🎶 Offo
Published on 04.06.2022
| AUTHOR'S POV |
It was Wednesday and Inaaya was just coming out of the music room after a practice session under Mrs Rao and was walking to her class when Tushar spots her and calls her out.
"I wanted to talk to you." He says hastily.
Inaaya nods at him to continue.
"We actually don't have much to do in the project. It's almost over so I don't feel we need Ayansh anymore. He's a working guy and yet he's helping us, taking out his time. We shouldn't bother him unless it's something important." He says softly, being considerate.
Inaaya feels her stomach sink at that advice. She somehow was getting used to Ayansh's presence and his absence was weirdly affecting her. She would find herself thinking about the time spent with him and it felt comforting to let her thoughts wander in that direction. It was frustrating to wait for three days till they meet again but it was even more frustrating to think that not seeing or talking to him frustrated her. The wait frustrated her. And now the fear of not seeing him again seemed to be upsetting her. Everything was frustrating.
She doesn't know what to answer but she surely knows that there's no way she could oppose Tushar when he was right. "I- I'll talk to him." She forces herself to say and he smiles.
Inaaya sees Ayushi coming towards her when Tushar walks away and she grits her teeth. She really doesn't feel like talking to anyone right now.
"Is everything okay?" She asks worriedly. "You look stressed."
Inaaya blinks. "Me?" She says with a tone of incredulity. "I'm good. Maybe because of the piano practice you might think so. It's a little annoying." She lies when in reality, she actually felt satisfied with the practice.
"What was he saying?" Ayushi inquires referring to Tushar.
It takes a couple of seconds to understand about whom she was talking about but when she does, Inaaya fills her in.
"Oh, no, no, no." Ayushi says hurriedly. "Don't you dare do that. Let Ayansh come." She warns. "It's anyways a matter of one or two hours."
Inaaya looks at her with a newfound amusement. "Have you developed a crush or something on him?" She eyes her mischievously.
Ayushi shrugs. She doesn't even try to deny. "I mean he's good looking and helpful, chivalrous and polite; it's natural to be attracted to him."
"And he's elder to you by two years too." Inaaya points out as a reminder.
Ayushi's eyes shine with excitement at that statement. "That's even better." She whispers. "He's older to us and that makes him more mature and attractive. It's even more of a turn on." She winks and Inaaya laughs at it genuinely, wholeheartedly. "Listen, please let him come. I really don't know how many times more we'll see him so let me just get as much time as I can to behold his sight." She pleads with squinted eyes.
"Okay, I will." Inaaya doesn't even need to think twice before she answers and agrees.
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"I hate the moment when Kabir came into my life." Dhruv announced, taking a sip of his radler beer from the can.
Kabir scoffs. "I hate the moment when Ayansh came into my life."
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Romance"Inaaya," he calls out, a certain urgency underlying in his tone. "Don't ever fall in love with me." She doesn't say as a moment passes between them and then, she snorts. "Haha.. itne bure din bhi nahi aaye hai mere. (I'm not yet having such bad day...
