ETHAN

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She’s not looking normal. She was excited till yesterday until Siraj and his obnoxious son came along.  I am more than sure he said something to her. There was something with him and I know what it is.
I tried to search him through the living rooms and corridors and there he is in the backyard.
I walk toward him, “ Hey, We haven’t had a chance to introduced ourselves, more!” I said. He cocks his head side and gave me his wary looks.
“ I thought we already introduced ourselves more specifically,” He said arrogantly, He is the last person I wanted to talk with, but there’s no way I will ever find out what he said to her.
“ Okay, Let’s come straight to the point then, What you said to Ishita”
He stands with bloodthirsty looks and glared at me. “That’s none of your business, and I don’t care what that arrogant face told you” My jaw tensed. I swear if he isn’t my dad’s friend son, I’m damn sure it will be his last day. “ Watch your mouth Shreedhar, I hope Siraj doesn’t want to end up in the hospital with you” I spat.
He has that audacity to speak with me like that and about her, Hell!  He takes steps toward me, His eyes diverted behind me and his jaw tensed more. I turned around to find it. There she is! My girl walking toward me, Before she could walk anywhere near us, I started to walk toward her.
“ Hey, why are you here?” I asked.
“ That question is belongs to you, don’t you think?” I shake my head and laughed, She’s impossible.
“ Okeydokey, beautiful. Now, let’s go” Her jaw fall slacks, and Before she could protest. I hold her hand and start to walk away.
“ Did you just say Okeydokey?” She said in disbelief, wow!
“ Nope, I said beautiful,” I wink and flirt. She blushed, and elbowed me in the ribs, “ Dammit, that’s hurting” I whined with fake horror.
She looks lost every time, I hover over her few hours and she doesn’t seem to notice me. That thing is really bothering me now.
“ Will you tell me what is wrong with you?” I snap.
With shock and panicking she jumped mile away, “ Sorry, didn’t mean to scare you but please will you just,” I looked down at her pleadingly, Her expression was unreadable then she blinked.
“ Shreedhar said, How’s Navin?” She said,
“So? I don’t understand that” I asked with confusion.
They were all outside for site seeing,  They invited us with them, bur She turned them down and there’s no way I’ll go with them.
“ Rishabh, Me and nav, were in the college, and then after that incident, I hadn’t talked with nav for a few months. He wasn’t in a picture of my life, and then I joined Siraj, I didn’t know Siraj has any son because he wasn’t there the whole time, but after a year or two he came suddenly!” She explained and it clicked me too, If he wasn’t there how would he know that thing?
“ Did you tell him or anybody that?” I sat beside her and asked, she’s perspiring in the air conditioner that must be a serious thing.
“  Siraj knew that, but...well I had to tell him for some reason, but there’s no way he’ll just break my trust and spread that thing, he’s like my father figure, Have you seen him how he’s with me” She rambled with frustration, I need to do something.
“ Ishita,” She kept speaking with herself,  I gripped her shoulders to stop her “ Ishita, look at me,” She did and those eyes were panicked. “ Don’t worry, we will find that out, Don’t take too much stress, You think it has to be something?” I asked,
She starts to think and shrugged, “ I don’t know but I just, I don’t know” She slumped down.
“ We can’t just think wrong every time, Right?” She asked and gave me her loathsome grin, “ You know, He called me pessimist, I am that one am I?”
That bastard, scumbag face, “ No you are not, it was just overthinking as you said, nothing else, just calm down. If there’s Something we will see” I promised. She keeps staring at me. “ What, why are you looking at me like that,” I asked.
“ Because it isn’t your battle to fight Ethan, I don’t know, Why don’t you understand this thing. Stop! And let me have this myself. I don’t want to be the reason of darkness in your life” Defeated She looked away,
“ Because I,” I stopped mid-sentence and bite my tongue. Not right now, this isn’t the right time to confess those things and this confrontation will be difficult for her.
I want it to be special, not like this. 
I gulped, “ Because, I cared about you, It isn’t any battle. I am trying to letting you see the world. I know you are wounded up but that doesn’t mean you have to be in there,” I tried to be calm and cool. I kneel down in front of her, hold her hand in mine, and stared at her eyes. These are those eyes captivating me since the first time I looked at her. She needs to see I’m serious about that.
“ Look, I know what you are thinking, but Listen! Things change, Life change, and we have to let go of those things. You had a dark and difficult past. I understand!  But tell me, Who don’t have a shit in their lives. But that doesn’t mean, they will stop living, loving and laughing. You need to see around Ishita, I know you are trying. And trust me you are doing really great. Just don’t make that mess with yourself.  Fighting with yourself isn’t the right thing to do.” I let out sighed. And wait for her reaction.
She nods, teardrop fall from her eyes “ Thank you” She mumbled and closed her eyes. She’s not crying hard but finally, she noticed these things. She’s trying to forgive herself from the thing she’s not responsible for. 
I promise, I will never let go of this girl away from me.
When I saw her the first time, I knew what it was. But I didn’t know I’ll fall this hard for her.

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