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O humdum
O humdum suniyo re
O jaaniya suniyo re
O jaaniya shaam ko khidki se Chori chori nange paanv chaand aayega

[  O partner
O partner, listen to this
O lover, listen to this
O lover, in the evening from the window The moon will secretly come naked feet ]

The music was blasting inside the car . Sathvik was singing along with the song at the top of his lungs as he was driving his car towards a well known Pizza place to have some Pizza .

All of a sudden, the music went off due to an incoming call. He groaned in annoyance.

"Who the fuck is this?" He cursed as he received the call through the bluetooth which was attached to his right ear.

"Hello," He answered the phone.

"Hey, hottie." Hearing the very familiar female voice, Sathvik rolled his eyes with a sigh .

"Alisha…What's up?" He asked her.

"I am fabulous as always…What about you?" Alisha asked him back.

" Fine…anyways why did you call me right now? It's unusual for you? Moreover, weren't you in  Indore?" Sathvik asked her in confusion as he looked at his wrist watch. It was 2 pm.

" Yes I was…but I guess you forgot that I was returning this morning." Alisha said to him a bit sarcastically. If he was concentrating enough in her voice, he couldn't have missed the disappointment in her voice. But he surely catched the Sarcasm.

"You are right…I forgot about that. Come on..I need to remember so many important things…. It is natural to forget some petty things like this. " Though Sathvik said casually, he passed her a clear message through his words which Alisha didn't miss as well.

"Forget it. .. are you free now?" Alisha asked him, ignoring his words.

" Yes…for an hour. Why?" He asked her in confusion.

" Because we need to meet. There is something important which I need to discuss with you." She said.

Sathvik thought for a minute.

"Are you there?" Alisha asked him.

"Yeah…yeah… sure . Will meet you at our usual spot within 20 minutes. " Sathvik said to her.

"Great. See you then." Alisha said with a smile and cut the call.

One year ago Sathvik met Alisha through Darsh who is his very good friend in Darsh's birthday party.
Alisha is an office colleague of Darsh. From then they kept in touch with each other as they hit off Pretty cool.

Though Alisha claims that they both are friends, Sathvik denies it. For him Alisha is just a girl with whom talks sometimes and goes to parties very rarely. For him the definition of friendship is very different. He can't accept anyone as his friend just casually ..for that they need a bond…an understanding between them.

He is kind of okay with the fact that Alisha thinks of him as her friend as he is no one to change what she feels, but for him, she isn't someone whom he can count as a friend.

After exactly 20 minutes, Sathvik reached his destination.

" Pastry & Pasta" is a famous bistro cum bakery which is the usual hangout place for Sathvik and his friends. It always remains less crowded which helps him to keep himself away from the unwanted interference media  but serves awesome food. Their cakes are something which Sathvik likes the most.

" You were here only or what?" Sathvik asked in astonishment as he sat in front of Alisha.

"No…but I was near this place only. " She replied with a smile.

Sathvik nodded.

"So Did something interesting happen when I was away? I heard your brothers got engaged. Congratulations. But why is there no photo of the brides? We didn't get to know the names either. " Alisha asked him with excitement.

"Nothing. ..Everything is the same as it was. Yes they got engaged. It was a privacy issue, nothing else.
Anyways listen, we will talk later,but first let's order some food . I am very very hungry." Sathvik said .

He had invited his close friends Sania, Darsh and Sumit for the engagement party. Only Sumit attended the party. Darsh was outside India for work and Sania was unwell so she couldn't attend.

To maintain privacy the guests were requested not to click pictures So they kept the request and stopped  themselves from clicking any picture.

Alisha gave him a small smile and said, "Sure." She looked around for the waiter as Sathvik concentrated on the Menu card.

Before she called one, a girl who was a waiter came to their table.

"What would you like to have?" The waiter asked them.
Sathvik looked up from the menu and smiled at the young girl.

Before Alisha could open her mouth, Sathvik said ,"Can I have your smile, Pretty girl?"

The waiter blushed at his comment, making Sathvik wink at her with a smirk.

"I would like to have red sauce pasta and coke." Alisha interrupted their smiling session, making them look at her.

Sathvik noticed Alisha's serious expression. But ignoring her, he once again looked at the girl and said ," One Chicken Burger with a coke and one black forest cake for me please."

"Sure." The girl wrote down with a smile and went away.

Sathvik looked at Alisha who was sitting with the same serious expression.

"What?" He asked her.

"Will you stop it? I don't like it at all." Alisha said to him loud and clear.

Sathvik raised his perfect pair of eyebrows and chuckled.

"And why do you think that I should be careful about what you like or What you don't? " He asked her . There was a look in his eyes which was challenging her to say anything nonsense. He didn't like if someone tried to dictate him what to do and what not to do.

Alisha took it in the wrong way. She thought that he was pestering her to utter those three words as he wanted to hear it from her mouth before his own confession.
Somewhere she understood that he knew what it was and why she was behaving like this.

Alisha opened her mouth but stopped as a waiter came to serve them the food.

"Let's eat. Damn I am very hungry." Sathvik mumbled and dug in. Alisha let out a sigh and started to eat as well.

Sathvik kept eating to his heart's content whereas Alisha was fidgeting in her place and was toying with her food.

Sathvik looked up from his plate and looked at Alisha only to frown.

"What happened to you? Why are you not eating?" He asked her.

Alisha smiled weirdly at him and said, "No no..I am eating. " He gave her a look of confusion. Nevertheless he shrugged and started eating again.

They both finished their meal.

"Ahaa!! It was wonderful. " Sathvik said with a satisfied grin on his face.

" Sathvik, umm…I need to talk to you . " Alisha said to Yash awkwardly.

Sathvik raised his eyebrows in question and gestured with his head to her to continue .

"Umm.." She cleared her throat and took a deep breath.

" Sathvik, I know maybe you will find it weird how it happened so fast…but it's true ….it happened…I have fallen for you.
Yes , I am in love with you. Will you be my boyfriend?" Alisha asked him with her heart thumping loudly in her chest.

Sathvik kept looking at her for sometime and then burst out laughing. Luckily there were very few people so he didn't attract much attention for his own good.

"Are you joking?" He asked her as he continued to laugh. But when he saw her being serious, he stopped and controlled his laughter.

"I am serious, Sathvik. Why will I joke about something like this?" Alisha asked him.

" What? Are you kidding me? Alisha, I already told you that I am not into this love and shit. " Sathvik said to her seriously. He wanted to add “at least not right now” But he stopped as he didn't want to give her any false hope.

" But you slept with me." Alisha replied, being agitated.

Without losing his temper, Sathvik rolled his eyes and said. ," Seriously!!! Now you want to bring up that topic and play the victim card!!! If you forgot , let me remind you that it was our mutual decision….and we slept just once and it was eight months ago for the first time and I remember very clearly that it was our last time as well."

Yes, they both slept with each other when they went to a party together.

After that everything was going smoothly between them. They were connected through phone calls frequently. They went to parties together but it was very rare. They didn't meet each other except at parties.

But they never slept after that night. It was their first and last night together . Alisha approached him for the second time after a month  but Sathvik refused as he found out that she was already having a sleeping buddy and most importantly he was not interested.

Moreover Sathvik didn't find her physically and mentally exciting enough to sleep with her again.

Though he flirts with girls,he is not someone who sleeps with a new girl every week. Basically he is not a fuckboy. He has his fillings but they are very few in number.

Sleeping with Alisha was just a rushed decision from his side which he took without thinking properly. He didn't want to say it aloud but he regrets it.

Things started to change from last two months when Sathvik started to notice her strange behaviour towards him — Her being possessive about him, her enquiry about his whereabouts and daily routine and not to forget her visiting his office unannounced. That is why he regrets it.

Sathvik stopped contacting her and asked her not to come to his office on her face . Luckily Alisha stopped visiting his office.

But she kept contact with him through phone calls even though Sathvik stopped calling her by himself . In fact Sathvik started to avoid her messages so a phone call was the only option left for her.

These all were because Sathvik started to understand her intentions.

She approached him for parties but Sathvik refused that as well.

But today Alisha came here with a determined mind to propose to him. That's why she told him to meet her, saying that it was urgent .

So after exactly two months they were meeting face to face.

Alisha took a deep breath and said, "Listen Sathvik, I am serious…I am in love with you. I know somewhere you also like me. "

"No…I don't like you…love is very far from it ." Sathvik denied immediately ,telling her the truth.

" Okay, I agree that you don't like me. But you have to marry someday right …then why don't you marry me? I am sure that you will also fall in love with me after our marriage. " Alisha said to him. Sathvik could see the desperateness in her words.

"Don't be ridiculous.
Is it a story where a guy has to fall in love with a girl after his marriage just like that no matter what?
Moreover you are not my type. Yes, I have to marry someday and I will as well. I will only marry the type of girl I want to." Sathvik said to her.

" Didn't you remember it when you slept with me? In Fact you kept me hanging and kept giving me false hopes. You are such a bastard." Alisha accused him.

Sathvik clenched his jaw in anger due to her false accusations.

He loses his cool very rarely but when he does ,it's very dangerous.

"Come again…I kept giving you false hopes. Really?
Sleeping together was our mutual decision. I didn't forced you saying ,"Oh Alisha, fuck me..otherwise I will die ." Let me tell you honestly ,it was the worst decision as well as the worst experience in my entire sex life." Sathvik said with a smirk ,making Alisha's jaw drop due to his blunt confession and brutal honesty.

" Secondly I never kept hanging you…in fact when I suspected your obsession towards me, I started to keep distance from you. I stopped contacting you as well. It was you who kept on nagging me and kept sticking to me." Sathvik said to her with a glare. Alisha looked down as she knew that he was saying the truth…he never kept her hanging or gave her false hopes.

Still she didn't lose the hope of getting him.
She was about to open her mouth to say Something manipulative when Sathvik interrupted her.

"Don't…Don't you dare to run your mind in the wrong direction, Alisha. I am warning you. You know I am very evil and selfish. If because of you, I need to compromise on something or my name gets maligned I will not let you live in peace…I will make your life living hell.
You think of me as your friend. That's why I am making you understand as a friend in a civil way. But if you start playing dirty, it won't take a second for me to play nastily enough.
If you can be a bitch, I can be …what's the word you just said..yes ,bastard…. I can be a bastard as well. So control yourself, before I make you." Sathvik said in a cold and threatening tone.

Alisha gulped in fear as she saw the rage in his eyes. His tone was enough to run shiver down her spine. His words formed goosebumps in her arms due to fear.

Now she knew why Darsh once said why an angry Sathvik is a nightmare.  She got a glimpse of it.

He didn't raise his voice for a second but whatever he said and the way he said spoke a thousand words of his rage.

Sathvik kept his Share of money and left from there , leaving an extremely scared Alisha behind who just got the lesson of messing with Sathvik.

But did she learn her Lesson? Only time will tell that.

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