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'Uh ... ah ... y ... yes ... we ... We will drop her na,' avni stammered, looking at riya and

me, her eyes full of questions to which neither of us had an answer.

The plan for her escape with me was now dangling on a broken bridge, and we didn't have any

idea what was going to happen next. All we were wondering was: Could we get away with it? How

long would it take for the truth to come out? Would we have to pile on more lies to conceal the first

lie? Then, avni whispered in my ear, making sure her mother didn't notice, 'The dairy will come

before coaching Don't worry.' We would be back on track after the dairy. Or so it seemed.

Avni started explaining the route to the driver. At times, I felt she was explaining more than

necessary, talking too much. I was not sure if it was her nervousness (her mother was with us!) or

her excitement (the plan could still work out!). Whatever it was, it was making me a little conscious

and I wished that moment would soon pass. No sensible guy would want his future mother-in-law to

see him as a person who deceived her and ran off with her daughter on the very first day.

But avni... I don't know what was wrong with her. She was talking a lot. Talking to the driver,

talking to Mumma, talking to everyone. Talking, explaining. Explaining, talking.

And with so much explanation, the driver got little confused and he ended up asking riya, who was

sitting on the front seat, 'Mataji to dairy tak jaayengi. Aur aap kahan tak jaaoge? Hotel tak?' And then

the blunder happened.

My excited, talkative, nervous avni forgot, for a second, the alibi we'd been building up for the

last hour and said, before riya had a chance to answer, 'Nahin bhaiyya, yeh to coaching pe hi utar

jaayegi.'

Before she could understand what she had done, her mother tapped her shoulder and asked, 'Ye to

Coaching pe hi utar jayegi matlab? Tuney kahaan utarna hai fir?' Of course her mother's radar had

become very active, trying to understand what was happening.

'Gayi bhains paani mein,' I heard riya say to herself without looking back. My expression said,

'Holy Shit!'

And avni

Avni bit her tongue, realizing the mess she had created. She took another name-a friend she

was going to meet first, so that she could take her notes. But her mother had already smelled

something fishy and she looked at riya and asked, 'riya. What's happening?'

And riya, helping her elder sister out of the mess, replied, 'Mumma, she has to get her maths

notes from a friend, first.'

At that moment, the cab arrived at the dairy where their mother was to halt. I'm sure she wanted to

say a lot of things to her daughters, especially the elder one but, because of my presence, she only

said, 'Come back home on time. Theek hai?'

'Haan. Yes, Mumma,' the females in the cab replied. And I bid goodbye to their mother for the

last time.

A soon as she left and the cab moved on, riya and I both yelled, 'What the hell did you do!?'

Avni looked down and said, 'Sorry,' like a kid whose parents have caught him breaking a window with his cricket ball.

'Marte marte bache hain ... Ye bhi naa,' riya said.

Still, all of us were relieved by the narrow escape. But it was not an escape. Parents know their

children so well. They have spent much more time than us in this world and, of course, if at our age

we think we are smart, then at their age they are smarter. Her mother had understood very well that

her elder daughter was definitely not heading towards coaching but someplace else. But that's the beauty

of a mother's heart. She allowed her to go, without letting her know that she knew where her

daughter

was going.

Back in the cab, riya and I were laughing at avni's great work. I noticed the driver's smiling

face in the rearview mirror. He had also figured out what we were up to. In another five minutes, we

reached

Coaching, where riya got down.

'Bye-bye beautiful,' neil waved his hand.

'Byeeee,' she sang in her sweetest voice and reminded me, 'Bring me a ton of chocolates from the

US.'

'I will, for sure,' neil replied.

She then walked towards her destination and we moved towards ours-the hotel I was staying in,

in Delhi. This part of the plan even riya didn't know about. All she was told by her sister was that

we were going to watch a movie. A double-cross!

Avni, again, touched my heart with this. I was happy seeing her excitement and satisfaction

matching mine. My love had cooked up a story to spend time with her prince charming. (Oh, yes! I

was given that title by my princess, that evening.) I appreciated her guts and her willingness to be

with me. After all, she was the one who lied and planned things. The eagerness in her, to spend a few

more moments with me, an evening ... The trust she showed in me that day created an intangible

bond

between our hearts.

I turned towards her and saw that beautiful innocent face glowing with happiness. I was sitting by

her side and it was like being in a beautiful dream. Yes, I know what was happening was all real. Yet,

it was so magical. Even the air that surrounded us in the cab was different. I felt great and was glad

that she was mine and I was with her. And, at that point of time, I never knew she was going to give

me the best hour of my life.

At about 6 p.m. that evening, we reached my hotel. Before we got down, I asked the cabdriver to be

back by 7.30 so that I could drop her home by 8.45 or so. According to the plan, her class at coaching was

to last till 8.30 that evening.

Walking up the staircase of the hotel I felt a different feeling. I found myself among a different

section of my friends. Friends who possessed a girlfriend, with whom they hung out in their cars,

took them out to dinner, or maybe to a disco or a movie. Maybe their girlfriends had to lie to their

families

too, just like mine. I don't know why I never felt that way earlier. Avni had been in my life for a

couple of months by then. But I guess her presence in front of me was making me see myself in that

class of my friends. And, to be honest, seeing myself in that category was exciting. With her in my

life, the world appeared so good to me.

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