Short Stories On DARSHAN RAVAL 💙

9. The Last Goodbye - Part 1

[Hrithika Sharma]

I opened the door and threw the bag on the ground and laid on the bed.

Nikki looked at me who was reading a book on the same bed.

"What happened?", She asked.

"Nothing!"

"Let me guess, you saw Darshan today again."

"For three times. For fucking three times Nikki I saw him. And you know what he did? He just smiled and said hi!", I shouted.

"And you blushed.", I looked at her.

"Don't lie to me. I know you blushed may be a little bit, but you did."

I lowered my eyes because she was right. At the first I blushed but then I remembered what he did to me and my anger increased inside of me then.

"I'm done! I'm so done with him!", I rubbed my forehead.

"You are done? Huh! Really Hrithika? You tell everyday that you don't care about him. Every morning you woke up and tell yourself you don't need him anymore. Every time you see him and you tell yourself he means nothing to you. Every time you try to believe yourself that you at last get over from him.
But your heart still aches when you hear his name. Your mind still spins when you see him around. And your breath is still taken away when his eyes meet yours. And what did you just say, he means nothing to you right. Now tell Hrithika does he really?", Nikki stoped.

I closed my eyes, because every single word she said was absolutely true.

"Yah I still have feelings for him Nikki. It's been months now but still I'm standing there where he said me GOODBYE. ", I sat up in the bed.

"Everybody is telling me to move on, like it is the easiest thing to do. But no, getting over a person you loved with all of you is not just easy. It's next to unforgettable. May be we're not meant to be together but my heart always longed for him.", I told.

"I wanna get over him. I just don't wanna see him around me.", I added.

"We all are in a same college. Isn't it normal that we'll see him around.", Nikki told.

"But we're in different departments. Still he roams around my department. I know he does it intensionally.", I walked to my closet to get some clothes.

"You should talk to him.", Nikki spoke.

"No!", I said loudly, "I will never ever talk to him again."

I rushed into the washroom.

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"I'll see you in the canteen.", I said to Nikki, "Let me keep the books in the locker first."

"Ok, come fast. I'll be waiting.", Nikki left for the canteen.

I went to the locker room and kept the books inside.

"Hi!"

The very familiar voice came, the voice I was running from, but that's not just ready to leave me.
I closed the door of my locker. I turned my head around and saw him, that 'hi' was not for me. He was talking to Arnav - his friend.
I was looking at him when suddenly he looked at me.

Why?

He smiled.

No.

Stop smiling.

I turned away and left the locker room.

I know there's love, in every time I dialed his deleted number but never pressed the call button. Of course there's love in my blocking him on Instagram and few months later secretly unblocking to read all of our chats again. I know there's love, in every word of our unsaid conversations. I know there's love.

Every time I saw him, my heart whispered, "You Love Him".