chapter 57

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Chapter start

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" Now go inside yourself, I can accompany you till here." Coming till outside Reyansh's room, Priyal tells Aaira and then leaves from there.

And here suddenly Aaira's heart beats faster, she still doesn't know how she will apologize to him, why did she create such a situation between them, she thinks.

Till yesterday her heart was beating fast in getting closer to him because of their first kiss but now her heart is beating fast because of the awkward situation created by her.

She takes a deep breath and thinks of knocking on the door but her hands stop after thinking of something.

She thinks why shouldn't she surprise him? Anyway he is asleep so why should she disturb his sleep by knocking and what will be better than this that he opens his eyes and she is in front of him.

And with this thought in mind, she opens the door without knocking, which luckily was unlocked.

But as soon as she opens the door and goes inside, her eyes widen at the condition in which she finds Reyansh in front of her.

Her eyes widen to see Reyansh completely half-naked in front of her wearing nothing but a towel tied around his waist but the rest of his body was bare, his wet hair with a few droplets of water dripping down his face and body indicates that he has just taken a bath.

She sees that he has a white towel in his hand with which he was about to wipe his hair but his hands too stop seeing her suddenly, especially in his room.

Their eyes meet where Aaira's eyes are currently admiring the "hot-mess" standing in front of her but there in Reyansh's eyes, there is no excitement, no happiness and no other pleasant feeling is present after seeing her today, He is not even aware of the condition in which he is standing in front of her; if there is something in his eyes today, it is only sadness.

Well, he had just woken up from his sadness, Yes, sadness, because he did not sleep the entire night, till now he was just lying down with his sadness.

He had gone for a shower a few minutes ago and as soon as he came out of the washroom into the room, she appeared in front of him which was a shocking thing for him but still he stood there looking at her without giving any reaction because he is not the kind of person whose mood changes in seconds.

No, if he feels bad about something then it will take him time to come out of it, no matter how calm and patient guy he is.

And somewhere he is not even angry with her because obviously he cannot be angry with her for the fact that why she chose her father over him, No, He would never be angry with her for this, never.

But the reason for his sadness is something else and thinking about that reason, in the situation he is in right now, he does not want to talk to her.

He has always been very patient with her but what she did last night was a bit unacceptable to him.

If both of them wanted, they could have sat face to face and talked, he would have been able to explain things to her better if both of them were face to face. Both of them were together in college yesterday but even then she did not think of talking about all this, she just kept thinking wrong things and wanted to end everything with just one phone call.

And he is also sad that if Neil had not talked to her, if Neil had not clarified things to her, she would not have been here today.

She made her decision to end things between them, and he feels bad about it all and now it will take him some time to come out of all these thoughts, he will not be able to pretend to smile.

Aaira is still looking at him in astonishment, but as soon as her gaze goes from his face to his chiseled chest and then to his perfect lightly formed six pack, she suddenly feels a shiver running down her spine which makes her come back to her senses and realize what she was doing, she was starring at him shamelessly, realizing this she lowers her gaze along with her heart racing.

" I'm sorry, Maa told me you were sleeping, I didn't know that..." without completing her words she turns around showing him her back and stands with her eyes closed whereupon he looks at her back still with a calm expression.

Here Aaira's heart beats still fast and then she slowly opens her eyes, she slightly swallows the saliva which was forming in her throat, his bare body appearing before her eyes again and again.

" Why did I say sorry to him ? He is mine so I have every right to see him like that.

Right? Really? Do I still have any right over him after what I did to him last night?" Her one self thinks,

" Yes, of course it is only my right." This is what her other self thinks

And for some time she was confused about whether she should not have said sorry for looking at him like that or whether she had the right to do so or not, she finally turns towards him again, only to find his absence in the room.

" Where did he go?" She thinks.

Whereas Reyansh who goes straight to his closet to wear his clothes, as soon as she turns.

In the closet, he wears a blue denim and a black T-shirt on top, but when he looks at himself in the mirror, he remembers Aaira who is outside wearing clothes of the same color, she too is wearing blue denim and a black hoodie, and thinking about that, he decides to change his clothes.

He takes off his black T-shirt and puts back a baby pink T-shirt.

Well, had today been any other day he would have smiled at this coincidence, but for now there is no expression on his face.

After getting ready, he takes a deep breath and decides to go back to the room because it is obvious how long he will stay locked inside here, one hour? 2 hours?

Whereas he knows that the girl standing outside will not go anywhere without meeting him and telling him her things.

He comes out of the closet and as he comes out he finds Aaira exactly at the same place where he left her, She is still standing near the door, but the door is closed.

There, Aaira sees him but where she came with the intention of saying sorry to him but now after seeing his half-naked state, she decides to tease him first.

" I didn't know I would be welcomed with such a hot mess." She says in a slightly flirtatious tone as she takes a step towards him.

And there, after hearing her words, he slightly rolls his eyes seeing her talking so normally, but then he thinks of leaving the room.

Aaira sees him coming towards her but is shocked when he comes close to her and is about to pass her, but before he can pass her and move away, she catches his wrist, upon which his steps stop.

She turns towards him and sees his back.

" I'm sorry, please don't turn your face away from me like this." She speaks in her choked voice, at which he takes a breath.

And at the same time she feels very strange seeing him still not turning towards her and not saying anything.

Till date she has never seen him like this with her.

Well, there was a time when there used to be silence between the two, there used to be distance between them.

But ever since they both have become close, ever since they joined college together, she has never seen him so quiet around her.

She had tried to push him away from her many times before, but he would always come back to her but last night she must have hurt him so much that the person who used to always stand in front of her with a smile despite her anger, is today standing with his face turned away.

" Please forgive me considering this as my last mistake." She says while hugging him from behind and with this mere act of hers, he starts getting weak.

He has words in his mouth, but he has barely restrained himself from saying anything that might hurt her but he also knows that his silence is hurting her more.

And there he doesn't say anything and she too is silently hugging him, she too has no words to say anything to him today except apology, After all, what should she say to him so that he starts talking to her...she doesn't know.

And just like that there's silence for about 5 minutes, where he's neither saying anything nor moving, and he's silently hugging her from behind

But when she can no longer tolerate his silence, she leaves him, which he feels but before he can move ahead after getting free from her, she comes and stands in front of him, whereupon he looks at her but immediately moves his gaze away from her face.

Seeing him like this hurts her heart, but then she places both her hands around his waist and locks them on his back, she doesn't embrace him, but he is still in her hold, their bodies lightly pressed against each other.

She looks up at him, and when he senses her silent staring, his eyes look at her but as soon as his eyes meet her moist eyes, he turns his gaze away from her again because no matter what, he can't see tears in her eyes because of him but the sad thing is that today there are tears in his eyes because of his indifference and what's more regrettable is that he is unable to wipe away her tears.

" I know this time I have hurt you a lot, maybe so much that the person who used to forgive my every mistake is not even looking at me today." After a silence, she says which he listens to silently.

" But you know how I am, yesterday a lot of things were going on in my mind and after thinking about all that, I did what I felt was right." She says

" So you did what you thought was right, then why did you come here now?" He finally speaks while looking at her to which she sees him

" You did what you felt was right, so now stick to your right decision and go away from here and leave me alone." He adds to which she looks at him.

" I will never leave you alone...I...." she says but is unable to speak further when he interrupts her

" Stop this nonsense of yours, and it will be better if you don't say these big words in front of me because like your promises, all these words of yours are also hollow...like your promises, these words also do not have any meaning." He says and this is what he was afraid of, he is hurting her with his words, which he didn’t want to do.

" I know you get angry at my actions, and you are still angry, So express that anger, say whatever you want to say, I will listen to everything just like you have listened to me till today." She says to which he looks at her

" I don't want to say anything, just go away from here, I don't want to talk to you right now." He says this because he really doesn't want to say anything to her.

He knows that he will be fine in some time but if he says something wrong then those words will not be taken back, that is why he is controlling himself.

" But I won't go anywhere without your forgiveness, I know I made a mistake...At that time, I did what I felt was right because you know why I did those things....Papa always fulfills all my demands, so I thought that if his one wish was that I should not have a boyfriend, then I did that, I thought of ending our things for him...." she says to which he hears all this silently

" But you know, here I went wrong again, Where I felt that papa is not happy with our relationship, now the things has reached such a point that Papa has threatened me for the first time for you that if I hurt his son, he will stop talking to me." She says all this.

Well he heard all this conversation between them last night and it is not a surprise for him anymore, but yes he was really surprised last night but when Neil called him his son.

And somewhere he is also angry with her for forcing Neil to explain so much to her last night, He had to swear on Avni to prove his truthfulness.

And even Neil did not do anything to separate them but even if he had done it, he ( Reyansh ) explained to her so much that it was just a matter of 2 months, He had told her not to say anything to her father after going home but still, she is she, she always does what is wrong.

And now slowly, because of her act of apologizing to him in her babyish way, somewhere, now he wants to forgive her but no, he won't do that because doing so will only encourage her to believe that no matter what she does, everyone will forgive her.

But no, it is not like that, she cannot always do what she thinks is right, she will have to first learn to listen to people.

She will have to learn patience.

And his doing this with her does not show any less of his love.

Love is not always that you keep doing whatever you feel like doing, right or wrong, I am with you.

No, sometimes you have to be strict in love, you have to correct the mistakes of your partner so that he/she does even better in life.

And he is also not a great person who has never made a mistake, but the person in front of him right now, whom he loves, is a little wrong and it is also his responsibility to correct her mistake.

And her father has done his part last night, now it is his turn.

" Papa made me realise my mistake, he explained to me how wrong I was yesterday... Saying this, she tells him everything, the same things that he already knows but still he listens to her silently.

Well, somewhere he mentally laughs slightly at the fact that how she is telling him all the things that he already knows but she has no idea that he knows everything.

And there, she tells him everything and accepts her mistake that how she misunderstood her father yesterday and hurt also him ( Reyansh ) because of her over thinking but now that her father has cleared things up about him ( Reyansh ) and their relationship, she wants another chance from him to rectify her mistake.

" Please, reysu, Forget my words of last night and forgive me once, give me one last chance, I will never hurt you again." After saying everything she apologizes to him again.

But he is listening to all this with his face turned away from her and Aaira looks at him like this but she is unable to say anything further when suddenly the door of the room opens and both look at the door where Priyal is.

And even after Priyal's arrival, Aaira keeps holding Reyansh by the waist but when she realises their closeness, she leaves Reyansh and stands a step away from him, stealing glances from Priyal and Reyansh looks at his mother.

And there Priyal sees both of them and as far as she knows her son, seeing him at this time and also not seeing happiness on Aaira's face she understands that something is wrong between them.

" Sorry, I forgot for a moment that Aaira was here that's why I didn't knock before coming." Priyal says, and of course she doesn't always need to knock before entering her son's room but today it was needed somewhere, but she had really forgotten for a moment that Aaira was inside.

And then after saying sorry, Priyal looks at their faces but obviously being a wise mother, she decides not to say anything between them, She decides not to ask either of them what happened between them.

" by the way, I just came to tell you both something." She says to which both of them look at her.

" Reyansh, take care of Aaira as I am going to meet your Nani." priyal says at which Reyansh sees her but before he can say anything, priyal continues

" And Aaira beta, I'm sorry you are here and I am going out...but yes you stay, I will talk to Avni, now I will let you go only after dinner.

I will be back by evening so you stay here till then." Reyansh gets shocked hearing this, how will he be able to stay angry till evening in her presence, he will melt anyway, which he doesn’t want.

" Mom, I will also come with you, she is going back to her home." Reyansh says looking at Aaira and then at his mom.

And Aaira looks at him at this word and feels bad somewhere, well she will not go from here without his forgiveness but she feels bad that today he annoyed by her presence so much that he wants to leave her even though his mother wants them to spend time together.

And there after hearing his words, Now Priyal is sure that something is definitely wrong between these two, otherwise her son would never think of leaving Aaira like this.

"Why? Why do you want to come with me?" Priyal asks, glaring at him.

" What do you mean by why? I also want to meet Nani." Reyansh says to which Aaira looks at him and Priyal looks at both of them.

" Achha!! Before today you never expressed such a desire to meet your Nani and today Aaira is here but you want to go and meet Nani...wow!!" Priyal taunts him at which he sees his mother

" No, I mean, you shouldn't even think of doing this drama in front of me because do you know who I am to you?" She asks at which Reyansh sees her pouting

" Mom." He answers knowing very well what's coming next

" That's right. I am your mom, So don't fool me, right now your heart must be bursting with joy in the presence of Aaira....but no, in front of me, you will pretend that you don't want to spend time with her..." She says this

To which Reyansh makes a face, at least she doesn’t taunts him so much in front of Aaira, but he also knows that his actions were the reason he deserved this taunts.

While Aaira is quietly watching this thing between them and Priyal speaks further.

" Both of you stay here quietly and wait for me to come." Priyal says this in the end.

Well earlier priyal was going out of the house to give them privacy but now that she has noticed that something is wrong between them, this thing seems more right to her.

Well she should have understood it earlier, if Aaira has come here today then there must be some solid reason and the reason could be that her son was upset about something and she had come with him to sort things out.

Anyway, being a super understanding mother Priyal understands all these things.

And with this Priyal says bye to both of them and leaves the room after giving a sweet hug to Aaira.

And they both look at each other where Aaira's face is filled with joy that she has the whole day to pacify him but there is tension on Reyansh’s face as to how he will stay in her presence without talking for the whole day, no he will not melt today.

And then, before Aaira can say anything else, Priyal comes back into the room.

" Sorry again but yes Reyansh make your girlfriend feel good today, Show her your cooking skills by preparing lunch with your own hands because today the cook is on leave and so is your mom." Priyal says this, well this thought just now comes to her.

At first she had thought that she would prepare their lunch first and then go out but now after understanding things between them she handed over this responsibility to her son.

Because no matter what kind of fight you have, food brings you closer, but yes, sometimes, this thing also doesn't always work.

And with this, this time Priyal actually leaves from there after closing the door of Reyansh's room.

And there, after Priyal leaves, Aaira sees Reyansh who is looking everywhere except at her.

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The scene is of Mehra's office.

Ikshita has some files in her hand and she is going down to the lower floor using the stairs because there is some problem with the lift.

But suddenly while descending her feet slip and she falls from two or three stairs, but there on the other side, Aarav, who is coming up the stairs, collides with her due to which he too falls down and all the files and papers in Ikshita's hand fall on Aarav.

" Ouch, mumma." These are the first words that come out of Ikshita's mouth in pain, as her waist hits the stairs floor.

Meanwhile, nothing happens to Aarav but when he realizes the person he collided with, his face hardens.

He gives her a look and the scattered papers around him.

But then he sighs and gets up from the ground but as soon as he gets up Ikshita sees him.

" Sorry." She says sorry to him after he falls because of her.

But Aarav, perhaps for the first time in his life, is about to leave someone like this without helping, but there ikshita stops him.

" At least help me get up." She says holding her waist and tries to get up but she feels her leg is twisted probably because of her heel.

And at her words, he turns towards her but as soon as he sees her, the thought of Aadhriti immediately comes to his mind, who used to fall all the time and he used to save her.

But in all this and because of this antics of hers, he got attracted towards her and fell in love with her.

And as soon as he thinks about her, his face fills with anger and he looks at ikshita who is extending her hand towards him so that he can help her a little.

But what Aarav says next disappoints ikshita.

" Kuch Ladkiyan giri hui hi achhi lagti hai, unki madad karna bewokufi hoti hai." He tells her this remembering Aadhriti. He became a fool by helping her every time.

And there Ikshita who had been tolerating all his bad behaviour of the past days but today her face fills with anger at his words, how dare he say such words to her.

And there, before Aarav can leave after saying his words, his steps stop on hearing Ikshita's words.

" Oh, now I understand the reason for your grumpiness." She says to which Aarav turns towards her and looks at her silently.

" The way you just used words for girls, even a fool would understand that someone has broken the poor guy's heart....Now all the girls will be punished for that one girl, now your anger will be vented on everyone. Typical bookish character." She taunts him in anger.

And it is evident from his behavior, the way he stays away from girls, the way he treats her, right from the beginning, she feels that this is the reason somewhere but she was not sure, still at this time she says whatever comes into her mind and mouth.

And there, Aarav looks at her silently on her words and somewhere her words are correct, but still he chose to be patient and not say anything further on this matter and turns to leave from there quietly.

" You are really a dog." Seeing him still not helping her and turning his back on her, Ikshita tells him this.

Well, this word was about to come out of her mouth in Hindi but to respect him and maintain her dignity, she calls him dog in English.

And Aarav who didn't react to her previous bitter words because it was true, but now on her this words he turns towards her and ikshita sees him angrily.

Aarav sits at her level and ikshita looks at him

" Control your language miss because if I tell you what is the opposite of this dog, you girls will get offended and

will say that I abused you and then you will get another chance to fight." He tells her politely and ikshita looks at him.

Well, Ikshita is more shocked by the fact that he knows how to speak so much because she never saw him speak so many words at once with her. She only heard such small words from his mouth like okay, oh, fine.

And saying this, Aarav walks away from there this time very quickly and ikshita watches him go but then she looks at herself and the papers scattered around her.

" Chalo, khud hi uthna padega, koi madad ko nahi aayega." She says this to herself and while sitting she first collects those papers and files but when she tries to get up, she actually can't because her leg is really sprained.

Her eyes well up with tears as she remembers something.

But then her moist eyes widen as she feels herself in the air in one swift move, She finds herself in the arms of none other than Aarav, who is carrying her back up the stairs to her sitting place.

Well, after going back leaving her in that condition, Aarav immediately feels a regret for not helping her and her words affect him so much that because of one girl, he will now do bad to all the girls.

But no, he is not like that, it is not possible for him that someone asks him for help and he refuses to do so and so keeping his harshness aside he comes back to help her and quietly, without saying anything, he picks her up straight in his arms when he sees that she has hurt her leg.

There, in his arms, walking towards her seat, ikshita looks at his face which is expressionless and seeing him doing this for her despite her wrong words, she immediately starts regretting her words that maybe she shouldn't have said all that to him.

" I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said all that to you." She says as Aarav makes her sit comfortably in her chair.

But there, Aarav doesn't say anything on her sorry but goes away from there quietly upon which ikshita looks at him.

And somewhere after seeing him she starts thinking whether the reason she said is correct? Is he so sad because someone has broken his heart?

Suddenly she starts feeling bad for him and she can't understand why his sadness is affecting her, why is she thinking so much about him.

To be continued..........