OWNING HER HEART

Dumpling and Accident.

"Just kidding ..relax people..had to do this, it's 1st April , isn't it" ,he said laughing. Everyone left a sigh of relief together which was later followed by laughter and cackle. "And don't you think I am too handsome to be in mafia" , he said keeping his finger on the chin looking like an alpha male.

Huh!! Joke he says, he literally gave me a heart attack . And for sure he hasn't seen any Turkish drama otherwise he would have known the male mafia there has far surpassed his persona.

" Earth to Miss Gupta, didn't know i would terrorise you so much" Mr. Aryan said looking at me .

"Terrorise!, huh! Never, ever. If you being a mafia is true then i being your future fiance must be a universal truth" wait, what?? what did I just say, me and my big mouth; I tell you, it is bane of my existence. Everyone looked at me like Are you that desperate b***h . No, i am not.

" well, i am just hungry, trust me" i told everyone seriously in order to dissipate the awkwardness, who knew they didn't pity me , instead just ignored me.

" Let's end it here" Mr. Aryan said, atleast someone understood the seriousness of the situation. "Otherwise if we kept Miss Gupta hungry for some more time, she would upgrade her postion from being my future fiance to my future spouse" What? No, I mean I could but why would I want to. I just turned my face away from him in defiance but my stomach told my predicament by growling as loud as it can. Guess the daily dose of embarrassment still hasn't finished yet.

I literally ran away from there without looking back, still feeling, Mr. Aryan's stare at my back but chose to ignore it. The first thing I did after walking out was eating dosa sambar. After filling by stomach to brim I directly went to hostel taking an extra dosa for Piya to eat.

"knock knock " I told standing by the door.

" who's there" Piya replied

" April"

" April who"

" April fool you" and I entered the room.

" Really mature Aashi"

" I try Piya"

" How was the interview?"

" If me asking him about weather, then falling on his feet, questioning about his mafia involvement, proposing a marriage between us unintentionally and my stomach grumbling could be neglected, then it was a fantastic one"

"WHAT…??? hahaha...haha .. Aashi i was just joking about you falling down, hahaha....why did you..haha...take it so seriously" Piya was laughing as if she was dying.

" My heart heard you and decided to co-operate with your vision for my future" I told her defeated , slouching on my bed.

" hahaha, then bless your heart, atleast it didn't let you fall flat on your face" She told me as if her one positive remark could wash away all my grievances. Incredible , befitting to be my bestfriend.

"And what about the marriage proposal thing "

" Nothing much but....." And i narrated her while story followed by another one of her evergreen laughing fit.

" Don't worry, atleast you won't meet him ever again"

" That's my sole wish now" I don't want to meet him ever again but my instincts are telling me that the more i run from something , the more i fall into the pit of being close to it. Maybe i am wrong or.....

" Here's the dosa, and i am off to sleep. DND and be on silent mode please ".I cut my thoughts off and told Piya .

" I am always silent, you are the chaotic one " Nice point she has there.

After my sweet sleep of three hours three minutes and three seconds, I woke up to Piya pinching my waist while shouting at me to go to the market. Oh my beautiful slumber, guess i have to leave you this instant, but I promise to be back and then my whole night will be just for you.

"WHAT PIYA? WHY DO I HAVE TO GO TO THE MARKET, CAN'T YOU JUST ORDER SOMETHING ONLINE"

" NO , I CAN'T CAUSE THAT DUMPLING SITE DON'T HAVE THAT FACILITY AND FOR THE SAKE OF MY SANITY SPEAK Softly" She told me speaking the last word in a whisper.

"Then let's go together, we will buy some dresses too"

"No ,my Prima donna, your humble servant is too broke to afford one and for the first part, i have assignments to finish and most importantly clothes to wash"

" I thing some of my drama is rubbing off on you, don't you think " i told her with a laugh. And since she talked about washing clothes then i really can't say anything else because everybody who lives or had lived in a hostel knows that the pressure of completing this task is real.

I got out of my bed, made a messy bun, still wearing a t-shirt, but changing my shorts with looser, i walked out to buy her some momos ( dumplings). Anybody who knows her, knows her craze for it.

Since it was winter, it was a little too dark and very less people were present around. I had to walk through two lanes to get to that specific dumpling shop. Just as i was near the second lane, i heard a sound of car ,screeching so loud that my heart went 'dhoom machale ' but the next second was like i am going to be the victim of human trafficking but against all my assumptions, a bloodied human being came out of the car, and the minute he was some distance from it, the car blasted. Like what in the shitfucking Rohit Shetty action scene is going on. I looked left then right, but to my utter surprise and shock, no one else was present around. Only me and that half bloodied person( can't assume the pronouns you know). So Aashi time to be a good citizen of a sovereign country . I dialled 112,

" Hello,....yes ..i am Aashi Gupta talking from............... yes, there has been an accident..... no I didn't see it personally,....no the car might have hit a boulder or something.....sir enough of interrogation, someone is dying..... i am speaking politely sir....what do you mean by rude.....sir please be kind enough to help him okay... " , Atlast he told me 'its our duty' , Ofcourse it's his duty. So why complain at first.

After few minutes they came and alongwith patient they took me too to ask some questions. I went along with them not before informing Piya that her dumpling party has to be cancelled today.

"So, what brought you there today"

" dumplings"

"It's 9 o'clock"

" cravings don't see time"

" What did you see"

I narrated him the incident.

"You told me you saw a bloodied person, clearly it was a man"

"No sir, haww, nowadays She is a he and he is a she but she also may be a she and he maybe a he but only on conditions applied, so assuming pronouns are prohibited " They just looked at me from head to toe clearly ,finally deciding on me being a mental case study.