First Impressions

Chapter Thirteen

I did a double take when I saw who was in front of me.The room is dark but not that dark that I can't figure out the sight in front of me right now.

"You?" My eyes widen in surprise and horror and my voice comes out to be rather hoarse and loud.
I hear him mutter some profanities under his breath, while he is stumbling due to the effect of my punch.

Has he been putting wool over everyone's eyes all this while? I have often heard my Dad saying 'People may not actually be how they seem to be in front of everyone.'
But, I have hardly ever been wrong in judging people. And in this case it has been quite a while that I have known him. Probably more than a month.
Could the person who is in front of me be possibly the one who I think he is?
My mind wants to scream No.

Part of my brain suggested that he didn't actually hurt me physically.

Sure His arm had the strongest grip on mine but it wasn't the hurtful one. Glancing at my wrist again I imagine how else could it be possible that I was able to break free from his hold?

"What are you doing here?" I ask, confused and shocked at the same time.
My mobile which is apparently under his custody is ringing now. I assume it to be Swati since her call was cut abruptly.
He cuts it again and puts it on silence and I stand there like a statue not even trying to get my phone back.

"I should really never try to play with you, Rhea" he shakes his head disapprovingly and then clutches his thighs again with his hands.
That must really be paining very badly.

"Do you know Where's Neha? And What are you doing here? Wait-Are you-"

"Relax Rhea.Yeah I know where she is and that she is perfectly fine." he interrupts me and looks at me,disturbed.

"Then tell me where is she?"

"She has gone to bring food." he deadpanned.

"What?" I squeaked. Who was he kidding?

"Yeah. She'll be back in a while"

I wrinkled me eyebrows, my brain still not comprehending.

"But- Then what's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" he mimicked.

"I -I"

"Calm down. Guess you got too much scared."

" But..But Aryan What did I just see inside?"

"What did you just see inside?" he cocks his head to the side. Is he playing games with me?

"By inside I mean Neha's room. There-There's a guy in her bed-I just saw and-"

"Aye Aryan?."

Aryan and I both snap our heads back in the direction of the voice of the intruder.

A guy whose face I had never seen before stands across the living room, his dark eyes enlarged and eyebrows raised.

"Hey Neerav! Finally" saying so it doesn't take Aryan even an instant to run over to the guy. Following that both the guys hug each other as if they were meeting after very long.

"It's been ages, man!" the guy says whose name I know now.

"I know right."

"But you were out of town right?" asked Neerav whom as I began to observe, had dark hair that complemented his dark eyes.

"Has been weeks that I came back" said Aryan.

"That's not what Neha told me" he says. His voice is a bit louder than Aryan's.