Part 21 Scoop of Life-- Sparks

Lawrence & Mayo
Janpath


Raghav: Pull??!!
Turns sideways to look at the man, he removes the ipad earphone from his ear
Rad: TUM? What are you doing here? (seeing him reminds her of the failed trip to Kanpur)
Raghav is a little startled... but composes himself quickly
Rad: Arent you supposed to be in Kanpur? Atleast somebody's work was done, and that too for FREE! Arent you lucky? (walks into the store still talking to him, the clerk behind the glass/eye glass cases looks curiously...
Rad: I am not sure how many trips it will take me, and how many people it will take to convince and get my point across.
L&M employee: Is this your first time Maam?
Rad still talking with Raghav " Ashwini Kumar couldnt care less, 17000 or 21000 people he doesnt care, how and where the clean water source is.
L&M: Maam apka apptt hai kya?
Raghav: Mera hai at 3:30
Rad: Hey hey hey (admonishing him) I had one at 3:30!
Gives him a dirty look, he just shrugs
L& M emp: Radhika Tripathi?
He has walked around to the other side to look at the display on the walls.
Radhika mumbles and fishes her health insurance card out.....
L&M emp: pehle appointment Maam
Raghav is talking with another employee, more like a woman is talking with him, he just listens and nods occasionally.
Raghav walks
Rad'z phone rings, she looks at the text, "Not happening!" she types and shoves the phone back in her bag...
She is led into the back area with the exam cubes.
He is sauntering up and down, as she sets her bag and scarf, on the table by her side, she looks at him involuntarily. Tho he is listening to the optometrist his eyes meet hers also
Rad's Optometrist: Was it teh right or left?
Radz: ----Umm---Right, sorry! (distracted)
They both are being examined both sides of the back of the store.
She talks non stop, he doesnt say a word
Optometrist: NGO? Huh! You dont appreciate all that you have until you encounter some one that doesnt.... clean water? I bet its very fulfilling
Radz:The people believe I did it all on my own, with no help, its funny yet gratifying..... it takes millions of rupees and 100s of us working directly and remotely....
She is told she has an infection of some sort.... she chatters about how she feared she was going to lose her sight.
The Optometrist is very amused, he is in his 30s quite attractive
They both walk towards the front of the store,
He waits for her to go first to fill out her card, she smiles a lil continuing to chatter with the clerk
Her phone keeps beeping, she is unmindful
Clerk: You must be very popular
Radz: I try to be, waise school mein to nahi thi par uske baad, during college I think.... mujhe ab yaad nahi kitna time ho gaya
The clerk rolls her eyes... "Are you 50?"
Radz: Nahi to! (laughs) Oh! aap mazaak kar rahi hain
He is listening to it all
The clerk acts like she knows Raghav
Radz: Waise hum dono ek doosre ka peechha kar rahe hain kuch dino se. Pata nahi ab agli baar kahan milenge.
Clerk: Really?
Radz: Haan, hotel, Kanpur, CP,  I will just go where ever he does.... (laughs)
He still doesnt say a word.... just watches her laugh... something stirs inside him at the sight of her neck....
She notices him looking, "Arey mera scarf" looks everywhere, runs back to her chair to get it, turns around walks to his exam chair and finds his ear buds.........

Walks back without looking at him, beginning to get aware of his gaze now.......
"Yeh tumhara!" hands it to him, he nods a "thanks"
"Phir hum dono kal in cheezon ko lene aayenge to phir milenge" she declares pompously
"As if that would be a terrible thing?" he wonders
."Waise CP mera fave hai, par who wants to be in a boring eye place" giggles looking at the clerk
"1910 at Imperial then?" he asks her in his mind(biting his lower lip to hide his amusement)
Ritwik charges in like a Colonel......
Ritwik: Brat! (he hisses in Radz's vicinity))
Raghav can hear it "True!" he concurs in his mind...
Radz: Thanks! (unaffected)

Raghav wonders "The boyfriend?" (his mental offer of a beer at 1910 losing its froth quite abruptly)
The boy and girl almost claw each other's eyes out as the clerk attends a phone call
Radz: Ma ko text kar chuki hoon main (smug) (smiles)
Ritwik is about to strangle her....
Radz: is the sentence lower if the person you kill happens to be a sibling? Ouch! Ouch! (Out loud) 
(trying to yank her twisted arm out of Ritwik's steel grip)
Raghav: (perking up) you wish!! (softly)(enjoying the view of her cleft afforded by her arm bent behind her back)