Chapter 24

It had been fifteen days since Abhi and I talked to each other. He completely ignored me like the plague. To add fuel to the fire, he spent every single minute with Ananya.

I tried, more like begged, to talk to him. Since it was hard for me to catch him in person, I bombarded his phone with messages.

"Please, Abhi...talk to me. I don't feel good without talking to you. I know I shouldn't have believed some idiot who was gossiping, but I don't know why I did what I did.

It's just I couldn't take it that you are with Ananya. Maybe I was jealous or I don't know. I don't know why I was angry. Please... Please... Please talk to me. I am really sorry for what I did."

That was how I begged him every day to talk to me. But it didn't move him.

I couldn't stop thinking about him. All I think about is how to make him talk to me. It's like I am missing a piece of me, without that piece I feel like I couldn't breathe.

I didn't know if it was love or just friendship but one thing I knew for sure. There was no Aadhi without Abhi. I couldn't lose him.

But I know it was not like this for him. Maybe he really hated me now. I didn't know if he would ever forget what I did and be with me like before.

I felt like my world revolved around him. I was obsessed with him and finally, I realized it was no good for anyone.

If he couldn't forgive a single mistake of mine, then maybe it wasn't worth it. Maybe it was not meant to be.

So exactly on the sixteenth day, I decided to distract myself and break out of this obsession. Nikitha and I decided to take a day out.

She knew all along how I was, and why. I knew she didn't like it. But she didn't say anything. She was with me all along, making sure I didn't feel alone.

I should have appreciated what I had, rather than yearning for something that I didn't have.

So, we went out. She took me to all of her favorite places. We went shopping, and then to a movie.

After the movie, we finished our lunch in a restaurant, and then we wandered around because I didn't feel like going to my room yet.

When we came back to our dorm, it was five in the evening. I was so tired because we had been walking all day in the sun. So I went to bed as soon as I entered my room.

Nikitha stayed with me, and we both slept in the same bed. I had never slept so well in my life. I didn't even realize that my phone was ringing.

When Niki woke me up it was already dinner time. I refreshed myself and took my phone to see ten missed calls. A couple from home and others from friends. The rest were all from Abhi.

I called him back because he never called me more than once if I didn't not pick up. Maybe it was something important but unfortunately, he didn't pick up.

I left my phone on my bed and went to have dinner. I didn't see him in the dining hall. Our dorm had a common dining hall where boys and girls ate together.

I didn't know why, but I wasn't obsessing like before. I looked for him and when I realized that he was not there, I forgot about it and carried on talking with Niki.

I didn't even realize when he entered the hall.

"Abhi is here," Niki informed me.

I just shrugged and continued eating.

She looked at me with a surprised expression.

"What?" I asked her as if I didn't know what she was thinking.

"Nothing." She shook her head and continued eating with a smirk.

When we were about to leave the hall, I heard Abhi calling my name.

"Aadhi."

"Yeah... What is it?" I said with a serious look. But I was excited on the inside.

"I need to talk to you," he said hesitantly.

Niki gave me a look as she left us alone.

When he said he wanted to talk to me, I thought he was going to yell at me for the message bombardment and tell me not to text him anymore.

So when we moved somewhere where we could talk privately, I beat him to the punch.

"I am sorry for continuously texting you. I know it's annoying and it won't happen again. If you were going to tell me that then you don't have to." I spoke quickly, not giving him a chance to speak.

If he was going to tell me not to text, I thought it was better to say it myself.

I stood there fidgeting, waiting for him to say something.

All the while I didn't dare to look at him, because if I looked at him then I might realize how much I missed him and start begging him to talk to me again. I couldn't let that happen now.

"Where were you?" That was all that came from his mouth.

I couldn't stop myself from raising my head to look at him. I was confused.

"You didn't pick up my calls. Where were you?" he asked me again, making it clear what he meant.

"Oh... I had a headache, and I was sleeping when you called," I answered, looking at the floor.

"Are you feeling alright now?" he asked with a concerned tone.

"Yeah... I am okay." His concerned tone gave me a little hope. Maybe it wasn't over yet.

"I was afraid," he said suddenly.

"Why?" I asked now looking at him. I didn't know why he was afraid.

"I thought you were taking revenge for not answering your texts all this time," he said, smiling slightly.

I chuckled, thinking how silly that was. There was a moment of silence between us.

Both of us didn't know what to say. It was our first fight and we didn't know how to go back to how we were. By now I knew he didn't call me to tell me not to text him.

"I missed you." He said it with so much emotion.

"I missed you so much. I have been struggling to cope without you being my side." I can feel the raw emotion in those words. Tears in my eyes are on the verge of rolling down.

"I missed you too." When I said those words, I lost it. I couldn't control my sobs anymore.

"Please don't cry, Aadhi. I am really sorry. I have never seen you cry and to know that I hurt you this much kills me. Please don't cry."

He got anxious when he saw me crying and he started apologizing.

If it was any other situation I would have laughed, but now it only made me cry more. It only made me more emotional. My sobs became full-blown crying.

He hugged me and started patting me on my shoulder. After a minute or so, I felt embarrassed for crying like that in front of him.

So I tried to stop crying, but the sobs haven't stopped yet. He waited for me to compose myself all the while hugging me and patting my shoulder and saying, "It's okay... I am sorry."

When I finally stopped crying, he said the most unexpected words to me.

"Aadhi, I am sorry for hurting you. I am never going to leave you like this. It's not only for you but because it also hurt me a lot. I don't like this separation.

So I promise you now that I will never leave you. We are going to be together forever, no matter what," he said, capturing my cheeks between his palms and looking me in the eye.

I didn't know why he said that and what he meant, but I loved that word forever coming from his lips. I liked the sound of it.

Forever and ever.