So High School!

Chapter thirty five

Aarushi's Pov

"Kon tha?"

"Khana bich Mai chodke kyu gayi?"

"Tere liye khane se jyada kon important hogaya."

I was showered upon with questions.

"Apka damad." I mumble to myself.

"What?!" My mom eyes from the table and I am terrified.

"It was Aditi." I reply sitting back on the table. "We had something important to discuss about."

"Of course." Raj rolls his eyes in annoyance. For some reason this guy hates my friends.

Why isn’t he responding to any of my messages? What has suddenly changed in him? Who exactly is this Mira, and what role is she playing in all of this? I feel so lost and confused. It’s as if everything is falling apart around me. Should I go see him? Maybe I could use the excuse of delivering some notes… but deep down, I don’t know if that’s the right thing to do.

Why is he behaving this way? What have I done to deserve this silence and distance? I’m overwhelmed with questions, but I don’t have any answers. My heart feels heavy. I just want to understand what’s going on. Ugh. My poor life.

"I need some fresh air." I declare and to my surprise my mom didn't protest.

"Drop me to my practice then." Raj pops in.

"What's the magic word?"

He looks at my with an annoyed glare and I couldn’t help but laugh.

"Chal, ghade." I smack his head and run out to start the vehicle.

We reach at his cricket academy and he dragged me inside to show me something interesting.

"Why am I here?" I ask him clearly annoyed.

"Just look in the front."

Oh well.

There he was.

Looking clearly unbothered.

And there I was, pacing around because of him. Instead of talking to me, he is here smashing sixes.

Bowlers ko hi girlfriend bana leta.

Stupid.

I should've returned back but Oh

I shoved my brother aside and stepped onto the field, ignoring his protests. I knew I shouldn’t be doing this. I mean, barging into a cricket game in the middle of practice wasn’t exactly normal. But clearly wasn’t working with my clueless boyfriend, and I had officially run out of patience.

The bowlers paused mid-action, staring in confusion as I walked straight toward the pitch. My heart was pounding, but I didn’t slow down. I picked up the ball lying nearby and stood right in front of him, arms crossed, eyes locked on his.

That’s when he finally noticed me. Not just saw me, but noticed me, as in remembered, oh right, he has a girlfriend who’s been waiting for his call but he's been too busy pretending the game was more important than our conversation.

His bat dropped slightly, a flicker of guilt flashing across his face. Good. Now he remembered.

The field was silent, all eyes on us. I could hear his friends hooting and the judgemental glares.

"What are you doing here?" He whispers coming towards me.

"I have been calling you, waiting for you, and of course watching you pretend I don't exist. Everything else is more important than me, right?"

His eyes softened.

"I wasn't ignoring you. I was just__

"Save it."

He sighed, running a hand through his hair, clearly unsure of what to say next. I handed him the ball.

"Get your priorities straight, Aadi."

I walked out of the pitch, clearly embarrassed about my actions all because of him.

Asshole.

Mira, Myra sab mere hi boyfriend ke peeche kyu pade hai.

I stand outside the academy scrolling through my phone. That's when I came across my school group. They didn't remove me yet? Surprising.

It is probably gonna disturb my mind if I open it.

It took me a while to finally gather the courage, but I did it. I opened the school group chat. My hands trembled slightly as the messages loaded, a sea of emojis, memes, and mindless gossip flooding the screen. I expected nothing important. Just the usual chatter.

But then, something caught my eye.

A thread of messages that made my stomach drop. My heart began to race as I scrolled up to the beginning, hoping and praying that I had misunderstood. But the more I read, the more the words sank in. And with them, a truth I wasn’t ready for.

Mira and Aadi.

Their names together. Over and over again.

At first, I tried to convince myself it was just a joke. Some silly rumor the group was spinning for fun. But the pictures told a different story. Old or not, they were still real. Mira, smiling next to him. Aadi, looking at her like she was the only one in the world. And worse? The girls in the group chat swooning over them saying how they were made for each other, how perfect they looked, how it was meant to be.

Each message felt like a stone crashing into my chest. It shouldn’t have hurt this much, but it did. Because I didn’t know. No one told me. He didn’t tell me.

And suddenly, I wasn’t just heartbroken.

I was betrayed.

I stared at the screen, the messages blurring as my eyes filled with tears.

I stood there in silence trying to contemplate what just happened.

Why didn't he tell me?

Memories flashed in front of me. Everything that we had, was he thinking of her.

The betrayal wasn’t loud, it was quiet and painful.

I didn't know what hurt more.

That he had a past I didn't know about or the fact that he made me feel like o wasn’t worthy enough to know.

Am I his maybe?

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