Lover| Abhira SS ✔️

CHAPTER 04

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he sadness flowed through her veins and deadened her mind. It was poison to her spirit, dulling her killing her off her other emotions until it was the only one that remained.

It was as if a black mist had settled upon her and refused to shift, and no matter how bright the day was, she would feel no sun and hear no bird song. For the world was lost to her, and she knew of nothing that would bring it back into focus.

This sadness seemed to have attached itself to her. No matter how bad she wanted, she couldn't get rid of it. On the other hand, his rude and strange behaviour wasn't helping either.

Over-thinking. Over-thinking. Over-thinking. It's the only thing she's an expert at. Playing with her food, during lunch, she was thinking about what if she had never been born? Strange, right? To think something like that on lunch, like eat your damn food girl!

"Akshu?" Manish called out, breaking her out of her deep over-thinking.

She hummed in response.

"Why aren't you eating?" he asked.

"I am!" She replied in a low voice.

He inhaled a deep breath. She had been acting like this a lot lately. She wouldn't give you a straight answer. She would just nod or hum in response to every question.

"Anyways, Aarohi is coming today!" Manish told, and the fork in her hand immediately dropped into the plate, making a clinking sound.

She threw her head back in frustration before pushing the plate far from her lightly as she stood from her position.

"Where are you going? You still haven't eaten yet!" Swarna asked as she was about to climb up the stairs.

"I lost my appetite!" she replied before she made her way up to her bedroom.

No. It was not always Abhimanyu, saiyyam, and Akshara in every story and picture. There was someone else, too. Aarohi Mathur.

Akshara's another friend. Funny, how you have so many friends but still you have none. Reality is often what you don't want it to be.

She still remembers her first fight with Abhimanyu happened due to aarohi. She started hanging out with Abhimanyu, making Akshara a third wheeler. A girl who always wanted to be someone's first priority, how can she be a third wheeler to her best friend and her so-called friend.

Sometime after college ended, her friendship with aarohi died, and aarohi never met her, saiyyam or abhimanyu after that. Though, they had a little hi-hello going on messages but no long hours calls, like people do and then post the screenshot of their time duration on social media.

Akshara never liked these things. She found them cringe-worthy. Her friendship with saiyyam was one in a million, they got many memorable photos with each other but she had never posted them. She found them too precious to be shared with the world.

And now, her marriage is going to be even more dramatic because of aarohi. It's not like she hates her. She just can't stand seeing Abhimanyu with anyone. She just can't share him with anyone, and in the past, aarohi had a little friendship in Abhimanyu, and it was something that was enough for Akshara to hate her.

Her not so peaceful evening nap was broken by a bone-crush hug. She fluttered her eyes open and found her face covered in light brown hair.

"Wake up idiot!" the girl almost screamed.

"Ugh!" she sighed in annoyance as she immediately recognized the voice.

"Get off me, Aaru!" she pushed her back slightly.

"Still the grumpy old akshara." Aarohi pouted, sitting on the bed beside her.

"What they say, good people never change." Akshara quoted.

"Yeah-Yeah!" she rolled her eyes.

"Anyways, you're getting married!" she exclaimed excitedly.

"Oh-yeah, I keep forgetting that!" Akshara let out a sarcastic chuckle.

"And why didn't you tell me? If it was not for aunty, I'm sure you wouldn't have invited me to your wedding." Aarohi complained.

"You're right!" Akshara replied with a smirk.

"Bitch!" Aarohi said and she let out a little laugh.

"Now that I'm here, we're gonna have tons of fun." Aarohi did a little clap.

"And by fun you mean, going out for parties, getting drunk and then finding yourself in the bed of a stranger in the morning." Akshara stated.

"Oh God! How low you think of me?" she fake cried.

"Drama!" Akshara playfully slapped her arm.

"By the way, who's your groom? Saiyyam or Abhi?" she teased. But for Akshara it was a reality checker. She wanted to marry Abhimanyu but was going to marry Saiyyam.

Sometimes, she consoles her heart by thinking that maybe in the parallel universe, Abhimanyu is the one she's gonna marry and that one day she will for sure find the gate to that parallel world.

"Just kidding! I know you're marrying Saiyyam! After all, you guys loved each other since childhood." Aarohi said as she side hugged her, and Akshara plastered a fake smile.

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Here's the fourth chapter. Hope you guys will like it!!!

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