"Is it so? Let me see!" said Viji and looked into his eyes.
"Are you able to see you inside my eye?"
"I seem to be there in a corner of your eye!" said Viji, jokingly.
"Ok. By the way, I have been inviting you to my house. When are you going to pay a visit?" asked Gopi.
"You are staying alone. Will it look good, if I visit your house?"
"It will look very good. My landlord, who is living downstairs, has a suspicion that I have a crush on his daughter. If I introduce you to him as my lover, he will feel relieved!"
"I will come this Sunday" said Viji.
When Viji visited Gopi's house on Sunday, Gopi introduced her to his landlord as his fiancee. He then took her into his room upstairs.
Gopi's dwelling place comprised a small living room and a kitchen.
On entering the house, Viji said, "What is this? The cot you have put in the living room occupies almost the entire room. There is no space even to step into it."
"What can I do? I am used to sleeping on a cot. I don't get sleep if I lie down on the floor. So, I have the cot. The room being small, the cot is occupying almost the entire room. Since I am the only person living here, it has not been a problem. You are the first person to visit my home. Don't worry. After our marriage, we are going to live in a spacious house" said Gopi.
Viji sat on the cot, conversed with him for some time and then left.
The next Saturday, Gopi told Viji, "Tomorrow also you should visit my house."
"I came to your house only last Sunday. Why do you want me to come again?" asked Viji, puzzled.
"There is a surprise for you!"
The surprise was waiting for Viji, the moment she stepped into Gopi's house, the next day.
There was no cot in the living room. The room appeared spacious now.
"Where is the cot?" asked Viji, surprised.
"I have disposed it off."
"Disposed it off? Why?"
"Did you not tell me that there was no space even to step into the house, with the cot occupying almost the entire room?"
"Yes, I did. But, you said you won't get sleep, if you lie down on the floor."
"I have been trying to sleep lying on the floor for the past four days. I think I will get used to it" said Gopi, smiling.
Viji looked at him with amazement. She held his face with her hand and looked into his eyes. "Now, I will say that I am occupying the whole of your eye."
"That day, you said that you were there only in a corner of my eye?" Gopi reminded her, teasingly.
"When I made a casual mention that there was no space for me to step into your living room, you threw the cot out of your house, to make room for me to step into your house. Since I said that I am only in a corner of your house, I had the apprehension that you may think that I don't have enough space in your eye due to the pupil of your eye occupying a major portion of your eye and throw the pupil of your eye out, for giving me more space. That is why I admitted that I am occupying the whole of your eye" said Viji.
In Praise of Love
karumaNiyin pAvAy nI pOdhAyAm vIzhum
thirunudhaRku illai idam.
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