Miss Introvert? [COMPLETED ✔]

CHAPTER 52

[DARSHAN]

I glanced at my watch which struck perfectly 11.00 pm. Aghh... I overworked again! I started packing my bags when my eyes fell on Aditi's cabin. She was sitting still engrossed in a file. I went up to her cabin popped my head in and asked, "Aditi, Aren't you going home?". She came out of her file and looked at her watch. "Oh shit it is 11.00 already!", she jumped like a singed cat. "Sorry for inconvenience... u may go...", she said to me while she packed a stack of files. "Hey ... c'mon man.... don't be so formal... After all we r friends...", she smirked stopping me from saying further. "What ?", I questioned. "Nothing... if I speak it up, I guess... u will feel bad...", she said. "No... c'mon say it....", I insisted. "Don't u remember that we had a terrible friendship break up?", she spoke up and a part of me said that she was still in pain but she pretended that she had no pain. "Let's go...", she said bringing me out of my dream. "Yeah.. let's go...", I said and while we went out, I could notice the watchman giving a shocked look... may be because Aditi, although was my staff, yet she walked in front of me. She started walking on the concrete road and I drove my car only to stop it ahead of her. "Well... I can drop you...", I offered. "No thanks... I can walk up to the railway station. ", she refused but I succeeded to convince her. "Hey c'mon yaar... I can at least help you...", I said and she sat in my car, beside me. She kept looking out of the window. The pitch darkness was beautiful that night... the cool air was mesmerizing that night. "In these years so many things have changed...", I broke the ice between us. "Change is the law of nature! and.... sometimes even the only solution to your pain...", she sighed and I looked at her. "Yes... it seems like yesterday we met and today...", I couldn't speak further and I sighed. "And today we are here meeting again...", she sighed which made clear that her scars were freshened, her pains were awakened and ... and ... she had no other option other than bearing them all. I felt guilty. "I am sorry... I am sorry...", I muttered under my breath. "For?", she asked her regular question. "Because... I am the root reason for all your pains", I halted my car in a corner and broke down while she rubbed my back. "See Sir...", I interrupted up. "Please, stop calling me that... I feel like an unknown stranger...", I opened up. "We r nothing more than strangers...", she muttered under her breath with a smile which made it more difficult for me. "Can't we get back?", I asked wiping my tears off. "We were never together.... then how will we get back?", she asked and I nodded my head. It felt like we had reversed our roles. There was a night when she had cried her heart out, revealing her bottled up emotions due to her past and today we were standing in the same path but different roles... today when I looked back, I broke down. I felt her pain that day.... I felt her that day. "So sir.... should we go?", she asked. "You have turned emotionless....", I said without filtering my thoughts. "Because emotions never make you strong.... they only weaken you", she said and I couldn't fight her because she was a mere spectator of her thought. Once I halted my car in front of her apartment she chipped, "Thank you sir...". She didn't look back but got disappeared in the sheer darkness. My heart got bullied by emotions. She had indeed CHANGED. But still, she acted as if nothing bothered her where as she was affected the most. Was she angry? No, how can she be? Because it was her who decided to go out then why did she change? Why? Was it because of the pain? She had already told me that she could never take up more pain and more heart breaks that is why she didn't want to join heart strings and now??? Even after knowing everything, I put her in pain.

Once I halted my car in front of my apartment, I went into my flat. "Hey... u r so late....", Prak said once I was in. "Actually... I was dropping Aditi home...", I said. "Oh... OK then... dinner?", she asked. "M damn hungry..", I replied. "Did she have anything?", she enquired and a memory flashed back, she had some protein bars before leaving. "Hmm", I nodded closing my eyes. And then she started her normal blabbering questions. I had a pure idea that she would skip her dinner. "Yaar... Prak... Enough! I am here all tired and you are asking these non - sense questions!", I yelled out of sheer annoyance and frustration. "Sorry", I muttered once I realized what I did. "It's okay... coffee?", she asked and I nodded positively. We went into the balcony and then she said, "D, u know what... Sometimes I feel our relationship is just so superficial... Do we really love each other or is it our infatuation?", she asked which forced my head to jerk up and look at her. "Never ever say that.... if we never loved each other then we wouldn't have worked out till today...", I said and still with a unconvinced look, she nodded her head and inside my mind, I had this question 'Whom do I love?'. On one hand, I skip beats when m with Aditi and on the other hand, I am in a relationship.... oh god!! what to do!!!

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