TJL#14# She Is The One

Torturous

Diya's POV

" We need to talk after dinner." I said to Asher and he nodded. I went to serve the dinner.

" Don't touch my hair, stupid." I saw Chhoti fighting with Asher.

" No fight in the dinner table." Aunty said and both of them stopped." Have dinner peacefully then fight." She said. I chuckled.

" So, where are the other friends?" Rahul asked Asher.

" Ardeyn went to left them home and I came with Ari." He said having his dinner.

" Oh, ok then." Rahul said and was having dinner silently.

" When is the school play?" I asked them.

" Next week." They answered.

" How is the rehearsal going on?" Maasi asked.

" This stupid has messed up today but other things were good. The play will be super duper successful." Chhoti said and I sighed. Asher just chuckled.

" You will see in the play there will be cheering for me only like soccer." Asher said and Chhoti twisted her lips in disappointment.

" In your dream." Chhoti said.

" Something else." Asher said.

" What something else?" She asked.

" In my dream." Asher said.

" What?" I asked.

" Top secret. Can't share." He said smirkingly.

" I don't want know either. Keep it secret." Chhoti said with burning eyes.

" I said no fight, kids. Have your dinner." Aunty said.

" Sorry." Both said unison.

" Now eat quietly." Maasi said and they nodded. We ate silently and finished our dinner.

" Ms. Roy what does this dessert call?" Asher asked maasi.

" You didn't like it?" Maasi asked.

" No, no. Exactly opposite. I loved it. What does it call?" He asked about the Kheer.

" It is called kheer." I said.

" Yes. Delicious " Chhoti said licking her spoon. I sighed.

" Indeed it is." Asher said enjoying his dessert. I shook my head. I started to have Kheer. It's my favorite as well. I love it.

" I am in the study room, kids. Have some work. If you guys need anything just go there." Maasi said and left.

" Let's watch a movie." Rudra said.

" Let's watch A Beautiful Mind." I said.

" Yeah, let's watch it." Chhoti said.

" I am in." Rahul said.

" Ok, I should leave then." Asher said.

" Hey!! I told you I want to talk." I said to him.

" Oh, I forgot." He said. " About what, Diya?" He asked me.

" Come with me?" I asked him and he nodded. We sat on the balcony.

" What's that?" He asked.

" About what?" I asked.

" What did you want to ask?" He asked me.

" If you don't mind I want to ask you about Ardeyn." I said.

" What about him?" Asher asked me.

" I mean he is always that mysterious to me. I can't understand him properly. He is like all jolly guy but still something is wrong with him." I said.

" What do you think is wrong about him?" Asher asked me. I sighed.

" He likes Juliet, right?" I asked and he turned to me shocked.

" How do you know?" He asked me totally shocked.

" Don't ask me. I just know that." I said to him. He kept looking at me weirdly.

" It's ok if you don't want to tell me." I said. He sighed.

" Well, he loves her." He said and I was damn right. He paused for a second and I waited for him to continue.

" How long?" I asked him.

" From long back. Ari wasn't there then. She came here almost 7 years back. But I know Juliet before than that. We were in the same school." He said.

" Oh. Ardeyn too?" I asked.

" Yes. He too." Asher said. " You read Romeo and Juliet, right? You can consider them in the same position cause here Kentworth and Northscott are having an undying rivalry." Asher said and which shocked me like a thunder hit me.

" What!!!" I said.

" Yes." He said. " Juliet Kentworth and Ardeyn Northscott can't be in the same page in the end of the the story. They have to be apart. Even if they are in the same page that will be death of them. Not leaving them together happily ever after. They can't have a happy ending. Their story won't have any name of happiness it will only be full of pain and in the end they will be destroyed." He said and sighed. I looked at him shocked.

" If they were rival how can they have the same friend circle and all?" I asked him.

" Because of Gabrielle Chassidy. She has a close friendship with both of Kentworth and Northscott. So, we kind of in the same friend circle." He said.

" How come Chhoti is with you all?" I asked looking at the clumsy Chhoti who was laying on Rudra's shoulder. I smiled.

" Cause she is Juliet's best friend." Asher said.

" Oh." I just could say.

" What about Juliet? Does she love Ardeyn?" I asked him.

" I don't know if she likes him or not cause she is a maze. She is always a confusion to me. She is time to time changes. Like now she is all good a while later she will be a witch. I never can understand her properly. She is nice with everyone even Ardeyn but she is not that easy with him like others. Ardeyn always says that she is Another Romeo's Juliet. Untill now I don't know if he is right or not. I don't know if Juliet really has a Romeo in her life or not." He said to me.

" That doesn't mean she hates him." I said.

" She doesn't but you can't say anything about future. Kentworth and Northscott are that desperate that they won't hesitate to kill each other till this day." Asher said.

" Don't you have any rivalry with them?" I asked Asher.

" Nah, my dad tried a lot to erase this enimty and put some sense in my uncle but he is too stubborn to listen to him. So until now he is failed in this mission." Asher said.

" Why do you and Ardeyn have different surnames if you guys are cousins?" I asked him.

" Oh, that's because my mother and his father are siblings. We don't have any possibility to have the same surnames." He said and I nodded. I got it now.

" I got it." I said. " He is in a situation which can't explain in words." I said.

" So true." Asher said.

" And nothing is more torturous than that." I whispered not wanting Asher hear that.