A Manjeri Love Story

Epi - 10

Anshu’s POV

It was quite a relief that I could talk to her like a normal human being without discomfort or you know without any problem. I was terrified at the start, you know whenever I tried to approach her, my breath was stuck and I always felt so hot and today was the first that I was finally able to make a good impression on her.

I asked her to sit in the front seat before the other girl came, she was hesitant to comply at first but I pleaded with her and finally, she agreed. Her friend seemed quite upset about this sudden change, she tried to make her move with all her eyes expressions but she didn’t notice.

It was a relief, the moment I saw that girl all she did was just tried to seduce me and I’m not at all interested but she was never ready to give up, so I decided to give her less attention or even pretend that she didn’t exist. She always makes me uncomfortable, we traveled from Manjeri to Palakkad by bus, and I asked her if I could use my car and she declined the offer, so we stick to the bus option, we never shared the fact that we are friends or at the stage of being something together to Anugraha, I especially thought it was good if she doesn’t know.

Ayshu’s POV
Throughout the journey, Anugraha was glaring at me like I stole something from her, as far as I could remember I never did anything unless the fat I switched my seat in the car, I don’t get why she is acting like he belongs to her when he never showed any interest in her.
She needs to get back to her senses, he doesn’t belong to her unless he declared himself as the Majnu of this Laila. I tried to ignore all her tantrums, we reached the Thachampara bus stop, and she got off the bus without even saying goodbye to either of us. I knew that it was all the after-effects of that shifting.

I looked at Anshu and he shrugged.

‘What is her problem? Why is she acting like we did something which we shouldn’t? Did I do something? he asked me, so I took it as my chance to clear some of my thoughts.

‘Actually, she is thinking that you are following us because you find her attractive and you are trying to impress her, maybe my seat shifting in the car got her so upset’

‘What? No, I never find her attractive and I have clearly shown it in my behavior, then why is she assuming something like that?’

So there is nothing like something she is bragging about, she and her imaginative mind always find that a cute guy would only be attracted to her and that she is the only girl in the world.

‘You know what? never mind it, she is always like that. If she finds someone attractive she would always claim that he is owned by her. Don’t bother yourself by thinking about her, I said to comfort him.

‘So she finds me attractive, mmm so what about you? Do you find me attractive?’, he asked with that signature smirk of his. That sudden question made my cheeks red. How can he flirt with me so openly?

‘Why are you asking that? I don’t have any interest in any guy

‘So that means you find me attractive but you are not ready for a relationship, right? He and his crocked mind!

‘You are enjoying this, right? But sorry Mr.Romeo I’m not the type of girl who would fall easily for a guy, so if anyone wants to be on my good list, they need to earn it.’

‘So how could I earn myself a position to be your prince?’, he asked leaning so close to me. Suddenly stop arrival declaration came.

‘Ok so that indicates that your time for flirting has officially ended, better luck next time’, I took my backpack and got out off the bus.

I reaches home, and as usual, after taking a shower and having my dinner, I went to my bed to sleep. I was so tired due to the daily traveling to such a long distance for the past three days, the good fact is that I don’t have an exam tomorrow so I could finally take the break that my body wanted so badly.
Suddenly my phone beeped and I checked, it was a message from Anshu.

‘Hey, WhatsApp?’, it said. Should I answer it right away or should I wait for some time to answer, screw it, why should I act like Princess Diana who has lots of messages to reply to when the truth is that I don’t have anything major to do now.

‘Oh nothing special, I just had my dinner and going to take my beauty sleep. What about you? Do you reach home?’

‘No, I’m on the way, it would take one more hour to reach home’, the message came fastly. And the reply made me guilty, why should he bother to travel this much for just a friendship, I need to stop him.

‘You know what you should stop escorting us daily, we are not kids, we would manage ourselves and if you are saying you are doing all this because of that incident, I’m over it and you don’t need to worry, I’m already over it

‘You are right and I know that you are brave enough to deal with your problem, but I don’t know why I enjoy it, traveling with you, to make sure that you are ok, don’t worry about me, I’m the person who made this decision and I’m totally happy about it.’ His message is very much evident to say he is not going to back off now. I wonder why is he helping me. I’m no one and then too he decided to help me, that’s crazy.

‘So what do you do besides stalking girls?’, maybe knowing him more would help to build our friendship.

‘Haha, that’s so funny, I never stalked anyone and I’m not planning to do anything like that in the future. And actually, I’m a businessman and running my own business

‘Ok, so you are that millionaire that girls find attractive, that’s impressive

‘Why do you find me attractive?’ here he goes again, what happened to him, he flirting with me continuously and that’s not boring.

‘Oh, poor Mr. Billionaire, doesn’t have any girl to chat with and finds every excuse he could to flirt with every girl
‘I don’t want every girl, I just need you

What? That one sentence made my heartbeat stop, my whole body shivered because that line is rare, I don’t know what to reply to. Suddenly my phone beeped again.

‘Of course I need you, because you are my friend, right?’

What?  So he is flirting with me just because I’m his friend.

‘Yeah sure I’m and I need to go, catch you later

I flipped my phone without checking his reply and closed my eyes to fall asleep ASAP.