Under the moonlight

• 𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐬

Vyom's pov

"thankyou" I whispered

"No need of it" she replied with a smile.

Karishma and Haseena stayed for half an hour, mixing well with Santu and Cheetah.

After they went, I turned towards Santu who was half-laying on the couch and sat on my knees infront of her.

"You are okay na?" I asked her, holding her hands in mine. I had always been super protective of Santu, you can say its maybe because she was the only woman in my life besides my mother.

"Yes I am okay" she said reassuring me.

"I am sorry Santu! its all because of me" Cheetah jumped in.

"Yes, it is because of you bastard, were you out of your mind to leave her alone?" I said jerking him lightly, but giving him a sharp angry glare.

"Vyom bhai... "

"Its okay Vyom.. and Cheete, I am sorry too. I shouldve called you" Santu said lightening the atmosphere.

"By the way Vvvyoommmmmm......." Santu over exaggerated my name in a super cheesy tone and gave me the most weird 'ahem ahem I know whats going on' look.

"what?" I said curtly, having no expression on my face.

"I love Karishma and I whole heartedly approve of her" she said.

"Bro seriously, how on earth did you get so lucky all of a sudden Vyom"

I was still standing expressionless, not knowing what to say. Even if I told them that Karishma and I werent on talking terms then what reason would I state, I was still unaware of the reason myself.

"We dont talk!"

Cheetah and Santu were silent for a moment, staring at me wide eyed. It looked as if they had words stuck in their mouth.

"what? stop looking at me like that"

"Vyom why exactly dont you guys talk?" Santu asked.

I explained the entire matter to her.

"Hmm.. one thing is for sure, that girl is an overthinker, but thats very common in a lot of us. What happened was, she felt you just had an infatuation for her, therefore she felt betrayed because I think what she feels for you is more than a simple infatuation." Santu said resting her back on the couch again.

"But isnt that stupidity Santu? If we arent dating, how will I connect with her in a transcendent way if she wants that"

"Did you try to talk to her?"

"No I was super angry at her"

"oh God Vyom, thats immaturity. You proved her right by leaving her and not clearing out."

"What rubbish guys!"

"Do you actually love her?" Cheetah asked me

"I think I like her! I wont say that I am head over heels in love with her."

"There is a difference between liking and loving Vyom. You kissed her because you liked her and not loved her, this is what pissed her off because maybe she wanted more from you"

"if you really like her, or want to be with her for real, then you should know this that you did something really stupid by not talking to her!" Santu said
"and if you dont feel like talking to her about this then brother, you never had feelings for her" Cheetah joined.

I inhaled a deep breath. They were right, I realised. Infact Karishma was right too.

I kissed Karishma because I was attracted to her, her facial features, her body etc. There was nothing more transcendant in what I felt for her.

Although I still believed thats how a relationship begins, but slowly I was beginning to realise that she was right on her part too.

Almost on a mission to fix things between Karishma and me, I plugged my phone out from charging and dialed her number.

My finger lingered a second over her name, before I swiped it and called her.

"Hello Karishma!"

"Vyom? What happened is Santosh alright"

"Yeah she's fine.. Um.. Karishma could you come to the terrace in 15 minutes?"

Silence followed my question. I was almost loosing hope of a positive reply when she spoke an "ok" in a low voice and hung up the call.

Excited and all giddy about "us", I slided into the kitchen, made a cup of coffee for her and a cup of tea for me. And placing it neatly in a tray I moved upstairs to the terrace.

My heart was beating loud as uncertainity of her actually coming to the terrace was gripping me.

Few minutes later, she did. She came to her terrace while I stood on mine.
"You want something?" she asked.

"Coffee ?" I offered her, jumping the boundary between our terrace walls.

"No I had it already.."

"Please Karishma, I made it for you"

"Okay.."

"Come sit" I held her hand and made her sit over the ledge of her terrace.

"Thats scary Vyom I wont sit here"

"Comeon.. I am holding you, you will be safe"

I held her hand with mine and she sat, still scared.

The night sky, as always was amazing. The thunderstorm had obviously died down but there was still a very cool breeze, crickets were making light noise around us and we sat there, gazing the streets below, city ahead, and sky above us. It was so relaxing.

"I am sorry.." I said.

"Vyom... dont begin the topic again"

"Karishma you need to listen to me.. I am sorry for behaving so immaturely. I am sorry for not reaching out to clear it all, I was hurt Karishma. I'd just say that will also not force you to be in a relationship with me. But Karishma lets stop ignoring each other, lets stop being angry with each other, lets stop behaving like strangers, lets stop behaving like immature teenage kids.

Lets go back to how we were, I miss meeting you, talking to you"

Karishma was silent. She handed me the coffee mug back and looked straight into my eyes.

"Okay" she said pursing her lips together, and gave me a quick peck on my cheek.

Then I held her hand securely as she got up from the ledge and moved other way to go downstairs.

"Good night Vyom :)"

"Good night Karishma" I said.

I saw her figure descending down the stairs.

I balled a fist in the air as a sign of victory dance and jumped back to my terrace, with the tray in my hands, all smiling.

That night, I lay on my bed, still having an ear to ear grin. I plugged in my earphones and played the song Aaoge tum kabhi by the band local train.

I opened the picture we clicked on our 'date' and looked at it, to be precise looked at Karishma, adored her, and adored 'us' together.

"Soch lo mujhe
Dhund lo mujhe
Tham lo mujhe
Rok lo mujhe

Aaoge tum kabhi
meri jaan keh rahi
gayega ye zaman gayegi ye zameen
badlega ye jahan gayega aasmaan
aaoge tum kabhi
meri jaan keh rahi"

The lyrics were resonating with the unsaid feelings that were born in my heart.

I slept, hoping to see her tomorrow with that same smile on her face.

Hey! I hope the chapter was good. I am lining up more Vyoshma moments in the upcoming chapters. I hope you all are excited. Please vote and comment it really motivates me :)