Enchanted Pursual (Complete)

Chapter 11

Mitali Jain

I saw him walking towards me, and shifted a bit too where Shakti had been sitting a while ago. This seemed really weird, what was I going to talk with him? What was he going to say?

There were so many questions that were bubbling in my head while he sat there, as calm as the rivers. But when he opened his mouth and spoke he had left me completely baffled.

"The first time that Naveen talked about you and had showed me your pictures, I was truly horrified, all my life I had a family, people around me, but none were as crazy as you. There is this picture of yours where you had your nappy worn as a cap, which was the most hilarious one that I had seen."

"But then, you began to grow in his stories, you became mature, yet somewhere you were the same kid. You might not remember but the first time we had met was during the summer vacations at the camp where Naveen had got you, you were what in 10 at that time? That was the first time I came across someone as crazy as you over paintings and art and things related to it."

He looked at me and said, "That was one of the many times when my heart had flipped at the site of you, the passion that you carried around in your eyes for something had me captivated. It was during that time I realized you were so similar to me, we would do anything to get or pursue what we wanted."

His words reminded me of what Daksh had said back in café, I reminded him of someone... and that someone was Jai.

"when I first acknowledged this feeling was when you had gone missing for about 2 hours, Naveen had got mental and was able to show it, but I, it was so difficult for me, it felt so wrong to feel like that you... you were Naveen's sister, I was meeting you for the first time... how was I supposed to like you the way I did back then." He took hold of my hand and held it as if he was making sire I was there by his side with him.

"that was when I realized I loved you, I didn't loved you as a sister, I loved as a man loved his woman, I loved the woman in you who was crazy about paintings, who cared so much for her brother to keep tabs on him, I loved the woman who could go beyond her limits to save someone as unknown as the girl for whom you had gone missing."

For a long while we sat there without saying anything, my heart was beating loudly and as I took in his words, I began remembering him, the days of the camp, the night when I had gone missing, the boy who had came with my brother to scold me for pulling up such a stunt and then I remembered him... the boy who would always be by my side, fighting against my brother to help me.

How long I had missed out the person who was so close to me, yet did it justified the feelings that I had for him?

I still couldn't make it out, as I kept on looking at him, he turned towards me and gave me that smile which had my insides turn as he said,

"that's why I am saying, if you think you like me just by meeting me once, you might have to think about it, and to fall in love with someone, we do not require a reason, the heart chooses what it wants... always, and it's okay to feel like that." He then let out a huge chuckle as he said,

"At least you can call it love at first or second sight, what was I to say? That loved the girl about whom my best friend always talked about?"

My eyes quickly snapped open as the same dream invaded my sleep once again, but alas I couldn't really call it a dream, it was a truth. I had cross checked it for unkempt time for the last two weeks that I had been in my bed, calling out sick with my mom and dad irritated with the dirty avatar of mine.

And I ... I was still mopping on the fact that, yes somewhere he was right, he had a more embarrassing way of falling for me than I had and the fact that I did really had feelings for him.