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Rudra and Abhi sat in silence. The SMS he received in the morning was what Abhi was thinking about. Rima had text-ed her to say that she was sorry and she did not understand why there was any confusion. She would like to meet him on Sunday. Abhi realized with a growing emptiness that it was not to be. Rudra had been on the date with Rima and the evening was one of the longest in Abhi’s life. Having had to wait without any news about what was going on he was torn down between anguish and despair. What if Rudra was unable to bring out the truth about her intentions? But he has been successful and the topic of Abhi was brought up on the first date they had together. Not to mention that it was not respectfully discussed and it was sometimes joked upon by the newly met. Abhi could understand how furious Rudra was but there was noting that he could do. Rima’s ploy to fleece him was now out in the open and she had laughed her guts out over the fact that Abhi was so sensitive about her.
The mobile phone rang. It was Rudra’s.
"Hellooo… So have you reached safely…" Rudra spoke fluidly indicating it was Rima on the other end …He turned on the speaker phone.
"…Thank you Rudra, that was a wonderful evening I enjoyed a lot"
Abhi was distraught… it felt like the final nail in the coffin of the memories he so fought to recover… He watched Rudra who was making an expression of ‘Don’t worry she will know what she has done’-type all the way indicating Abhi to be silent…
"Oh really! Was it better than the ones you had with that lover-boy…Adhi or Abhi … of yours…"
"..Don’t talk about him… I think I told you that there was nothing personal going on between us… he was just a convenient friend…" giggled Rima on the other end.
Rudra looked over to Abhi who looked very uncomfortable. His face looked pale as if he had been stabbed through the heart…He felt a pang of guilt but pressed on unflinched with the same smooth voice as he was enjoying the conversation…
" But don’t you think he might be hurt if he found that out? You are a sweet devil you know that…"
"Nah! He is too occupied to find out… although recently he has been suspecting something… I am supposed to meet him tomorrow … I might even squeeze out the reason behind his sudden transformations… after all life is so dull without having such clowns around…" Rima burst into a pearl of laughter… "You know… He might just gift me that perfume that you refused to buy for me today…"
"I am sure he will… He might be head over heels for you… Okay go ahead if he is so generous why don’t you go out with him in the future…" Rudra sounded playfully hurt…
"Don’t be silly… You are really cute you know that? I have never met anyone like you before…" replied the sing song voice at the other end.
"I am surprised darling… surprised because you have met my brother who is a thousand times better person and not found him interesting… and you find me interesting…"
There was a pause.
Abhi was stunned… Has he been out of his mind? What does Rudra plan to do now? This was unforeseen and not agreed upon. In-fact they had no plans for the future… but this was unthinkable…
"What? What are you talking about?" Rima sounded confused.
"I am saying exactly what you have just heard… Abhi is a thousand times good person than you think… he is clever and intelligent and you might not believe this… he has heard the whole of this conversation on the speakerphone… Say hi to Rima…" Rudra was nodding vigorously in aprroval…
"Hi Rima… Hope you have enjoyed being with Rudra…" Abhi managed to blurt out with some snigger.
"Who was that? And what is going on…?" Rima stammered
"You are caught in the act you hopeless girl… that is what is going on… You consider yourself lucky that you have escaped some severe punishment… But if you ever bother to call up and harass my brother again I promise I will teach you a lesson you will never forget…" Rudra said with a lot of modulation sounding overjoyed "Bye Rima and goodbye".
"Wait…"
Disconnecting the phone Rudra finally let out a satisfied sigh. Abhi was not sure what had happened… it felt like a small hurricane… his senses were badly shaken with the show of deception yet he felt thankful to Rudra that it was finally over. The cell phone rang again. Rudra ignored it and set about reaching for his pocket with a smile and a sparkle in his eyes…
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