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Articles: Novels | Love You
- Mr. Varaprasada Rao Imandi
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I started spending a lot of time at her place after that. Mostly because I wanted to read all those books, and she would not lend them to me.
'I'm not as stupid as you, ape-man. I am not falling into the same trap I laid for you. Plus, you dog-ear your books. You are not doing that to these masterpieces. So if you want to read them, you read them here. And if you want to mark your place, use a bookmark.'
So that's what I did. She would even make me wash my hands before I touched the books. It was as if they were sacred.
'Need I remind you that it was me that bought you the books in the first place? For my birthday!'
'So? They're mine now.'
'Well, then. I have been meaning to ask you this for a long time. Where exactly is my birthday gift?'
'It was in your tummy at one point of time. It's probably been washed into the sea by now.'
'Huh?'
'Remember the cake I baked you on your birthday?'
'You what? You can't bake cakes!' That was a mistake. She looked hurt. 'You baked me a cake?' She did not say a word. She just shrugged.
I was stunned. 'But you never told me.'
'You didn't ask.' That was typical of her.
'It was fantastic! And you wasted most of the icing on me!'
'The cake was for you, dumbo.'
'How long did it take you to make the whole thing?' It had been a two-layered vanilla-chocolate cake with three flavors of very creamy icing. She had done all that!
'Well, the chocolate cake took an hour and fifteen minutes, and so did the vanilla. Then cutting them up and putting them together took another 15 minutes. Each flavor of icing took 20 minutes for preparation, and then putting it on the cake took another half hour. Cleaning up the mess took an hour.'
She seldom claimed the credit for anything, but once she started bragging, there was no stopping her. However, I was not thinking about that right then.
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