Author's POV:

Anitha and Sarala were best friends from childhood. Even after getting married they still in contact with each other. They used to went to each other's houses since the town sarala living and the village anitha living was just 3 km apart.

"Anu, have you fixed the marriage to our kaveri yet?" Sarala asked after the matchmaker left.

"No Saru, some matches we don't like, some matches we liked were out of our league." Anitha replied depressingly. Anitha was keeping the photo and biodata of the medical shop owner match safely in the drawer of the TV table, to show to her husband after he comes back from bank in the evening.

"Anu if you don't mind I want to ask you our kaveri's hand for my nephew." Sarala asked straight forwardly. Anitha just shocked.

"But when I asked you at the beginning, to search for a match for our kaveri within your known circle, you said you have none." Anitha frowned upon her best friend. Initially she wanted to search for a boy who is in known circle as there were lots of frauds and criminals in the society now a days.

"We were pestering him to get married from two years already, he was constantly denying. So i told you like that. But now he finally said yes and I wanted to take a chance." Sarala told her guiltily.

"If it's your nephew, i would be assured, I think " anitha murmured slowly.

"Actually the thing is, he's a little bit aged from our kaveri." Sarala slowly dropped a bomb on anitha.

"Like..." Anitha dragged.

"Like 11 years." Sarala carefully murmured.

Anitha shocked a bit. 11 years is a lot but not uncommon. Just now she talked about a boy with 9 years age gap to the matchmaker. But she doubted why does he didn't get married till yet. Doesn't he have a proper job and stable income?, lots of uncertainties flooded her mind. But she comes out of her thoughts when sarala started talking again.

"You know! My vishwa is a doctor. He was working in a multi-speciality hospital in vizag. All these years he was studying hard and now he got paid with lakhs per a month." She boasted about her nephew.

Anitha's heart stopped beating hearing the word lakhs. Boys who earn in 40k-50k were already high in their demands. Now how could they handle such a boy with high salary. Her initial hopes which got higher listening to the word nephew and doctor has dragged down harshly to the ground with the lakhs of salary. Looking at her expression sarala immediately catch onto her thoughts and explained clearly.

"They don't want any dowry, infact they wanted to have a simple wedding. Actually the thing is the boy doesn't have parents, his mother was my sister-in-law, my husband's younger sister, the couple were died when he was 18 years old. He just has an elder sister who got married and have two kids already. He was spending all these years alone and completely indulged in his studies to get succeed in career. The boys sister, sravani want a girl who look after his baby brother like their mother would do. He wants a girl who could be stand beside him in all the situations and love him selflessly. Of course our boy would do the same to his wife.He has no girlfriends no bad habits. Didn't you remember I always used to say 'if my daughters are atleast a day younger than my vishwa, I would've get one of them married to him!?'" She explained suggestively.

All this time kaveri was listening to sarala aunty and felt pity on him. She couldn't even imagine her life without her parents. Her dad was her biggest supporter and saviour, though her mother always scolds her, she loves her too, she always cooks her favourite food and take care of her needs. But he was living alone from last 14 years. He must've been very lonely, she thought. Then kaveri left to her room to give the two friends privacy, nope, she went because she need to complete her drama.

"Here, this is vishwa's photo and biodata. They already seen kaveri from the photos in my mobile, that we took last month in the temple. I checked their horoscopes with the biodata you gave me 7 months back when you asked for the matches. Here, take these and check them with your priest, then tell me what do you think, okay!?" Sarala speak faster than an express train.

"Um, let me talk and decide with kaveri's father. Then I'll tell you about our decision." Anitha told her friend. The two friends talked about viswa and his family for sometime before sarala leave for her house.

After her friend's departure, anitha opened inland cover in which there was a photo with a biodata paper. She saw the photo and liked the boy then she opened the biodata and started to read.

Name:  Dr. Vishwa Dharanikota

Educational qualifications:  MBBS, M.S(General Surgeon), M.Ch(Neurosurgeon)

Occupation:  working as a neurosurgeon in Heartbeat group of Multi-speciality hospitals, vizag

The biodata comprises of some more details about his jathakam (horoscope).

Anitha read the educational qualifications but couldn't understand anything. She saw the MBBS part and felt relieved as he is really a doctor. She doesn't understand what was written after that so she thought, he must be a big doctor.

After her husband came and had his tea, she showed the photo and biodata along with the information that sarala told her about her nephew, to her husband. Ramesh saw the biodata which was more than good but he was fearing the match was out of their league. When he expressed the same Anitha told him that they already saw kaveri's photo and were okay with that.

When he raised the issue of age gap, she shut him off saying that they both themselves have 10years age gap. Moreover the boy has to be a little bit mature to handle kaveri's stupidness with patience, she suggested. Atlast Ramesh nodded positively and called his daughter to living room to know her decision.

When they showed the photo and biodata to kaveri, she instantly liked him and gave a positive reply.

And they all decided to call and invite sarala with her family along with the boy's family for a formal meet-up.