Chennai blues - I

"Hey, watch out", screamed Arjun as a Forrester zipped past their small Corolla. "Whatever happened to you. Do you realize this is I70 and not your panagal park main road where there is no lane discipline". Pramod didn't utter a single word. "Take exit 204 and I'm gonna drive after that".

"Susan...I don't know how she is now?"

Arjun set the cruise control and glanced over "Why what happened to her?"

"No da...We had a small misunderstanding"

"What business do you have with American women? You don't even talk to our desi girls"

"I tried to convince her but she would not accept anything"

Arjun took exit 197 and stopped the car in the 'Sonic' parking lot.

"Are you ok? I don't quite understand what you are saying. Whats going on between you and Susan? What doesn't she accept?"

"Boss. She wants to marry me and will not take any amount of reasoning why it cannot work that way"

Six months is indeed a long time. Arjun finished his last project and went back to Chennai to take care of some family stuff and Pramod continued in the same apartment 'coz he was sure of Arjun's return. Bored without company he joined the neighborhood gym and started taking aerobics lessons. Susan had her share of rhythm troubles with step aerobics and so the instructor set up separate times for Pramod and Susan. The typical south Indian good boy he was, he could not help notice that Susan was cute. She was around his age and seemed to be very quiet for the average American. Pramod liked ogling at her but never tried to initiate any conversations until Susan stopped him after class one day and said, "Hey, I'm Susan."

"Hi...I'm Pramod Rangarajan. You can call me Pramod"

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Story...to be continued