Short Stories On DARSHAN RAVAL 💙

6. Again - Part 2

(Darshan Raval)

After getting fresh I was going to sleep in the next room of Sana's. When I thought to ask her if she needed something or not.

I entered in her room.

"Sana if you need som...", I stopped. She was sitting on a tool in front of her dressing table, her back was visible to me. She was trying to put on the buttons of her top, which were at the back. As soon as she saw me, she stood up and turned around. But her back was still visible to me through the mirror.

"I'm sorry I..", I looked around.

"It's ok", she lowered her head.

"I just came to ask if you need something I'm in the next room."
She only nodded without looking at me.

"Ah do...do you need any help?", I asked in a hesitation.

"No.", she answered in a low voice.

"Ok", I left the room slowly. But from the outside I kept looking into the room. Because I knew she couldn't do that by herself.

She again sat on the tool and tried to put the buttons on. And every time she failed. I sighed and stepped inside of the room again. I went close to her. Her head jerked and she looked at me.

"It's ok you can't do everything by yourself. Let me help you.", I pushed a strand of her hair forward.

Now I could see her whole back. I knew she was must be feeling very embarrassed. I looked at her in the mirror, she was looking at me then looked away. I started to button up her top. I saw the mark on the back of her neck. Yeah, she had that from childhood. Every time my hand brushed to her bare skin, she closed her eyes. It's not like I'm touching her for the first time but now my touch was so uncomfortable to her.

I put all the buttons up and said, "Done!"

"Thank y...", I cut her off and said, "Don't say thank you or I'll open the buttons again."

I was walking out from the room when I heard her chuckle. "Good Night", I uttered.

"Good Night"

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I opened my eyes and it took some time to remember where I exactly was. I went to the washroom, washed my face and brushed my teeth with putting the toothpaste on my index finger. I went to Sana's room but she was not there.
So, I went to the kitchen and I found her there.

"What are you doing?", I asked.

She looked at me and answered, "Hey, good morning. I'm making breakfast for us. Because you have decided to stay here so I have to cook for you na"

"And why I'm here?", I asked while crossing my hands.

She simply looked at me and said nothing.

"Go sit. I'll make the breakfast.", I pushed her outside of the kitchen.

"Arey but..."

"No buts. It's my order."

"Okey Sir!", she went and sat on a chair.

I made sandwiches for us and went to the dining room. Sana was already waiting for me there. I sat next to her. When my phone beeped. I looked at the screen and saw that's a message which came on whatsapp.

I just ignored that. I poured the juice in a glass and gave that to Sana. And this time my phone rang but I didn't answer. Sana noticed that I was ignoring the phone calls so she spoke, "Utha lo, your girlfriend must be worried about you."

She sipped her juice. I glanced at her and said, "Eat quietly!"

She didn't say anything farther. She was trying hard to eat her food by her left hand but it was difficult for her. (I know you can eat sandwiches with left hand also but yarr its a fanfic, itna toh chalta hai 😋)

So, I took the food near her mouth and without waisting a single moment she ate that. That made me chuckle.

"Don't laugh. I'm hungry!", she said with a full mouth of food.

"That's why I'm helping you."
We were eating quietly when my phone again rang. That just spoiled my mood and I switched off my phone.

"What happened? Is everything okay?", Sana asked with a concern.

"Yeah, everything is fine!"

"Don't lie to me. Why aren't you answering her phone? Did you have a fight with her?", she asked again.

"Who is she? Whom are you talking about?", I asked in disgust.

"Of course Sikha!"

I looked at her and said in a low voice, "I don't want to talk about it."

I took the empty plates and went to the kitchen. Sana followed me. "You can tell me. May be I can help you.", she said.

"No you can't.", I threw my hands in air. "You can't help me. It's over between us. I'm just done with her. She is not worth it.", I stopped and looked into her eyes.

"And you knew it. You knew it very well that she doesn't worth it. Then why you didn't stop me from running behind her?"

Sana remain quiet then after a while slowly said, "Because you were happy with her."

"Yeah I was happy with her.", I faked a smile. "And you are toh the Mother Teresa right? You have to do well to everyone except yourself."

I went close to her and continued, "Why can't you get the thing that which is yours it's yours only. No one has any rights on it. You can't let it go so easily."

"It's love Darshan, it's not a thing. You can't force it to stay. It's not a toy that you can buy and keep that to yourself as long as you want. You left because you wanted to.", Sana said.

"You could have stopped me."

"I couldn't. I didn't wanted to.", she whispered.

The door bell rang making us realize that we were standing too close to each other. I stepped back and went to the door.

As I opened the door my eye browns twitched.

"What are YOU doing here?"