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Huh finally that dreadful night ended. I couldn't catch an ounce of sleep. How could I? I just couldn't digest the fact that Manik is two-timing me. I always saw the warmth in his eyes when he talked to me. Never in my wildest dreams had I thought something like this would happen.

But I also feel like I am judging him too soon. A coin has two sides, maybe I should listen to his side of the story before jumping on such heart wrenching conclusions.

I want to get proved wrong by him. I want all my doubts to get cleared. I desperately want to be with Manik but I am not ready to live with the fact that I got two-timed.

I hope Manik proves me wrong.

I got up from my bed hoping that today all my insecurities would go into the gutter and Manik would tell me that he is not two-timing on me.

Walking to the cupboard, taking out my dress, getting ready for school, all of a sudden these tasks made me feel hell tired. Normally I would jump out of the bed to reach school as soon as possible but today nothing was normal.

My legs were feeling unbearably heavy. I wasn't feeling well but this confrontation couldn't wait. I needed some closure.

At this point of time I couldn't sit back and act like a complete Devdas. I might be in Love but I am not Blind in Love. I needed answers. Answer to each and every goddamn question.

I reached school and was sitting on my seat thinking about what the future holds for me when Navya came and sat beside me. She started asking whether I was going to confront him or not, how am I feeling and all those 'caring bestie' stuff.

I tried to pretend that all this doesn't affect me. That love can't break me. He can't break me. Even she understood how I was really feeling and even I knew that the facade I was trying to put up wasn't working still we didn't say anything. She decided to give me some space and moved away to her seat.

I was waiting. Waiting for him. Again.

Just the difference this time was that I wanted him to answer a NO unlike the other day when I wanted him to say a YES.

But he didn't come. Didn't come just the day I needed him the most.

Freaking fantastic. He is acting as if meine usse dhoka diya hai. Isliye absent ho gaya. Bloody hell. But you know what hurt the most?

Even Soha was absent. Do I need to say anything else? Do I need any other proof?

I don't think so.

Just then a guy came and sat beside me. I turned my head and saw Aryamann.

Unexpected right? Even I wished that it was Manik instead of him. But kya kar sakte hai. This is life.

"Hey Arya! You here?" I asked him trying to sound polite but I guess it came out to be a bit rude but it seemed like he didn't mind at all.

"Yeah woh actually that day you said that we will talk in school but that 'auspicious' day never came. So I thought to you know just strike a conversation with you," he was so fast kya batau. It was as if he had learnt this paragraph aur stage pe ake ulti kar di.

"Woah woah Rajdhani Express what happened? Why so nervous? Chill out. You wanna say something. You know I am always there if you need to share something with someone," I said with a small smile almost as if assuring him that I was there if he ever needed me.

"Yeah Break Time?" he asked and I agreed. Of course I had to agree aur kya karti mei?

Tring.

The bell rang finally. This day just didn't seem to end. It's just halfway through the school and I am already feeling so drained out.

"Aaj khane mei kya hai Navu?" I asked singing that Knorr Soup advertisement song.

"Kya chahiye batao miss Nandu," Navya said understanding the song thing.

"Iss chote chote bhook ko mei bhagau kyaa? Arya ka tiffin box hai na," Aryamann sang flashing his teeth whilst sitting beside me.

"What's up Arya? You wanted to say something right? Come on tell me," I said as I remembered that he wanted to say something but when I asked he was hesitating to say anything and finally I understood that it was because of Navya.

Mujhe pata hai ki wo sirf mujhe janta hai but Navya is my sister to introduce toh karana banta hai.

"Umm Arya this is Navya my Bestiee and Navu this is Aryamann my new friend?" I introduced them to each other but the last 'friend' part came out to be like more of a question.

"Yeah about that only. I wanted to like you know formally ek dosti ka haath badhana chahta tha," he suddenly sat down on his knees in front of me.

"Kya aap meri dost banogi?" he asked with a lot of hope in his voice. I saw him gulping a huge amount of saliva.

I mean friendship ke liye itna nervous hone ka kya hai? Thodi na meri Ma se mera haath maange ke liye aaya hai. Hehe.

"Nhi," I said trying to play a little.

"What, why?" he asked with dull eyes and I bet his knees would have started paining by now. He was sitting in the same position for quite a few minutes now.

"First of all you are not my friend. You are like my brother. So no formality aur ha ye aap aap kya laga ke rakha hai?" I knew he wouldn't like to get bro-zoned but I still said the brother thing to annoy him.

Evil me.

"What? No! I am not here to get bro zoned by you guys. Dosti leni hai to lo warna bhaad mai jao. Waise bhi kai ladkiya marri ja rhi hai mere jaise hot ladke ki dosti paane ke liye," he said clearly faking anger to which me and Navya giggled a bit and accepted his 'friend request'.

"Waise Arya who are those girls who are dying to be friends with you?" I asked acting all innocent and stretching on the word 'dying' but I could see the colours of Arya's face draining.

"Wo wo ha wo Pooja," he replied stumbling a bit.

"Oh Pooja. Navya tum kisi Pooja ko janti ho kya class mei? Mei to nhi janti," I asked to which even Navya shook her head. I was so enjoying this.

"Arre choro na yaar meine to bass Pooja bol diya because wherever I go one Pooja is always present there. Such a common name it is I thought idhar bhi koi na koi Pooja hogi," he said and we all burst out laughing.

But this phase didn't last long as soon as I remembered Manik's face. There was a time when Manik was the reason of my smile but now, I can't say anything.

I left for the washroom excusing myself from Navu and Arya. I couldn't break down in front of them. My bhook was long forgotten now.

I splashed some water on my face and held the sink with both my hands and literally crushed them. Tears would automatically blur my vision but I had decided to not let a single tear flow without knowing his reasons.

"No Nandu you are not this weak. You have full faith on Manik, right? Don't jump onto conclusions. Chal Nandu. You can do this."

I had this small pep talk with myself and headed out of the washroom.

What could I possibly even do?

Just hope that he is not absent the next day.

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Published On- 12/11/19