Unexpected love

Ch 12- Friendship blossoming

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It was 10 PM but Aman was still lost in his own imagination. His mind was still stuck at that smile. He came out of his thoughts only when his phone went off. Looking at the caller ID, he smilingly picked up the call. He told a "Hello" but he heard as much as 4 different replies in return.

One voice was of Kanishka's but wouldn't that be impossible? He never thought that she could also have a phone, he was trying to figure out what he heard was Kanishka indeed or someone else. As Tanu was greeted with a silence on Aman's behalf, she anxiously asked. "Bhaiya, are you there? Are you styling your hair even at night?"

Aman was about to reply but there came a reply in mocking tone making him go silent and cleared all his confusion "Jana hoga kisi bandariya se milne!"(He must be going to meet some monkey..!)"

This reply was enough for him to bring him out from his plethora of thoughts "Am I going crazy now? Am I really listening her voice? Am I hallucinating her voice now? Have I already become mad now? His alter ego which had become his biggest enemy at that moment, mocked him, the mental hospital is not too far!

Before he could converse with himself more, this reply of Kanishka confirmed him that she was on the call and he was not hallucinating anything. He let out a breath of relief "At least I'm doing fine and the expenditure of the mental treatment is saved."

He didn't know that he voiced out the last part too loud that it was not missed by his very own nemesis Kanishka who curiously asked "The expenditure of mental hospital? What rubbish are you talking?"

Aman bit his lip at his slip up and readily altered his words to cover up his stupidity he had displayed few moments ago. "Yes, I was thinking that our mental hospital's expenditure must be very high, isn't it? That's why due to not being affordable the doctors halted the treatment midway which left you as a demented piece."

Kanishka shouted seethingly "Tu pagal, tera pura khaandan pagal,BANDAR KI SHAKAL WALE INSAAN!!(You are mental, your whole family is mental, You monkey faced human)"

Aman frowned and replied "Oye mujhe bandar kehne wali? Kabhi khudki shakal mirror Mai dekhi hai kya? Tum kaunsa husn pari ho?

"NAI DEKHI, Tu dilade dekh lungi (I didn't see, You buy me one I will see then)" Kanishka replied.

"Bheek mangna bhi nai aata. Yeh koi tareeka hai bheekh mangne ka? (You do not even know how to beg. Is this a way to beg?)" Aman replied sardonically and pretentiously facepalmed himself as if he is truly dismayed on Kanishka's inability to beg, making Karan and Aditi break into fits of laughter. However, if they were only giggling previously, now they both cracked to loud laughter listening to Kanishka's reply,

"Nai aata, Main mandir puja karne jati hoon, Teri jaisi nai Hun (Yes, I don't know, I go Temple to pray unlike you)" her reply made Aman frown and think for a second, her comebacks always makes Aman go silent. Only person he can't argue with and win. Karan, Tanu and Aditi were laughing holding their stomachs, their laughter clearly audible.

Aman was about to tell something but Kanishka's laughter sound made him stop, his mouth clamped and a soft smile escaped his lips. He could listen her laugh, everyone's laughter echoing in his ear, his hands as if having their own minds traveled to the screen and unknowingly pressed the recording button. He sat silent, listening them laugh.

A smile not leaving his face, their laughter sounds was just like some melodious song played to him, he less cared that he got mocked and was happy instead. After some minutes, they stopped laughing, Aman quickly stopped the recording and spoke in an unamused manner "Whatever". Few chuckles followed his reply. "WHATEVER" Kanishka mimicked Aman's reply in the same cold rough tone that of his.