Chapter 80

She realized how much she had needed the coffee to relieve the stress and enjoyed every sip of it. The garlic sticks that accompanied the coffee were equally refreshing and fresh, she guessed that it must be from the nearby bakery, a family run business; she couldn’t remember the name though. When the coffee cup touched a saucer on the table, it made a noise that echoed through out the room and she just realized how silent everyone had been in the room for the past half hour.

Chari and his wife seemed a little restless and were waiting either her or Pryag to break the silence. Pryag tried to ignore his surroundings by burying his head inside a magazine. Diya broke the silence by complementing Chari’s wife on the coffee, but the conversation went nowhere and ended with a smile as an acknowledgment. Her cell phone rang and she excused herself and stepped out of the room for some privacy.

After fifteen minutes when she came back into the room, Pryag was gone and Chari and his wife still seemed restless and she realized that there is nothing to talk about if Pryag was not there, since she wanted him to be the one to tell his parents about the situation and she just wanted to be there for moral support. Somehow she felt out of place used the phone call as an excuse to get out of there.