Unrequited One

Chapter- 16 ☆Trouble☆

Third Person's POV

    Your eyes opened and your body ached as you moved. The hard and cold floor didn't help much when you fell asleep on the floor last night.

"What time is it?" You asked yourself and searched for your phone. You checked the time and breathed in relief as it was quite early in the morning.

You grunted as you got up from the floor massaging your sore shoulders. Upon entering on the bathroom your freshened up and looked at your mirror reflection. Your eyes were a little puffy and your face screamed depressed.

You got ready reluctant to attend school as you knew it wasn't the best day for teaching. You sighed and checked the clock before heading out hoping you wouldn't meet vijay today.

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The school started and just like any other day the teachers went to their assigned classes to teach. Everyone went but miss annie was nowhere in sight. She would greet you every morning but she seemed to be absent today, well it's not like teachers can't get leave.

'Tha day seem to be getting more troublesome' you thought as you went on with the day.

The school was normal, without miss annie there was none to really talk with but you somehow managed to do just fine. You hadn't seen nidhi either. Somehow you got a bad feeling but you blamed it on the events of yesterday.

Yesterday, you had confessed to vijay. He just opened up to you about his pain, his bitter past and you just blurted out your feelings for him in the worst possible timing. There was no hope for you, it was fine just admiring him from far but the thought of getting rejected as he expressed his dislike towards you felt a little too much for now.

You shook your head letting these thoughts go away to the back of your mind as you walked back to your house.

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The same day at Vijay's house

Vijay woke up grunting as nidhi shook him calling out his name. He was up late yesterday thinking about the events to the day which caused him to sleep pretty late.

"Baby! Baby wake up!!" She shook the sleeping figure of her father.

"..mama just 5 minutes" he said in his morning voice still half-sleep.

"Why only 5 minutes? Sleep a whole hour" she said in her Innocent voice. "I'm going to school" she announced.

"Are you going to ride the bike yourself?" He asked his daughter with a small scoff seeing her fully dressed in her uniform.

"Miss annie is here, I'm going with her" she said and stood up. "Bye baby! Bye tiger!" She said running outside as vijay called her from behind.

"Mumma! Mumma wait I'm coming!" He said hurriedly getting up and running outside to find his daughter already on Annie's scooter. He stood on the doorframe.

"Love you" he waved at her but Annie gave him a look. "No- i was saying that to mumma" he explained himself as Annie started her scooter.

"Love you byee!" Nidhi waved back. "Today I'll get to school early!" She exclaimed as the scooter drove from the house.

Vijay sighed in relief and went back inside to freshen up. He gave food to tiger and went to prepare his own.

His thoughts circled from nidhi to his conversation with you. He paused for a moment and continued making food. Your confession seemed really confusing to him. he was grieving his mother and wife's death while raising his 8 year old daughter. But then you appeared and made him open up to you, you consoled him then confessed your feelings to him.

He admitted that he enjoyed your company. You were a true friend who never really backed down from supporting him and care for him. He enjoyed every moment with you. The way you ignored his goofy comments and became irritated when you claimed to be proper.

His mind replayed every memory of you two and stuck on the moments you two shared. He remembered the day of the holi when he pranked you and you were running after him to get revenge. You two were close and he was lost in your eyes almost as if....he shook his head getting rid of his thoughts.

"My mind's a mess" he mumbled. In the past, He was grateful to have you but you distanced yourself from him. The way you had disappeared on the day he was getting married to mithira....

He closed his eyes and left the utensils he was holding taking in a sharp breath. Her name....it  was still so painful to remember. He couldn't imagine loveing someone else in the state he was in right now.

How could he reciprocate your love? He didn't...love you?

His attention was stolen as he heard the doorbell ring. He sighed and went to check who it was.He opened the door to find a police officer and an unknown person.

"You are nidhi's father, right?" The officer asked and showed an id card. It was nidhi's.

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