by Shaymala
(Chennai)
This is a true story of how I got my nose pierced. My perima's name is Jaya. She is my father's brother's wife. She's extremely beautiful. I don't mean this in a sexual sense, but as a form of admiration.
I was the youngest of three boys in our joint family in Bangalore. My father and mother had me and one elder brother. My uncle and perima have a son. They lost a daughter in a miscarriage, something Jaya perima tears up about when she talks about it even to this day.
In 2007, when I was 10, peripa found a job in Saudi. Their son got accepted to college in the US, and so perima went to Chennai to be closer to her side of the family. Summer holidays for the next 5 years were spent in Chennai, where perima and I grew really close, to the point of her becoming a second mother to me.
After class 12 in 2015, I scored very well and got accepted to Loyola college in Chennai for thier evening BCA degree. Obviously, my parents sent me to stay with Jaya perima in Mandaveli.
I remember the date very clearly. September 29th ,2016- Thursday. It was right before navaratri. Perima has the custom of keeping Kolu. I had helped her arrange the steps that day and arrange the dolls. It was tiresome work and I was sweating at the end of it. I headed to get a cold shower and shave.
When I got out of the shower, perima had taken out a pair of diamond earrings from her cupboard onto the bed. She casually asked me- "Kannukutti, I want to wear these jimikis on Saturday (the first day of navaratri). How do they look on me?". By then I had taken the liberty of making wisecracks at her. I said "Perima, you're too old for such fashionable jewelry. This is for somone my age". Her gaze quickly snapped towards me. She motioned towards me and told me authoritatively- "Shyam, I want you yo wear there earrings now(I had got my ears pierced the year earlier)". I protested- "Perima, that's not what I meant...."
"Shhhhh!!!" she interrupted, with her finger on my lips. She gracefully pulled her hair back to reveal her right ear. They were decoarated with six earrings made with diamonds in gold, each one prettier than the previous one.
"Shyam, do my ears look beautiful", perima asked.
"They do look beautiful, perima", I replied.
"Do you want to wear earrings like these and look beautiful too", she asked. "Yes, perima....I mean No, perima", I replied.
"Yes, or No, Shyam?" She asked me with a radiant smile.I saw mischief in her eyes, and she let out a mischievous laugh, all her glory on display. I tried leaving ,but she grabbed my hand and sat me down on the bed. My heart was pounding with excitement.
"Shyam, these earrings will look pretty on you", she said, while putting them in my ears. "This navaratri, I want you to be the daughter I never had. I hope you won't disappoint me". I had surrendered by now . She then proceeded to apply kajal to my eyes and lip gloss. She took me in front of the mirror on her cupboard and showed me how the new earrings and makeup look on me. I was blushing with shyness. "From today, you will be Shyamala to me. It's going to be our little secret. Come let's go to dinner".
We sat in the car and drove to
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