Author's POV:

When she was looking at him nervously he calmed his hyped up self and stand before her placing his hands on his waist. He was smiling ear to ear, he couldn't hide his happiness, why not it was the best day of his life. He found the girl he was desperately loving. He slowly walked towards her and stood infront of her, that smile was never leaving his face.

"Abhi! Can I touch your face once. I just wanted to make sure it's not my dream. I want to make sure it was all real and you were here, standing infront of me." He asked desperately. She just looked at him with wide eyes.

"It's okay! If you're not comfortable." He immediately responded scolding himself in his mind. He doesn't want to disturb this happiness and comfort between them at any cost.

When he was trying to take a step back she suddenly hold his hand to stop him. He felt a shiver ran through his body when she touched him. He was shocked to see that she was the one who initiated it. She took his palms with her hands and slowly cupped her cheeks with his palms.

He was feeling on cloud nine right at that moment. When he cupped her jaws properly and started to caress his thumbs on her cheeks she just closed her eyes feeling the new sensations in her body. A light blush has covered her cheeks which he instantly adored.

For the first time in five years he was looking at her properly, even though they were neighbours. He was of dusky complexion but she was very fair with a little bit of baby fat in the cheeks. She has round face with black eyes. Her shy smile was making him go crazy. A thick tress of her hair was falling on her face which he removed and carefully tucked behind her ear. Her lips are looking so moist and shivering due to the proximity. Her height was almost reached to his chin. Her face in his hands was positioned up with her eyes closed while he was looking down to her beautiful face. He couldn't help himself but to give a kiss on her forehead. His lips lingered there for few seconds with a feather touch of his lips and he immediately backed off getting into his senses.

"I'm sorry." He murmured guiltily for crossing the limits.

"It's okay! But can I ask you something?" She asked meekly.

"You can ask me for anything abhi." He assured her.

"I don't want anyone to know about us for the time being in our society. Most importantly my parents. I don't wanna face all this right now." She said while looking down.

"Whatever you want baby. But I would be leaving here in 2 months. How would I see you if we don't tell about us with our parents?" He asked himself the last lines but she heard them.

"Don't you think your parents accept me? I do have a business I'm running and my family is also well reputed. My dad would come and talk to your parents. They know me from years. I don't think you have to be afraid of anything." He suggested in case she was afraid of the rejection from their parents.

"No it's not that. I'm just not ready for this right now. Can't we be like this for sometime?" She asked desperate. Now he understood that she was not ready for any commitment right now. He understood she must be scared about him.

He just met her, it was impossible her to feel comfortable with him. Though she likes him as she wrote in letters, he had to first make her trust him and make her she was confident about him. Finally understanding the girls turmoil he mentally slapped himself.

"Okay! I understand don't worry and we'll tell our parents, only when your comfortable and sure about what you want. Is that okay with you?" He asked her which makes her gave a beautiful smile to him. His heart just melted right there seeing her. He wanted to see her only in smiles.

"I also have a request." He stated after a minute when they both were silent. She just raised her eyebrows in asking what.

"I have always read in your letters calling me, I mean writing me 'dear Rudra', now I want to hear it from you directly." He asked taking her hands in his own hands looking into her eyes.

She just smiled shyly looking down and called "Rudra" which is a mere whisper. If he was not standing so close and concentrated, he would've missed. A happy smile graced his lips. He grabbed her chin between his thumb and index finger making her look at him he lost in her eyes. They were sitting side by side holding hands with their backs supported by water tank. He was kissing her fingers and palm time to time believing it's true.

"God! I don't wanna send you home but it's already getting dark. Your parents must be worried about you. We were here from almost two hours." He got up then lift her up with her hands. They both dusted off their dresses and started to went down from the terrace.

When they were going to come out from behind the tank she suddenly grabbed his face with her hands. She stand on her toes and gave him a quick peck on forehead. All this was happened in mere seconds he couldn't even grasp what was happening. When he finally came into his senses she was already leaving.

He ran behind her and shouted "Abhi, I forgot to take your phone number." He hoped her to stop for a minute so that he could get another kiss but to his disappointment she just turn around and shouted back "bus stop, monday morning 08:30." And she flew off through the stairs like a butterfly.

'Ahh it's just Saturday, Monday is two days away!' he exclaimed into sky, covering his face with his hands in exasperation. Now that he found her he wanted to talk to her, wanna see her, wanna be close to her. He didn't even know the basic information about her yet. He just know her name and her parents names and sister name.

Don't know where his mind was wandering when she was with him. He didn't even know a single thing about her. He felt like a fool to not even ask what she was studying and where.

'well there's nothing to worry about. It's not the last time, the story had just begun. I will ask her next time when I meet her.' he pep talked himself and went back to the apartment.

When he entered into the flat he already found venu seated on the couch. He was looking like he just came back.

"What makes you to smile like a Cheshire cat today!" Venu exclaimed looking at his friend.

"Bava! When did you come? You know what I'm so happy today bava. Let's go out for dinner. My treat!" Rudra hugged his friend while the later just gave a weird expression not knowing what happened to his friend suddenly.

"What happened! Have you cracked any other deal?" Venu asked bored.

"Yes! My life deal!" Rudra confirmed which attracted Venu's attention.

"I found your sister." Rudra stated making Venu's eyes widen.

"Really! Who's that! Do I know her? How did you managed to find her? We've been trying from five years." Venu started to shoot questions in excitement.

Rudra took a glass of water and gave it to him to calm his excitement and narrated everything that happened in last few hours.

"Bava! I'm so happy for you. I wanna see her, the girl who wrapped you around her little finger without even showing you her face." Venu was more than happy to hear the news. He was so happy for his friend.

That night they went out and celebrated the happiest day of Rudra's life.

The next day is Sunday and rudra was waiting for her one glance. But she was no where to be seen. Rudra was just standing at his flats door from inside. Whenever he heard a sound of door opening he thought it was from latha aunty's flat and he came out of his flat. But soon went inside getting disappointed. The day was very hard for him to not talk with her and not be able to see her. He was just trying his luck to get to see her beautiful smile once, just once. But God was not on his side today. He just went back to his room after sometime and tried to focus on his work.

Sunday was totally wasted according to him, why, because he couldn't get to see his abhi.

But he was happy that the next day was Monday and he would definitely going to get her number so that he could talk to her whenever he wants to his hearts content. He happily went to bed that day with a smile. He slept light hearted after so many years.

It's already Monday morning. Rudra was scavenging through his wardrobe to find a perfect outfit to wear. I'm fact he was searching for a particular blue shirt which she likes him in, but it was nowhere to be found. The time is running out so he just wear a white shirt with blue jeans. After getting ready he went to the bus stop by walk. He won't be using his bike today because he plans to accompany her to her college in bus.

When he went 10 minutes before the decided time, he saw so many students were waiting for the bus. He was also waiting for her. A smile appeared voluntarily when he saw her coming to the bus stop but immediately his smile dropped when he realised with whom she was coming.

Here I'm adding the characters I like, if you don't like them you can imagine whoever you want that fits.

Rudra 👆

Abhilasha 👆

Aasritha 👆

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