Raining Love for Her by Kalai Selvi Arivalagan (digital e reader .TXT) 📕

mother is an excellent cook and the lunch tasted extremely good and Vel loved eating the food as it tasted different from the way his mother cooked their food.

“Thanks for a tasty lunch, Caroline.”

“Welcome. Shall we start our work?”

“I feel heavy. Just let me relax.” Vel replied her with a lethargic tone.

“So shameless to eat whatever you get.” Reema sneered at Vel.

“Yes. I am shameless. This is not your place.” Vel gave back her without waiting for her to complete the sentence.

“Oh, my god, what is happening here? I always find you fighting with each other.” Caroline replied to their conversation.

“Leave her. Let her go to hell. We will start building the crib.” Vel moved over to the place where the crib has to be kept and started to work on it. He never answered any of the questions from Caroline or Reema and was completely involved in his work.

“Reema, do you mind having some soup?” Caroline looked at Reema who was busy painting.
Reema looked at Vel and smiled at him. “Here is your favorite.” Vel did not respond to her remark.

“Caroline, go and bring a bowl filled with thin clear soup. That is his favorite.”

“I want people to mind their own business. If I need, I will ask.”

“What is happening here? Reema come along with me, we will bring the bowls here.” Caroline dragged Reema and took her inside the kitchen.

“Add more pepper in his bowl. Let him feel it hot.” Reema whispered to Caroline.

“If you want to have more of pepper, add it to your bowl, why are you teasing him?” Caroline answered her back.

“Wow, what a flavor, it smells so delicious.” Vel sounded cheerful when he smelled the soup.

“Hi, it is delicious. Who prepared this? I think you did not.” Vel queried Caroline.

“My mom is a specialist in preparing soups. Today she has prepared her favorite chicken soup.”

The next fifteen minutes went away in discussing how to prepare various kinds of soup. Slowly the conversation turned its focus on preparing chocolates.

“Vel, do you know, my mom prepares delicious chocolates at home.” Caroline announced proudly.

“Is it so? I love chocolates. I love to eat chocolates. I love to drink chocolates. Chocolates in all forms is my all time favorite.”

“Wonderful.” Caroline hit on Vel’s extended right hand and both of them broke into loud laughter. Reema did not join their laugh, but fumed with anger.

“Aye, what is there to laugh so loudly?” Reema mockingly showed gestures at both of them.

“Reema you also like chocolates. Then why don’t you join us?” Caroline called Reema.

“Not interested. Go to hell with your chocolates.” Reema turned her back to them and continued to paint.

When they completed the work it was nine in the night.

“Reema, why don’t you stay tonight here? Call your mom and tell her. Or else I will call and talk to her.” Caroline wished Reema to stay at her home as next day was Sunday.

“Caroline, can you get an auto and send her home? Her dad is not at home now. Let her stay some other day.” When Reema’s mother told Caroline to send Reema immediately, she could not tell anything.

Caroline started along with Reema to get an auto from the nearby auto stand. Unfortunately, on that day, the whole stand looked empty. No auto was there.

Caroline started to feel restless. “I must have asked you to start early. Sorry, Reema, I am really sorry.” Caroline could not stand the rigid stare from her mother also.

“Vel, do you mind dropping her at home?” Caroline requested Vel reluctantly.

“No problem, I don’t mind. But first ask your friend.” Vel replied her with a doubt.

Reema had to accept as she did not have any other option to reach home safely.

Caroline lived in the other part of the city, the extreme north. So, it always took more than 1 hour to travel down the road to reach the place where Reema lived.

Without any words, they travelled together silently for the first fifteen minutes. Initially, Vel tried to build a conversation with her, but she responded to him with one or two syllables. This clearly told Vel that she did not want to talk to him. Vel could not understand what happened to Reema so suddenly. There was always an unexpected change in the way she behaved toward him and he could not tell what made her to react like that.

Reema’s indifference irritated Vel to the core. He raised the speed gradually and touched the maximum speed in a short time. As the road was empty with a few vehicles here and there, Reema could feel the chilling cold breeze of the night.

The full moon was up in the sky. The entire place looked serene and beautiful with the cold rays of the moon. Reema loved watching the rising moon in the sky. At that time also, some couples walked down the road holding hands together enjoying the cool moon lit night. They were deeply engrossed in intimate conversation and unmindful of the people and vehicles around them, they looked enjoying their love walk.

“How it will be to go on a love walk like this on a moon lit night with Vel?” Reema could not help thinking like that. The thought brought a broad smile on her face. Though she wanted to share this thought immediately with him, she did not know how he will take it. If she gets snubbed for this, then she may not have the guts to talk again to Vel. So, she decided to keep her mouth shut.

Chapter 8

Reema could understand the changes that have started to happen within her. She very well knew it is also because of love hormones that made her feel love sick and wanted to be near her beloved always. Literally speaking, Reema had come out of her infatuation toward Vel, and had started to yearn for an intimate relationship with Vel. So she wanted to take every step cautiously and win his heart. She did not want to go wrong in any place, and lose Vel forever. Temporarily this thought phase drew a line between them and at the same time, Reema did not want to get his gap wider. Do not get emotionally attached to him so early. She kept on telling herself again and again. You must have your own space at any cost. Reema may be right in her thoughts, but that brought down the seriousness of their love life just like a brake on the bike.

Endorphins in Reema made her wish her relationship with Vel to be steady, warm, dependable, intimate and also a great sharing experience. Because of this Reema did not feel high and giddy with love, but felt stable and calm. She very well knew she yearned to be together with Vel always and did not want to be separated for a long time. Initially due to the sudden rush of adrenaline, Reema loved the idea of being in love. But when endorphins took over her, she started loving Vel.

Absorbed in these thoughts about love, Reema did not even know where both of them were. Suddenly, the bike stopped and Vel asked her to get down.

“Excuse me. You are now at your home. Will you please get down?”

Reema looked at Vel as if she was in a trance. “Thanks.” Reema climbed the steps without even waving back Vel. Totally confused by her behavior, Vel left the place wondering what happened to her for the past two days that started from the day they went on a trip.

Reema’s mother was angry with her. She did not expect Reema to return home so late.

“Why don’t you call and tell me you will be late?” She started once Reema got inside the house.

“Sorry, I forgot. I really didn’t think it will get so late.”

“Your brother has gone out of town. Your father is also not here. He had called so many times and he kept on scolding me. Hereafter, I am not going to allow you to go anywhere like this.”

“Ok, sorry, sorry. This will not happen again.” Reema apologized to her mother.

Reema drank her usual cup of milk and went to bed directly. It was already 11 pm and she did not want to go late to the office next day.

But, Reema could not sleep immediately. With all the lights switched off, she could hear only the noise made by the blades of the fan. The swishing sound of the blades accompanied her thoughts silently and it encouraged her to think more and more about Vel.

For a while, Reema kept on reading all kinds of stuff about love and relationship in the Internet. Reading articles that look at love and relationships in every angle that is possible gave more knowledge about love and what would be the expectations of men and women in their love life.

Is Vel a watcher or a poacher or a Tarzan? Thinking about Vel as a real Tarzan made her smile with a broad grin. Vel cannot be a watcher as a watcher is a man who is married or in a relationship. He just wants to attract women who are married or in a relationship. Vel cannot be a poacher for a poacher is a person who is materialistic and his love is not in depth and it is only on the surface. A poacher wants to know what she can give him or do for him. Before she understands his real intentions, she will be dragged into a situation that leaves her broken hearted that would take a long time to heal. A poacher wants to understand what she has in her deep soul and use it for his own.

Reema wanted Vel to be her Tarzan. Tarzan is a person who wants to understand his lady love and become a part of her world. Though he gets scratched or bit by her, he still wants to be with her and discover the love life and give a greater meaning to the life they live together. Tarzan wants to start their love life in their path that coincides at all levels and literally bring their worlds together to become one.

Similarly, when Reema started to think about her role in love and relationship, she could not tell who she is. Is she a tigress or a goddess or a maiden? Thinking herself as a tigress made her smile contentedly. One needs to be honest and know what she really wanted for her and her love life. The tigress is wild, protective and she is also beautiful. She is smooth and at the same time she is full of life, capable of bringing rhythm to the love life.

Thoughts about love made Reema more and more love sick. She struggled to find out a way that would make her feel comfortable and concentrate on her work. Even her dreams reflected the commotion at her love heart and that made her feel sleepless and tired. With her eyes closed, but her mind wide awake, Reema spent the time in disturbed sleep. She felt mentally weak but her face showed the love glow and told the world that she is much in love. When her mother reminded her that she