9. The Chrysanthemums

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every stroke of wind that passes by 

keeps the taste of your name on its lips

and every reminder of your absence

leaves me with the broken ribs

the chrysanthemums

you gifted

have drooped and wilted

telling me it had to end

yet i preserved them all these years

in a little vault under my bed

the soft petals

might had faced their death

but my beloved

their ruins will never be dead.

Well, your brother-in-law's name is Asim❤

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Well, your brother-in-law's name is Asim.I read with a chuckle, noticing the heart she had drawn beside his name. He's in grade 12 at my school and oh man, he's a really sexy guy.

Good for you, I wrote sarcastically. But I was really shipping you and A.

Dhriti had told me that she and A, whose name was Aadarsh, were the first ones to become friends when the session started. They used to sit in corresponding rows and became almost best friends. But after he got a girlfriend, he talked to her less and their close friendship bond broke too soon. Now they were just classmates who made small talk.

No, not him, she wrote back. I'm still a little mad at how he just distanced himself  because Stuti was insecure about me.

Stuti was another girl in our institute, an extremely extroverted and smart girl. She was the kind of girl who sat in the front row and always had the most vocal presence in our class during any lecture. Before me, both Saara and Dhriti were friends with her. But she used to gossip about Dhriti with Saara and ridicule Saara's clothes with Dhriti. And when they both confronted her, she simply denied it.

What? Stuti? I don't get it, I wrote back, feeling a little lost. Was he close friends with her too?

No, he dated her, she replied. But he didn't actually like her. Some friend of his dared him to date her for a week, so of course to keep her for a week he agreed to cut me off .

Oh, I said, taking in the new information.

No wonder why she never leaves the classroom even during breaks since Aadarsh never leaves either. She's always there trying to strike up a conversation with him.

I felt a little bad for her though. It was evident in her body language that she still had feelings for him, which he probably didn't realize.

So how did you find out about the dare? I scribbled and passed the notebook to her.

Shivam told me, it read , B whose name was Shivam told her about the dare,   But Stuti still doesn't know that it was a dare and he broke up with her saying he thinks he's still not over his previous girlfriend. She cried on her way home that day and when Shivam told me about the dare I thought she should know but he also made me promise not to tell her. Besides, she was now on good terms with Aadarsh so it would have only created chaos.

As I read the last line, the bell rang.

"I think she still has feelings for him," I said.

"Yeah, it's actually quite obvious," Dhriti replied. "But she's now dating someone from her school so I don't even know what to think."


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