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Here is the next chapter of True Love,
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I don't know, if I have mentioned it or not, this story is happened back in 2002 year!

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Now, Enjoy reading!

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While returning from the school, I was shocked would be an understatement.

Cause, there, that freaking hot guy was blocking our way near our homes.

Oh god, I am about to panic.

Cause if someone sees us like this, he blocking our way, then we are gone for a toss!

A big toss!

"Hey Nikitha" he rolled my name in such a way, that I could give my time to him for listening to it again and again.

Gosh, what am I thinking?

"H..hi" I stuttered, while Priya was gawking at me, the way I stumbled with the words.

"I am Shahzad Ali Hussain" he introduced himself stretching his hand for a hand shake.

I gulped down quickly the lump which was forming in my throat.

I took his palm and shook my hands with him.

God, it felt nice.

His palms are very soft, just like a feather which is unlike mine. I mentally huffed.

"You are beautifully gorgeous." He said, with a genuine smile lingering in his face.

Heat rised to my cheeks turning it to crimson red, just like a riped tomato.

"Thank you" I said, looking down just to hide my blush.

I just blushed hearing his compliment. What's wrong with me? This is not me!

Priya who was standing near by just giggled, and it made me stomp my foot over hers making her shut up.

"And" he started again to which I looked at him curiously. He rubbed his nape looking all cute, but decided not to think about it. I perked, my eyebrows up, so letting him know to continue. "I love you."

A gasp escaped from me and my friend's mouth just like that hearing his bold confession.

Since I didn't say anything, he continued. "I have fallen for you at the very first sight when I saw you that day, infront of the Auto rickshaw I was travelling. I know, you want to say something. But, please listen to me first. I am just confessing my feelings, whatt I feel for you and it's not necessary, to reciprocate just like that. Take your time and please let me know once when you feel the same for me. I shall wait. No issue. And as days passed by, I have fallen deep for your carefree, funny, loving, caring  and positive attitude."

My mouth hung opened, which is now wide as crocodile's! After listening to his long speech. He has noticed me and that too he is correct. I am exactly what he described.

Oh Good gracious! No one has ever told about my personality and now HE, liked my personality.

I still can't believe.

But, I instantly came to my sense and gaped at him.

My friend, Priya pinched me on my elbows to bring me back from the trance.

I narrowed my eyes at her and asked her to shut up and thank God, she understood.

I, then, later started to contemplate thinking the ways, telling him how to stop all this.

Yes, there I got an idea!

I don't want to lose three people who are my life for a single person just for my or his happiness. Because, it won't be worth it, so I am Letting it go since my parents won't even approve this relationship, even if I fall in love with this incredibly mouthwatering species of human one day.

Are you sure? You don't have any kind of attraction towards him?

I do have! A tiny crush maybe!.

But, as time flies, it would just go away like a part of life and will be in the list of memories back in part of my mind. 

Yes, this is right and correct for my life.

With a hope, that he would understand me, I opened my mouth to utter those words which would have hurted him more just like it hurted me.

"Please let me go, otherwise it will be difficult for both of us. I don't have anything against you." I said, looking straight into his oh-so-beautiful eyes without flinching or stuttering. I paused to see his reaction. Yes, there it said. Cause, his smile is no more on his face.

It's long gone.

I guess, he knows, what I am going to say!

Wow, where did I get this much strength and will power?

Oh God, you are going to break his heart!

Shut up!

I continued anyhow, cause it's now or never.

"So, let's be practical here. I don't like you in that way, the way you are thinking and it won't be even happening, not even now or in future. There is no US. So, just forget it and go away from me. Please It's a request..... and I hope you will take my decision in a positive way and I can take you only as my brother. Nothing more or nothing less. Please, stay out of me."

There I said it, gulping the word at last.

Brother, seriously?

God, how can I call him a brother when I like him in the first place.

But, that's for our betterment. Else it will not end well.

If I lead him on now, I may fall in love and we will be loving and enjoying it together, whereas my parents won't approve of it. They will disown me and I don't want to lose their happiness and trust they have on me.

I can't be selfish, I can't ignore how they value me and how and what they do and did for me untill now in my life. I can't disrespect them just like that.

I know many people would think this is a bad idea. But you see, i am living in 2002 when these kind of things would lead highly into violence in family where they respect their religion the most. It's better I stop him here itself, before his heart gets more hurt.

Heck, I don't even want to have a intercaste marriage in the first place.

Nah I have no plans for such things.

I don't like to convert into Muslim when I am a strong believer of our God, Lord Vishnu. Thinking about it, converting myself to a Muslim is causing me goosebumps throughout my body.

I respect every religion. But since I am a born as Hindu Brahmin, I can't let it go for the sake of love. I want to attain mental peace and doing these it won't lead me to anywhere.

So, yeah! I am no way going to get his hopes high. I should do something which would stop him from being pursuing or seeing me.

So, this is the best. 

His jaw dropped on the floor, when he heard me in the way I called him. Even Priya had the same reaction.

I am thinking whose bestfriend is she? His or mine?...

He is being watching me since he came here, that is since a month. I knew it. But he is not for me. And I should let him go from my way. So this was the only thing I thought off to shoo him away, before making it difficult for both of us.

I glanced one last time at him and dragged Priya along with me towards our respective homes.

He just stood there lowering his head as if ground is very interesting at that time. I know I hurt him now. But it's all for good. I can't give him wrong hopes which will not have any happy ending.

Today, he might be broken, but there will be a day where his heart would mend with someone as special as him who will help him in sticking broken pieces of his heart altogether throughout his life.

Since that day, he never came in my way neither gaped at me nor showed any interest in me. He is just being around like nothing happened at all. I liked it the way it is now.

Priya also understood my mentality so she didn't raise his topic even once infront of me or she had asked me about why I did that, and for that I love her so much. She supported me in this. I thank her wholeheartedly else it will be very difficult to be with her.

We continued our life journey as normal as we could just like the days before he came into our colony.

I let him go because of my love I had and have for my family and respect I have towards them and he let me go because of my request or you can tell me, for my pleading. Cause, his love for me, was or is always true and it never forces something, to do opposite for the mere sake of being together.

"True love always requires happiness, to exist between it and have a happy ending." -my own quote.

I knew then and there he is a good hearted person, whom we can rely upon. The girl who gets him in life is really a lucky one.

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This is a real story happened in someone's life!

How was the Chapter?

What do you guys think about Nikitha?

Did she do right?

Will she ever get a soul mate to love as she wished in future just like him?

I know many of people would think bad about Nikitha and the way she shooed him away. It's her choice in her life, to let him go or hold on to.

Every individual has their own choices and principles in life. Some follow them, some not.

Some go against parents and try to build their relationship but some would understand parents as their concern just to continue to live their mental peaceful life with everyone's happiness. And this is what exactly Nikitha has done. She chose her family over her happiness.

The main reason being,

Her parents were little conservative but never considered Love or falling in love as waste or wrong. But, the thing is they also worship their religion. They would have agreed to any man who would be off their religion.

But, you see as we tell love is blind. So we cannot say whom we would fall in love or like that.

Nikitha being sensible, decided and pushed him away forgetting her little crush she had on him in belief, that in future she gets a man who would love her more than HE could.

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Thank you for reading.

Until next time.
Shwetha AS