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Articles: Novels | Love You
- Mr. Varaprasada Rao Imandi
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'You spent over five hours on that cake?'
'A little over four hours preparing it, and an hour cleaning up. Yes.'
I was speechless. I did not know how to react. She hated cooking.
'I forgot to mention,' She continued, 'the hours I spent the week before that, practicing. Even the birds wouldn't touch the first three cakes!'
I could not help but ask. 'Why?'
'Because the first one got burnt, the second one was only half cooked, and in the third one, I forgot to add sugar.'
It was just like her, to try to divert the conversation. 'I mean why did you spend so much time on baking me a cake?'
She looked at me like I'd asked her why the sun rises in the east. 'For your birthday, stupid. Of course, I also wanted to beat every gift you've ever got me. Try beating this one.' She was grinning like she’d won the world championship.
As far as I was concerned, she had. I had never spent a week making her anything. I had never even spent an hour making her anything. Getting her a gift normally involved me taking her to the store, letting her choose and use my credit card. Suddenly, I felt cheap. 'Thanks,' was the only thing I could say. 'Thanks a lot.'
'Hey. Are you getting senti on me again?'
I was.
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I was still mulling over my feelings for Preeti the next day at work when my boss asked to speak to me.
I went over to his cabin and he started with the usual greetings, asking how work was going and whether I was comfortable. He then told me that the company wanted to send me to New York for a couple of years. Normally, this would not have made much of a difference to me. I could work anywhere and did not have too much love for visiting places foreign. But right then, the first thought that came to me was that I'd be away from Preeti for two whole years. Twenty-four hours before, I'd have been disappointed to lose her company. But right then, I was devastated. That was when I knew I was in love with her. I had had crushes before. Lots of them. But this was different.
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