Lover's Lair

Chapter 2

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Harshad's POV

"Deeksha was a very simple girl. She must be around 5'3, fair with her hazel eyes complimenting her cute face, a perfect example of beauty with brains", I began.

"No wonder, you have fallen for her pretty hard", Gaurav laughed.

"But where did you first meet her?", Aman asked 

"The first time I saw her, she was busy doing some experiment in the electronics lab. She looked so pretty even in the college uniform. Damn!

But she looked tensed. Probably, her CRO wasn't showing the proper output waveform. She kept varying the load resistance, checking if all the diodes were in proper condition or not.

Her hair was tied but the fringes used to often fall on her beautiful face. She seemed a little disturbed because of them. I wanted to tuck them behind her ear but then, I didn't even know her. Finally, I guess she got the output and the smile on her face made me go crazy. I knew it was love at first sight.", I sighed and continued.

"Later, I kept following her at the college, her every action seemed to be special to me. She was indeed the girl I had waited for all these years but she never noticed. I got to know from my friends that she was a studious girl and had no boyfriend. This made me so proud and happy. I had to impress my girl.

Days passed and my love for her increased exponentially. Exams were approaching. There was tension, anxiety, nervousness everywhere. Students started working hard and their parents started praying. Deeksha and I both ended up doing really well. After the exams were done I was greatly upset because I couldn't see her anymore as I had to go back to my home.

I missed her. I wanted to see her, hear her talking but neither were we friends on any social media nor did I have her phone number. One of my friends suggested me to send her a friend request as she might accept seeing that both of us were from the same college. I finally with some unknown courage sent her the request and kept checking for every two minutes and HURRAY!!!!!!...she accepted it.

Though we became friends, we never spoke to each other. I would just look at the pictures she posted and that would make my day. After a lot of hard work, my friends finally convinced me to text her. With all the bravery I had, I texted Deeksha. She replied and we had quite a long conversation. That day, I was literally jumping.

Days passed and our friendship grew stronger. I used to flirt with her once in a while but she never opposed which made me believe that she liked me too. Wherever I asked her to meet me she would avoid giving some lame reasons. I used to sometimes purposely upload pics with girls just to check if she felt jealous or insecure but nothing worked.

I was tired of being her online friend. I was madly in love and could not wait any longer, so I decided to propose to her.

One day we were chatting about our favorite cuisines.

"I love Thai food, and you?", she began

"I would love to eat whatever you cook for me"

"I m very bad at cooking 😂😂"

"It's okay, I will help you once we are married"

Oh my God!. I had actually said that. But she went offline without replying. After sometime when I checked, I found her online but she had still not replied. Maybe she was not expecting it, it came as a shock to her, so I apologized. Even then, she didn't reply. I felt as if someone had stabbed me. I could not bear this cold behavior from her so I texted her again.

"I am sorry :/"

"It's okay, I know you were joking."

"No, I wasn't. I love u Deeksha"

"Shut up Harshad. I am not into all this"

"But why? Don't u like me?"

"I do, but just as a friend and nothing more."

"You mean everything to me. Please don't say that again"

"Harshad, please try to understand. I can't go against my family. I can't hurt my parents. Please forget me and move on."

"That is impossible "

"Everything is possible. Bye."

My 'world' just shattered in front of my eyes. I knew I could never love any other girl. I had already given my heart to her, neither was she accepting it nor was it coming back to me. It was stuck somewhere in between and it hurt terribly.", I ended. 

"This is intense man!, I can't believe you still love her", Aman said.

I had narrated my entire story to Gaurav and Aman. It felt better. They did not discuss more related to this as they knew it would only hurt me more.

She has no idea that how strongly I feel for her. She probably thought I would get over her but I could not.

It's very hard to decide if you must keep trying or move on. But I wanted to try because I knew that there was no life without her.

"Guys, what plans for today?", Gaurav asked on the next morning

"Movie?", Aman suggested as it was a Sunday

"Done. Harshad, you better come", Gaurav said checking the movie ratings

"Yes, let's go", I nodded with a fake smile

When I was looking for my shirt, Aman came to me, "Harshad, there is no use of running behind a train you have missed. Wait on the same platform and a new train will arrive"

But how do I explain to them that she was the only girl in my life? No other train could ever come on my life's platform. 

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Next update: 29/06/2018

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