"And when I loved you, I realized I have never ever loved anyone like that"

Arshita's Pov

And after realizing I thought it would be nice and all the butterflies in my stomach would have a marathon, the blushing, the tingling sensations and it did.

But when I really realized it, I looked at him for two seconds and then suddenly stood up surprising him. He stopped playing the guitar to look at me.

"I'm taking a walk" I said and started moving not quite looking at him.

He looked at me in confusion and set the guitar beside him getting up, "I'll come with —"

I already started walking before the words left his mouth.

He called my name and when I looked over my shoulder he was getting to come behind me so I shouted, "Don't follow me!"

I hastened my steps matching them to the beating of my heart. He was confused, I didn't care nad keep walking towards sea.

I was falling for Shubman Gill.

Fuck.

How was that even possible? I tried to make sense of the uneven beating of my heart and those idiot butterflies in my stomach.

What scared me most wasn't the thought of falling for Shubman. It wasn't just that. It was like how hard I tried to convince myself that this was foolish, I couldn't come up with anything.

Shubman is very different from everyone. He always knew how to make me smile. He always knew what to say to make me feel better and his one smile made heart do twenty fucking backflips.

How could I have never seen it before?

And how could that even happen to me?

It felt both right and wrong at the same time. We were friends. I can't fall for him. The things were good as the way they were and I didn't wanted to ruin them because of these feelings.

And the fact was that how much I denied it, Siddharth still haunted me in way. It was like I was being pulled towards Shubman but at some magnetting pull kept me back towards Siddharth.

I couldn't even understand my own thoughts, everything is messed up and—

"holy shit"

My heart skipped a beat and turned my head at Shubman's voice.

I was sitting down on the rocks looking at his hand wincing a bit and before I knew I was sprinting towards him.

I ran upto him and sat in front of him "What—what happened?" I asked.

"Heyy!" he said looking at me embarrassed, "I.. I fell and hurted my hand"

I took his hand in mine looking at it and started panicking cuz it was bleeding because a piece of glass was stucked in it.

"Shit!" I said examining his hand, "This is not supposed to bleed this much..... This is —wait... I, this.... I can't"

"It's fine Arshu, it's not serious" he said.

"Are you crazy" I shouted at him tying to control my panicked state, "It looks like you murdered something with your hand"

He looked at me for some seconds and then burst out laughing.

"What?" I asked.

"You're freaking out" he said smiling and then came closer and whispered in my ear, "It's kind of cute"

If it was anything I was thankful for the dim lights which helped me to hide the blush on my cheeks. "I told you not to follow me" I pointed out, "Agar mere peeche nhi aate yoh ye sb nhi hota naa" I said looking at his hand.

"Toh kya baith ke tumko dekhta rehta?" he said.

And his concern was making my cheeks heat up more.

Fuck! I'm so screwed.

I

sighed, knowing it was useless to argue with him and muttered, "You're an idiot"

"Do you have a first aid kit in your car?" I asked.

When he told me yess, first I told him to get up and come back and sit on the mattress and he followed my instructions like a good little boy.

As soon as he sat he said, "This sucks"

"Aisa nhi hota agar tumne meri baat mani hoti" I said and he shooked his in denial.

"No I mean, this was supposed to be other way around" he said and I looked up at him in confusion.

"You want me to get hurt instead?" I asked.

"Areyy nhi vo bhi yrr" he said and then with an amused smile, "You know I mean agar ye koi movie hoti ya koi novel toh mai tumhe uthake lata aur tum ro rhi hoti and you know you'd be the one with the murdered foot or hand"

"Only if this was a romantic movie" I said fighting back a smile as he referred to his wound as I did earlier.

His smile was replaced with a smirk that made me look away, "They're my favourite" he said but the look on his face was telling me that he was joking. "Can't help it but love when the guy saves the girl and she falls madly in love with him"

"Do you want me to?" I said and he looked at me, "Fall madly in love with you?" I asked.

The moment the words came out I regretted ever opening my mouth.

He gave me cheeky smile and then said, "Less chances of that kyuki yaha pe mai nhi tumne meri help ki hai" he said.

I wanted to tell him that there were very high chances of that.

I asked him for the car keys and and he handed me them and I got up to bring the first aid kit, "Don't you dare touch that wound until I come back" I warned him.

He gave me salute and said "Ma'am, yess ma'am"

Five minutes later I was sitting in front of him taking his hand in mine. I looked at it for some seconds and the pulled out the glass piece and Shubman winced a little in pain.

I applied some ointment in the cotton and cleaned the wound. I looked at him and his jaw was clenched and he was looking at the sea.

I took out some bandage and started wrapping it on his hand when he broke the silence, "Why did you freaked out?" he asked.

"Maybe because you fell and hurted your hand" I said taking a quick glance at him.

"I mean earlier" he said, "You just got up and started sprinting towards the sea, scared thr scrap out of me" he said and I looked at him.

"Oh" I said and kept my gaze on the kit trying to find the tape, "That"

"Yeah" he said, "That"

I didn't had an answer to that so I kept my mouth shut.

"Was it because you remembered Siddharth?" he asked slowly.

"Siddharth?" I said and raised an eyebrow confused, "Why do you think it's about him?"

"I brought you to the place he dumped you" he said and then shaking his, "Sorry, I didn't mean to put it as bluntly as that"

My heart sank to my stomach.

"How did you know?" I asked looking at him.

He looked at me for a moment and then slowly spoke up, "I was here when you broke up"

I looked at hi surprised too lost to remember of that day as because I was trying hard to forget everything about it.

"Yaad hai tumne ek baar pucha tha mai tumhari help kyu krra hu" he said and I looked up, Maybe I saw myself in you" I looked at him but his eyes were fixed on the sea.

"That! Right there" he said pointing in a direction and I followed his hand and saw the familiar juice bar where I was dumped "What about it?" I asked.

"I saw you crying there" he said, "You pushed past me in your way from there"

"You saw me cry?" I asked, "Yeah" he said scratching back of his neck.

"Pehle mai tumhe janta nhi tha, but then that day in the class when I saw you I remembered you" he said and I looked at him silently, "It was like I could look past through the act you were putting up because I was doing the same with myself"

For a moment I considered to tell him about my feeling but the thought immediately washed away when I thought about the consequences. I didn't properly had Siddharth out of my system yet and I was sure that Shubman also had some unresolved feeling for Manasvi.

For once I thought that he harboured the same feeling for me cuz no one would be up at one at night for someone who wasn't special but talking for Shub he would do that for his friends, so I can't get hopes up.

"You didn't answered by the way" he said and I looked at him.

"Answered what?"

"Why you freaked out?"

"It wasn't because of Siddharth" I said quite not looking at him..

He kept silence for a second and then asked, "Really?"

I looked up and nodded, "Mmm"

His face broke into a full grin.
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Soon after sometime we decided that it was time to leave and so we packed up our things and walked upto the car.

He came stood on the driver's side and I gave him a look, "What?" he asked "You're not driving" I said and pushed him to the other side.

"Areyy but seriously" he tried to protest, "I not out much pressure on my hand" he said and I snatched the keys from his hands and sat on the driver's seat.

"No means no" I said and he stomped his foot like a six year old and sat on the passenger seat while I chuckled.

First I had to drop him at his house and bring his car back to my house. We reached his house and he was silent the whole ride, I think he was sleepy.

He got out of the car and stood on the door keeping his on the opened window.

I looked at him and raised an eyebrow giving him 'what now' look.

"You know..... If you... You want to stay for a sleepover, you can" he said with his as usual smirking face.

"Aaj ka ho gya?" I asked giving him a amused smile.

"Nhi naa....I'm serious, mai aise mamlo me mazaak nhi krta" He said and winked at me.

God! He should stop doing all these things to me otherwise I'll be found dead by sometime.

"Shub" I said blinking my eyes at him.

"Ahh don't do that, mera heart fail ho jaega" he said keeping his hand on his heart.

I burst out laughing and he also chuckled, "Byee" I said waving at him.

"Byee don't miss me too much" he said and I giggled, "I won't I promise" I said started the car and then finally left.

I reached home and walked upto my room silently so that I don't wake up mom. I was lying on my bed looking at ceiling and smiling like an idiot.

I then picked up my phone and sent him a message.

Thanks for tonight! ☺️ How's you hand now?

I'd didn't took time for him to reply me back.

Yaa! You know what my hand still looks like I murdered something. 😂😂😂

I read the message and started laughing out loud.

You'll not let that go now. Right? 😂😂

I replied still laughing.

Noo😂 Gud nyt, I'll come in your dreams 🙈🙈

After that I couldn't stop myself from grinning like an idiot and I drifted off to sleep keeping the phone close to my heart.

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Heya people!

Here's the update and hope you'll love it.

Sooo Arshita is falling hard for him. Does Shubman feel the same about her? What will happen?

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