A Step To You

Fourty ~ ending

Simran's pov

"Yukti Kapoor, will you be my girlfriend ?"

Those magical words, sometimes I wish he would take my name instead of anyone else.
I still remember how we first met. Primary school, in the classroom of III, some boys were bullying a motherless boy. They said bad things about his mother and when he tried to fight back, the others pushed him on the ground. I used to be the boss of my class. I straight up went to the bullies and slapped their leader hard on the cheek. They ran away. I helped him get up. He was Anurag. At that time, he used to be weak, vulnerable and smaller than everyone. After some days we became inseperable best friends. He used to cry to me about his father being abusive. I used to console him like I do now. Maybe we connected more as we both had an abusive parent. And then we grew up too fast. Same  middle school and then same high school. Anurag grew stubborn, for studies, modeling and everything. I mean what can you expect from a boy who has no mother and an abusive father. But still, he started to be loved by everyone. The first time I knew that I love him, was when he got his first girlfriend at 15. But I always supported him. Because, he tried to find a calm, caring and motherly figure in people. And I had grown into the opposite, authoritative, possessive and sassy. Maybe that's why he always thought I'm out of his league. He got scared of losing our freindship. I wish, he could even once told me about it.

These memories flashed through my mind as I walked through the empty corridors and reached the school ground. I didn't wait for Yukti to answer, whatever it maybe. Coming out, I saw Gulki sitting on the bench beside the ground. Her heads are down, hands folded against her knees. She was so still that for a moment it felt like a statue.

I went and sit on the opposite corner of the bench. She didn't even move. I looked up at the sky. The clouds covered the the moon, it seems like it's going to rain.

"You... You love him, right ?"

I looked, speechless, at Gulki. I just gasped in some air. Am I that obvious ? But I've always hidden my emotions perfectly.

A pathetic chuckle left Gulki's lips as she sat up and stared at the clouds in the sky, "You love him..." Then she looked straight at my eyes, "Then why ?"

I just looked down and then towards the school gate, "I.. don't know."

"Just why... why did you do this ? You even ruined yourself, are you insane ?" All of her anger was showering over me.

"Insane.. in love. Love is always not easy, Joshi, it has been hard for Yukti but it came as a light to you. And for Yukti it came back as the result of her hard work. Though.. I don't know what will happen now." I stopped. Again a silence grew between. Breaking it I spoke again,

"But some people, how hard they may love, don't get their love back. And for some the courage is not enough." I sighed, "Sorry Gulki, I'm also a big part of this."

"Sorry is never enough, Simran Kaur." Gulki got worked up as she left her sit.

"I was struggling too. And Yukti knows it. She knows me. And these two days, I've worked insanely to show my sincerity towards her. And today I was supposed to be standing there and proposing her in front of everyone." She let out all of it half shouting and half sniggering.

"I understand Gulki, but.." I wanted to tell her that I know how bad it hurts to see the one you love is proposed by others, again and again.

"Let me finish first.." Gulki stopped me mid ways. I knew right now I have to be that object on which she will show her anger. Atleast that's what I can do for a friend whose love is proposed by another guy.