Confused 💞

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At the airport as Karan was moving towards the security check, he felt as if he saw someone he knew from the side eye.

He looked around, but found none .

After the security check , he went to the waiting area and then again after a few minutes he got the same felling.

He again saw around and found Shruti , sitting a few seats away from him , wearing chunky black shades that almost covered half of her face.

Karan didn't think much and went to meet her.

" Hi Shruti " he said and waved.

Shruti looked up from the magazine she was supposedly reading . At the same time something fell on her cheek from behind her shades which she quickly wiped off.

Karan couldn't register it completely. ' ' Was that a tear ? ' He thought to himself.

His doubt got confirmed when she looked the other way and wiped her cheeks and eyes properly and then put on her shades again.

"Hi . You are leaving too, I thought you will stay here for a few days." Shruti said, her voice considerably low as if she was putting a lot of effort to say each word.

"No , I just came for a day" he said and then slyly tried peeking in the magazine she was reading.
' Maybe she is reading something emotional ' he thought.

But in vain were his efforts because the article written in it was about some top 10 places to visit in the world and Karan didn't think that this could make Shruti cry .

" You want to read?" Shruti asked him as she caught him looking at the magazine.

" No thanks " Karan said awkwardly.
Then after gathering his courage he asked her , "Shruti are you fine? " . And that's all it needed for her to start crying.

She sniffed trying to control her sobs . As a tear after tear kept falling from her eyes , Karan passed her some tissues and then sat on the seat beside her , and got really worried after seeing her in that state.

As she wiped her tears , Karan got to see her eyes which where both red and swollen.

Karan didn't know how to console her, afterall they were barely friends. But he had to do it anyway, in no way he was going to leave her like that.

So he said, " Shruti I can totally understand if you are not okay sharing what's troubling you, with me . But I just want you to know that I'm your well-wisher and if there's any way I can help, please let me know. "

After a few seconds Shruti replied back, " How can you be so sweet, especially with the person who behaved in such an immature way with you in the past. Aren't you scared that I might just put you in an awkward situation again. "

" First of all , whatever happened was not anybody's fault, also let's just keep it to the past because it isn't really important now . And secondly, why I will be scared when I know that you like someone else. "

Shruti frowned.

" That's how true feelings are , you cannot hide them , especially from the people around. " Karan said with a shrug.

Shruti understood where Karan was indicating.
"Yeah, but maybe they do stay hidden from the person you feel them for, because clearly he can't see it." She said with an underlying sadness.

Karan didn't think that it was his place to say anything on it now so he moved the conversation towards some casual talks.
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The next day before going to the hospital when Teja called Karan, he told her about what happened in the airport the previous night.

" That's so sad , I hope she got better later ."

" She did . And Teju I think that you should also talk to Yash about it."

"I tried doing that yesterday, but he straight away called me nosy for doing so. And I think that maybe I was being nosy. "

"Teju , it's simple. Do you feel that Yash is happy?"

"Not really. "

"So will not be concerned about it ? I agree , we should not ask them about something which they are not willing to share, but we can still be there , just looking after them , because they matter , right?"

" Were you always this sensible and I am noticing it for the first time ?" Teja asked totally impressed by Karan's perspective.

Karan smirked. "I have been sensible all this while, it's just that you never game me a chance to flaunt it." He said.

"Okay, bye. I will just visit Yash on my way to the hospital. "

" Bye . Love you. "

Teja blushed even after listening it almost a hundred times before.
" Love you " she said.
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" I am here to meet Dr Yash Agrawal." Teja said to the receptionist.

"Your name ma'am?"

"Dr Tejaswi Prakash. "

" Please wait for a few minutes ma'am. "

" Sure. "

After ten minutes the receptionist told Teja to go in his cabin.

Yash raised an eyebrow as he saw her.

" Came here to see if you had a memory loss." Teja said and took a seat infront of him.

"You could have directly entered, why did you wait outside. "

"Because I didn't knew if you remembered me being you friend. "

" That's not even a backhand taunt, that's straight on my face." Yash said, to which Teja smiled.

" I'm sorry if you felt bad" he added

" It's okay. " Teja said and chuckled.

" You are such a witch." He said exasperated . "I wasn't planning to apologise  , but then you have this weird power of making the other person feel guilty, even without their fault."

Teja laughed.

" God knows how Karan deals with you. Poor guy must be saying sorry-s more than love you-s."

" Oh please, he is not like you. And also , he is one who asked me to come and talk to you. And I'm sorry too for being nosy ." Teja said emphasising the word nosy.

" You are forgiven. "

" Yash" Teja said after a few seconds. "Are you happy ? "

Yash sighed and sat back on his chair. " Maybe" he said.

" The Yash back from college would have said " dukhi ho mere dushman" " Teja said which made both of them chuckle.

"I was so lame" he said.

"Naah...."

"Karan met Shruti at the airport yesterday accidentally. She was crying he told me." Teja said to Yash which made him sit straight.

" I'm not here to know what happened between you two , I'm here to see if you are fine or not." Teja said with concern.

She asked again, " Are you fine Yash ?"

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I do not want to write a lot about Yash and Shruti in this story as it is about tejran..

I might write a seperate story for them if you guys are interested.

So comment down if you want to read their story..

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