Parth And Niti (PaNi FF): Professionals At Work

Chapter Five: Chips And Cakes (Part I)

I want to hate him.

It was my birthday and I knew he remembered it thanks to my invitation. But he hadn't replied to it no matter how many times I wished him to. The next day had passed without another drama, thankfully with Parth avoiding me and me trying to be a better 'avoider' than him. If he didn't want to talk to me then I didn't either. I didn't know what was up with him, and frankly I didn't even want to.

My head thought that it was just a co-star kinda attachment that would grow feeble with these growing distances and I had tried making peace with it.. But how could I actually do that in spite of knowing the fact that every nerve in my body yearned for him ? I was finding it increasingly difficult to just keep my thoughts off him so I had decided to indulge myself into other activities at least until we had to do MaNan scenes together.

Utkarsh and Pulkit had been really good friends with me .. The three of us bonded well, spoke a lot and these two were really good to me, moreover they understood me and just didn't misunderstand me at any point of time. They didn't know what was bugging me but frankly I chose to keep these kinda issues to myself. Charlie , Veebha and Krissann avoided me as well and I could do nothing to talk to them again because I didn't think I was at fault in the first place.

It was my birthday today and we had to shoot in the evening. Nights were long and tiring but shooting was something I enjoyed. Nandini was a character that I felt extremely connected to.

As I entered my vanity the first thing I felt were coloured papers falling all over me and all of a sudden Utkarsh and Pulkit popped up in front of me and blew this horn that had a pretty irritating sound to it.

"Happy Birthday Niti !!" They screamed in amusement and both hugged me from either sides. I was getting squashed in the middle but it felt good to be showered upon with such sudden surprises ! I wasn't expecting anything of this sort to happen, to be honest.

"Guys leave me ! Crush karoge kya !!" I finally managed to push them apart from myself and sighed at their childish behavior. Not that I was any less. I was a child myself !

"Happy birthday Nitiiiii !!!!" Utkarsh yelled crazily and I couldn't help but put my palms over my ears to reduce the intensity of his voice.

"Thank you Uttu !" I replied back gleefully. My portion of vanity was decorated with my favorite stuff and I felt overwhelmed.

"Happy birthday Nitiiiiii !!" Pulkit said with even more happiness in his tone and handed me over a keychain that had my initials with my picture carved onto it.

"That's so sweet ! Thanks Pulkit !"

"Acha ab yeh thanking ka session khatam ho gaya ho toh can we proceed ? I'm hungry ! Mujhe cake kaatna hai !!" Utkarsh cried dramatically while I couldn't help but giggle at his antics.

"Yeah okay !" I agreed and he led me to the small table over which a huge cake was placed. The cake was a chocolate one , just the way I loved and had a cute animated design of Dora The Explorer ???

"What ! Don't look at me like that ! You're cute just like her !" Utkarsh defended himself while I decided to let it be. It was the thought that counted after all.

"Happy birthday to you ! Happy birthday to you ! Happy birthday happy birthday ! Happy birthday to youuu !!" They sang like class two students and I tried my best to show how happy I was because of them..I cut the cake and fed individual peaces to both Pulkit and Utkarsh when I heard Charlie's voice.

"Parth tu yaha kya kar raha hai ?" Thankfully the cake cutting session was going on near the vanity door so I just had to peep out and look at Charlie and Parth.