It had been a good few days since Raavi blurted out to Shiva that she loves him and he rejected her with a deadpan expression, calling her a dumb Chipkali all the while secretly laughing to himself cuz he adores her and loves her to bits but aise hi pareshan kar raha hai... for all the Dev jaap he had to endure 🤪. This went on for a week and Raavi slowly .. murjhaayi si jaati hai. Her face had started to look pallid as the ever present rosy red in her cheeks seemed to have drained from them and dark circles formed beneath her once twinkling eyes. She had stopped dropping by Pandya Store unannounced like she used to, opting to hide out in her room instead. In fact she hadn't come by even once since that day. Shiva was finally worried so he decided to make his way to Mami's house and climbed through her window, only to find her sitting in front of the dressing table, absent mindedly combing her hair.
"Kya faida Somnath ki sab se sundar ladki ho ke jab Shiva ko hi mai achi nahin lagti 😞💔 Am I even beautiful? Upar se Dobi bhi toh hoon, kahaan mere ache marks aate thei 😒. Shiva toh mujhe Chipkali bolta hai .. kya main sach mein Chipkali jaisi dikhti hoon ? 😭"
Shiva could not take it anymore.. his silly prank had the girl he loves so heartbroken and wallowing in self pity.
"Haan lagti hai na. Bilkul Chipkali lagti hai." He said out loud, breaking her reverie.
She turned around, shocked out of her wits hearing his voice all of a sudden. He gently held her by her shoulders, turned her around and pointed towards their reflections in the mirror:
"Left se dekhoun toh Chipkali. Right se dekhoun toh bhi Chipkali... 🦎" he said, trying to stifle a throaty chuckle.
Raavi's face fell and she looked away from the mirror, struggling to hold back her tears when Shiva completed his sentence:
"... par yahaan se dekhta hoon na ... Toh bilkul Puchku ki Amma lagti hai ☺❤" he said, gesturing towards his heart.
At this point Raavi was confused as heck and kind of annoyed.
"Ab yeh Puchku kaun hai 😒 ??!" She said, her voice laced with exasperation.
"Rudra Shiva Pandya, urf Puchku. Somnath ka sabse khatarnaak bacha .. 😏🔥"
"Wtf is wrong with you kaun Rudra Shiv ... kya 😳 ?" Her voice faltering as she caught herself mid tirade. "Rudra ... Shiva Pandya ?"
"Kyun ? Naam pasand nahin aya ? Uske na aise billi jaise ankhein honge. Aise gol gol light brown .. bilkul teri tarha .. aur naak bhi ittu sa .. ☺" he said, pecking her nose.
Raavi stared at him with a blank expression, unable to process the information for a full 2 minutes .. and then it sank in. Shiva Pandya deadass skipped confession, dates, proposal, shaadi and jumped directly to .. Puchku ki amma. Ofcourse he did. Shiva has always been very focused, and goal oriented 🤭
He staggered backwards as Raavi launched herself into his arms. She looked up into his eyes, her arms around him, holding him in a vice grip of a hug as her face broke out into a smile so radiant it made Shiva's heart clench, forcing him to look away.
"Puchku ki Amma truly is Somnath ki sabse sundar ladki 🥺❤" he thought to himself as he hugged her back.
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