The Best Match

The Forced Denial

"It's so ironic that it took so much time for people to realize your real value. They come knocking right when you have finally closed your door."

Shree's Perspective

I descended the stairs to see everyone on the breakfast table. As their eyes snapped upon me, surprise practically oozed out of them.
"When did you come?" Mom asked as I took my seat next to Vidhi bhabhi.
"Um... yesterday!"
"Obviously but when? We didn't see you coming." Bhabhi threw another question at me and I looked at Abhimanyu for support. He seemed to gauge it, "Actually I went to her home yesterday and..."
"Oh so finally you couldn't resist!" Badi ma interjected and looked at me. "He was restless since the day you were gone and was losing his temper on everyone."
He was restless because he was guilty, not because he was missing me. I wanted to amend her views but the pasta served before me, seemed too delicious to wait for. So, pasting a fake smile, I dug in to my food. I didn't know if my decision of staying here was right or wrong, the only thing I know was, I was happy and I'd love to keep it that way only.

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"Hmm.....so the whole furor generated in your life is because of his ex-girlfriend!" These words came out of my best friend's mouth as she heard my jeremiad. Tranquility fell before, she shot up her eyebrows, "And she is also the reason of the rift between you guys."
"Rift?" Snorting humorlessly, I conceded, "She's raised to the whole Mount Everest between us. She's the one who'd indirectly made me subjected of downcast spurn."
"That's a pretty serious matter." She sighed, digging into the hot croquet crispy rolls mom, as in Abhimanyu's mom, had baked for us.
Sighing, she tapped her fingers on the plate, a habit I scornfully endured as it's unwholesome to talk some sense into her. She gazed to the pale chromic ceiling. "Still I think you should be wary and..." She turned to me with a cocky grin, "...get a grip on your heart."
"What do you mean?" I shot up my eyebrows, chewing the roll.
"I meant what I said." She rolled her eyes, "As we both are aware of that you like him, I suggest please don't let him put you to good use."
"JUST SHUT UP!" I glared her, red. She burst into laugh and pinched my cheeks, "Don't pretend babe! I know you like him."
"What nonsense!" Swatting her hand off, I scoffed and she rambled on, "No seriously, how you were crying!!"
She cleared her throat and I glared her completely aware what's in queue, she cleared her throat, patronizing me, "Oh Rhea! I did that. I finally did that..."
"RHEA!!"
".....I want to kill him then bring him back to life then kill him...."

"RHEA! JUST SHUT UP!"
"....it's just I've lost a part of me. You won't understand, Rhea." She completed and plopped on the bed, laughing while I managed to hit pillows on her. After office, she landed up in home to persuade me to go back in my home, my paternal home. Vexed, I'd to divulge the whole situation to her and that's led us here.
"I don't like him. I hate him, he's a jerk." I twitched my lips, trying hard to consent with myself.
She flipped on her stomach, balancing her weight on her elbows and gave me a knowing look, "If we subside this hotchpotch, I bet you like him. The girl who'd had knock off a boy to hurt her, is affirming on staying with a massive jerk says she's in love."
"Use your brain Rhea, How can I love him when all he do is to hurt me? Perhaps, he's just a knack or infatuation." It's more like affirming my heart, not her.
"Denial won't make it lie, Darling. If you don't like him, why the hell you drank? And why the hell you get in here? Notice that I'm completely ignoring the part where you shamelessly demanded to get kissed." She winked, making me regret that why the hell I'd to tell her EVERYTHING.

"I was drunk."
"According to Google, 97.45% people speak truth about themselves in drunken state." She surfed through the Google and showed me, "And psychologists have also given it a certification."
"But...." 'Stop denying! You know you like him, even before you got married, even before you got engaged.', this time it was ESV.
"I...do...like him." I confessed, stuttering and she clapped, "Hey we go...you fell for a jerk. Great!"
"Shut up!" I grimaced, "If I ignore his recent devilment, he's not that bad." I had a good word to say for.
"Albeit I'm still not so supportive of him but I just hope you won't be casted upon." She hugged me slouching on her knee and I met her halfway, "I hope that too."
"Okay, so now I've to take my leave. Mom must be waiting for me." She landed on floor and flattened out her dress.
"I'll walk you out."
"No, I'll be my own. You just clear the mess we've done." She laughed, pointing to the plates and pillows scattered on the bed.
"Okay! Bye!" I hugged her tightly before resuming to my work.