"You! What?? Pregnant??" she said jumping on her feet with her mouth fell open. And at that moment my senses hit me.
"What pregnant?? No no!! I'm not pregnant. I'm just gonna get married", I said lowering my head.
My mom covered her eyes with a hand and then raised her chin. She put her hand away and looked at me. She glared at me and said, "Are you sure it's only marriage?? No pregnancy is involved?? Listen, you would have better not done anything to shame us". She threw me a warning look. I swallowed.
"No mom. Trust me it's only marriage. No pregnancy or anything immoral is related to it. You know that I can never do anything that will bring shame on my family", I said throwing my hands in the air.
She inspected me for a while before saying anything. And when she was done with her inspection she said, "Who is the groom?? It's not that Nil right??"
"Nope!! It's Raidan", I said as fast as I could.
"Oh Raidan..!! OK, when is the wedding?" she said letting out a breath of relief. It seemed as if a huge pressure was lifted up from her.
"I'm not sure but I guess at the end of the week. But what do you mean by 'oh Raidan'??" I said narrowing my eyes.
"Come on, we all have been hearing about Raidan from you since you were 13. Now that you have finally found him and going to get married to him, what should I worry about? I couldn't possibly be more happier because finally your dream is coming true".
Her mouth curved into a smile as she said that. And this was one of her those assuring and comforting smile. I also shyly smiled feeling like finally things were getting easier.
"But you still haven't even showed us a picture of him. Do you think that's right? Shouldn't you at least introduce us given the fact that he will be our son-in-law?? Why don't you just bring him here to introduce us with him?" she said , her eyes glowed.
"That's right. I should do it, right? Okay I'll discuss it with him and let you know. All right mom, that's enough of catch up for today. I need to get back to my study now. I need to go to the club within an hour. So, I've got tons of things to do", I said with a grin. She kissed me goodbye and hung the call.
Now I need to do some work on that case , the one Mr. Bailey had assigned us. I've had worked on it for around 3 am last night. Lots of information has been found. There are many similar cases like this one. I was disgusted while working on it, seeing how worse people are.
"Hey senorita!!" B said with a wicked smile as I walked through the door of our club. I closed my eyes in irritation and held out my hands in the air gesturing a no.
"B!!! I've told you a million of times to not call me senorita. I completely hate that word", I said being completely irritated. I shot him a warning look. He held out his hands in the air in defense.
"Listen jokes apart, but I heard that you are getting married to Raidan!! So, how you feel? Happy?? Ecstatic??" he said with smirk.
"I don't feel anything yet, maybe I'll feel something after getting married with him", I said with a shrug.
"Oh really?? Man you impressed me!! Isn't it wonderful how", even before he could complete his sentence B was stopped by A.
"Gather around everybody, I've got announcements to make", A said clapping his hands. We all gathered around, only R and M was missing.
"Where is the captain and co-captain? Won't they be attending this announcement making?" Ruri said with a dulled expression.
"No, they are in the middle of an important process of their research, so they won't be joining us. In fact we will make this announcement inside the lab so that they can hear it too. Any more questions?" S clarified and looked at everyone to see if anyone had any question.
No one said anything so he said, "No questions I see. Ok let's go to the lab now".
Inside the lab R was making report about the progress of the project and M was busy with the microscope. As we walked in they only lifted their eyes to look at us once and then again they got themselves busy with their works.
"Is everybody here?" A said pretending as if he already hadn't seen all of us present here.
"I see everybody is. Ok so, the first announcement is, a while ago I was informed that the we'll have to do an interview with the Oxford news. They'll be here tomorrow. So prepare yourself properly. And girls please doll up, cause you don't give the vibe of girls. And the second announcement is that, the case professor Bailey had informed us about, will be dropped. So stop working on it, if any of you have already started working on it. All right announcements done. Now get back to your work", he finished , resting his hands on his hip.
"Announcement is done I understand. But what did you say about us??", Hope said, eyeing A hard.
A swallowed and said, "No offense. That was just a suggestion". A clenched his teeth.
Everybody went back to their work but I was still standing there too shocked about the case dropping to move.
"Is there any problem D?" A asked, concerned.
"You are dropping the case? Why? It's an important case", I said with a frown.
"Yeah, it's maybe an important case but it's too common. So, we don't need to waste our time and effort in it", he said looking at me.
"Waste of time?? You made me laugh. What you are calling wasting time may be life saving for those kids, who are all alone in this world, with no one to look after them", my eyes welled up.
"We have dropped the case. It's over. End of discussion. Don't you understand this simple thing?" M said with his that sarcastic tone .
He looked at me with irritation. But I ignored him and looked at Raidan, hoping he would speak up for me and make a stand for those kids. But he said nothing. He looked as if he didn't even care. He was still making report avoiding all these things that were happening. Soon my hopeful eyes felt hopeless and my eyelids drooped.
I looked at the ground for a while and lift up my face only to say, "I've got classes and some other work so I won't be coming back today", and then I left the room.