16 ~ The Revelation
I wanted to release my anger and so I did. I punched the concrete wall and that was the worst mistake I made.
"Oww!", I cried and shook my hand looking at the red bruise forming.
I am so stupid! Why the hell I am hurting myself for that rotten excuse of a man!
That stupid buffalo? I should have known that behind his innocent face, he hides a mask of a vicious personality.
Such a stupid idiot he is! More than him, I'm feeling agitated over myself!
How could I get attached to him this soon?
How could I forget that he is just my best friend's elder brother?
How could I forget that all men are the same brainless fuckers!
Murmuring curses to myself, I angrily marched towards my mother's ward.
The staff is so slow! They can't even print a single discharge paper!
I just need to go from here and empty everything to mumma.
I don't want to curse the managing director here or else, these people will throw me out.
He is their God and if I shout at him, he won't do anything but the staff will.
When I entered, I saw my mother sleeping.
Well, she will be like that for today, under the effects of medicines.
I picked up the sachet and tried to pronounce the name of the drug but instead it came out like an incoherent word.
And just like that, I remembered that idiotic man and the way he swiftly pronounced the name of the drug.
This is more difficult than rocket science!
No wonder why I despised biology during school.
I hated it! And those diagrams haunted me in my sleep.
See the irony, I liked a man whose whole career was based on biology!
Yes, that stupid oldie!
I huffed and sat beside my sleeping mother and laid my head on her stomach.
Whenever I used to be agitated or sad, she would always softly run her fingers through my locks and hear me rant about my day.
At last, she would smile and kissing my forehead would give me a perfect solution.
I wish life would have been easier. Days are becoming difficult day by day and my heart doesn't help!
It starts beating faster when he is around me, when he smiles and when he looks at me with affection.
Slowly, he made a way to my stone heart but now, when he is acting professional, it hurts.
I wish I wouldn't have met him, it would have been easier.
I don't love him, I don't think I'll be able to love anyone but his presence makes my heart flutter with unknown happiness.
I have known him for years. He was my senior back in school and was the charmer.
He used to visit Adrija regularly and now when I think about it, I find that it was something else which I can't comprehend.
I don't know why his attitude suddenly changed!
He is one of the sweetest men I ever met but today he was acting as if we never knew each other, we never were friends!
He acted so coldly! And people say that I'm the ice Queen.
Why did he started acting like this? For the first time in my life, I realised that I can actually love someone.
I sighed when the door opened revealing Adrija who was smiling at first but after seeing me, she frowned.
"You were crying", she stated and I looked at her in shock. I quickly wiped my tears and shook my head.
"You can't lie to me, you know that", she said and sat beside me.
I shook my head, trying not to cry in front of her.
I am scared to show my weakness to the world even if she's Adrija.
There is this fear that everyone I love will ultimately leave me.
I can't afford to lose my only friend and it pains thinking that slowly everyone is drifting apart.
My world is slowly becoming constricted and at the end, I'll be left alone to suffer.
She slowly brought her soft hand and wiped my tears.
"Don't cry! It hurts me", she whispered. I nodded and hugged her.
She patted my back and whispered, "Everything will be fine Akriti , don't worry. Now smile please".
I separated from her and smiled a little, earning a cheerful smile from her.
I don't know what I would have done without my best friend.
In this selfish world, how did I find her?
From the very beginning she has stuck to me, and never judged me.
While everyone glanced at me with judgemental eyes, she always stood like a shield, preventing any harm that they might cause to me.
"They are preparing the discharge papers. Today there is a lot of rush here.", Adrija said, sensing my question and I could only nod in response. A part of me wanted to blurt everything to her, including about her brother but I stopped, I don't want any miscommunication.
"Why is your mood so down? Aunty will be fine! Trust Adhyay", Adrija said cupping my cheeks and I could only scoff in response. Trust Adhyay? I trusted him but he is only breaking that! Why does he have to do it? Why can't he be normal? After all of it, he ends up acting rude?
"I trust him", I bitterly lied but she could see through it. She always does.
"He said something", she stated clicking her tongue and I nodded.
"He is such a stupid man, isn't he?", Adrija questioned with a chuckle and I nodded again subconsciously.
I realised that she just got all of it out of me and I looked at her with widened eyes.
She giggled and said, "I know I am great!
Now spill what my brother did. I'll get a complaint lodged to the Supreme commander and she'll beat him to pulps", I laughed along with her and started telling his abnormal mood swings.
Honestly, these men are worse than women on periods.
They are abnormal! Their brain functions are slow and their decisions are stupid!
"So, he started being rude suddenly", she questioned. Nodding I added, "Yes and he said, we are supposed to be formal Miss. Akriti".
I tried to imitate his heavy voice leaving both of us in fits of laughter.
"Are you sure he said that?", she asked between her laughter. I looked at her with confused expressions and replied, "Hundred percent Dhree. Why?"
She laughed and said," I just can't believe that!
A few days back he was saying that he loves you and all".
My eyes widened at her statement and mouth fell open.
He said he loves me?
He said he loves someone.
Is that me?
Why didn't he tell me?
How could he claim that he loves me and end up acting so rude?
Is this his love? Hurting me?
"What did you say Adrija?", I asked again.
"I said that he l-loves you", her jolly voice was converted into nervousness as soon as she realised what she said.
I was still waiting for her to say something and I looked at her keenly.
She won't lie but if he loves me, why this sudden mood change?
Moreover, why didn't he himself confess when I had confidently told him to confess his feelings to his crush?
He said he was afraid that once he confesses his feelings, that girl would stop talking to him.
Oh Adhyay! If you had told me that you love me, I would have cried out of happiness.
My crush loves me! But now it's over, he had a sudden mood change.
"It's true Akriti, I'm not lying. I swear.
He loves you from our school days", Adrija blabbered, making me more shocked!
But how could he have had a crush on me?
I can't believe it! I want to laugh so hard and roll on the floor.
No one can love a person like me! No one would want a woman like me in his life.
When my own father couldn't love me, how would some other man love me?
Especially him? What do I even have? While he is a well reputed doctor, I am just a writer!
He works for the country and what do I even work?
He is handsome, owns a big Hospital and I?
I am neither beautiful nor have many properties.
He has a big family who will always support him, and I just have my mother to call as my family!
It's hard to believe that he ever loved me and even if he did, then why was he being so rude? Why hurt the person you claim to love?
"I trust you but it's very difficult to believe this Adrija. I have not known him and it's almost unbelievable for me", I stated as she sighed. She still doesn't know that my mystery crush in the same damn man who broke my heart without any regret.
"It is. I don't know what happened to him but one thing that I'm sure of is that HE LOVES YOU.
I know my brother yaar, he would never lie about that.
I have seen this in his eyes", Adrija said and went away leaving me again swirling in my thoughts.
I never believed in this theory of love and fairytale.
Love doesn't exist. If it would have been there, then this world would have been just happy but look at the amount of stereotypes, divorce cases and societal issues.
Isn't it because men fall out of love? Or they never loved?
It is all a facade! They just want bodily pleasures and when a woman can't satisfy them, they ditch her and look for another relationship.
It is not love. Love doesn't exist now! And if it did, I would never know.
When I thought I had finally started believing in love, he broke my trust. He proved that all men are the same.
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