Another Go

Chapter 12: Getting back to old habits.

"Even I can't eat with these." I said lifting the chopsticks.
"Look! I'm not the only one." Aarav added.
"Nancy, Rohan can you guys?" Anna sound irritated.
"Yeah I can." Both Nancy and Rohan replied at the same time.
"So it's just us Siwani." Aarav sighed.

Anna and Aarav were sitting in front of Rohan and me. Nancy was sitting on the head chair.
Rohan got up at brought wine from the fridge and poured us the drink.

"I'm going with fork." Aarav took a fork in his hand.
"No." Anna took fork from his hand and handed him chopsticks.
"Finally we're getting the chance." Anna added with a cute smile.
Aarav didn't said anything, he just followed Anna's instructions.

"I'll help you." Rohan held my hands.
"I miss Paras so much..." Nancy complained.

"Anyway what were you going to tell us?" Rohan asked.
"Oops I forgot that. Lemme start that." Anna said, with a smirk on her face.

Aarav and I were invited to my cousin's birthday party. My cousin, Sara. She told us she'd text me the location once she decides the place.
Then the night before her birthday, Sara called me and said she got an amazing offer in one of the Korean Restaurant. And she was a Korean freak. The restaurant manager said, there was noodle eating competition and one who win gets the two days trip ticket for two people.

That sounded fun, and we hung up. Immediately I called Aarav and told him about the competition.
He got excited until I told him that we had to eat using chopsticks. He sounded so sad after that.
And Aarav said he cannot use chopsticks.

I thought about buying a set of chopsticks and cooking myself but I was too lazy.

I looked at the watch, just 6:50 pm. Then I asked him if he wanted to have dinner with me.
Saying he'd pick me up in 20 minutes he cut the call.
Then I searched for good restaurants where I could teach Aarav how to use chopsticks.
I found a restaurant named "Chopsticks". The restaurant named Chopsticks would surely offer Chinese and Korean cuisine. So I booked a table for two even though the place was far from my house.

"Anna come down." I got Aarav's text. Telling Mom, I'd be late I went down. I hugged him as soon as I saw him. We spent the whole day together in college still seeing him made me very happy.

I told him the location and he started driving. We didn't talk much on the way, I just hugged him from behind and rested on his embrace. After 30 minutes, we reached the restaurant.

"What kind of restaurant is this" Aarav said pronouncing "CHOPSTICKS"
"The one where we can get chopsticks" both of us started laughing.

We went in and the waiter took us to our table. It was decorated so beautifully. Then I told Aarav I'd teach him how to use chopsticks so that we could win the competition. He just smiled.

We ordered Chinese.
After few minutes the food came. And the waiter brought spoons and forks.
"Can we get Chopsticks too?" Aarav asked him.
"Sorry, we don't have chopsticks." The waiter replied.
"But the name of the restaurant is" he told the waiter.
"That's just a name" the waiter interrupted him.
The waiter looked embarrassed so I thanked him for the food.
I was barely holding my laugh.
"Laugh laugh" he scolded me and I  bursted into laugh.
And even he started laughing.
None of us complained. We just enjoyed the food. The food was very delicious.
That was one of the best dinner we had.

Anna was telling the story as if everything happened just yesterday. She told each and every thing. Aarav was smiling the whole time. Maybe he was living that moment again.