Yours Forever.

Chapter 35

Luke's POV :
It has been 10 days since Rosie left me alone, shattered in pieces.
I had no way to reach her so I decided to call Zhenya.
I asked her about Rosie's decision of leaving me but she had no clue that this even happened. I told her to ask Rosie if she's okay or wants to talk to me.
I also told her to attempt to convice Rosie to rethink about her decision.

It was 10 in the morning all I had with me was memories of Rosie, broken expectations, pain and Zhenya's consolations.
She talked to me for a long while, consoling me that circumstances would get better once Rosie realises how scrupulous she needs to be.

"First of all, Rosie didn't even say a word about what's up between you two. But I will still talk to her. I know you love her and you're a really nice guy. You don't deserve all this."
She pitifully conveyed.

"Zhen, just tell her to talk to me once. I don't care if I deserve all this or not. I just need her back."

"Don't worry. I will talk to her."
She hung up the phone.
I just hoped that Rosie would listen to her instead of avoiding her the way she did to me. I just wanted her back in my life, in any way.

*Six hours later.*

I was waiting for Zhenya's call but there seemed to be no hope that she'd contact me.
I laid on my bed, the sun was setting. I could see it right outside my bedroom window. I remembered the day me and Rosie leaped into each other's arms by the lake side. The thoughts of her just conquered my mind. I just wondered if she missed all that the same way? Was her heart in the same pain?
Thinking of pain, I just prayed that she isn't.

Remembering the good times just gave me so much inner peace that it helped me fall asleep. I didn't know why I just loved this girl so madly.
I almost fell alseep thinking of Rosie when suddenly my phone beeped.

I hurriedly got up to see who it was. As I was almost unconscious, my mind illusioned that it was Rosie. I immediately picked up the call.

"Hello Rosie!"
tears formed in my eyes.
"I missed you so much!"

"Uh, Luke?"
The voice seemed familiar but it wasn't of Rosie. Rosie had a melodious voice, the sound that made my heart skip a beat.
"It's Zhenya here."
I calmed my flickering emotions and made myself ready to hear what Zhenya was about to tell me.

"Oh I'm sorry. I just-"
"It's okay. Just listen to me. I talked to Rose via texts. She is totally not affected by anything I say. In fact, she got furious over the thing that I'm not trying to understand her."

"But what does she want you to understand? Did she mention anything about the cause of her reaction?"

"Luke as far as I know her, she loves you. But I really can't figure out the reason behind whatever she's doing."

I was extremely disappointed to hear that. The emptiness in my heart began to get expressed through my voice.

"Look, dude you're not alone. I'm sympathetic towards you. I know your love is unconditional. She's just out of her mind right now and wants you to stop chasing after her. I don't even want to talk to her,  she's-"

"Stop it Zhen. Don't even think about leaving her. Thank you for understanding but please stay with her. Just let me know everything about her. Don't leave her alone, she loves you a lot. You're her best friend. She trusts you with everything."

"Okay. But don't think you're alone too. We'll keep in touch okay?"

"Okay. Bye."
I hung up the phone. Rosie didn't miss me at all, that was something which was hard to believe. There was definitely something because of which she was running away from me. But I couldn't make her mine in ways which make her uncomfortable. She wanted me to stop trying to approach her and I decided that I won't.

Even after Rosie put me through hell, I never felt abhorrence for her. I always tried to understand what she felt like. I always put myself into her part of the story and tried feel the way she did.
All I had in my mind was that my love might have been weaker than it was required to keep a relationship going. Maybe it wasn't worth so much struggle, according to her.
For me her love was everything. But maybe for her my love wasn't as important as her family was. And I didn't blame her for that.
She had a whole right for making her own decisions. After all, she owned her life not me.

I just wanted to see her happy.

Rosie's POV :
Rays of the sunlight touched my eyes through the window and woke me up from sleep. It was the start of April. Finally that terrible and tragic month was over. Well, that did not change the lonliness I felt every second of my life.

I always wondered about what would be the Luke's part of the story, his point of view about me.
He must be hating every bit of me for putting him through so much tribulation. But that was for better.
Half a month had passed without his presence in my life but not even a night passed when I didn't cry for him.

He definitely had no idea what malaise was there in my heart.

It was Monday morning, 7 in the morning. I got up and called Zhenya. I hadn't talked to her since Friday. I had to ask her if she was going to school so I could join her. I was in no mood to get out of my bed and meet people with whom I had to fake a smile and act like an unmitigated joyful person.

"Hey sup?" She sounded croaky.

"Hey. Are you alright? You sound..
tired?". 

"Yeah, I was just awake the whole night. We slept an hour ago, maybe. I don't know. You tell, Whatsup?"

"We? Who we? And you sleep right at 12 in week days as you have to go for your part-time job at 4pm.?"

"Come on don't act like an invigilator. Lemme sleep. I'm not coming to school. I feel weary."

"Why aren't you telling me the whole thing Zhen?" I raised my voice.

"I'm sensible enough to take my own decisions. Just stop being my mother Rosie." She shouted.

Her behaviour left me in a blow.

"Fine. I ain't going either. You go to sleep then. I guess I'm gonna do the same." I lowered my pitch like a cat.

"You're fine with your.. lonliness? Stuff?" She asked being extremely uninterested.

"Yeah. Totally." I pretended to be happy.

"Cool. See you at school tomorrow."

"Yeah."
She disconnected the call.

Zhenya behaved in an entirely atypical way.
I felt like she was trying to shut me out. She always told me every single detail about her life.
She accidentally spoke 'we slept an hour ago'. I conjectured if she was she in a relationship with someone?
Or was she sleeping with somebody?
Or was she on a call with her boy the whole night.

These thoughts arose in my mind because she was not the kind of girl who would stay up the entire night doing nothing. And after she predominantly mentioned 'we'.

I was thinking so much because I cared. I loved her, she was like my sister. We spent our entire childhood together, we were like an open book to each other.
Maybe she wasn't telling me everything because she felt that distance between us that I created by not telling her about my feelings.

But that had nothing to do with the thing that we shouldn't be friends like before.

I felt like I was losing everything. First Luke and now, maybe Zhenya too.

Zhenya is trying to shut out on Rosie. Whaattttt??? Weren't they like soul sisters to each other. And why is Zhenya being so unconventional to Rosie?
Luke is still deeply in love with Rosie and same is the case with Rosie. But what is wrong with Zhenya that she turned so against Rosie without even knowing her part of the story.
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