That's The Way Love Goes✔

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They were childhood best friends. There was nothing in this world that they didn't know about each other. Whether it was their attractions, crushes, bad marks, fights, achievements, anything and everything. Nothing was kept away from each other.

 But now, there was something. Something he couldn't tell her. Not because he was scared, well maybe that was a part of the reason, but not the main one. He didn't want to hurt her or make her choose. All he wanted was to make her happy and if she was happy with someone else, he was not going to deny her the happiness.

He loved her irrevocably. He doesn't know when it happened but when she spoke about her crushes and attractions, it had started hurting his heart. He had felt his heart squeeze in despair and had started realizing he loved her.

It has been 4 years since then. He had started getting extremely protective of her but he had made sure he always gave her her personal space. He never refused her anything, even if that was the weirdest thing at the oddest time. His love for Naira was just as deep as the ocean.

She was dating someone else. He had made himself believe that she loved that guy. It hasn't been very long since Raghav had asked her out and she had agreed. She has liked him for a very long time and when Raghav had finally asked her out for a date, she had been elated.

As much as her happiness had made him happy, he could never deny that it had hurt him more than anything else in the world.

Raghav was a nice guy who liked Naira and there was nothing Kartik could do about that. He had always tried to stay away from him but on Naira's insistence, they had all gone for frequent lunches.

It had finally dawned on him that he would never get Naira and he had done the next best thing. He moved on. He asked out Nikita and started dating her.

Nikita was his school friend who was one of the few people he had genuinely liked. She was a modern girl with great values that she had taken up from her parents. She knew that he has always liked Naira and when he had asked her out she had questioned him about the same and all he could say was that it was time for him to move on. She had agreed to his proposal but had also added, "True love would always come back Kartik. If your love for her is true, she is going to be yours. For right now, I am only keeping her treasure safely with me." And that was the day his respect for her had increased ten folds.

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She was a jolly girl with a smile adoring her lips all the time. She believed in smiling at the toughest of times only to make sure that her sadness was not the cause of anyones frown.

She thought of her life to be perfect. Her perfect loving parents, perfect friends and her perfect best friend. Her Kartik.

He was the only person in the world who knew her in and out. Who could identify her grief behind her smile.

He was always the first person to know anything that happened with her. When she had started dating Raghav, she had noticed a kind of sadness in his eyes which was masked so soon that she had suspected if it was ever there or she had only imagined it.

She had noticed his constant denial to spend time with her and Raghav but she would always make him agree with her puppy like innocent eyes.

She could never imagine her life without him by her side. She had come to believe that the only person who had a right on him was her.

When he had told her that he had asked out Nikita and she had agreed, she had been extremely happy, yet she could feel something inside hurt. She had felt a constant pain in her heart but had ignored it.