The misconnection

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Around six thirty in the evening both the girls had reached back home. "Taehyung still hasn't received a call from his mother" Meera said pacing nervously around the room. "Who the hell is the lady I met then?" Alesha exclaimed in frustration.

"I don't know either. Just for safety, Tae is visiting home today. I told him to. Just in case" Meera comforted. "Let's just go ahead with kurti's then. And we'll take the idlis just in case." Meera added.

So the both of them dressed in black Kurtis and beautiful ethnic dupattas walked out with their purses and the container full of steaming hot idlis at the direction of the lady towards a cool looking black car whose windows rolled downwards at the sight of them.

"Alesha?" A handsome young lad questioned and Alesha cheekily stepped forward with a slightly raised hand, "That would be me"

"Yeah. I found them. Here you go" the man continued speaking on the phone before handing it to Alesha who took it and held I to her ear,"Hello?"

"Turns out that brat isn't as useless as I expected. He got to you guys. I'll be waiting then" the lady excitedly said before hanging up. Alesha handed the phone back to the man.

"Aage Beth tu(Sit beside him)" Meera said to Alesha who firmly denied. "Ahem...I forgot to mention but, I understand Hindi or at least bits of it" the guy said biting back a smile.

"I'm sorry if I came out rude but, hello, I'm Kim Jeong gyu" the guy said with an eerily familiar smile. "I'm Alesha" "I'm Meera." The girls said rather robotically, flustered at being caught.

"And I definitely don't mind you sitting in the front so take your seat wherever you like" he said smiling wide before unlocking all doors. "Pudhe bass(Sit ahead)" Meera said in Marathi hoping that the guy didn't know that language as well.

"What does that mean?" He quizzed at the unfamiliar wordings. "Nothing"Alesha said slipping into the passenger seat as Meera sat in the rear seat. "She told you to sit ahead, didn't she?" He chuckled at his guess. "How do you know Hindi?" Meera asked.

"It's a subject. An additional subject" he answered revving the engine to life."How old are you?" Meera asked seemingly impressed. "25. How about you two if, you don't mind me asking" He asked in turn.

"She is 22 and I'm 16. Why would we mind?" Alesha answered. "Girls don't like to share their age. And wow I wasn't expecting that. I guessed she was 18 and you were the same" He answered rapidly blinking his eyes.

"Woah. Thanks" Meera said settling into the back of the seat. "It's going to be a long ride. Make yourself comfortable" he said maneuvering skillfully through the streets. "Do you guys listen to K-pop?" He asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Army. Moa. Blink and a few others. Does that count?" Meera answered calmly considering the fact that Alesha was too into the veins on the guy's hands to answer his questions.

"Do you mind if I play songs then?" He asked catching Alesha's staring eyes for a second and throwing her out of her trance alongside as she embarrassedly looked out of the window after being caught for the second time in a row.

"Sure go ahead "Meera said holding back her laugh as she noticed Alesha's beet red cheeks and Jeong gyu's smirk. The sexual tension between the youngers refused to decrease, especially when he bit his lower lip slightly and bobbed his head sideways to the beat or when he sang alongside.

"This is definitely going to be a long ride" Meera thought to herself as she pulled out her phone and texted Tae that they had set off.