“Jana hi tha to aaye hi kyun?”
“Jhagadna hi tha to bulaya hi kyun?”
“Main? Main jhagad rahi hoon, AVM?” Widening her eyes, she slapped her palm on the table. “Jhagad aap rahe hai. Jhagadte aap hai. Jhgadalu bhi aap hai, AVM.”
“Bilkul sharam nahi aa rahi hai na mujhe blame karte hue? Ek to mere aaloo ke parathe pure office ko khila diye aur yaha khade rehkar mujhe hi chaar baatein suna rahi ho! Wow, Ishqi, wow!”
“The never-ending misery of Aaloo Parathe,” she murmured, sighing as she sat back in her chair. “Main laayi to aapke liye hi thi na, AVM?” She looked at him, defending herself for yet another time.
“Par mujhe mile to nahi na!”
She placed her face on her hands that she had pressed on the table. She hadn’t expected him to be still upset about what happened that afternoon in the office. “Paratho ki khushboo Ishaani se bach nahi paayi. Tiffin kholna pada aur sabko dena pada. Mana kaise kar sakti thi, AVM?”
“Ek bite, Ishqi?” he whispered, putting the pain of his broken heart in his words as he got back in his chair, “ek bite nahi bacha sakti thi tum mere liye?”
“Aapko lagta hai maine koshish nahi ki hogi? Lekin-“
“Wo TUMHARE parathe the… bachte kaise…” He completed her sentence. “Tum badal gayi ho, Ishqi! Main firse tumhare liye wo Khadoos wala boss ban gaya hoon.”
“Kabhi nahi socha tha aap itne dramatic ho sakte hai, AVM.”
“Ye sahi hai. Ek to mujhe Aaloo ke Parathe nahi mile aur ab main dramatic hoon? Office mein jo hua so hua. Sorry bolne mein itni mehnat karni hai but ye nahi ke ghar bula ke khila de…”
“Aaloo khatam ho gaye the,” she said.
“Ah, pure Delhi mein Aaloo nahi hai? Strike pe gaye honge shayad.”
His sarcastic taunt left her shaking her head. “Yaha layi to hoon na aapko… This is your favorite restaurant, isn’t this?”
“Used to be, Ishqi,” he mumbled, staring at the table before lifting his gaze to her face, “this used to be my favorite restaurant till I met you. Now… my favorite restaurant is your kitchen!”
Now
…
My
Favorite
Restaurant
Is
Your
Kitchen.
💜
This is a random piece of fiction. Absolute imagination. Kind of a random mini tale based on the picture on the characters named Ishqi and Aahan, fondly addressed as IshqAan from the show Ishk Par Zor Nahi that starred Param Singh and Akshita Mudgal as protagonists.Â