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Articles: Novels | Love You
- Mr. Varaprasada Rao Imandi
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'Thanks.'
'Hey, don't get senti on me now!' she smiled. 'Are you trying to worm out of that gift you promised me?'
'You know, it's interesting how I'm getting you a gift on my birthday.'
'That's just because you're stupid,' she grinned. 'And you better get me that book, or I won't return your copy.'
'Hey, that copy was a gift to me from my dear friend Preeti Mehra. I can't let you keep that.'
She was not falling for that. 'Your dear friend? And what about me? Am I not dear to you?'
'Very smart. That will not work with me. I am not one of your Love Crazy suitors. Why do you need the book anyway? You've read it umpteen times already.'
'That is beside the point. You are getting me the book. We both know that.' She smiled that wide confident smile of hers. 'Good night.' And she got out of the car.
I sat there for some time, just thinking. Our conversations were always like this, a little joking, a little teasing and a lot of demanding. But somehow, I felt that something had changed since the moment she had turned up at my door that night. I was still in my reverie when a paper ball landed on the windshield. I craned my neck out of the window and looked up. She was standing in her balcony.
'What are you still doing there?' she whispered loudly.
'Waiting for you to start a paper-ball fight,' I whispered back.
'We can do that tomorrow. Go home now. It's way past your bedtime!'
'Ok, mommy,' I grinned back. 'I'm going home now!'
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I am an extravagant gift-giver, and it is definitely going to be my downfall some day. I made her wait for it, but finally bought her the book. That, and half-a-dozen other omnibus collections of various authors, including a copy each of `The Complete Works of Shakespeare' and `The Complete Short Stories of Charles Dickens'. All I got for it was an 'I told you so.'
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