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After being to a lot of shops and running here and there, both got tired when Arya said.
"Let's go eat something" Arohi nodded, and they made their way to the food court, talking and giggling in their world. What Vihaan said to them was long forgotten.
As always.
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"Where did they go?"Aryan exclaimed looking at the place where they had left the girls. Vihaan shook his head, knowing very well that something like that would happen.
"First Reyansh and now them, Arghh" Aryan said, rubbing his forehead.
"Let's find them," Vihaan said, and the other nodded.
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Girls were talking and giggling at what Arya was saying. Arya was telling Arohi about what happened that night in detail.
She was talking, giggling, blushing all at the same time.
"So you are saying he went on his knees for you," Arohi said. And Arya nodded, remembering that and blushing once again.
"No way I don't believe that," Arohi exclaimed, folding her hand on her chest.
"It's true," Arya said, looking at her with an angry pout, trying to prove her point, which was looking more cute than angry.
"No way"
Well, it's not Arohi's fault. Who would believe that Reyansh Shekhawat went on his knees for anyone?
He did not even go on his knees for Ritika, whom he claimed to love.
And here he went on his knees for his wife whom he does not even claim to love, so it was difficult to believe.
"It's true," Arya swore, seeing her best friend not believing her.
"He even kissed me" and here she dropped another bomb.
Arohi looked at her at the speed of light, eyes wide open. Mouth agape. While Arya nodded innocently like she didn't just drop a bomb.
Arya lifted her finger and placed it on her chin, making her mouth shut.
"So you guys kissed," Arohi said in disbelief, and the other nodded.
"Means now your lips are not virgin," She told herself, and then she shouted.
"Ohh my God, my bestie is not a virgin anymore." Arya looked at her and placed her hand on her mouth. And pulled her behind the nearest wall.
Then Arohi realized what she had done.
People started looking here and there, searching for where the sound came from.
They were talking while walking and there were not so many people around them. After some time They also started doing their own business.
"Wtf, Ruhii?" Arya whispered, removing her hand from her mouth.
"I am virgin," Arya said.
"Sorry, sorry, I meant to say my bestie's lips are not virgin," Arohi said.
"I will shout once more," Arohi teased her.
"Shut up," Arya whispered.
They started walking again. They looked at each other and burst into laughter over the crazy thing they did.
But it was fun.
But soon, their laughter died down at the scene in front of them.
"Aryan vihaan" Arohi said.
Said man looked at each other and then at them.
"Sorry we forgot about you," Arohi said with a dull tone.
"What? You forget about me...your future husband. I can't believe it," Vihaan said in disbelief.
"It's not like that," Arohi said in a low voice and hugged him.
"I know, I know," he said and hugged her back, cooing at her Like a whipped man he was.
Aryan fake coughed, indicating his presence, and they pulled back.
Their eyes fall on Arya, who is silent all the time.
"Arya," Aryan said. But she didn't answer back, only staring in a particular direction. They followed her line of vision only to see...Reyansh sitting with a girl. Whom the two guys know as Ritika.
They only have one thought
'What the fuck he was doing with her'
Aryan was now red with anger and he started walking towards them. Arya was still standing there staring at them.
Arohi nudged Arya when she saw Aryan going towards them.
Arya came out of her thoughts and looked at her brother. She ran towards him, held his hands, and whispered slightly.
"Let's go home." Aryan halted at his place and looked at her in disbelief.
"Please," she whispered again. He ran his hand through his hair and nodded.
"Let go." he took the shopping bags from her hand, held her hand, and started walking while Vihaan did the same.
The car ride was silent. No one spoke a word different from how they had come.
"Is she Ritika?" Arya breaks the silence, still looking out of the window. Aryan, who was driving, looked beside him at Vihaan and then at Arya, who was leaning on the window.
"Yes," he whispered, but in the silence, it was hearable. And again, there was silence. They expected to be asked a lot of questions, but there were none. No one knew what was on her mind.
Arohi, who was sitting beside her, was constantly checking her, but there was no emotion on her face.
They reached home in no time. Aryan parked the car and looked at Arya, who was in her daze.
"Aaru" He uttered. Arya looked at him.
"We reached" She looked around and nodded.
She got out of the car and started walking inside. They all went after her.
"Arya" Arohi speaks for the first time. She halted on her feet.
"I want to be alone," she said and again started walking. The other three looked at each other, knowing very well what was happening. They knew their sister very well.
She is dangerous. When she is hurt, she can easily destroy everything around her, but she doesn't; instead, she destroys herself.
She shuts herself out from the world whenever she gets hurt. She cries and cries until no tears are left because that is the only thing that she can do. And next day, she came out like nothing happened, putting that hurt in a deep corner of her heart.
They are hurt that they can do nothing about it. She never let them do anything.
Aryan took out his phone and started calling Reyansh but his phone was switched off.
"I will fucking kill him" Aryan growled.
Arya went into her room, and shutting the door behind her, leaned on it.
A tear rolled down her eyes
then another
And Another
She falls on the floor crying and sobbing.
All the time, she was controlling herself, but now she can't. Inside these four walls where no one can see her, she let her guards fall down.
She cried, cried, and cried.
‘She is his first love, so will he go after her and leave me?’ She thought.
The first time they met, when he said to her that he couldn't give her the love she wanted, she knew it would hurt. She knew very well.
All his life, she only wanted love from her family, but she didn't get and then again, she made a mistake. She got her hopes high; she thought she would get love from her husband, and that hope also shattered on the day they met.
She accepted. She accepted her fate. That's how it is, then let it be.
But still, there was a tiny hope that everything would get better and that maybe he would give her love. After all, We are humans intentionally or unintentionally. We have hope...a little one..but we have. No matter how much bad happens to us.
Then, on the day of their reception, when one reporter said about him having a girlfriend named Ritika and that he loved her, her heart broke.
How could she get his love when it was already someone else's? That day Also, she went to the washroom, after crying her heart out. She came like nothing happened.
She was used to it till now.
When she got to know that Reyansh was the same bike guy, she was head over heels for. She forgot about Ritika, Everything was going normally. Their relationship was growing. Her feelings for him were growing and she was falling for him. She even confessed to him.
And yesterday
Yesterday, he said he was ready to give their relationship a chance, so what happened now?
But Now she has only one thought.
‘Is everything he said a lie?’
his care
his affection
his words
his actions
Was it all a lie?
What if he also leaves her?
What if he went back to his first love?
There was so much in her mind.
So many thoughts
So many what-ifs.
But About all these thoughts all these what ifs was fear.
She was scared. Hell scared.
Scared for her love.
Because first love is something people can do anything for.
She herself will do it.
What if he doesn't love her, but she does, and she can do anything for him. But she can't live without him.
"I-I love you....please don't leave me," she sobbed and passed out on the floor.