Hope this helps.😳
.So.. he wondered ten years back if the deep affection he felt for his best friend was love...He was just a kid then..Like Sumo said, she was just a bachhi ten years back..so he was just a bachha too.
Ten years in London...when he found a new himself...made new friends...did well personally and professionally and learned to look down on the girl who had betrayed him as a FRIEND (had she turned him down as a lover, he would have accepted it...but the way she turned down his friendship..that hurt the most)...
One fine day back home...he came back only for his dad..it was to be a temporary visit..no intention of settling any score..but he felt she needed to be taught a lesson..so he did.
A few more interactions..and he learned she was not at all who he had preferred to remember her as...for the first time, she shared who she was..and he truly appreciated it, as a friend...it was an honour to him that she could share this part of her with him...his FRIENDSHIP had been honoured.
What came next was a huge relief that the most cherished relationship of his life had been cleansed..he felt like he was freed of a deep agony.
His further responses were going back to living that childhood he had lost out on...be it teasing her...which sometimes bordered on flirting.
But a lot had changed in ten years...Shravan must have made up his mind against ever falling for a girl again, after suffering rejection from his mother and his best friend..
..As a result, he would always cherish his friends...but probably never let anyone have the power to hurt him again.
He doesn't realise what Suman feels for him...or even if he has a hint of it, he can casually call it an infatuation on her side...something that wouldn't last, like his hadn't...
What matters to him the most is that she is his friend..the one he can shout at.. boss over...get pampered by...and give his life for...But she is just a friend...
Why?
Is he afraid of rejection? At this point, I doubt it...Shravan is confident about his popularity...I feel it is more like he really has not dwelt on the possibility of starting a relationship with her OR anyone...After all, he was just here to enjoy a holiday...reconnect with his family and friends'...and best friend...and he always knew he would have to go back one day...Where was Sumo's place in his life in London?
If so, why does he flirt...he loves every moment he shares with her...at times it transcends the borders of an ordinary friendship...but that is what Sumo means to him....there are no taboos when it comes to her... not even the restrictions he keeps with Pushkar and his dad, hiding the real reason for his departure...She is in every sense his soul mate...that is all he is looking for, now. For the rest that is to follow..let him take his time😳...just like Suman took ten years...😉