| Agastya |
"Good evening!" Lara takes light steps in her stilettos towards me. We had planned to go to the party together from my house.
Lara has been my secretary for a long time now, she was hired after Vidyut resigned from his position. She's highly competitive, smart and a good looking co-worker of Highlights. In a span of just two years, she has never put her foot down. She works tirelessly. She was referred by Vidyut hence in less time, I formed a good bond with Lara.
"Evening Lara!" I greet and she kisses me on my cheek.
"Are we good to go?" She asks with excitement.
"Abso-fucking-lutely!" I offer her a big smile.
"Someone's really happy tonight."
"It's Lavanya!"
"I haven't seen her but she already makes me so insecure." Lara knows a little about me and Lavanya, but not everything.
She knows that I am in love with her and often jokes about her insecurity from time to time. I don't mind her because that's the way she is.
Outgoing and jolly, she's a good friend.
"And what makes you insecure Lara?"
"You know it all! Ask me, What is the best thing in this world?" She smiles wide.
"What?"
"To be loved by Agastya Raichand." Lara replies in a husky voice. "And she's the one you love! So it obviously will make me jealous." She shrugs comically that makes me chuckle.
Her statement reminds me of something that Lavanya once said. While confessing her love for me, she had said the same thing. She loved how I love. How unfortunate was I to fail her!
"Do you really think so? Because I don't."
"The way you love her, surely makes me want someone like you. I don't understand why she hates you!" She begins to correct my tie.
"She has every right to do that!" I walk away, to wear my watch.
"And I don't have the right to even touch you." Lara whins.
"Aren't you too informal?" I laugh.
There was something in Lara that I couldn't turn down her over the top advances.
"I can't help it when it comes to you."
"Why don't you move on Sir? You don't deserve the pain with which you live." She says it with a lot of worry.
The times when she addresses me formally, are the times when she actually goes back to her serious self.
"Very kind of you Lara!" I smile.
"You won't comply." She sighs.
"Okay, at least let me drive, I hope I become your lucky charm and she melts on seeing you." She adds enthusiastically and as we leave for the party, the memories of past flash in my mind.
It won't be easy to get Lavanya back in my life. If she has stayed two years without me, then she can surely live without me.
(Self depreciation era at its peak!)
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The Blurred Lines
Romance"Oh Love! You are finally here. And I" he took a pause and roared with a sly smile "am NOT AT ALL pleased." He looked at me, as if I am his prey. Well he's a beast nonetheless. "Stop calling me Lav. It's Lavanya for you." I replied, with fierceness...
