chapter 21

Vaishali - Let’s wait for some time. Today, I also want to talk to him. Divya - Hehe. What do you want to talk to him about? Vaishali - Divya, you have got a boyfriend. But I don’t have any. I will ask him to help me. Hehe. Divya -  Haha! Vaishali - He must be having many good friends like him. Divya - Haha. Don’t worry, I will help you in it.  Vaishali - I want to take help only from Vicky, not from you. I giggled, “Why? Don’t you think I can help you. Or have you started keeping an eye on Vicky?”She laughed and said, “Haha! Never. I never keep an eye on second hand things.”I laughed and said, “Oh…”Vaishali - Let’s wait here. He will be coming. Divya - Okay. We turned off our scooties and started waiting for Vicky. Ten minutes passed and he was nowhere. She asked me, “What happened to your Vicky? Today, he didn’t come.” I said, “Wait. Let me call him.” I took out the mobile phone from my bag and called him. To my surprise, he didn’t even pick up my call. I called him thrice but he didn’t respond. She asked me with a questioning face, “What happened?” I felt insulted. I thought, “If I say to her that he didn’t even pick up my call then she will make fun of me. It’s better that I lie to her.” I called on the customer care number. The recorded voice from the company came from the other end, “Press one to change the language. Press two to know about your prepaid number. Press three to know about the post paid number.”I ignored what I heard, I simply said, “Hi Vicky, how are you?... Me also good…Today, you didn’t come…. Oh…so you are busy. No problem. I simply asked because you are not here…..okay. Bye… take care…. Love you…”I hung up the call with a smiling face and said to her, “He is busy today. He will not be able to come.”Vaishali - Oh… okay. No problem. By the where is he busy? Divya - He has gone to his relative’s house. Vaishali - No problem. Tomorrow, he will come again here to chase you. I will catch him. I laughed, “Yeah. Catch him if you can.” She turned on her scooty and went away. I started my scooty and reached home very angry. I entered my room and called on the number of Vicky again. Again, he didn’t pick up my phone. I became furious. I texted him, “You idiot! Why are you not picking up my call?” Instantly, his call came. I picked up his call. He roared, “How dare you call me an idiot?”I said in a very angry tone, “Why are you not picking up my call? You didn’t even come to chase me today.”He said outrageously, “I am not your servant who is at your beck and call. You say, follow me and I will follow you. You say talk to me and I will talk to you. It’s not going to happen. I am also a human being.”I was taken aback to see his changed behaviour, “Vicky, what has happened to you? You never yelled at me before.”Vicky - You started all this, not me. First you called me an idiot!Divya - Just look at you. You were not picking my phone. When I called you an idiot, you called me back instantly. It means you were not busy anywhere. Vicky - Stupid! I was busy. I was with my dad in his shop. How could I pick up your call in front of my dad? I felt guilty to hear that, but I posed one more question, “But how are you talking to me then?”He answered in a fully irritated tone, “Because now, I am not in his shop. When I read your message, I made an excuse and came out of the shop for a minute.”Divya - Oh, I am sorry. Vicky - No need to say sorry. I am hurt. He hung up the call and left me in the feeling of guilt. I said to myself, “Oh shit! What did you do Divya? You hurt him. He was right. He was in his dad’s shop and you called him an idiot. You are wrong, Divya. You are absolutely wrong!”I called on his number again. He didn’t pick up my call. I sent him so many messages saying, “Sorry. It was my mistake. Please forgive me. I know you love me a lot but I hurt you. I didn’t hurt you knowingly. It all happened in my weak moment. Please reply to me. Just say, I have accepted your apology.” Even after sending him so many messages, he didn’t reply even once.From the next day onwards, he stopped chasing me. After school, my eyes were always in wait for him but he never came. Vaishali asked me many times where he was. I always lied to her giving one excuse or the other. Whenever she asked me, I felt insulted. My girl ego got hurt a lot. Even in the evening and at nights, he used to ignore me. He would text me only a few messages and then say he was busy and he had to go. One nightI felt like talking to him. I sent him a message, “Hi Vicky.” His reply came, “I am busy. I will talk to you tomorrow.”I sent another, “What has happened to you? Why are you ignoring me? We haven’t even met for a long time.”His reply, “Nothing has happened to me. I am sitting with my dad. How can I talk to you right now? Yeah, I also know that we  met a long time back. When I get time, I will meet you. Okay, bye. Now, I have to go.”Divya - Hey, wait! You can’t leave me like that. Earlier, you had a lot of time for me. You used to chat with me for the full day and night. But now you have changed a lot.(It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment and please don't forget to follow me and become my superfan. You will be able to read all the locked parts of all my series for free and you will also be able to chat with me and my superfans directly.)