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New York

"Kya hua meri bijli rani?" he teased her pulling her cheeks, and having a hearty laugh once again .

"Whats ur probs Shanky?" she asked visibly more irritated than ever.

It was so rare that Shanky instead of chiding her was looking so amused.

It was the consequent third time in the day where she has heard him laughing so much!

After all Shantanu Khandelwal was a very refined, calm, intelligent and obviously very very hot guy who was an immensely successful business tycoon as well!

He did not bother to reply, just went around her apartment whistling.

"Are you going to let words come out of your bl**dy mouth" she could not control it any long. He stopped midway in his tracks looked back at her with an amused expression, raised his eyebrows and said "Waah kya baat hai" sat down on the chair, took a drink from the refrigerator and continued his whistling, unperturbed. When she stared at him with an angry expression, he once again shrugged and said "What?"

She exhaled a deep breath and said "You broke up again, did not you?"( fearful of the obvious)

He again shrugged and his face broke into a thousand watt smile showing his sparkling whites. She was once again mesmerized by his beauty but decided to rather pursue her agenda than to get distracted.

"And you again made me the excuse" stressing on 'me' (hurt and dejected)

"Well ya sort of" he tried to avoid the confrontation as he knew it will hurt his best buddy.

"Shantanu" exasperated, she left a sigh, "you know you are not doing me any justice. Why the bl**dy hell do you use me as an excuse for your break ups?" she asked with her eyes moist.

"SShhh", he tried to calm her and soothe her."Don't cry babes. It isn't like that what you are thinking."

"Like that? Like what?" she freed herself from his embrace by giving a fiery jolt. "My best friend here uses me as a damn reason for his every breakup with god knows which sl*t and you expect me to be cheerful and happy" she was raining fire through her blood red eyes.

"It's not like that. Laura and I were not comfortable with the progress of our relationship. She wanted to patch up with her ex-boyfriend and she wasn't even too comfortable with our friendly relationship. So we sort of decided it" he shrugged off.

He seated himself beside her and squeezed her shoulders "I know you feel like you are creating hindrances in my love life but trust me that's not true. It was all but love between me and Laura or for that matter any girl I have dated in the past two years."

"Chup kar khotheya" she pushed him once more.

He made a mock face of being hurt "Waise I like the fiery Punjabi from your luscious lips" he made a dreamy expression.

"Chal hat badtameeez. Moo na tod doon tera main. Awaara kahin ka. Waise yeh Laura bhi toh tera best friend ki girlfriend thi use bhi nahi chhoda saale *******"

"Tere se kaun flirt karna chahta hain. Main ladki thodi na hoon" he smiled a mock shy smile.

"Poor joke tha" she said getting up.

"Tere saath acchi wali marni bhi nahin hai mujhe. Chal tayyar ho 'Dj vu' mein ek round mar ke ate hain" he got up as well.

"Sun, tu India ja raha hain, hain na?" she asked a bit serious, bit worried.

"I guess I wont deny,kyun tujhe bhi jana hain kya?" when she kept quiet he could decipher the affirmative reply "But shaadi toh mere bhai Akshay ki hain na" (tad bit confused)

"Abbey bewakuf insaan.Uske saath shaadi meri behen Khanak ki hi ho rahi hain. Khanak Chowdhury" she gave a dry smile.

"Haan woh Mother India" he blurted some abusive under his breath which she was sure was directed towards Khanak.

He made his way out of the front gate towards the porch.

"Pata nahin isse Khanak se itni problem kyun hai" she shrugged off and started to get ready as she knew it was useless to decipher her messed up friend."

"***hole" she muttered under her breath and giggled.

Kolkata that very day

She woke up from her sleep and it was pretty early by her standards. She drank water off the jug, yawned a couple of times , checked out her messy self in the mirror, smiled to herself, wore her chappals and opened the windows to get some fresh air. As usual, it was cloudy today also.

Subarnalata, at once, came into her room and gave her some tika and chanted mantra for the 454^th time since yesterday.

"Ma" she requested though still much in sleep.

"Chup kar. Aaj tere results aane wale hain. Aaj ke din toh thoda uss upar wale se dar le" she fumed and went away to prepare for some puja.

Khanak stifled a laugh at her mom's hysterics. She loves me too much, she concluded. Only if her other daughter was also here.

She dressed herself up and touched the feet of every elder in the household which was an exception from the daily trend of touching only her ma and dadu's feet because today her results would be out.

She sat in front of the laptop and refreshed the page dozen of times, amidst answering a hundred calls. While Shankar remained seated in his rocking chair and was calmly eyeing his granddaughter, Subarnalata was busy going in and out of the mandir and also answering a few dozen inquiries on her mobile. Everyone else was two timing between their daily chores and comforting Khanak excluding mama who sat there taking digs at khanak's nervous situation.

"Results are out" she screamed out. She at once entered her roll number and sent a silent prayer to god.

"What!!" she screamed out, her lungs ready to explode. "Five" she muttered silently.

"Five" Subarnalata repeated that feeling every system in her body close down temporarily.

"That's Ninety five ma, Ninety five!!" she let out a loud shriek and rushed to hug her mom who hadn't still recovered from the shock.

"AA..aa.." Subarnalata muttered while celebrations started all around the household and news started to spread that she was the most probable university topper.

"God now I can safely talk to Madhvi" she uttered in a low voice.

However someone's ears cocked up at this new piece of information.