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Saurabh's POV

"Hey, would you speak something since I am the only one speaking" a voice brought me out of my trance.

"Nahh , I don't have any topic to talk. You can continue with your talk." I replied giving her a fake smile and took a sip of my coffee.

"Saurabh, why can't we try- "

"I think we should go back to mansion. We have been away for a long time. Everybody must be waiting for us." I said and stood up keeping the cup on the table.

"But this early, we should spend more time - " before she can speak I again interrupted her.

"Kashish I know your intentions towards me and I don't want to give you false hope." I took a breath and continue " Listen, I am not interested in you. And if you are thinking that if I am not interested then why did I came with you, then let me make it clear to, my mother insisted that's why I took you out. I know I could have denied but today I don't want to make her upset, so I obliged. So take that thing out of your mind that anything can happen between us." I stated.

She kept looking at me with some emotions in her eyes - maybe hurt. But do l care, No ! One day I have to make it clear to her. After saying this I stormed out of the cafe towards my car.

Yeah, we were sitting in a cafe talking or more like she was speaking and l was lost in another world not paying attention to her talks.

I sat inside the car and she followed me. And I drifted my car towards our destination.

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I stepped inside Khurana Mansion followed by Kashish. She straight went to her mother. Her mother asked something to her through her eyes to which she shook her head in no sadly. I know her mother might have asked her about me only.

I walked in and sat on the sofa beside my younger brother Yuhaan Khurana. My mother must have noticed the duos gesture and she looked at me with questioning eyes and I just shrugged my shoulders. She shook her head murmuring something under her breath.

She already know that I will reject her yet she insisted me to take her out. Now that I have crushed her expectations then what can I do. Not my fault.

My family already insist me to get married or to atleast date someone but I always denied it. I don't want to get married now. Not yet. My mother, Madhvika Khurana, and other family members keeps on telling me the proposals I am getting for marriage but I always reject it straight away.

According to them I am getting old and if I kept denying the proposals I will not have happy life. Today also she insisted me to go with Kashish , her best friend's daughter. I really to deny her but reluctantly I agreed because I don't want to make her sad on her birthday.

Yes, today is my mother's birthday and we have kept a small celebration in Khurana Mansion. Only her closed friends and close relatives were invited. She doesn't like throwing big parties instead she prefer to keep small celebration in house only and wants to celebrate her day with her closed ones. According to her its wastage of money and time. Actually she didn't want to keep even small parties but my father, Vaibhav Khurana, always wanted to celebrate her day so she agreed for small celebration only. My mom and dad love each other a lot. They have told us about their marriage many a times . Such a lovely couple they are. One side of me always wanted this kind of love but my other side be like kya faltu ka pyaar vyaar me timepass karo. Isse accha apne career pe focus karo. And as a result I am still single even after building my career because now I have lost my interest in love.

Today's generation love is not love , they just lust over each other or some pretend to love each other because their partners are rich. Once the money is gone their so called love is also gone. Same happened with my friend who was ditched by a girl because she found another person who have more money than him. Because of which whoever proposal I get I think that they are also after my money. After all Khurana's are all rich and powerful.

[ Why to waste my time in love and all this things. Better just focus on your career.]

Kashish is also after me. She had crush on me since highschool. I don't know she loves me or not but I am not interested in her. She was my classmate in highschool because of which my mother thought maybe we can get along. But she don't know that I rarely talked to her about anything else other than studies. I even talked to her because she was my mother's friend's daughter. Not talk actually just few greetings. Other than my friends I rarely talk to anybody else

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After sometime we celebrate mom's birthday and after dinner guest left.

Everyone started to go towards their room When I heard my mother's call which made me Stop on my track.

"Saurabh!"

Not again. I sighed.

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