Love You, But Afraid To Tell You [Tanshi, Abhigya, Raglak, Swasan, Arya]

Chapter 24 - The Poison Tree

Hi there! The title's taken from one of the famous poems by William Blake named The Poison Tree. If you haven't read it, do check it out. It's an amazing one!

Moving on...💃💃💃

"Words in double quotes" - Talking

'Words in single quotes'  - Thoughts

Chapter 24 - The Poison Tree

Deep in thought, she let her mind cloud over with poisonous thoughts.

Thoughts about Sanskar.

Thoughts about him distancing himself from her.

Thoughts which piled upon one after the other until she felt they were physically suffocating her.

Ragini looked up from where she was picking up the plates from the tables. 'She seems tensed.'

It wasn't a surprise to her that the cafe was clearing slowly. The reasons being one, it was almost 4pm, which was near to their closing time. And the second, but the main fact was that Abhi had left to drop his Dadi, Vandanna and Ayaan home. Ragini kind of felt irritated for the fact that they had to work double because of the crowd Abhi brought. But she guessed in a way it did add up to Tanuja's cafe's popularity.

From where she stood, she could feel the negative aura spreading from her sister. "Swara? Are you alright?" getting no response, she put down the plates at the nearby empty table and approached her sister. "Swara?"

Swara jerked her head up abruptly when she felt a hand on her shoulder. "Wh-what? What happened?"

"Nothing. It's just that you seemed kinda zoned out. Is everything okay? You're not coming out with a fever or something, are you?"

Swara adverted looking into her eyes as she checked her forehead.

Ragini removed her hand from Swara's forehead with a frown. "You seem fine. What's wrong? And don't you say it's nothing."

"Ragu, it's just that..." she looked at her helplessly. "Do you really think Sanskar likes me?"

#With Sanskar#

Sanskar sneezed as he approached the door to the kitchen. 'Someone's definitely talking about me.' Sanskar was on mission 'finding Maya and complaining about Nikhil'. He was sure he had seen Maya go inside accompanied by Arjun and Tanuja. He opened the door and was about to call out, when Rishi put a hand on his mouth.

"Shh! Now is not the time to interrupt." Rishi whispered to him from where he stood near the door as if guarding it. "Maya's not in the mood."

Sanskar smacked his hand away. "But it's important!" he whispered back.