DhoomBros: Be With You Forever

Chapter 3 - Not a love triangle... right?

"What took you so long?" Shehry asked as Hussain stepped in with the pizza.

"Oh, nothing... The elevators were taking long," Hussain replied nonchalantly, closing the door behind him. "Don't worry, it's still hot and fresh. Come eat!"

The two brothers sat down and had lunch together conversing about random things including ideas for future projects.

That evening, Hussain decided he was somehow going to find an excuse to meet Saara again. For some reason it just felt nice hanging with her.

"Shakr?" Hussain thought, thinking of using sugar as an excuse, but later disregarding it thinking it would sound too obvious. He continued thinking for something that sounded more 'normal'...

"Hussain, I'm going to take out the trash!" Shehry told him as he stepped out to do the garbage since it was his week after all.

"Okay!" Hussain acknowledged, getting back to his thinking.

Shehry stepped out and decided to take the stairs; he was not going to wait 10 minutes for a trip that would take literally less than a minute. He headed down the stairs without paying much attention to where he was going, ending in him bumping in to someone on the stairs. He instantly regretted his carelessness and looked up only to see that it was the girl from the other night.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," Shehry apologized, moving out of her way.

"It's okay," Saara smiled. "Hey, you're Hussain's brother, right? You guys definitely look alike," Saara asked.

Shehry was a little surprised that she knew so much, but then again, Hussain was more quicker with the girls than himself.

"Yeah, name's Shehryaar," he replied.

"Nice to meet you, Shehryaar! My name's Saara. Humne bhi abhi apartment kharida hai, my dad and I live in 5F," Saara added.

"Oh, nice! I guess I'll be seeing you often then," Shehry added with a smile.

"Yeah, for sure," Saara replied shooting him a smile yet again.

There was a quick moment of silence until they both realized the awkwardness and nervously laughed, giving each other way to go, as Shehry motioned to the garbage bag in his hand.

"Hey Saara," Shehry yelled as she got to the top of the stairs. Saara turned and he continued. "My friends call me Shehry," he added.

Saara smiled at his comment and added, "Goodnight, Shehry," before waving and making her way back to her apartment.

Shehry smiled to himself as she walked away and found himself grinning during the whole walk back to his apartment upstairs.