Chapter 39: chapter 39

THE SILENT LOVE ...Chapter 38 :Meenakshi came to the living room while reprimanding her,“How many times I told you, hold that word for your husband. If you call me the same after marriage, your husband will think otherwise”.Swetha giggled for her words and stood on her feet  while keeping her new dress on her front showing to Meenakshi.“Meenu! How does the dress look on me? Chandu! How is it?”, directed her question to both the elderly people.Meenakshi gaped at her in amazement,reached Swetha  and while squeezing her cheek, praised,“You will look very gorgeous in this dress. Everyone in the party will feel that an angel has come from heaven after seeing you”.“Yes! Meenu is correct. You will look like an angel in this dress. You will make all the young men  fall head over heels for you”,praised Chandra Mohan.Swetha looked at them and pouted her lips saying,”You people were teasing me by exaggerating the things. I don’t like any men seeing me  or flirting with me”.Sreekar lips parted unknowingly while seeing her gestures. He stood straight and   slowly descended the steps one by one without making any sound with crossed arms.“No princess. They were telling the truth. Really the young men in the party wil queue up to make friends with you”, exclaimed Rohan, who just entered the house.Everyone turned towards his direction whereas Swetha complained,“You too joined them. I have become a  teasing stalk for you. I will not show you my dress. I am going”, folded the dress and was about to put it back into the cover.Rohan rushed towards her and took the dress from her hand. He opened it slowly and kept it  on her to have a look at it.“Oh my goodness. Your beauty will radiate more by wearing this dress. You will become the attention in the party rather than the birthday boy”, commented Rohan.“Rohan …!”, yelled Swetha,while blushing.“But you  should change your hairstyle to look more radiant. What do you say Rasi?”,queried Rohan, while folding the dress properly.“Yes! If we make it up to her shoulder, dangling like a waterfall, it looks more bright,replied Rasi“Wh ..., what? No way. I am not going  to shorten my hair”, refused Swetha.Rohan and Rasi both stood in front of her and  suggested,“But you look stunning in that style. Believe us”.Swetha immediately took a  few steps, back almost going near the staircase and held her braid to her front side and announced Proudly,“Whatever tricks you play, You can’t make me shorten my hair. I love it from the bottom of my heart  and it has become a part of me. I dreamed of having a long braid from my childhood and I took good care to get  it. You couldn’t succeed in convincing me to shorten my hair. Understand? My braid is my pride. I will never lose it”, smiling proudly, she threw her braid to her back looking at  them with determination. Everyone gasped heavily and stared at her as if she had come from another planet. They all  froze in their place with jaws hung open which bewildered Swetha. Swetha watched them  scrutinizing their looks and realized that they were watching her  back and turned back to see what made them so amused. But she took a wrong turn which made her bump into someone because of her braid.Sreekar almost reached the last step and was about to take a step ahead when Swetha reached the staircase explaining about her efforts to get such a long braid. He stood still unable to move as she was   just in front of  him. When she threw her braid back,it sneaked around his neck which made him  dumbstruck, unable to react to the situation.Swetha threw her braid from her right side and by seeing the family member’s horror expression she turned back from  her left side which made the braid tightened and fell on his chest.  It looks like they both were tied with her braid.