Mr. Professor

Chapter 2

It felt surreal for Pragya. She thought she will never meet him again. But here he's already sitting on the living room couch of her flat.

"Are we meant to be together?" Just when this thought crossed her mind she heard him saying something.

"You can continue ogle at me. But can you please make some coffee for me? I'm hungry & tired" he said smugly with a grin on his face.

Ughhhhhh! His attitude. He's so annoying. What did I even see in him that I started to crush on him? Pragya cursed her own self. She spoke.

"What the actual fuck? Did you just ordered me?" pragya asked him outrageously crossing her arms shifting her weight on the right leg.

"Did you just used a profanity on a guest?" he asked with his eyes widened & His eyebrows wriggled.

Pragya felt little uncomfortable with the question. Despite of answering him she reached the kitchen counter & took her mug. But the Coffee knows thermodynamics second law. She again cursed. FUCK! He seemed to hear that. But pretended to be not.

And the bell rang. This time knowing who it is abhi waltzed towards the door & opened it for purab.

"hey man!" purab greeted & entered.

"Evening Pragya!" purab cheerfully wished. Pragya lazily greeted back & followed purab to the living room.

"Pragya this is my friend Abhishekh" Purab introduced him & sat next to Abhi.

Pragya's stomach squirmed cuz of some unknown feeling when she heard that Abhishek is his brother's friend. Purab & she has the age difference of 8. If he's Purab's friend then he too might be 8 or 9 years older than her. Great! She was attracted to an uncle! She mentally cursed once again. Fuck. She took the water from the glass.

"Even I'm like your Bhai. You can call me Bhai like you call Purab" abhi said pleasingly.

Pragya spitted the water she was drinking. She felt like puking.

"You can't be my brother. I'm not calling you Bhai either. Shut the fuck up & get lost" pragya furiously said & slammed the bedroom door behind her.

Purab apologized to abhi on behalf of pragya. It seemed like Abhi was expecting this reaction only from her. He simply waved it off. It was weird to Purab. If it is someone else other than Pragya, don't know what would've abhi done. Purab spoke.

"Pragya ain't that kind. I don't know what happened today. I apologize. You can shift here this week itself. I will help you in shifting & searching for job, like I promised earlier. Now let's eat. You were hungry"

After a while, Pragya's bedroom door was knocked by purab.

"Come in Bhai"

Purab came inside & sat next to Pragya.

"Pragya! We need to talk" purab hesitantly started.

"If it's regarding my behavior with abhi, then bhai you should know that I could care less" pragya mumbled in annoyance.

Purab noticed that she already started to call him as "Abhi" & not "Abhishek". Yet he chose not to comment on it.

"It's not that pragya. You know you should never talk to elders as such. It's such a disrespectful act. But Abhishek is nice guy. He waved it off. Actually I wanted to talk about something else too. Which is pretty serious" purab pressed the word serious.

Pragya got curious.

"what Bhai?"

"That, Abhishek will be staying here only for sometime.

Pragya scandalized hearing it.

"Bhai are we running out of pennies? I never knew. I can go to job Bhai. You don't have to rent our flat" pragya offers hurriedly.

"Pragya it's not like you assumed. Uhmmm! We're letting abhi to stay here for free. He's broke pragya. Till he get a job & can afford a place to rent, he will be staying here. I gave him my word" purab finished hesitantly.

Bhai must be kidding. He definitely doesn't look like a beggar.

"Come one Bhai! He doesn't look like one. Was wearing a Hackett London polo with Ralph lauren jean, a pair of Nike shoes & a Rolex watch. I'm sure he must be wearing a Calvin Klein underwear only" pragya snickered. Purab grimaced at the details. He knows Pragya is brand conscious. But it's weird of her to acknowledge every single brand of a person. How come she noticed everything? Purab mind discombobulated thinking how much attention she had paid to Abhishek. Yet once again he chose to ignore it.

"Pragya I'm done talking. He would be staying in your room. Shift your things to my study. You can use the common bathroom or mine. This is the biggest room in this flat & he's getting it" purab declared & started to walk.

"Bhai that would be hell uncomfortable for me. Your study doesn't even have an AC. What about when I get my periods? Are we gonna use the same during that time too?" Pragya furiously asked. She's not ready to leave her comfy space for some sort of annoying thing.

"Pragya me & abhishek won't use common bathroom. I promise. It's next to study. So won't be a problem for you too. Please! Just for sometimes. We're helping someone. So try to adjust & about AC, we'll fix one soon. Goodnight" saying this purab walked off.

This day can't be anymore worse for Pragya.