Part 27

"Would you like to come in?" I asked him as soon as he parked his car outside my house, it wouldn't be fair not to invite him inside since he was dropping me off.

"Sure." He smiled as he stepped out and locked the car and then followed me inside, I was quite surprised, I wasn't expecting him to actually agree.

"Wow, this place looks just the same." Arnav smiled as he looked around at the house, mom was just seated in the hall so she stood up when she was us walk in.

"You're back." She smiled at me and then looked at Arnav for a while.

"He looks really familiar, who is he?" She asked as she looked at me curiously. Of course she wouldn't remember him, she had met him maybe once or twice, so I wouldn't expect her to remember him.

"He's my boss. We also used to study in the same college, he had come here before, long time back. Maybe you don't remember, anyway he's Arnav." I introduced them.

"Oh, it's nice to meet you." Mom smiled at him as we all walked to the sofa and settled down.

"Would you like a drink? Tea, coffee, soda?" I asked.

"No, I'm good." He smiled, we all looked at each other awkwardly for the next few moments until Piya walked in through the door, as soon as she saw Arnav, I saw a big smile curve up on her face.

"Hey hottie, with time you've just gotten hotter." She smirked at him making him laugh. Wow, I never noticed but he looked really good when he laughed.

Okay why was I noticing so many details about him suddenly, it wasn't like I was meeting him for the first time.

"And you're still the same." Arnav laughed as Piya sat down beside her, seriously wasn't she a bit too much though?

"I'll go get you guys something to eat and drink." Mom smiled as she headed to the kitchen leaving us alone.

"Go to your room, stop irritating him." I looked at Piya strictly.

"Huh, you're just jealous that I'm flirting with him. Where did you find him by the way? I thought you two weren't friends anymore?" Piya asked.

"She works for me." Arnav smirked, idiot!

"I see." Piya said as she looked at me like there had been a murder and I was the prime suspect.

"So Arnav, how about we go on a date?" Seriously? I mean this girl was over the top, she just said whatever.

"He's not single and you're a kid, stop flirting with him, you're making him uncomfortable." I said, okay seriously I should stop speaking, I'm sure if Arnav was uncomfortable he would say it himself.

"Jeez Khushi, if you like him, you should tell him otherwise let others try their luck." Piya said.

"Exactly, tell me, do you like me?" Arnav asked, I just sat there shocked and silent, these two were literally teaming up on me. I dint even know what to say here, what was the point of me saying I liked him, he was already seeing someone.

"Leave her, she would never like someone, she's too stuck in her past to move on." Piya said, Arnav looked at me in surprise but dint say anything, Piya just kept on talking to him while I got lost reminiscing my past.

*****

"What do you want from me? You won't take me with you to hangout with your friends because I am too embarrassing for you and you won't let me hangout with anyone else, what do you want me to do? Stay inside my room the whole freaking time?"

"Yes!"

"That's not going to happen."

"I will make it happen."

*****

"Bindiya!" Arnav shook me lightly bringing me out of the thoughts.

"Where is Piya?" I asked as I looked around.

"She got a call, she went out to receive it. Are you okay? You look scared? Is everything okay? You know you can talk to me." Arnav said.

"Yeah, everything is fine." I tried to fake a smile which dint seem to be too convincing.

"Is it about what Piya said? Is it about your past?" He asked, he looked so genuinely worried for me, and I had kept all these feelings buried inside me for so long, whenever the thoughts would come up, I would brush them off but they were piled up in a corner of my mind, waiting for someone to ask if I was okay so they would come out.

I wouldn't usually be this week, since I got out of that relationship, I had learnt to be really strong, but the way he was looking at me, it made me weak.

"I'm sorry, excuse me." I said as I stood up and rushed to my room before he could see the tears in my eyes, it had been years, why was that part of my life so damn hard to forget?

I sat on my bed and tried really hard not to cry but it was just too much... so I broke down... gladly I was all alone, no one could see me crying, no one needed to know I was weak so they could torture me once again.

"Bindiya." I heard is voice again, oh no Arnav, you shouldn't have come here.

"Hey, sorry, I just needed to freshen up, wait for me downstairs?? I will be there in a moment." I smiled brightly hoping it would hide my tears, I was suddenly becoming so stupid.

Instead of leaving, he walked inside my room, and stood face to face with me. He cupped my face and looked me into the eyes.

"I know we haven't been friends for so long, but we were friends once Khushi, and all I would ever want for you is happiness, and you don't seem happy at all. Please talk to me, tell me what's bothering you, I can still be the Arnav I was in college, I can still be your friend." He said.

"No... it's okay, I am okay."

"Khushi please! Why do you always have to make me beg for something? I am just trying to be your friend here."

"I dint ask you to be my friend Arnav, why are you trying?" okay, this was the pain speaking, usually I wasn't a rude person.

"Because I care for you damn it! Why is it so hard for you to understand that someone can care for you? I just can't... I can't see you like this... it's painful. So all I want to do is make you feel better so you can be happy."

"How can you be so nice to be despite everything that happened between us in the past?"

"Because you rejecting me wasn't supposed to offend me Khushi, I might have left but that was because it was so hard seeing you and knowing that you couldn't love me. It was for myself, I dint leave because I was mad at you for rejecting me. We are all allowed to choose the people we can love and the people we can't love, I made my choice long back, I chose you and even though you dint chose me, I still care."

I sat down on the bed again having nothing to say, things between us were just too complicated.

"Talk to me, please?" He said as he sat down beside me and held my hand into his.

"Remember I told you about my ex-boyfriend? I dint tell you much about him, just that there was one."

"Yeah."

"That relationship was so bad, it had hurt my self-esteem, it had made me question a lot of things in my life, he would torture me, so badly, not physically but emotionally. You know all those emotional blackmails and stuff.

I don't know why he was with me even, he said he loved me, but we don't torture the people we love do we?

He would never take me to meet his friends or hang out with them or anything because he was embarrassed of me, of the way I dressed, he would say I looked like some aunty. So anytime I tried to hangout with anyone else or make new friends, he wouldn't let me do that either.

I don't really know what was going on in his mind but it just kept getting worse and worse with time, he would always shout at me, call me names and what not and then later come back and apologize... it went on for so long, until one day I mastered enough courage to break up with him.

When I did, he showed up at my house and literally broke in when I refused to let him in, I was so scared Arnav, he was so angry, he had never hit me before but that day I was so sure he was going to hit me, and he would have, if mom hadn't called the police on time.

He hasn't shown up after that, I don't know if he's still in jail or anything but since then I've just always been so scared. It took me a while until I could learn hot to be strong, how to not let anything affect me like it had when I was with him.

And then I met you, and Manav and Ansh, I started hanging out with you guys and everything felt so much better, and then when you said you loved me, I got scared and even ran away." I giggled.

He smiled faintly as he looked at me silently waiting for me to continue.

"I was so scared Arnav, I had promised myself if I would ever get into another relationship, it would be with someone mature, someone who's thoughtful and would be with me for who I am, and wouldn't be embarrassed with me, I dint know if you were that person.

For me you were just the immature guy who wasn't serious about life and I wasn't sure if I wanted to take that risk, maybe that was why I never felt anything for you." I sighed, he just looked at me silently for a moment, I wished he could say something, I was dying for him to say something.

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