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‘Do it, just don’t tell me.’

‘Wow, so possessive!’

‘Yeah, so?’

‘You know, you are really cute at times.’

‘Why?’

‘When you try to be possessive like this, then.’

‘I don’t try to be, I am possessive, yaar. By the way, you always look cute.’

‘You just killed my mood with that rubbish. No one looks cute all the time. I like non-cute truths more than cute teeny-tiny lies. Got it? Don’t watch romantic films so much, you’ll forget how to love. Kya samjhe?’

‘Nothing.’

‘Sounds about right. Now tell me something truthful about myself.’

‘Truth or a teeny-tiny lie?’

‘Okay, a teeny-tiny lie. You’re spared.’

‘You always look cute.’

‘And you look cute, sometimes. But when you do, you look a whole lotta cute. Never try a one-night stand.’

‘Don’t stop me from doing something. I feel like doing it even more, got it?’

‘No.’

‘Let it be, not everything is meant to be understood. Some chapters of life should be left unread.’

‘Aye, dude, don’t throw this philosophy around after getting drunk. Let’s go home now, I have to get to bed. I am really sleepy.’

Sudha dozed off immediately after reaching home. Chandar changed her clothes for her. Before going to sleep, he tried looking for the world that he often observed in Sudha’s closed eyes. He drifted off to sleep with his head on her shoulders.

Chandar loved waking Sudha up by teasing her.

‘Hey girl, wake up. Stop dreaming about one-night stands. Wake up, yaar.’

‘What do you think, would we have met in some other life before this one?’

‘I don’t believe in rebirths.’

‘Then it becomes even easier.’

‘What?’

‘Imagine, we have met each other for the first time in all these hundreds of years since this world was created. And we won’t meet ever till this world exists.’

‘You believe in reincarnations?’

‘Yes, I do.’

‘Then it’s even simpler.’

‘What?’