‘You fixed everything. Thank you so much,’ she said, her voice super-excited.
‘What did I do?’ I blinked sleepily.
‘Don’t pretend! You should have at least told me.’
‘Told you what?’
‘That your dad is coming up to Chennai,’ Ananya said.
‘What?’ I said and woke up in an instant.
‘Stop behaving like a dumbo. He spent seven hours with my parents yesterday.
He assured them that I would be treated like a daughter and apologised for any
past misgivings.’
‘My dad?’ I tried for clarification.
‘Yeah, my parents feel so much better after meeting him. In fact, they asked me
if I have a date in mind. Can you imagine?’ Ananya spoke so fast, it was hard to
catch her words.
‘Huh, really?’ I said.
‘Oh wake up properly and call me. I love you, baby. Sorry about the day before,
I’d been so disturbed.’
‘Me too,’ I said.
‘What? You too love me or you too are disturbed.’
‘Both,’ I said, ‘but wait, my dad came to your house?’
‘You seriously didn’t know.’
‘No,’ I said.
‘Wow,’ she said, ‘please thank him from my side.’
I went to my parents’ room. They were still asleep. I don’t know why, but I did a
totally sappy thing. I slid right into the middle and put an arm around them both.
In a minute, I was fast asleep.
I woke up five hours later, at ten. My parents were not in the room. I sprang out