Night Changes

CHAPTER 18

   "I am in front of her house. Should I go inside?"
I asked Jasprit over the phone as I sat in my car.

"No, no. Don't. Or Ritika can't go out,"

"Okay. But...are you sure you saw it properly? I mean..was it clear? You could have misunderstood-"

"No, not at all. It was crystal clear, Alayna. She has made plans to meet him at 4.20, and it's already 4.10- I'm sitting outside the café. But why did you go to her house? I texted you the address of the café,"

I sighed. I was too busy getting nervous on how Shrey would react so I couldn't hear him properly.

"Nothing, forget it. I'll be there,"

..

The café looked pretty nice with all the cute tables under the umbrellas out in the sun. The workers were busy taking orders and serving whereas the customers were mostly young couples on their dates making young love.

I sighed.

I had a date today. I completely ruined it.
I wondered how could I make up to him. He would be so furious, which is justified.

My phone rang.

"I'm here, Jasprit. Where are you?"

"To your right behind that huge oak tree,"

I got confused. Oak tree? In a café?

"Don't be confused, look to your right,"

I turned and saw the tree.
It looked like an ancient tree with small decorations hanging from it's old branches. It made the café look even better in the afternoon sunlight.
I wondered how I missed such a big and beautiful tree. Never mind, I had bigger fishes to fry.

I spotted Jasprit and went to him.
"Hey, good that you're here. I was getting bored alone. Bless me with your presence,"
He smiled.

"Yes, I know my beautiful presence is a blessing by itself,"
I held my head high and he smirked as he shook his head lightly.

"Jokes apart, what happened at Ritz's house?"

He narrated how Rohit sneaked when Ritz was on her phone so he got her password. He saw her texts with Trent that said they'll meet up at 4.20 here. Jasprit wanted to call me right away but I told him that I was busy before so he called me just on time. Rohit left home with Sam so Ritz could go out and we could follow her.

I sighed. This whole thing was making us literal criminals. Checking someone's phone? Following them?
But again, this was important.

"Curious mind wants to know, how did you distract Ritz? I wonder what you guys talked about. Don't get me wrong, but you guys are so different, what do you have in common?"

"You,"

He said and I narrowed my eyes.

"You guys were backbiting about me?That's not done, Jasprit. You-"

I stopped when I noticed he wasn't listening.

I shook his arm.

"Hello? Where are you?"
He adjusted himself.

"Er..it's nothing. You were saying?"

"What did you guys talk about me? Please tell me!"

I pouted and he smiled slightly. Then he looked away and got lost in thoughts.

"This is so not done, Jasprit. Tell me what did you say, I'm curious,"

Jasprit looked at me and with a brief smile, said,

"She talked about how good a person you are. That you might look like a crackhead but deep down you have a great heart, and you can never do anything wrong with anyone,"

I felt my heart breaking. Ritz thinks so high of me- and all I am doing is stopping so low as spying on her.

"And she advised me," he continued, "to never leave you,"

He looked at me with passionate eyes.

I remembered the incident the day before. Ritz thought we were kissing. She advised me to not break Jasprit's heart. Rohit asked me to give this thing a thought.

"And what did you reply?"

He looked down and said,
"I promised her I'll  always love you with all my heart,"

He slowly looked up at me,
"And I will stay with you through thick and thin,"

It was my turn to look away. We sat in silence.

He shook my arm suddenly.
"Look, there's Trent," he whispered.

Trent walked into the café in his Navy blue t-shirt and denims, his perfectly blonde hair styled beautifully. He removed his sunglasses and his ocean blue eyes scanned the area.

"He looks so hot, wow-"

The words slipped out my mouth and I immediately looked at Jasprit who was now looking at me with a confused expression.

"What?"

"You look at Trent and the first reaction you give is- wow he's hot?"

"Yeah, because he is hot,"
I shrugged.

"You're impossible. Anyway..you..like guys like him? You know..guys who look like they came out of magazine covers?"

"Yes!" I clapped, "A LOT!"

He let out a huge laugh.

"You should see your face. It just lit up like a child's would while unpacking his new toy,"

I rolled my eyes.

He hesitated for a brief while and then said,
"Shreyas is like that,"

My head snapped in his direction.

"What do you mean?"

"Uh- I mean- Shreyas look like that- he has a..nice face and a great physique,"

"Um..yeah. So?"

"You like him? I mean I know you do, as you said that day, but I mean..you know..do you really like him or something? "

"Does it matter?"
I asked.

He bit his lip and looked away.

After a while, he answered,
"Actually, I was just being curious. It doesn't matter to me,"

I felt hurt. But I don't know why.

Emotions are like wild horses, reasoning could never entirely master them.

Jasprit then looked away and whispered to himself,
"It shouldn't,"

In a voice so low, he didn't expect me to hear it.

But I did.

As we sat silently, we heard a voice addressing us-
"What are you doing here?"

Oh no.

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