Anurakti

33: Drunk

Sahaj kicked the pebble as hard as he could and it flew across the road.

"Why are you so annoyed?"
Shubham asked and Sahaj shook his head.

"I'm not."
He grumbled and Shubham snorted.

"I love how you think I'm stupid. Now tell me what is it? Samidha?"

"Why do you always bring her up? It's not like Samidha is the only thing in my life. I don't care about her. Who she is with, where she is, I don't care!"
He snapped and Shubham raised his eyebrow, smirking a little.

"O.......Kay. I guess it not Samidha then. It is her new boyfriend right?"
He asked and Sahaj who was nodding, stopped dead in his track.

Boyfriend? She had a boyfriend.

He didn't know why, but even the thought of her having a boyfriend made him want to punch a hole in the wall.

"She........has a boyfriend?"

"Yes, she does. Didn't she tell you?"

"No. She has been absent for the past four days."

"Awww. So you were upset about her being absent for these many days? When's she coming back?"
Shubham asked and Sahaj shrugged, suddenly loosing all his interest in everything.

"She never told me she had a boyfriend."
He uttered and Shubham chuckled doing something in his phone.

"When did she tell you? Who is he?"

"You see Sahaj, I don't like discussing other people's lives. Why don't you ask her yourself?"

And he handed him his phone, with her number already dialled. Sahaj almost shrieked snatching the phone away from him.

"Why the hell did you call her? Are you insane or what?"

But before he could cut the call, she had already picked up.

"Hello?"
Her voice came from the other end and he stilled. It sounded.......sweet.

"Hello Shubham? Are you okay?"
She asked when no one answered. Sahaj just stood there staring at the phone. She sounded different.

"Shubham? Are you okay? Is Sahaj okay?"
Upon hearing his name Sahaj's eyes widened and he looked up at Shubham who was smirking widely.

"Where did you come from?"
He mouthed and Sahaj shrugged and then heard her snapping.

"They just can't enable pocket mistouch prevention. What if it had been someone else?"
She grumbled as her voice faded.

"Speak you idiot!"
Shubham whisper yelled and Sahaj suddenly got out of the trance.

"Uh.......ahhhh hello?!"
He yelled when Shubham punched him.

"Are you okay Sahaj?"
Her voice came and Sahaj hummed.

"Yeah. Just stubbed my toe."
Her chuckle came through and Sahaj felt himself smiling to himself.

"You-"

"Hey Samidha! Do you mind calling on Sahaj's? I want my phone."
Shubham yelled near Sahaj's ear and Sahaj glared at him pushing him away.

"Why did you say that?"
Sahaj whispered and soon enough Samidha had cut the call and was already calling Sahaj.

"Talk to her. Properly. And don't show any stupid attitude. And give me my goddam phone."
Shubham snapped taking his phone away and leaving him alone.

Hesitantly he picked up his phone and from the other side came her chuckle.

"I would've cut the call if you wouldn't have picked up in the next five seconds."