𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮

•Chapter Sixteen

-Jahaan-

Fear and Denial. The emotions in her eyes when I silently confessed my feelings to her.

After that, she excused herself out, probably to deal with my confession. I know she needs space and I will give it to her.

Not for long though, because I know why she is running away. She does not want to face herself, or her feelings for that matter and I will not let Dhivti run like that. It's not me she is running away from, it's her. Dhivti is running away from herself and she can do that for others but not me. She must face me. She must allow herself to feel. I will make sure of that.

If Dhivti thinks I will just let her escape, she has got another thing coming.

She might not love me yet but I surely know she has something for me. I see it and I feel it, even more than she does.

I cannot let her treat herself like that. She deserves to love and to feel love. I know Dhivti does have a liking a for me and if it wasn't for that, I would never even let her know about how I feel.

She likes me, I know that for sure.

In these two weeks, she has asked Anisha about me indirectly and that made me so damn happy. I was grinning like a fool when Anisha revealed it to me unknowingly and after that, I told Anisha about my feelings for Dhivti and took a promise from her not to tell her anything. She deserves to know about my feelings from me. Only me. No one else.

So, from now on, Anisha and Aarav are apparently playing cupid between us two. Those two fools secretly winked at me as they walked out, that's how it clicked to me that it was just an excuse to leave Dhivti and I alone. Not that I am complaining though, I am thankful to them for finally having a moment with her after two long weeks.

The couple barges into the room suddenly.

"How did it go?" Anisha asks so excitedly. I sigh.

"She got scared and ran away," I say.

"Ek cheez karni thi. Ladki se apne pyaar ka izhaar aur woh bhi nahi ho paya tujhse? lanaat hai tujhpe, Jahaan. Mera dost hoke aise pyaar karega? Ladki ko dara bhaga dega?" Aarav says and I glare so hard at him.

(You had one thing to do. To confess your feelings to the girl and you couldnt even do that? Damn you, Jahaan. Being my friend, this is how you will love? By scaring the girl away?)

"Shut the fuck up, Aarav," I seethe. He gulps.

How can I have such an asshole of a friend?

"I know why," Anisha gets my attention to her.

"Why?" I ask.

"Jahaan, the only man Dhivti has ever had and loved in her life was her father. He meant the world to her. It was as if she knew no other man except her father. This is all new to her. Very new. You are the only man after her father that is stepping into her territory and as a girl, I know that it can be very scary and intimidating. I am sure her denial is a result of all this being new for her," she says and I listen attentively to each and every word.

"Understandable. But fear? Why was there fear in her eyes?"

"Dhivti is a closed book, Jahaan. Her biggest fear is showing her emotions. I can't say much about that because it is all related to her past and that is not my part to say but just know, she thinks that emotions are a weakness and she will do her best to be cold and emotionless which I am sure you know," I nod.

Everything is making sense.

Her father. Is he the one she lost to suicide? Anisha used past tense to describe Dhivti's relationship with her father. Does that mean it's him?