FIFTEEN

You don't understand the value of a certain thing unless you lose it. That's what happened to me too. I didn't realize the value of my friendship with Mike until we broke apart. Even though I had Adah, Sheza and Sam by my side, I still felt lonely. I realized my mistake, I shouldn't have shouted at him. But what he said was not right too. I didn't love Adah just because of her beauty. It's right that I was mesmerized by her beauty but that doesn't mean that her beauty is the only reason I love her. As if my life had no complexities, here was another bomb dropped on me, Mike broke up and it really hit me hard.

Well, seems like I'm repeating the same thing again and again. Let me tell you what happened next.

Mike avoided me all day and I ignored him too because my ego held me back. No one apart from Mike and me knew the reason behind our fight. All they knew was that something went wrong and we fell apart and they were hoping we would patch up soon but I was doubtful about that. I wondered if Mike also regretted about us fighting and his ego also held him back just like in my case. That was highly possible. I was thankful for my friends that they didn't force me to tell them the reason behind our fight because I couldn't tell them since I had Adah on one side and Sheza on the other. If I told them the reason, I would lose both of them and I didn't want that to happen. When I went to college the next day I didn't see Mike and I didn't ask anyone about him. I heard Tina say to Adah that Mike had gone to his aunt's house, so he would be taking a day off from college. I wondered if he did that on purpose because he didn't want to see me. This fight was getting on my nerves now. I decided to fight my ego and make it up to him. I didn't knew how I was going to do that so I decided to take assistance from someone and Sheza seemed to be the right person. I decided not to approach Adah because that would get even more complicated. Do after the first lecture at college, I asked Sheza to bunk the next lecture and told her that we would go out. Well, she thought that we were going on a date or something but I didn't care what she thought because I had only one thing on my mind and that was to stop my fight with Mike. Others were suspicious about us bunking class together and Adah also thought the same like Sheza did.

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Just as I said, Sheza and I bunked the class and went to a coffee shop nearby. The ambiance was amazing and it was a perfect hangout for couples. Well, I hadn't gone there for a couple's time, instead I had to save my friendship in which Sheza was going to help me hopefully.

'This place is so beautiful!!!' Sheza exclaimed.

'Yeah, right?' I said as we took a corner table and seated ourselves.

A waiter came up to us to take our order. Both of us ordered cold coffee since both of us loved it. The waiter left after taking our order.

'Well, Sheza...I brought you here for a different reason.' I said.

'Mm...Hmm. Okay.' She said, which sounded more like a question.

'Well, you know that there's something off between me and Mike, right?' I asked.

She nodded.

'Well, I can't really tell you the reason behind our fight now but I promise I'll tell you when the time comes. Well, the thing is that I can't take this fight anymore and I want to be with Mike again and only you guys can help me in that.' I said.

'Well I am happy that you want to end this fight because I can't take the cold war between you guys anymore. So, how exactly do you want us to help you?' She said.

'Well maybe you guys can tell him that I am sorry for whatever I did and he'll forgive me?' I suggested.

Sheza nodded her head in disapproval. She said that the idea was pointless.

'Then what do I do?' I asked.

'You have to tell that to him yourself.'

'No no no....I can't do that. We're already fighting and then how do you expect me to apologize to him. Plus, it was his fault in all this.'

'Just stop the blame game, Aman. In your perspective, he may be the one to be blamed but maybe in his perspective, you are the one. If you keep on blaming him and also weep for your friendship, you are gonna lose him forever. So just keep everything behind and just confess your apology to him.' She said.

'Good talk. You should be an influencer. And you're right, I should make it up to him.'

She smiled and I smiled too.

'Smile more often, it suits you.' Sheza said and I smiled again.