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Still day two :) moving a little back in time, their still in the morning of the day.

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Krisanne's P.O.V

"So, the places that will make me understand the basis of Indian mentality and culture is a beach?" I nodded to answer Rey's question.

"I don't really consider it a beach. We mumbaikars know this place as Chowpatty."

He looks at me with slightly wide eyes, his eyes brows slightly creased and his lips set in a straight grim line. "No offense, but isn't the name weird? Besides you should have told me. I would have worn something much more suitable. I'm sure the bikini girls here would enjoy a good sight."

I chuckle before nodding."You're not the first one, a lot of people find the name weird. About the clothes, you'll know why I didn't inform you. And yes. You will come to know the basis of Indian mentality and thinking here. Just look around."

He follows my lead and looks around. We start walking ahead, my slipper clad feet sinking in the sand.

It's a good thing we decided to come in the morning. The sand is cleaner.

Rey then decided to put forth his first observation."One thing that I learnt that people are not fond of the beach, because it's empty despite of the sun God blessing you'll."

"No. People don't come here during the day for a tan. India is a tropical country; we have sun throughout the year and everywhere. So the tanning pretty much happens on its own. We don't need to come to the sea side for that," I say and he frowns at the sun and nods. He wipes his sweaty forehead with his sleeve and notices me watching him. He mouths 'sorry' to me and I chuckle.

"What are you saying sorry for?" I ask and he stares at me for a few seconds before answering.

"What I just did..."

"Well, you don't really need to. I get it. I know what it's like to feel like a fountain that's constantly emitting salty water. You just wiped it off, it's fine," I smile before continuing, "as I was saying, this place gets crowded in the evening and eventually packing to its limits at night."

"Why would people come here at night?" he asks after staring at me, like it's a strangest thing. But before I can answer him, he looks at something behind him and his eyes widen even more.

"And why is she wearing nine yards?"

I chuckle and shake my head. I didn't even have to turn around to know he's referring to the woman who's probably wearing a sari.

"Again Rey, it's not a beach for us. See, this place is more like a carnival place. You see there," I say pointing at the stalls at a distance, "that's a huge food court and at night, people set up a Ferris wheel and that big air thing. People work during the day and come here at night. They sit on the sand because it's nice and cool, children fold up their clothes and dip their legs in the sea and play catch. Then they go there, eat and go back home."

I finish and look at Rey to find him looking at the sari lady with a mischievous smile. I look at the sari lady too to find her running behind a kid. The waves were dying down near her feet, making the lower part of herq sari wet. She is chasing the kid with a scowl on her face, screaming her profanities in Hindi.

"What are you thinking?" I ask and he chuckles.

"This is going to be you in the next ten years right?"

I turn around and gape at him and he just smirks at me. If that remark wasn't enough he throws another one my way.

"And I bet your chasing skills must be worse than her."

My jaw just dropped to the floor and I enclosed my fists, engaging sand in them.

I flung my hand at him, the sand in my hand flying into his hair and eyes.

"Aye no!" he yells and gets up, moving backwards. His fingers are rubbing his eyes.

"This is for thinking this is my future," I say getting up as well. He blinks twice or thrice and raises his eyebrows, trying to adjust his eyes. He shakes his head a little before smirking at me.

"And this, for thinking my chasing skills is bad."

I launch towards him and he runs backwards, all the while smirking at me. This literally lasts for three seconds.

Rey was running backwards so he didn't see this one coming. He stepped on a gross looking puddle of what I guess was some milkshake, a paper wrapper and ketchup mixed with water and sand obviously.

The minute his feet stepped in that his eyes went wide. I felt like puking the minute I saw it and that's why I immediately scream when he's about to look at it.

"Don't! It's gross. Now listen to me, okay?" I say and he closes his eyes, his face morphing into one of disgust.

"Remove your shoes and step out. Don't look down okay? It's gross, you might puke and I don't want that."

I instruct and he nods doing as I told him. "My feet feel wet and gross."

I look down at his feet and see that their dirty. "Do you want your shoes back?"

I don't know where that came from but I just asked him. He just shook his head. I nod before jerking my head to the sea.

"Wash it off in there."

He rushes there and furiously rubs his feet on one another. He finally looks down at his now washed feet. He breathes a sigh of relief but then again his face becomes one of horror.

"If I step on the sand again, my feet will be dirty again. Not happening."

He has a point. Just then my phone starts to ring and I remove it to see its Vihaan.

"I'm a lit-", I'm cut off.

"What the hell Krisanne? You locked me in?!"

"What? You're in the apartment!" I say and see Rey smirking.

So that's why he was smiling when I locked the door.

"Okay chill, I'll call Ayana. I'm sure she's on her way," I say and hang up before he says anything else.

I glare at Rey but decide to let it go for now. I call Ayana and press it between my shoulder and ear, the dialling tone ringing in my ear while I am walking towards Rey.

She answers my phone and bursts Rey's little bubble. I give her a piece of my mind for leaving Amber there. She hangs up and I stuff the phone in my pocket.

I look at Rey's now serious expression. "Don't worry, Vihaan will take good care of Amber."

He simply nods and I smile at him. I push my feet a little behind in my shoes, creating a little space in the front. I told my toes to create a little more empty space.

"Okay, now put your heel or toes on the front of my shoes."

"I'm heavy Krisanne, you're legs will break," he deadpans and I roll my eyes.

"I'm not being a martyr, if that's what you're implying. My shoes are a little loose for me and I folded my toes. So put only your heel or only your toe on that space."

He shrugs and puts his toes onto the empty space. He's already taller to me and now since he's on his toes, I probably have to strain my neck to see him. He loses his balance and I practically hug him to save him.

"You stupid person, you mind holding my arm so you don't land on your ass?" I yell and he holds my upper arm.

I immediately regret it. I'm hugging him and his hands holding my arms are making me feel weird and awkward and conscious. This is the closest I have ever been to a guy and it doesn't help that it happened like this.

"Okay now, move your feet with mine," I instruct him after I regain my sanity and he nods, his chin hitting my head.

Even in the midst of me helping him in a very awkward way, he had to comment. "People are staring."

"Thank god their only staring and they haven't come and separated us or called our parents yet."

We take each step and move slowly. I'm so close to him right now that I can smell the cologne he's wearing. I really don't know how I'm having it in me to do this. I'm so busy in my thoughts, I almost didn't realise that I reached the dry sand part finally.

"Okay, get down."

He moves himself of my feet and I breathe in some air that's not affected by his smell.

"So what now?" he asks and I look at his show less feet.

"Let's get you a pair of shoes first," He nods and he's oddly looking everywhere else but at me.

I turn and walk towards the main road with him following behind me closely. We both were silent and it gave me time to ask myself a question.

Why did I take so much pain just to ensure he comes out with his feet dry?

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A/N - This chapter didn't come out as I wanted it to. I made a lot of changes. Like a lot.

I had written so much about my views on stuff but I realised that it might offend some people and so I just cut it off. Anyway, I hope you guys like it :)

Please excuse my typos I'm really sleepy right now but I wanted to finish this because it's been in my head for a while.

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