Beauty & The Nerd

She sat in my car silently staring at her phone and typing texts to someone, I wanted to talk to her but I had nothing to say, I opened my mouth several times to speak but I would just decide to shut up thinking I might say something wrong.

"Oh No!" She pouted as she looked at the traffic ahead of us, God knows why there was such huge traffic but if it dint move faster, we were going to take forever to reach home.

"It will move in a while don't worry." I assured her, she just nodded and went back to her phone, I mean if I wasn't saying anything, she could say something at least but it looked like her phone was more important.

"Can I ask you a question?" She asked as she finally looked away from her phone and at me.

"Sure." I nodded.

"Today in the morning, why were you looking at me and the poor guy like you wanted to kill him? Do you have some issues with him? Or were you just judging me for making out with a guy?" She looked at me seriously.

"You're funny." I laughed at her, I couldn't believe she was asking me this question.

"That wasn't the answer to my question Arnav." She said firmly, I looked at her wondering why she was suddenly behaving this way, it wasn't the first time I had seen her with some guy.

"I don't know the guy neither do I have a problem with him nor was I judging you, it's your life, do whatever you wish to, who am I to judge the life you live." I said, she looked at me silently for a moment and then looked ahead.

"So all this times you said you've seen me with guys, hasn't it ever crossed your mind that maybe I'm a cheap girl or something like that, like the rest of the people think?" She asked, this time she wasn't looking at me.

I dint the way she addressed herself as some cheap girl, I dint like it, no one had the right to give her a name tag just because of things she did, like I told her before it was her life she could do whatever she wanted, no one had the right to call her anything.

"I can't think that low about you Khushi, or about anyone else as a matter of fact, be it a guy or a girl, everyone deserved to live the way they want to, as long as they aren't harming anyone else, I'm not one to judge the life they live." I said. She turned to look at me once again, this time she was smiling.

"Have you ever had a girlfriend?" She asked.

"No." I laughed, how could I have any girlfriend when I've always liked her, since I knew the meaning of that, I've always wanted it to be her and no one else even when I knew it wasn't possible.

"So for example, if tomorrow you have to marry me, would you agree?"

"What?" I looked at her in surprise, why was she asking me such strange questions today?

"I am not telling you to marry me Arnav, relax, it's just a question answer it." She rolled her eyes.

"Why would a girl like you want to marry a guy like me?" I laughed.

"What do you mean a guy like you? You mean a nerd? Don't worry there are lots of girls out there who like being with nerds." She giggled.

"What about you?" I looked at curiously, was she interested in being with a nerd?

"Nope, nerds are not my type, I'm the bad boys kind of a girl." She laughed, I looked ahead feeling a bit hurt, I don't know why even though I knew it that there could never be anything between Khushi and I, I couldn't stop hoping and then every time my hope was shattered.

"You dint answer my question Arnav, if in the future you have to marry a girl like me, the popular one, the one you've seen with different boyfriends every now and then, would you?" She asked.