"So making the drink again today?"

"Yup.." she says adding a little lime picking another bottle from shelf...

"Going to serve it to someone today or?"

"Lets see" she says mixing it with stirrer as she winks at him..and he nods his head walking at back area..and she smirks looking at the door..

The door opens as a man in his late 30s with a slight beard enters sapping a black shirt, rugged jeans, ruffled hair..he enters in a quite bar, with hardly 2-3 people around seating himself on a revolving chair in front of the bar tender...he keeps his keys on one side with a duffle bag on another chair..

"Your order..Sir?" she asks softly checking him out..

"Whiskey neat.." he says still not looking up spinning the pen he had in his hand profusely from past 10 minutes...

"Sure" she says looking at him from corner of his eyes..while he still focused on pen in his hand.

"Here" she says placing the drink in front of him..he does not look up properly just extends his hand taking a drink mumbling a thank you, while she gets back to tidying her shelf as the bar started emptying out more while the night died...

He place the empty glass back on the table, making the sound as table and glass banged, taking his gaze back at him...she walked back in front of the counter where he seated..looking at him..

"So? Repeat? orrrr" she says smoothly bringing his attention to her while he looks up at her properly, her kohl filled almond eyes, her nose having sligh freckles but what was catching his eye was the nose pin she adorned, which looked so well sticked to her nose making it look tempting..

"Or" he asked gently locking his eyes with her..

"Or would you like something interesting" she said in testing tone...

"Interesting...as in?" he said crossing his hands on chest leaning on the counter now looking at her...dressed in black skirt and red shirt...her top two buttons open giving a glimpse of her beautiful neck...

"Something different" she asked in an offering tone staring back at him with equal intensity...

"Get me something not on the menu" he said now interested

"Okay" she replied putting ice in the drink she made sometime back..putting it in front of him raising arch of her eyebrow at him ..."Desires on the rocks.." she said gesturing to the drink...while he raised the eyebrow fascinated at the name itself....

"So you prefer drinking alone" she asked looking at him as he picked the glass....

"Alone? Yeah I prefer my own company..." he said not breaking the eye lock while she continued cleaning the shelf glancing at him time and again...

"Strange...these days people find it hard to be alone..." she said glancing at him for a minute..

"I like to be my own company" he said smirking at her...while he sipped the drink , nodding at her appreciatively..

"To sirf tum yha akele ho ya..." she asked putting her hands on the counter looking at him directly...

"What do you mean" he asked taking another sip

"Are you married" she asked straightly looking at him...

"Woahhh...did not see that coming" he said chuckling...

"Soch kar btana..".she said turning around arranging the bottles..."Men usually like lying on this question..."

"Widower" he said sliding the empty glass forward as she turned around..

"This is really amazing" he said gesturing towards the glass...

"Thanks..its one of my specials, I only make it for people I find intersting..." she spoke with a gruff..

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"All good sir..." the bartender owner returns breaking their conversation...

"Yes..Desire on the Rocks is just...mindblowing..." he says glancing at her and the guy..

"Desire on the Rocks...add kar diya humne menu m " he says in a teasing tone..while she glares at him...

"Did you not have a date today..." she asks glaring at him...

"Oh yeahhh...enjoy Sir..." he says chuckling as he leaves from there....while he just raises his glass at him...

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"So are you always this friendly on the job or some special treatment for me? maybe because weekday and bar is visibly vacant..." he asks leaning at the counter..

"Why is it hard for you to believe that I find you insanely handsome" she answers instantly staring right into his eyes...she said while he just blushed looking down smiling...

"Doesn't my age bother you..." he said looking at her, she seemed somewhere in her mid 20s..

"Since when did attraction come according to age...age is just a number..." she says smiling at him...

"Besides I think you have aged well...like a fine wine?..." she says picking a wine pouring it for herself...

"Is it ok to drink at your job" he says raising his eyebrows...

"Well..if you have such good company" she says sipping in smirking at him while he just blushed in amazement...

"Wow you are really plain and upfront" he says amazed while he sips on his drink..

"Why are you scared..." she says quipping back....

"Not at all but its unusual..." he says now highly intrigued..

"Its not your fault...because thats what we have seen growing up..man proposes to a girl, man makes the first move, man is a knight in shining armour, man earns, man saves a girl...all bollywood movies have a damsel in distress, they don't have characters like me.." she says huffing while she takes another sip...and he had his hand on his chin listening to her carefully thoroughly impressed...

"Wow..did not see it going there.." he says taking his hand down from his chin raising his brows nodding in bewilderment..."You remind me of my mother..." he says looking at her while she spats drink out laughing at his statement...

"Whaatttt.." she asks bemused..

"Well...somewhere in early 1987 something...my mother she stand in middle of the then panchayat and she takes out a rose proposing marriage to my dad in front of whole village..."

Shehnaaz giggles at the revelation..."Then?" she asks

"Nothin..everyone was shocked..they were like there is definitely something wrong with the girl...they run a background check on her whilst she came out absolutely clean and from a good family...and well thats how my parents got married..." he says finishing another drink...while she listened carefully...

"Well agar ldki agge se bat na kare to she is pricey hai, bhav kha rahi hai...agar kare to she is desperate, throwing herself on you, ....the truth is world will always judge women, they are actually afraid of women who are not afraid.." she says leaning her back on shelf in front of counter...

"I am not" he says softly yet with affirmation while they lock their eyes, holding their glasses in their hands with their fingers intensifying the eye lock with every passing second...till she blushes and looks away checking her watch..

"My shift is almost over...so if I invite you with me...will you judge me?..." she says leaning her hands on counter..while he keeps his glass down with a smirk stately..

"Sidharth" he says extending his hand gesturing her to walk with him...

"Shehnaaz " she says pleasently..joining him...

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