Can you mend my broken heart?

"What where are you?", Akira asked all perplexed, unable to understand what was going on.

"Just in front of you?"

Akira heard him and looked at the bearded guy approaching towards her. She got skeptical at first but then saw that the guy was smiling, looking at her. Before she could comprehend what and why? she heard his voice

"It's me", saying that Raymond came close to Akira and winked at her before entering inside the center.

Akira stood there all flabbergasted with her hand still holding on to the phone.

She had no clue what was all that about.

And this look of his was totally different. With the beard and fine lines on his face, he was almost non-recognisable. If he would not have winked or spoken with her on the phone, there was no way in hell she would have recognized that it was him.

Taking a deep breath, she came inside the class, unable to understand why he had to play such a dirty joke with her.

She came inside all pissed and went inside the dance room as instructed by the receptionist.

As she went inside the room, she saw many people waiting there for the class. Couple of them were young college-going teenagers, a couple of girls of the same age as her, a few older women and a couple of men of varying age group.

There were two girls who were almost of the same age bracket as her and were super pretty to look at with awesome physique as well. Seeing them Akira started fuming inside. Instead of getting all excited about the dance class she started fretting over the whole thing.

Jealousy was so not her cup of tea.

First of all, she had been completely wrecked by that 'following incident' and then this. Her day was so not going well and he was nowhere to be seen again.

While other people had started talking and socializing with each other she stayed in a corner of the room, standing all aloof, her hands crossed in front of her chest and the tip of her toe drawing imaginary figures on the wooden floor.

A couple of minutes later, sharp at seven he entered the room.

"Good evening Ladies and gentlemen. I am Maverick, I will be your tango guide and we will together learn how to master the art of Tango. So are you guys ready and excited?"

"Yeah !!!"

"Of course !!!"

The students echoed and chimed together.

Some of the girls started blushing and gossiping in hush tone seeing their handsome and charismatic dance master. For them, it was like winning a lottery. 

He was totally aware of the attention that he was getting but his eyes skimmed the whole room and then got fixated on her and only her. 

All playfully he looked at her all unfazed without even blinking an eyelid and said, 

"So I want you guys to choose a partner for yourself. Come on people pair up with each other."

Saying that he clapped in hands, wanting to expedite the process and looking at her, he gave out a sly smile.

She was already pissed with him with his 'following act' and now seeing him acting all devious and coy, she decided to play with him as well.

So completely ignoring him, she started looking sideways.

Seeing her pouting and venting her anger like that, he couldn't stop smiling and walked towards her to make her, his partner for demo.

But before he could do that, a young man in his prime thirties approached Akira.

"Hi there, I am Tim. Would you like to partner with me?"

Seeing a random man approaching her, Raymond was taken aback. He didn't think this through and before he could even intervene or say anything, he heard her say,

"Yeah sure why not", and saying that she accompanied him and as she passed Raymond, she gave a snarly look at him.

This was so not the way he had planned the evening to work out for him. He was instantly regretting playing with her. He never knew that it was going to come back and bite him in the weirdest possible way.

All pairs had been formed except for one lady in her 40s and it was now evident that Raymond had to pair with her.

Cursing his fate Raymond called up that lady to pair up.

The moment she came close to him, she said,

"I am glad that nobody chose me?"

"Excuse me?"

"I said I am glad that nobody chose me."

"And why is that?"

"Because I got to dance with the most handsome man in the room.", saying that she blushed.

Weird had just gotten weirder for Raymond.

"I am Patricia by the way."

"Nice to meet you Patricia", Raymond said all half-heartedly as his eyes were fixed on his girl and that Tim guy who was talking with her non-stop and had even made her smile.

"Why would she smile with him?", mumbled a jealous heart.