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Hi guys! Here is the much awaited AbhiGya conversation! I hope you enjoy it, and it lives upto your expectations!
Oh, and there are quite a few typos around here, didnt get the time to proof read! Will be more careful from the next update!😊
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Chapter 7
"Hi, do you want to go for dinner tonight?" asked Bulbul cautiously over the phone.
"I don't mind" replied Suresh with a small smile. Bulbul jumped silently in delight. Suresh continued, "I will pick you up at 8 then?" - "Sure" replied Bulbul.
Suresh was walking out of college when Bulbul had called him, as he hung up, he felt a light tap on his shoulder, he turned around to see Tanu smiling at him brightly. She greeted him and engaged herself in a small talk with him. There was something about this man - Suresh - he was so matured, smart and distinguished is a certain way - someone she could flaunt with pride in her eyes - something that would make other women jealous of her - he was humorous too, but polite at the same time - he could sweep people of their feet with just a few chivalrous gestures - Tanu was smitten by him. Abhi didn't stand a chance before him. Conversing with Suresh wasn't difficult either, he could easily keep a free flow of conversation and Tanu just needed to look gorgeous. After half an hour and a cup of tea from the cafeteria, Suresh said he needed to get going. But there were dark clouds in the sky, he glanced at the sky and looked at Tanu, "Hey Tanu, do you want me to drop you? The weather seems to getting rough" Tanu flashed a glamourous smile, "Oh Suresh, how sweet of you. Actually I am very scared of thunders you know. It would be great if you could drop me." Suresh smiled, "Sure, come with me"
When they almost reached Tanu's hostel, she looked at him with a smile, "Hey Suresh, I want to thank you properly for dropping me safely. Do you want to do dinner with me tonight?
"I would love to Tanu, but you see, I have already made plans with a friend tonight. Maybe some othertime?" he replied. Tanu was slightly disheartened, but well he didn't say no, he just deferred it. "Cool" she replied.
When Suresh reached Tanu's hostel, he was surprised. Tanu and Bulbul stayed in the same hostel? He turned to Tanu and smiled, "As it so happens Tanu, the friend I have dinner plans with, she stays here too!" Tanu was surprised, "she?" did he have a girlfriend already? She decided to probe, "Here? Inmy hostel? What's her name? I may know her!"
"Bulbul Arora" he replied. Tanu gasped as understanding seeped in.
"Bul is your friend? Oh my God, such a small world. She is my roomie! We are very close you know! We are like sisters!! Oh I see, you mentioned you're Pragya's family friend right? Aah so you are bound to know Bul!" she laughed in relief - she knew Bulbul was mentally engaged to somebody since childhood, that meant Suresh was just a friend for her. Great she thought.
Suresh was taken by surprise by this revelation too. True he had agreed to dinner with Bulbul, but he didn't want to say no' that's why - he honestly felt Bulbul might take it as a date and he didn't want her to assume so early. He now had a plan, to make the dinner truly friendly, maybe he could invite Tanu too? That way all their plans would work out. Bulbul would get her dinner, and Tanu could thank him and also he could subtly make Bulbul realize that it wasn't a date - Bulbul was matured, she would take the hint.
"Hey Tanu, that's great you know! If you guys are best friends, then why don't you join us? Bulbul would love it too!" asked Suresh with a smile, and Tanu readily agreed!
As she got out of the car, Suresh called out, "I will pick you guys up at 8 okay?" Tanu smiled and walked towards the hostel, all the while dancing internally. Then she brought out her phone, and sent a text.
5:17p.m. [Hey Sexy! Sorry, too tired after all the travelling. Can we re-schedule dinner to some other time?]
In another five minutes, a reply text prompted her,
5:22p.m. [I understand sweets, some other time it is!]
***
Pragya sat by Abhi and looked straight ahead. The sky started getting steadily darker. Abhi looked at her unreadable face and sighed. He couldn't dive straight into the topic, it might get worse, so he begun,
"I didn't know you liked Marvel comics chashmish, mostly girls hate these stuff nah" he asked casually. Her eyes shine momentarily and then it went back to being dull and unreadable. "I like them since childhood. Initially I didn't, but Suresh made me read stuff like League of Shadows, Marvel stuff, and I realized I love them" Abhi's face puckered at the mention of Suresh. One day back there was no Suresh in his life, and in one day, no matter what he spoke about, Suresh's name did come up. But he was curious, "So, how do you know Suresh from childhood?" he asked cautiously. "He is a family friend" she replied curtly. "A family friend you find very attractive and had planned a movie date with tomorrow that we are incidentally gate-crashing" laughed Abhi loudly, though he could feel how hollow it sounded.
Pragya's eyes narrowed, how she wished she could tell them it was Bulbul who loved Suresh not her, but she remembered her promise to Suresh, to not reveal anything, so she kept mum, instead she remembered Tanu's friendly advances from the afternoon, "Tanu - Your partner for all intensive purposes seem to find him very attractive too." She gave back.
Abhi's hand gripped his steering tighter, both at the memory of Tanu flirting with Suresh in the afternoon and at Pragya choice of using the word - too - after her statement. Tanu too found him attractive?!?! But he kept quiet - he realized he couldn't wade in light water when he was with chashmish. It was better to get to the point.
"Chashmish, I am sorry about Friday, I didn't -----" but Pragya didn't let her complete.
"Don't bother. It was my bad that I couldn't differentiate between politeness and a genuine invitation" replied Pragya crisply. Abhi stared at her in blank incomprehension. Politeness? Well she wasn't exactly wrong, only Purab had genuinely invited her, he was only being polite, but that didn't mean he left her back on purpose. He tried again.
"Listen it was a confusion, I thought Aalu was going to get you and she thought I would. And...err..no of us got you. I am sorry."
"Don't be. And someone did get me. Suresh did. He dropped me home that night." Replied Pragya coldly. Now she was testing Abhi's patience without really realizing it. Suresh saved her? He took her home? While, him - Abhi was circling around the city like a maniac?
"Well, Suresh is quite the superhero huh? Well chashmish, were you expecting him there? I guess you were. In that case what was the fuss all about eh?" He knew he was being rude and he would regret, but he had had too much of Suresh in a day, and this had come come out - he continued, "Oh. I would imagine someone as sensible as you would at least bother to call up and let us know that you're hooking up for the night! In that case I wouldn't -----" but he stopped seeing Pragya's white face - did he really say that? He didn't mean to of course. "Listen, I didn't mean-----"
"Stop the car." She whispered hoarsely.
"Listen Pragya, I really didn't mean it" tried Abhi now panicking
"I said, stop the car. Now." there was an eerie calmness in her voice.
Abhi stopped the car. He looked to face her, "Listen Pragya, I was mad at you for not informing me that you were left behind. On that your phone was unreachable, and then we realized -----"
Pragya didn't wait for him to finish his statement, she unlocked her door and walked out into the poring rain outside. Abhi sat there stunned for a moment and then reflexively opened his door to after her. He caught up with her and grabbed her by her elbow and pulled her, but she struggled to keep walking.
"Pragya, get into the car. It's raining to hard, you cannot be out now - it's not safe - plus you're drenched."
"LEAVE ME ALONE" she screamed. Abhi stopped abruptly. From her voice he could make out she was crying, but the rain didn't let him see her tears. He felt terribly guilty. He gently held her by the shoulder and tried again.
"Pragya, listen I am sorry. I didn't mean it. And the memory of that night made me angry because you never tried to contact me for help. What if Suresh wasn't there that night? You know how worried Aalu and I got?"
"You didn't care! Don't need to lie, now even Ali doesn't expect you be my friend I guess, so there is no obligation. And Ali didn't care either - if she did, she wouldn't have refused to take me back with them" she screamed again.
"It was a confusion Pragya! Of course Aalu cares for you! She is immature! Who knows it better than you? And for me, of course I care, why do you think I drove back in the middle of the night to the club again? Can you imagine what I felt when you weren't around? You weren't taking my calls? I drove around the entire area searching for you, and I was out there searching until and unless Aalu called to tell me you reached home!" screamed Abhi desperately.
Pragya was stunned, was this true? Abhi had come to search for her? Abhi continued, "I tried meeting you the next day to clarify this but you weren't around, not even on Sunday. I asked you to come in early today, you didn't do that either, you didn't sit with me either, you didn't talk to me at all! How was I to clarify Pragya?"
"I didn't know all this" she managed to stammer. That infuriated Abhi. After hearing everything, that's what she had to offer? She didn't know? All her faults are washed off at that? Couldn't she call him? Abhi lashed out in anger once again, "How will you know? You were busy with Suresh all weekend weren't you?" then he bit his tongue again.
Pragya who was softening for a moment, didn't miss the accusing voice he used and turned stone faced again. "Thank-you for trying to help me Abhi. But I assure you, you wouldn't need to try again - because I wont hang out with you any longer. You don't have to pretend to be my friend any longer - neither you, nor Ali. You are free from your obligation now." With that she shoved his hands away from her shoulder and started walkng away, completely drenched by now.
Abhi had reached the tip of his patience. He couldn't stand it any longer. He used all his might and pulled Pragya towards the car. How much ever Pragya tried to pull away, it was futile. He pushed her into the car and put the car on child lock. He turned to Pragya and told her, he wasn't letting her travel in this weather alone - she could very well hate him and not be friends with him, but all that would prevail after he dropped her home safely. As Pragya realized there was no escape, she sat inside the car with a stubborn face and leaking eyes.
***
When Tanu reached her hostel, Bulbul was busy selecting her dress for the evening, Tanu helped her select a indigo top and told her to pair it with a beige slim-fit trouser. Bulbul sqealed in delight, she always liked Tanu's sense of dressing. Then she turned to see Tanu looking for a dress too, she asked if Tanu was going somewhere.
"Yes Buls! I am going out with you! Suresh invited me too!" she replied chirpily.
"Suresh invited you? How do you know him?" asked Bulbul confused.
"We are class mates yaar, and we hit it off quite well from the start. So he invited me" she replied happily. Bulbul's smile faltered. She thought t wold be just her and Suresh, but Suresh didn't think that way. Then Bubul tried seeing the positive, maybe Suresh wanted to form a group with her, with common friends, it definitely seemed like a good thing to do - to hang out together in the future. She smiled, though a little let down, she was happy thinking about the positive tone this brought to her relation. Then she smilingly joined Tanu in selecting her dress.
***
When Pragya reached her house, Ali opened the door. He was shocked to see how drenched his bhai and Prags were. "What the hell were you upto Prags??? You both look -----" but Pragya lashed out at Ali before she could complete. "What the hell was I up to? Why should that be any of your business Ali? Why don't you sit with you brother and imagine I was hooking up with random men out in the rain!" and before Ali could open her mouth, she ran to her room and locked it. Ali was shocked beyond her wits. Prags was never like this, she was always so timid and docile - he turned to look at Abhi questioningly. Abhi then explained everything to a stunned Aaliya and left her place shortly. Ali didn't bother Pragya for the time being. It was best that she was left alone he thought.
At night, Ali knocked at Pragya's door, there was no answer. He slowly opened the door to see she was lying on the bed with books scattered by her side. He walked inside to call her for dinner, he had had enough, he wasn't fighting with Pragya anymore. But as he approached the bed, he could feel heat waves radiate towards him. He went ahead and softly touched her forehead - she was burning with fever. He gasped, she didn't seem conscious even, should she call Bulbul? No, she would freak out, she would call daadi, she would be able to help her. Daadi told him the right kind of medication and cold water compression treatment. He sat by Prags, giving her cold water compressions, after sometime Pragya woke up. He knew this wasn't the right time to indulge in explanations - he beckoned Pragya to silently eat her food and sleep off, which she did - She didn't seem to have the energy to argue.
Coming out of her room, he called his bhai, he was drenched too.
"Hello bhai, are you okay? Do you have the fever?"
"Hi Aalu. Fever? No. Why?"
"You were also drenched nah?"
"So? Forgot daadi's magic? I made the khada and had it after coming home" smirked Abhi.
"Oh great, this Prags here - she has very high temperature, I had to give her cold compressions to bring her back to senses." Replied Ali
"Oh" Abhi's voice sounded grim. "Let me know, if she needs something" and then he hung up.
Abhi was feeling bad, had he not been so miserably mean with her, she wouldn't have walked out of the car, that chashmish he sighed, he could never figure her out.
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