Devakshi FF: Reaching Out

Chapter 19

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"Kya?" Ranveer practically roared.

"Tu Natasha se milne gaya tha?" he couldn't believe what he heard.

Dev turned around, "Pagal hai tu? Main ussey kyun milne jaunga?" he snapped at Ranveer. Ranveer furrowed his brows, "Toh? Woh kahan se ayi?" Dev folded his arms across his chest and said, "Uss din restaurant se nikalne ke baad main seedha office gaya. Sara kaam jaldi se niptake main wahan se penthouse ke liye nikal gaya...."

**Flashback**

Dev drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, willing the light to turn green so that he could get to Sonakshi soon. He needed to tell her. God knows what Sonakshi was thinking, with the way he was avoiding her. Dev was sure she had thought of the worst thing possible. She would most definitely interpret his absence in a negative way.

With this thought in his mind his eyes landed on the big departmental store to his right. After looking at it distractedly for a while, something clicked. Sonakshi often purchased tubs of ice-creams from this one. She absolutely loved them. He remembered having fought with her over which flavour to get, on one instance. He smiled. Now he knew exactly how he would cheer her up. With his confession over a tub of her favourite ice-cream. His smile widened.

He quickly took a turn, when the light turned green and drove up to the store. Parking his car swiftly he stepped out. Stepping into the store, he made a beeline for the ice-cream shelf. On arriving there, he dove straight for a carton of the vanilla flavoured ice-cream. Sonakshi loved vanilla ice-cream. If it was up to her she could just survive by eating tubs of vanilla ice-cream. She indeed had proudly claimed so during their fight over which flavour to choose. Dev chuckled at that thought, "Puri pagal hai!" Without wasting any more time he decided to pay for it and leave.

But the moment he turned around, he came face to face with someone he didn't want to see ever again.

Natasha.

"Dev!" Natasha exclaimed giving him an overly sweet smile.

Dev wanted to grimace. But he was too much of a gentleman for that. So he did the next best thing. He brought back his impassive expression. In reply, he gave her a very curt nod and said, "Natasha." Natasha was stunned into silence to get such a cold greeting from him. Dev could clearly see that. After all these years he was at an upper hand for once with Natasha. And that was because he had learnt to read people very well. He wasn't always accurate, but he did well.

Natasha eyed him for a few seconds and then said, "Bohot badal gaye ho tum." Dev didn't react at all. He knew that she was trying to provoke him. She was trying to check if he still held feelings for her. After Natasha had exited from his life, he had realised something. Under the facade of helping everyone, she wanted people to admire her, like her, love her even. So that she could gloat about it and in the end, choose to keep the ones that she wanted while the rest suffered. And this wasn't just from the lover's perspective. It was the same for friends too. That was just how she was.

Dev just tilted his head to one side slightly and said, "Usually log time ke saath badal te hi hai. That's pretty natural." His reply seemed to shock her even more. She was speechless for a few seconds. Then she cleared her throat and said, "Mujhsey nahin poochogey, main kaisi hoon?" Dev squinted his eyes, "Tumhey dekhkey poochne ki zaroorat hi nahin padi. Bilkul theek toh lag hi rahi ho." Natasha couldn't take it anymore, "Kya hua Dev? Tum mujhsey aise kyun baat kar rahey ho?" Dev furrowed his brows, "Aise? Main toh sab se aise hi baat karta hoon. To the point. Ghuma firakey baat karne ka kya faida?" he said glancing at his watch.