We are all a little weird and, life is a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

"No but I wanna do shoppingggggg!" She whinned in her usual baby voice.

"But abhi you just said that you wanna eat first." To say that Karan was confused with her behaviour would be an understatement. This girl was a tough nut to crack and he had already understood this by now but how can a person be so confusing but yet adorable at the same time? 

"I wanna do both, ek saath." She announced and started looking for more bath salts. She had already picked 5 bottles of them but apparently they weren't enough for her, also she had to gift some of them to her people. A perplexed Karan followed her with some shopping bags in his hand "So how do we find a common way for it, sweety?"

"You feed me while I shop for more, easy peasy!" She shrugged her shoulders and smiled mischievously. He shook his head with amusement and went to get something for them to eat.

"Teja, chew fast. You look like a laddoo with this burger stuffed in your mouth". He had a bite himself from the burger while she glared at him. Never in his wildest dreams did Karan Kundrra ever thought that he'll be feeding a girl amidst her street shopping while he carries her shopping bags. STRANGE.

"Tu khud do bites le aur mujhe ek khila. I am a slow eater."

"Okay mera laddoo, as you say. Le." He fed her another bite while she looked through few scarves. 

"See this one is very pretty, your mumma will like it." Karan was beyond speechless with just her one mere sentence. Nobody had ever did this for him. None of the girls he had been in past with thought about his family, ever. It was always just about themselves but these small gestures mattered to him a lot.
Her partner and his family would be blessed to have her, lucky ones.

"Why are you staring at me like that? You didn't like it?" 

"No, it's very pretty. I was just a little overwhelmed with your gesture. You know whenever I travel somewhere I always make sure to get something for everybody, specially my mum and my sisters. I always have to figure out such stuffs on my own, like I obviously know what all they like but still you women are at times so confusing. But abhi what you just said, I know it's stupid for me to be like this but nobody has ever did this for me." She looked at him with big hooded eyes that held pure adoration for him.

"Awww Sunny! Tu kinna sweetu hai." She squished his cheeks and he slightly blushed because of the name with which she had addressed him. One day during a video call she had heard his mother calling him Sunny and she really liked that name, she asked if she could use it to address him and how could he even deny her cute request.

"Chalo then let's shop for everyone." She clapped excitedly like a kid and he chuckled.

The day went by in a jiffy. They had lots of fun eating and shopping and now it was time to enjoy sunset at the Rialto Bridge. Throughout their stay in Italy it had become a routine for them to visit a beautiful place to sit and enjoy the sunset view and they would talk for hours sitting like that. 

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"The sunsets here are just so pretty na?" 

"Hum kya hai?" She twitched her eyebrows in confusion with his unexpected question.

"Dost? Dost bhi nahi. Jisko hum sirf jante hai, hi-bye types." Tejasswi knew that her answer was nothing but a false statement but she wanted to tease him a little.

"Teri shakal ko mai hi-bye kya sat sri akal bhi na kaha. Motu kahin ki" Karan heard her gasp and she slapped his arm with fake anger.

"Mai itni motu dikhti hun kya?" Her pout made her look hundred times cuter than she was already and Karan felt like pecking them. 
Control Karan.

"Tu mujhe badi acchi lagti hai tujhe pata hai?" Unable to register what he said she asked him again and he took her in a hug and repeated what he had said.

They sat there in silence, absorbing each other's presence when Karan's words broke the silence as well as Tejasswi's heart. 

"I am leaving tomorrow, for France." He turned his face to look at her while she gazed at him with nothing but sadness in her eyes. She gulped the lump formed in her throat and passed him a weak smile. Words unable to slip out from her mouth all she could do was hum. 

"So, is that it?" His beats were increasing with each passing second. He didn't knew what this was, where they stood in each other's life but one thing he knew for sure was that this wasn't something ordinary. What they had was different, it was special. 

"I don't know. These last ten days that we have spent together in Italy have been a set of my best days in life and I am so happy that I had you along with me in this trip. Time with you went by like a breeze and I'll miss this so much. As much as I want you to stay a little more I know it's not possible. This trip of ours was supposed to be a solo trip for both of us but we ended up discovering each other." She chuckled in the end and he smiled looking at her. How much he'll miss this serene face of her. 

There was no doubt that Karan was happy with what she just expressed. He knew that what he felt wasn't one sided but he wanted her to at least take a step ahead. He wanted her to speak what she felt and hearing her say so he felt his heart at peace but this wasn't it. He wanted more of it.

"Where are you going next, Laddoo?" He tried to lighten up their mood. 

"Ummm, I haven't decided yet." Suddenly a thought crossed his mind and face beamed with happiness.

"Why don't you come along with me? Please it would be so much fun." His voice screamed eagerness. 

"I don't think it's a good idea. This was meant to be a solo trip for you, your own personal time. Moreover I have spoilt this enough for you." She knew this was going to hurt her but as much as she hated herself for doing this she knew it was important. If she didn't let him go now she would never let go off him ever, such was his charm. She knew she'll fall for him hard, harder than before, harder than ever and she couldn't take this chance. She wasn't ready to fall in love, again, this soon.
Or maybe she was.

"You are also my own." He blurted out and her eyes widened in amusement. "I meant...uhh - we have grown so close to each other in just a span of ten days and I consider you as my own, a close one. I am fond of you Teju, pasand hai tu mujhe." Hearing him her heart skipped a beat, it surely did.

"Please Teja!!!! I request you." He tried to convince her with his puppy eyes and after a lot of denial Tejasswi gave in. How could she even deny this cute human? 

"Thank you so much Laddoo. I promise you won't regret this decision ever." 

"I know." She smiled looking at his angelic face and hugged him.

None among Karan and Tejasswi would have thought that they'll ever meet someone like each other when they first decided on to take a trip for themselves. The whole motto of this trip was to find the missing part of oneself, to rediscover their soul but they ended up discovering each other in this country, miles away from their home. 

Home is not a place, it's a person, a feeling and maybe they were meant to be each other's home. This could be their journey of becoming each other's actual home. 

Italy witnessed the beginning of their relationship, and France could surely witness a lot more than this. Maybe or Maybe not. 

~What started out as attraction eventually blossoms into love. Maybe we grow together now as we discover one another .~

A/n: I didn't expected to publish this update after two days of the last one but it's here. Before I utter anything else just wanted to let ya'll know that I never sit and plan as what to write in a chapter, I just open a new draft and start writing whatever shit comes to mind and I am really not sure if what I am writing is making any sense or not. So do tell me if I should continue with this or better unpublish it. Also more than votes your genuine review about the chapter matters. Do let me know how you like this chapter as it helps me to improve the content that I write. Lots of suggestions and healthy criticism is whole heartedly welcome.

With Lots of Love
~Raksha

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