With Love to cat from fin

CHAPTER 4

Today Ms. Karen announced that we only had 3 weeks left before the day of performance and also she'll be out of station for two days in next week she asked us to practice even in her absence.

And i decided to talk to samrat about our extra practice. Today strangely he was silent, too silent for my liking, he was just staring at me the whole time, when i asked him what's wrong he just shrugged, after class i asked him to meet me at cafetaria.

Dany, pam, kaal and max went to library i told that i'll join them later and went to meet with samrat.

He sat across me enjoying his drink, clearly avoiding me, "what happened?" i asked, he looked at me with blank expression and said "nothing" 

"okay, if it's personal then you don't need to tell me" 

He nodded, i sighed and said "i just wanted to talk about dance" 

"yeah?" 

"so i was thinking of spending an hour extra after classes" i said playing with my hair, it's a thing i do when i'm nervous. 

"yeah i too thought about it" he said "so will only an hour, work for us?" he questioned 

"hm..i guess, what do you think?" i asked him "i thought of weekends maybe" he said sipping his drink "oh...." 

"okay let's do this, let's practice on both weekends and after classes, what do you say?" 

"what!! don't you think it's too much?"

"come on, i think we need more practice than just an hour after classes?" he said

"hm...okay then,let's do that" i said frowning a little. my phone buzzed indicating a message, it was from dany she said that they all got books from library and  want to know about my plans, i replied saying i'll be there in 10 minutes 'okay waiting' she sent.

I looked up and saw samrat staring at me "what?" i asked casually, he didn't respond  "samrat"  i tried again he blinked once, twice like he just remembered this place, 

"yeah i'm listening" he said sitting straight in his chair,  

"i wasn't saying anything" i said smiling,

"oh" he smiled rubbing the back of his neck, god i missed that smile 'wait. what! did you just say that? really girl! after all that' my inner voice started and i shook my head to stop those inner voices within me.

"um.. i don't mean to pry but you seem a little bit off today, Is something bothering you?" i asked, he usually always smiles and keeps telling me... updating me about everything in general, seeing him soo silent today, i'm just worried if something is bothering him, i want to know if he is really okay.

"yeah?"

"sammy you can tell me you know" i said 

"sammy?" he smirked   

ahh did i just call him with a nickname i mentally face palmed myself "oh...i'm sorry, i didn't mean to" i started, he cut me off saying "hey you can call me that, i like it"  i can feel the heat creeping on to my face,

he was smiling lightly but slowly that smile faded "you lied" he stated,  'what! i lied! i mean i always lie to people, strangers specially, but with him....oh! did he see me yesterday, i know i should have thought of it what now' my inner voice said making me more tense.

i was busy thinking of what to say when he said again "you lied to me, you said pam will drop you but guess what i saw you walking alone" 

'uh oh! what should i tell him now? okay, calm down sweety, tell him that pam got some work and couldn't drop you' my inner voice said

'No, too bad of an excuse, just tell him that you wanted to walk' other voice said in my mind,  

'No it'll be rude tell him something along' yet my mind tried for another excuse but i stopped myself,    

He waited for my answer while i was busy debating with myself,  "you don't trust me?" he asked frowning  a little "No. i mean.." i was thinking of a appropriate answer when he said "you know i heard trust is the main thing in dance, one need to fully trust their partner to perform a good dance. If we want to give our best we need to trust each other" 

huh! what does he think of himself, lecturing me about trust, does he even know the cost of trusting someone? you can't get yourself to trust people easily when you know the cost of it .

"wait, i.." i stopped in mid sentence to calm down, i shouldn't let my anger now, why should i become anxious like this, i lied and got caught so what! i have my own reasons, i don't need to answer him, i took a deep breath and said "i have my own reasons and i don't think i need to explain myself "  

"oh, i just...i felt bad that you lied to me" he said, so you thought you can lecture me about trust and all, he can't expect me to go  with him just because we study together, i huffed and closed my eyes for a bit to calm down letting my anger this way only hurts people so i said "look, i'm sorry, i just don't like being burden to anyone and i really enjoy long walks, yesterday i felt like walking so..."  again why am i explaining finn.....

"i don't feel like you're a burden" he mumbled, i smiled a bit at that it feels good when someone genuinely feels concerned about you, not that fast finn my inner voice said, i ignored it and said "ok ok, i think we should leave now, dany is waiting for me" taking my bag. we walked to parking lot talking this and that 

"you sure dany is waiting or....?" he said as we reached his car, i narrowed my eyes at him, he smiled sheepishly, 

 "you weren't stalking me, right?" i asked seriously, he started shaking his head frantically and i burst out laughing, "i know i'm sorry i was just joking" i said laughing hard, 

He too grinned and stepped a little closer and leaned a bit so that we are at eye level to each other, i looked into his chocolate brown eyes, he took a strand of my hair and tucked it behind my ear, my heart started beating fast, god what's happening "see you tomorrow" he said and walked to his car then drove off.

i stood there shocked what just happened!!?

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