PANI-a story we wish were true !

Part 32

Recap: Ayaz caught parth and niti together after shoot and found it fishy. Parth dropped niti home with a promise to see her at breakfast at her place the next day.

Niti thinking to herself, "Oh god ! Why can't I sleep ?! I need to wake up early tomorrow morning and if I won't sleep, how will I prepare breakfast tomorrow ? I really need to take some sleep." She then shuts her eyes tight close and tries to go to sleep. But, as soon as she closes her eyes, she sees Parth and she instantly opens her eyes ! She tries to distract herself by playing candy crush on her ipad. While playing candy crush, when she wins a level and the odus does a happy dance (PS: odus is an owl in another world of candy crush that happily dances when you win a level), she remembers the happy and smiling face of Parth while they had been shooting that day. It was that face of him that had distracted her and due to which even she started smiling and laughing like an idiot, giving too many retakes ! She does not realise but while lost in her own world thinking about Parth's smiling face, she falls asleep.

Both Parth and Niti have completed their breakfast and are still sitting on the dining table on chairs seated beside one another. Parth looks into her eyes and says softly,

Parth: The breakfast was amazing. You are a multi talented person Niti. I know I set the rules for no sorry and no thank you, but since you reminded me of home with this delicious breakfast, I need to break my own rule and say, Than...

He is interrupted by Niti's finger placed on his mouth not allowing him to speak further. She then rises from her chair and moves closer to him. Her gaze not leaving his face and her finger still on his lips. She stands near him for a while, looks into his eyes, and then bends a little so that their faces are at the same level. She removes her finger from his lips and moves closer to brush her lips with his, softly at first and then growing wild.

Niti instantly wakes up from that dream and finds that she is sweating badly ! "What was that ?" she thinks to herself embarrassed at having got such a dream about Parth ! "He is just a friend ! Dreams can really be weird though !" She checks her phone to find it 5.30 am and decides to get out of the bed as she was definitely not going to be able to sleep peacefully after that dream!

She freshens up and is ready in her dark blue pair of jeans and a pink crop top. She had washed her hair and were therefore wet and lying loose on her shoulders all messy. Its only 6.30 when she is completely ready and there was still good 1.5 hours for her guest to arrive. She then starts browsing for some good dishes to be prepared for breakfast. She hadn't been such a good cook but wanted to be really good at it today as it was the first time Parth would eat something made out of her hands. After a good 20 minutes of browsing over the internet, she finally decides on preparing something that would be quite homely since both of them were away from their families for such a long time. So, she decides on preparing aloo parathas and also have some bread, butter and jam along with it, and would offer coffee if he wishes to have it. "It is not going to be easy ! But i'll manage somehow !" she thinks to herself and then starts preparing.

She keeps going through the instructions while preparing. She first prepares the dough which was the toughest part for her. Even when she used to visit her family in the holidays and if she would go to the kitchen to help her mom, this was the one thing she would always avoid, preparing the dough. But this time, it was ready, although it took quite some time but she managed it. It was 7.20 when she was done with the dough and the filling to be put inside the parathas.

"Okay Niti Taylor ! Just go for it and make the parathas ! It's your exam and you need to nail it with an A+ grade !" she motivates herself and starts the preparation of parathas. The first one she prepares is not a round shaped, the next one gets burned completely, the third one is again burnt but less than the second , the fourth is again burnt but less than the third. This goes on till she makes 7 parathas and only the last one was a properly shaped and cooked. She decides she would give him the last two parathas and would herself take the burnt ones so that he does not find out the blunder she had made. But, she just hopes he would not ask for a third one. "I don't think he would. I mean they won't taste that good that he would ask for another." By that time it was 7.45 and she starts placing everything on the dining table. She places the bowl containing the parathas in the centre with a large plate containing the bread, covered by a transparent lid. She placed the jam and butter containers along with the container of bread and then placed the kettle containing hot coffee. Coffee had been the easiest of all as it was something she used to prepare quite often for friends who would visit her.