Twisted Hatred

Nabah

The alarm rang loudly. I slowly turned it off and got off the bed.
I took a bath, picked my outfit and got ready. I walked out of my room to the kitchen and saw Aahana cooking breakfast.
"Why are you up so early?" I asked her.
"To make breakfast for everyone, oh and by the way, I called Daniyal, he will reach in an hour or some." She said with a huge smile, she loves meeting new people.
And ofcourse, how could I forget? This girl called Daniyal over. I have no idea what I'm going to do now.
Suddenly the bell rang, "What the fridge?" I say and look over at Aahana and she casually replies, "It's probably Mayank, he went to the gym early morning."
I made an oh expression, feeling less worried and went to open the door.
On the door, Mayank was standing, he had headphones on and was holding a rose in his hand, wrapped in newspaper.
"Hey." He said looking at me and smiled.
"Hi." I said and smiled back at him.
"Um, here," He said, offering me the rose, "I got this for you."
"For me?" I asked, with amusement. Why did he get me a rose?
"Yeah, there was a person selling a bunch of roses on the street and I know you like them." He said and smiled.
I smiled back and took the rose from his hand. It was beautifully wrapped up in newspaper and tied with a rope.
"I didn't have much money on me so I could only get one, plus the only thing I could find to wrap the rose in was the newspaper left at the door," He said and added after a minute, "sorry."
"Oh no, it's beautiful." I said, in awe of how nicely he did such a thing.
He knew I liked roses and I always told him how much I liked it when guys wrapped the flowers themselves to gift their girls. He remembered everything and it was so thoughtful of him.
"The fuck you did to my fucking newspaper?" Aahana said from behind, an angry expression on her face.

Mayank laughed and said sorry as he ran to his room, Aahana running behind him.
I just stood there and smiled, looking at them doing dumb stuff. It was pretty normal for me.

When everyone woke up, we all sat on the floor to have breakfast. It was a Saturday and no one had to go to work today, so we all were relaxing.
Aahana made pancakes for everyone, she never eats when everyone else is eating, and I always ate with her, so while she made the pancakes, I served everyone.
The bell rang and Aahana looked at me to go open the door.
"It's probably the milk guy." She said and i nodded in agreement.
I went to open the door and when I did, i froze at my place.
"Hey babygirl." Daniyal said and smirked.
"Daniyal." I said and smiled. Even though I didn't really want him to come here, it was amazing to meet my bestfriend after years.
"You look beautiful." He said amd I laughed a little.
"I always do." I smirked and he smiled. I could joke around him like this, he made me comfortable like no one else could.
"This is for you." He brought out a big bouquet of roses from behind his back, wrapped in a black paper with a note and tied with a red, satin ribbon.
"Oh my god." I said and looked at him with shock.
I cannot even imagine what Mayank may be feeling right now. Ya Allah, what is even happening. I am so, so done.
"You like them?" He asked with a big smile on his face.
"Ofcourse!" I say and take them from him. They're beautiful, ofcourse I like them. But, Mayank...
I smile at him and then Aahana spoke in between, "Are you not going to invite him inside?"
"Oh yeah, i totally forgot in excitement," I say and laugh, "Come in."
He lifts his luggage and my eyes widen, how long is this man going to stay here?
"I'm sorry for troubling you guys but, is it fine if I stay here for some days?" Daniyal asks and looks at me.
"Ofcourse darling, stay here forever, we don't mind!" Aahana says and holds his hand as he dropped his suitcase. He just awkwardly smiles at her and then slowly laughs as she drags him inside the house and makes him stand in front everyone.
This girl may not mind him staying here forever but I do, this just creates more problems for me.
Daniyal stood in front of everyone awkwardly, while Aahana stood by his side with a huge, bright smile on her face.
I pick up his heavy ass suitcase and bring it inside as Aahana introduced him to everyone.
"Hi Daniyal, I am Mayank." I was closing the door when I heard Mayank introduce himself to Daniyal. I turn around to face them as my eyes widened at the view in front of me.
I mean, didn't Aahana just introduce Daniyal to everyone? Why does Mayank have to specifically introduce himself?
Mayank had offered his hand to Daniyal, only if he knew that Daniyal hates him.
"Mayank, the dumbass guy who hurt and left Nabah, right? Hi, I'm Daniyal." Daniyal slightly smirked as he shook Mayank's hand. My eyes widened even more on hearing this. Is Daniyal fucking dumb or what?
Mayank didn't reply he just firmly shook his hand.
I gazed down at their handshake and saw them gripping harder and harder. Astagfirullah!
"Okay guys! Enough." I say as I break their handshake.
"Mhm, you didn't inform me this jerk was also here." Daniyal said as he looked over at me and I threatened him with my eyes as I mouthed 'shut up' but he ignored me and smiled at Mayank before continuing,
"It's hard to believe that a cold hearted, asshole like him, has such a beautiful and kind sister." Daniyal scoffed and i cursed under my breath. My childhood bestfriend is stupid as fuck.
"Don't talk shit about me when you don't know me personally." Mayank said as he glared at Daniyal and then walked away.

As soon as Mayank goes inside Aahana's room, I hit Daniyal's arm.
Not with much force, but enough to make it sting a little.
"Ouch. What did I do?" Daniyal said, caressing his arm slowly as he looked at me like an innocent child who doesn't know why his mother's scolding him.
"Seriously, Daniyal?" I say as I stand with my hands placed on my hips.
"What? It's not like I'm not telling the truth," he said and I know he's right, not fully but kind of. He continued,"that asshole deserved all of it."
"You don't get it, Daniyal. He has suffered a lot, try to understand him a little." I say and I walk over to the couch in the living room. No one was here except us, everyone was in Aahana's room. Discussing plans for today, as we all decided to go out.
He walked over to the couch as he sat by my side and placed his hand over mine.
"I am sorry." He said as he slowly squeezed my hand. He always apologized to me, hardly ever argued.
We disagreed on a lot of stuff but he never shouted at me, this is how we fought, by talking normally. And if he ever hurt my feelings, he would always know it without me needing to tell him and immediately apologize to me.
"It's fine," I say as I look him in the eyes, "I missed you, i missed this."
"I missed you too, baby." He said as he pulled me in a hug. We'd never hugged before. I always said no or pushed him away.
But today I didn't,
I let him.
I needed this.