"Someday someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else"

Arshita's Pov

It was now six in the evening and we all were sitting near a food stall eating and enjoying. It felt really nice sitting here with enjoying everyone's company with food—Chia and Abhay being lovey-dovey, Manjot's jokes, Ayushi and Nagar irritated by him.

Everyone was teasing Shubman for squeeling like girl while paragliding.

"I told you" Shubman said, "Mai darr nhi rha tha mujhe bs laga ki belt khul gya"

"Chl be tu sbse jada cheekh rha tha" Abhay said.

We knew he was not scared and was telling the truth but we were enjoying seeing him like this and so continued to tease him.

I really enjoyed paragliding, it was so much fun. I and Shubman were on the same parachute and I really felt alive and so I was laughing and shouting.

"I've seen you this happy for the first time" Shubman pointed out seeing me laughing.

"It was awesome" I squeeled in happiness.

"Woww..... last time maine aisa reaction tb diya tha jb mai 6 saal ka tha" he said laughing.

"Shut up" I hitted his arm.

I just knew that do hell with the past because here's to the future and enjoyed every single just remembering myself that everything will fall into place and I'll be fine once again.
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"Arshu come here for a bit" Shubman waved at me from a distance when I was sitting with Ayushi and Shriya.

"Go, vo aise wave krte hue idiot lgra h" Shriya said giggling.

"I don't know, he looks like a lost puppy wagging his tail" Ayushi said and we burst out laughing at her reference.

I stood up and walked upto him, he turned to me asking, "Which flavor?" he asked signalling the ice-cream stall.

"Chocolate" I said without taking a look at the flavor board. "Drop it, I'll have mint choco chip" I said recalling when we went on a picnic.

"Mint choco chip it is" He said smiling and took two cones of mint choco chip.

"So.. I guess tumpe mera asar aa rha hai" he said smriking.

"Kuch bhi" I said.

"Babyy, you ordered mint choco chip" he said with a big smirk.

"It's just that... it's refreshing.. it feels good" I said looking here and there, "And don't call me babyy"

He was going to say something when we heard Abhay and Chia's voices. Abhay was running after Shriya holding a toy snake and she was shouting, and when she realized that it wasn't a real one she stopped and starred at Abhay
"Very funny Abhay, very funny" She said and hitted his arm.

"What do you thing about them?" I asked Shubman.

"I just know that they are the most frustrating but loving couple" he said looking at them.

"It's so obvious that they loved each other" I said smiling.

I

looked at Shubman's face and I don't know why but it wasn't his normal happy face and I felt weird when suddenly he said "So what do you think they should do?" he asked sternly, "Two people who really like each other"

I looked at him for some seconds trying to take in his expressions but his face was blank without any emotions, so I casually replied "They should just tell each other"

He looked at me and sighed and with a shake of his head he said "It's not that easy"

"You said it yourself" I said, "They are the most frustrating couple and if—" he cutted me.

"Let's say ki Siddharth achanak se yaha Aa jaye aur kahe ki he still loves you" he said making me shut, "and obviously you also love him, what would you do"

My eyes snapped to his.

His words hitted me really bad and he spoke them so coldly as if he didn't knew that this is what affects me the most.

"It's not about him" I said trying to keep my voice even.

"Isn't it?" He said "With you it's always about him"

"That's not true" I said.

"It is" he said looking straight in my eyes, "It is and you know it, tum Abhya aur Shriya ki baat krri ho, but you know that this is about him"

When I didn't said anything he took a step back shaking his head giving me a look that made me feel stupid.

"Sometimes—" he said slowly, "feeling are not enough to bury the past or all the shit that has happened"

I looked at him with hurt in my eyes and and before I could stop myself I said "Is that how you feel about Manasvi?"

His head snapped back to me.
"How do you know about her?" His voice was calm but there was anger.

I decided not to reply and so I turned away to go "You can have the fucking ice-cream"

Before I could leave he held my hand and snapped me back "Who told you about Manasvi?" he asked.

I jerked my hand away "I don't want to tell you, tum sirf apne baare me sochte ho, you don't care for anyone else" I said.

He left my hand as the words hit him and his expression changed and eyes became colder.

"Tum mujhe kehte ho ki apne baare me btao, but you're the one keeping secrets here" I said stepping back from him.

"I've told you a lot about myself" he said.

"And I've told you everything" I said.

I stood there for a minute, held his gaze waiting to see his eyes getting less cold, at least a little but they didn't.

So I left.
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"Okay btao"

Ayushi and Shriya literally dragged me to the washroom because they knew that something was up between me and Shubman.

Playing innocent, I said "Kya btau?"

"Tumhare aur Shub ke beech kuch hua na? Shriya asked raising an eyebrow.

"You two fought, you two aren't talking to each other" Ayushi said.

"It's nothing" I said slowly.

"Don't breakup" Shriya suddenly spoke up.

"Heeiinn" I asked confused.

"Mujhe pta hai ki Shub idiot hai, uske dating rules bhut kharab hai, vo kabhi bhi kuch bhi bolta hai, but please maine use itna khush pehle kabhi nhi dekha"  Shriya said and I was looking at her.

"Haa pls" Ayushi also said.

"Kuch nhi hora just relax" I said, both of them were giving me expectant look with pleading eyes.
"Promise you won't leave him" Shriya said.

I looked at them and somewhere I felt envious of Shubman for having friends like them, who care for him so much and can do anything for his happiness.

"Prosmise" I finally gave in.

As soon as we came out of the washroom Shriya and Ayushi were continously trying to leave me and Shubman alone to talk but I guess he was aware of this as he was sticking with the group only.

If the aftermath of the fight affected him then he wasn't showing it because he was back to his usual self, talking and joking with everyone except me.

We were walking and he was totally ignoring me as if I didn't existed. Shriya and Ayushi stopped pushing us, I guess they knew that we weren't going to talk anytime soon.

But just when I thought they weren't going to do anything, we were struck.

A shove — a shut — a lock, and next thing I knew I was closed in a ropeway trolley alone with Shubman.
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We sat there silently looking everywhere but at each other. I heard him curse under his breath "Mujhe pta tha ye log aisi koi harkat krege"

I didn't wanted to be mad at him but I wasn't going to apologise because that would mean that I was wrong but the truth is he was the one who started it.

I don't know for how much time we sat there looking outside stubbornly ignoring each other as much as we could until he decided to speak.

"Mujhe nhi pata tha tum Manasvi ke bare me janti ho" he said softly.

Our eyes met for the first time after the fight.

"I don't, I mean I don't really know her" I said. "I just heard about her"

I just looked at him, he kept looking down at his hands and I waited for him to speak.

With a sigh he bought his gaze back to mine. "You have Siddharth" he said. "I have Manasvi"

I couldn't remember a time when Shubman Gill had a girlfriend, did he found her when he became popular, was she a normal girl, and if yess where the fuck is she now.

"You think I don't get it" he said without looking at me, "You think I don't understand. I do. Mujhe pta hai kaisa lgta hai jb aap apna sb kuch ek Insaan ko dedo" He paused and swallowed still looking down, "Mujhe pta hai kaisa feel hota hai jb aap kisi ko pehli baar dekho and you know that 'This is it', 'She's the one' and then everything you do, everything you say, everything that matters is for her"

"You can see your whole life with her" His words were calm but his voice was trembling, "You believe it's her, it's her, and it'll always be her"

His words were coming to me like I knew all this very well and I knew how it felt because once I also thought that nothing could ever come between me and Siddharth.

"And then suddenly it's gone" I said slowly looking at him.

"And then suddenly it's gone" he repeated as if telling himself.

We settled in silence once again, I wanted to ask him more about her, where was she, but thinking to myself I stopped because I knew how I would feel if he asks me about Siddharth.

"I'm sorry" I said, not only for the fight but everything else also.

"Yeah" he said. "Me too"

I looked up at him and he was looking outside and when I turned to look out I was stunned because we were on the top and view was awesome.

"Woww" I said looking out and he looked at me and finally a smile came to his lips "This is the best part of ropeway" He said.

"Being at the top?" I asked.

"The view" he said.

We looked outside taking in the beautiful view in silence which was comforting.

"I knew they would do something like this to make us talk, they like you" he said smiling.

"only because I'm your girlfriend" I said.

"They really like you" he said grinning, "Shriya ne mujhe dhamki bhi di tumse baar krne ke liye"

"It sounds like her" I laughed a little. "They're really good friends" I said.

"Eh, they can be annoying sometimes, but they're pretty awesome" he said chuckling.

He told me stories about them, how everyone met, how they prank on each other, how silly are Mandy's jokes and everything. How always Chia and Abhay behaved like a couple, how Ayushi always fought with Nagar and Mandy.

"I'm sorry if I suddenly intruded in your group" I said.

He got up from his place and sat beside me saying, "What are you talking about" he said, "They adore you"

"It's just that —" I said playing with my fingers looking down, "It's just that they're really rooting for the two of us and I feel guilty because all this is not even real"

"Then" he said and I looked at his face into his eyes through his lashes, his hair falling on his head and he shifted a bit closer to me.
"Let's make it real" he said.

I froze.

I looked at him frozed telling myself that he didn't said this, I heard him wrong, I mean how could he say this to me?

After a minute his face broke into a wide grin and ruffled my hair saying "Relax, I'm just kidding."

"Yaar bhuk lgi hai neeche kb jaege" He once again looked out at the view and I tried to slow down my heart which was running a marathon and calm myself.

"Hey, I was just joking" he said when he noticed my sudden muteness.

I swallowed, "I think I told you jokes are supposed to be funny"

"Dimaag se nikl gya tha" he said chuckling. When I didn't stopped glaring at him, he nudged me with his shoulder. "Come on, I'm sorry. Relax, Arora" He said.

I've been trying to tell my heart the exact same words 'That he was just joking'

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Hola guyss!

Sorry for updating late, I was on a trip, so really tried my best to write this chapter, hope you all like it.

Milte hai next chapter me 🤗🤗