Rohan Sarthak's POV:

"I disagree with this deal or bet or anything," she said.

I could hear the panic in her voice. I think her bulb must have glinted now, and she fell for my ploy again, but I want to see what she has to say, so I asked her curiously, "Why?".

"This is one of your other tricks, and I don't want to fall for it," she rambled at a furious pace.

That was it. I couldn't control my sniggers after listening to her. I was laughing heartily after a long time. I don't know what she looks like, but I am sure she must have been tugging at her hair in madness. 

"Ok, ok, you are doing this to exact revenge on me for laughing at you before. Stop it now," she said, infuriated. Yes, indeed, this was tit for tat.

"Ok, I will stop, but we will not go back on this deal. You have already agreed, and that's final. If you don't agree then I will directly complain to principal the next day. So, I suggest you to agree to this, and if I can't find you, I will not complain to anyone. It is your choice now," I said with conviction as I was quite sure she would agree to this if she really had some brain.

"You are an evil jerk," she said in a low voice as though accepting her defeat. 

But seriously, I am an evil jerk? No one has ever called me that, not even my parents till date and there is this girl, whom I don't even know, who was throwing tantrums at me. Funny girl!

"I'll take that as yes to this agreement. Bye for now and prepare yourself to get caught by me," I said it to ridicule her and cut off the call.

I had been talking to her for more than an hour. Of course, she once disconnected the call, the call recording stopped too. I didn't even complete my lunch and kept taking to her.

But all this time, a smirk was etched on my face, and I didn't know why I was feeling so happy. These past 2 years, I had always been silent, I never shared any of my feelings with anyone, not even with Dad at times. I always remained calm and steadfast, but now, the so called deal was a terrible blackmail ploy I had used to deceive her.

Suddenly, I felt someone's presence in the hall. I turned around from the dining table to see who was there and I saw Dad. Had Dad been here all this time? Man, I screwed it up again!

I immediately shut my eyes in embarrassment and had no excuse to give to him. Curse me that I got so much involved in the call that I didn't even felt his presence. I slowly opened my eyes and looked at him. He is still in the same position, and there was no expression on his face. He stood there still. 

I clenched my teeth, showing him all my 28 teeth, and he, too, smiled at me in awkwardness. 

"When did you....come dad?" I asked him, stuttering.

"I guess right before you began to laugh so freely. " he said.

Shit! He must have heard everything and observed all my reactions. Again it was because of that girl. She had literally turned my life upside down ever since I began talking to her.

"I am sorry, I didn't notice you," I said, apologizing to him for my negligence.

"Thanks to that, I saw my son looking happy," he said and smiled.

I don't know how to reply to that. I just asked him, "Did you eat?"

"I did, but you still haven't completed your food," he said and pointed his hand towards my plate. It still has some rice and a bit if curry, which I hadn't finished. While talking to her, I kept on drawing some patterns on my plate. 

"Well, I called you, but you didn't answer." I didn't know why I brought that topic up, but I just want to divert the topic to something else.

"I called back you, but you didn't check it, I guess," he said with a small smirk on his face while my face went pale. I quickly checked my phone and saw there were 2 missed calls from Dad. He called me while I was talking to her. What the **** is wrong with me. I didn't even sense the disturbance with his incoming calls? What had happened to my brain, ears and all the sense organs? I thought that this day was the most embarrassing day in my school life, but no, it was the worst in my life in general.

I bent my head down and even turned my face away. I didn't know what to say or do.

After a short silence, my father said, "Let's go out today and we'll have dinner outside. I have no interest in cooking even on the weekends" 

I just nodded and went back to my room. Cursing myself, beating myself with a pillow and shouting at myself standing in front of the mirror I yearned to call her back to scream at her again, but again she would laugh at me hearing all this. 

After sometime, I got dressed into something nice and combed my hair. Suddenly, I remembered her voice, her laughter, and her stupidity, and I smiled at myself. Within two days, my boring life had become exciting, funny and joyful. I could feel that happy from within.

I went out of my room and was waiting for dad. After some time, he came out, and we locked the house and went out on the bike. It had been many days since we went out like this. I didn't know where we were going to, but I knew that it was time to tell everything to him.

Finally, after 30 minutes being stuck in traffic, we reached our destination. We went to the park which is quite famous in our city, and thanks to the weekend, there were many people roaming about. We parked the bike and went in. I was walking beside my Dad and waiting for him to initiate the topic, but he wasn't saying anything. Perhaps he was waiting for me to speak up, I thought.

"Let's take a stroll," he said this before I could say anything. I just nodded my head and went after him.

"Won't you ask me anything?" I asked him slowly while walking beside him. He stopped in his tracks and turned to my side, and looked at me. Though I am quite tall, my dad is not so tall as me. 

"I was just waiting for you to start. Anyway, tell me about the other party on the phone who made you laugh." he said with a smile and he directly breached to the main topic without any delay.

I sighed and continued, "It's a long story."

"I have all time for you," he said and kept his hand on my shoulder. Ok, maybe the time has come to tell him everything. I narrated the story from yesterday night to today afternoon. I told him every details about our conversation and how that girl knew many things about me.

"So you got yourself a girlfriend?" 

Dad was asking me this for the fourth time. I finally told him everything, and by then we were tired, and we went to a small food court in the park and ordered something for us before sitting down at an empty table, while waiting for the food to arrive.

"Dad, for the 4th time, she is not my girlfriend. I don't even know her, and she is a crazy girl," I said in annoyance.

"And she is making you go crazy," my dad said in a mocking tone. I remained silent.

Then our food came, and we started to dig in. I must say the food from hotels taste very good. Well, my dad is not a great cook. He misses one thing or the other every time.

"If she is not from your class, then how she get your number? Maybe someone from your class must have gave it to her. Try to find them," he said while eating.

"I don't want to make a fool of myself again, Dad. Today's circus show was enough for me to be ashamed for a long time. I can't go in front of them again and ask them about some unknown girl." 

Dad chuckled at my words. I told him how I had shouted her name, and even he started laughing at me. Well, who wouldn't laugh at such antics.

"Anyway, I sure she will not call me again. She is uncomfortable with the deal and now she is afraid that I will complain to principal, so no worries," I said, quite self assured. He just nodded and smiled.

"Then will you call her back?" Dad asked me intently. I shook my head. Why would I call her? I seriously don't care about her, but my Dad smiled at me, and when I asked him what happened, he just shrugged. I didn't talked much later.

We returned soon, and I was quite exhausted after all the events that taken shape. I just wanted to throw myself on the bed and let sleep take over me, but I couldn't. Conflicting thoughts were swirling in my head, but I didn't let them control me.

 I said to myself, "I wish she doesn't call me again." 

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