Best Friends Forever(#YourStoryIndia)

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ANA

To say that Diya looked like shit is an understatement. Afreen and I exchanged scared glances. Diya was acting  like a zombie and it was scaring us. 

"Diya, what's wrong. You are scaring us?" Afreen said, softly. 

Afreen and I had ditched classes when we found out that Diya wasn't coming to college. Of course,  I knew what had happened. A very angry and disappointed boyfriend calling you in the middle of the night to yell at you because your best friend breaks his brother's heart,  really gets the point through. I shook myself and concentrated on Diya. 

"Did you eat anything? How about I order pizza?" I said, trying to cheer her up. 

She sighed, "You guys suck at consoling people. how did I end up getting such lousy friends?" 

"Heyyy!!!" Both Afreen and I glared at her. 

"How dare you call us lousy!!! I have been calling you since last night. You don't answer. Do you know how worried I was. Affu even missed Usha mam's class. You know she never does that." I said, fake glaring at her. 

She gave out a shaky laugh when Affu tried to smother me with a pillow. Thus, began our pillow fight and both of them ended up tickling me to death.

"Okay, okay. stop!!" I said, panting. They stopped,  all the three of us fell on the bed and tried to catch our breath. 

I looked at Diya and smiled. some of her  color was returning on her face. 

"Where is my damn pizza?" She demanded.

I got up,  bowed deep and sarcastically said, "I will go order it now, madam. Anything else?" 

"No. Just make it fast." She said, with her nose turned up, like a spoilt brat. Laughing,  I stepped out of her room and took my cell phone out to place our order. I saw that I had a message from Abhi.

Abhi: Where are you? 

Shit!! That was like an hour ago. Just that one message. He doesn't even care that I haven't replied. God!! I shouldn't even expect that, knowing how he is. I sighed and proceeded to order our pizza. 

We were now sprawled out in front of the TV with the pizza in front of us. I shot Afreen a look, asking her to speak and she was pleading with her eyes for me begin the dreaded conversation. This went on for a few minutes making Diya sigh. 

"I don't want to talk about it."Diya said, her eyes glued to the TV. 

"You need to get it all out. You will feel better." I said. 

"There is nothing to talk about. He said He wanted to be in a relationship with me and I said I  was too damaged for any relationship. That's it and he left." She said,  in a bored voice, but her eyes said something else. 

I sighed. There was no getting through with this girl. I knew she would break and I would just have to be there to catch her. 

Afreen said, "Fine. Take your time. But you know we are here for you, right?" She hugged Diya and I squealed, "Group hug!!" 

I broke out of the hug when my phone rang. It was Abhi. I grimaced and walked into Diya's room for privacy.

"Hey." I said, softly.

"Where the fuck are you? You don't reply to my message. Do you know how worried I was. Is it hard for you to just leave a text telling me where you are and that you are safe?" He all,  but yelled at me. I could feel the worry behind his anger.

"I'm sorry. I am at Diya's. She is not doing well,  right now. So Affu and I are here since morning." I said. 

He sighed, "How is she? Tell her I'm damn pissed at her." 

"I am not going to tell her that!!! She's definitely not okay,  but is trying to act otherwise. How's Dev?" I asked.

"Still passed out from all the drinking he did last night. Ughhh!! Your friend did a number on him." He said, frustrated. 

"Can you  try to understand where she is coming from?  She's hurting too. Your brother knew this could happen. He knows everything about her. He should have thought things through before confessing his feelings." I said, getting angry.

"Don't blame my brother, Ana. She likes him, then she should stop being a bitch and accept that and not be a coward." He said, equally angry. 

"Did you just call my best friend a bitch?" I asked, seeing red. He did not just say that.

"I guess I did. You are going to take her side, no matter what I say or do. She's your best friend,  after all. Are you going to do the same thing to me?" He replied. 

"I cannot believe you just said that. I know your pissed because your brother's hurt, doesn't mean that you have to take it out on me." I said, with tears in my eyes. 

We didn't speak for a while.  Finally,  I said, "I'll talk to you later." 

"Ana..." He tried to say but I had already cut the call. I turned around wiping my eyes to see Diya staring at me . 

"What happened?" She asked, worry in her eyes. She was worrying about me all the time. Even now, when her world is getting shattered. 

"Nothing." I said and tried to smile. She didn't believe me.

 "Are you sure about this? You are in love with Dev. I can see that, everyone can see that. I know you are  scared. But what if he is the one?Won't you regret it  later?" I asked.

She just stared at me and instead asked, "You guys are having problems because of me?" 

I said what I wanted to say. I know she's stubborn and will come around. Dev just had to hang on.

 I dropped the topic and said, "No silly!!! Stop worrying. Let's go watch that Stupid movie Affu is making us watch." 

She understood I didn't want to talk about it and let me drag her into the living room.