Chapter-16 : proud.

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I'm walking side by side with him

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I'm walking side by side with him. The dim street lights are illuminating his face. His face, which was so dull earlier by remembering his past, the absence of his loved one, now held a soft glow.

I look at him when he is not looking. Because I'm afraid that this new profound emotion I have found in my heart; which has made it's home in my heart, would spill through my eyes to let him know it all.

If I ever tell this to someone, they would think, it was obvious. Or that maybe it's just a hurried decision of mine. How could I fall in love with someone so suddenly? It is funny how I actually never imagined myself falling in love.

Love. I loved writing about love, I loved watching love but I never thought that I'd find love myself.

Or did I really find it? Was it not here the entire time? Since I was a kid? It was always there. I just couldn't recognize it.

Falling for Arsh was so easy. Love realizations in the books I often read were cliché. Though, I loved them, what happened with me was much more special for me.

It was always there in the small things; the little things. Like finding comfort in a cup of hot chocolate with him, like having late night conversations with him, like watching him draw, like watching him learn his guitar, like shaking his hand for the first time ever.

I fell in love with him, pieces by pieces.

In those hushed whispers, hearty laughter, in tears. In every moment, I was deeply, irrevocably, falling in love with him.

And I don't regret it a bit. I'm not panicking or anything of that sort rather I'm calm. Because I trust Arsh, I knew Arsh. Falling in love with him could never be wrong.

" A Penny for your thought?" He smiled gently, and my heart fluttered. The way it always did. But, I guess i don't need a doctor anymore.

"I was just thinking." I replied with a grin,

"About?" He asked looking me,

"Just something, something which makes me very very happy."

You.

By looking at his face,I could tell he was trying to figure out what it is.

"Books?" He asked,

"No." I shook my head,

"The ocean! You love it?" I chucked seeing him excited,

"No." He made a face and I laughed.

I wish I could hold him and tell him, it is you. It has always been you. And it will always be you.

"Leave it, tell me what happened back home." I asked him slowly, I knew something happened because Arsh never disappeared like this, something must've happened back there.

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