Megha's POV:

I just completed my classes for the day and now I'm free for the rest of the day. So i thought to gave a visit to my monkey friend madhu, who runs a café.

I told raga to take a bus, as i have no classes anymore and was going to see my best friend. Raga would always prefer to ride with me but if our schedules doesn't match then she would go by bus. So it's a usual thing. She just doesn't like to stay and wait for crowdy bus, sometimes she doesn't even get a seat to sit. She has to stand all the way to the home. So she prefers to ride with me. But as i have the work of teaching and studying at the same time, i sometimes had to stay back in the college for more time, spending time in the library for my upcoming year project, as well as this year's syllabus.

But today I have special reason for leaving early and she understands it too. No matter how much we bicker, at the end of the day we were sisters and friends. She tells me everything and i tell her everything. So she understands that i need some alone time with my bestie madhu to come to terms with the sudden proposal of marriage.

I started my Suzuki access 125cc, it's my favourite and it's silver colour. When I first laid my eyes on it, i decided i had to buy it and my dad also think it's better option in market. I bought it in EMI, it got me 8 months to complete the debt.

My dad wanted to buy it for me, but i insisted that i want something to call it the result of my hardwork and feel proud whenever I see it. So he didn't say anything and let me buy it on my own with my salary. Now i have some savings too and i transfer some amount of money to my dad's account every month even if he said no, i like to give them my own hard worked earnings. I feel proud of it.

I started my scooty and went to the madhu's café.

There she is my firebrand, checking the accounts, i slowly taked steps to her chair, i said the worker who noticed me to stay quite by putting my inder finger on my lips to shush her.

"Bhow!" I barked in her ear, at which she jumped out of her seat and dropped the accounting books on the ground which were on her table. She grabbed her chest and glared at me taking deep breaths. She grabbed the first thing her hands laid on and throw it at me, glad it's just a book and i just got hurt a little bit.

"Ouch! That hurts!" I whined.

"Feel glad that i didn't kill you. I just hoped that i should've grabbed a scissor or a knife instead of a book." She retorted still glaring.

"Sorryyyyy." I hugged her giving a sheepish smile.

"Don't bother. I'll definitely give it back to you someday." She warned.

"So, what makes madam to grace us with her presence today!" She enquired me after recovering from the shock.

"Why? Am I not welcome here?" I fake hurt placing a hand on my chest.

"Oh! Shut up! I know when there's something on your mind." She said nonchalantly.

I gave her a sheepish smile.

"Well..." She pried further.

" Maybe I'm getting married." I filled her in looking elsewhere other than her.

"What!" She hit with another shock, "What did you just say?" She repeated the question.

"Well the thing is .." i filled her with everything that happened in the morning on the dining table.

"Wow..." She breathed out like she is in a trance.

"Are you really getting married so...!?" She asked again after sometime.

"Well, yeah" i told her slowly.

"Megha, you know you're just 23, you don't even know him. What if he is not a good one." She tried to convince me.

"Don't even try to run your wild imagination on me. I believe my dad. But again we can't say all the love marriages are very happy. Every marriage has some problems. Don't even try to give me negative vibes okay! Moreover today or a year later, I'll just marry whoever my dad brought a match to me, so what's wrong in agreeing today rather than to wait for sometime, either way my dad impressed with this match.
So it must be surely a good one. And i have no reason to say no." I warned her genuinely.

"Okay madam okay. Now could you please stop your preaching class." She surrendered while lifting her hands slightly in an irritated tone.

"So, did you see him? how is he looking?" She started her usual banter after coming into terms with my decision.

"I didn't see him, but dad told me he would send me his details through WhatsApp." I told her hesitatingly.

The people slowly started to fill in the café as the time was already 5pm. And the café is across a well-known MNC company. So it's a high business time for her.

"Have you checked your WhatsApp, maybe uncle had already forwarded
his photo to you." She told me raising her brows in excitement.

"Someone is more excited than me." I gave her a chuckle and switch on my mobile data.

I received several notifications from different apps and ignoring them i opened WhatsApp.

"There it is 2 new messages from uncle." Madhu shouted excitedly.

"Calm down madhu. You're attracting attention." I told her totally embarrassed.

I clicked open the thread of my dad and he sent me a photo and a profile in pdf.

I downloaded them.

My heart was in anticipation while the files are downloading, i could literally hear my heartbeat. I prayed to God that let the photo and profile to be my liking.

When i clicked on the photo, it felt like my heart stopped beating for a second. A man with dusky skin and captivating brownish black eyes, thick and perfect arch shaped eyebrows, with thick beard and moustache which ends are swirled. His upper lip was almost hidden under his moustache, and his lower lip was so pink and plump. He wore white shirt and has big round glasses around his eyes, but it doesn't do anything to the beauty of his eyes. I actually felt like it enhances more of his handsome face. I instantly fell in love with him.

"Eeeeewwww, who would send the photo with beard for marriage proposals. And look at those glasses, very nerdy type." She exclaimed.

'That's what makes him sexy.' I thought to myself.

"Ooh! Really!" Madhu exclaimed with a knowing smile.

"Did i said it out loud." I asked but i need no answer as i can see that in her smirk, i did said it out loud. I felt so embarrassed.

"Okay, it's not illegal to fall for your future husband, let's see his profile." She chirped already started teasing me.

His name was koushal Ram, i like his name. As my dad portrayed, the profile is very impressive, but what caught my attention was the name of his MNC company. It oddly feels familiar. I asked the same to madhu and she gave me a flick on my forehead.

"What was that for?" I exclaimed with my eyes wide open while rubbing my forehead.

"So that you're brain started working again." She scolded me and turn my head across the road. It was the same company as written in the profile.

My heart started to beat rapidly, the employees are coming out and my eyes were busily roaming around to look at the face in the photo for real.

"Oooh, someone's excited." She teased but i don't care right now.

Slowly the crowd began to lessen but i couldn't find the particular person that i really wanted to see.

While I'm still searching him, someone bumped into me from backwards, he is rushing out of the café while speaking into his mobile, i turned around to see who is the person but he just muttered a sorry and didn't even properly look at me, he must be in some rush.

But suddenly something flashed in the back of my mind and i took a double look at him. He is the one my eyes were constantly searching for sometime. I automatically open my eyes wide with mouth agape and turned to madhu, who is already looking at me with a smiling face and wide eyes.

We both ran to the entrance door of the café only to see him stepping down the stairs out of the café with his laptop bag, heading to the parking slot before café. As in the photo sent, he wore white shirt again and he look more handsome in reality.

He strided to a maroon coloured car in the parking lot on the side of road, he bought the car on the road and started to check something on his phone while putting car on neutral. Suddenly it got hit on the front side of the car. A girl riding in her scooty in the opposite direction on a one way road. The two vehicles just grazed and it's nothing like an accident, but the girl started to thrash him to get out of the car and made a big scene even though it's clearly her fault. He just got out of the car and trying to explain her that he has done nothing and he didn't even start the car. But she just didn't listen and started to thrash him again to park the car on the middle of the road. She didn't even give him a chance to speak up, after sometime he sighed and tried to apologise her as he saw all his attempts to explain are going down the drain. And after half an hour of creating a scene and blaming him for the graze on her scooty she stopped insulting him and parked her scooty to come into the café. He just left a defeated sigh and proceed to got into the car. She gave him a dirty look, eying him up and down like he is some dirt and came into the café.

I saw him retreating in his car and turn to the girl who created such a mess when it's not even his fault. She was ordering something while looking like waiting for someone.

I thought of an idea and searched through the drawers of madhu's table and finally found it. It's a billing needle which madhu had used to prick bills in order to check the account before installing digital billing machine.

I grabbed it and went to the scooty of that girl, i looked at my sides to see everyone in their own world, so i used this opportunity and puncture her front tire with the use of sharp needle.

I went back to café innocently but looking at smirking madhu i understood that she saw everything. I smiled sheepishly and placed the needle where it belongs.

We saw the girl leaving the café after sometime clinging to the arms of a boy and together they went to the scooty and shocked to see the now flattened tire. She did some ruckus over that again and left there while the boy dragging the scooty in neutral.

Madhu just smiled at me and asked "so love at first site!?"

" Yes but it's more like puncture at first tire." We both laughed and i left to my home after sometime with a smile on my face.