Under the warmth of the light that shone inside the restaurant, he flinched at the question.
A group of friends laughing at his expense. At being a coward.

"Are you going to live alone forever ? Ugh, your impossible!"

Their disappointment made him look at their surplus table. Eyes down to avoid any interaction.

After a pause he took her name.

She looked at him startled. Maybe it's the way he took her name.

A velvet box revealed in his palms as he put the box with a shining ring on the table, in front of her. She was still perplexed.

"I was going to give it to you when I graduated. But I'm giving it to you now."

Her eyebrows shivered in anticipation. Of something she couldn't have imagined. Their friends sat in silence, waiting for the bomb to explode.

"I like you"

Her eyes widened. Heart beating fast.

"I am saying I like you"

His face grew into a weak smile as the table looked at him with popped eyes.

"Do you even know what I've done for you ?"

He couldn't wait any longer to hear her reaction. Words flowed out of him in serenity.

"I waited an hour by the front door every day to go to school with you!"

"I waited every night until you came home from studies"

"I couldn't sleep at all because I was worried for you"

"I thought of nothing but you. Just you ...!"

Her eyes dimmed with tears pooling around them. She had no clue he was into her.

"Everything that I did for you and with you, I was too happy to experience them that I thought it will drive me crazy"

He grinned like a fool at where he stood. Combing his hair for the nth time at the table.

She smiled a little, letting his words sink. Impressed at his honesty and sincere emotions.

"I wanted to see you more than a dozen times a day. You made me happy"

"I wanted to tell you this long time ago ... that I really like you"

Her throat went dry at how genuine he looked.

"I love you!"

His deep eyes pierced into her own. The golden words stamped into her brain. This was serious, too serious!

A long pause later he turned towards his friends and asked

"Wasn't this your wish ? Happy ?"

"Noooooo !!!! You don't do that to meee !"

Alia threw the box of popcorn in her lap at him.

Popcorns flew in the air as she threw a pillow next. Then another. Before she could throw the remote in her hand, Ranbir grabbed her from the waist and pulled her down.

She hissed in his embrace, wanting to go. His eyes looked started at her behavior.

"You saw that ? Pagla gaya hai ladka! Aise kaise jaane de raha hai yeh ?"
Her voice seethed with pain. She clutched her arms around Ranbir's shoulder to calm herself.

"Uski marzi ab hum kya karein" tried Ranbir to pacify her.

"Shuru se ladki ke peeche pada tha bechara. He loved her in subtler ways than the other one. Never hit on her until today when he had to finally give in and confess. Why the fk is being a second lead so
annoying?!"

Ranbir wanted to laugh at her statement but he continued to rub her back gently. She was making a mole out of a mountain and he let her be. They were sitting in their home theatre, watching one of Alia's favorite Kdrama series Reply 1988.
She had explained to him earlier that the guy they all thought to be the male lead was instead the second while the writer made her end up with the other one.

And the viewers of the drama went through the most excruciating pain in the history of 'second lead syndrome.'

"Timing galat kaise ho sakta hai bhala ? You have to run ahead of time. Time doesn't waits for you. How stupidddd!" She whined into his shirt as he continued to console her over a fictional character having convincingly broken her heart.

"If it were you, would you have let the girl go ? Saranghae bolke khatam kar diya ghade ne! Aise thodi na hota hai! Pehle bol deta toh yeh sab nahi sehna padta. I hate him Birrr !" She melted into his warm hug as the events of the drama pierced her heart again and again.

"He wasn't a lobster then" she whispered.

That made his eyebrows raise a little. "Lobster ? Ab yeh kaunsa jargon hai ?"

She pulled back from his embrace to see if he was lying. "You don't know what lobster means ?"

He feared her wrath but then nodded in negative. She humped in tiredness. She had married an islander!

"Listen if somebody else hears this tumhari izzat kam ho jayegi." Slapping her head in frustration, she settled closer to him on their bed.

"Okay so you better know Friends the sitcom! If you don't we're divorcing! I mean it"

He panicked at the word but then giggled with a thumbs up. He knew that much. Everybody was bonkers over that show. But he didn't had any chance to catch it up himself.

"Thank heaven. Okay so usmein there are 6 main characters who are close friends. Out of them Ross and Racheal had a quite iconic romance throughout the ten seasons. They were an on and off couple which was annoying but their friend Phoebe made a term that became a real thing after that show. So being someone's lobster meant that they were forever types. No matter how far they go, they will always find way back home, to each other."

He nodded with a bright smile at the concept. It sounded cute.

While playing with the strand of her hair, he thought of something. "Hey, so that means we're lobsters as well."

She eyed him carefully and an idea popped in her. Let's play for a while.

"Nope, we're not. That's not us." She made a fake convincing face that had him grunt.

"Why ! We are ..."

"Nahi na. We can never be lobsters only"

His face fell and he made a frown. Sensing his reaction, she walked out of their bed hoping he would follow. And he did. Like a cute puppy.

"What do you mean we are not! We are Alia!"

After doing this for a while she thought of ending the prank. Turning in his embrace facing him, she poked his nose with an adorable smile.

"Buddhu!"

"Who shaid we are not lobshters ?" she spoke in a baby tone whenever she had too much of love bursting through her for him.

Planting few sloppy kisses on his cheeks, she stood back on her toes, eyeing him cheekily.

"You love doing this to me right ?" he whispered, clearly affected by her kisses.

She nodded like a kid.

"Yeshhh my shweeety pie, my apple tart. You are not just my lobster but my wholeeeeee world."

To emphasize her words she threw in some hand movements. His whole body lit up with blush and joy. She really was his happy pill. The smile to his heart.

"Whose my jaan ? Whose my fav baby in the world haan ?" her coos weren't going to end because she found the whole situation too cute to handle. He heart could burst any moment from now. Being silly and kiddish around him was her biggest joy. Only he get to see this mad side of hers.

"I suppose it's me" he laughed at her continuous kiss assaults that made his tummy fluttering with butterflies! He wanted to forever be this way with her. In their own beautiful sweet dream.

"I love you my everything. My sky, my earth, my star, my constellation, my galaxy, my universe, my whole wide world. I love you toooooo much."

With every word she kissed him, tickled and cherished him.
Ranbir saw the second lead on his home screen, looking heartbroken at the timing and a lie that broke him more than he could. He found that moment pretty sad. But he was thankful for the scene.

As without him he wouldn't be enjoying his wife putting all her focus on him tonight.

Thank you brother, he thought. I hope you get your right timing girl like I got mine.

NOTE : So I was going through a very bad syndrome mentioned above :p
Althou this wasn't the drama I am currently watching. The heartbreak in the current reminded me of reply and Jung hwan my baby! Urghhh my heart.

Sorry for the spoiler if you haven't watched it yet. The intensity of this scene killllessss you! I wanted to write something around this yk like an experiment and I hope it
turned out well.

Done with 3 exams (abhi deke baithi hoon likhne) so thought to give y'all and myself a treat :p

February looks so good (minus the exams) with Gangubai releasing this month. Trailer looks smashing <3 Hope Ranbir gets a due release date pretty soon and may both their films do fabulous in theatres.

I'll try to follow this current 'dimaag mein aya toh tabhi note down kiya aur update kiya' format soon.

This isn't my usual way of writing, I end up sitting in front of my pc, with a little thought or no thought at all. Then a picture is drawn in my head, it's all in the head and I try to copy that into words. It works most of the time. Even when I'm feeling stressed or droopy, the moment I have the wattpad writing tab open, words flow. I cannot wait to do that in that tab soooon !

Love,

Jemi :)