Prem Vivah

• Concealed Secrets •

"Ok, I think you told me about him." Sameer shrugged off the irrelevant topic which was making him feel insecure once again.

"Tum gussa nahi hona?" Naina asked him in a shaky tone.

"Gussa?" He looked at her with a frown on his face, and added while chuckling - "woh bhi itni choti si baat pe? Pagal, no way. School me toh har kisi ka koi na koi crush hota hai, what's the big deal."

"Acha? Tumhari koi crush thi school me?" Naina asked him normally, but the feminine urge to know if her boyfriend used to like someone in the school was overtaking her insides.

"Yes!" Sameer answered honestly.

"Kaun?" Naina questioned him.

"My Classmate, Namrata." He told her simply while smiling at the waves of water.

"Oh, use bhi tum pasand the kya?" She asked him hesitantly, blinking her eyes.

"Pata nahi, maine kabhi use approach nahi kiya," Sameer replied to her with a plain smile, his eyes now turning back to focus on his girlfriend, who seemed to be lost in thoughts.

"Acha!" Naina uttered, in a soft voice, wondering what else she should ask him to know more about his school lifestyle and Concealed Secrets.

"Haa, she was a monitor." Sameer apprised her while smiling naturally as he remembered how he used to secretly glance at Namrata and try to ask her stupid questions regarding mathematics.

"Ok, kaisi dikhti thi woh?" The feminine urge to know how pretty the girl was over whom her boyfriend was crazy intensified her brain.

"Beautiful," Sameer answered her in a split second.

Just when Naina thought she should end the discussion here for her betterment. Her boy began to describe the ordinary features his school crush acquired with a dreamlike smile lightly caressing his lips  - "Black eyes, tiny nose, average height, shoulder length tak baal the uske...aur face round. Overall she was very good looking, sincere, and pretty devoted to teachers in our entire classroom."

"Humari school me toh aise logo ko sab teacher ki Chamchi ya Chamcha kehte the." Naina giggled while mingling her fingers, looking into the depth of the water with a serene expression.

"Haa, sabki school me yahi kehtey hai, but I never thought like this. I used to admire her honesty." Sameer replied to her with a gentle smile, staring down at the brown-laced shoes.

"Ok that's nice, so you guys never tried to become friends?" Naina asked him with a surprised look and saw him shaking his head negatively.

"We both were introverts," Sameer said casually.

"Na usne kabhi mujhe approach kiya, na maine use...but I remembered our first conversation during rehearsal time. She told me, Use chaand pe jana hai." Chuckling a little, he spoke with a bright smile while looking at the aligned rocks - "toh phir maine bhi use mazak me keh diya Chalo main leke chalta hoon." Naina couldn't bury the insecurities she had begun to form in her heart the way Sameer was talking about his school crush, and he added with a small smile - "Fir usne bhi kaha...Theek hai leke chalo I am toh all ready. It was normal talk yet it was very cute and innocent. We both smiled aur uske baad I don't think we had any conversation like this."

"So, do you miss her?" Naina asked him with utmost courage in her voice.

Sameer glanced at his girlfriend and shook his head in a no, saying gently - "No, I just miss those cute moments, main roz use secretly dekha karta tha, jab ma'am uska naam leti thi toh face pe ek alag si smile aati thi."