Destined To Be Together

8. Home Alone

Samvruta

What the hell I'm going to do alone in the house! Within a few hours itself, boredom started to creep up on me. I hate myself for going on that trip! I knew if I rush too much, it won't take long to be unwell! And it happened. I can still tolerate my fever, but it's my friends that I can't. They never leave a chance to boss me. Today also I'm on a home-arrest by them! They are always like this, it's their time for revenge! For all those times when I bossed them around... All three are same in this situation. They will gang up on me and then start their bossing. But honestly, it's kind of fun too, to see how much they care for me. Not just for me, but for each other... But now that I'm home alone, it's really frustrating me... I have to spend all day alone in this house! I sighed... I have already tried TV, but no use... Let's see if I can get some sleep, now that's the only thing left... I got up from the couch to go to my room. That's when I noticed it, the cupboard... The cupboard where I have kept my wonderland, my books...

How can I forget about this! I wondered as I reached my cupboard. All my books are still there in great condition. These are my treasure. I have been saving them for years... Stories always have been a guilty pleasure for me... I could never get bored with stories. I brushed my fingers through the spine of books, stopping until I reached my special collection... My favourite fiction series... Harry Potter! I don't know what is it, but I could never get bored with this one... It's like the whole wizarding World has some kind of power over me. I pulled out my favourite from the series, The Prisoner of Azkaban! I don't know why I love this, but I do... I love this one too much... Now I could relax for real! I thought as I made my way back to the couch... Soon I got engulfed in the wizarding world...

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"Well, well, well... This was expected, my dear story lover..."

Anjali's voice took me back to the muggle world, of course, the real world... There she is, at the door. But what is she doing here this much early! I was going to ask her. Then the realisation hit me! I was reading for a whole day! It's already evening! With the realisation, my stomach started to grumble. I was too much engrossed in the book that I skipped lunch! Putting my book down on the coffee table, I got up from the couch. I have to eat something!

"Good evening..." I said as I made my way to the kitchen. She chuckled, seeing my condition. "Do you want me to heat up the food?" She wiggled her eyebrows at me. I gave her a mock smile.

"I expected to be choked down by you when I get home!" Anjali settled herself into the dining table. She has that sly grin on her face. Getting the food and plates, I too settled down into the table. I know that she can't keep her hands to herself while I'm eating. So it's always better to prepare a plate for her too.

"Well, that was my initial plan!" I put the plate in front of her. When it comes to food, her happiness is beyond the world. Seeing her happy makes me happy too...

"I know what might have caused the change of plan!" She glanced towards the books. "This is why I always help you to keep them good!" The girl is now grinning. "Only these little things can keep you calm and relaxed!" She then added. I finally gave in. This girl is something else!

Books were never Anjali's thing. The place books had in my heart, it's music which took over that place in her heart. Even though she can't sing, which is her own opinion we all disagree with, she loved music. Especially the melodies... And her love is sometimes a pain in my ass. She always tries to make me sing her favourite songs since according to her, I'm a good singer...

Ajay too, not so different. He is also not a fan of books. The only thing he cared about is technology. He is a true techie! We always make fun about this fact that he is the only one who born to be an engineer among us...

Now that leaves Sanky. Like me, he is also a huge fan of books. In fact, it was this common interest which made us friends. The only difference is that while I love fantasy and magic, he is a little realistic. He is not a fan of any of these. He sometimes teases me about these, that I might be a witch!

"How's the Captain doing now!" Sanskar's voice broke my chain of thoughts. I turned my head towards the source of that voice. There they are...

"Missed lunch again?" Ajay's left eyebrow raised up in the question. I shrugged my shoulders, ignoring his question. Soon they two joined us in the table.

"Any new news at the office?" I turned my focus towards Sanky again. I hate missing a day at work.

"Nothing special.... But yeah, the boss wants to see you tomorrow as soon as possible!" Sanky started eating from my plate.

"What! I thought Mr. Bhanushali will only be back after a few more days! I didn't expect to be back this soon!" I'm still looking at Sanky with a confused look.

"It's dinner time!" Anjali announced!

"Yes! We will talk about work tomorrow!" Just like that, Sanky brushed off the topic!

I hope everything is fine. Oh God, please don't pull any more problems...

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Author's Note :

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