"Hey pitaji." She said and gave him a hug, he smiled and patted her back. Mrs Jaimini wasn't too pleased with the way her daughter greeted her dad.
"I wonder how many more times I have to tell you that you should seek your elders blessings by touching their feet and not by hugging them? But you never listen to anything or is it that you..."
Jaimini!!! Mr Haanish called interrupting her.
"Enough! Jaimini, you shouldn't start scolding her so early in the morning. Don't you ever get tired? And you know how children are these days, their ways and thinking are now different from ours, so please allow my daughter to do whatever it is that she wants."
Mrs Jaimini was disappointed by her husband's reaction to it.
"I shouldn't be surprised, he never supports me anyways." Mrs Jaimini thought to herself and murmured.
"He keeps supporting her. A girl of her age should already be married but she is still at home with us and he keeps saying she should do whatever she wants. The people of our society will not keep quiet concerning this matter and he should know that. They will question our upbringing and also mock us." Mr Haanish heard what she was saying and said to her.
"Let it be, Jaimini." But Mrs Jaimini ignored him and continued talking, this time she spoke out loud.
"She keeps clingying to her past and doesn't want to move on and that's why she insist on not getting married to any man we choose for her. Even though we allowed her to bring a man home herself. Something no other parents would allow. She still hasn't brought anyone till today. Anyways I have said all I can, the rest is for you to deal with as her father."
Mr Haanish saw that she wasn't ready to keep quiet and he didn't want to continue the conversation, so he ignored her. She stared at him disbelief
"He left me to keep talking to myself." She murmured angrily and then sighed seeing that her words had no effect.
"Hetvi! Get the ladoos from the kitchen please." Mrs Jaimini said to Hetvi after a while of being quiet. Hetvi left what she was doing and wanted to make her way to the kitchen when Hinal stopped her and said.
"I will get it."
Hinal went into the kitchen but couldn't stop thinking about what her mom said.
"Why can't that mother of mine leave me alone." Hinal murmured. She wondered why her mom would bring up the topic about her past suddenly. She didn't think she would hear anyone talk about her past for a long time.
"And marriage, doesn't she know anything other than marriage." Hinal said and stamped her feet on the floor.
But thinking about marriage made Hinal laugh. She must have been the first lady in the whole of India to have rejected so many marriage proposal. Well slyly not directly.
She hoped no man in Ahmedabad would dare make an attempt to marry her again.
The memories of the things she did to make them go away and stop her alliances made her chuckle. It was indeed hilarious.
Hinal had received ten proposals in the last eight months and each proposal was a total fail. Well because she made them a total fail.
It was never the faults of the young and really nice men. Rather, it was the fault of Hinal who secretly made them run away.
She recollected her first marriage proposal eight months ago.