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Ankita felt as if the smile that had
started off quite genuinely was plastered on her face since the past 2
hours. Her legs were aching with all
those sit-ups and her neck was stiff with all that jewellery and thick
rose-garland! Above all she was hungry
and dying to eat some grub. That is, if
all those unending guests would allow her to!
Why had their parents invited every one in town, she wondered and fumed!
She longed to escape from that fantastically decorated, spacious but over-crowded hall filled with raucous people and get some fresh air. She had always been a victim of claustrophobia, she silently admitted. Now she felt that she’d faint any minute. But she even knew that she wouldn’t! It was just an attack of nerves, as her friendly family doctor would patiently remind her, whenever she consulted him about her condition.
As evening turned to dusk and then to night, she started feeling more and more panicky. Her palms were clammy and her handkerchief had become wet due to her sweating.
The copyright of this story is with Mrs. Priya Ramesh Swaminathan.
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