Shreya's eyes watered without her knowing as she remembered her mother… she did not even realize it until Charan looked up at her and asked alarmed, "Hey, why are you crying suddenly?"
CHaran looked at her surprised. Even when it was not the first time he had actually seen her crying, this sure was the first time that had happened without a prior reason.
Shreya shook her head and wiped them away pretty quickly and ushered him out of her room, "I was not crying… just some hair went in. Is all! Come on, let's get going. We will be late… we cannot be late for your own sister's dinner party right?" She then pushed him from behind towards the living room.
Charan tried to stop and take another look at her, but Shreya never gave him the chance.
Today, Adam and Preethi got their marriage certificate.
Charan's parents fixed an auspicious date and time and fixed it today at noon… Anyways, Adam and John did not believe in stuff like that, so they agreed with whatever Preethi's parents decided.
There was no ceremony as of yet since Adam's mother and sister are still out of the country without any means to reach them… SO, both the parents discussed and decided to conduct the ceremony when Adam's mother and sister are back home but since Adam did not want to delay the marriage itself anymore, they decided on just registering it.
And, tonight, just family and friends are gathering to having a simple dinner at the Imperial.
Shreya had reserved a mini hall and arranged a very grand dinner. She personally set up everything and planned a surprise of sorts for Adam and Preethi.
So, all the decorations and everything was top-notch. Even though she, herself, personally was pretty lazy, she had personally managed the Imperial from its inception. So, professionally, she knew the ins and outs of these things.
And it was Charan's sister's marriage dinner… she cannot possibly stingy.
So, the hall she had arranged was decorated to its best. It was decorated to be comfortable and very elegant instead of looking grand and luxurious. She did not want to put too much pressure on Charan's family by making it too grand.
One look at the hall, you can see the amount of effort she had put into it…
The flowers and cutlery… everything just fit in.
Shreya, instead of arranging small tables for each family, actually put together several tables together to make it into one huge table that can actually fit in all the people coming today… Anyways, there were only about 30 people coming tonight…
John did not really invite many people. He did not have any close relatives… just Anand's family and Shreya while Charan's side of the family was also very limited.
"I never saw a more shameless host whole comes fashionably late for something she herself had taken the responsibility to host!!" Kabir's voice complained as soon as Shreya entered the hall.
Once pulling away, Shreya complained shamelessly, "Anyways, I was not the one to blame for today's delay anyways. It was your friend who took too long to doll me up… He said I was not presentable in sweats!!"
Kabir couldn't help roll his eyes at her antics as he asked sarcastically, "If this was dolling you up, what are you going to do when you get married and all??"
Even when her first marriage was highly publicized by the media and the public, Shreya never had a ceremony… and they all thought it was probably because Shreya couldn't bear to do it so close to losing her parents.
So, she did not yet have to go through the trouble of having to doll up in front of relatives and friends to be shown off.
"I will deal with it when the time comes… anyways, where is your wife?" Shreya asked looking around.
Even when she was late, she was not that late… only a few people had come as of yet and she did not recognize any of them…
Charan's parents were entertaining them. So, Shreya did not bother them yet…
Kabir pointed at a corner where his family was… Shreya instantly abandoned him and went away.
Shreya really had some sort of magic when dealing with women around her… Kabir did not know how Shreya did it. But just after one day of getting along, both his and Ajay's wives were charmed silly by Shreya… and Shreya really liked them too given how much she had pampered them… All three went out on a shopping trip and their wives came back with their hands full. And knowing how much Shreya hated shopping, she really sacrificed too much that day…
So, Kabir was not surprised when Shreya went ahead with a silly grin on her face as she approached his own wife…
Growing up, even when she had Bhavna, she did not really have a big girls group or anything of that sort. Just her personality made it hard for getting closer to girls. Even though she had Zeenath, she was also her employee which was not the same. So, now whenever she got a chance to be around women she can get along with, Shreya pounced on the opportunity pretty quickly.
The hall started filling up and in no time everyone arrived and were seated. Both Adam and Preethi sat at the head of the table since it was their day while Shreya sat with the children… And of course, Bharath also shamelessly tagged along.
Charan was obviously busy attending to guests. After all the commotions settled down, Shreya asked her people to start serving dinner.
John toasted for the newlywed and started the dinner…