KHUSHI

I felt quite nervous, it was after a long time that I was going on a date, an actual date. The last date I went to was with Arnav, that was like almost two years ago now.

Of course, Yug was a great guy, we had known each other for a while now and we knew pretty much everything about each other, but seeing him romantically was kind of strange.

I dint know if I was ever going to feel for him what I felt for Arnav, was it easy to fall in love again? Do people really move on? Or they just make themselves believe that they have moved on but deep down they know that they haven't?

I heard the door bell and that just made me more nervous than I already was, I tried to relax as I walked to the hall and opened the door and there he was.

"Wow." I said out loud which wasn't my intention, but he looked hot, he was dressed up in a black trouser and blue shirt that fitted him so perfectly.

"I know, I look so hot right?" He smirked.

"Shut up." I giggled.

"So are you ready to leave? According to me you do look ready." He said as he looked at me from top to bottom, I was always nervous of my dressing whenever I went out with him, I mean it was kind of hard to impress him when he was so big in the fashion industry already.

"I think so... do you like what I'm wearing?" I asked as I flaunted my dress, it was a basic velvet sleeveless black dress, it had a tiny slit on the side.

"Do you like what you're wearing?" He asked.

"Yeah, that's why I wore it." I giggled.

"Then whether I like it or not shouldn't bother you, you should be happy with what you wear not anyone else." He smiled at me.

"That's big coming from you." I teased him.

"Hey, I only judge people's clothes when it's my job to, you are going on a date with me, I'd rather be impressed with your personality than your clothes." He smiled.

"Aww, that's really sweet Yug. Anyway, I am ready, we should get going." I smiled at him, he nodded as he turned around and walked out and I followed him, I locked the door as we both took the elevator downstairs.

He led me to his car and like a gentleman even held the door open for me, he was so perfect right? Yet it was strange how I had no feelings for him, I mean of course I liked him as a person, but you know that romantic attraction you feel for a person when you like them or are falling for them? I dint feel that.

Maybe I just needed time and someday hopefully I was going to feel it for him and forget that I ever loved Arnav. Was that possible? O

*****

We arrived at this five star hotel where he had booked a table for us at the rooftop, I looked around the place after we had settled down on the table, it was such a cute date, dining under the stars.

"You comfortable?" he asked.

"Yes." I nodded as I grabbed the menu so I could decide on what to eat. It took us like five minutes to decide and place the order.

Once the waiter left after taking our order, thing got a bit awkward. We both just sat there staring at each other awkwardly and not having much to say.

"If you're wondering why I didn't do something extraordinary, I have a reason." He said.

"Okay, what reason?" I laughed.

"You are a simple person, I've noticed you get impressed by the smallest things so I thought I'd impress you that way."

"I see." I smiled.

"I hope it's not too awkward. I know it would take some time to get comfortable with this."

"Don't worry, everything is fine and I'm fine too."

"Perfect. So what should we talk about? We literally know everything about each other. What do people talk about on dates?" he asked.

"Haven't you been to dates before?" I asked curiously.

"I have been, once. And it was so terrible I got scared of going on another date for a long time." He laughed.

"Now I'm curious, what was so horrible about it?"

"The girl I took for the date had such a bad personality. Apparently she was an influencer or something so she wanted to get treated really specially and wouldn't treat others the same way. She was so rude to the waiters and everyone else and she was so loud, she dint even try to hide it.

After that I just decided maybe the whole dating thing wasn't my cup of tea, I was scared what if I had such an experience again.

And then I met you, you are so easy to be, you are good to everyone too, and I thought that maybe with you, I could take a chance." He smiled.

"I see."

"Believe me when I say this, I really like you Khushi. I mean that's why despite knowing about everything between you and Arnav, I still couldn't stay away."

"Well then you better impress me, I am the only chance you got." I joked.

"You really are." He said seriously.

"I'm kidding, there are so many good people out there, if things don't work out between us, you can still meet someone great out there.

Just because of one terrible person, you can't stop meeting others, not everyone is like that and anyway we learn from our experiences." I sighed.

"You are right. Anyway let's not make this date too serious by talking about serious stuff." He smiled.

"I know, it just our first date, let's talk about the serious stuff on maybe the tenth one."

"So there's going to be a tenth one." He smirked.

"Shut up, I'm just saying. I'm not impressed yet." I giggled.

Our conversation was disturbed by my phone which started ringing suddenly, I grabbed it immediately and picked it up without even seeing who was calling me.

My ringtone was always so loud, it got kind of embarrassing in a public place.

"Hello." I said.

There was silence, no one would speak or say anything so I looked at the screen, it was an unknown number.

"Hello." I said once again pressing the phone close to my ears.

"Hello, who is it?"

"Will you please talk?"

Silence.

Seriously why do people call if they don't want to talk? I disconnected the call and made sure to put the phone on silent this time.

"Who was it?" Yug asked.

"I have no idea, no one spoke, I could just hear someone breathing. Why would anyone call me if they don't want to speak?" I said angrily.

This wasn't funny, I kind of felt scared too, was it someone stalking me or something of such sort? I had always heard about such crazy stories.

Who could it be? Why was the person calling me? Why wouldn't he or she speak if the had called me?

"Was it from a private number?"

"No, just an unknown number." I replied.

"Ok, just send me the number, I'll find out who it belongs to, you should never ignore such calls, sometimes they turn out to be risky." Yug said, I nodded as I grabbed my phone once again and forwarded him the number.

He typed it on his phone and then looked at me in confusion.

"What happened?" I asked.

"It's Arnav's number." He said, I looked at him in shock, but I had Arnav's number saved, how was it his?