"Hey... Why didn't you call me for the next task?" Anjali asked Ajay.
"I thought you were no longer interested in it." Ajay replied.
"Who said so?"
"Well. It was me who felt so."
Anjali cleared her throat like she was going to make an important announcement and said, "I thought about it. These things thing could be because of either you or me, but definitely not because of Reema. So, Let's just forget what I said that day and let's do whatever you or I want to do."
"Ok. Cool. What are you doing now?" Ajay asked Anjali.
"Me.. nothing. I was just scrolling things." Anjali replied.
"How about watching a movie?" Ajay questioned.
"Movie, as in now?"
"Yes.."
"But I can't go anywhere now."
"You don't have to."
"Then?"
"There is this thing called a movie party in one of the apps. We can see it together there." Ajay detailed.
"Ohh. Like that.." Anjali said.
"Yes.. Which one do you want to watch?" Ajay asked.
"Something about.."
"Don't tell me something about chemistry." Ajay promptly said before Anjali could complete her sentence.
"Naah... How about something related to magic, Harry Potter or mysteries like Sherlock?" Anjali suggested.
"I can't deny they are good, but I am more wanting to see action now." Ajay said.
"Hhmm. I don't like that much but it's ok,you suggest something?" Anjali asked.
"Wait.. I think we have an interesting option." Ajay said somewhat excitedly.
Ajay sent the link to Anjali and they both started watching a popular movie with both of their laptops on the table. With the phone on speaker mode, they were chit chatting regarding the same.
"What will you ask for, if you get a wish?" Ajay asked Anjali.
"Probably..." Anjali said.
"Probably??" Ajay questioned.
"I will ask something but what I don't know... Why are you asking? You gonna fulfil my wish?" Anjali teased Ajay.
"How could I, I am not a Ginnie... Lol... Ok, tell me, did you get a chance to discuss with your father, about those little things that we discussed last time?" Ajay asked in a polite manner.
"Hhmm... No, So the truth is that my father doesn't think highly of me." Anjali replied.
"Means?"
"So, thanks to the questions that I have asked him, he thinks that I am a dumb person and he has asked me to get tutored by one of his favourite students, Jai, who is also our senior in college."
Ajay nodded with ok.
"And Somehow I don't like Jai. It was to avoid him, that I announced that we are together. And it was him again that day, that I requested to extend this relationship for 12 more days."
"How?"
"That day he came to me and proposed."
(Anjali detailing the day she requested to extend 12 days of her fake relationship with Ajay.)
'I have heard that your boyfriend's got a new girl.' Jai asked stopping Anjali who was on her way to the exit gate.
'I don't know. I haven't heard any such thing.' Anjali replied rudely to Jay.
'I proposed to you that day, but you rather came holding his hands.. If you would have made the right decision that time, you would not have to go through any of this.' Jai replied in an equally comparable tone.
'Yes... I would not have to go through any of these, if only, I would have been able to make some correct decisions in my life.' Anjali replied frustratingly.
'You are still on that track. It has been more than 2 years….' Jai replied, this time being a bit cooler.
(Anjali left the place hoping not to meet him again.)
"Why don't you like him?" Ajay asked, interrupting Anjali's thoughts.
"It was one of our internal exams in school, and you know how seniors and juniors sit together for exams. He used to sit with me. In one of the exams he was caught cheating, but then, he lied to the teacher that the cheat slips that he had were something I gave him to hide, and therefore he swallowed them. Since he was one of the top performers, all teachers listened to him and questioned me, who was the average performer." Anjali opened up.
"Ohh.." Ajay said, after not being able to think of anything to say.
"Yes. It was humiliating and my dad was called to the principal's office. And to date, the only thing that he tells me is to learn something from him. Don't know why, but Dad likes that loser a lot. And that loser keeps murmuring to me that he likes me a lot now." Anjali added.
"Wow. He is too clever. But still, are you afraid of him or something, that you did something like that?" Ajay questioned as he was still confused about the reason.
"I was not afraid of him. I just wanted to avoid him, that's it. I thought of it as a perfect escape from him." Anjali cleared it.
"Ok. But why 12 days?" Ajay questioned again.
"It's because... Hey... Are you even watching the movie? A big twist just came." Anjali said quickly.
"What? Wait. Let me rewind a bit." Ajay said, moving his hands on the trackpad for rewinding the movie.
" Let's just focus on the movie." Anjali asked..
"Yeah. Let's focus on the movie for now. " Ajay also agreed.
