"Are you frigging serious?" Jp stomped on the ground and looked at Nagma with an insolent look.
"You're being really helpful right now" Nagma rolled her eyes. It was the day of the travel. The day they worked for so hard. And they were late..
"I swear on earth and heaven I'm going to kill Aarav and his future generations!!!!!!!! Gah!" Jp sat on the stairs, fuming in anger. The past few nights had been sleepless, sometimes due to work, others due to anxiety.
Nagma sighed, ignoring the girl for a while,"I'll call again" she muttered, mostly to herself.
Jp fumed, watching Nagma pull out her phone and call Aarav.
"Yeah...where are you dude we were supposed to leave two hours ago" Nagma asked, placing a hand on her hip "what...you woke up late"
"Ill KILL THE DOG" Jp threatened making Nagma wince
"Yeah she's talking about you... So where aren't guys? Uhuh...uhuh...hmm ..."
"What ? What?" Jp asked and then pouted as Nagma shushed her.
"Okay...Aarav have you considered not being an irresponsible and lazy butt? we haven't slept the whole night and if you don't appear in ten minutes I will cut you"
"Half an hour" she informed jp.
"You said ten minutes"
"Yeah our ten minutes is his 30 minutes." Nagma sighed and sat beside her.
"Who all can drive?" She asked
"Aarav Rudra and me" Nagma Stated.
Jp sighed, rubbing her eyes before leaning on the bars of the railing.
"How many nights?" Nagma asked without eye contact.
"Four" Jp replied knowing immediately what she was talking about.
"Go into the bus and sleep in the back. No worrying and shit" Nagma looked at her "your dark circles are beginning to pierce your eyes"
"okay" she mumbled," we could have reached faster on your bike"
"Yeah ...can't carry Aarav's drumkit on a bike" She remarked.
"You won't need to...he will die today" She frowned making Nagma chuckle.
"I'm starving" Nagma groaned.
"Yeah fuck this..Ill be back in a minute or so" Jp sighed and walked into the house, returning fifteen minutes later with two cups.
"Noodles?" Nagma asked, taking a cup.
"Yup" Jp and started eating with a smile that appeared only after the first bite.
"So...how come you live alone?" Jp asked, gingerly.
"Because I want to?" Nagma raised a brow.
"You know what I meant..."
"Yeah look dude" Nagma sighed, "I'm not sharing any sob story okay? We are not about to braid our hair and cry about daddy and mommy issues..."
"touchy"
"Girl, you have known me for like a month tops, besides I am what I am ... Nothing else matters." Nagma looked at her, her eyes piercing.
" yeah ..." Jp nodded.
"You like gossip don't you?" Nagma asked with narrow eyes..
"What...no" Jp looked away rather guiltily making Nagma smirk. The girl was a little less subtle that she thought she was.
A rumble was heard making them both sigh with relief. Jp quickly took the bowls and ran into the house while Nagma stood up watching a travel bus drive up to the house with a very apologetic Aarav at the wheel.
"I'm so fucking sorry...!!" He got down and walked toward her.
"Talk to the little lady" she rolled her eyes and began loading the bags in with Darshan's help.
"AARAAAAAV! "a voice made him wince, he looked at the fuming girl who banged the door shut and locked it.
"I'm so-" he started but noticed her carefully.
"What?" She asked, suddenly self conscious
"Did you...eat noodles?" He asked with a look of betrayal .
"No" she said wiping her mouth and walking past him
"Traitor!" he gasped " I haven't even drank a sip of water."
"You could've had you woken up on time" Nagma reminded from within the bus.
he pouted and helped Jp settle in while Nagma took over the wheel," we need breakfast" he informed.
"Yeah We make a stop in Vellore" she nodded "in three hours" she added making him groan.
"here we go" she mumbled to herself as she started the vehicle. Jp settled into an empty back seat, watching out the window. This is it...everything I've worked for....I deserve a plane seat but this will do... And I-
"hey you have Vaseline?" Aarav interrupted making her sigh in frustration, couldn't he see she was pondering on her life?
'Yeah. I have a tube in that purse" she pointed and looked back out. Where was I? Oh yeah, If only papa would have given me permission. But now I was doing it all alone...with no help and -
"its tinted pink!" Aarav complained making her bite the inside of the mouth to stop from screaming. She glared at him instead making him shrink away.
'"If..the tube was pink...won't the damn balm be pink too?! "
"I thought it was an illusion "
"Argh! Okay fine! Here " she rummaged around her bag and tossed a plain balm to him," anything else?" She asked. He grinned sheepishly and shook his head.
Sighing, she got into her comfortable position again. I hope papa and mama got my letter by now... I don't think I was too mean. Just told them I achieved what I needed on my own with no help from them...as usual. And they said I would come back home in a week ! Hah I- is Aarav coming close? Please don't talk to me
"You have water?" Aarav asked with a sweet smile. She inhaled reminding herself that a drummer was necessary and she couldn't kill him.
"Purse" she pointed.
"Also...do you have-"
"Aarav everything is in the purse. Its yours just take it I beg you" she said firmly and curled up into her seat plugging in her earphones , watching as he pulled out a water bottle and a tablet from her bag.
"you okay?" She asked, pulling a earphone bud out.
"Just a headache" he shrugged.
"Oh...okay " she mumbled and watched him sit and take the tablet.
Great, now I feel guilty for being mean. he's a jackass..wait ..did I turn off the gas stove? did I? I'm sure I did....yeah sure.