Tu muskuraye har jagah

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[Annika - A, Shivaay - S]

Annika and Shivaay were driving home from Oberoi Industries one day.

A: Shivaay stop the car! (she screeched)

S: What happened? What's wrong?

A: Look over there, it's a fair

S: Annika! You scared me. Don't you ever, ever scream like that in the car unless it's a life or death situation

A: Sorry for scaring you. Can we please go to the fair?

S: No, Annika. It'll be crowded and god knows what kind of crowd it's going to be

A: Shivaay, I haven't been to a fair in a really long time.

S: Someone might recognize us

A: We'll put our masks on. Please let's go. Please, please, please, please, please, please, please

S: Ok we will go, stop pleading. When have I ever been able to say no to you?

Shivaay parked the car and bought entry tickets and game tickets for them. They walked hand in hand. Shivaay felt a little uncomfortable, the place was crowded as he said.

Annika could see his discomfort, she pressed his hand gently and gave him a reassuring look

A: Be open-minded, Shivaay. Don't judge this place because of the crowd. Let's go play some games, if you don't like it after that, then we'll leave

Shivaay nodded. Annika took him towards the game stalls. They stopped in front of a stall. On a table, there were pyramids made of tin cans. Annika handed over two tickets to the vendor

A: See, we get one chance, we have to throw the little ball and if you manage to topple the entire pyramid, you win. Got it

S: Yeah

A: Let's make this more interesting. How about a competition? Whoever wins more games tonight, will get to choose the date and location of the next 2 dates.

S: Deal

They shook hands

A: I'll go first

Annika aimed the little ball and managed to hit the pyramid, making it topple. She jumped in joy

A: yes! Shivaay, your turn

Shivaay threw the ball but he only hit the top row of the pyramid

A: It's okay, there are a lot of games.

The vendor handed over a snow globe to Annika as her prize.

They went to the next stall. There were a number of plastic glasses on the table, filled with water. They had to throw a ping pong ball inside 5 glasses back to back, in order to win.

S: Ladies first

Annika took her turn and aimed the ping pong balls but she managed to get only three in. Shivaay on the other hand, not only did he manage to land all 5 balls in the glasses, he got them in the glass with the biggest prize.