"So? Who was she?"
And as expected from Mr. Varun Kashyap, he ignored him.
Rahul started guessing, "Is she is one of your new admirers, Varun? Or have you two become friends?"
Varun knows, if he wants to have a silent drive, then he must first satisfy the inquisitiveness of this cat, "No. She was only doing her job and nothing else."
"Duty? What duty? Did the principal assigned her to take care of you?"
"No, she was only checking if every student was enjoying the party."
"But you aren't a student!"
"She doesn't know this."
"Oh! Okay! Now I got it! You hid your identity from her. But why was she talking to you here outside?"
"Don't overthink. She was checking that I am doing fine because I helped her yesterday."
"Yesterday? You guys already know each other?" Rahul exclaimed! and then he made a hurt face and said, " My dear brother, tell me since when are you both meeting secretly?
Am I that foreign to you that you didn't even share such a piece of good news with me?" Rahul faked a sob.
Varun knew if he keeps on his pace of replying with few words, it will take a year to satisfy his bothersome brother's curiosity.
So he sighed and started telling him everything about Miss Hooligan.
"Thus, I was especially unlucky to meet Miss Hooligan FOUR times in just two days."
"Haha, only Mahakal knows whether it was bad luck or good luck. Let's go!"
Next Morning
Varun got up in the morning by the sunlight, who dared to enter into his territory without his permission. He glared at the curtains that were left open.
He had a large room in which there was a big closet, a dressing room, a study, his king-sized bed along luxurious furniture.
There was a balcony too in his room, which he never uses. There are a few things in his room that he uses every day and things that he never used. The balcony corner of his room was one of those things.
The curtains of the full-length window in front of his balcony were left open by mistake by Kamla Aunty when she was cleaning his room yesterday. He got up to close the curtains.
Just as he was about to move his hands, he saw something and froze.
The Kashyaps used to live in a very luxurious villa in a posh area of the city. A few months ago, Varun had to go on a visit outside the country. Rajeev, his elder brother, who is an engineer and has his own company, was going to Delhi for few months too. So Varun let Maa* go with his brother to Delhi, and he left the country with Rahul.
He used these few months to renovate their villa. But it took more time than his expectations. So Varun's mom, Mrs. Divya Kashyap, decided that they should reside in their old house for the time being.
It was their old house, where his parents used to live when they had started their hospital and they were not so rich. It can't be said old at all technically as Varun renovated it a long time ago, and now it looks like a luxurious hotel but still, it isn't 1/10th of their villa.
So except for this Kashyap House, all other houses in the colony are of middle-class families.
When Varun saw the female figure on the opposite balcony, he almost thought of pinching himself to wake himself up from this dream. How can Miss Hooligan be here too? Did she follow him?
After thinking for a long time, Varun finally remembered that she told him she lives in Vaishali Nagar. At that time, he ignored her words but never in his wildest dreams he expected that she was living in JUST FRONT OF HIS HOUSE.
He hoped that it was just a coincidence and it's her friend's house and not her. 'She will leave soon, right?' he asked himself.
Then he saw her smiling towards the sky.
She brought something with her which looks like a broom.
Now she crooked her neck in 90 degrees left then 90 degrees right. Finally, when she believed there was no one, then only she started removing her long skirt.
'What the hell!? What does she think she is doing by dressing on the balcony.'
Varun murmured while closing his eyes. After 10 sec just for the sake of checking, what stage of madness has this patient, Miss Hooligan, had reached, he opened his eyes.
He saw her wearing summer shorts and sweeping the floor while dancing and singing along with it. 'Who the hell changes in the balcony? Can't she use her room? What will the spectator think!' he was really angry at her deed.
After watching this, he was sure it's his and only his bad luck that he is the neighbor of this 'Dance Monkey.'
Somya, who was receiving curses from the opposite balcony, unknowingly sneezed...'achu! ...Who is missing me so early in the morning?' She thought and beamed towards the sky with her 50 Watt smile.
Then as per her morning routine, she started the radio and started dancing and singing along with sweeping the balcony. She removed her skirt for only comfort purposes and nothing like what someone's dirty mind was thinking.
When Varun saw her like this, he thought, 'Alas! What a troublemaker, always jumping and chirping like an excited sparrow. Can she even sit still for a whole minute?' He saw her for some more time. It woke him up completely.
Finally, after 15 min, the legendary dancer and singer, Somya, was done with torturing the broom, so she let it off and decided to go for breakfast making.
Now it's been a week already when Varun had met Somya. From that day onwards, Varun started looking to the opposite balcony before going and after coming from his office, subconsciously.
He saw her patting, talking, rubbing, playing, dancing, and even singing with her dog at night. He saw her doing various household chores the same way, that is dancing, and singing along. He wasn't wrong when he thought she looks similar to a rabbit.
Sometimes he even laughs at her face making and her treating her dog as a flexible mannequin. He subconsciously started keeping the curtains of the balcony open.
The road between their balcony was narrow, as it is the backside of Varun's House. So that makes their balconies extremely closed, just a few meters apart.
One day, at GVAN Hospital.
Varun has a habit of sometimes taking a walk in the evening. At the back of his hospital, it's an empty alley with only a few vehicles passing by.
Varun had it cleaned and planted many trees on both corners of the alley a few years back to calm his nerves by walking here.
Today too, he was walking here for relaxing a bit after having hattrick work for two days when he heard a familiar and yet non-familiar voice at the same time.
"Hey, Gorgeous! What are you doing here?"
~One day, I caught myself smiling
without any reason
Then I realized
I was thinking of you~