Chp 8 The first meeting （Engagement）
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Today is Sunday , the very day when the biggest decision of Kookie’s life will be made, the day from which her new life will begin.
The Jeon house was decorated with lights all over, and various types of flowers were placed everywhere.
It was as if the entire house had been adorned; garlands of flowers hung at the doorway, incense sticks were lit in the small temple in the house, all the curtains were newly put up, and the living room was beautifully arranged.
Mrs. Jeon was running here and there, making sure everything was perfectly prepared.
Although all the arrangements had been completed, she was still worried.
Minho had told her several times to rest, but she simply refused to listen.
Sometimes she would rush to the kitchen to check if the maid was cooking everything properly, and then she would hurry to Jungkook’s room , where Seojoon’s younger sister and her daughter were already there to help Jungkook get ready.
Today, the groom’s side was coming to see her, and the engagement would also take place today, so Jungkook felt a little nervous. She was worried about what was going to happen next, whether her life ahead would be good.
She was wearing a beautiful sari, which her aunt helped her put on, and her aunt’s daughter did her makeup. She looked stunning, almost like a celestial nymph, breathtakingly beautiful.
Meanwhile, Kook’s father had gone out to buy sweets.
He brought different varieties of sweets and also picked up a few items for the prayer ceremony.
He had already spoken with the priest, who was now seated in the small temple performing the rituals.
He brought sweets like ghewar, motichoor ke laddu, kaju katli, besan ke laddu, and jalebi.
All the decoration arrangements for the house were in Minho’s hands. He too was anxious, but he did not let it show on his face.
It was finnally time, Mr jeon, Mrs Jeon and Minho was standing outside of the house, with warm smile on their faces. An Aarti plate was held by Mrs Jeon, as she covered her head with her saree pallu
Soon cars stopped infront of them, first grandma, jiya and her daughter soya and jhope stepped out, grandma's yes sharp, gazing at the house attentively, she liked the way the jeona decorated the house like it's a festival.
From the second car, suga, jimin,and hyunbin came out, and from the third car, came out our hero, taehyung, along with his mother jihyo and sister yoona.
Minjun and his family didn't came and you all know the reason why, minjun declined saying he wouldn't even participate in the wedding which obviously made tae angry but he said nothing , he can't force anything on anyone, so he ket quite.
Mr jeon with a bright smile on his face joined his head and welcome everyone, Mrs Jeon one by one, applied tika on everyone's forehead and she and her husband bend down to touch grandma's feet, she smiled and blessed them, she already like the parents of the bride, because they were religious, we'll mannered, but she still wasn't quite sure about the bride.
Taehyung who was busy admiring the house, his gaze fell on Minho, who was smiling standing there like a laughing mannequin. His brows furrowed
"What is he doing here?"
He whispered, but yet he moved inside, Minho looked at him and he shivered because taes gaze was already on his.
He nervously looked here and there, soon Mrs Jeon offered them to sit on the couch, and soon pandit ji also came out of the mandir.
(I don't know anything about marriages so please bear with me????)
"Please call the bride now"
Pandit ji said while chanting some mantras, Mrs Jeon nodded as she went up to fetch kook, she entered inside the room and nearly cried looking at her beautiful daughter, her eyes got teary
"Jungkookie" she called out softly
"Eomma" kook turned around as she walked towards her eomma and hugged her, her aunt also tried to control her tears, kook's cousin Mira hugged her mother, crying thinking one day she also have to leave her everything behind to start a new life.
"My baby, you look so beautiful, may no evil eyes catches you"
Kook broke the hug looking at her mother
"Are they here?"
Mrs Jeon nodded, as she wiped her tears away.
"They're here, and your soo to be husband too"
Kook's heart beat got faster
"H..he's here?, eomma I'm looking good right, is there something not perfect, like is my hairstyle bad?, my nailpolish is pretty right?, is the colour of my saree not good?, tell me is there something not good?"
Mrs Jeon sighed as she let out a chuckle
"Everything is perfect, you're looking perfect, like a queen, come on let's go now, they're waiting "
Kook held her hand
"Eomma, I'm nervous " Mrs Jeon caressed kook's cheeks softly
"Don't worry my child, every good things will only happen to you, don't be nervous, eomma is with you"
Kook nodded
"Sona, come on let's go, and mira, you come too "
"Yeah bhabhi, we're coming "
Kook's aunt said, as Mrs Jeon walked forward with kook behind her, and her aunt and mira behind kook
Soon kook came down from the stairs in a beautiful saree making every eyes in the room fell on her. Tae usually the quite one, found himself unable to tear his gaze from his soon to be wifey
Kook shyly ligte9her eyelid up to look at them and caught her soon to be husband's eyes on her, she immediately looked down with cherry face
"Why is he staring?" Kook thought in her mind
Mrs Jeon made kook sit beside her and her husband.
"Namaste" kook said softly to everyone one present in the room, her soft voice was the only thing that tae could hear now, jihyo smiled softly looking at her soon to be daughter in law
Jimin,suga,jhope, eunchae,jihyo, and even hyunbin liked the bride but grandma's strict elgaze was still on kook ,studying her.
"Should we start?"
Pandit ji asked looking at every one, grandma gave a simple nod, soon all they could hear in the air was the chanting of mantras
" Now the bride and groom should apply tilak on eachother "
(I really don't know anything ??, please bear)
Tae and kook stood up, and stood beside eachother, Mrs Jeon forwarded a box of vermillion powder towards tae, he took the powder between his fingers and gently applied it on kook's forehead, kook's breath hitched, she frooze for a second
"Beta, now it's your turn"
Mrs Jeon's voice came, kook took the Powder inbetween her fingers, she turned to the man standing beside her, she then realised that she's shorter than the male, she turned and looked at her mother, tae seemed to understand her misery, slightly leaned forward a bit so kook can apply tilak, kook senses his move as she raises her hand and gently applied tilak on his forehead
"Now the groom’s family will give gifts (shagun) to the bride’s family."
Everyone stood up, jhope with practice hand forwarded the gifts they got for the brides family, three basket of fruits, sweets boxes, and packets of dry fruits to symbolize sweetness and good health, they even have a decorative box of vermillion powder to the bride, because after the marriage she needs it, and in other tray they had beautiful embroidery sarees and dhotis for the bride's parent.
After exchanging the gifts they all sat down on the couch again, and Mrs Jeon and jihyo handed the horoscopes of the bride and groom to the priest, who started to look into it very carefully.
"Pandit ji, now check the auspicious date for the wedding"
Pandit ji nodded as he looked into the horoscopes
"Madam, next month, on 17 October, is the perfect day"
" What!!, but it's barely a month"
"It is the only date, there is no such an auspicious moment again later."
All the elders nodded
"Okay than, next month on 17 October, is the wedding, fix the date pandit ji"
Grandma said, kook all the time was looking down staring her lap, tae gaze would roam for a second and everytime it will land on her, he tried to control his heart, why?
? because, the girl she saw in the picture was beautiful, too beautiful, but when he saw her face to face, he swear he saw the goddess in her, she was like a celestial nymph, a beautiful fairy draped in a beautiful saree, he wanted to scream, and tell the world that he's getting himself the most mannered and beautiful bride, but his cold demeanor refuses to do that, so here he was sitting like a practice robot, doing absolutely nothing, and just at his bride like a creep
Suga who was already enjoying this a little too much, why because he didn't experience anything like this in his and jimin's marriage, it was a dull, unwanted marriage for the family, but for him at that time, it was more than he ever wanted, his gaze shifted to jimin, who was sitting beside eunchae, silently watching everything, with a forced smiled on her face, his heart twitched, he didn't wanted to make jimin feel like this but yet he did, he pushed her away, mentally and physically both, he hurted her, but everytime when he yelled at her, blamed her for everything, ot was not him but his inner demon speaking, because his true self loved jimin way to much to even lift a finger towards her.
Jhope who was also enjoying everything, nudged suga
"Broo....our soon to be bhabhi is soo beautiful, look at elder brother, i think he forget how to even blink, he's just staring at her" he giggled behind his palm, but suga was too busy staring at jimin to even listen to his blabbering.
"Now the bride and the groom should together take blessings from the elders"
Tae nodded as he got up and kook shyly got up standing beside her not looking up, first they walked towards dadi, who with sharp features looked at them
They together bend down and touched her feet, she kept her hand on both of their head
"Be happy"
She said sharply, tae and kook leaned back standing and then walked towards Mr jeon and bend to touch their feet, Mr jeon with a smile kept their palm on their head
"Always stay happy my children, my blessings are always with both of you"
They both leaned back standing in their feet, Mr jeon leaned in and kissed kook's forehead, and kept his hand on taes shoulders
"Son-in-law, please always take care of my daughter, she's now your responsibility "
Tae nodded
"I understand uncle"
He said in his firm voice, and like this soon they got everyone's blessings.
Mr jeon gave pandit ji his money and he went from there, now only the Kim's and jeon's were left
Mr jeon cleared his throat
"The food is ready, you can come to the dining for lunch"
Grandma nodded as she got up, jihyo and every body else also got up migrating to the dining area, kook's family was middle class, but they had a quite big house, so the dining area was big too only for tonight or else, they are the family of four, a small table is sufficient for them, but as they have guests today they ordered a new dining table and chairs, a long big one.
Grandma took her seat and everybody else also seated on the chair, tae sat on the chair, the next chair beside him empty, koo walked towards her mother so that she can help her serve them but she held her hand cornering her
"What are you doing?"
Kook frowned
"I was coming to help you"
"No you shouldn't, it's your first official meeting with them, and you're supposed to eat with them, I'll serve"
"What no , eomma i won't sit there eating while you serve everyone alone here"
Mrs Jeon sighed
"Who said I'd serve alone, sona and mira is there na , they'll help"
"Eomma"
"Kookie no, go and sit with your soon to be husband, otherwise they'll talk, hmmm by baby, go sit beside him"
She said caressing her cheeks, kook sighed as she nodded, she walked back to the dining area as she looked towards the dining table being all filled, then her eyes landed on him.
.... The man.... Whom she's supposed to marry.
...her soon to be husband, she gulped, her first tightening on her saree, and then her eyes collide with taes warm dark ones, there was only one seat empty beside him, as if he was waiting for her to sit beside him.
She slowly walked towards the dining table as he quietly slipped beside tae on the chair without saying anything, beside him sat jimin, she was utterly quite, feeling her presence unwanted here
She was supposed to feel nervous sitting beside her soon to be husband, but seeing jimin's dull face, she felt odd.
"He..hello" kook said to jimin, as she looked up with wide eyes and immediately put on a smile on her face
"Hello, I'm jimin"
"I'm Jungkook"
"I know bhabhi...I mean I know you're not fully my bhabhi yet but the engagement is done is I can call you that....right?"
Kook gave her a smile
"You can, but aren't I'm too young from you "
"You're, maybe, but here age doesn't matter, position matters."
"Oh so,....you're ?"
"I'm jimin, yoongi's wife, brother taehyung's younger brother's wife "
"Oh okay, it's nice meeting you jimin-shi"
Jimin this time gave him a true genuine smile
"It was nice meeting you too bhabhi"
Jihyo leaned towards Grandma as she whispered
"Maa, they're good, aren't they?"
"Hmm they're , bit I don't know about the bride"
Grandma spat, making jihyo frown
"What do you mean, she's beautiful, we'll mannered, and beside she belongs to a nice family "
"I know jihyo, but it's just that my instincts is saying ---"
"Fck your instincts " she wished, jihyo wishes she can say those words at grandma's face, but she didn't wanted any Chaos right now.
Grandma immediately started to cough hard, as is someone had cursed her, she hit her chest coughing, drawing everybody's attention.
Jimin immediately reached for a glass as she poured water in it and held it for grandma to take it , but she simply ignored her, kept coughing, jimin's face fell, and not only suga but everyone present in that room saw it, and felt it. Suga clenched his first glaring at grandma
Jihyo smiled at jimin as she took the glass of water from her and passed it to grandma who this time took the water glass and chugged the water down
"I hope she choked and dies" suga muttered under his breath and jhope barely controlled himself not to laugh out loud
Kook was watching everything in horror, like why grandma reacted like that when jimin passed water to her
"What's even happening?"
Kook whispered, he turned and looked at jimin who was looking down sitting on his chair, humiliation and embarrassment burning down her skin.
"Are you okay?" Kook asked softly making jimin nodded, jiya who was sitting beside jimin rolled her eyes listening to kook's and jimin's whispered talks, she leaned towards her daughter soya and whispered
"This jimin really makes a fool out of herself wherever she goes, did you see how he tried to win mother's heart, but she didn't even acknowledge her presence " she chucked, soya beside her smirked
"Yeah eomma, and looked at that Jungkook, how is he sitting there showing empathy to that jimin, like his empathy will change everything,he doesn't know anything about our family, or how does this family works"
Jiya nodded,She was just talking when suddenly a fragrant scent reached her nose. She closed her eyes and breathed the aroma deeply into herself.
"Food"
"Eomma, serious, wait for a minute, food is coming, you're already dreaming about them like they're gold"
"You don’t know anything right now about food. Food is my life; I just want to eat all the time, my love."
Soya rolled her eyes "yeah just like a bakasuri"
Jiya opened her eyes to scold her but that's when Mrs Jeon , sona and mira came there with food bowls in their hand , they served everyone.
After a minute, taehyung needed some Dal so he reached out to take it but it was kept fae towards kook's and jimin's side.
"Can you pass me the bowl"
He said slowly,only for kook to listen, she froze as she looks up with her beautiful lashes and slightly nodded she held the bowl and passed it to taehyung and that's when she looks at her mom and saw her saying something with her expression, and soon she understood what she was trying to say, she looked at the and said softly
"Let me serve"
Tae looked at her and nodded giving her the bowl, kook gently scoop some Dal and poured it into taes plate
"I...is it e..enough?" Kook asked shuttering
Tae simply nodded as he was back to eating , and kook sat there silently watching everyone one, her father and brother was also eating with them only her mother,aunt and cousin sister was serving, she looked beside her at jimin and frowned because she was barely eating anything
"Jimin, what's wrong?"
Jimin looked up at her and shook her head
"Nothing bhabhi"
"Then why are you not eating?"
Kook said a little too loud, he wanted to whisper but his voice came out a little too loud gaining everyone's attention, suga stopped eating as he looked at his wife
Mrs Jeon furrowed in tension as she walked towards jimin's chair
"Do you want something else? Is there something wrong? is the dal too spicy?"
Jimin smiled as she shook her head
"No no aunty, everything is tasty"
"Then why are you not eating child?"
"I'm e..eating aunty"
Mrs Jeon nodded as she walked back standing at her earlier place
Suga looked at jimin, jimin too raises her eyes to look at him and found him staring at her, she taught she mad him angry, so she felt more guilty and sad, but she didn't know the emotional turmoil suga was going through.
Soon the lunch was over ,it was finally the time to bid bye, Mrs Jeon hugged jihyo as she bid her bye,kook bid everyone bye, but when she looked at her soon to be husband, she found him already looking at her, heat crept through her face as she looked down.
Yoona happily marched towards kook as she hugged her
"Soon to be bhabhi, we'll meet soon"
Kook smiled at her and nodded still feeling taes gaze on her
Mrs Jeon nudged kook as she saw everyone walking out
"Kook, go bid him bye"
"Ae..wh..what,..no...no...I'm.not do--"
"You have to baby, or he might feel bad, go please, it's just a simple bye"
Kook sighed as she nodded and walked towards the door as she saw everyone sitting inside the car, but jihyo was still busy catching up with Mrs Jeon now and yoona and mira was busy talking about something so she walked towards tae who was standing near the end of the stairs
"S..suniye" tae frowned as he turned back to look at his bride who barely reached till his shoulder
"Hmm?"
"H..how...wa.was the lunch?"
Kook asked looking down playing with her sarees edge
"It was good" tae said with his straight face but only he knows how fast his heart was beating right now
" Anything else?"
Tae asked making kook shook her head, heat creeping back to her face.
"I...I came here to say b..bye"
Kook said nervously making tae nod.
"Hmm bye"
Kook slightly bite her inner cheeks soon jihyo and yoona came there and kook bid them bye too,she watched them sitting inside the car and driving off from there, she huffed in relief as she walked inside the house.
To be continued
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