iincendiia

As both of them stood leaning against the cold railing of the balcony, silence reigned upon them. It held different meanings for either. 

She usually preferred the silence. It brought calmness to her mind, a sense of sanity. But this one? It was maddening. It let a storm of thoughts enter her mind. Images of what could've happened; of what could still happen flashed across her inner eye. It terrorised her. Haunted her, letting a sole drop of tear run down her cheek. She wiped it away immediately. 

Even though he looked straight ahead in the distance at the night sky hovering over the city lights, with a side glance he noticed it. She was trying to hide her tears. On other occasions, he would do anything for her to shut up but right then, he wanted her to say anything. Anything at all. A word, at least. The silence stretched infinitely, tension in the air becoming thicker and thicker with each passing second.

He opened his mouth to speak, but was pushed away when her fists collided against his hard chest. "Don't. Don't say a single word. There's nothing you can say to make me feel better!" She sobbed loudly. "Did you hear what the doctors said? Didn't you?!" Her fists pounded against his chest but it didn't even make him flinch. 

He caught her arms in mid-air and shook her, hoping that would send some sense into her, "Calm down!" He said, "We're in a hospital! And you cannot blame me for what happened." He added but somewhere deep down he knew, he was to be blamed for what catastrophe had happened that night. 

"Get out! I don't want to see your face and I don't want you to be anywhere near him!" She announced, tearing her gaze away from him while gritting her teeth in anger. 

She expected an apology from him but only received a rude reply. "I don't want to see your face either!" He confessed and stormed out of the room.

Tangled Hearts

Ahaan had finally confessed how he had felt. Hiding it hurt him. Maybe this was the way it would work. Maybe expressing it was the way to make her realise how cruelly she treated him.

"Karan is just a friend!" She said referring to the college guy who was actually a lot more than a friend. But he didn't need to know.

"I don't buy your lies anymore, Pihu! I have been given eyes that can see and a brain that can see and conclude on its own!"

"Ahaan, look at me." She grabbed his arms as he tried to run away from her. "Look at me! Forgive me, this once. Please." She gave the best shot she could, batting her lashes and fixing her puppy eyes on his. "I can't see you like this. I swear I didn't mean it when I said you could be with others. It hurts me a lot. You have no idea how it felt to see you online the whole night, not replying to any of my texts. You were talking to her, right?" She lifted the phone again to see the girl who stood beside him more clearly.

Chapter Nineteen