Every step Together

26. I can't give it Back

Tripthi's PoV :

"I would love to visit your home as we are a family now, give my kisses to Mayur. Your warmth made me feel at home. It was lovely meeting you" he said looking deeply into my eyes before finally walking downstairs.

Please do that; just go away so that I can take a wholesome breath and pacify my heart which is beating abruptly from the minute you pointed your fingers towards me.

"Tripthi, where were you lost? You were standing at the main door for 15 minutes" Bhabhi said knocking me out of my thoughts.

"I am not thinking about him" I blurted out.

"Whom are you not thinking about?" Bhabhi asked me dubiously.

God what have I done, I think I too stopped using brain after a close encounter with him.

"Mayur Bhabhi, we were fighting over what is the first word he will say right, I was not thinking about him"

"Trippy, are you all right? Here you were thinking about Mayur and you were saying that you are not thinking, did something happen?"

"Shit! Who says such a stupid answer Tripthi? You started behaving like him within the 1st meet itself, get a hold on yourself" I mentally scolded myself.

"Bhabhi, you should go to bed, its 10:30 and you need rest you will be going to work tomorrow right," I said walking towards the bedroom to change the topic of stupid discussion.

"Yaa, I should sleep now before the little monster wakes up and start crying"

"Bhabhi I know that you love Pineapple flavored cookies but who on the earth purchases these many packets," I said shocked by looking at the dining table occupied by biscuit packets.

"I didn't order Tripthi, Armaan brought them. Apparently, someone he loves offered him these and he loved them so he brought the same flavored cookies. It will take a few weeks for me to eat them, but I am not going to share them with you Rishi" Bhabhi said.

"I wonder whether anyone on the earth other than you love these cookies and don't worry I am never going to eat them. I think someone related to you would have given them to Armaan too" Anna said giving Bhabhi her coffee.

These are the same cookies I offered him and he brought them thinking that I loved them. He remembered such small detail about me. What does he want?

"Actually, basically, technically, electrically, ethically, mentally, neutrally, normally, hypothetically, naturally but truly I have fallen in love with you, so I want you as simple as that"

"He clearly said what he wants Tripthi, he wants you and see how beautifully he said everything, I am soo impressed by him" my heart spoke reminding his words.

How can someone love you without even knowing anything, I think it's just some sort of attraction"

"Are you firkin crazy Tripthi, he is waiting to meet you for 2.5 years and you know that it is true, you saw how intense he looked while proposing you. How can you just brush it off as attraction" my heart ridiculed me.

"How can someone love me? He is definitely in some kind of trance and didn't observe me clearly. Once he does that he will not even think of me again," I answered her back.

"Why do you always think like that Tripthi? Why can't someone love you? What is wrong with you? You are the only one who wants people to look at you and not your flaws, now that someone of that kind tried expressing his feelings to you and all you are doing is acting to ignore them" heart shouted at me.