Week­days passed very quickly. Last day of the week and we were wait­ing for Diya’s car to come, when her mobile rang. She talked for a few sec­onds and ended the call. She looked dismayed.

“What hap­pened? any prob­lem?” I asked Diya.

“Yeah my car broke down and I don’t know how long it might take.”

“Don’t worry we will drop you. Where do you live” I said.

“No it’s okay.”

“Don’t worry it’s not a big deal.”

“You Sure? So nice of you. Thank you.”

“Nisha would you mind sit­ting behind Rohit?”

“Okay!” Then she whis­pered in my ears “Way to go Raj. Keep it up. Now break as many times as you want.”

I just blushed. Diya came and sat behind me and Nisha behind Rohit. We then rode to Diya’s place. As she was get­ting down, she said.

“Will you guys care for a cup of cof­fee?” Diya asked.

“Sure. Come on guys lets have a cup of cof­fee.” Nisha said.

Diya stayed in a huge bun­ga­low in one of the posh areas of Kolkata. From the look of the place it seemed her par­ents were well to do. It was beau­ti­ful from inside. White mar­ble floor­ing; walls full of paint­ings and the room lighted with chan­de­liers hang­ing from the huge ceiling.

“Lovely house” I com­pli­mented Diya.

“Ramu get four cup of cof­fee.” Diya instructed one of her house keep­ing staff. Then look­ing at us” You guys just sit I will change and come. Come Nisha I will show you my room,” then they moved upstairs.

“Raj this house is awe­some.” Rohit.

“Yes. Nice isn’t it.”

Then one of her house­keep­ing staff brought us a cup of cof­fee. The cups were of crys­tal. Then behind him walked a beau­ti­ful lady, dressed in an ele­gant sari.

“Hello, boys I am Diya’s mother.” She had a nice voice.

We got up.

”Hi aunty, I am Rohit and this is my friend Raj.”

“Hello.”

In the mean­time Diya came down with Nisha.

“Hi Mom. These are my friends from col­lege. Raj, Rohit and Nisha.”

“Hello Nisha.”

“Hello aunty.”

“Have your cof­fee boys. Diya I am going out, please take care of your friends, make them com­fort­able.” look­ing towards Diya. Then she looked towards us “Feel at home.” She left in a Mercedes.

“Thank you aunty, so sweet of you” I said to Diya’s mom as she left. “your mom is a lovely lady.” I said.

“Yes she is, she was born in to the royal fam­ily in Kashmir.”

“So Diya what are you doing today would you like to come with us for a movie.” Nisha asked.

“I would love to see Mohab­batein, I heard its a lovely movie.”

“Okay! We will go to light­house and also have din­ner out­side. So Raj will come and pick you up at 6. We will first have din­ner at Tan­door and then push off for movie from there. Okay Raj.” Nisha looked at me with an amaz­ing sparkle in her eyes. I almost let the cof­fee out, but I some­how man­aged the situation.

“Sure why not.”

“Okay I will be ready” said Diya.

“We should leave now if we want to go to the movie” Rohit said.

“Okay bye Diya.”

“Bye guys. Bye Nisha.”

Diya came to leave us out­side. We moved from there, Nisha sat behind me. As we reached home and Rohit left, Nisha stopped and said.

“So Raj what do you think about Diya.”

“She is beau­ti­ful and a nice girl. Why?”

“No, just like that.”

“Come on there must be something.”

“Well, if I tell you promise me you won’t tell Diya.” Nisha was super excited as she said this.

“Okay promise” I said.

“When I went to Diya’s room she asked me if there was some­thing going on between you and me. I said what rub­bish. We are just very good friends. Then I felt some­thing. I asked her and she said she liked you a lot. Actu­ally Raj I shouldn’t have told you this, but I felt there were sim­i­lar vibes from your side, so I asked you. Don’t tell her this that I told you. So … what do you think?”

“Let’s go”

“Come on Raj you can tell me. I am your friend ain’t I”

“Of course you are, but so soon. I don’t even know her properly.”

“Isn’t she a nice girl?”

“Yes she is but…”

“What but? come on Raj what else do you want in a girl, she is beau­ti­ful, a nice girl, and above all, she’s likes you.”

“Well I like her too but I don’t know.”

“Take your time. But I should be the first one to know.”

“Ok”.

We moved to our homes and decided to meet in the park­ing lot at 5:30. Mean­time I started think­ing about Diya and what Nisha said. Too many thoughts were pass­ing through my head. Need to relax a bit, a nice shower would help. Come to think of it, Nisha is right Diya is a nice girl. I like her too. She is beau­ti­ful and I have been pay­ing a lot of atten­tion to her dur­ing the course of the week. Not sure where this is headed.

After dress­ing up a bit for the evening I went straight down to mom.

“Mom I need some money.”

“Again”

“Mom actu­ally, mom actu­ally the thing is…..”

“Why are you stam­mer­ing, say what’s on your mind.”

“Actu­ally mom I have to take my new col­lege friends out for dinner.”

“Who all are going?”

“Just Rohit, Nisha, Diya and Myself.”

“Who’s Diya?”

“Mom she stud­ies in my col­lege, in my class.”

“Some­one spe­cial?” Mom said in a teas­ing tone.

“Mom!!”

“Ok take it from my purse. Bring her home someday.”

“There is noth­ing like that.” I just blushed.

“So what I want to meet her.”

“Ok.”

Mom is also crazy. Every time I talk about a girl and she starts jump­ing the gun. I mean come on every time I men­tion a girl and she just jumps to her own con­clu­sions. I was talk­ing to myself as I walked down to the park­ing lot. Nisha and Rohit were wait­ing downstairs.

“What hap­pened Raj everything’s fine.” Rohit said in a very funny tone. Then he looked at Nisha. I guessed it Nisha must have told everything.

“I will see you both later.”

“You want to see Diya right now don’t you.”

“You both are hopeless.”

I went to pick Diya, while Rohit and Nisha went to the Cin­ema directly to col­lect tick­ets. I picked up a rose and a box of choco­late on my way.