Heart Strings

CHAPTER 10

It was my turn to bowl. I lifted the ball with ease, the 8 kg one. I was about take aim and then a voice from behind called out,

"Still the same old stance Leah?"
I turned around with a start.

"Suketh!!"

"Hey Leah"

"What the hell are u doing here?" Shub stood next to me giving him an angry look.

"Nothing really, I just saw some girl jumping alot. I recognized the long hair too. I knew it was you so I just want to hear your answer to my question , since you didn't give me an answer that day."

I remembered what happened that day.....

Flashback

I wasn't feeling so good so I thought I should spend some time with Sahani.

She is a very good advisor and she is a fun person. The only drawback was that she was Suketh's elder sister. I had a huge huge huge crush on Suketh for 4 years. I still like him even now, that's why it's hard to be around him. And after what happened between us, things got pretty ugly between us.

I left dad a note and then went down. I was about to take the bike keys when Ram sevak uncle said that the bike didnt have petrol in it. Dammit! Now I had to walk. Well it was only 5 km away so, whatever.

After 1 hour of walking I got a ride on Anil's bike. He's older to me by 4 years. He was Ram uncle's nephew.

I got down half a kilometer away from Sahani's house. After I reached the gate I saw the one person I didn't want to see. Suketh. Dammit! I just walked past him , ignored him, I just can't get myself to look at him.

"Hey there" I jumped.

"H-hey Suketh. You scared me!"

"What am I invisible or something?"

"No I just didn't see you, sorry"

"Nah its okay, by the way I heard tha-"

"I really need to go now" I cut him off.

I walked away without turning back. Really why does he want to talk to me now. We were so close in 7th grade. And now look. It's his fault, not mine. He shut me out after the incident. I just.......don't wanna do this to him.......I love him so much.

Then I went straight to Sahani's room. They're mother didn't like me after that incident. So she never really greeted me or anything. But their father was kind.

" Hi Leah "

" Hello Uncle! How are you?"

" I'm fine dear wha-"

"Sahani is in the backyard. If your here to meet her then go there . There is dust everywhere Oh god!" Rekha aunty said cutting uncle off. I knew what "dust" She was referring to. It did hurt whenever she said something like that. I would usually brush it off but this time it really hurt, it was building up. I realised I was shaking, shivering in fact.