FOUR

It had been one month since I first met Adah.My house was nearing its finishing and the house warming was to be held in a week. Adah's house was going to be right in front of mine.

House warming day

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'You look really handsome.' my mother complemented me. I smiled.

I was wearing a black kurta and light blue jeans.

Many of my relatives had arrived. Mom had called her colleagues from school too. Mike, Sam and Tina had arrived too and Adah was yet to arrive. She arrived after 10 minutes along with her parents. She was wearing a white salwaar kameez and when I saw her, my eyes bulged out and my mouth fell open. I was stunned at her mesmerizing beauty. Till now, I had seen her only in uniform. This was the first time I was seeing her in a dress.

'Congratulations, Aman!' Adah said to me.

The way in which she says my name!.... Gosh! It feels so good!

Her parents went to greet my mother after they greeted me.

I had called only Adah, Mike, Tina and Sam from our school on that day and they all had arrived.

'Come, let me take you guys around the house.' I said and they followed me as I showed them my home.

It was a simple two-bedroom house that was spacious enough. We didn't need a bigger house since only me and my mother lived there and guests came only once in a blue moon.

'Its beautiful! Simple, yet elegant. I love these types of houses, rather than those which have complicated furnitures and loads of useless rooms. My house is one of them.' Adah said as we reached my room.

My room was totally furnished in black as it was my favourite colour. We all sat on my bed and were chatting.

'I didn't knew that our houses will be just opposite to each other's.' Adah said to me.

'Yeah.' I replied.

At this Mike and Tina looked at me and winked. Tina also knew about my feelings for Adah but she hadn't revealed this to her,since I had told her keep it as a secret.

'Its good to have a best friend near my house.Otherwise I would be feeling so lonely here.' Adah said.

I just smiled.

Wow! That's nice.Atleast she considers me as a best friend. Good progress, Aman! I thought.

'Guys, let's do something.I am feeling bored.' Mike said.

'Truth or dare!' Adah and Tina exclaimed together.

'Okay.' I said and brought a bottle from the kitchen.

We all sat on the floor of in my room and I spun the bottle. It pointed towards Mike. Adah took the opportunity to ask the questions.

'Truth or dare?' she asked.

'Truth.' he replied.

'Ok.... ' Adah said, thinking.

Mike looked at her curiously.

'Ok. Was there any other girl in your life before Tina came?' Adah asked.

OMG!!!

Only I knew about his previous relationship with a girl called Maya. Even Tina didn't knew about it. He had told me to keep it as a secret. Even Sam didn't knew about it. Mike had dated Maya for almost two years during the 9th and 10th standard and Tina had joined our school only during 11th standard. But then they broke up after they had some issues.

I saw Mike. He seemed helpless.

'Yes.' he replied.

Tina's eyes widened in horror. She hadn't expected this.

'What!' she said.

Mike hung his head down.

'During 9th and 10th standard, I used to date a girl called Maya. We both loved each other.' Mike said.

'You never told me about this even when I asked if you had any girlfriend before. You lied to me. You broke my trust.' Tina said, sobbing.

'No Tina, there's nothing like that. No one else other than me knows about it. Not even Sam.' I said.

Sam was just sitting there, confused about what was happening there.

'Yeah, but he could have said it to me at least.' Tina said.

'No, because he was afraid of your reaction. He was afraid you would be angry with him.' I said.

'I wouldn't be angry with him. I had told him about my earlier relationship. Why couldn't he?' she asked.

I sighed.

'You are a liar. You don't have any feelings and you don't know about our feelings. You could have said it to me but you didn't.' she said in anger.

I got frustrated.

'He didn't told you all this because Maya is dead. She's no more.' I said furiously to her because I saw that Mike had tears welled up in his eyes.

'What?' she asked, surprised.

'Yeah. She met with an accident and died. You don't know what he has gone through. He was afraid to fall in love after that because he felt he couldn't afford to lose anyone again. But still he fell for you. You know why? Because he saw her in you.' I said in anger. My voice was raised.

'What?' she whispered and hugged Mike.

'I am so sorry that I doubted on you. Please forgive me.' she said, crying.

'It's okay, not your mistake.' Mike said.

Both of them were crying and holding each other tightly in hug. I had tears in my eyes too, seeing their love for each other

'Aww! They are so cute.' Adah said. She also had tears in her eyes.

'Did you guys notice that we all are crying.' I said and we all laughed.

Just then my mom called us for lunch and we went to have our lunch.