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Midnight Guest-2

Veer's PoV
She's lost in her own finger work as it travels over curve lines. I expected her to be shocked...or surprised...even angry....but not lost. She keeps caressing my tattoo like it's the most significant artwork in the universe.

"You like it???" I ask her hesitantly. 

"It's.... us." finally Bani looks up at me with wonder in her eyes.

"Yes, it's us. At first I thought of doing 'sweetheart' you know.... But then I changed my mind, 'cause I think I love US more than I love you..." I smile at her expression placing my hand over her palm on my chest, "...you told me na..that you made my name 'cause I'm always in your heart no matter what...just like that Bani, my heart beats for both of us. If we exist, then I exist. I know that if you ever feel that I'm better off without you...you'll let me go. But I Won't. I can't let you go Bani. I'm a selfish man. I'll fight the whole universe including you to be with you, sweetheart. Without you I'm nothing but oblivion." my heart swells with emotion. This is the first time I'm expressing my feelings to Bani. She has always been more clear about this than me.

"Won't you say something???" I ask her impatiently.

I see a pearl of tear drips down her cheek. I quickly cup her face and kiss away the tear, "Sweetheart... Please don't cry... I don't want you to cry anymore." it kills me seeing tears in her eyes.

"When did you do this???" she asks in hoarse voice.

"Before New Year. Six years back. I wanted to show you this on the New Year eve. But that day you couldn’t come. And after that you never came." I smile bitterly.

"Oh...!!! so this too was part of your trap game!!!" she abruptly removes her hand from my body and looks away sadly.

What!!! Now this is what she thinks!!!

I turn her face towards me and directly look into her eyes, "Bani!!!! I did not trap you. I'm telling you again, I. Did. Not. Trap. You. Hell!!! Why Don't you Trust me!!!" I'm trying to keep my cool...but I can't!

She too looks at me with same intensity, "I CAN'T!!! Who are you asking me to believe, huh?? You??? Well, I heard it from your own mouth!!! I heard it all with my own ears!!!" her voice breaks as tears stream down her face.

I fight back the hard knot in my throat and say, "Listen Bani... I made that stupid bet after our first meeting, when you tried punch me in the canteen, in front of the whole crowd, remember? I admit it, that day it hurt my ego and my friends too were making fun of me...so I just did it on the flow. But hell!!! That was before I knew you...before we became friends...before I fell in love. The bet didn’t even cross to my mind after I came to know you!!!"

"Oh really!!!" she laughs sceptically, "...then what was that on the 31st night, huh??? That night I came to give you surprise but what I saw was...your friends were talking shits about me and you were enjoying your fun talking about how you fooled me and got me in your bed!!!..." she hits me on my chest, "...DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA HOW HUMILIATING THAT WAS FOR ME???" she says yelling through her cry.

Her words were like punch in my stomach. I feel ashamed. Honestly speaking untill this moment I didn’t realize how humiliating it was for her or for any girl  to hear those shitty words from her boyfriend and his friends.

By now we both are in tears. I cup her face tightly holding her close to me, "I'm sorry, sweetheart. You know what a jerk I am, don't you? I was drunk.... angry on you for not staying with me...I blubbered those things without making any sense. Now I realize what crap I did that day should not have been done. But this was not all you heard. Didn't you hear what we talked about us...our future...our..." but before I can finish she cuts me.