FF - Wajah Tum Ho

A Cup Of Coffee With Her

The person removed his helmet with a naughty smile, Pragya smiles and says “Abhi You?”
He smiles “You are here?” Pragya “Yes, my home was here only”. He thinks for a while and says “Your home was that side right? You will be going by bus” Pragya nods “Yes but… hey how do you know that?”

Abhi replies without knowledge “I used to see you daily” Pragya questions “What do you mean?” with a little stern tone. Abhi stammers “I… I mean… I have seen you going by bus. So only I know” Pragya sees him little suspiciously and says “That home was far from college, my mom scolding me that I'm skipping my breakfast to reach college without late. So shifted here, nearer to our college”

Abhi smiles and says “You're mom was right!” seeing her top to bottom, Pragya understood his meaning and replies “I think I'm talking with the don of this area” Abhi amused and asks “What are you saying?”

(In Abhi’s dialogue, while he mentions Pragya as ‘You’ it indicates ‘Aap’ in Hindi, since he respects her by age.)

Pragya replies “Seeing you, that guys who teased me ran away. It indirectly means that you're head of the area” saying this she started to walk. Abhi laughs and took his bike and walk along with her. He says “Nothing like that, we used to play cricket match here so we knew each other well, so Ms. Pragya Arora ma’am, welcome to our area” he gestures as welcoming her. Pragya bends a little and gestures as thank you.

Pragya asks “Where was your home?” Abhi replies “Four streets crossed from here” Pragya excitedly replies “My home is three streets crossed from here” Abhi looks her surprised as she was behaving little childishly. Pragya says “So if I need any help I can ask you. Can I?” she looks questioned and Abhi replies “Definitely any time”

Pragya stops near a super market and asks Abhi to wait for a while and entered inside the shop. Abhi was really happy, and started to dance around his bike enthusiastically. Abhi stopped all in a sudden when he saw Pragya standing near his bike with a shocked look.

“What was that Abhi?” questioned Pragya doubtfully. Abhi brushes his hair and smiles shyly. Pragya couldn’t understand anything, again gestures as ‘what’ and Abhi replies “I just heard my favorite song, so couldn’t control myself. Sorry” Pragya shakes her head in disbelief and starts to walk. Abhi taps his back of head and says to himself “Control Abhi, she might suspect your behavior. Control” and follows her.

Seeing her holding two big purchase bags, he offered for carrying it. Pragya says “Seriously? Already you're holding your bike and now you gonna carry this bag? Let it be, you just hold my bag, more enough, that will be helpful” Abhi got her bag happily and they started to home.

Abhi says “Is this fully for your family? Is this enough?” seeing the purchase bag. Pragya smiles and says “Not for my family. I am staying here alone; it is for me, a month stock”. They reached her home. Abhi looks her with disbelief says “Really? Seeing you no one can guess that you will eat this much” Pragya turned to him with shock, says “You're commenting me Abhi” with a fake anger. Abhi smiles and says “No one would say that you're a lecturer, your age and your appearance doesn’t get match” he openly shared his thought about her.

Pragya looked him shocked as he was openly confronting his thought about her appearance. She turned little suspiciously and moved to open the door and asks “Abhi do you know what was my age?” Abhi thought ‘You got caught beta Abhi. Now what you gonna tell’ he stammers and says “Around 23” with little doubtful tone. She opened the door and looked back him and replies “Wrong, I am 25, almost 5 years elder to you” she entered inside and welcomed him. Abhi stood there shocked; she had guessed his thought clearly. That was the reason she had mentioned that she was elder to him.

He got inside her home, it was a compact home, one living room, one bedroom, one kitchen. He sat on the sofa, she switched on the TV and says “You just watch this, I will freshen up and come, and I will make coffee for you. First time you had come to my home.” with a smile. Abhi nodded and Pragya went inside. For a moment it was really cute, when she said that she will freshen up and come to make coffee for him. After few minutes, Pragya changed to a large tee and her track suit. Abhi looks her amazed.

He says “I said right. See yourself; no one can say you're 25. You look young to me” with a wink. Pragya gives ‘you're impossible’ look and smiles. She gets inside the kitchen to make coffee. Her phone rings in the living room. Abhi took the mobile and marched inside the kitchen. By mistake he attended the call, the call was connected without seeing it Abhi says “someone named ‘Chudail’ is calling” Pragya turned to get the phone with a rush before that a screaming voice “How much times I said di to change my caller ID, you didn’t changed yet! And who is he calling me Chudail” an anger tone girl voice made both of them to shock.

Pragya got the mobile and replies “Sorry Tanu, I will change it sure. Now tell me my Choti Chudail why called her di?” with an innocent tone. Tanu replies “Di, I called to inform you that I topped in my first year of MBA, but that idiot spoiled my mood”

Abhi heard this and got anger, he just read the caller ID, and then what was his mistake in that. Why the hell she was calling me idiot. Pragya sees him with ‘please I'm sorry’ look and replies to Tanu “My Choti Chudail is best in everything. Congrats. I will talk to you later” Tanu agrees and the call ended.

Pragya says “I'm sorry for Tanu, she was little short tempered, I overly pampers her. That was the reason she behaved like this. Don’t mistake her. I apologize on her behalf” Abhi smiles and says “For you I am accepting apologize, but don’t need to ask sorry and all hereafter. Sisters are always like that only. Elders used to pamper them a lot.” But his voice clearly reflects a kind of pain. Pragya asks him to wait in the living room, after a while she came with two cup of coffee for both.

Pragya says “If you don’t mind you can share anything with me. I can see when talking about sister your face changed. Is anything bothering you? Is your sister fine?” she asked with concern, somewhere around she couldn’t see him upset. Abhi replies “I had a sister”, Pragya asks “What do you mean by ‘I had’. Where was she now?”

Abhi stops sipping the coffee, replies “With my Mom and Dad” by gesturing his hands towards the sky. Pragya felt really bad for Abhi, he was all alone and that was the reason he used to roam with Purab and Bulbul often. She never saw Abhi with others than Purab and Bulbul. Abhi continues “They all left me, I have only my Daadi, Purab and Bulbul that’s it” with a fed up tone. Pragya says “Then what about me?” Abhi’s head shot up to see Pragya and he didn’t know what to say. Pragya couldn’t understand why she said like that, but her heart says that somewhat she wants to support him.

To be continued…

With love,
Abhigya (Abhi)