Pyar ka pehla kadham dosti or akhri bhi. - Page 4

Chapter 4:

Is this love?

Virat's point of view.

My driver parks the car right outside of the restaurant. I Take a deep breath and walk out, the weather was chilly. I nervously look at the glamorous restaurant. I have millions of reviews about per se and all of them are good, well why wouldn't it be? It costs a fortune to eat here but I guess it's worth it for my best bud. I slowly walk towards the main entrance and am greeted by a doorman. "Why hello sir, you look dashingly handsome today!" he says. I open my eyes wide. Is this the 1850's in Brittan? Such a formal language is rare in the United States especially in this decade where swearing is the main language that is in. I snap out of my thoughts and notice the doorman's hilarious expression because I did not say thank you yet. "Why thank you kind sir." I say trying to sound just like him. He opens the door and I walk inside. The dcor of this place was off the chain! I mean immensely prepossessing. I walk towards the tables and there was a long dcor mirror. I stare at myself for a moment and I had to say I really was looking handsome. I was glad I dressed business formal tonight. "How many sir?" a staff member asks. "Umm two , the lady is yet to come." I say sounding like manvi is my lady. "Splendid, follow me" he says and seats me at a cute little table at the corner. I quietly sit down and move around the crockery on the table a bit. After a while of waiting I hear her voice, "Hey virat". I immediately look up at her and am speechless. She was wearing a gorgeous red gown with cap sleeves and fine golden embellishments. "wow manvi" I say with an open mouth. She awkwardly looks at herself. "Umm?" is all she could say. "I mean you look beautiful" I say with a smile. She smiles back "well thanks you don't look bad yourself" she says and sits down on the seat opposite to me. "So was it hard to find the place?" I ask trying to bring up a conversation. "Not really my company provided me a driver so he knew the way". What a stupid question to ask, she had already told me about the company car and driver. "So can I ask you something?" she says. I raise my eyebrows and nod. "Why are you doing this? We could have grabbed hot dogs if we wanted to meet up. Why this fancy restaurant? It seems like a date you know!" she says frankly. I ruffle my hair "haha well firstly I do not care if it is a date or not. If it is so what is the big deal? Secondly I just want to make up for the past" I say. "The big deal is you are still with Maya. I do not want history to repeat itself! And make up for the fight? By feeding me food that we could have gotten for 20$ instead of 200$." She says and I do not know what to say. "Well they do say the way to a woman's heart is her stomach" I say trying to bring humor in our conversation. "No the way to a MANS heart is his stomach, the way to a woman's heart is chocolates" she says correcting me. "They have amazing chocolate truffles here by the way" I say and giggle. She stands up in anger "it is not funny virat! You are still with maya!" she yells. I stare into her eyes and stand up too. This time I was pissed. I pull out my phone and press speed dial. "Hello maya? Ya it is me. Listen we are over. You can move out of my apartment and better be gone before I am back. Okay? No it is not you, it is me" I say and aggressively tap the phone to cut the call. Oh god at moments like these I miss the flip phones. Cutting a call aggressively by snapping the flip phone was epic. "Happy? I am not with maya anymore!" manvi just stared at me. She was so speechless. She quietly sat back down and couldn't utter a sound.

"Mr and Mrs vadhera would you like to order now?" the waiter asked as he looked at his clipboard for my last name. "Umm we are not married" I said. "Oh sorry, looking at that wedding ring I assumed. Please excuse me" he said in guilt pointing at manvi's ring. "It is an engagement ring and it is not from him" manvi says in anger. I couldn't judge why she was angry, because he thought we were married or because that ring was not from me? "Anyways yes we are ready to order" I say trying to change the situation. "I would like the Masa toro with French caviar and oh grilled lobster chili" I say and gesture manvi asking what she wants. She was not responding to me. "Please do not do this. I am trying my best to make up for my mistakes. You look stunning I look hot, the night is young and so are we. Please let's have an enjoyable dinner" I say. "haaah? You and hot? In your dreams vadhera! And by the way are you asking me to order food or for a one night stand?" she jokes. "Maybe both?" I say joking back and wink at her. The waiter gets uncomfortable and tries to avoid us. "Very funny hassi nahi ae bander" she says and looks at the menu. "I would like Alfredo pasta and ya tomato cheese flatbread." She says. "Lovely. For dessert and drinks?" the waiter asks. "Strawberry lemonade cocktail and molten lava cake!" we both say together and laugh. "Twins?" the waiter asks. I giggle and look the waiter in the eyes. "Do you think I would actually bring my twin sister to a setting like this? It is obviously a date!" I say and he looks back at manvi's ring from another man. "Best friends can date okay! And why are you so interrogating? I thought this was one of the city's finest. Is this your standard?" I yell and he bows down and walks away. 'Virat chill and I am sorry I got mad at you. It is just that I feel we are complete strangers now who are forcing themselves to be the old virat and manvi." Manvi says. "Manvi nothing has changed okay. I want to be toally honest with you tonight. What happened 6 years ago was because I was attracted to you. I still am. Not just physically but emotionally too. You and me we were close, we got each other like no one else. The reason I was with maya all these years was because I couldn't find you, you ran off." Manvi was a little surprised by my confession. "Virat if you wanted me found you would have found me one way or the other. You just saw me leave and didn't say anything and that hurt more than the reason we actually fought." I say. I think carefully about what she said. "Well I was an idiot back then I did not know what I wanted. Now I do and it is you" I say and hold her hand. Her hands were so soft. "Virat I am engaged to a man I truly love" she says casually. I did not know for a second ."Do you love me?" I ask. She just looks me in the eye. "I always have." She says softly.

There was silence after that. I did not know how to respond. I had always suspected if manvi liked me, today I know for sure that she does. The fight we had was caused because she liked me.

Flashback:

Virat runs after manvi when she leaves maya's party and goes to maya's room. "Manvi wait!" virat yells and follows her to maya's room. Manvi sat on the bed and started crying. "Manvi I am sorry I didn't mean to drop you like that. I lost track of time" virat says as he sits by her on the bed. "Virat that was so embarrassing and it hurt, you dropped me during a slow dance!" she says while crying. Virat sighs and moves closer to manvi and wipes her tears. "I am the worst friend ever right?" he asks calmly. Manvi nods as she cries and lightly hits his chest. Virat smiles at her and hugs her tight. "I truly am sorry and you look so beautiful. How in the world did I drop the most beautiful girl in the world?" virat says trying to cheer her up. Manvi wipes her tears and moves out of the hug. "You really think I am beautiful?" she says as she blushes a little. Virat gives her a mischievous look and tucks a strand of her hair behind her ear. "Do you think calling a monkey beautiful makes her beautiful then hey you are beautiful!" he says and laughs. Manvi makes a disappointed face and hits him lightly again. "I hate you vahdera ka bacha!" she says with a sad expression. Virat smiles at her innocence and holds her by the shoulder and makes her look at him. "Listen, you truly are very beautiful and you are an amazing person. I am truly blessed to have you in my life Manvi vadhera! No joke, No lies just the truth." He says with a smile. Manvi stands up from the bed. "It's choudry! Manvi choudry!" She says awkwardly and tries to walk away. Virat holds her hand. "Sorry tongue slipped. It is okay chill!" he says and makes her sit back down. "Virat why are you being so nice today?" she asks. "Well I am a nice guy and you deserve to be treated nicely not like how I did 15 minutes ago out there" he says. Manvi gives him a smile and hugs him unexpectedly. Virat hugs back and is lost by her scent. He moves himself away from her and cups her face and slowly leans towards her. Without any realization he kisses her lips softly and looks her in the eyes. Manvi was looking deep into his eyes and kissed him this time. They both kissed back. The kiss got intense by the minute. Manvi slowly leaned down towards her back and virat leaned with her without breaking the kiss. She was now lying down and he was on top of her. Before manvi knew it her spaghetti straps were slipping down her shoulders. Virat started kissing her collarbone and neck. Even though there clothes were too heavy and uncomfortable they were lost in the bliss. Virat was deeply digging in her neck and cleavage just when they heard the door open. "OH MY GOD! VIRAT! MANVI!" a womanly voice screamed. Manvi got startled and pushed virat away from her. They both stared at maya with their messed up clothes. Virat had lipgloss on his lips and manvi had bites on her neck. Virat and manvi at that moment finally snapped back into reality. They looked at each other's state in shock, then themselves. "You two started making out on my birthday at my birthday party and in my bed room on my bed?" Maya yelled with tears in her eyes. Virat stood up and ran towards her. "Listen this is not what you think. It was an accident. We didn't mean for this to happen. We did not purposely come here because of that! Trust me maya!" virat begged her. Maya pushed him hard. Manvi stood up from the bed and pulled up her straps. "Maya don't push him. It was not his fault! It was in the moment!" manvi yells at her. Maya raises her eyebrows and slaps manvi. "Bitch I knew from day one you were after my man!" she yells. Manvi gives her a dirty look and slaps her back. "No bitch I was not! I was a true friend I cared for both of you and I was more than happy about your successful relationship!" Manvi yelled. Maya slapped manvi again. "True friend? True friends make out with their best friends boyfriends?" Maya asks her. Manvi slaps her again. "He is my best friend too. He has been my best friend way before he met you okay! It got a little intimate and I am truly sorry!" manvi says. "Intimate?" Maya yells and tries to attack manvi. Virat stops her. "Slow down my little cheetah, Please listen to us we are not betraying you! Trust us maya!" Virat says. "Just shut up you cheater! You ruined my birthday! And you manvi! You just wait and watch!" She says and barges out of her room. Virat looks at manvi whose face was filled with guilt. "What have we done?" manvi whispers and starts crying. Virat looks her in the eye and sighs. He then runs out of the room too yelling maya's name trying to catch up with her.

*Flashback ends*

The dinner finally arrived and we both quietly stared at the food, neither of us started eating. I figured since I am the one who invited her here and who is paying the bill I should ask her to start. "Manvi you want to start anytime soon?" I ask hoping she would start because I am hell hungry. "Virat thank you for this lovely dinner. You really did not have too but since you did..." she said and took a huge bite from her pasta. That was not very lady like of her to do but it's manvi so what the heck. I started eating too.

"virat do you think maya will be pissed when you get back you since you just broke up with her?" manvi asks me just as I am about to take a huge bite. I stop and think "well knowing maya, she is probably burning down my apartment at this moment" I say and eat that big bite. Manvi looks at me shocked. I raise my eyebrows asking her what happened. "Are you serious?" she asks. "YES! Don't you remember what she did to you after our little make out session in college?" I say. Manvi remembers everything and frowns. "How can I forget" she says. "Ya she is crazy. But now I know who I truly want and that is you Manvi Choudhry!" I say and hold her hands across the table. Manvi nervously looked at me and bit her lips. "But virat I don't think I can face another meltdown maya. And what about Rahul?" She says. I give her a confused look, "Rahul who?"manvi looks me in the eye, "my fiance!" I grin. "ya well dump that guy!" I say straight forwardly. Manvi gives me a disgusted look. "virat! SHUT UP!" I laugh at her anger.

"so manvi you free tomorrow, maybe we can go catch a movie or something" I ask her as eats her molten lava cake. She slowly removes the spoon from her mouth. "Can't I have my conference tomorrow" She says and takes another bite. There was chocolate on the side of her lips. "When does it end? How about after it?" I ask and just stare at the chocolate stain on the side of her lips. She takes a while to think. "Umm I guess we can meet after it. I will be free at 6 pm." I couldn't help it and bent towards her and cleaned her lip with my finger. She was confusingly looking at me. I couldn't help but stare into her eyes. "Can I kiss you?" I ask her.

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