Bounded By Innocency (Completed)

Ch-3 • Unexpected Friendship

Looking at the owner of the voice at her front, her eyes widened and her mouth fell open as she gasped aloud, "YOU!!!"

"Oh! Hiiiiii!!!" The same man who met her in the park was sitting right there in front of her and flashing his set of teeth.

"You again! Why are you following me?" She stood and kept both her palms on the table, and asked in frustration.

The man too stood up, closed the book that he was reading, and uttered casually, "Oh come on! This library and that park are not for your personal use only. I can go wherever I want to. But not to forget, this time you followed me and came here as I have been here for an hour before you came."

Prisha's lips twitched as she got nothing to speak further. "Umm... okay."

"Ok then, I should go now." The man turned to her opposite side and grinned as he pretended to go from there.

"Stop!" His feet halted in the middle as soon as he heard her voice.

He chuckled in mind and swirled again to face her, "Did you say that to me?" He proceeded with his act.

Prisha peeked at him and spoke in a low tone, "Yes, to you. Stay here. I don't want to disturb you in your personal activities. So..."

"Oh okay, but on one condition."

"What?"

"That you will stay here too."

"Mmm... me. But...". She fumbled.

"Please..." He made a puppy-like face while his eyes reflected the sheer innocence.

"Okay." Her mind didn't know how she agreed but the flow of the situation made her speak that word.

Both sat on their respective chairs and started reading their books. Two hours passed effortlessly that no one got to know.

The guy looked at the wall-clock and muttered to Prisha, "Hey! It's been two hours here. So what I am saying is can we go to a cafeteria and have some snacks there?"

She was amazed at his request and asked in answer, "With you?! How? I don't even know you."

"So what's the deal with this?" He shrugged his shoulders and forward his hand, "Heya, I am Aayansh. A rich businessman by profession."

She thought for the minutes while staring at his forwarded hand.

"Madam, my hand is aching." He jerked his hand and knocked her out of the world of imagination.

"Umm... ummm. Oh yeah!" She breathed and shook her hand with his. 'He's not that bad that I used to assume him before.' She speculated before shaking her hand with his.

"Friends?"

Her lips curved as she responded, "Friends!"

*******

After eating snacks in a restaurant.

"Let me drop you at your home." He offered to her while standing in front of his ebony coloured car.

"No thanks, I will go by myself." She faintly smiled.

"You are forgetting that my apartment is in the same colony as yours." He insisted more. "Don't worry, I'll safely drop you at your home."

"Aayansh... I... "

"Please naa." He again made her agree.

"Okayy."

"Great then!" He opened his car's gate for her.

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Prisha ran from the car to the entrance of her apartment along with Aayansh.