A Manjeri Love Story

Epi-14

Anshu’s POV

Since today is Monday and I don’t have to go to the college as well as to my office, nowadays I prefer to do office work rather than at home, So I completed the work and I was just checking Instagram, suddenly one notification popped in the notification bar, it was a message on Instagram, I checked it. The sender was not someone whom I followed, it was none other than Anugraha, I checked the message.

‘Hi’, she was still online. Why is she messaging me?

‘Hi’, I replied with the same sentence.

‘What are you doing?’ I can feel her effort to initiate a conversation.

‘Oh nothing much, I was checking some files

‘So I assumed right, you are that millionaire that every girl wanted in their life’, I don’t know what to reply to that.

‘If you put it that way, I think yes I’m’

‘I felt the moment I saw you, I never felt the same with anyone in my entire life, you are so different, I could easily connect with you, all your aura claims itself that you are perfect for me’, wait for a second, does she is flirting with me that too very openly. I was taken aback a little.
‘What do you mean?’

‘I mean I’m fearing that I have fallen for you’, What? Seriously, how can she say that she has fallen for me even though she doesn’t even know my surname?

‘So why are you fallen in love with me, I mean we even barely known for less than a week and you are saying that you are already felt the connection, I  wonder what made you think like that?’, I waited for her reply. She took more than five minutes to hit the send button and which made me wonder if she is making up some Bollywood story to convince me that she is apt for me.
 
‘Of course, the first thing I observed in you is your look and I can feel the energy and vibe with you, even though Aysha seemed to be a little jealous over our bonding, I can assure you that I would cut off her friendship when we commit in this relationship’, her reply seemed a little weird, I never asked her about Ayshu’s opinion, not even once but she was dragging Ayshu to this topic unnecessarily.

‘How can you do so? We have known for little time and you guys are friends, so you should respect your relationship with her more than your feelings for me’

‘You know what? She is not my actual friend, I bonded with her during our PG course and I could clearly say that she is a spoiled brat who cared about nothing but money, I think she has an interest in you that’s why I’m proposing to you before she screwed the bond between us, What is she even talking about? We never shared our number and I never showed any care or special attention toward her. I need to end this.

‘Sorry Anugraha I don’t think we have a special connection and I could easily say that what you felt for me is pure infatuation, nothing else, I hope you would understand and move on’,
I ended the conversation and took the screenshot then send it to Ayshu, I wondered how she would react to this.

After a few minutes, I got a message from Ayshu

‘What on earth is happening? Anugraha proposed to you and you mercilessly rejected her. Oh god, I was surprised to see she had gone this far to get what she wanted. I’m so sorry if she makes you uncomfortable', that was sweet. I need to admit I never got a glimpse of a spoiled brat from her, she was so kind even to those who always tried to damage her image. I think I like that.

‘It’s ok. You don’t need to worry, I would take care of that. Anyway I hope you would have exams tomorrow, so you should study, I will see you tomorrow

‘Ok then, bye’, she said and left and I wonder how she was so smooth and nice to have a conversation with. That thought made me smile.

Suddenly I saw my mom standing in the doorway and observing me with a doubting look. I looked at her.

‘What are you looking at?’, I asked her without having direct eye contact.

‘I was wondering what had gotten into you that you changed suddenly even I also wonder whether is it the real you or someone kidnapped you and make you change yourself

‘Haha, very funny, what do you even want?’

‘I don’t want anything, I’m going to leave’ and she turned around but she stopped midway and smiled.

‘Whoever is making you change, I’m sure that person can bring our old Anshu and mom want to see this angel in your life’, that sentence even made me smile more.

Ayshu’s POV

It was Monday and we have exams, so as usual we fetched our bus and went off to Manjeri, throughout the journey my brain and heart were in trouble, my mind want to confront her about the proposal but my brain warning me by saying that it is none of my business so I shouldn’t interfere in those things, but I want to know the truth, I want her to realize that he is not into her and she needs stop bothering him.

Whatever the case is Anshu is my friend so I need to take a stand for him.

‘Anugraha, I want to talk to you about something personal’, she looked at me confusedly.

‘Go on, I’m listening’ she said looking at me.

‘I know that it’s none of my business to interfere and you have every right to do as you please but what I’m saying is that you need to think about other’s feelings too. It’s quite normal to have to feel for others but it is not good to chase the same person even after they make it clear that they have no interest in you’

‘What do you mean? Whatever you are saying, say it clearly, now she has folded her hands and looked at me intensely.

My throat began to dry, her gaze is too dangerous to avoid and if staring into someone could kill, I would be dead by now.