The Jenshad Diaries

Confessions Part 2 (Adiya)

Hello my lovely readers! This is part 2 of Confessions OS. I highly recommend reading Confessions Part 1 first just so you understand the timeline and the backdrop of this OS better. Enjoy!

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Zoya was a mess. It was pouring rain outside. Mumbai is a place where weather can never be predicted. It can rain any moment, and right now, it poured...soaking Zoya to her bones. But the storm outside was nothing compared to the turmoil inside Zoya's heart at the moment. Despite her rejection to marry Arshad, her father invited Arshad and his family for dinner tonight. Zoya was blind sighted because Waseem did not inform Zoya that Arshad and his family were coming over for dinner. In some twisted way, her father thought that Zoya will change her mind after meeting Arshad.

Arshad was a good man. He truly was. But Zoya could never love him. Five minutes into the dinner Zoya new that she could never love him. Somehow, Zoya survived dinner and towards the end, she politely refused the marriage proposal again.

Her father was furious with her. He kept bringing up how royally messed up her first marriage was and kept saying how she now needed to abide by his choice. That Zoya can never make her own decisions.

Zoya felt suffocated. How long until people stopped throwing her failed marriage on her face? The old Zoya would stay quiet. She wouldn't say a word...not fight back...and simply follow her father's orders. But losing Yash has made her into a strong woman. Meeting Aditya had made her into a strong woman. She wasn't one to stay quiet any longer. Zoya looked at her father dead in the eye and said, "Hum Arshad se nikka nahin karenge." And with that said, she walked out of the house.

This is why she was out in this rain in the middle of the night right now. When she left her house, she had no idea what her destination was, only that she needed to get out. Soaked to her skin, Zoya didn't realize her destination until she stood in front of it...Hooda mansion. It's as if subconsciously, her heart brought her here because her mind was lost.

Zoya hesitated, however. It was almost 2am in the morning and Zoya hasn't spoken a word to Aditya since his confession. That was 1 week ago. He said he loved her. Loved her.

She considered Aditya Hooda as her best friend. Despite all the pain...all the heartache...the fighting...he somehow became the person she relied on most. He was just a friend right? Zoya washed her hands from love and marriage after Yash's betrayal. She did not want to experience that kind of pain ever again.

But then why...when Aditya confessed...Zoya didn't think twice about rejecting Arshad's proposal? What was it about Aditya? The way he looked at her...with those intense eyes...Zoya felt herself get drawn to him. And that is why she ran. She turned around and ran and hasn't spoken to Aditya since.

But tonight, she stood in front of Hooda mansion because she didn't know where else to go. She felt terrible for fighting with her father, but she couldn't marry Arshad. And she just needed her best friend right now...to tell her that everything will be ok. The fact that her heart thumped hard inside her chest was something Zoya tried to ignore. She was only here because she needed a friend. That was it.

With that reasoning in mind, Zoya walked to the side of the mansion. It wouldn't be right to enter through the main door at this hour. Anjana aunty already despised her and Zoya didn't want to give her more reason. Zoya followed the path that Aditya showed her in the past. This pathway lead straight to a balcony connected to Aditya's room. He told her once that she was always welcome to use the side entrance if she didn't want to enter through the main gates. Zoya never felt the need to use this until tonight. Entering the balcony, Zoya knocked on the glass door.