Like a Love Song by Nikita Singh

Author:Nikita Singh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: null
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

‘Is everything okay?’ Laila asked, setting her bag down on Sarthak’s bed, next to Maahi’s limp body. Laila sat down beside her and shook her. ‘Maahi! What’s going on with you?’

Maahi hadn’t moved or said anything in a while. She just lay there quietly, and every time Sarthak asked her a question, she repeated ‘I’m fucked’ under her breath. Sarthak had tried to ignore her in the beginning, but got annoyed and concerned after the first hour or so. That’s when he called Laila for help.

‘I’m fucked,’ Maahi said, opening her eyes.

‘What? How? What happened?’ Laila’s perfect eyebrows burrowed together to form a small hill in the centre.

‘I’m fucked, I’m fucked, I’m fucked.’

‘Dude. Stop being weird,’ Laila said.

‘Seriously. You’re scaring me now,’ Sarthak added.

‘I’m fuc—’

‘Say it one more time and I swear to God I’m going to slap you across your stupid face,’ Laila said. Maahi shut up. ‘Now, be a normal person and tell me what’s up. Did Sid do something?’

‘Who’s Sid?’ Sarthak asked.

‘Shh! He doesn’t know,’ Maahi said, sitting up.

‘Well, if you don’t speak I’m going to keep asking questions. So just tell us what’s up,’ Laila said.

Maahi took a long breath and released it, slumping down, her head bent in dejection. ‘I don’t know where to start, what to do, or if this is even possible or will forever stay a dream. But I feel like if I don’t do it now, if we don’t do this now, we’ll never do it. So I’m going to ask you, and you don’t have to feel any kind of pressure, because I’m planning to do what I love, what I want and I want you to do what you want too. Although, what you say more or less decides whether I get to do what I love and want or not. So, respond in one word, make it quick and painless.’ Both Laila and Sarthak were looking at her with bored, annoyed but somewhat curious expressions. Maahi held Laila’s eyes and asked, ‘Will you open a bakery with me?’

‘YAAS!’ Laila jumped to her feet. ‘Oh my God, yes! Of course. I’ve been thinking about this since forever, but you had your college and you’re basically a kid—

‘Hey, I’m twenty-one. Almost twenty-two!’

‘—and I didn’t know if you were serious about baking as a career. But God, yes. Let’s do it. I get to quit my job, we get to quit Cozy Coffee and bake in an actual bakery, with an actual cookie of the day and cupcake of the day, we’ll have our own space, our own rules, there won’t be anyone holding us back and we can experiment and do what we want. We’ll have a cool logo and a cool name and T-shirts and caps and business cards. Oh, I thought you’d never ask!’ When Laila’s outburst of excitement simmered down, she sat on the bed and squeezed Maahi tight. ‘You’ll officially be my work wife.’

Maahi felt exhilarated and relieved and terrified. She hugged Laila back, thinking back to the first time she had met her, when Laila had tried to sell her the cookie of the day.

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