The Sky Blue Scarf!

Chapter-6

Even after so many years, those same smiling eyes!

"You?....Here?" Shravya asked while stammering. Her heart was being uncontrollable like a teenager girl.

"How are you?"

Pranay's voice dragged her seven years back, when he used to find excuses to talk to her, then he used to ask useless questions. Sometimes he would ask for a red ink pen or sometimes two pages of her rough notebook and he would cross the corridor outside of her classroom, as if he didn't even know that, a girl sitting in the last row of classroom was keeping her eyes whole time on the window, for him only. To get a glimpse of him!

Shravya ignored Pranay's question and asked him instead,

"How do you here?"

"It's a training by company. I'm here for ten days, in. your. City!" He emphasized each word.

Shravya asked a bit hesitantly,

"Where are you staying?"

Instead answering her, Pranay also asked,

"Where do you live? Do you mind, if..if..I come at evening?"

Shravya opened her bag and extended a card towards him. When Pranay took his car back and gave her way to drive away her car, when she picked her children from school and when she reached home, she didn't remember anything. As if things were happening on their own.

She only remember that moment, when, at six in evening, door bell of her home rang and Pranay sat in her drawing room with flower bouquet and a lot of chocolates for her children.

Shravya took those flowers and started arranging them in a big vase. Hiding her face behind those flowers, she kept thinking, 'what to talk to him, and how? As a classmate, as a friend or as a person, seeing whom her heartbeat used to increase at a time? Why even some other time? Today also her heart is being awkwardly uncontrollable.'

She looked at Pranay, from the corner of her eyes. He was comfortably playing with children and kids were also talking to him as if they're not meeting him for the first time.

That day, Pranay sat there for a very long time. For some time, Shravya was hesitant. Pranay was also feeling a bit awkward. Then, don't know when they opened all ledgers of last six-seven years, infront of eachother.

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After that day, Pranay started coming everyday. Both used to spend free time of evening, together.

Shravya realised value of a friend in life. Friend, means continuous support system. They didn't talk to eachother this much even when they were studying in same class, when they were silently cherishing dreams about eachother in their eyes. Maybe there was no requirement of words, back then. Those days were a bit different.

Pranay told her that after Shravya's marriage he saved himself with much difficulty, else he would have been shattered into pieces. He had completely drowned himself in studies, to make his career. He had involved himself in the race to become successful and rich.

When life undergoes the dark tunnel, that time something is needed to keep the hope alive. Even a little light coming from other side is enough.

Shravya also told him about the time when suddenly her husband expired in an accident. roblems of handling both kids alone, difficulties of hiding her grief for their happiness, she kept telling him everything.

Sometimes repeating your agony is good. Your heart gets satisfaction that, those days are gone!♡

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Dedicating this chapter to sharma_sonali Di! Thanks a lot for waiting for update and supporting the story continuously!

Will try to finish it as soon as possible!

♡Love Shifa♡