Flat Fiasco | ✓

06: the ship fiasco

➽────────── MAYA

“No!”, I shouted at Jessy who was being too nosy on what was going on between Adhi and me. “We aren't dating”, I continued as I walked towards the civil department. She followed me in.

“First tell me, whether the rumors are true or not”, she asked.

I stopped on my track and turned around to face her. “What's the rumor that you have heard?”, I asked, she's really getting on my nerves now.

“That you both had been together inside the library when the librarian opened the library today. The whole college knows it now and there are some people shipping you both. That's so cute”, she said, wiggling her eyebrows, teasing.

“Yes, it's true”, I replied with a straight face.

“OH.MY.FUCKING.GOD”, she screamed on top of her lungs as she jumped and then hugged me, all excited for God knows what reason. “So what happened inside?”, she asked with a mischievous smile.

“Stop all those dirty things playing in your mind. And also stop being nosy”, I said. “Don't you have basketball practice now?”

“Oh shoot! I'm already late. I'll ask the remaining details over the phone this evening. Byeee”, she said as she sprinted out.

As I was walking, I could see many pairs of eyes on me. People are really nosy nowadays. I mean, what's so wrong about the fact that Adhi and I spent a night together in the library? It was the freaking mistake of the librarian that he didn't check the library before closing it.

I entered the lift, a few others were already there. As the lift was about to close, a hand stopped it. As I realized who it was, my eyes went wide. It was none other than my own housemate, for whom I had recently started developing some strange feelings.

He entered the lift with a fucking pretty smile on his lips. First of all, why the fuck is he even here? In the civil department? I could see all other pairs of eyes in the lift towards us.

“What the fuck are you doing here?”, I whispered.

“I came to see you”, he said casually.

I could hear others gasping at his reply. Is he even in his senses right now?

“Why do you want to see me?”, I asked, gulping because of the way he was looking into my eyes. It held something, something that I have not seen before.

“You had a sore throat in the morning, right? So I bought some soup for you”,he said, extending a polythene bag. I peeped into it to see a box.

I looked up, surprised. “You brought me soup?”, I asked, still shocked.

“Yeah! It's the mushroom soup from the stall opposite our apartment. It's your favourite, right?”, he said.

Can I hug him right now? Oh, probably I shouldn't, with all the jealous eyes on us. That's a lot of jealousy I'm witnessing right now. What can I do if they don't get someone like my man? My man? Shoot! When did he become my man? In the future maybe. What? What am I even thinking? I'm definitely not in my right mind right now.

“Hey! You okay?”, Adhi asked, seeing me all confused.

“Yeah! Thanks for the soup. You didn't have to come all the way here to give me”, I said, as I took the cover from him. It's hot. I mean… the soup.

“Who else will, if I don't?”, he asked.

That's it. My eyes went wide and my heart literally bursted. I really really wanted to hug him now. It honestly feels too good to be in his arms. I still feel the warmth that I received from his hug yesterday night.

“You are literally eye fucking me right now”, he said as he turned to face the elevator door. The door opened and we all got out.

“Not that you mind me eye fucking you right?”, I asked. We both were standing in front of the elevator.

He was shocked by the question. His eyes went wide. What? I didn't say anything wrong. Only a few seconds later I realized how my sentence would have sounded. Fuck! He might have heard the ‘eye’ as ‘I’.

“I meant, E-Y-E, eye as in the eye on our face”, I said pointing at my eye.

Shit! This is embarrassing to the core. He laughed at my embarrassed self.

“You are so cute”, he said, pinching my cheek.

There's literally not a single day without me getting embarrassed in front of him. Probably that's our love language? Oh yeah, I accept that I've fallen for him. Fallen for the same douchebag, handsome jerk, asshole or whatever I've called him.

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a/n: one more chapter to go! (there might be a bonus chapter tho <3)