Truthfully Yours

Chapter 58

Double update - II
(Make sure to read chapter-57)

I looked around the place. The place which showed me a lot of things at the age of Twenty-three. Six years ago, I thought I've learnt everything the school had to offer but it's not true. We can never truly learn it completely. Because everytime we come to school, we learn new things.

I smiled at the people who were playing with colours and ink. I was not going to come here just before an hour. I came just because this Raghu who was walking beside me as he swung his arm over my shoulder.

We both waved at our friends as soon as they all shouted and hooted looking at us.

"We almost thought we'll never see you again," Reyansh yelled dramatically. We laughed pulling him into a tight hug. We managed to not crack the crackhead's bones.

"We missed you!" Rehan and Saanvi said behind him and hugged us.

"I missed you so much, Saanvi!" Raghu said as he slowly engulfed in a lovely hug. Rehan and Reyansh were fuming in anger as they glared at Raghu.

"I missed you too, Raghu!" She whispered to him.

They both were hugging eachother like a long lost lovers. What the hell?

"What's going on?" I asked them.

"We're going to kill him! He managed to make our sister hooked onto him. He'd already be dead if it wasn't for our friendship!" They both grunted with their clenched jaws and I laughed it off realising what it was.

"Seems like I couldn't trust my friend anymore.." I mumbled looking at Raghu who almost forgot our existences as he was so much dwelled into the conversation with his love.

This time Rehan and Reyansh laughed at me.

"Okay.. Where is Madhvi? Did she not come?" I asked. They both looked at eachother and then at me and shrugged casually.

"We don't know!" They said in unison as they walked towards their other friends leaving the lovebirds to themselves.

I glanced at Raghu who was holding Saanvi's hands as if she'll disappear when he let her an inch away. His eyes were glistening with untold happiness and love. His smile was so wide that he only showed one of those smiles rarely.

Raghuram is a goofy, happy-go-lucky guy outwards but inside, he's so fragile abd broken. Losing everything at a young age isn't so easy to handle. We shared everything we had. But there are somethings this guy will never share. His yearnings for love being atop. I would not call it desperation, ever, like others did.

For one, not being loved since childhood, will eventually yearn for love in simplethings too. I did all I could do but still his heart held a vacant space. That can only be filled by a person he calls 'his'. The person who'll be his alone. The person who'll call him 'theirs'. The person, who'll love him and earn his love back.

Now, looking at the way Raghu was looking at Saanvi and she looking at him, were explaining me a lot without any words.

I just smiled at them and looked around to give them some privacy.

I know she'll not be here. Her family wouldn't have allowed her. I know. But something in my heart says it can feel her presence here. As if a moth sensing bright light.

I scanned around the place with only goal to find those familiar, lovely eyes when they finally landed upon the person who was sitting under a tree far away from the group of people. Sitting alone and looking down at something. My heart soared in happiness as I found her. She's here. I'm looking at her. After months, I'm finally seeing her.