CONCEALED LOVE

Chapter 9: Shadows of Friendship

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Nidhi:

I was waiting for Ashwin to show up and talk to him about Nishant but I waited for a long time and there was not even a glance of him coming to the garden.

I sighed and got up, as I was about to leave. Somebody called out my name
" Nidhi, I'm sorry for being late. I was sending off the guests after that incident" Ashwin spoke while approaching me.

" It's okay. You came at the right time, I was about to leave" I answered

" Ok, now tell me what do you want to ask me ??" He questioned

" Actually, I know telling this to you now, you might feel surprised or weird but I have no other option other than this" I said

" Just tell me clearly straight. I am not getting at what you are talking about " he exclaimed

" I have a twin brother, his name is Nishant Rao" I said while gasping.

He had no surprised reaction. His expressions was just the same, I found it little weird but I continued:

" You are my brother's bestfriend and I want to know that how did you both meet ??? " I enquired.

He sighed and started speaking " I thought you would ask me before when we first met in your house, I thought Nishant had told you about me but I was wrong. He didn't even mention anything about me?? " he questioned

" No" I answered quickly. Earning a glare from him

" Why are you glaring at me, it's Nishant's fault not mine" I said

" Ha!! Fine. We both are really best friends till today. I tried really hard to release him but the CCTV footage was against him, so my lawyer couldn't do anything " he said while expressing guilty.

" You don't have to be sorry, all the evidences was against him and I came here to take help from Advaith to collect information so that I could release him and prove his innocence " I answered

" I know that, because of this you married him. Advaith told me about this from the start. He doesn't keep any secrets from me, he always opens up his heart to me but he said the other family members that you both are in love, so he want to marry you at any cost due to this for the first time in his life he argued with his grandmother for you, to marry you because grandmother protested against you being married to Advaith " he said in one go.

I was taken a back by his sentence, just to marry me he argued with his family that too Shakuntala Devi, that's why she always ignored him. Oh!! My god why did he wanted to do that?? He is really something that I am not able to understand till now.

I gasped and Ashwin noticed my confused look and understood that I didn't know about it and then he continued " You want to know how I and Nishant met?? " I nodded and he started speaking.

" I will tell you, two years back I was driving to my office but then many people in bike and cars was following me, Nishant came by that route coincidencely and helped me by saving me from that bastards. He always cared about others and was very kind hearted person. " He paused and he faced his head down the ground and continued

" He saved my life that day otherwise I would have not been standing like this in front of you, I was really thank ful to him. That bastards was send by my business rivals and he taught them a lesson too. We always used to catch up after that, after teaching my rivals a lesson, our bond grew stronger day by day & his three friends also became my best friends. By age he should be my younger brother but by his personality he is far more mature than me. He was really intelligent and helped me solve many problems that I faced but I couldn't help him in his hard times, I fell really sorry for that Nidhi, I'm helpless " he said and I observed few tears dropped down his cheeks.