WITHERING ROSES

Two bright stars

Suddenly she started singing. She just started singing, closing her eyes, smiling, moving her shoulders and occasionally bumping me. Her voice was beautiful, I could listen to her sing all day. She was singing let me love you by DJ snake and Justin bieber. I felt the urge to sing. It was my most favourite song at that time. It was beautiful. The lyrics made sense to me only then. I joined in, her voice faltered in surprise when I started singing. She never heard me sing before.

"......oh it's been a hell of a ride               driving the edge of a knife,                             never let you go...                                      never let me down..."

             She was looking at me. Eyes wide and a smile tugging at the corner of her lips. Amazement suited her cute face. Suddenly, she joined in turning the acapella into a beautiful duet.

"don't you give up                                                 nah nah nah                                                        I won't give up                                        nah nah nah                                                                             let me love you......"

            We weren't singing quietly now. Anyone could hear us singing if they were a few meters away from the tea shop. We were singing uninterrupted for a minute until a random guy tossed us a coin and went jogging. It was weird, he was wearing a black leather jacket and a headphone that seemed pretty expensive. He ran off in the distance down the road leading to the park, but he ran past the park. Me and Ankita looked at each other and started laughing.

"don't our clothes show that we aren't poor!?*Laughs*"
"*laughs*"
"*laughs* and why did he just run off?*laughs*"
"your singing is beautiful Kalyan*smiles*"
"........."
".........?"
"then why did that dude just run off!?*laughs*"
"I don't know! He was wearing a headphone!!*laughs*"
"I know!! This whole day is going kinda weird  though right? A guy just coming outta nowhere and interrupting us by flipping a coin!*laughs*"
"*Laughs more*"

            I kept quiet. That sentence seemed ironic to what happened to me and Ankita but she didn't seem to notice, so she kept laughing. Watching her laugh hard made me laugh. Then she stopped laughing slowly and looked at me, I looked at her too. At some point in the song, we got closer to each other(physically).

"Kalyan........."
"yeah?"
"did I hurt you?" she sounded dead serious.
"what!? We've been talking and getting along just fine haven't we!?"
"no*closes eyes*...like when I left you. Did it hurt?"
"hey......"
"of course It did. Stupid, stupid me *voice shakes*"
"Ankita look, look *visible panic*. Calm down, calm dowwnnn. Please, chill out. Breathe in. inhale and exhale, come on."(I went all yoga mode on her)
"*sniffs*"
"Ankita, to be honest, today is the happiest I have been in so many days. Like, yeah it hurt me a lot when you left, when you weren't there in my life but do I act like all that hurt matters? No! because you're here Ankita and that's all I care about, that's-that's all that matters......that's all I want. Talking about what happened isn't going to change anything. What happened, happened it's over, there is no use talking about it...you do know that a sad past doesn't always mean that we'd have a sad future. Besides, my time with you wasn't completely sad, was it? I love and cherish every single moment I've spent with you. So calm down. Chill. Don't worry about what happened."
"*sniff* *brief laugh* *smile*"
"*psycho smile*"
I liked making her happy!