Chapter-4
It was the first time Ruhaan was going to Mishti's place....his suckers of friends had been there....but he had denied their offer to join them, why? Cause he was a bloody idiot!! They'd given him her address, not that he needed it, for even though they thought he didn't go, but actually he did. Oh, he'd made sure that they didn't see him, following them. Why he became a stalker? Again, cause he was a bloody idiot!!
Yesterday when she'd offered to tutor him, he couldn't believe, why had she done that? Maybe because she was sweet and kind, stop doubting her!! He scolded himself. He stopped his BMW his dad her gifted him on his 21st birthday, locked it and rung her doorbell. Someone's gonna get a big surprise today....he thought smugly.
He rung the bell again but no one was answering. He pushed the door and it opened... No sooner had the door opened and he took his first step inside than something big and furry jumped on his face....he couldn't see anything beyond white fur and two big green eyes....what the..!!! The creature started scratching his face, neck, shoulder... Whatever part he could reach. Ruhaan was trying his best to free himself and prevent himself from dying a very painful and slow death....but he wasn't succeeding one bit....it seemed like today was the day of reckoning and he was going to die....the only regret was a creature, No! Correction, a very very ugly creature was getting the best of him. HIM! Ruhaan Sahgal the star footballer of his team. Alas! He wouldn't even be called handsome when they put him on coffin as the bloody creature was hell bent on disfiguring his once a very handsome face!!
"Gabbar! Stop it this instant!" Mishti shouted and the creature stopped at oncen
"What the f**k is that" asked Ruhaan, panting badly
"He's Gabbar, my cat" she replied. She kneeled down and started rubbing that bloody creature!
"Who names their cat Gabbar? And he's a bloody cannibal!! He was going to eat me alive!!"
"Oh, stop exaggerating Ruaan, he barely scratched you and that too because you scared him" she said as if it wasn't that big of a deal, as if that bloody cannibal hadn't scarred him for life!!
"I scared him?" He asked unbelievably
"Well, startled him then. He's not accustomed to strangers. He gets insecure and uncomfortable in their presence" she explained calmly.
"Well, the least you could do is show some concern towards me, look at me... He scratched all my face!" He said it like a baby would do, to to grab whatever shred of attention he could.
"Aww, you poor thing.." She finally left that bloody creature and came to him....but the creature didn't like to share the attention which was solely fixed on him till now, and he growled at him again, Ruhaan gave him his most devilish smirk.
"You know, for a grown up boy like you, you're quite a baby, aren't you? She said with fake anger, but nevertheless started examining his scratches. She left him there for a minute and brought a bowl full of water and cotton. She made him sit on the couch and started attending to his injury
"Your bloody cannibal of a creature almost killed me!"
"Will you stop it already?" She scoffed and started wiping the little blood that was seeping from some of his scratches. She slowly blew on them and applied the ointment.
"What are you doing here anyway?"
"You told me you'd tutor me"
"Yes, I did. But the question remains; what are you doing HERE?"
"Well, I came here to study" he replied defensively, now regretting his decision, but he was quite enjoying it, well not the scratches, for they were hurting like hell, but her close proximity was like a soothing balm on his 'fatal' wounds...and he almost went to heaven when she blew on his face....he could endure millions of such wounds if she was there to blow on them. He wasn't aware that while fantasizing about her, he had started smiling and she was looking at him suspiciously now.
"Ahhhh, they hurt so much!! That cannibal skinned me, I'm going to die a very slow and painful death, all thanks to this bloody creature!!" He pretended to cry but the damn tears won't come out! And he ended up sounding like a horse! He hastily cleared his throat and rebuffed the idea of crying. He'll have to make do with just painful faces, he decided. But it seemed like she saw through his act
"Stop calling my sweet cat names! And your scratches aren't even that deep, you're just faking it!" She downright accused him! Well, rightly so, still it hurt and she was calling that demon SWEET! that was so not acceptable!
"Look what your SWEET cat did to my cute face! He was trying to kill me. He should be executed for this!"
"Don't you dare talk like that about gabbar" she came nose to nose with him and if that wasn't enough that demon was glaring daggers at him. He gulped. If he had any hopes of saving his pretty face and leaving the anecdotes of his adventures to his grand children then it was better to run from here with his life, while he was still capable of running.
"I....I'll see you tomorrow" and with that he fled from there. With his pretty face still intact.
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