Strings Of Love

Chapter 26

"Shehnaaz." The customer Shehnaaz was previously serving called her out. She turned back to find a tall and handsome guy smiling at her, she didn't recognise him, his face was familiar though.

"Hi!" She smiled back.

"Ranvijay." He introduced himself.

"You didn't recognise me, did you?" He chuckled, looking away embarrassed.

"Ah, I'm sorry." She cheekily smiled one last time before it hit her mind she must have come across him on Tinder.

"Tinder?" She asked and he nodded.

"You know, I haven't been online much since the last few days." She replied, she had stopped talking to guys from tinder though but she'd still receive a couple of texts and requests because her account was still on.

"That means you don't date guys on tinder anymore?" He asked. She simply shrugged, not knowing how to say no on his sweet face.

"I'm glad, hum toh iss cafe me mile hai." He mentioned.

"Point!" She chuckled, nodding.

"So?" He asked.

"So?" She repeated after him.

"How about we catch up tomorrow at the same time?" He suggested.

"Sure!" She smiled, just then she turned to move to another table when the one of the corners of the table she was currently standing next to had a small nail pointing out, she scraped her pair of jeans into it.

"Oww!" She jumped when the sharp end poked her.

"You okay?" Ranvijay came forward.

"I'm okay." She nodded, her jeans were torn though. Right on the side of her thighs, it looked awful.

"Here, jacket bandh lo." He offered his jacket to her, to wrap it around her waist to cover the ripped part.

"Thank you." She took his jacket, tying it properly across her waist and getting back to work.

"Aap finally aa gaye! I missed you!" She happily mentioned while guiding Mary through the number of orders placed in the last few days in her absence, the tally they maintained. Now Shehnaaz didn't have to sit and take down details of orders their customers placed, her job became slightly difficult when it came to the writing part.

"Ha! Aa gayi mai finally, tujhe kuch kaam hai ya tune koi gadbad ki?" Mary squinted her eyes at the girl and asked.

"Auntyyyy!" Shehnaaz whined and then both of them chuckled. Later, she told her boss about her issue that she was looking for a new place and Mary replied that she'd help her find a new one.

Once she was done with her day, she wondered if she made the right decision about going out with Ranvijay. She couldn't help but think of Sidharth for a moment, the moment she chose their friendship over her feelings because she understood those sets of emotions were going to take her to a dead end. Sidharth clearly had no intentions of getting into any sort of romantic stuff, nor was she planning to wait for him. It was her life and she was willing to give things a chance with Ranvijay. He was kind, he was sweet, he was handsome and she believed that was it for now. She'd like to know more about him.

The other day, she was packing Amrit's tiffin along with hers, helping out her sister in every way to let her stay at her place. It wasn't like she Amrit was doing a favour for her, still Shehnaaz felt like she should express her gratitude. In the few days they had been staying together, they weren't really able to spend much time together. Amrit would usually be late for her office, have her breakfast on her way and return too tired to sit and have chit chat with her sister. Not that Shehnaaz was complaining, she was rather proud of her little sister who was working hard and managing her new lifestyle lately.