Melting Hearts

Part 13 - Teasing

***Arush's P. O. V***

The whole morning I tried but failed to concentrate on my work - Sahana's face, the way she was giggling in the morning and how she became all silent as soon as her brother left - all these things swam in my mind.

"Hey Arush....are you gonna be curt and cold with me too?" came in the voice of the person that I had least expected, breaking my trail of thoughts and making me whip my head towards the door in shock.

"Hey ya fucker!! Gonna keep me waiting at your door? I have had a very long flight you know!" Raj said, leaning on the door frame with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

"But weren't you supposed to come like a month later?" I asked, indicating him to enter.

"How about nice-to-see-you-man instead of why-are-you-here-so-early ?" Raj asked, scowling.

"Okay fine!! Hey nice to see you asshole!" I said, feigning excitement. Raj chuckled as he took the seat opposite to my desk.

"Now tell me why are you here so early?! I swear I hate that mischievous glint in your eyes" I said, scowling at the now prominent smirk on Raj's face.

Okay let's make this clear - a smirk on either of my friends' face is always bad news to me!

"I landed today morning....I came back early because I finished the work early.... they're planning on sending me back there permanently with a huge ass raise though" Raj said, a bit gloomily.

"You're thinking of taking up the offer?" I asked him, unable to keep the sadness away from my voice. How can I not be sad? I literally have like two friends, and if one of them goes away to a foreign land forever, that just leaves behind the love sick puppy aka Kabir. And he'll be with his Riya and completely forget about me, so I'm gonna be all alone!

"Is that sadness that I hear in your voice?" Raj asked, smirking.

"I uh..no" I said curtly, looking away from him.

"Aww who knew asshole here had a heart?! Oh wait no... I knew...or to be more precise, I heard..." Raj said, his voice trailing off.

Uho!! The fucker Kabir has spilled the beans to Raj!! 

"A little birdie told me something about the great heartless bastard Arush Sharma having a girlfriend?" he said, wriggling his eyebrows and smirking.

"I..uh.." I stuttered, not knowing what to say.

"Oh Arush you sly dawg! I heard so much about you that I straight up to office, chucking my leave aside!! Oh this robot has a heart eh?! Porn Arush?! Masturbation?! And to top it all, a girlfriend?! A freaking girlfriend?! A walking talking human being and not a robot! Who'd have thought that the humanoid Arush Sharma was in fact a human and not a robot?!" Raj said dramatically, making me roll my eyes.

"Done with your drama? It's not as it seems" I said as sternly as possible while avoiding his gaze. Don't ask me why I'm avoiding his gaze - I myself don't know why?!

"I.." Raj started speaking, but a soft sound started issuing from his phone and he stopped talking because of that familiar song-

  'Jhoot Bole Kauva Kaate,

   Kaale Kauve Se Darriyo '

I glared at Raj, who feigned innocence and took out his phone and cut the call.

"Oopsie....what do you know?! Even my phone knows you're lying" Raj said innocently, though the corners of his mouth were twitching.

"She's not my girlfriend" I said seriously, making Raj raise his eyebrows at me in disbelief. Sighing, I told the whole story, of how and why Sahana lied.