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Attached Song - Please don't be in love with someone else.
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[ Neha Mehra ]

"You know what, when you confessed that you wanted me after all these years as happy I was, it still pained because I was just a desire for you not, someone you loved. That night you shouted at me for cheating on you with Priya, misinterpreting the whole situation, but do you realise how much it would have hurt me everytime you would keep admiring Viraj Bhai and fight with Kiara Bhabhi for him. Did you ever confront me after saw me with Saanvi or Priya?"

"No. But you weaved a story yourself, believed it blindly without any evidence or my reply and blamed me. Do you know why? Because we fight for someone we love and you never loved me. That is why, you never fought for me instead fought with me. No one ever fought for me and sadly, you are no exception." His glossy eyes met mine as he smiled plaintively.

"What have you ever done for me, expect using me as a ladder to get your Prince Charming and buy benefits for your dad's company. I just wanted you to fight for me, but what did you say that day. That you regret the day you met me. Really? Was that too much to ask for? Why does it always have to be me to make a move? Why can't you for once treat me with respect? For you, I feel like I've lost myself somewhere searching for your love." He sighed, frustrated. His face drowned more into the pillow's softness.

"I love you, Raaz." I confessed. He was still for a moment before he looked into my eyes, not believing me. But, his expressions turned grave soon.

"I fuckin' don't want your sympathetic confession anymore after we are over for good." He snorted, facing the other side.

"Papa was always right about us. We were never meant to be together, Neha. How did I not believe him? How did I not realise it when everytime Priya used to tell me 'love gives us peace not insecuries'? How much of an idiot I was to never notice how messed up my life was! I rightly deserved all of it." He rambled as minutes passed. He was still awake.

I called out to him as he stood up from the bed and removed his shirt. I silently walked to him to support him as his legs wobbled. I held his bicep as he discarded the shirt on the floor.

His feet slipped on his own shirt and he fell on the floor as I too fell on him, subsequently. I gently raised myself and helped him too. He hicupped. Grabbing the water bottle from the side table, I blocked his nose with my fingers and I poured gulps of water on his mouth as my eyes took in his appearance.

His eyes were red. His hair sticking to his sweaty forehead, his hair unkempt of his frequent finger brushing.

He was shuffling in his place. I noticed, his pants were getting too tight. I bent down to unbutton his pants hesitantly but, he yelped.

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"Don't touch." He screeched as I searched for the zip. Hence, I instantly left it and forwarded him a towel.

I turned around to go but, before I could, I felt his hesitant steps towards me. Soon, his hot breaths were fanning my back. I felt his finger untangling the strings of my blouse making my breath hitch. But in an instant, he stopped.

His face bowed to rest on the crook of my neck as his palm unannounced squeezed my bosom from behind.

My arms grabbed him for support as he continued biting on my neck while his palm kept squeezing me.

Hissing at his harsh bites, I turned and rounded my arms around his neck and pulled him into a warm kiss.   His lips mashed against mine, as if trying to flatten and destroy me. He sat on the bed, making me sit on his lap but, I hungrily pushed him back, still kissing him. My mouth open, tongue pushing past his clenched teeth to the moist space within. The tip of his beard scratched against my soft cheeks as I gripped his head firmly, as if to keep him from escaping. I synced my lips against his, our tongues battling back and forth as if wrestling, each trying to pin the other. His lips nuzzled and he rubbed his nose on my wrist making me feel tingles as his fingers drew circles on the sole of my feet. Soon I could feel him contemplating as his grip on me loosened.

I waited patiently as he hugged me from behind, still laying on the bed.

"I am leaving on 23rd", He aforementioned belatedly, pulling the sleeve of my blouse down, placing his chin on my bare shoulder,his beard giving me tingles.

"I won't come back again, Neha. This time, I am going away from you forever and once I leave this time, it's ending, Neha. We are ending. It's the end of us. End of my dreams, all those dreams I saw for us." His breath hitched as he spoke every syllable with appropriate pauses to let it sink in me.

"You killed me mercilessly." My heart thundered, shredding into pieces at his words.

I tilted my head towards his lenient visage, my eyes solemn as he held my waist before aligning himself and ramming into me, binding us irrevocably close as something was marring.

There was no more cantankerous but the thing that remained imperceptive of this scintillating seconds was the more he brazenly drenched into me, the more he felt slipping off me like the grain of sands. Our threading was weakening us, instead of being a mending bridge.

His spicy breath, reeking of alcohol bathed in my minty breath as I felt his hand tracing my curves and he was purposely slow. His eagerness was stealing my radiating strength, tangled together, fighting for breath and longing for an awaited release. His eyes bore into me as I shuddered at the warmness sipping through me, as a grotesque electric shock thrived in me, throbbing me in pain.

I was in a stupor as his eyes took me in imperatively, a surreptitiously lazy smile plummeting on his visage, his eyes smothered with a novice glow. His eyelashes swayed as he passed out, his face cornered to my shoulder.

His eyes were sealed, his breathing was dormant. Peace warped him as he cuddled me under the confines of the duvet, covering us completely, compressing us in each other's company.

[ Surfraaz Mehta ]

A dull ache lingered in my head. To overcome it, I hid more into the duvet. Additionally a bizarre sensation hit me as I felt ticklish. My limbs seems to have rusted as I couldn't move them. It was assiduous not being able to free up.

I peeked through the duvet as I saw my room. It looked quite clean, than what I left it yesterday morning. I was drinking in a pub and Kshiraj joined me. I vaguely tried to reminisce last night.

I recalled telling her about Debjani and Dada. But, everything afterwards seemed hazy. I sat up, resting my back on the headrest of the bed. I felt my body chilling strangely. As my eyes travelled down, I saw no clothes on my body.

Rubbing my nape, I wondered if someone stole my clothes.

At that moment, I realised the presence of another person in my room by my side, on the bed. I was conflicted at what transpired between us. I gently patted her cheek to awake her as she held the blanket firmly in her hand. I shook her as she moaned.

I fretted over the circumstances for which we ended up in the same bed. She pouted in sleep as I shook her again. She palmed her face and slept stubbornly.

"Neha" I called out desperately. This time, she budged and bothered to look at me. The duvet slipped off her body as her right perky nipple came to my sight. I quickly averted my eyes as she stared at me waiting for me to tell anything.

"Uh-about last night." I tried to form words.

"I am sorry if I forced you. But- you should've stopped me." I said with a sigh, turning to look at her. By that time, she had rounded the length of her saree all over herself.

Her face was smothered with dolor as she nodded, exhaling disappointedly. She didn't say anything just looked at me once.

"You don't remember anything?" She asked and I shook my head negetivity.

Her fist had crumpled her saree in her hold as she stared at the ground as if awaiting me to say something.

"You don't need stay here for the next 2 days. I won't have dinner at home today." I informed while she nodded meekly.

"Tomorrow there's Priya's Mehendi ceremony and you are going with me. You know, right?" She nodded again, giving me a glance.

"About tonight, I am having my dinner with Bhavna. I may get late." I told her. For some odd reason, her fist tightened as she stared at the ground, quite off.

I picked up my towel from the side of the bed as I padded towards the washroom. She was still standing there.

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"Are you sure?" Bhavna inquired, checking the e-mails as we both sat in the cafeteria on our break time.

We were just trying to finish up all the pre-requirements before the form filling procedures, for which we were meeting tonight in the name of 'dinner' at her best friend's place.

We were needed to download and print a photocopy of our selection to be the representatives of Indian Medical Association for the International conference of International Medical graduates, hosted by AMC.

My laptop was not giving me access to download it so, I was sitting with her in the cafeteria to get my work done from this crazy bubble gum.

"I am working so hard in my break time for you. What do you I get in return?" Her dramatic complains initiated and then, took a fury of speed.

"What about you take me to shopping in Australia?" She rubbed her palms excitedly.

"FYI, I hate shopping." I mumbled.

"Then, I need a good shoulder massage now and a big cup of hot chocolate too." She mused fervently. That was something, I could afford to do. I ordered a big cup of hot chocolate as per her wish.

"Should I start the massage, boss?" I questioned, as we were sitting on the farthest corner, away from the preying eyes of the prying men and women. I didn't want us to be the next hottest topic of discussion between the staffs.

I gently tabbed my fingers on her shoulder once as she giggled. I tabbed near her neck, I could feel goosebumps all over her skin as she continued typing, trying to sit straight.

"You are so ticklish." I laughed as she squirmed in her seat.

"It's not everyday I get a massage from the hottest male specimen of this hospital." She winked at me.

"Really?" I raised my brow, boasting.

"Cent percent true. I don't lie." She affirmed as I put a little more pressure in the massage, her head rested on the horizontal bars of the chair. She kept staring at me. I pinched her nose to tease her, like I always did during her teenage.

"Can you make me drink the hot chocolate while I am typing?" She requested.

"Please, it will get cold." She murmured, so I held the C-handle of the cup and placed it near her lips, for her to take a sip. She gulped half of it in a go as upper lip had a chocolate moustache. I guffawed in laughter, seeing her but soon, I wiped it her lips with a tissue. "Boss, you are so good", she mumbled.

"Thank you boss." I smiled at her as she downloaded my invitation and selection sheet.

"You know, I fell down today." She chimed sadly as she showed me her scratched elbow.

"How?" I inquired, checking her scratches. Even though they were minor.

"I was in the urology department. I just asked the patient to let me check him. But, he pushed me before I could go closer. His wife even badmouthed me and glared at me. She was so ugly, her teeth were broken and red, still she was chewing beetle leaves." She described.

"In this case, ask and tell him politely that you are a doctor and if you can check him. If he seems like a private person, take help of your male colleagues. In any issue, come to me. Okay." I advised her as I had seen it happening to most female doctors of my batch and even, juniors.

"Now that, my elbow is scratched. Won't you help me to make a loose bun?" Her words trailed dramatically.

"Now I know, I took help from a cunning cat." I commented in fake distaste.

I made a loose bun with her hair as we laughed with her jokes and our childhood days. It was only few minutes for the break to end, so I rushed to pick my laptop, wished her bye and was about to exit the cafeteria when I got a glimpse of Neha sitting on a secluded part of the cafeteria alone, rotating her cup of caramel coffee.

Her eyes met mine, as she hesitantly smiled at me. It didn't even reach her eyes. Fumbling with her handbag strap for a minute, she walked away. She acted too strange.

That night I directly went to Bhavna's house for dinner as Rakesh sir and her best friend Sudhir joined us.

We ate the dinner and discussed our plans till 2 am as aunty literally crashed on our meeting to drag her daughter and husband back to sleep and asked us to stay over there for the night. I refused but Sudhir agreed at her constant trials.

"Surfraaz, I believe in you. That is the only reason, I am trusting you with my daughter. She is sensitive, please handle her with care." Rakesh sir beseeched as he came with me to see me off till the main door.

"Don't worry, sir. She is my responsibility and she will be my first priority too." I genuinely assured him.

I rode back home. There was not even a sign of human existence on the road. I parked the car and unlocked the door. I saw her sleeping on the recliner of the living room, hugging her books.

I shook her to wake her up as she was sleeping uncomfortably. She sat with a jolt. Rubbing her eyes, she glanced at me.

"You are home", her sleepy voice sounded.

"Sleep in your room." I told her. She looked at me conflicted.

"Can I sleep in your room?" She croaked as she matched my pace while ascending the stairs.

"No."

"Only for today?" I contemplated her request, noticing her genuine plea.

"Only today." I deadpanned.

I unlocked the door and went to the washroom to change into my nightwear as she slept on the bed. I laid on the bed beside her. She came forward to cuddle me but separating her from me, I created a pillow wall.

She was peeking through the gaps of the pillow as I closed my eyes. I could feel her stares. She slept too, not before holding my hand in hers in a firm grip.

For some odd reasons, she was acting strange.

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