Hey, heart, it's difficult! | Book 1 (Part 1) (Hey, heart Series)

CHAPTER SIX

KRISHA

Observing their hanging faces, I began to walk out of Karan's room. Max was there and she held my hand telling me not to leave and answer all of them's piling questions at once and stop the buzz here itself. I shook my head but she was adamant.

Ria comes in my direction and asks on behalf of others as to what I'm hiding since this long that is between me and Karan.

They all look at me with debatable faces. But later they say that whatever feud is there with him, they will try to understand it all rather than judging any one of the both of us. I glance at Kritika, thinking about how she would feel when she would know about the things that I'm going to reveal to all now. But it seems like she is more eager than them all.

Yamini and Nakul have been sent to jail now as police came immediately upon the institute's calling, but I'm pretty sure they will be released soon within days because of their upper hands.

I take a deep breath, pondering and wondering about how and what I should begin with. This is the time anyway then so be it. I can't always run away from it. If it will be hard on me afterwards then so be it. These people are more understanding than others and I have already reached that point where I don't care what others think of me.

"It all began when we were toddlers. We both were playing in the garden. I used to see him every day and wanted so much to play with him every moment, but he had his little friends with him all the time. With each passing day, our mothers eventually became friends with each other. So I was introduced to him, to play with him one such day when nobody was there to play with him. He was crying in the corner, sitting on the wooden bench, because nobody was with him that day. I went to him, wiped his tears and he looked at me with tearful eyes. I was a toddler too but so much more mature for my age. I saw that he bruised his knee while playing and managed to caress it with my little hands. He smiled immediately and we became friends soon.

We soon grew up and we were in our teens already. We used to go to school together. He used to come up with his bicycle daily at my doorstep and wait for me unless I came out and got on with him on his bicycle. We started to understand that we couldn't stay without each other and later became best of friends. I was empty before meeting him, it felt like he completed me. He was never perfect in behaviour but so much good. He had his flaws and I had mine, but that time was different. There wasn't even a single day that I would spend without him. We were like the two half moons in the sky.

We grew more and we were adults now. Our families used to celebrate all the festivals together. I remember, on one such festival, for pooja (holy prayer), I was sleeping till late, that too in his bed. Don't misunderstand guys, we were just best friends at that time! I slept in his room because we were playing video games till late. And there were many such instances where we slept together, but there was only friendship, nothing more. But at this festival, I realized that I might already be in love with him. He came and instead of waking me up he picked me up in his arms, but I only came to know that I was being picked by him when I finally opened my eyes from my good sleep. I saw his face. It was so close. I came to know I was in his arms and that he was staring at me. Maybe, at that moment he got to know that he was in love with me too. He bought me like that itself in front of God and put me down, as the pooja won't begin without me singing the arti (prayer).

I quickly dressed up and came later only to see our families' faces smiling at me as if they knew that we were in love. The only remaining thing was that we made sure to let each other know about it. I saw Karan was waiting for me to stand beside him so he could do the pooja with me. I made sure to not let anything stop me as I knew how much I loved him at this point. And the way he was gazing at me, I was sure that he too was forever in love with me!

We completed the pooja together and later that night when we were sitting together on his house's rooftop, gazing at the night sky, full of shining stars, I leaned my head on his shoulders. He took me in his embrace and said that he wanted me to know something. But I jumped in and said that I love him. He was shocked at how quick I was, but I felt relieved when he confessed the same thing to me. We were just eighteen at that time. On the same day, our families were united downstairs when Karan wanted to make an announcement. He told us that he is going to go abroad to study acting. It was his dream forever. He seldom told me about this. I knew we would be in a long-distance relationship at that time, but we both thought that we would manage.

Two years passed with this, and his and mine interaction eventually began to fade away, the calls were less, and the texts were short. Everything was crumbling down. I assumed he was busy, because so was I. I was doing my graduation in acting too. His dream made me realise that I'm good at this too so I should pursue it, so I started it later than him.

I wasn't ready when he informed me two days before that he was going to come to our home country back, this weekend and finally his studies were all over. I was elated till the moon and the sun. I thought my lover was back. We would finally have time for us to date now. All was fine until he arrived with another girl in his arms. He introduced her as his girlfriend. I was shattered. Our families were shocked too. Maybe, I was the only one retaining for so long! I wanted to talk to him, ask him! And after two days, I did confront him but that was a huge rundown as it started to elevate into a fight. Nasty one!

He said ‘We were kids when we confessed. You shouldn't have taken it that seriously. It was all child's play! We weren't even in our senses! This was never meant to be. All behave this way when they are kids. Things happen and it shouldn't bother our adult lives.’ I said ‘We were adults when we confessed.’  He rejected and retorted, ‘We were just jumping into adulthood. That was a joke. How can you speculate your mind then.’  How could he? I was broken. I slapped him in front of our families and he felt that super humiliating. Which led his then-girlfriend to break up with him. His attitude was something else since he returned, felt like he had forgotten where he belonged and forgotten his family too. He talked differently, and he behaved differently. Just a different person overall. He started caring less and started being involved in drinking, all the bad habits. He eventually became rude and harsh in every way. Our friendship broke and so did our confession. Our relationship, which hadn't even started, broke down all at once and we became each other's number-one haters as y'all know now.

We went our separate ways even though our families were and are still in touch and are fond of each other. And we both are good to each others' families. After a year of working at a small institute I was transferred here, my dream institute, due to my hard work and talent. I knew Karan was here too, but sacrificing my dreams for such a person is a big no! So I joined the Stars Institute. He was frustrated by my arrival and confronted me in the locker room on the very first day, without any one of you knowing that we knew each other. We fought then too! Then it started becoming pretty vivid to y'all, as it was impossible to not fight when we hated each other so much and had a past like this. We refused to work many times, but when we worked, we were gleaming and sparkling. When fans noticed this, they couldn't contain themselves, and we became the KarSha we are now!"

I don't know how I managed to say all this, but my heart feels less heavy now. And They were still processing some things in their head. Kritika seemed to be a little sad but stupefied. They all did seem aghast! Instead of letting out a tear, there was a smile on my face, maybe of relief, of comfort! That was only for a second as when I turned back, I saw Karan standing in the distance. He heard everything! Hey, heart, it's difficult! How am I going to face him now? I reopened and revised my closed chapter with him!

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