HIS DARK DEMONS (✔️)

Chapter 16

Nidhi's PoV

Almost six months now, of us being here in Mumbai, away from our home, and so much has changed.

A couple of months ago, I almost had a heart attack when I came back home late from office. They were sitting on the ochre couch in the living room. I had my jaw almost dropped to the floor. I really did not know how to react. Antra was too present in there. She glanced at me, and before I could say anything, she spoke up.

"Oh there you are. Why did it take so long?" She asked me.

"Umm.. we were working on some new song, and umm.. it— we lost track of time." I was so freaking out at that time. They practically had their eyes out on me.

"You came alone this late?" She further asked.

"No umm.. he dropped." As I said this, I dropped my head down.

"Who is he we talking about?" My father butted in.

He looked calm, but I knew how furious he was inside. He never liked the idea of me having conversations with any boy.

"He– her boss, Darshan." My bestfriend said.

She too knew how my dad was. But I did not know why she would drag the topic of him at this point of time.

"Oh your boss. We'd like to meet him." My Mum said, her beautiful voice almost had me crying. I haven't heard from them, since I left my house.

"S– sure." I said, awkward.

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Their intention for giving me a surprise visit was something I would want to avoid right now. They wanted me to marry soon. They said they already found the guy but I wasn't ready yet.

Before getting married, I want to make something of myself. I don't want to be known by my husband's name. I want to create my own identity. And that's not what they wanted, and hence I ran away from them. Marriage is not a game. You should atleast know the person well enough that you could possibly have blind faith on them.

For me, my idea of getting married is just to know the person I love for a long enough time. I want someone to trust me as much as I do them. Someone who could support me for what I do and what I am.

I'm not born to give some random guy babies and move his hereditary forward, but to really live my life to the fullest.

This was three months ago, and now three months later, here I am, standing at the promotions of the film for which I sung, along side with Darshan.

And talking about Darshan, we've grown so much, our friendship has grown so much, it's like I could share everything with him and he could share anything with me too.

I also told him about my parents when they came home. I told him they wanted to meet him, and guess what, he got ready on one leg.

At first, the atmosphere was tensed, but the way Darshan handled everything with my parents was fantastic. He made everyone feel easy. He sung songs in his beautiful voice that I'm already fan of. He bought flowers for my mum when he arrived.

He also told me that his mum was there a couple of months ago. I scolded him for not telling me earlier so that I could meet her. But he just shrugged.

We also went out more often. He bought me the books that I liked from the library, despite of me denying him thousands of time. We went shopping together, he would pick out clothes for me and I would for him. He now knows what I like to eat and what I hate the most. Like, we've grown our friendship to 'this' extent. And the important part is that, I don't even regret it.

My phone went off and I opened it to see a message from Darshan.

This is boring. Wanna get out?

I laughed at the message considering that he was sitting just right beside me and yet he texted.

Me: Don't you think this is important? Like, we 'have' to be here because we have a song

I rested my phone on my lap.

Ugh okay. But we are not going for the after party, we'll go out somewhere either

I thought for a while. Skipping the promotions would do us no good but we can probably skip the after party.

Me: oh oky

I agreed upon going out.

Wear something red, you know I love red on you more

I blushed at the message for God know what reason.

AN
Ayeeee guys, new chapter is here. I just thought of taking a bit of time lapse since I had no ideas to write and I did not want to fill y'all with shitty chapters. I hope this makes up for the not-so-long wait.
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