"Who?" Act fool, act fool, act fool.

"Abhinav. He's getting married and you like him, right?" She said sarcastically.

"What nonsense?" How did I caught a habit of saying this now?

"Aye aye, puri pighal chuki hai tu toh yaar"  Kirti said in an aw tone.
[You have melted already in love]

"Shut up. Kuch pighli vigli nahi hu. "
[I've not melted.]

Bus kal thoda sa pighal gayi thi woh 'abhi toh kuch kiya bhi nahi hai' wali baat par. Thodu sa.
[Yesterday I got melted a bit on that  'I've done nothing yet' topic. Only a little]

"Han Han sakt laundi hai na tu toh. Sigma female" Kirti showed her bicep and acted as if she was flexing it.
[Yes yes, you're a Sigma woman]

"I'll cut the call" I threatened her.

"Cut it. You called me, I didn't."

"Kya matlabi dost hai re tu!"
[How much of a selfish friend you are!]

"Just like you, now tell me, what happened yesterday? Why are you so happy?" I explained her the whole thing, because I can't keep a secret from her. Ofcourse she's my best friend and I love her.

"Damn damn damn. Sachi, usne aaisa kiya? Mujhe lagta nahi tha usme etna dum hai-"  I narrowed my eyes hearing her.
[He really did that? I never thought he has that much guts-]

"Aye, tujhe na lagne se kya hoga? Hai usme dam, tujhe kyu bataye?"
[What will happen by your thinking? He has guts, Why would he tell you?]

"Arey offend hoke defend bhi mat kar usko etna"
[Don't get offended and defend him this much]

"I'm not. Just telling you. Main kyu offend hougi bhala?"  She showed me a thumbs up and I nodded.
[Why would I get offended?]

"You like him, don't you?" She asked me and I made a face.

No no no no no no no no no-YES

"What? Like? No!" I exclaimed.

"Yes right, you love him. Not like. My bad"

"Shut up, Kirti."

"Tu mujhe shut up karvati reh jayegi aur koi aur usko ke jayegi dekh lena" The reader inside me decided to visualise the scene of some other girl with him and threw up on the street.
[You'll keep shutting me up and some other girl is going to take him, just wait and watch]

I pictured you with other girls in love, and threw up on the street.

"That won't happen. I'm his fake girlfriend." In my defence, I said this.

"Fake. You said it all by yourself, honey. You guys are already slow, now just imagine if some childhood sweetheart of his shows up there? No one can win against childhood sweetheart!" She's putting things in my head now.

"First accept that you like him. Because I get to know everytime you start to like a guy" Well she wasn't wrong there, everytime I liked a guy, she knew it before me. Or practically speaking, she later gaslighted me into thinking I like him.

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