Make Me Yours

chapter 6

Aaradhna

I am missing Kabir. Why can't he have lunch with us in cafeteria? He is such a ziddi person.
(Stubborn). I am having lunch with nitya and Varun, My colleagues.

"Guys, it's an important call" saying this Varun went to attend his call.

"Don't you think he is full of attitude!" Nitya voiced out her thoughts.

"No, he is nice, he said na it's an important call" I replied

She shook her head and sighed a little, "I am talking about Kabir"

I stopped eating as she took Kabir's name, my grip on my spoon tightend. I looked at her with a fake smile. "And why do you think so?"

"He never talks to us, just about work only nothing else, and after he became team leader, he is acting more high of himself, I will say keep distance from him"

How dare she talk about my Kabir like this? Just because he doesn't talk to her, she is making stereotype about him. He is introvert and talk to people he feels comfortable with. He is not a chatterbox like me. Everyone is different na.

"I don't think like that, he is such a nice person" I said with a geniune smile, Kabir is a gentleman.

"Don't go behind his looks, I know he is handsome may be that's why he is a jerk"

I banged my fist on the table, she looked at me with surprise. "Mind your language" i gritted my teeth in anger, and went away from there with my belongings.

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I went to my desk and kept my belongings there with loud noise. Only Kabir was present there as nitya and Varun both were outside.
He moved his chair closer to me.

"What happened?"

"Nothing"

"Fir tum kyu angry bird bani ho?"
(Then why are you being an angry bird)

I looked at him with anger. I am not angry on him but that nitya how can she call him a jerk. He is the sweetest. He gulped and sat properly, I was typing on my laptop.

"Accha tell me na what happened, who troubled my cute friend!"

"Everyone will come, lunch time is over"

"I don't care about anyone, I just care about you"

I looked at him, my eyes softened.

"I will tell you later, promise"

"Smile first"

I smiled widely, at him. He showed me a thumbs up then ruffled my hair.

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"Why are you laughing?"  I asked him. I told him everything. What happened in the cafeteria. And this stupid person is laughing when a girl was calling him a jerk.

"You were angry about this small thing"

"This is a small thing?, she called you a jerk or full of attitude. She just know how to gossip nothing else. I will never talk to her" he didn't replied anything and just kept smiling. I elbowed him to say something.

"Aaradhna, I don't care what people think about me or say about me, I don't owe them anything, if i keep sulking over the things people say, then I am giving those words importance. Understood"

I nodded, he is right. Her calling him jerk doesn't make him one. But still mujhe bura laga.

"Golgappe khayegi?"
(Will you eat golgappe)