Wish You Were Here

Life is Simple in the Moonlight

Within an hour Nithin was packed and faced the gate waiting for his auto to arrive with dread filling his heart, shit he royally messed up didn't he? . Aishwarya, unbeknownst to him was talking to her boyfriend over her phone twirling bluebells between her fingers.

"no no he's here only, didn't leave yet. Mmm. I know... I should have. Maybe if I push him under some bus or something."

Nithin slowly turned towards Aishwarya.

"ey no it won't kill him he's too thick skinned for that. yeah yeah."

Noticing her brothers glare, she waves an impatient hand at him and turns around.

Nithin pulls a face behind her and just as he was about to storm over and disrupt her stupid call, he gets a notification, 'your Uber auto has arrived."

The cool air whipped Nithin's hair. Outwardly calm staring out. Inside? Oh inside he was dying! Mind rushing through thoughts of Naveen and the look of cool hatred on his face.

He had originally put distance between them to move on from him but impossibly every thought that preoccupied his mind was connected to Naveen. Try as he might he couldn't get his mind off of Naveen's beautiful face, his laugh, the way he acts cocky even though he has zero clue what to do, the way he handles his cutlery, everything.

He couldn't stop thinking about him.

And now Naveen hates him.

Naveen and Nithin got into the auto. Silence wrapped around them like a thick blanket.

Suddenly, Naveen exploded:

"YOU SON OF A BITCH, WE ALL THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD, PEOPLE IN THE COLONY STARTED SEEING GHOSTS OF YOU."

"Hold on-"

"No what do you think of yourself??"

"I-"

"Now see I don't care for your excuses but your friends were getting worried. So if you're planning to leave just like that for weeks tell your friends so that they stop hounding me."

Naveen glared at him coldly, and looked away. Hating the auto ride with Nithin back to his place.

The auto slows down as they near the apartment, they gets out and  Naveen hands over the amount to the auto driver.

Nithin says, "hey- uh, i'll pay for i-"

"shut up."

Nithin zips his mouth and stares at Naveen and then watches as Naveen stalks towards the apartment.

Naveen punched in 4th floor and glared at the blinking lights indicating the floor levels,

Nithin swore that whoever choose this stupid jazz that sounded like crows cawing will die under his hands.

 As they reached the apartment and Nithin was  fumbling for his keys, Naveen unlocked the door and walked in and Nithin after a moment follows him.

The next few days were...awkward, it reminded him of the days when they first moved in together. On the third day Nithin awkwardly made a joke about how Naveen was looking thinner since he left.

Thats when things got violent.

Naveen who was  trying to maneuver a large box from his room walks towards Nithin.

 Eyes wide Nithin stares at him as he feels a foreboding aura and he, like an idiot, tries to figure what was wrong, until he gets DECKED with the box.

Knelt over Nithin clutches his stomach and gasps for air as he tries to process what happened.

"HOW DOES THAT FEEL??"

"wtf bro-", Nithin answers between gasps.

"FROM NOW, YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE HOUSE AFTER 8. CURFEW!"

Naveen looked at him with genuine concern. What the fuck was wrong with this man?

Naveen stares at Nithin with a set mouth, as Nithin gasps for air clutching at his stomach, he wheezes out, "you need help carrying idli rice from big mart, and your ass is gonna stop me from leaving the house?"

Naveen's set mouth breaks into a scoff as he rolls his eyes, "try me." Nithin lets out a small laugh, 

"so we cool?"

They break into sheepish smiles and Naveen nods, "sure"

Nithin chuckles out, "not a man of many words are you?"

"oh fuck off."

Nithin's heart skipped a beat, No wonder he liked him.