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I let out a dissatisfied sigh as I couldn’t find anything in the footages near the house. He was a great way to get to that killer but we again missed him!
I wonder if he really escaped or if… he was kidnapped from there too by them so that they don’t get caught.
A call ring pulled me out of thoughts and I grinned looking at the caller ID. “She just called me and said you aren’t there yet.” Papa said from that side and I closed my eyes saying “because I’m not.”
I could hear his loud sigh before again saying “I’ve told you already either go meet her, or come back home.” He said again. He’s just got a good weapon to use against me by calling me home everytime.
And there is Neil’s parents, who’s living in horror about Neil can go back home any second.
“I’m just 27 pap-” I pulled the phone away from my ears but still heard his each loud word. “Teri Umar me Mai baap ban chuka tha!”
I put the phone back to my ear and again said gently. “Maine bola tha?” And the next moment i regretted it.
“REYANSH!!!!” I pinched my nose in regression. “Fine then don’t go.” He said calmly and I smiled. “Thankyo-” He cut me in the middle.
“Bass zeher lakar mujhe de dena.” My jaw tightened and I said “I’m going!” Before ending the call.
What will they even think if they know that here they were looking for that killer tensely and I was busy on a blind date? It’s shameful.
But then again I remembered that Papa had been telling, requesting and ordering me about it for the last 3 days. Once I go there and that girl rejects me, it’s all done.
I’ll be free.
I drove to the cafe location my father sent me and halfway through the ride, I realised that it was the same cafe. The café where bhabhi witnessed a murdered as she said.
Suddenly I remembered me dropping her home too.
I made a big mistake that day. I broke my brother’s heart, even though it was unintentional but I ended up hurting him a lot.
Even though I try my best to keep her out of my head, somehow I again start thinking about her.
That day, she made me feel something that I thought I will never feel ever again.
I parked my car and stepped out before walking into the cafe. It’s just a normal cafe but still I don’t know how everyone ends up choosing this one.
I looked around and saw a hand waving at me with a rose in another hand. As I kept taking each step there, I felt as if I’m going to do the biggest mistake of my life.
As much as I want to forget her, her entire existence, the thought of me marrying or falling for someone makes me feel like a cheater.
I don’t know what happens to all these thoughts of mine when I’m with pota.. Aaliya. I tricked her to kiss me to forget Arhaan and I’ve got no idea if it worked or not but why are the memories of HER fading away?
While it never did when I tried my best, but now for a dumb girl who gets tricked so easily?
And..Why did she had to be the one Shaurya likes?
“He’s here uncle!” The girl in front of me with brown curls said ending the call and I sat on the chair without any greeting.
Just be disrespectful.
“I’m Khushi.” She said with a warm smile forwarding her hand to me. I looked at her hand.
And she’ll kick you in the ass.
If that means I’ll be free from marriage then that’s also fine.
I ignored her hand taking the menu from the table. She took her hand back with a small smile biting her lips and I felt so guilty for it.
“I’ve ordered this pastry for yo-” I cut her in the middle. “I’m allergic to pastry.” I lied effortlessly when I felt as if heard the same sentence from somewhere else.
“Ohh, I’m sorry. You can order whatever you want.” She said nervously taking a sip of water.
Isn’t there any another way rather than this?
“Do you eat extra spicy?” I asked her and she smiled at me before shaking her head in no. “Umm no.. I don’t eat much spicy.” She said gently.
I waved at the waiter before he came to us. “2 extra spicy burgers.” He nodded before turning to her. She stared at me with a surprise before looking at the waiter.
“No-no I don’t want anything.” She said as the waiter asked her before walking away. She slightly. “Do you smoke?” I asked her and her eyes lit before saying. “No I don’t.” Her face shows it now that she understood my intentions already.
“I do, I drink also.” I said and again felt as if someone answered the same. I looked around myself before turning back to her. “You can eat it.” I said point at the pastry she had orders for me.
“Let your order co-” she stopped as my burger was served too. She smiled at me before taking a bite of her pastry and glanced at me as I didn’t even touched mine.
I ordered this without even thinking but what am I gonna do now when I have to really eat it and I’ve got no power to fight the spiciness of it.
“Oh I forgot to add not to put tomatoes as I’m allergic to it also. I can’t eat this now.” I heard another voice and my eyes lit realising another person is in the same state as me just the difference is it’s a girl.
How many allergies am I left to get?
“Oh I forgot I’m allergic to burger. No! I mean tomatoes.” I lied that even a deaf could sense. I glanced down at my burger to find no tomato in it.
“Reyansh if you’re not interested in me the-” I didn’t paid attention to her further because I heard the same line from somewhere else but the name was taken at the last, causing me to lean backwards and look behind the 3 tables beside mine.
“What the fuck is she doing here?” I muttered getting up from my seat and walking there. “Who’s he?” I asked keeping an arm on her chair’s backrest and glancing at the guy sitting in front of her with his hand over hers.
“Who’s he?” The guy with glasses asked Aaliya and she just looked at me with enlarged eyes. “I-I don’t know.” She said looking away from me and taking a bite of the burger she just tried to avoid.
“Hello, Uncle!” I saw Khushi storming out of the cafe and I feel she tried her best to be patient with me before this. Now that I’m saved, I should absolutely help others too.
“Weren’t you allergic to those tomatoes?” He asked her and I removed his hand from hers saying “You forgot the guy whom you kissed so passionately in car and left him with marks because of which I couldn’t go out for 2 days?” I gasped causing her to choke on her food.
“You’ve came out on a date with a gentleman who couldn’t even pass you a glass of water!” I said rubbing her back slightly and helping her drink some water.
“What is he saying?” The villain asked shockingly as if he will get up now and beat me to to death. “He lied.” She lied jerking my hand off her back and putting the glass back on the table.
“I don’t know this person.” She said looking around nervously as everyone was staring at us before taking bite of a pastry on the table. “You said you were allergic to it?” He asked her again and she stopped chewing.
“I forgot it!” She laughed nervously again looking at everyone. Why does she have to care about people’s eyes this lot? I took a step to my left, blocking her from the people and them from her. “Now no one’s watching you.” I said and she glared at me with gritted teeth.
“Are you getting away from here or not? She said that she doesn’t knows you, now go!” The guy said again confidently. I looked at Aaliya with narrowed eyes and she raised her brows at me.
“Tell this guy that you’ve got no interest in him.” I said gently and strongly. She didn’t said anything. “You prove it that you know her and I will leave myself.” He said fixing his tight tie, I feel as if someone is choking me by the tightness of his tie.
I smirked grabbing a chair from another table and placing it in front of Aaliya before sitting on it.
“What is her favourite ride?” I asked him and he crooked his brows.
“I’m going.” She said standing up from the chair and walking out. “Aaliya! Wait I’m coming.” He ran behind her.
Why am I doing this?
I’ll ask myself later. But no way she’s going anywhere with that man.
I also walked out and saw her angrily turning back to me and was about to say something when stopped looking at that guy.
“Bro, can you get aside please?” I asked him. He stared at me in confusion. “Right now, I’m on a date with her, so she’s min-” I cut him in the middle.
“Don’t be so quick in personalising someone and get aside for a moment!” I glared at him and he fixed his glasses walking near the car parked.
“Why do you have to come everywhere I go?!” She said with a anger in her voice and don’t know why I smiled at it. She’s still so innocent when angry.
“I can say the same.” I said politely. “Even if you are here then why do you have to get in my business?” She asked me again. I don’t have any answer for that yet.
“Then do you plan of getting married to that man?” I said pointing in his direction who’s looking at us with narrowed eyes leaning against the cafe wall.
“I was going to get him away on my ow- Actually I’ll marry him. I marry him, any man, monkey, cow I marry whoever I want to. You don’t put your nose in it.” She said pointing at my nose.
I leaned closer to her face making her take a step back. “You! Distance!” I ignored his worry shout and said. “I’ll put my nose my eyes my this and that, if you marry anyone. You sure can have exception on monkey and cow.” I said before standing straight again.
“Now that you’ve meshed it, you will have to fix this too! Make him leave home and he can’t tell Papa about you!” She said earning a smile from me. Her also not having any interest in that man is enough for me.
“That’s too easy!” I said holding her hand and dragging her to my car. I sat her in the car before walking to my enemy.
Why do he always meets me when I’m not with my car? Rohan picked me from my home and I was supposed to go back with him too.
But at least I’ll get rid of this blind date.
Papa is also in anger because Sidharth left for New York suddenly without telling anyone and just sent me a message about him being busy for the next 10 days and he won’t be able to pick up the calls.
I saw him last time at Akshara’s home and because of his behaviour, I asked papa to make sure if he is there but he just said that Sidharth was just angry and that’s why he did it.
I was pulled out of my thoughts with the voice of engine starting and he soon started the drive. God knows how long it’s gonna take me today.
“Do you really like the drive with me?” He asked me again. Akshara has told me about his past, and if he doesn’t wants to move on or anything then why does he have to be that nosy in my work!
It doesn’t mean he could put his nose in my work if he could move on..
“Stop the car! I can take a cab.” I said and he shrugged. “Do you even mean it?” He asked confidently. “I do, now stop it.” I said again and he soon stopped. I glanced at him before opening the door and stepping out.
I looked around but this road isn’t great enough to have vehicles on it all the time. “Good bye.” He said before driving forward before I shouted loudly, “Wait!”
I quickly walked to him and sat inside opening the door. “There isn’t network here for me to even call someone and you are the one because of whom I can’t go back home, so you will also have to drop me.” I said doing the seatbelts.
I didn’t even checked if there is a network or not.
He started driving again and I noticed a smirk over his face which I decided to ignore. “You’re really not going to ask me what I told him?” He asked and my eyes lit as I realised that Rohan didn’t even asked me before going back.
I looked at him from the corner of my eyes and asked. “What did you told him?” He can’t threat to beat him? Can he?
“I told him that you’re pregnant.” He said calmly and I took in a sharp breath before holding his hand over the staring tightly causing the car to loose control and almost hit a tree.
He turned and stared at me with narrowed eyes causing me to look down as if it was my fault before realising the subject again.
“How can you say that to him?” I asked him again. He suddenly leaned his head closer to mine but I kept leaning backward until my head hit the window.
“With these pretty lips of mine.” He said before sitting back straight again and reversing the car. As if he’s the only guy on the planet earth with pretty lips.
“Remove that flower, I don’t like it.” He said eyeing at the rose tucked over my ear before turning back to the roadway. As if your choice matters.
I turned my head to the window ignoring him and his order. “Remove it.” He said again and I turned back to him with gritted teeth.
“It looks good on me and I’m not gonna remove it.” I said and he pulled the flower from my hair, keeping his another hand on the staring as he always drives with single hand.
“Is it yours? Did you buy it or grow it?” He asked rolling it between his finger and thumb while staring at it instead on the road he is driving on.
“It’s mine! Rohan gave it to m-” I stopped as he smoothly threw it out the window and I glanced out to see a bike stepping over it. Even though I had nothing to do with Rohan, but that red rose was really sweet.
I looked inside again, glaring at him with gritted teeth. I know my glares are not powerful but at least he shouldn’t have hid a smile over that.
He took a turn and kept driving as the rose kept rolling in my mind.
First he took my flower and now I can’t digest his smile. I looked around and popped open the glove compartment before peering inside. Among the papers and odds and ends, my eyes were immediately drawn to a glimmering locket.
Without any second thought I grabbed it and nudged Reyansh on his shoulder before he looked at it and I instantly threw it out the window.
I was wrong when I told Akshara that revenges are not important when she told me that it is.
Suddenly I looked at him as he stared at me with the car stopped. I should have at least checked if I’m not throwing something too important.
What if it belonged to someone?
“Do you even know what you just threw out?” He asked and I again noticed a hint of laugh in his voice. I shook my head in confusion.
“Do you remember my chain getting stuck with your…what was it?” He asked and realisation hit me. “How can I forget taking it back!” I exclaimed opening the door and running out to look where I dropped it.
I saw us at another place, it’s not on the way of my home. I still focused on finding my locket and looked all around but not finding it.
“Here!” I felt a hand over my shoulder to find Reyansh standing with the locket in his hand and I instantly grabbed it. “Did you buy it yourself?” He asked again.
“Who buys these things for themselves? It was gifted by my ex.” I said the truth, it was too beautiful to be thrown only because of some people being a jerk.
He looked at me with amusement before nodding and muttering, “Ex!” He snatched the locket from my hand again. “It might be heavy, let me carry it for you.” He said holding me by my shoulders and turning me to another side.
“Choose whichever you want.” He said pointing at a flower shop. “Sorry, not interested.” I said before walking away but he soon grabbed me by my hand again pulling me.
“Which one.” He asked again and I looked up at him with crooked brows turning my head behind as I was standing in front of him. “I said I don’t want any flower from you.” I turned forward wrapping my arms.
I looked at the each flowers in the shop and the enemy of my self respect told me to ask him to buy all. “Neither am I interested in gifting you a flower. I’m just telling you to choose one because I threw your old one too.” He said looking inside the store.
I saw two girls staring at him when it hit me and I turned to him with a smile. “Why don’t you buy a flower for all the girls you visit everyday? Or night may I say?” I asked and he literally scoffed out a laugh.
“Can I also count the one I think about? Everyday? Or night may I say?” He asked leaning close to my face and I gulped stepping away. “Absolutely! Add the one you see in your dreams too.” I said walking rapidly to the car and sitting inside.
He also came inside after a moment and I noticed his empty hands. He might have forgot the addresses as his aim is also to forget a person through it. His stupid theory.
“Drive fast now.” I said sitting calmly and he glanced at me. “Do you even know how to drive?” He asked driving again. I nodded before he asked me again. “Then why don’t you drive yourself?”
I smiled before answering. “Because I enjoy riding more than driving.” I saw him smiling and bit my lips when I realised the reason of it soon. A bad person with a bad mind he is.
As he took another turn and my home came nearer, I again remembered what he told to Rohan. “Did you not got any other idea rather than making me pre- than telling him that I’m pregnant?!” I yelled at him.
He shook his head. “I was going to handle it another way when he suddenly asked me if I’m your father and the best comeback that came to my mind that time was No, but I’m the father of the baby in your womb.” He said shamelessly and I just stared at him with dropped jaw.
“What if he tells my father!” I muttered in horror. I’ll be dead meat before I even get the chance to justify myself. “He won’t, I’ve told him to not tell your father or if your father finds out about you told him the truth, he’ll kill you.” He shrugged taking the last turn to my house.
“You should thank me.” He said and I raised a brow at this. “Seriously?” I said in disbelief as he created another trouble for me. “Good bye!” I said stepping out of the car instantly as he stopped it but I soon stopped when he called me.
He also stepped out of the car and walked to me. I took steps back to avoid any closeness in this evening. “When is your birthday?” He asked a step away from me as I stood against the wall of my house.
“W-why?” I asked. “Is there any question you can answer without any other question?” He asked taking another step forward so he was standing exact close to me. I looked around rapidly and sighed when I saw no-one.
Suddenly he ran his hand over my hair before tucking something in my hair and I touched to find a flower.
“I don’t wan-” I said trying to pull out the flower but he interrupted me by stopping my hand and fixing the flower again. I can guess it’s a rose by the fragrance of it. “Date?” He asked again. “26th August.” I blurted and he moved his head slightly to the side.
“There’s still months left, nevermind! Wether I’m in the city or not, I’ll gift you something so that you don’t need to ask for lift to everyone.” He said raising the temperature of my head, before turning away and going back.
“Then why don’t you gift me a car right away instead, if you don’t want me to ask for lifts?” I yelled and he stopped holding the handle of his car, turning to me.
“When did I say I’ll gift you a car? I don’t waste my money, a bicycle will be good enough.” He said before sitting inside and waving at me with a smirk, of course the look over my face described the amount how pissed I was at him.
I took a deep breath before going back inside my house. He’ll again annoy me in my dreams tonight.
He should try to move on now as it’s been more than years since the girl he loved left. Now I know that he was also talking about her in the car when he mentioned those number of days.
The moment I closed the door after entering, Papa came rushing towards me and shot me with the first question. “How was it?” And I gulped.
I couldn’t process anything what to say or not. Only when I felt I’ll be caught, the door bell rang and I instantly opened the door to avoid the question just to find a delivery man.
“Aaliya Srinivasan?” He asked and I nodded. I saw as my dadi and mummy also came. “Please sign here, your courier is waiting outside.” He said and I signed while others rushed out to see what it is even.
I don’t even remember ordering something or someone sending me anything.
“What’s this Aaliya?” Mummy asked after the man left and I also glanced outside causing my breath to hitch the second my eyes landed on a truck loaded with all the flowers I remember watching on that shop.
“Who sent these?” Papa asked. I just kept staring at the flowers with heavy breaths. “Aaliya? I’m asking something.” He said again and I looked at him with enlarged eyes.
“It was..” I stopped not knowing what to say when my phones dinged with a notification and It soon caught my attention when I read the first line of it.
Unknown: Don’t turn into that mute mode of yours when your father asks who sent it.
You went out on a blind date hosted by your father, either with the person you wanted or your father wanted doesn’t matters.
Just say From the guy you like.
Don’t, or you won’t be able to ask for another lift.
You won a random lottery on your way home.
“From the guy you like.”
“No! From the guy I like!”
“No!!”
“Yo-I won a random lottery on my way home.”
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