So High School!

Chapter fifty

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Aarushi

I felt like I was sitting behind a stranger, a stranger who knew me too well. We had shared thousands of words, and now there is silence. For a moment, I felt the familiar warmth, but it disappeared just as quickly. 

Only if this were real. I still did not hold him, because as much as I had craved his touch, I knew I was too fucking weak. I had never been so emotionally wrecked. I had always been the stronger child, the stronger friend, but when it came to Aadi, it was always the opposite. I didn't need to pretend to be strong, I could throw a thousand tantrums his way, and he would happily take it all. I could rant all day about the same topic over and over again and he still wouldn't get mad. 

My bubble popped when the bike jerked forward with a force, and I held onto his shirt to balance myself.

"Are you okay?" He asked, looking back at me. Although I couldn't see his face through the helmet, his eyes still burned a hole through me. 

"Yes." I somehow managed to say something. 

"We are here." He said, as I realised I had been staring at him all this while. I quickly got off his bike, to see that everyone was already walking inside. Without sparing another glance at him, I followed his friends. 

I was about to enter the theatre before my mom called. "Yes mumma?" I chatted with her for 5 minutes, and the moment I looked up, anger hit me before I could stop it. He stood there talking to a girl. She stepped closer, laughing as she lightly hit his arm like he was hers to touch. It took everything in me not go there and smack both of their hands. 

Control Aarushi. He is not your boyfriend anymore. I reminded myself. But that sight burned through me. I could handle everything but not this. Ignoring my mind's repeated warnings, I walked towards them. 

"We can go out, sometime. Just us." She said, smiling. Not her fault, my man was too damn charming. 

"I am busy this weekend." Aadi said taking a step back. Good. 

"Oh come on, don't be a bore." She said taking a step forward. 

"He has plans with his girlfriend." I slipped my arm into his, daring the world to notice. What the fuck was I doing? He is my ex for God's sake. But this that stop me? No.

"I didn't know you had a girlfriend." she said, visibly shocked. 

"Well, now you know." Aadi looked at me, his brows raised at my words, his lips curving into a slow smirk. 

I removed my hand the moment that girl was out of sight. That touch was too damn familiar, too heartbreaking. 

"I was just doing you a favour, she wasn't leaving you alone." I disappeared into the hall quickly. What had I done? Shit. 

"Hey, where did you go?" Trisha asked, once I reached our seats.

"My mom called." I took the empty seat beside her.

"Aarushi, is this seat taken?" Kabir asks pointing to the seat beside me.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Aadi walking towards us. My lips lifted into a slow smirk.

“No, you can sit here,” I said to Kabir calmly.

Aadi's Pov

I reach up to our seats to find Kabir sitting beside her. Laughing with her. Asshole.

Hell! I shouldn’t care. She is my no one. She can sit with whoever she wants to.

I took the seat beside Kabir, keeping my eyes on the movie instead of her. She shouldn't be in my mind, but fuck she is everywhere, my heart, my soul and my mind.

The moment my eyes turned to her, rage flooded through me. Kabir titled his head towards her, whispering something to her and her laugh landed in my heart like a fucking punch.

That's it. I am done with this shit.

"Kabir."

"Ha bro, bol na." He turned to me still grinning like a joker.

"Uth udar se."

"What?" His eyes widened.

"Get up before I push you myself." I warned glaring at him

"I hate you." He muttered getting up.

"The feeling's mutual, bro." I flashed a sarcastic smile at him.

"I am going to get back at you." He muttered.

I completely ignored his words and sat beside Aarushi. Without sparing a glance at me, she turned to the screen.

After a while I felt a familiar touch, one I could recognise anywhere. My heart stopped. Her arms slipped around mine as she giggled at the movie, unaware of the strom she had caused. For a moment I forgot everything, the breakup, the pain. It felt like old times.

The second she realized her actions, she removed her hand like it burned.

"I am sorry. It was out of habit." I chuckled at her words, although my eyes said something else.

"You made your choice, now live with the distance."

"I didn't mean to touch you." She replied, as her voice broke.

"You don't get to touch me like that anymore." I said looking away.

"Guys, we are going to buy snacks." Ishaan said getting up and that's when I realized it was interval already.

"Cheese sandwich for me." Trisha said.

"I'll have salted popcorn." Kabir said.

"Aarushi?"

"Chesse popcorn." I said before she could say something. I mentally cursed myself for letting my tongue slip. "I meant for me."

"You hate cheese popcorn." Aarushi whispered.

"People change, Aarushi. You are proof of that." I said. She looked at me with tears in her eyes and unsaid words she no longer had right to say.

"I'll have nachos." She replied. My favourite. "Sometimes people are forced to change." She murmured.

Forced to change? Is there something I don't know?

~

"Kabir. Can I sit with you for the ride back?" Aarushi asked.

"Ofcourse." Kabir exclaimed.

She ignored me after that line. Didn't even look at my way. And for some annoying reason I hated that.

And the worst part? She chose him for the ride back.

"I think Kabir likes Aarushi." Ishaan whispered.

"I bet you 1000 rupees, he is going to ask her out." Rishabh replied.

"Can you guys, shut up." I interuppted their stupid conversation. "There is no match. They don't even look good together."

"Why are you acting like a jealous ex?"

Because I am.

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