Best Friends Forever(#YourStoryIndia)

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I gazed around Abhi's room. Surprisingly, it was tidy. A frame on his desk caught my eye. I hurried over to confirm that it was what I was seeing and my eyes were not playing tricks on me. It was a photo of the two of us smiling goofily,  looking at camera, with our arms around each other. We looked so happy and so in love. A lone tear slipped down my face and fell on it. Why did he have this picture framed? He was just playing with me, wasn't he? 

I looked up to find him blushing. He was running his hands through his hair, nervously. I looked back to the frame,  again. He gently pried the frame from my hands and placed it back. He cleared his throat and I realized how close we were. Instinctively,  I moved away and turned to face him when atleast five feet separated us. He was watching me move  and his eyes hardened with every step I took, trying to hide the pain. 

"You wanted to talk." I said, my voice squeaking, showing my nervousness. 

He sighed and kept on staring at me.  After sometime, I lost my patience with waiting for him to say something, anything. I just shook my head and made my way to the door. I was disappointed and  didn't think I was going to  get any  answers. May be it was for the best. He grabbed my arm when I was about to pass him and turned me around.

'' Wait. Just wait." He pleaded. I shook him off and took a few steps back. 

"I'm sorry. okay!!! I just...." He exclaimed and pinched the bridge of his nose to control his anger. 

"I don't understand how you to get to be angry?" I hissed, angrily and continued, " I'm not the one who lied to you about everything. I didn't hide who I am and most importantly I didn't cheat on you." 

"Damn it. I didn't cheat. Don't you trust me? Not even a little bit? Just because you saw something in the newspaper, you assume that I am cheating on you. Did you try to talk to me about it. You just cut me off!!!" He yelled, furiously. 

With clenched fists and murderous eyes, he advanced towards me,  making me flinch and move back. I wrapped my arms around myself, scared. He saw that he was scaring me and stopped. He sighed and looked away. 

"I'm sorry. I am not going to hurt you. I love you, okay. There is nothing going on with that girl.   I just..... I just don't know how to convince you to give me another chance." He said, desperately and continued, "I am sure Dev or Diya told you about how I really was. I am not that person,  anymore."

"Who was that girl?" I asked, trying to act normal. Trying to act like  he didn't  blurt out the L word!!! My heart was already a goner when it came to him. I was trying to me strong. 

He looked at me annoyed and asked, "Geez, woman. I say I love you and the only thing that you could pick out from the conversation was about that girl?!!!" 

He said he loves you twice,  in a minute. Forgive him, already!!!! my inner voice said. I shook my head and crossed my arms waiting for him to answer,  with a racing heart.  

He muttered something under his breath something that sounded like crazy and I asked, "Are you calling me crazy?" 

He looked like a deer caught in the headlights and gave a fake cough, "No,  baby. I don't have a death wish." 

I narrowed my eyes at him and asked, "Are you trying to change the subject?" 

"Is it working?" He grinned, looking hopeful and breaking a chunk of my armor.  When I made a move to walk out he said, "Wait. Okay. I'm not going to joke anymore." and continued, "She's my father's friend's daughter. I have known her since we were kids. She is a good friend. That's it." 

I looked at him. I felt that he was telling the truth, but not everything. 

"Was she one of your exes?" I asked, in a low voice. Since, I was looking down, I missed him lovingly caressing me with his eyes. 

"No." He said. I looked up at him and decided to believe him. I nodded. He sighed and looked as if a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders. 

"Can I hold you,  now?  It's been two months. You won't even let me touch you now!!!" He said, petulantly. 

"Don't even think about it." I said and continued sweetly, "You still have a long way to go." 

"What now?" He asked, clearly irritated that I was not  allowing  him to touch me. 

"Why did you lie about who you were? Do you think I'm some kind of  a gold digger?" I asked, hurt that he would actually think that about me. when I think about it, this was what hurt me the most. 

"Hell.  no. I wanted to tell you... I didn't get the right time,  I guess." He said, lamely.

"Right time!!! You asshole, " I began, ignoring the glint in his eyes when I cussed at him, I continued, "You are such a jerk. You played with my feelings. I never asked you anything, doesn't mean that I was putting up with you. Guess, I was too easy for you. Did you do this because I spilled coffee on you???!!! I don't even know who you are,  now. Was everything a lie? Didn't I mean anything to you. God!! I'm so pathetic. You thought you could just......" My rant was cut off when he slammed his lips on mine.

 I should have paid more attention to where he was and not on my anger, then I could have avoided this. Did you really want to avoid it?? an annoying voice said. I ignored it and tried to shove him away. He was like wall,  not budging and was kissing me with hunger. With each shove,  my resolve became weaker. He sighed and was about to pull away, when my hands, on their own accord, grabbed his hair and pulled him to me. He grinned against my lips and deepened the kiss,  wrapping his hands completely around my waist and pulling me impossibly closer. When I felt him hardenagainst my stomach,  I gasped and his tongue invaded into my mouth. Every nervein my body lit up. I heard a faint knock on the door. I tried to pull away to confirm it, but he pulled me right back to him, a slight moan escaping from me. 

A shrill whistle broke us apart. Both of us were breathing hard. Abhi had a murderous look on his face when he looked at the intruder or should I say intruders. Trying to catch  my breath, I looked up to see both Diya and Dev grinning at us. I felt my face heat up and hid against abhi's shoulders. Seeing that, both Diya and Dev roared with laughter. 

"What do you want? Get out!!! I'm two steps away from killing both of you." Abhi said, annoyed, while gently wrapping his arms around me. I peeked to see Diya smirking at me and blushed. 

"That didn't take long, now , did it?" Dev said, winking at me,  making both of them  cackle with laughter at our expense. 

Abhi huffed and looked like he would use physical force to get them out. I wasn't the only one who noticed that, Diya did to and she grabbed Dev's arm and started pushing him out the door saying, "We are going out to eat. If you guys want anything, call me." 

They were in the corridor when,  Abhi slammed the door on their faces.

"Abhi!!! That was rude. " I reprimanded him. Before he could reply,  I could hear Dev through the door yelling, "Kids!! use protection." I blushed and Abhi was smirking at me.  I heard a smack and "ouch. what was that for?" and their voice faded away.    

"Now, where were we?" Abhi asked, with hunger in his eyes and I gulped.