Chapter 22

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The clock striked 2 a.m. but she was still awake , Pihu stood at the window looking at the end of the road blankly. Riddhima looked at her , she walked up to her , standing behind her, she held her shoulder,

"Won't you sleep....",

"Don't..........I know you came here , to justify him.",

Riddhima had a broken smile on her face.

"Let it be no .......",

"Riddhi, don't act like you don't care.",

Riddhima closed her eyes,

" Ok , so what caring means , getting upset",

Pihu looked at her.

"Please , can you behave normal .",

"I am normal.",Riddhima smiled.

"Like you don't care, he said that.",

"Said what , we are not his family, he didn't said something that's not true.",

Pihu looked at her in frustration.

"Ok then , let's go his family is here no , why we need to stay here then.",

"Pihu ........... He is suffering.",

"Yes offcourse and we are enjoying hot chocolate over here no...",

Riddhima broke into smile.

"Are you serious , he did wrong and that's it , nothing can justify it and please will you stop behaving like nothing happened.",

Riddhima looked up .

"Ok , it happened but let it be , it's not first time he did that",

"Wow , no actually wow , he do this everytime and this not a reason that he will do it again...

And I can't understand he said who are you to interfere then who is he to say that to you.....",

"God ....... Don't take it to heart Pihu.",

"Heart.... Seriously I don't care , but I very well know you do and will you stop pretending...",

Riddhima held her head ,

"I would take it to heart when he had said that from heart but even you know under what circumstances he said that.",

Pihu looked at her ," People who try to keep everyone happy suffers most.",

"I want a coffee.", Riddhima spoke. Pihu looked at the clock .

"What ..... Please can't you bring me a coffee.",

"Until this coffee is just a change of topic.", She went to the door closing it as she proceeded to the kitchen .

The curtains were slowly fluterring , as the wind hit them , it was more quite than usual , no one was aware of the night and he stood at her window while she stood in the room closing her eyes.

She was unaffected , but it was killing him even more , she should have shouted , scolded him , but she just kept quite , Why . His heart feels a pain, a choke , why is she behaving like that. She slowly felled to the bed , the moon light caressing her face also showed that there were few drops hidden in those unaffected eyes, he held the curtains , should he go in, what would he say , does it even mean , everyday he does something like that and then a sorry , he hated himself even more at this point.

She turned to the window , finally a drop felled down her eyes, her mind didn't cared but still her heart betrayed her , she did. She didn't wanted to take that seriously but unknowingly she was taking it. She closed her eyes , a few more drops felled down .

He looked at her face , trying her best he knew she was suffering no matter what she pretended and he couldn't hold , taking up the courage he walked up to the door.

He held the knob and took a deep breath, finally he opened the door , she felt someone entered and as she lifted her head it was him , she turned her head away, blinking a few times to wipe away those unknown tears she looked at him smiling.

"You don't have to explain I understand....", She said in broken words and stood up.

He stood there quitely," and ... I don't even know if there is any explanation for that....", He bited his lips in stress.

"I feel disgusting... How I even said that ..",

she didn't replied.

"I ... I didn't meant to but ... I even don't know a substitute for sorry... It's like I was wrong and I don't have an explanation for that...", He looked at the ground.

"Vansh.....",

"I know you will say it's ok but can you do something for me.", He broke her statement .She looked at him in confusion.

"Like... Can you slap me on my right cheek.",

"What...", She stepped back.

"No , I mean you can do that with left one too.",

She was blank.

"Okay , I understand you want to slap me on both, that's fine.".

"What are you speaking.",

"Riddhima don't say you gonna punch me too.", Her lips parted in surprise and slowly curled into a small smile .

He stood there looking at her smile. She turned to the window her smile was forcing her supressed tear to come out , running her fingers down her cheeks he wiped them before he notices.

" I am a pshyco....", He uttered ," I am mad , I don't know what I am speaking but you do , but please say that I was wrong and shout , I want to hear you scolding me...", He stood there looking at her , she turned to him but probably she couldn't hold it more she felled down breaking, holding her face and those hidden tears flowing uncontrollably , the more she tried to hold them , the more they betrayed him , he stood there in guilt .

He slowly sat down , taking off her hand he looked at her teary face with pain. Wiping those tears he downed her head.

" I am sorry...", He said in broken words.

" Sorry for the first time I went off even when you called me , when I didn't listened to you , when I threw that coat at you , when I shouted at you , when I hurted you , when...",

"Will you stop.", She looked at him. He looked at her helplessly.

"Do I have some right to be angry.... I am currently angry.", she wiped her tears.

"I want to be angry for atleast 1 hour.", She explained.

"Ok, so after one hour your anger will go or ...",

"If it don't happen I will think of the options you have given.",

He smiled, "Yeh , they are open ",

he looked at her.

"What...",

"I .... You didn't said that..",

"What",

"You say no when i say I am a pshyco.",

Riddhima narrowed her eyes.

"Ohh but I can't remember it right now...", She said looking at the window.

"You say that no....",

"What Vansh",

"That", he said restlessly.

"I really can't remember what you are talking about.",

He stood up with a pout.

"Okay , I will meet you after an hour , till then you can be angry , and you have every right , if you can held my hand to help me out, you can also give me a slap to make me right when I am not.", He exclaimed.

"You seemed very excited to get a slap ", she ask standing.

Caressing his hair he walked to the door , "May be , There is a some undercover mission which would get fulfilled by that.",

Riddhima raised an eyebrow , he nodded smiling.

"By the way , Vansh....", He turned , "Don't worry I am pshycologist.",

A smiled spread across his face.

Looking at her he stepped outside only to bump into Pihu , all the coffee spread across the door and she looked up at him in frustration.

"Oh no... I ... I didn't .... I am sorry....", Pihu looked at Riddhima and then at him.

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