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

time, she asked her to go and see who was at the door. With the mask on the face, Reema went to the door and opened it. The man at the door was initially shocked to see her with the facial mask. When he told her that he had brought the provisions, she asked him leave it in the hall and go. The same person when Reema met at the store could not hide his laugh and shared his experience with his colleague. But Reema did not take it seriously and brushed it aside. So from that time onward whenever they came to her house on Sundays got used to her facial masks.

Instead of hiding behind the door, Reema simply walked out and spoke to anyone who called at the door. The same thing happened on that day also. Vel who was returning to his home thought he would make a visit to her house and stopped at her house. When Reema came to open the door, he did not recognize Reema and asked her if Reema was at home.
Reema could not control her laughter and started to laugh loudly.

“What happened?” Vel could not understand what made her laugh like that. “I asked where is Reema?”

“I am Reema.” She stopped laughing for a while and told him.

“Oh, just like to scare crows, you want to scare people not dropping at your place?” Vel posed a question. 

“Yes, to scare away unwanted visitors at unwanted time.”

“Oh, then am I unwanted here. Ok, I am leaving, good bye.” Without waiting for Reema to answer,

Vel turned and started to climb down the steps.

Reema’s mother who was at the kitchen came to the front door.

“Come inside, have some coffee, and go.” Reema’s mother called him.

“How is your mother? How is your father? When is your sister getting married?” Reema’s mother did not even give sometime for him to answer one question at a time.

“She is good, aunty. I will come some other day, I just wanted to wish you and uncle.” Without waiting, Vel started the bike and left Reema’s home.

“Reema, go and take your bath.” Reema’s mother screamed at her.

“Ma, it is Sunday, what is the need to hurry.” Reema took the weekly magazine and sat down at the steps in the backyard. She always loved to sit and watch the sparrows that went on chatting with each other continuously. It was a treat to watch them.

The male sparrow looked small when compared to the female sparrow. The female sparrow looked bigger than the male sparrow and it kept on talking loudly to other sparrows.

Reema parked her Scooty at the shed in the space at the side of their house. She lost count of time by watching those little sparrows that kept on flying around the rear view mirror of the bike. One by one the sparrows flew to the mirror and looked at their reflection. Then they all flew in a group and looked at the mirror in a group. It looked as if one by one looked into the mirror and showed the other sparrow how good it looked. Reema read in a magazine that the sparrows do like that during their mating season. It is as if trying to show the female bird, how handsome he looked when compared to the other male sparrow in the group.
Sometimes they talked so loudly and made her shout, ‘Hi, don’t shout, can’t you keep quiet for a while?” They kept quiet for a while as if they have listened to her as their master. But within seconds, once again they started to shout loudly and made the place vibrating with their love cheer.

Every Sunday turned out to be a relaxing day for Reema. She did not want to hurry up and do things in the routine way and wanted to sit and enjoy life as it would be.

For a moment, Vel looked at the clouds that slowly spread across the sky. More than thousands of travelers faced untold misery after most of the air planes were suspended in and out of UK. Scientists warned that the eruption from the volcano could continue for months and cause unexpected travel chaos. Vel never expected his traveling plans would suddenly turn into such a chaos. In another two days, he desperately wanted to reach his office and participate in the annual routine Christmas celebration along with his colleagues. Every year he got the chance to play the game with a male colleague only.

This year he got the chance to play the game with an unknown female colleague and he desperately wanted to know who that was. The much awaited foreign trip came in his way but he was much reluctant to take the trip. Half-heartedly he accepted to go on this foreign trip, but never dreamed that it would turn into such a mess and made him feel home-sick.

British airways cancelled all long and short-haul flights in and out of UK. The long queues at the air-port to check and find out from the help desk to know what he could do next made him feel tired and frustrated. If he had been at the place of his meeting, somehow he would have made arrangements to extend his stay at the company guest house there and think about a way out for the sudden crisis.

Things happened the other way round. Vel got the flight at the scheduled time from the town where the meeting took place and when he reached London all his connecting flights stood cancelled. The people who were stranded like him waited patiently for hours till the air-port authorities made some emergency arrangements.

Some people gave him the idea to take a flight that was available to a destination from where he could get a connecting flight. But when he heard even the flights to France, Germany, Belgium, Swiss and Poland also stood cancelled due to the spreading clouds of ash, he decided to wait.

For Vel that was a welcome break. Usually every day rushed ahead with hectic schedules and made his life meaningless and monotonous. But now he had the entire day ahead of him without any urgent commitments and he was free to do whatever he liked to do.
Yet, such a break brought some restrictions also along with it. In order not to the miss the immediate next flight, he was forced to wait within the air-port waiting lounge. Within the enclosed space, Vel was forced to spend the next twenty four hours.
Fortunately, he carried his lap top along with him. He spent most of the time chatting with his friends at Chennai. He desperately wanted Reema to come online so that he could talk to her and tell her frankly what he thought about her. But, Reema never came online and that made him feel more tensed and worried.

When Vel was checking his mails, he happened to see one of the mails sent by Reema.

It read like this.

You can do this to bring new opportunities in your life.

The energy of the flame will help to draw new opportunities.

Abundance Candle Spell
• A green candle
• Cinnamon oil
• Vanilla oil or extract
• A large denomination coin

Use something sharp to carve the word "Wealth" along the side of the candle and then anoint the word with cinnamon and vanilla. Put the coin in the bottom of your candle holder, set the candle in over top. Light the candle and let it burn down completely. When the candle is done, leave the wax-covered coin in a safe place to help bring money into your life.
Vel was quite surprised to know how Reema believed in all these things. Yet, he could not deny, after he did that only, he got the opportunity to travel abroad.

November months are cold months. The evening became darker quickly and the people returning back home wanted to reach their places to enjoy the warmth of four walls.

Reema stepped out of the office. Down from the horizon the full moon was rising with its cold rays. The cold rays of the moon made the place still chiller. The people who rarely used sweaters to protect them from the chill cold wind, shivered in the evening sea breeze. Everyone could see a sudden change in the weather.

Common people who were so used to the scorching sunrays did not mind using a thin shawl to cover them now realized the difference. Why is it happening so now?

Is it due to global warming or due to the heavy rains that lashed the city continuously for more than a week? Reema could not tell the real reason for this change. She felt uncertainty in the air, and the whole world desperately looked forward to the changes that can happen in the future. To think deeply about these things, at times made her feel pessimistic and wished something must happen soon to make her feel optimistic about the coming future.

The attitude toward life has changed and everyone was selfish and much self oriented toward their achievements and goals. No one had the time to stand and see why people suffer or struggle to make their life happy and comfortable. Prolonged hours of work at the work place made the life monotonous. Even sleep evaded these unlucky people and only terrifying dreams visited them in their sleep. At heart they always felt that there is no happiness or contentment in life, and every day started with an opening that unveiled only woes.

Reema looked at the moon on the sky. She could see a bright star in the eastern sky. She remembered that is to be the planet Venus. For Reema, Venus, the goddess of love looked brilliantly white along with the bright yellow colored full moon. She thought about the spell she has to do on a full moon day.

Shimmering Silver Spell

Reema performed this spell on the night of the full moon. It must be a clear night so the light of the moon actually comes in through the window. The materials needed are:

• A cauldron
• 7 basil leaves, fresh
• Water, rain or spring
• 1 silver coin

Reema used a ceramic bowl (not metal for this one), and the coin must have silver in it. An old dime is a good choice.

Then she put the coin in the bottom of the ceramic bowl and poured water over it. She filled it at least half full. The bowl can be set in a window or on a table so that the moonlight shines on it.

One at a time, drop the basil leaves into the water, and say:

By the light of the moon
Bless me soon
Water and silver shine
Wealth be mine

Reema left the bowl under the clear sky with the full moon until the next morning, and then she poured the water and basil out in the yard. She then carried the coin in her purse and kept it inside her handbag.

She walked slowly accompanied by her own thoughts. As she was scary to drive her bike in the traffic, she preferred to take public transport or take an auto to reach home. When she reached the main road, she felt suffocated and her lungs desperately yearned for fresh air. The air fully laden with particles spewed out from the smoke of running vehicles irritated