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Am I dreaming? I guess I'm or else,I won't be seeing this asshole in front of me, grinning like a freaking chimpanzee.
Aiyyappa! What is this?

"I didn't know you guys are friends", Prena said surprisingly, breaking my thoughts.

"Of course not!", I growled looking disgustedly at him as his smile widened.

"She's right, we are not friends", he replied rolling his eyes as I nodded.

"We are BEST FRIENDS!", he added as I whipped my head to looked at him as he extended his hands to hugged me as I dodged from this 'hug attack' and pushed Prena into his arms as she yelped in surprised and that caused him to hugged her instead.

"Nandini", Prena glared as I chuckled.

"Veena, I think you should prepared for another wedding soon, they looked so cute together", Mrs.Malhotra joked as I looked at them in horror.

"Well I don't mind, do you?", he whispered in my ears as I glared at him.

"You guys still didn't tell us, how did you met", Prena asked again.

"Remember the guy I told you about?", I questioned.

"The Uber guy?", she replied as I nodded.

"Awe! I didn't know you talked about me", he said in a girly tone.

"Will you please shut up?", I rolled my eyes at him. He cheekily smiled.

"Anything for you, babe", he winked. And everyone goes 'awed' at us.

"So if you guys are done with your silly fight, let me introduce you to them", Uncle Rajesh told me as everyone else already met each other before.

"Meet Mrs. Neyonika Malhotra, Manik's mom", he said as Mrs. Malhotra smiled at me.

"You're so beautiful, if I would have another son than I'm surely going to choose you as he's bride", she said quite excitedly making me choked on my own spit.

"Your words hit me hard,mom", the asshole spoke stabbing his fist into his heart playfully.
Why did he called her 'mom' if Mohini is he's mother?

"You know what I mean,son", she laughed.

"By the way I'm Mishti, Manik's twin", she jumped at me, hugging me tightly.

"Can't b-breathe", I tapped on her arm and she released me, mumbling a quick sorry.
She had quite a strong gripped.

"And I'm Mohini Malhotra, Manik's elder mom (badi maa) and this idiot's mother", she smacked his arm as he pouted.

"Now, it's my turn!", he exclaimed as I rolled my eyes.
Of course he need to interrupt a pleasant evening with he's idiotic talks.

"Myself Dev Malhotra, Manik's cousin and Choti Maa's (Neyonika) favorite son", he did a little bow as Neyonika nodded at his last line.

"That's true though, after all you're the only one who listened to what I said unlike my own stupid son, Manik and our workaholic husbands whom we had asked to joined us on today's meeting but they couldn't, I hope you don't mind. And don't worry, I'll personally asked Manik to make it up to you", she said looking at Prena hopefully.

I too looked at Prena as I saw her excited eyes been replaced by a sad ones,

"Obviously not, Aunty!, I was excited to meet you guys, not him", she joked which I know was half truth.

"I feel so important", Dev sighed.

"So Dev, do you have a girlfriend?", Prena asked.

"Tried to find one but everytime it got stuck in buffering, why did you asked?", he raised his eyebrow.

"Nandini is single too,you know?", she added as I gave her a death glare.
What the hell is she trying to prove?!

"Are you looking for a guy then?", Neyonika asked this time.

"By the way, I've a guy in my eyes if you want, you know?", Mohini added as I internally rolled my eyes.

Didn't they came here to meet Prena?

I looked at her and as expected she was already looking at me if to say 'I told you'. I rolled my eyes again.

"I hope that it's me you guys are talking about", Dev said grinning.
What's with that stupid smile that he gives off every now and then?

"Why don't you guys show Dev and Mishti around? after all they came here for the first time", Uncle Rajesh added, smirking.

"Yeah sure, Nandini? Go show them around", she forcefully pushed me ahead with a tight smiled as I blankly looked around.

"Me?", I questioned as Dev was already up from his seat with a grinned.
Is he advertising he's toothpaste or something?

"I'm a little tired, I'll joined you guys later", Mishti smirked seating back comfortably.

"Let's go then", Dev walked up wrapping his hand around my shoulder and walked us away like it's the most natural thing in the world.
I so wanted to crawled his hand out of my shoulder but I can't, not in front of them, at least.

"Have fun", Prena waved at us obviously trying to be a matchmaker.
Fun? With him?

"I didn't know you're Prena bhabhi's sister", he said when we are away from their ear shots.

"Actually, I'm her cousin", I looked up at him as he's a little taller than me. As I continued to checked his face for the first time properly, I noticed that he's hairs a bit longer than the last time I met him. Not that I checked him out or something. And it's his eyes that stands out the most apart from his idiotic mouth.

"I know that I'm something to look at, but it's kind of creepy, you know?", he said bringing me back to my sense. I blushed at the thought that I was checking him out but even more embarrassed that I was caught doing that.

"It's not what you think", I cleared my throat, looking away.

"Sure, it's not", he cockily replied.

"You're so full of yourself", I rolled my eyes as he laughed.

"Only you think that, Juliet", he winked.

"Juliet?", I raised an eyebrow as he shrugged,

"It suits you".

"Don't call me that, asshole", I glared.

"Ouch! I gave you such a sweet name and you called me 'asshole'? I thought you had a better taste in names than that, Juliet", he faked sobbed.

"You're such a drama queen", I laughed slapping his arm as he chuckled.

"So, why didn't your cousin come with you guys?", I couldn't control myself from asking this as Prena's sad face flashed in front of me.

"He's not here actually, he's flight is running late. I mean he was supposed to be here with us but he got an important meeting and he delayed his flight to late evening", he explained.

"I guess we should head back there cause we have been talking for more than an hour or so and I don't want them thinking something, you know irrational?", I muttered as he suddenly chuckled,

"It seems like they're trying to be matchmakers"

"Yeah, I can see that", I groaned.

"Well, you know we can help them a little", he grinned innocently as I gaped at him like I have seen a ghost, but then he suddenly started laughed pointing his index finger at me,

"Oh my God, you s-should have seen y-your face", he said between his laughter as I cursed him under my breath and walked away with him tailing behind me, laughing.

"So, how was the tour, good?", Mishti asked excitedly.

"It's just a house tour, what's there to be good?", I said rather rudely, still pissed at Dev's words.

"It seems like something did happened back there", Neyonika said as Mishti playfully acted to zipped up her lips locked and throwing the keys away like she won't asked me anything anymore. Everyone laughed probably taking it in a wrong way.
But what caught me is that Prena didn't passed me any silly comments. I looked at her as she was lost in some thoughts.
Something's off.

"Mom, I guess we should leave as I need to pick Manik from the airport too", Dev said while checking his watch.

"But you haven't eaten anything yet, how can I let you go just like that?", Aunt Veena said in a worried tone.
Typical mom and her typical dialogues.

"Arey! It's not like I'm running away, Aunty. I'll be coming here more often after all I need to meet my best friend, right?",  he raised his eyebrows at me, smirking.
I so wanted to wiped that smirked off of his face.

"Of course, now can we leave? I'm desperate to meet my brother", Mishti whined.

"Despo", Dev muttered as she stuck out her tongue.

"Veena, it's so nice meeting you all today and Prena hope you don't mind my sudden surprise present for you", she smiled as Prena gave her a slight smile. I seriously need to asked her what's been bothering her.

"We'll take our leave then", They all walked towards the front porch with me lazily tagging along them.

"I'll see you around then, Juliet", Dev whispered in my ears as I shivered at his closeness as he quickly pecked my cheek and ran away like he's pants are on fire. As I gaped at his running figure.
He.Did.Not.Just.Kissed.Me.

"Nandini", I looked at Prena as she tapped on my shoulder.

"Huh?", I was still shocked at what just happened.
I'm so going to kill him the next time I see that asshole. I fumed.

"I need to tell you something", she said,

"And it's urgent".

Uh-no.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

So, the mysterious guy is none other than Dev himself.

You must be thinking why Nandini and Dev is getting 'close'?

What's up with Prena's 'urgent talk'?

What's the 'surprise' that Neyonika talked about here?

Think think think!

Well for now--

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