8 Avoiding embarrassment (Part 2)

Rhea, that's her name. I myself find it strange that I didn't even knew her name until today.

She came to me herself and asked my about my intentions. It was way too straightforward. But, I like it about her. To the point conversations are amazing unlike ambiguous talks where you don't know what it's about and keep guessing.

I apologised and appreciated her efforts for looking for me first and being understanding.

She still wants to be a college couple with me and I still want her to stay by my side. It's common interest but we decided to abide by certain rules.

Starting with, I'm not allowed to kiss her again! Well, that's a given. But to make sure, she penned the rules.

On the weekend, I went to accompany her to her department dinner party. I have one word to describe it, exhausting! The before party briefing was too tiresome that it was hard to have fun with so much information.

I tried figuring out guys around us and she gave me heads up every time I got one right.

There were 11 people whom I needed to be vary of,

Ex - boyfriends, their friends and seniors all inclusive.

I got 5 right! Well, we kind of had our own moment there. Without realizing it, we were having fun in each other's company. Any onlooker might feel jealous with the kind of smiles we were exchanging. To be honest, that's the power of calling names in secrecy.

After the party, ofcourse there was an after. We were two people enjoying ourselves without the care of the world whereas everybody else was jealous on their own.

We forgot to act out our parts but nobody knew what our conversations were like. They were assuming everything on their own and as part of their imagination, we became the lovely couple.

There was jealousy and envy in the eyes of those around us. In the end, one of her senior couldn't hold it in and asked her to have a dance with him! How audacious can one be? I didn't realise that as part of my boyfriend duty, I was supposed to deny him the pleasure. Due to this, Rhea had to dance with him. Everybody kept looking at me and I was simply cheering for her.

Everyone thought that we had such chemistry and trust that I don't even try to get between the things and enjoy her smile in everything that she does.

So much for blind people! Although she was uncomfortable at first but she was quick to hide her disappointment in me with a smile on her face.

Even she was clueless about her jealous mates. To our luck their imagination was so positive that there was no scope for doubt left.

All this when we were not even trying. I just tried my best to make her feel comfortable in my presence. My first impression wasn't good at all and I desperately wanted to make it up to her. Although she is in a situation right now, I don't intend to take advantage of that. I understand her situation and try to be modest about myself.

I need her more than she needs me.

She is smiling. While dancing with her senior, who wants her to complete his group work everytime is making her smile? I'm baffled. Maybe she's a person like that. She doesn't judge by one aspect of a person.

I can't help but look at her the entire time she is dancing. I sense some sort of familiarity. Probably because I'm guilty towards her and we're in same sort of situation.

After her dance, she comes straight to me, 'Can you walk me home?' she asks.

I'm mesmerized. It's more like a scene from a movie and suddenly she's out of the screen and walks into reality. I didn't notice earlier but oh boy! She's beautiful.

We were just two people enjoying ourselves. Well, this was all in my head though. She was upset about so many things that I did wrong. She went on whining about it all till we reached her place.

Even I got a little worried. I thought about the entire evening and realised that I missed the purpose of accompanying her.

Next morning, her department was in chaos. Her ex-boyfriend was going on how she was head over heels for him and now moved on to me. I am going to leave her soon if she keeps dancing with other guys and so on.

I did not know this until she told me. She was naturally furious. But, it was my deduction which calmed her down. If there were gossip about us, it only means that we were successful.

Last night wasn't in vain! Only after that did we actually gathered our thoughts about how the third party must have looked at us.