Let's Play Pretend! 🤍 (Completed)✅

25-{A happy start!❤️‍🩹}

Third Person's Pov

It was a Sunday morning but nothing was fresh and delightful about the day as Shubman hadn't slept a blink last night after coming back from the lake house. He felt distorted and hurt after how he'd acted last night with Arshita, even when all he'd wanted to do for the last seven days was look at her and never let her out of his sight, to hold her close and make sure that she would never get hurt again. He stared at his phone in his hands which had almost fifty missed calls from Arshita from last night when he'd walked out on her when all she had been trying to do was confess her own feelings.

For years, Shubman had waited to hear all those beautiful things and those three words from her being in a one sided love....and now when he knew that she felt exactly the same he'd wanted her to feel for him, it scared the shit out of him. Everytime he heard her talking about how much she loved him, he couldn't help but distance himself further from her. That was his way of protecting her, from any kind of future mishap or hurt she might get from loving him. Because after all these years all he'd come to believe that love was something that had destroyed even the relationship they had.....even if it wasn't what he'd always wanted but being by her side as her best friend had been the best part of his life.

And since the day they'd fallen apart, all he could do was think that his feelings were the reason of it all! If he hadn't been in love with her, they wouldn't have come to day when they distanced themselves from each other. The mentality, that love is nothing but bullshit had been transferred like a virus from Arshita's mind to Shubman's in the end. And now he thought loving only meant giving someone immense pain in return.

Shubman fell back on the couch with a deep sigh running a hand through his hair because everything that had happened through this last week had him so much on the edge, after being alone and lost for three months....he hadn't thought his life would take such a turn suddenly, from Arshita showing up at his house drunk, her accident, meeting Ishan, Arshita trying to confess and him trying to hide his feelings, it all had taken a huge toll on him and his mind and he couldn't think straight in this moment because all he wanted to do right now was to run over to Arshita and never let her shed a single tear for him again, but at the same time he didn't wanted to repeat his past mistakes.

Shubman covered his face with his hands not being able to pent up his overwhelmed feelings when his thoughts came to a halt with the ringing of his doorbell. Shubman looked up and almost fell off his feet, trying to run and open the door while his heart thumped loudly over his chest as he ran down the stairs, he opened the door without a single thought and it took him a moment to realize that they weren't the person he wanted them to be.

"Is it just you two?" Shubman asked after a moment of catching his breathe while Ishan and Rishabh looked at him confused and then shared a look, "Were you expecting it to be someone else?" Rishabh asked wiggling his eyebrows and Shubman just let out an annoyed sigh as he just made a face and closed the door on their face.

Rishabh and Ishan just shook their heads as they banged on his door this time and Shubman just opened the door again and walked back inside the living room, the two of them followed behind quitely when Shubman asked, "What do you guys want?"

"Peace!" Ishan said and Shubman gave him a weird look and then turned to look at Rishabh asking, "What's wrong with him?"

"I had a fight with Shriya?" Ishan said making a sad face as he plopped on the couch and Shubman looked at him in disbelief asking, "Again? After all that Arshu went through to get you two back together?"

"My relationship is in danger and you're worried about how hard Arshu tried to get us back together?" Ishan asked folding his arms and Shubman just rolled my eyes, "I didn't mean that" He said not quite looking towards him when Rishabh came and kept his arm around his shoulder saying, "Don't worry about him....he's just grumpy because of his fight!"