" You don't love someone because they are perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they are not."

___Jodi Picoult

Next day, after the last class Aadhya received a phone call from Abhinav," Aadhya, are you free now?"

" Yes, what's wrong, professor?"

"Wait for me at the entrance of the campus," Abhi said.

"Ok," Aadhya responded and hang the call.

Aadhya packed her things and left the class. She waited beside the gates of campus. After few minutes, she spotted a black car approaching from the distance. After she got in to the car, Aadhya asked " Where are we going?"

" I'm taking you to dinner..."

Aadhya turned her head to look at Abhinav, she thought his face seems to be perfect from any angle.

"Uh..."

"You will know when we got there," Abhi replied.

Aadhya thought that he wants to take her far to avoid running into familiar persons. Seeing her in daze,

Abhi patted her head and explained," It's not that I want to hide our relationship, I just want to introduce my friend to you. He owns chain hotels and restaurants, he wants us to come over."

Aadhya relaxed immediately and nodded her head showing she understood. But, thinking how did he know what she was thinking.

Aadhya looked around after they had parked the car and saw a restaurant which was decorated homely and of fine dining type. She seemed to have come there before. The restaurant door showed that it was closed for today.

She followed Abhi as he walked into the restaurant.

"Raju..."

"Hey Abhi, how are you?"

"I'm good."

Raju was surprised seeing Aaradhya, "She ..."

"This is Aaradhya. My fiancee." Abhi said.

"Hello sister in law, I'm Raju. I'm the owner of this restaurant and also Abhi's childhood friend," Raju introduced himself.

Aadhya's cheeks covered with dust of pink hearing Abhinav introducing her as his fiancee, " Hello, I'm Aaradhya, nice to meet you."

"Have a seat, I will get the menu for you. You can take sis in law to sit over there first," Raju said to Abhi.

"Hmm"

After they take their seats,Raju came with menu and said, " Vadina(sis in law), feel free to order anything, if you like anything special you can tell me I'll order the kitchen to prepare them for you."

Abhi took menu from Raju and passed it to her, "See what you want to eat?"

Aadhya take a look at menu and couldn't make up her mind. She felt it was difficult to choose from all the delicious dishes, " Ah.. you can choose."

In the end Abhi ordered for both of them. After the items were brought over, they started eating.

"Is it delicious?" Abhi looked at her.

Aadhya cheerfully nodded,"It's delicious."

Abhi thought she was too cute. Later Raju came and take seat beside Abhi and asked in a low voice "So your cousin that you were waiting for and the girl we saw that day were the same person?"

Abhi looked at him and nodded.

Then Raju told Aadhya about the naughty things Abhi had done when he was young, Aadhya laughed heartly hearing those stories.

"How can you remember all those things? It was ages ago," Abhi asked feeling embarrassed.

"My mom always talks about you. She thinks of you as her son more than me," Raju said.

" Ofcourse, aunty loves me more," Abhi showed off.

Before they were leaving, Raju gave a gift to Aadhya.

"Um..why all these now?" Aadhya was embarrassed as she didn't bring any gift for him.

" It's my first time meeting you na, I have prepared this gift sometime ago to give my Vadina, finally I got the chance. Whenever you feel like eating anything special, you can call me ..I'll send them to you. If Abhi bullies you, you can tell me and I'll give him a good beating for you," Raju chuckled and gave a brotherly hug to Aadhya.

" Thank you, Raju" Aadhya said feeling warmth in her heart.

" Take her to see my mom, she wants to see you and will feel happy knowing sis in law," Raju said to Abhinav.

" Hmm, will visit aunt and uncle some other time," Abhi nodded.

Then Raju send them off, after they drove away ...seeing Aadhya in daze, Abhi asked " What's wrong?"

" Is there any cafe near by?" Aadhya looked at Abhi and asked.

" Do you wanna go to Cafe?"

" No.. I feel like I have been here before but I never came to this restaurant..." Aadhya said.

" Umm..that restaurant used to be a bistro and recently he changed it to restaurant. You came there two years ago..." Abhi replied reminiscing the moment he saw a cute girl enjoying her coffee whilst looking at rain.(A/N: You can check chapter 12, if you don't remember)

"How do you kn....Ahh..you were there that day!!" Aadhya exclaimed in sudden realization.

"Hmm," Abhi agreed.

Seeing they were nearing her dormitory, Aadhya said," You can drop me near, I can go from here."

"I'll escort you nearby," Abhinav said as he parked the car, locked and walked in front of her. Aadhya was a little surprised as she realized that Abhi was going to walk her to dormitory.

Like a little girl, Aadhya followed behind Abhi.

Abhinav chuckled and said, "Come walk beside me."

Aadhya caught up and walked next to Abhinav. At this time of the night, they ran into some of the classmates of Aaradhya along the way. However, no one thought there was anything out of the ordinary between Abhinav and Aadhya. Everyone thought she went to look for Abhinav to clear subject doubts.

Soon, the two reached the entrance of Aaradhya's dormitory. While no one was around, Abhinav patted Aadhya on the head and said. "Go up and have a good rest, see you tomorrow on class."

"Yes, Professor Abhinav," Aadhya nodded and added, "Thank you professor, the dinner was really delicious."

"As long as you like it," Abhi smiled and continued," Then I will take you there again next time if you like it."

Aadhya blinked her eyes and nodded.

"Go up now."

"Ok.." Aadhya nodded obediently, "Then, good night professor, drive safe."

Abhi nodded, "Okay."

"Um..then bye..", Aadhya waved her hand and went upstairs.

After she entered her dorm and opened the window to see Abhi still waiting there looking up towards her window. Seeing her open the window, Abhi turned around and walked towards his car with his head bowed in thought.

Thinking about the time he spent with her, his onxy orbs sparkled with happiness and thought about, where should he take her out with him and what delicious foods did she like...

Well, since she's not fat, it's alright to eat more. He nodded his head, thinking ..she needed to eat more in order to plump up.

He drove his car towards his apartment with various plans in mind.

As time passes, the weekend comes in a blink of an eye...

Aadhya submitted her assignment along with her friends and got a very good grade for it. After lunch while she was planning to head towards her dorm, she received a phone call from Abhinav.

"Meet me in my cabin.."

"Huh.. Okay.."

28/03/21

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A/N:

Heyyy my lovely readers,

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___To be continued 🥀