My Innocent Love (Book 1 In Novice Love Series)

Chapter 23- Being Raisha...

When you get to know something unexpectedly which you are not supposed to know, you can't exactly give out the perfect reaction for that situation. Because it's a general presumption that one human can't really express themselves aptly, in every circumstance which they come across. Some might just make them clearly angry, some might just break them apart and some might just leave them confused or hesitant, but then there are some which might just make them blank. It's not like being blank, is what you want but what choice do you even have other than that because not always you could scratch your heads to know the truths.

Raisha was in exactly the similar situation. She couldn't get anything straight in her system. She did hear Aayush telling to Tanya that he was with her due to some reason but at that moment she never thought that someone was pestering him to do so while he was just doing it as a way of obligation. She heard the noise of something breaking which brought her back out of her dazed state and worried that Aayush might have hurt himself, she slowly opened the door of his room and greeted the sight of his shirtless back while he was staring out of the Window with his one palm resting on the Windowsill. The vase was lying on the floor scattered in pieces but she was relaxed that he wasn't hurt.

She thought that he would turn around and wish her with a smile but it seemed that he was lost in his own world as she sensed the stiffness of his muscles clear. She locked the door behind her and with slow steps, she approached him, but he still remained unaware of her presence behind him. She waited for a second and then without thinking much, she back hugged him with her one hand wrapped around his waist while the other wrapped around his shoulder.

"I love you". Raisha confessed in a soft voice with her cheek resting on his back as her eyes closed on their own accord. Aayush heard her confession and that is when he opened his eyes feeling his bursting mind relaxed with just the three words. He was so much engrossed in his worries that he didn't realize that someone was hugging him but once her soothing voice reached his ears, he came out of his troubled mind immediately.

"Raisha!" he greeted her with a smile turning around and she hugged him tightly, taking him by complete surprise.

"You didn't go to class?" he asked wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her more to himself.

"When you are here how can I be in class?" she replied parting from him making him smile and then he planted a soft kiss on her forehead as a way of showing his gratitude for her loving gesture.

"Aayush are you hiding something from me?" she asked cupping his one cheek and the color left his face at the thought of hearing him yell. He studied her face cautiously and the look she harbored clearly told him that she did hear everything but could he burden her with the mess of his life just when she had started to get the share of her happiness? Can he take all this smile away just when he had given her? His life was a mess from always but only he was unaware of it until a few years back but now knowing all of it, can he let another innocent soul get into it especially his Raisha who had suffered so much. He decided that he can't tell her everything for the time being because he wasn't selfish to worry her once again. She deserved to live normally rather than worrying all the time.

"It's just my family did like Tanya a lot, so our second breakup news isn't very pleasing to them but I made it clear that I don't like her and I won't be with her", he half lied and half told the truth but Raisha could clearly sense his discomfort on the topic so she didn't pester him much because she was sure once he wanted he will reveal it to her. She just nodded with a smile making him sigh in relief otherwise he was dreading that if she pesters him further, how would he even lie to her.?He was guilty of lying to her just when they have got together but he wasn't sure on how to reveal the bitter truths of his life which he was still trying to digest and even after four years, he hasn't arrived at any conclusion.