Things were extremely different from what I had anticipated.

The day Nikhil had accompanied me to the hospital, thirty six hours ago,claiming he had some work ,but actually turned out he wanted to give me company as he stayed with me for the majority of time I'd 'hosted' Niranjan uncle and Akhil, quietly monitoring as I let radiologists do their work.

My heart felt oddly hopeful when he had even dropped me back at the hostel, giving me only an extremely heated look that had me blushing when I asked him why he had accompanied me.

I had thought things had magically fallen into place.

I expected us to be...