CHAPTER-5

(MISTI'S POV)

As soon as I reached the dining area I sat on the chair beside Sristi, Baba and Ma were already waiting for me as always I was late.

I looked at the food on the table all my favorites Bengali food was on the table, boiled basmati rice, prawn malaikari (one type of Bengali style curry made with prawn), sona mooger daal (cooked lentils in Bengali style), and mutton duckbunglow as soon as I smelled the food my mouth began to watery.

I quickly took my plate and started to fill in it with yumilicious food made by my mother. We all finished dinner within half an hour and said good night to each other and I walked towards my room, I freshened up a bit in the bathroom and took my phone from the study table, and sat on the edge of the bed.

I looked at my phone and checked my whatsa*p messages and saw both Archana and Arnab messaged me back. I skipped Archana's message and quickly opened Arnab's message -;

" Hi, Darling! Sorry I can not give you a reply. I will call you at 11 P.M."

AS soon as I checked the message, I had got butterflies in my stomach, whenever Arnab called me "Darling" I felt so good!

Archana once asked Arnab directly that why he called me Darling? We were in a relationship or not?

Arnab quickly responded that we were not in a relationship but he loved to call me "Darling" and he also said we were more than friends.

I quickly typed....... "All right 'Handsome' I will wait for your call," I loved to call him 'Handsome.'

Then I started my girly chitchat with Archana, half an hour later Sristi came to my room and in a tray, there were two small bowls filled with chocolate pudding, I gave her a confused look.

She looked at me, screamed in happiness, and said, "Late night desert. You can not say no to a desert. After all we Bengali's have sweet tooth ."

"Ssssshhhh..... Sristi stops screaming like this. Ma and Baba will awake and if Ma comes to Know that we are having pudding after diner, you know what will happen right!!!!" I said to her.

"Di, you always eat chocolate and sometimes ice cream at night. Now, you do not want to eat pudding. I make it. Is it not good?" Sristi said to me with a little sadness in her voice.

"Oh, my little devil sister, you make it amazing!! I just want to enjoy this pudding. So no more screaming" I finished my sentence and grabbed one pudding from the tray and took a spoon and started to eat.

Sristi sat beside me and I saw she had already started eating.

I and Sristi both loved to eat something after dinner and sometimes we ate snacks and dessert at midnight also!!!

But when Ma found out then it was not a very pleasurable moment for us. We finished our dessert quickly. I took the tray with the crockery and silently walked towards the kitchen, I quickly washed all the crockery properly and put that crockery in the right place, and breathed a sigh of relief, now in the morning Ma would not yell at us. I went back to my room quietly.

"Di, within 15 minutes Arnab Da will call you. So good night," Sristi said to me.

She already went to the other side of the bed and as usual, she already put on her earphones and looked at the screen of her cell phone.

I already knew that she was watching some K-Drama. I did not pay any attention to her and made a braid to my hair and applied some lip balm on my lips. I just sat on the edge of the bed and my phone started to vibrate, I grabbed my phone from the side table and I saw the name appear on the mobile screen, as soon as I saw the number huge smile appeared on my face, it was none other than Arnab we talked like this from last six months after my accident, before that we did not talk much on regular basis.

Now he called me regularly but still whenever he called me I felt happy. I just picked up the phone and a sweet, calm, charming voice started to fill my ear. I said " Hello" to him.

"What you are doing darling?" he asked me. I could feel my heart swell and a blush appeared on my cheeks, I felt so good whenever he called me darling.

"Nothing handsome. I am just waiting for your call." I quickly responded to him.

"How are aunty, uncle, and Sristi?" he asked me. I loved his caring nature and he just did not care for me but he cared for my family too.

I said to him "They are fine. How is aunt Mita?".

"Oh, Mom is just fine" he replied to me.

Aunt Mita was the one and only family Arnab actually had, he lost his father when he was just five. His mother worked hard to give him a good life. Aunt Mita was working in a bank as a deputy manager.

Arnab wanted to join civil service, he wanted to be an IAS OR IFS officer, he was studying hard to qualify for the civil service examination but it was really tough after all civil service was one of the toughest exams in our country.

But I knew that after his graduation when he would appear in it he surely qualified it because it was one of the dreams of her mother and Arnab loved his mother so much i.e. he started his preparation so early. I loved Arnab's caring and loving nature for his family and friends, he cared for everyone in his life.

"Are you fine?" he asked me.

I knew that he would ask me this question after that accident, whenever we met or we talked on the phone, he always asked me that, he told me that he was very worried when I was in ICU.

"I am perfectly fine. No need to worry," I replied to him.

"Thanks for your concern," I said to him again.

"Hey, no thanks and sorry between us. You just can't break your promise," he said with a fake angry voice.

"Sorry... umm... I mean no sorry," I just finished my sentence with a blush already appearing on my face.

We just continued our conversation up to the next 15-18 minutes. These moments were the best moments for me in the whole day.

He said " Good night darling, sweet dream."

"Good night handsome,", after a few moments I added, "Please come to my birthday ."

"I will definitely come at your birthday, Bye Darling, " he said to me and after that, he ended the call.

I placed the phone on the side table connected it with a phone charger and after that, I drank some water.

I looked at Sristi, she was still watching K-Drama, without disturbing her, I switched off the light and soon I fell asleep.