Handsome Stranger
After leaving Aakash's house, I had no idea where to go next. I really thought we were meant to be and now, it feels like everything that meant so much to me, meant nothing to him. Nothing at all.
I didn't feel like going back to my empty apartment now that I was jobless and broken up. So, I headed to a bar instead
The loud music in the bar and the crowd of millions of people grinding their bodies together helped me take my mind off my misery for quite a while.
Normally, I would be dancing but tonight, I was just sitting at the bar sipping my alcohol. The bartender asked me to pay up, and I realized that I had used up every last penny I had on that wine.
Paakhi
Great. I can't even get drunk anymore!
I talked to myself and turned my head to look at the crowd.
Through the crowd I looked at the other side of the dance floor and caught a man sitting in his chair drinking champagne. This handsome young man, he was too perfect to be real. He looked like he had stepped right out of a movie.
Destiny had it that he was looking at me as well. Me, really? How can a guy as perfect as him notice a girl like me. I wasn't even looking my best. My hair all over the place and my mascara smudged from all the crying.
But then he raised his glass at me and I knew he was looking at me. I don't know what happened to me, I just turned back to the bar thinking about something when the bartender forwarded a drink towards me.
Paakhi
I didn't order this
Bartender
It's from that man over there.
I turned my head to look in the direction and saw him raise his glass with a smile. I picked up the drink as well and threw a smile his way and gulped the liquid inside my throat.
I don't know what I was expecting. I don't even know if the drink was spiked. I just wanted to- I don't know what I wanted to do. Call it my coping mechanism.
Amaan
Hey! Amaan Vashishtha.
The guy sitting over there came to me and introduced himself.
Amaan
Tell me Paakhi, why do I think that this meeting is going to lead somewhere?
I have never had a one night stand before. I was never that kind of girl. But still... With Amaan, this young, handsome stranger... I had no inhibitions left.
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