Safar...A Journey of First Love

Chapter 15 - Break Up

...They walked into one of the side rooms; Vivik closed the door after him and hugged Riddhima tightly from the back, she tried to move away but he held her tight.

"Vivik..."

"Shoosh..." he kissed her hair.

"Vivik...we need to talk..." she said nervously.

"Later..."

Riddhima somehow got out of his grip and turned to face him; "We need to talk now..."

Vivik was annoyed; "Okay...go on..."

"Umm...I was...umm...I think we should end it..." she finally got her sentence out.

"WHAT? End it? But why?" Vivik was shocked.

"Umm...I'm sorry Vivik but...the feelings that you have for me...I mean, I don't have the same feelings for you..." Riddhima said slowly.

Vivik was confused; "What...but...I don't understand...all this time you were with me...you never said anything...and today..."

"I know you've liked me for ages..." she tried to be confident but her voice shook a little; "...and when you asked me to the boat party I said yes because I didn't want to hurt your feelings...we were good friends...then you took it the wrong way..."

"I took it the wrong way?" he was still confused.

Riddhima continued; "You started to think I was your girlfriend...and I...I didn't have the courage to tell you about my feelings...I just..."

"You just what...played along?" Vivik started to get angry.

"I wanted to tell you many times but you never gave me the chance to say anything..." her voice was shaking now; "...I only went to the boat party as friends with you but after that you thought that we were a couple...but now I think we should end it here...I'm sorry..." she started to walk out of the room but he held her hand tightly and pulled her to him.

Vivik was now furious; "And you think I'm going to let you go just like that...no way..."

Riddhima had tears forming in her eyes; "Vivik please let me go...there's no point of talking over this anymore..."

"You've had your say...now it's my turn..." Vivik pulled her closer to him and held her wrist tight.

At the same time Armaan, Abhi and Nikita walked into the room. Vivik was still holding onto Riddhima, they both turned sharply to look at them.

"We've got to go to our lesson..." Nikita said to Riddhima.

Riddhima began to walk to the door but Vivik pulled her back; "I have to go...there's no point in talking any more...it's over now..." she said.

"Nothing's over...I love you...and you're mine..." Vivik told her.

Abhi stepped forward; "Let go of her...didn't you hear what she said..."

"I wasn't talking to you..." he said to Abhi then turned to Riddhima; "...and you're not going anywhere..."

Riddhima was in tears and Armaan was silently fuming; "Vivik you're hurting me...let go of my hand..." she cried.

Vivik's voice suddenly rose; "And you're not hurting me?"

"I said I'm sorry..."

Vivik yelled; "And that's gonna make it better...is it?"

Abhi walked over to them and took Riddhima's hand out of Vivik's grip and began to walk out of the room. Vivik followed them all the way to their lesson making a fuss and shouting loudly. They were meant to have their ICT lesson and the whole gang was standing around watching them; Vivik and Abhi argue until the teacher came.