Ek Anjani Si – 4 {a lot can happen over coffee}

[For better understanding of this story refer previous parts.
Ek Anjani si - 1 { The bus girl }

Ek Anjani si - 2 ( I recieved a letter }

Ek Anjani si - 3 { Friends }

So we were in the coffee shop, sitting besides each other…

The tag line of coffee shop says - “a lot can happen over coffee”.

(Well, what can happen in the public place? :P)

“2 cappuccinos! please!..” - I requested the waiter (keeping in mind the budget, as CCD is not that cheaper and I am not in favor of spending money on girls)

“Anything else sir!” - He asked in a manner as he is giving everything free of cost.

Before I say no, Anshika asked me- “Can I have one black forest pastry? :)”

Although I wanted to say no, but I said - “yeeeaas! why not?”, with a sweet smile on my face.

“So, how is your job going on? Howz life in your company?”  Anshika asked.

“Job is good.....but not the environment, not a single good looking girl in the office” – I replied.

“Aha, you want girls there? “ – She winked.

“I think presence of girls motivate you to work in a better way”

“Ha ha  ... All boys are like that only”

“How many boys do you know?”

“oooooooo, someone is jealous”  she started laughing.

“Don’t laugh” I said with little anger in my voice. (A fake anger looks cute on boys.)

“Ofo Nilesh, now don’t be angry... By the way, aren't u feeling tired? After all, you are coming directly from office?”

“Ummm, you are partially correct, partially incorrect”

“Partially” – she said with a question mark in her face

“Yes, I was feeling tired, but that was the case before meeting you, now after seeing you and talking to you I am feeling refreshed”

“Nice... you never miss a chance to flirt with girls”- she smiled

“Wrong again. You can say that I never miss a chance to flirt with you, as I never flirt with (all) girls”

“Hey what do you mean? I m not a girl! How dare you say that?”

“You are, but you are a beautiful girl. I never miss a chance to flirt with a beautiful girl”- I winked and a smirk.

“Is that another way to flirt?”

“No, why you are thinking that I am flirting with you. It’s just a compliment. A sweet innocent compliment, like me”

“Ha ha... uff.. Nilesh... ha ha…You really make me laugh”

“I have given you a compliment and you are laughing”

“I am not laughing on your compliment, I am laughing on something else” - she started laughing again.

(She looks cute while laughing. I don't mind if she continued to do that. Her teeth are much brighter than the close-up girl, which I saw yesterday in TV ad.)

“Laughing on what?” I continued the conversation

“Sweet ha ha… Innocent... Do you think you are” – saying this she continued her laughing session

“Am I not?” – I asked with an innocent face

“Umm... Sweet to chalo ok... You are sweet... But innocent, nooooo way!!...”

“I am an innocent guy, Miss Anshika!” – I protested

“Ha ha... ab bus bhi karo joke marna” she laughed again

(At the same time she looks cute and cuter and cutest.

Why there are only three form of verb? If someone allows me I will introduce hundreds of new form to describe how cute she was looking… like cutie, cutu, cuteestttttttt or something like that.

Don’t think that I am crazy,

May be it was the affect of caffeine in coffee or may be it because of that coffee shop which says – a lot can happen over coffee…

So is this what they mean? Do they mix something in coffee to make people think like crazy? Is for this, they charge such high rate?)

“Hey, hello, Nilesh.. kaha kho gaye? Lost?” –she asked

“Yes I am lost,

 Lost in you,

Lost in your smile,

Lost in your laugh”...- I smiled

“Good one... you are very good with words”

“yhe to chand lafz hai jo tumhe dekh kar nikal jate hai,

warna jazbat to maine apne sine me chupa rakhe hai”

“Oho! janab shayar bhi hai”

“I am not but if you like then I am ready to become shayar also for you, just for you”

“Nilesh, now stop it, you never miss....”

“.....a chance to flirt with girl” - I completed her sentence and she smiled back.

“Hey! By the way what happened to your search for part time teaching?  Have you joined anywhere?” – She asked this boring, uninteresting question

“Umm no, not yet” - I replied (actually I had no idea what to reply, as I was not searching for any part time job. On our first meeting just to start conversation I told her that I am also looking for a part time teaching job, as she is also in the same profession.)

“Why?” – She asked

“Didn’t find any good one”

“Why don’t you join the same institute in which I am working?”

“Umm”

“Do one thing, this is the card of my institute, come there tomorrow evening” – she handed over me a visiting card

Left with no choice I said- “Ok I will”

“You are saying that you will, but your face is saying something else. You are hiding something. Tell me”

“See Anshika don’t take me wrong, but you know what”

“What?”

“I was lying that day when I said that I was interested in part time teaching”

“You liar”

“No I am not, it’s just that on that day I want to talk to you, so to start conversation, I said that I am also interested in teaching otherwise I am happy with my job…

I m happy with my life there... I really enjoy my work…

And working extra just for some penny, umm I am really not interested...

I prefer to invest that time with my friends”

“Friend or girlfriend?”- she winked

“Both” – I smiled

“Both?”

“It depend yaar... Although friends are equally important, but so as girlfriend, so after office time is for both”

“So how many girlfriends do you have?”

“Good news for you, I am single till now, searching for one”

“O hello. Nothing good for me in this... ok... I am not interested in making boyfriend”

(She looks cute even when she shows anger)

“Hey you know what”

“Now what?”

“Again you will think that I am flirting with you but I have to say this – you are damn cute, especially jab tum gussa karti ho”

“Did you say that to control my anger or to change the topic?”

“No, sacchi..You are looking cute”

,

“Thanks” – she said.

(It seems she feels happy after hearing that. This is very old trick. If you want to make girls happy, unki tariff kar do or take them to some good restaurant. Food and words are two keys to control girls)

Ding Ding…You have a text msg.

It was the sms tone of my cell.

It flashes- one new message from special

After checking the message I replied back

“Uhmm.. uhmm.. Message. Message.. kaun hai? Show me” – she asked and took my cell

“Message from special?  who is this special?”- She winked

“Anshika dear, Special is my roommate, his name is Vishesh actually, I just translated it in English as special and stored in my phonebook”

“Why so?”

“This is my way of storing my friend’s number... I never store their number by real name... I just use a different name, so that only I can understand whose number is this”

“Nice and interesting… by the way can I ask what he is saying in message?”

“He was asking that when I am coming back as they are going for dinner. So I replied that don’t wait for me, I got stuck in meeting”

“Meeting! ha ha. This is meeting.. why didn’t you tell him the truth that you are with a girl?” –she chuckled

“If I tell him so, then after reaching home he and all of my other flat mates will kill me by asking questions – which girl, what happened, and all.

That’s why I said meeting”

“And they are fool to believe that at 9 in the evening you are in meeting”

“I know they would not believe me, but I will handle that situation after reaching flat”

“Ok ok.. .By the way Its raining outside, how can I go back?”

“Then don’t go, who is telling you to go”

“Accha, then what should I do, it’s 9. I am late already”

“Are not to worry I will drop at your home... Just be patient, the rain will end soon”

“Smart, very smart you want to see my home… No way, I am not taking you to my home”

“I am also not telling you to take me to your home, just show me your house”

“No chance, ok... I can go alone” – she smiled

“Ok baba. Go alone, but at least wait for the rain to stop”

“No Nilesh, I am getting late, and anyways its Mumbai.. how much we wait, the rain will not stop, so lets go”

“Ok, baba lets go, I am happy with that also”

“Happy with what? That I am going, are you getting bored of me?”

(uff girls, I can tell you, its very hard to talk with them. Whatever you will do to please them, they will always question you, always doubt you)

“No yaar, I am happy to walk with you in rain” – I tried to defend myself

“hey , hey I am not gonna walk”

“Ofo, don’t go with words, I meant to say that I am happy to be with you, specially when its rain”

“Accha, what difference it makes, rain or no rain?”

“You will not understand, for me there is different meaning and use of rain”

“I love rain... I always feel good while it rains and there is only one meaning of rain – freshness, do you love rain?”

“Umm. I can’t say that I love rain, neither I can say that I hate rain, its depends”

“Depends on what?”

“Depends on situation”

“Situation like?”

“Situation like when I am with a girl then I love rain.. if I have to walk alone in rain then I hate it.

If because of rain I have to stuck in room alone then I hate rain, at the same times if some girl is be with me and she also get  stuck because of rain then in that case I love rain”

“Very mean you are”

“Hey I am not mean, it’s just that I love rain -terms and conditions apply”

“Terms and conditions apply ... ha ha. You are really funny. A sweet guy”

“It seems that someone is impressed by me” – I tried to flirt

“Hey come back... Ok... Don’t live in dreams, I just said that you funny and sweet. I am not impressed by you neither it’s easy to impress me”

“Challenge accepted”

“Challenge accepted??? What challenge accepted? Oh hello.. I am not challenging you”

“But I have already taken it, so just wait and watch”

“Ok... Will see. I am going now ok... Catch you later” saying this she called an auto to stop

“Hey wait wait… You just said that you will catch me later... How?  We don’t even have each others number”

“Ok” – she said and we exchanged our numbers

Instead of simply saving her number, this time I dialed the number and said

“Hey I am dialing your number”

“Why?”

“Because I need to be sure that you have given me correct number, I don’t want to be fool like last time”

“It means you don’t trust me?”

“Do you trust me?”

“No”

“So How can I?”

This little argument gave ma a chance to extend our conversation but that stupid auto wala who was waiting till now said – “Madam, chalna hai ki nahi?”

“Ha, ha bhaiya, chalo – she replied to auto wala and turned to me and said – “ Ok, will continue this later, bye for now”

“Byee”

I stand there till the time she went away from my eyesight.

There after I start walking towards the bus stand

No use to take an auto and waste 100rs and since its raining the auto wala might charge higher.

Anyways I am habitual of Mumbai bus, in fact I enjoy travelling in bus rather than going in auto. One might think that I am just giving an excuse to save money but I truly believe that the going alone in auto is worst then standing in bus in crowd.

Its almost 10 when I reached Waghbill bus stand, a stop near by my flat.

I check my mobile to check any possible message from Anshika, as expected it shows one new message, lucky I am.

I knew it

She would definitely message me.

But when I checked it, it’s from customer care

Sometimes I feel that my customer care loves me more than my entire friends

Daily I receive 4 to 6 call and equal number of messages from him

It’s like from morning when I wake up to time I sleep, my customer care remembers me.

Anyways from my side I dropped a message to Anshika – saying that I reached my flat, hope you too reached safely.

And after having dinner in a local mess I come back into my flat... its almost 10.45 till that time.

I checked my mobile once again for any possible reply from her.

But the case was same as earlier… one message from customer care, no one from her…

Being tired I was feeling sleepy but hoping that she might send some message in night, I sit in drawing room and started watching TV, so that I can avoid my sleep..

I was so busy in watching my favorite serial BIGG BOSS, that after some time when I checked my mobile I saw 4 miss calls and 20 messages form her...

Shit… shit… - I said to myself.

Initial few was just forwarded messages and the rest ones are like conversation like – what I am doing and missing you type.

I was glad...

I mean 4 missed call and 20 messages

Wow… J

I thought of a sweet reply and start typing in my mobile..

But something was wrong…

I was unable to type the message…

I tried and tried… But I was unable to... I was surprised and amazed what’s happening…

Then my roommate special (Vishesh) came and took the remote from my hand and said “so ja beta... And leave the remote, at least during sleeping”

Realizing that I was dreaming I checked my mobile... There was no message or call from her… I went to sleep again. Hoping something good will happen tomorrow.