...Shaurya?
...Home already, MS?
...That's not important, what is, is why you are up so early this morning when you should be still resting?
Shaurya smiled over her apparent worry over him; that and the fact that she was back where she should be. Home and far away from that man.
... I'm sorry your date fell through.
He suspected that his words read as insincere as they were, however he needed to bridge the gap somehow after he had been so abrupt with her earlier in the day. He was just so glad that she had reached out to him at all. He was about to add to his chat, when she sent her own
...It didn't. Why would you think it had? I'm - we're actually here still having our meal. It's a great little place; the food is simple, but really, very good. And I have had the best two cups of chai I've had in days.
...So if not the meal, it's the company that is so awful. Are you hiding from him in the washroom stall then?
... Not that it's any of your concern, but Malik has stepped away...
...Aacha: like I said, his company is so lacking that you resorted to reaching out to me at the first opportunity.
...Maybe
...Or Maybe I just wanted to rub in what an amazing time I'm having with a good-looking guy who has treated me with respect the entire time and not as shabbily as supposed friend who acted like I was some characterless woman for deciding to have a meal with a co-worker.
For the first time, it occurred to him how she could have taken his comments, and may have been offended by them.
...I never, ever said that, MS.
... Nahi, but it was inferred. And it wasn't appreciated. I'm sure if the situations were reversed, Malik wouldn't have had an issue with it. He would probably have given me that cute smile that shows his dimples, and sent me on my way wishing me a good time.
"Only if he was a fool," Shaurya muttered to himself, as he switched back to the images his search had brought up. Unbeknownst to MS, her chat was giving him just the sort of specific detail he was lacking. Who knew there would be more than one Chef Malik in the area? But only one, Shaurya thought with dimples. Correct that he thought, his irritation rising: a good-looking guy with a cute smile and dimples. Women, he thought, rolling his eyes at thought of her description of the man. Still it had eliminated the alternative. He supposed the man left could be classified as appealing to an impressionable young woman. He decided there and then, that he detested the photogenic man he had determined to be his rival.
...Probably because he would have trusted me, you know, just as he had asked me to give him the benefit of the doubt and trust him. I probably wouldn't even had to ask him this favor, because hopefully in the course of our previous dealing he would got the hunch of the type of person I was, and treated me accordingly. And that no matter how handsome my dinner date was, that I wouldn't be so easily swayed by anything as superficial a guy's dimples. Haan, he would definitely trusted me.
...I just wonder why you didn't, Shaurya?
And just as suddenly as he had earlier, she logged off.
This does not bode well, Shaurya thought.
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