Next morning Pranavi woke up early. She was beaming with happiness to the extent that she was literally dancing and singing while coming down the stairs. As she descended she noticed Woobin sitting on the couch and reading newspaper diligently. He was already dressed in his formal suit and polished black shoes that were shining just like a glass. He glanced upward for a second when he saw her smiling brightly at him. She then came jumping near him and said enthusiastically, "Good morning".
Woobin nodded and smiled back and greeting her," Morning". Pranavi and Woobin were not that much reserved from each other as they were initially, may be because they grew used to having each other's presence around.
Pranavi went to the kitchen and prepared a some oats and milk with some nuts and resins for their breakfast. She also prepared some toasts to serve with milk. Both of them had their breakfast. When Pranavi came to his house, she thought she would be treated like a maid but after witnessing how well he treated her, with respect and considered her equal to her she was filled with gratitude for him. Despite the differences in their statuses he never looked down upon her and unlike the other arrogant rich lads who considered people under them as mere insects and bugs, he always treated her as a 'human being'.
She initiated the conversation with him, "Thankyou for the gift last night. I really loved it." She started to feel shy after saying this.
"You loved it that's why I gifted it to you" he said curtly without any expression. After hearing this all the shyness that Pranavi felt for a moment flew away in gutter as she glared daggers at him "He could have said your are welcome or pleasure is all mine, there was no need to be so straight forward" she murmured while rolling her eyes.
" What did you say?" he asked in deep serious voice scaring her little heart. She smiled sheepishly as she answered him" Nothing.. Nothing.. What will I say! I was simply feeling greatful to you. She smiled again as if to reassure him that what she said was true. " Don't give me your fake smile. It makes you look ugly" saying that he left the dinning hall.
Poor Pranavi could only make hand gestures of punching him behind his back as he retreated. " Ugly.. My foot! He doesn't even know how many boys are trying to woo me college."
"I already saw it. Your punches are not strong enough to hurt me" he said smiling secretly.
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When Pranavi went to college, she met Cha Eom on her way to the class. She jumped as she hugged her tightly; almost choking her. When Pranavi regained her freedom to move freely and grasped for air, she coughed twice. Her eyes were already filled with tears due to coughing. " Oh! I am sorry. It's just that I missed you a lot infact more than a lot," she said while holding her hands.
"Don't flatter me; straight away tell me what you did this time for which you need my help," she said with a smirk. Being caught red handed, Cha Eom showed her best smile as she started expounding," Last night I sneaked out of the house and went to the club, however I forgot to complete my economics assignment that professor gave. Could you please do something to help me out with this situation?"
After not receiving any reaction from her friend she started poking and whining again and again making Pranavi agree to her requests reluctantly. She then logged in her mail id and found the file that ahe had saved while completing her assignments. She then downloaded it again in Cha Eom laptop and after making some changes in that file so it wouldn't look same to that of her, she went to the college library to get it printed. When everything was done she stick it together in the file and gave it to Cha Eom.
Cha Eom hugged her again this time not strangling her to death and gave flying kisses to Pranavi as she showed thumbs up sign," You are the best!" she said and they both left for their classes.
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Generally a driver would come and pick Pranavi up to send her back to Woobin's house but today she wanted to go for grocery shopping with Cha Eom so she gave the driver a call and asked him to not to pick her up today. Both the friends left for their grocery shopping.
As they reached their destination, Pranavi was completely concentrated at buying the fresh veggies while Eom kept on blabbering god knows about what. She was so busy with talking that she didn't even realize that Pranavi was long left behind while she was already very far from her.
Pranavi had bought all the things when she realized about the disappearance of Eom. She saw her far away at the corner and started moving towards her. As she was a heading towards that direction a man collided with her accidentally. He apologized and started to pick up the things from the ground.
"I am Sor..." He couldn't finish as he looked at Pranavi's face. His smile faded instantly as he looked at her with disbelief and horror filled in his eyes. He suddenly started to feel uncomfortable and left hurriedly leaving the bags on the floor.
Pranavi found this very strange but decided to ignore it. She picked up the bags from the floor and was about walk away when suddenly Eom appeared in front of her and they both left the complex together .
However, she didn't realize that all this while she was being observed by someone. His eyes never leaving her, not even for a second.