little heartbreaker!

"Well what can I say? I am beautiful and boys obviously will go crazy on me but, bad for them cuz' I ain't hitting on them" My sister said flipping her hair with a smirk. My sis is really confident as well. We laughed at our conversation and went down to see my dad and brother waiting for us.

"Oh my god! finally! I thought you guys will come after the wedding is completed. Why did you come down even now? you should have come down after an hour or two!" My brother said throwing his hands up in exaggeration.

"Bro did you see this? It takes time to attain this perfection. And anyway you wont understand this because you are dumb" My sister said pointing at herself.

"Whatever. Just because you caked your face up with makeup it can't hide your stupid ugly face. Perfection means this, little brat" My brother said smugly pointing at himself. My sister scowled at him and before I can intervene she turned towards dad pouting while the latter looked on amusingly.

"DAD! See bhai! he is calling me ugly!" She said stomping her feet to him and making crying faces. Dad laughed and said "Stop pulling my princess' leg Vikram. She is looking beautiful and Adira beta you look gorgeous" Dad said looking at me adoringly making me smile.

"Thank you dad now shall we leave or else we will be very late" With that we all left for the wedding.

As soon as we entered the place the atmosphere totally changed into a festive mode. Rajesh uncle and aunt Sarala the bride's parents welcomed us as we entered.

"Welcome Anand!" uncle said hugging my dad.

"Welcome beta you both look so beautiful and Vikram what a handsome man you have become!" aunt said hugging the three of us. We went inside and saw many of our relatives already there.

"Where is Amla bhabhi and Praveen bhaiyya Adira?" aunty asked me as we sat down.

"They went on a vacation unexpectedly and couldn't return back early so, they asked me to convey their apologies to you aunty" She said it was fine and that they could meet later. Amla ma and Praveen pa are my dad's older brother and sister-in-law. They have two sons, my cousin brothers. They both love me and my siblings as if we are their own. They went on a vacation to Hawaii and are going to return back next week.

The wedding was taking place in the XYZ gardens. The place was decorated beautifully and it is buzzing with laughter and joy. As the eldest daughter according to the societal norms I have to always greet everyone around whenever I am in a function. Since, my mother passed away it was expected of me. I don't like it much because I like to stay in my element some times but I do it for dad. He likes me and my siblings mingling with our relatives.

I go and greet my aunt's and uncles, and my cousin's. My sister is playing with the kids making me smile. My baby is still a baby!

As I was greeting people I heard my name being called and looked around to see my dad calling me over. I excused myself and went to my dad. I can see the back of some people. And from my analysis there is a man same age as my dad, a lady who is probably his wife, and a young man who appears muscular from his back. I reach my dad and see my bhai also beside him.

"Ji papa you called?" He motioned towards the couple and introduced them

"Beta this is Rajeev Dixit and his wife Sharmila Dixit. They are my close friends from college. We used to be a big gang during our college days. Even your Mom and Sharmila are very close friends. And this is Arjun, their son. Do you remember them? You met them when you were a small child!"

I greeted the couple and turned to their son and froze. I haven't noticed him untill now but oh my goodness! He is the most gorgeous man I have ever seen in my life! It's like he is the Greek-God himself. God really took his time making this fine specimen. He has fair and tanned skin tone, his face is sharp and damn! His jaw can give competition to a knife. His eyes are the most intense eyes I have ever seen. They are black and the type of black which pulls you into them. His body is not lean and not buff. It is muscular suggesting he works out very often.

I realised I was checking him out and cleared my dirty thoughts away and turned back to the couple beside him.

"I remember meeting you guys. Not entirely but you gave me chocolates when you came!" I exclaimed saying the first thing that came to my mind and mentally face palmed myself. I just sounded like a kid god!

Everyone started laughing at me and aunty pulled me into a warm hug.

"You look exactly like your mother. Beautiful and innocent. It feels like your mother is alive in the form of you beta" She said caressing my face lovingly.

Listening to her my eyes became misty. My mother was a very amazing woman. Even though she wasn't there with me my whole life, the time I spent with her is enough to tell me how good a mother she is and I will always cherish her memories.

I smiled at aunty warmly and asked:

"I don't remember seeing you after that one time! Why is that aunty?"

"We shifted to New York for Rajeev's business and we returned back last year to India for good this time. I am so glad we met! It's been so many years since I have seen all of you and you sure did grew a lot since the last time I saw you three" aunt said smiling towards me, bhai and Mira who joined us a few moments ago.

In all this conversation I can feel someone's eyes on me and I can sense who they belong to. Arjun is intently looking at me but I am not able to meet his eyes. For some reason he is making me all jittery and nervous and very shy.

Soon after talking for a while we all parted ways promising to be in touch. While leaving I looked at him to see that he is staring at me and suddenly he smirked at me making my eyes go wide at how sexy I found that smirk and I turned away.

What is wrong with you Adira. Stop acting like a pervert!

As we reached our home I freshened up and went to bed. I layed on bed that night and all I could think of is what if my intuition is telling me about this. About meeting him. But then I brushed those thoughts away deeming them silly and dozed off.

Only sleep was far away as endless pool of black is swimming in my mind.