Chapter 35: chapter 35

THE SILENT LOVE ...Chapter 34 :Swetha, after completing her ice cream, kept the bowl aside and glanced at Akash who had not yet completed his. She glanced at him astonished and queried,“Sir! You didn’t even complete half the cup. You should have taken something if you are not interested in ice cream”.Akash smiled at her and took the tissue from the box kept on the table and bent forward. Before she could realize what’s happening, Akash wiped the ice cream stuck at the corner of her lips very gently. After realizing what Akash had done, she blushed for his gesture and gave a nervous smile and lowered her head thanking him.Swetha, who lowered her head feeling awkward  with Akash’s behavior,noticed a familiar figure from the corner of her eyes and raised her head to the opposite table which was set parallel to theirs.She froze in her place whereas her eyes popped up being drumstruck,  by seeing the person on the opposite table, not expecting him to be seen there. Suddenly she felt suffocating and a cold chill ran through her spine making her shiver all over the body by seeing the menacing look from that person, who turned out to be Sreekar.Sreekar, after encountering such an intimacy with Swetha, didn’t dare to go to his uncle’s house afraiding to bump into her. Though he completed the meeting successfully with the Switzerland company, his heart feels emptiness for not sharing the good news with her.He couldn’t understand his feelings towards Swetha and was feeling terrible to get drowned in her thoughts. On one side  his heart keeps despising women and on another side his heart craves to see her. He couldn’t understand the dual feelings of his heart and felt disturbed.He made himself busy with the new project and tried to distract himself from her thoughts. But to his frustration, the more he pushed the thoughts away from his mind, the more the incident of hugging her tightly in his arms flashed in his mind.He loved the feeling of her in his embrace fitting perfectly in his arms with her delicate figure wrapping her hands around his neck. The way his hands held her tiny waist, the way she buried her face into his chest, the way she held him clinging to him, nothing was disappearing from his memories however he tried to forget.  Fortunately, Lalitha asked him to accompany him for shopping. He immediately agreed to her request to get distracted from Swetha’s thoughts. He even wants to try his uncle Pratap’s  suggestion in dating Lalitha as he knew her from childhood. He thought once he spent some time with Lalitha, he could forget the thoughts of Swetha.But to his dismay, the more he spent the time with Lalitha, the more Swetha thoughts got occupied in his mind. However Lalitha speaks or behaves, he feels like she is deliberately faking to be elegant. He compared her every movement with Swetha and differentiated the genuinity and reality in their behavior. Swetha is like a pure soul who likes to be herself which makes her look very graceful whereas Lalitha is a hypocritical person who pretends to be shown as an elegant and graceful woman being a daughter of a wealthy family.Once they completed their shopping, Lalitha whined like a spoiled brat to have an ice cream and took him to the food point which was nearby. They both sat in their seats and got their order. When Sreekar was about to start his ice cream, he caught the glimpse of the familiar figure and kept staring towards the direction of the figure and didn’t take any time to recognize her as Swetha. He kept staring at her till she came and sat opposite to them.He was stupefied to see her with Akash, whom he identifies as one of the businessmen in the city. He couldn’t understand why Swetha was accompanying him for shopping. His blood boiled when she was blushing for his words and giving him her signature smile. His heart sank to see her with another man and held the ice cream bowl tightly.