A month was almost at its end. Tomorrow is Val’s eighteenth birthday. “Do you think she is going to say yes, bro?” Chanu asked Khanu nervously. Khanu exhaled loudly. He wanted to empty his lungs and calm his wildly beating heart. As days passed, her intimacy with them did not change. It did not lessen, nor did it leveled up. It was like she kept them in the friend zone as she was still on her decision time. “I am hoping with all my heart she would,” Khanu answered with a deep sigh. They did everything a guy would do to woo her. Court her. Made their intentions clear about their love for her. They even asked the Don, Val’s dad, for his permission and he was shocked like his daughter when they confessed their love for Val with all honesty and sincerity. In the end, the father left the