"She waits for him as if she has the wings but only he could make her fly"

Arshita's Pov

The rumours of our breakup travelled more faster than our relationship in the college. And every rumour being the worst than the other. I could feel the stares following as I made my way through the college hallways.

I hadn't seen Shubman since he drove off from Ayushi's house that night two days ago after the last conversation of ours.

I hadn't been crying feeling detached to the world and my feelings and I just stood there not moving until I felt Shriya's hand on my shoulder.

I juts wanted to go home and curl up in my bed and keep all the things off of my mind but then Shriya suggested me to come with her to her house and I agreed as right now I just needed someone who could help me with all this mess.

We reached Shriya's house and I guess her family was already sleeping and she prepared some popcorns and ice-cream tubs as we she suggested to watch a movie so that we can get over what ever happened.

Halfway the movie I started telling her what I and Shubman talked about and how everything turned out like this.

"Hey"

I looked up at her.

"I don't think he wanted to do this, either!" she said, she's always been level headed when it came to these type of things and I was glad when she suggested me to come to her house.

I didn't said anything and kept looking down.

She kept her hands on my shoulder and I looked up,"I guess he's only doing what he thinks is right! He's afraid" she said.

"Of what?" I asked and she looked at me, "Getting hurt?"

"Of hurting you!" she said.

That shut me up.

I allowed myself to reverse the roles and I knew that I wouldn't want Shubman to have feelings for me when I wasn't completely over Siddharth. And this obviously led me to the realization that I being the irrational one jumped into confessing my feeling when neither of us was ready for anything.

Now, when I entered the cafeteria with Aditi I was again greeted by some weird stares and questions of our breakup.

"So" Aditi said in lieu of hello, "The worst ones I heard are something you cheating him, he being an abusive boyfriend or you coming back to Sid!"

"What" I said with an annoyed look, "All these rumours in one breakup?"

She nodded her head and then tried out a small smile, "Wonders of college life!"

"Should we sit them on the table or —" Aditi said and I gave her a tired look, "Maybe we shouldn't!" I said and she nodded.

I sighed and we moved to get our food and without any other thought my eyes roamed around to look for those familiar brown eyes. My gaze landed on the table which was ours until a week ago.

Everyone was present there except Shubman.

For moment I was relieved because I didn't knew how would I react if I would've seen his brown eyes, his stupid grin or fucking everything that made him him.

The next moment Shriya caught my eyes and I gave her an apologetic look so that she could understand that I didn't had anything against them and we can still be friends!

I already knew that Shubman hadn't made appearance yet and this made me think why things turned out to be like this and not like the simple relationship we had.

Was I angry at him? Yess! Was I sad? Yess! Did I hate him? Possibly! Did I miss him Yess! Fucking yess!!

Everything was a mess! My thoughts, my feelings and actually my whole life! Now that I thought about it he did the right thing. He just hurted both of us now so that we wouldn't get hurt if anything starts between us which couldn't be handled because of our past.

Aditi squeezed my shoulder when she noticed that I was lost. I looked at her and she said, "It'll be fine! It's be all good don't worry"

I just looked down at my plate in my hands and nodded, "Yeah"

We sat at a table and before she could say anything else the students starting bolting up their seats, running towards the cafeteria entrance to check out what all the commotion was about.

I and Aditi shared a look. "Do you think it's a celebrity for people to react like that?" Aditi asked and I just shrugged.

"Do you want to come and check" she asked and I just shooked my head telling her no, despite my curiosity I just sat there with some other people who weren't surprisingly curious.

Aditi went to check and not before a minute she came back running. My heart sank to my stomach looking at her terrified and panic stricken face!

I immediately stood up from my seat and asked her, "What happened?"

Aditi who was always talking and speaking was unable to speak out a proper sentence!

"Punch...... Fight..... Sid.." she said and I looked over her in shock.

"Siddharth is in a fight?" I asked shocked and she nodded murmuring, "With..... Shubman!"

And before I knew I was already running towards the cafeteria entrance. I had to make my way through the crowd gathered around which I assumed to be the fight. I had to elbow many people and even stomp their feet for getting them away from my way!

I kept pushing people until I reached the innermost of the circle and saw Shubman swing his fist on Siddharth's face.

I hadn't realized I was shouting for them to stop as they weren't ready to leave each other's collar.
I stepped out of the circle and came in front of them shouting.

"Stop!" I said but they weren't ready to and kept staring at each other with anger in their eyes "Stop! Shub stop!" I again said and he finally looked up at me and I gave him a pleading look.

He stood up and looked other side bringing his hand to his jaw and I could already see their bruised faces. Siddharth also got up from the floor and stared at him in anger.

"You're a fucking asshole!" Siddharth shouted at him with anger filled in his eyes.

"You're the one to talk!" Shubman spatted back with the same aggression.

"That's enough" I shouted before the fight could resume and they stood on there places staring at each other, "Enough"

I looked at Shubman and he wasn't even looking at me. I tried to speak keeping my voice steady, "What happened?"

I looked around and the circle of people started reducing as Abhay and others sent them away before and faculty could come to look at this mess.

"He.... He hurted you! He's a fucking asshole for God's sake he don't deserves you!" Siddharth shouted pointing at Shubman and I looked at him.

"Shut up! You're no one to talk when you did worse than what he did!" I shouted back at him not able to keep the anger in anymore.

"You should look at yourself before pointing at others for something you are expert in!" I said, blood pounding in my ears.

"But Arshu... He—" he again tried to speak but I cut him off, "Just shut up okay! You did what you wanted to! And now you don't have any right to stand here and talk for me" I shouted.

"I'm sorry!" Siddharth said looking down and shooked my head, "I don't want your sorry! You hurted me! You left me! You broke my heart! You did every fucking thing and now it's all over!" I said looking straight in his eyes.

"And so Mr. Siddharth Sharma  you're totally out of the picture now. So you better stay away from me, from my life and from all of us!" I said and he looked at me nodding his head and then walked away.

I turned and looked at Shubman who was standing there still looking on the ground not once daring to look at me. I walked upto him and held his hand in mine.

"And you!" I said and he finally looked up, his face was blank which had some bruises on the forehead and cheeks, "Come with me" I said.

"Im fine!" he said taking his hand back. I looked at him and again held his hand tighter this time and said, "I said come with me! You don't have a choice!"

I dragged him to an empty classroom and made him sit on a bench. I picked up the first aid box from the side cupboard in the classroom and sat in front of him on my knees.

I took out some cotton and poured the antiseptic on it and started cleaning a cut under his left eye. He didn't looked up and just sat there staring at the ground, shoulders slumped and not speaking a word.

I kept my one hand on his right cheek and made him look up while cleaning his bruises on the corner of his lips. He looked at me with his brown eyes and we shared an eye lock as if we were talking through eyes.

As if on the cue he looked away and stared out of the window of the classroom. I tried to recover myself from the effects he gave me whenever I came close to him.

I held his hand in mine and cleaned the cuts on his knuckles while he kept looking out.

"Won't you talk?" I slowly asked still looking at his hand while cleaning it. He didn't spoke up.

"Atleast speak something!" I said and he turned his face toward me but he still didn't spoke up, "Shub please don't do this to me, please!" I said trying to control myself from bursting at streams anytime.

"What do you want me to do?" he finally asked and I looked down cuz I myself didn't know what I wanted from him, one time I wanted to stay away from him and stop all this mess and the one next moment I just wanted to stay with him and not letting him go.

I just kept on tying a bandage on his bruised hand and kept looking down not knowing what to say.

He pushed a stand of my hair behind my ear and caressed my cheek with his hand. I didn't dared to look up because I knew I couldn't handle myself. He brought his face near and touched his forehead with mine.

We stayed like that, either of us not ready to move and we sat like that as if soothing each other without using words and it actually felt better.

As I was going to say something he kept his finger on my lips and shooked his head telling me not to, "No don't!" he said and I looked down.

He looked at me and then ruffled my hair and got up from the bench and started walking out the classroom. I looked at his back not able to look him going away.

"Shub please talk to me!" I said and he turned to look at me over his shoulder.

"Aren't I'm quite a heartbreaker?" He asked and I remember the day he said this exact line to me near the lockers.

I looked at him with a defeated look and nodded my head, "Yess you are!" I said and he left! Once again!

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