Love Punishment

||17. Love is feeling ||

"Love is a feeling
you never felt before."

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"Swara, are you ready?" Sanskar asks coming out from the washroom. His attention fetches to Swara who's drying her hair with a dryer. Water droplets on her face that radiant her beauty mesmerized him. She applies mascara to her sparkling eyes and strawberry-flavored lipstick to her soft petal lips. But nothing to her face. Nevertheless, with her natural face, she's the epitome of beauty. 'How can someone look so beautiful?', he muses himself. A glimpse of her is enough to cripple his lips into a smile.

Like magnetic attraction, unknowingly his leg paced near her with a smile. He adores her neck with mangalsutra. After that takes a pinch of sindhur, applies it on her forehead, and then puts a red round bindi. Instinctively he steps back comprehending what he just has done. Swara was busier in recollecting what just happened. A shade of pink appears on her face. Both share an awkward moment. He clears his throat.

"That....... get ready soon." He fumbles for words. Swara's face glows glancing at his retreating figure scampered out of the room.

"Duffer...." She sees her reflection in a mirror, stares at mangalsutra, and touches her forehead. She couldn't help, but blush! Her face goes even redder than already has if that was even possible. Change is already happening to her. Without her knowledge, she's giving a chance to their relationship.

Their journey to college went silent. Silence filled in-car. No one dared to break the silence. Sometimes it's better to just remain tight-lipped. When words fail to let out express our emotions silence is better.

She eyes him whose eyes are fixed on the road. Her lips parted, but no words came out.

He cared for her
when she hurts him with her words.

She treated him as a stranger,
still, he was the same caring.

He was there when she needed him.

He deserves a chance and she's going to give it. She made up her mind once.  A smile is on her face. He calls her name interrupting her from trance "Swara... We reached the College."

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"I'm worried about her. It's been a week but there's no trace of her." Ragini said over the call. Whoever would be tense, if someone stopped attending college all of a sudden, and that too when it's our friend. Ragini is no exception to it.

"Don't worry about her. She had flu. Now her temperature reduced. She will come to college today. You just concentrate on the work for which you are there." Her phone almost dropped catching a glimpse of Swara in front of her.

Did she hear her talk?

No way, right?

But her intense look said otherwise. "You're hiding something from me?" That's an assertion than a qualm. The sweat-drenched on Ragini's face, she wipes it instantly. She shook her head declining her doubt.

"Gosh! Look at your face. It's like you were caught while stealing." With that, she hugs Ragini "I missed you Rags." She wasn't lying. She did miss Ragini's ramblings. Of course, Sanskar was around her 24*7 past weeks. But it's different around with the silent monster. He's good company, but his silent nature is the only thing that she hated in him.