Just Friends (COMPLETED)

Meant to be!

Ishika's POV:

After I completed my little speech, there was a long pause of silence between us. Rohan just kept staring at me, without any hint of expression. I guess he needed the time to register what I had just told him. And I readily gave that to him, but not without my heart beating at a rate that it threatened to come out of my system through my throat, causing a lump there.

"That wasn't funny." He said plainly after a few more moments of silence.

"Funny? But it wasn't meant to be funny either." I said, feeling a little confused about his such low key response. I had expected him to be a little surprised by my statement; but not in this way.

All of a sudden, he left my hand with a jerk. "This is enough Ishu! You know I love you and I know that you don't but that dosen't give you the right to make fun of my feelings okay?" He blurted out in a slow but rather irritating tone.

"Fun? No Rohan you're getting it all wrong. I'm not making fun of you. How can you even think like that? And is this a thing to joke about?"

His expressions didn't change at all.

"Ishu please. I'm seriously not in a mood right now." He said, looking at the direction bang opposite to mine.

"Rohan please. You can at least listen to what I'm saying. Please?"

His expressions still refused to change, except that he was looking down now.

I sighed, putting my hand over his hand. "Rohan. I seriously was not making fun of you. I swear. I really mean every word that I said."

His face softened a little hearing what I had to say. Finally looking up at me, he took my hands softly into his. He stared deep into my eyes and said, "Ishu listen. See I know that you don't feel for me the way I feel for you. And it's completely alright. Ok? You don't have to do this."

"What? I'm not doing this because I have to do it but because I want to do it. You think I'm saying this out of pity or something? You know this is why I call you what I do; Dumbo! No Rohan. Trust me. Whatever I'm saying, I've really thought a lot about it."

I saw him moving his head nonchalantly at what I said.

I still continued "Rohan, I dont know, but I'm feeling that we do have a strong connection somewhere hidden inside our friendship. You know, the way I feel when I'm with you, I don't feel it with anyone else. And you remember when we were not talking to each other, I felt as if the world has come to a standstill. All I could think of during those days was that when and how we could get back to being friends again. I just couldn't bear not talking to you. Such strong feelings, I've never had for anyone. I... I want to know if such feelings are just our strong friendship or-uh..."

He looked up at me suddenly, "Or?"

"Or... Ummm... Dumbo! Don't act like you don't know what I mean." I teased.

He again went on his famous 'silent-mode'.

I sighed again and heavier this time. Putting a hand on his shoulder, I said "Rohan, I just said what I felt right at the moment. But if you feel..."

"Ishu, can we please leave our relationship to itself and see where it leads? I don't want to give it a name right now and ruin what's already there. Everything's back to normal after a really long time and I don't want to ruin it. At least for now."

"I understand what you're trying to say." I cupped his face with my hand, assuring him that I meant whatever I was saying. "I know whatever happened the last time between us, you are scared because of it. And if I were in your place, maybe even I would be scared. But I assure you Rohan; this time, nothing is going to go wrong. Nothing will be ruined between us. I promise."