“Arohi?” I heard Abha calling me as she and Vihaan walked inside the room as if tasting the waters whether it was safe to enter or not.

“I am alright … but what happened to you Vihaan”, he was red – like his whole face was red what had happened heaven knows.

“What did you and Arjun do last night in the room that got his hand fractured?”Abha asked and Vihaan started to laugh again.

“I am sure you two know that what you are thinking doesn’t involve getting your hands fractured.so get your minds out of gutter and tell me what are you two doing here?” I kept the wooden piece at its place and wiped the tears which would have almost fallen down from my eyes if these two would have not come.

“Aauuu” I whimpered as abha hugged me tightly all of a sudden which caused to collide our head. We made sure that our pretty head won’t get big- big red colored bumps and got settled on my bed.

The feeling was weird, we know that we wanted to say something but each one of us was hesitant, I wanted to confide into them and they wanted to ask me questions, questions to which I had answers but I didn’t had any power to answer them.

It was as if I had come to write an exam, I knew the answers to all the questions and for the first time in my life I had forgotten to get the hall ticket, the only thing to let me in.

“are you okay?” Vihaan asked though he tried to sound confident yet somewhere the voice wasn’t that strong… was he scared, scared of what? … is it that he knew answer would be? will he like the answer or not?

 I took a bit of time to answer, letting the time go, getting more comfortable then needed, with abha still hugging me tightly.

“no… yes… I don’t know yaar” leaving a heavy breath I untangled myself from abha’s embrace and crawled up to her and kept my head in her lap… all of a sudden everything felt so empty it was as if I was losing everything or may be had lost most of the things.

“okay why did you locked Arjun in the car?” Vihaan asked again … whereas abha started to massage my tensed scalp. We would always do that to each other when we knew that we need each other’s support- it was our way of saying that yeah I am there for you.

“I was talking with neel about a patient when he came all of a sudden and pulled me inside dr. kush’s cabin.” I somehow knew why he did that, maybe he was scared that he would lose me, but I myself have a doubt - do I even belong with him?

“Arohi you try and understand him as well, you and anika were so important to him, Anika has already left and now you –“

“what you think I don’t know that? I know and you know the worst thing is we are the only two people who could help each other out and see the worst ballgame we know that yet we are helpless to do anything about it.” I sat up straight knowing this conversation is what I have been wanting from quite a time now.

When somethings become quite heavy on you,at that time letting them go is the best thing; because they aren’t meant to keep with you, they have lived with you for quite a time now; and now it was time to let the things go, things which I had kept with me for quite time now.

All I was waiting was for an opportunity.

“don’t you think it’s best to talk them to Arjun- he knows what he sees isn’t the truth but –“

“but as usual he doesn’t have guts to ask me. You know the first time he had abducted me and asked me to be his friend, I was proud to know that he was so confident… but you know he is not at all confident rather he is the most week person in the world. Vihaan till how long will he stay silent?” I tried to read their faces but it seemed they didn’t know what was going on at all, what I was trying to say.

“eight years back he had a chance to come there and talk with all of us, all that we had done was for him; yet he did the only thing that he used to do- he just ran away from there, and now after 8 years he is back ready to court me ... confess to me that he liked me back then and now he loves me, and that too In a drunk state.”

The last statement caught their full attention.

“He confessed it to you finally?” Vihaan asked.

“What do you mean by finally?” Abha and I had this real confused face right now.

“last night he was again and again murmuring the same thing in the bar and it was him only who got us here, dev had given him a bet-“

I laughed humorlessly at what he said. bet , another bet of theirs… the small flash backs of such a thing began to come but it only riled up my anger even more.

“great you know, just great…yet another bet of yours. Thank god he was not able to say it completely. What shall I say right now…you know Vihaan I was happy that may be really he was saying it truly, but no it was a bet? What does he think my life is a bet as well? Actually you know this whole thing has become a mess… my life has become a mess.” was I rating? No it couldn’t be that. I was frustrated, many things were there which none understand a person might be going through, all we do is expect a person to act perfect.

Be a perfect friend, perfect boyfriend, perfect daughter… every damn thing needs to be perfect, none of us realize that no one is same everyone has its own fault, the sun if he shines bright and gives vitamin d he as well has tendency to kill the said person as well.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me?  I was expecting things from Arjun, I needed him right now, I knew he wasn’t the said perfect person… he had his own flaws, yet I was expecting things… but was it right?

Am I being too selfish or am I really right in what I am asking for?

“Arohi , shhh everything will be alright…it’s just a day or two you know that right.” Abha whispered in my ears.

“what will be right Abha? The person whom I loved since my teenage hood is such a coward that every time he has to say something to me he needs a bet, and when finally he was about to say something good after waiting for 8 years , my parents decided to get me married to a friend of mine who needs a favor from me about which I can’t tell to anyone.” I started to cry hysterically the tears which had been welled up for a long time had now started to flow without any hesitance may be they knew that there were people around me to wipe them off.

“you know why I accepted the proposal ? Because I knew that somehow when Arjun will come to know about it he will fight for me , he will confront me and I will get an excuse to tell him everything, maybe then I can force the people to end up the things which are keeping me in this fake relationship. But no that bastard had to get a girlfriend of his and introduce her to me, he had to get drunk and have bet with his friends to confess his love for me-“

“- Vihaan – Abha more than anything else I am scared that if Arjun won’t do anything for us now he might lose me for life time, and no matter what would he do I won’t have that much of strength nor do I have patience in me to wait for him to man up and fight for his love.”

In all I was exhausted, from all the things that were going on around me. I was a emotional mess, yet it didn’t mattered to  me that what Abha and Viahaan would think of me, and I was right that they would stand up with me.

 I felt two pair of hand around me who hugged me tightly and said,

“Arohi, cry… let out all that pain that you have kept in that tiny heart of yours, just remember that we are here to hold you tight, and to not let you fall at all .”

When you cry from the bottom of your heart you feel exhausted, yet calm… there would always be a want to be held by someone not for you to stop from crying, just to let you know who you are, and that you are not alone, to make you feel the right thing that you want to feel, to say the right words that you want to hear and to as well hold you when you would feel that you are turning into pieces, to join back those broken pieces of yours, and somehow Abha and Vihaan became that person for me.

Who says that your lover, husband or that special person can only take that place, it can be anyone, who would love you till no end, love isn’t just between a boyfriend or girlfriend, or between a husband and wife or between a parent and child. It can be with anyone, and the relationship which is made on the four letter word love it doesn’t require any name, it’s hard to explain what we have. It’s hard to explain what we are to each other, and yet again after so many years we were reminded that we shared the same relation where we weren’t just best friends…nor were we brother or sister, nor were we boyfriend or girlfriend… nor the perfect lover or husband and wife…. Our relation was special to such an extent that none could ever in their life name it.

 God knows for how long they held me like that, but somewhere… in middle when my tears hadn’t completely dried up, yet still flowed down and the small sobbing sound still came from me, as I dozed off to an exhausted sleep.

Hello sweet people
Here is a chapter which i believe is quite important... I wanted to show how many times a person feels helpless yet he has to keep on working and fighting not only for himself but as well for the people he loves.

Yet again our family and friends love us and are always there for us it is us who is supposed to just open up to them so that they can help us.

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