Mahika and Amoli can't stand each other, but that's not the only thing they have in common.
Mahika treats Amoli like she's childish. Amoli thinks Mahika is a stuck-up prude. But Mahika's best friend and Amoli's brother are getting married, so they c...
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˗ˏˋheartstrings and the words that tug at them'ˎ˗
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Mahika stares at the door quietly for a few seconds, eyes shifting to the wide-eyed girl standing beside it before she closes her own eyes in part-exhaustion and part-frustration, a weak attempt at pushing the rest of her tears away before she opens them and wipes her cheeks.
Their voices hadn't been loud, so Mahika is hoping for the best and ruling out the possibility that someone might have heard them.
"Time to pretend we hate each other," she mutters at Amoli before she makes her way to the door, already clicking the door open to be greeted by Naina's sombre expression before Amoli can open her mouth to say something in reply to Mahika's comment.
Mahika steps back to let Naina in, quietly closing the door behind her.
"Are you two fighting again?" are the first words that leave Naina's mouth, eyebrows drawn together and the corners of her lips turned down. Her eyes are on Mahika, which means she is more disappointed in her out of the two.
So she's the one who replies first. "No, we're not... well, fighting. Not exactly."
Naina crosses her arms across her chest, giving Amoli a look before turning to Mahika again. "Really? Your faces say otherwise."
Mahika can only imagine what her face looks like. She might be good at a lot of things, but keeping her emotions from showing up on her face is not one of them. So with her eyes downcast, she just presses her lower lip between her teeth and says nothing.
"I knew it was a bad idea to let Amoli up here to check up on you," Naina says with a sigh, and her eyebrows come together in an expression of confusion because, Is that what Amoli had told them? That she wanted to check up on me? Then again, Mahika had barely let her speak. So maybe she was there to check up on her. But the realization that Amoli had assumed Mahika would take advantage of her in her drunken state and leave first thing in the morning had sent her over the edge.
"Can we just..." Naina starts with a frustrated breath, dropping her arms to gesture between Mahika and Amoli. "...I don't know. Resolve this thing between you two once and for all? Because what even happened? What exactly is it that you two always end up having an argument about?"
Embarrassed beyond belief and annoyed at herself to no extent, Mahika says, "This one was on me." And she truly believes it was. She could have just let Amoli say whatever she wanted to, and that could have been it. Maybe they would have found something to argue about later, but after what happened between them at Naina's wedding, she truly doubts they'd be getting into petty arguments. "Sorry about that." Her voice gets smaller, and she absolutely refuses to look at Amoli even when she feels her eyes on herself. She raises her face and tries to smile for Naina. "Won't happen again."
