Aap Koun Hai? PT 1

Processing😖

I spin in my chair, staring at the wooden ceiling and mulling over my time with Vihaan. The blue roses, his confession.

He likes me. He likes me?

I still couldn't process the fact. How?

I sigh, turning to my bed, where I placed the blue roses, which sprawled over the bedsheets.

Dragging the chair over and taking the flowers in my hands, I caress their soft blue petals with a tender finger, reminding me what to do next.

I have to just write the article about him and find some sort of evidence and I will be done. I can escape this mess, this web I've gotten myself into. I can get back my freedom.

But how would Vihaan think of me exposing his secret to the world? He would catch on easily.

There is a ding from my computer and I received a notification.

He sent five emails in the past one hour, asking me if I was alright and if what he said was awkward.

I spin myself back to the desk to read the email.

Dear Payal

I know it's a lot to handle. I know it was very unexpected of me to catch feelings for you. Even I didn't see it coming. I tried to control it. I really did. But you had won.

I don't expect us to get married yet, like my parents want us to. We can take it slow. Get to know each other and hopefully, I might impress you. I don't usually ask...but let's give it a chance

Your future bf

I roll my eyes, but still pity and hopefulness pierces my thoughts. How on earth did this come to be?

Why did he get all the feelings ?

He wants to give it a chance, but will he still want to after I publish the article ?

And what about me?

Do I feel the same?

Do I want to give it a chance?

I don't know, but there is no choice either way, I have to publish the article, which means I will have to hurt him.

And even if he still in some universe has some interest in me after all that, then it still wouldn't be possible. There is no way I can adjust to all that, the game, the royalty, the pressure.

Hell No.

It's another web of complications and it's a web I don't belong in.

But that's what I'll tell him for now. That we will give us a chance.

I miss dinner today and instead work on the article. Sam and Tam do call me for dinner but I refuse and Ma, she doesn't say a word. Even when I got back, she didn't talk to me, she understood that I wouldn't tell my dad a thing about what was happening.

So when I arrived, she just rocked back and forth without batting an eye. Tam and Sam however, we're all over me. Bombarding me with questions,Sam had teased me about the flowers while Tam gave a steely glare at them and asked more about what Vihaan did.

The house was back to normal within a few hours

The next morning I began to write my article about his family being the royals. But I need proof...

The next day.

I met him in college and he gifts me a phone. Amara remains distant but smiles.

We are happy.