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Chapter 7. Team

🎶 Thode Kam Ajnaabi (play after asterisk)

Published on 06.05.2022

| INAAYA RAI |

"I kissed him."

Nikita repeated for the nth time in the last half an hour.

"I thought he kissed you." Alisha said and Nikita clenched and unclenched her hand in vexation.

"He kissed me and I kissed him back." She gritted out in return.

"I'm still saying break your marriage and do whatever matargashti (fun) you wanna do." I stated again for the nth time.

Nikita plopped herself on the chair and exhaled sharply. "I really think I've the worst set of friends. Instead of helping me out, you two are on completely different tangent. Alisha is mad because I didn't tell y'all I liked Abhishek since last year and you can't stop saying that I should break my marriage as if it's a piece of cake."

It was break time and we were in an empty classroom trying to deal with the so-called midlife existential crisis of Nikita.

"He likes you. You like him. Kiss, makeout do whatever the hell you want to do." Alisha said casually.

"She's off limits for him." I reminded her.

"Not atleast the next two months. Nikita isn't engaged." Alisha said.

Nikita gasped. "So you think it's okay to play with his feelings? And also, I end up breaking my own heart?"

"Do you really think it's gonna be serious? He's a playboy- "

"It's not okay." I intervene. "She might not be engaged but she does have a commitment even though she doesn't want to be a part of it. Just because others morals are low, doesn't mean you've to stoop to their level."

Alisha rolled her eyes. "Okay my highness, you win. So tell me what should we do?"

I looked at Nikita who was wringing her hands. "It doesn't matter you like Abhishek or not. The thing is you don't want to get married. So you need to speak up irrespective of someone else being in the picture or not. I really don't know what else to say to you because you can't sail on two boats at the same time without drowning."

"I shouldn't have kissed him back." Nikita mumbled. "I should have pushed him away when I realised how close he was to me. But I couldn't resist." Her shoulders deflated. "I've liked him since long. To be able to get something you wish for isn't something that happens with me regularly. But anyways," she sighed and looked at her fingers. "I'll figure something out."

I felt pity for Nikita. I knew it wasn't because she couldn't resist but because she was tired of resisting for so long. She's tired of the pressure from her family, she's tired of walking on the path they want her to walk on. I've observed that most of the kids who are spoilt actually have pretty strict parents. Not saying that Nikita is some spoilt brat neither being judgemental but just saying on basis of my observation. It's like the more you try to trap someone, make them abide to rules and regulations, the more they want to escape, want to break those so-called rules. It's the way the human mind works. The more you try to stop it from something, the more it craves for it.