No Lies Last Forever

Chapter 22: The Actual Incident

It felt like a heartbreak. The person I love just stated that it's over. Shouldn't he had to think twice before saying that? Though I agree that I never really expressed my feelings for him but this doesn't state that I don't love him. Is this why he said those words to me?

I see the crowd gradually dissipating with Vaibhav standing weakly with his head and lips injured badly. What happened in just one day? Tears start rolling down my eyes until they drip down to the cheeks.

I immediately wipe away my tears and quickly follow him with as fast pace as I possibly can. As I approach him, I grab his arm to turn him around. He turns to look back and I ask "Why did you say that?". I need answer.

"You are asking it? As if you don't know" he answers and rolls his eyes.

"I really don't" I reply while still holding my tears.

"Then what are these?" he asks and shows few pictures which were with him to me.

I scan through the snaps where I find myself with Vaibhav. In one of the picture, we are laughing and in the other we are sitting in a cafe where I am trying to console Vaibhav. Third picture is of us hugging each other outside his house in the night. In the fourth I am hand shaking with him and in the fifth and last one, I have kept my palm over his hand in the same cafe where I was consoling him.

My eyes widen in shock and my jaws drop down to the floor. These pictures are true but they are conveying wrong meaning. We are not looking at the camera in any of the photos which means someone has secretly clicked our pictures. But who could that person be? Aarya?

"Aarya did this right? I am gonna kill her!" I say and begin to walk away from Daksh in order to search that b*tch who did this on purpose when he holds my hand and pulls me towards him.

"Stop it Aditi. Does it even matter of who has done this? You also know that these pictures are not fake" he says calmly with an emotionless face.

"Yes they are not fake but I can explain Daksh" I sigh.

"I don't need your cooked up explanations. Do you even know how hard it was for me when I had looked at these pictures?"

"At least listen to me?" I plead but he just refuses by shaking his head.

"You know what? Aarya had already told me before when we were in Goa that you are cheating on me with Vaibhav but I didn't believe her. You want to know why? Because I had trust on you. I believed that you will never lie to me ever. I couldn't even imagine you doing this to me. But you proved me wrong" he says. His eyes become rheumy.

The tears make their way out of my eyes which I was holding since so long. He takes a deep breath and continues further. "Whenever I used to find you talking to him on phone or while texting, I used to think that you guys would be talking about something else but I didn't know you people were busy setting up yourselves. I also saw Vaibhav's message "Thank you so much. I'll never forget that night" on your phone and when I enquired you about that text, you simply lied by starting a stupid assignment topic. How? I mean how are you so comfortable while lying to someone?" he states and removes his eyes off me.

"Oh my god Daksh! These are all your misunderstandings. Why don't you try to listen to the other side of this story?" I ask him. My eyes are still wet and I want to cry as hard as I can. I swear this is enough and I am going to tell him everything of what happened with me and Vaibhav.

"Story??? This is just a story for you? And what you want to say about the night I and Aarya had came to see Vaibhav? You were present there in his home, weren't you?" he asks.

"N-No I was not" I reply and start looking here and there. I cannot speak lie while looking into someone's eyes. I just cannot.

"These pictures have dates and in the one where you are hugging him outside his house is of the same day when I and Aarya had came to visit Vaibhav" he states.