Chapter 2 - Parting Ways
"Hmmm...this is so yummy!" She spoke as she took yet another byte of her Lasagne. Shivaay was no where close to listening to her. The moment she had stepped out from her apartment in that sleeveless royal blue top paired with jeans, all he could notice was she was way gorgeous than he had ever thought. Those curls that swayed with her slightest movement, those eyes that were perfectly painted with the liner. She was a beautiful woman. He had just discovered that? Well even he wasn't sure.
As they walked down the lane, Anika looked at him."You seem lost?"
"Hann!"
"Where?"
"Nothing!"
She stopped and faced him. " what is it, are you still..thinking about being elsewhere than here...
"Ahh..no not that!" He blurted out.
"Then."
"Nothing." He said turning away. Her perfume hitting his nostrils wasn't helping him at all to think of anything. His thoughts were driving him crazy. He was trying to fight his sudden attraction towards her. She held his hand. "Mister tumhaari problem kya hai?" She was being a concerned friend.
He looked at her. His eyes involuntarily on her lips."Say it...!" She pushed him to speak his heart out.
"I . . I ...You look beautiful today. Can't take my eyes off you !" He said looking at her, as though magnetically attracted to her eyes.
"What?" She said stepping back hesitantly. "Bad one SSO!" She laughed it out. Starting to walk.
"Anika!" He held her hand. She looked back."I mean it. I feel...attracted..."
"Enough." She pulled her hand back and started walking with quick steps.
"Anika meri baat toh suno." He ran to catch up with her.
She stopped and turned to him. " I told you, naa hi Maine tum mein interested hoon...aur yeh dosti..."
"I found you attractive today, so I said it. Iss mein aisi kaunsi buri baat..." He said enraged the way she spoke to him.
"Shut up Shivaay. What next? Do you want me to ..." She couldn't even say it. " Friendship with benefits doesn't work for me.. "
"What? When did I even say that? I just said you look attractive today, you look beautiful that's it. Why are you..?"
"Oh, so I am ugly at other days and beautiful today...what are you tr
ying at ?" She spat. "You know what Forget it Shivaay! " She walked out.
