Last Few Days

Chapter-2

[Aaruhi]:
I sat on the back seat of a cab and the past flashed in my memories. I looked out of the window and saw the clouds running with the cab as the thoughts of the past completely occupied my mind.
(flashback)
"And you know what Darsh, one day Shubh- one of my best friends in school, whom I again met a few days back- and I were talking to eachother when", I couldn't complete myself when Darshan interrupted in between. "Enough Aaruhi!", he snapped all of a sudden making me jerk. "It's been so long since I'm tolerating all this but now I can't do it anymore. Since the day you met your 'old friend', all you talk is about him. I thought we'll spend sometime together but no, all you have to talk is related to him. I feel like you have stopped paying attention to me. Whenever I try to call you, it's engaged and the reason is, you were talking to him. Whenever we meet, all we talk, infact all you talk is him, because I am here only to listen what you and your 'best friend' have done in your school days. You don't care about me or your present but you wanna enjoy remembering your past with that guy", he added and looked away. "But Darsh, I thought you liked listening to all that, you should have told me before that you don't like it", I softly said trying to cool him down. "Oh really, was that even an option? Each time I tried to change the topic, you would somehow relate it to him and end up narrating three to four stories which didn't even match with topic that I started", he said. I felt guilty and looked down at my hands. "I'm..", I tried to say sorry but he again interrupted. "And now today as I'm finally saying all this, let me say this too that I think he was not just your best friend. I think he was more than that", he added making me look towards him in surprise. I couldn't believe my ears, I never thought that he felt like that eachtime I mentioned Shubh in front of him, I never thought that one day, he'll say something like this. "No, Darsh it's not what you're thinking. We were just friends infact I always treated him as my brother", I tried to clear his misunderstanding. He rolled his eyes and went towards the door. "Please Aaruhi, stop this now", he said and left. I tried to call him but he didn't picked it up. I texted him but he never replied and ended up blocking me. I was completely broken, the one whom I loved, felt insecured because of my childhood friend whom I always treated as my brother.
(flashback ends)
He ignored me for a year as hell and today when I finally tried to talk to him, when I needed him the most, he slammed the door close at my face. I didn't even realise when tears made their way down my cheeks. "Madam, we have reached", the driver said making be come out of my thoughts.
*
"What happened Aaruhi? Will you please stop crying and tell me what happened at Darshan's house? Did you talk to him?", Priti interrogated. I had covered my face with my hands and was crying uncontrollably. Priti came and stood besides the chair I sat on and hugged me from side. I removed my hands from my face and tightly hugged her, burying my face in her stomach. "Stop crying", she softly whispered and rubbed my back. She released herself from my grip and sat down on her knees. "What happened", she again asked. I narrated what all had happened at Darshan's house between my cries. "What! He didn't even listen to you", she said and got up. "How can he do that? You just wanted to talk to him but he didn't even listen once", she said. She turned around to leave but I stopped her by holding her hand. "Please Priti, don't say anything to him", I said because I knew that she was extremely mad at him and could do anything. "Are you serious Aaruhi! You are still defending him. You are impossible", she said in disgust and went to the other room. "By the way who told you that I'll talk to that person", she shouted from the other room.