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 was glad when his alarm finally went off at 6 AM that morning. He hadn't got much sleep that night, tossing and turning as he attempted to push away the spiralling thoughts that plagued his mind.

He could now finally get off his bed and head to school, even though that was the last thing he wanted to do. Football practice had ceased since exams were taking off in a couple of days. But he hoped there he could find some distraction, anything that could keep his head from replaying the words that had been said to him.

Ahaan checked his phone and found out that Pihu had not replied to his text yet. She was in one of her moods again. And he did not feel the need to push her more. If she did not want to talk to him, he did not want to talk to her either.

Kicking off the blankets, he stood up and pushed aside the red curtains of his window. It was still raining outside. That made him groan in frustration.

Chapter Twenty-six