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thing is to book
the Goa tickets later in the morning, meet the cousin and then
board the bus,”
    “ Haaaa! This idea just
didn’t strike me, you’re brilliant mom, thank you! I will tell
her,”
    “ Okay then, take
care.”
    “ Thanks my darling, you’re a
warehouse of ideas and sense. ”
    “ Yes Laksha, sensible enough
to also figure out that it's you!”
    “ Mom, what?”
    “ Are you trying to pretend?
Please don’t do that,”
    The phones were silent for a
minute.
    “ I won't ask you not to go
to Goa or to call me after your conversation with his cousin, but,
come back to me when you really feel like you need me, take care!
And I really mean the last two words, TAKE
CARE!” Laksha read the new text.
    Her mood was jostling, and she started crying, but didn’t know why. She was in no
mood to book her Goa ticket as well. She waited to meet Saurav, and she had an intuition that he would give her a new
story.
    Saurav called her in the morning and
asked her to meet him on Marine Drive.
    “ Hi Laksha, glad to meet you
after the vacation, how you are doing?” he asked her.
    “ Good Sir,
thanks!”
    “ Call me Saurav, this is a
personal meeting, isn’t it?” he smiled.
    “ Hmmm,” she nodded her head
with puzzled thoughts running in her mind.
    “ I love Marine Drive, the
complete stretch amuses me, I just want to see my company
flourishing and then move to one of those offices at the other
end,” he said, pointing to the huge, impressive buildings.
    She just smiled, nodded her head and
wondered how to start the conversation.
    “ So, what’s up with you
and Sai ?” he asked.
    “ We’re just friends, but he
is angry that I didn't meet him on his birthday, so I thought I
should meet him,
I thought he must be somewhere around and
asked you,”
    “ Hmm.. Hmm..”
    “ I didn’t know he was in
Goa, so yeah, I dropped the plan of going to meet him,” she
said.
    “ Ha, okay, nice then, so
what has Sai said about me?”
    “ Sai? No,
nothing,”
    “ Okay, let’s get to the
point. I know Sai really well from our childhood, he is a normal
guy , but still, there are few qualities
that do irritate people. He told me that you felt that I’m trying to impress you by dropping you to the station. He
also said that you are not my type and I should stay
away,”
    “ WHAT? Seriously?” she
asked.
    “ Now don’t be surprised, I’m
pretty sure you have heard the opposite version,”
    “ Nothing like that Saurav,
I’m not feeling well, please let me go, I need to get to my
hostel,”
    “ Sure, and I’m not going to
offer you a car drop this time,” Saurav smiled.
    Laksha took more than a day
to recover while she thought a lot more than necessary. She
wanted to relax and visited a few temples, including Sairam’s
temple where she met Saifor the first time. What the hell are you doing to me? She
had a small fight with her favorite God. She managed to smile at
the cute debut of Sai in her life. I don’t
really know if he is an idiot, but I just pray that he is not being
one, she pleaded laying her forehead on
Sairam’s feet .
    Let him come, let me ask him
why he’s trying to play a game with Saurav and me. What does this
mean? Should I cut his friendship? Then I should quit my job
too. It's all because of him and I just can’t continue working
there, it would count as being selfish right? Let me postpone these
stupid thoughts until he comes back from his trip, she thought.
    Life presents twists and
turns, and there comes a point where you have no clue if you should
turn left or right. It is pure luck or fate, and of course, let’s
not forget the only one who takes the blame, God! God wants this to happen, it’s all God’s plan to
direct you to something better. This
thought kept Laksha, she didn’t know what to do and planned to stop
at the edge of the fork road.

Chapter Five
    Laksha was upset and could not
concentrate on work that day. She was worried about the drama, the
fact that her mom had