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Praneet watched Geet walking out the door and turned towards Maan.

"Diez? Really? Why? Why would you forsake a wonderful name like Maan and assume the identity of Diez?"

"You know that crazy woman and yet you ask me why?" Maan crossed his arms across his chest and raised one eyebrow quizzically.

"She in not crazy Mann, yeah a little eccentric maybe, but she has a big heart. "Do you know why the P' on her T- shirt was missing? There were some kids selling T-Shirts on the side walk yesterday. They were not branded clothes; not even stuff you'd find in regular stores. They are just ripoffs made in some underground factory. They all have some sort of spelling errors on them, so nobody was willing to buy them. She bought the whole lot from the kids and well... She gave me one of those."

He muttered the last bit under his breath.

Just then the cowbell above the caf entrance rang and in rushed the not so crazy, golden hearted Geet Handa, yet again.

She rushed over to where Praneet Da was sitting.

"Praneet Da you cheater." She accused loudly.

"You promised yesterday, you were going to match with me and now look at you.

"Geet I did not cheat."

Praneet hurriedly stood up and whispered something in her ear.

"I don't believe you. Show me." She demanded with her fists on her hips.

Praneet sneaked a peek over her shoulder at Maan, then turned his back and started unbuttoning his checkered white shirt.

Maan who had been watching the happenings in bemusement, jumped over the counter lithely and pulled Geet back.

"You crazy woman. What the hell are you doing? Why are you asking him undress here? What the hell is going on?"

"But Diez he promised me..."

"I don't care what he promised you." He cut her off.

"You can't simply come in here and ask a married man to take off..." his voice faded away, his eyes bulged out and he burst out into uproarious laughter.

Underneath Praneet's decent looking white checkered shirt was yet another misspelled superhero T- Shirt. The T-shirt was one size too small for him. The muscular torso of Batman was stretched tightly across Praneet's nicely rounded belly and the words below it read. Fatman. The B' had been misspelled and replaced with F'

"Go ahead and laugh you super healthy rat. This is the exact reason why I did not wear it on display. But I kept my word. I am wearing it just like I promised Geet." Praneet glared at Maan who was too busy howling. Then he turned to Geet who was looking down and biting her lip to control her laughter.

She took a step forward and hugged him.

"Aww. You really are a superhero Da". She told him.

"Whatever." He rolled his eyes at her and then continued.

"You do know right, that the time it has cost you to come back to check on me has made you super -duper late for college. You are never going to make it on time now."

Geet looked at the clock and shrieked.

Suddenly Praneet's eyes narrowed on Maan and he smirked evilly.

"No Geet, you won't be late, especially not if Diez drops you off. He was in fact going right that way, weren't you Diez?

Man's laughter was cut off abruptly right in the middle on hearing Praneet's words.

"No I was not." He retorted instantly.

"Well. It's up to you. I thought you might like to take my new bike out for a ride."

Praneet dangled the keys in front of Maan. His shocked gaze caught on the custom made skeleton key that dangled from the bunch. He gave a whoop of delight.

He literally snatched it from Praneet's palm, give him a bear hug, while almost lifting him off his feet. He sat him back on the floor and thumped him hard on his back.

"I love you, Praneet Da."

Mann tossed the keys in the air and headed towards the door. He stopped at the entrance and looked at Geet.

"Well come on let's go, what are you waiting for?"

"Bye, Praneet Da. See you later." She waved at Praneet and rushed behind Maan.

Maan was standing a few feet away and admiring the bike in front of him when he heard a gasp behind him and then a shriek of joy as the girl behind him rushed towards the bike.

"Hades. Oh my God it's Hades. Oh you big beautiful baby, I missed you. Look at you standing there showing off your shiny perfect body." She tentatively put her hand forward to touch the bike and then snatched it back and looked around warily.

"Where is that Mr. Grumpy? I am sure if I touch his bike he will come and chop my hand off."

Maan who had been grinning at her reaction on seeing her long lost lover boy heard her last statement clearly and the smile disappeared from his lips abruptly.

"Who is Mr. Grumpy, Geet?"

"Hmm? Oh Grumpy. He is one of the dwarves from Snow White and The Seven Dwarves. He always disapproves of Snow White and he is always irritated.

"Huh?" She had lost him again. He clenched his teeth and began warningly.

"Geet if you don't give me a straightforward answer, I swear I am going to leave you right here and ride off into the sunset on this beautiful bike."

"Oh but it's morning now Diez. How can you possibly ride off into the sunset?" She asked in confused innocence.

"Ahhh!!! Shut up and get on the bike if you want to be on time for your class."

She gave him a startled look and her mouth formed a big O.

"Right now you sounded just like Grumpy, Diez? I mean just like Hades's papa."

So he had been correct in assuming that she had been calling him Grumpy.

He glared at her and lifted her off her feet and dumped her on the back seat of the bike.

She looked around wildly and looked ready to jump off the bike.

"Geet if your feet touch the ground, I swear I am going to tie you to that bike and take you to the college. Is that what you want?

Geet looked at him him wide eyed, for once shocked into silence and shook her head vigorously.

Maan grinned from ear to ear. For once he had managed to shut up Geet Handa.

He got on the bike and since there was only one helmet he grabbed it and put it on her head.

She protested and made a motion to remove it. He glared at her and pushed it forcefully back on her head.

Her head bobbed with the awkward weight of the helmet and she grabbed onto it. Maan reached beneath her chin and tightened the straps to fit her smaller head. Soft skin brushed against the back of his hand and a startled pair of molten chocolate eyes looked at him through the visor of the helmet. He found himself looking at them in fascination. She did have the most beautiful pair of expressive eyes. And for all the conversations they had had ...this was the first time she was looking at him straight in the eye.

He gave his head a sharp shake to shake of the strange feeling that overcame him. He took a deep breath, got on the bike and started it.

"Geet hold on tight. I am taking off."

Once he saw her nod through the side view mirrors, he drove off.

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Chapter 8

Originally posted by: sporthy_smile28

Wow!

Me already waiting!

Originally posted by: tabby999

i want BINDING TIES..update

Originally posted by: Susegad

I don't know what you say... I don't know what you say😆

That one next, but not today.😛