Life with my best friends

Chapter - 13 Happiness begins with you?

Jannat's POV: I woke up to the hard core beating of someone's heart. What even?! I opened my eyes slowly to see Siddharth sitting beside me in the middle of a convo with Anushka and Reem. Wait, did I just fall asleep on him? Yeah I probably dozed off in the same position. 

Sidd: Uth kyun gayi?

Jannat: Tum log soye nahin abhi tak? 

Sidd: We are going to

With that he got up from his seat and Anushka trailed behind him. Wishing goodnight in the most adorable way, they left the room. Reem settled down on her bed comfortably and switched off the night light before wishing me a goodnight. 

The next morning, I woke up on my own. I saw Reem talking to Siddharth on the doorway. And Anushka was nowhere to be seen. How the heck do these people get up this early despite sleeping so late? Wow, that's an appreciable talent. But Siddharth had his test and so did Anushka. I walked to the bathroom lazily still half asleep dragging my broken leg along. 

After brushing my teeth, I came out to see the room empty and the door closed. Did they leave already? Maybe they didn't notice that I was awake. Well, anyway I limped around the room a bit to check if the pain had subsided. It had! I removed the plaster carefully thinking about my poor leg. The swelling was gone. Oh yayyyyyyy, I would be able to join classes from tomorrow! That's prolly the best decision I've taken all week. College, here I comeeeeeeeeee!

In the evening, Siddharth bust into my room as I was talking to my mom. He looked surprised, happy, weird, and amazed. After I hung up, he said

Sidd: Jaan, Reem just asked me to go with her to the dance!!!

Jannat: Um, okay? Why are you so excited about that? Did you even say yes?

Sidd: I said yes. Maybe because I like her? Look I don't know about all that.

Jannat: But I thought you were already booked up for the dance?

Sidd: No, I wasn't

Jannat's POV: What the heck? Dude, he literally said he would take me and Anushka with him. Wow, he forgot all about us just becuz some girl asked him to the dance? And the worst part? He doesn't even remember asking us to go with him. I felt a pang of disappointment in my stomach. Why would he do this? The next thing I know Anushka walked in through the door and Siddharth walked out. 

Anushka: Jaanu, are you okay? You look pale

Jannat: Reem asked Siddharth to go to the dance with her and he said yes

Anushka: Oh wow, that's cute

Jannat: No, its not cute! 

Anushka: Why not?

Jannat: He was supposed to go with us remember?

Anushka: Oh damn, did he apologise for bailing on us?

Jannat: He doesn't even remember that he was supposed to take us

Anushka: What a jerk

Jannat's POV: I'm pretty sure Anushka was talking to me but I wasn't listening. I was worried, disappointed and felt broken. Don't ask me why. 12 freakin' years and he hasn't bailed on me once. And now all of a sudden, he forgets about the plan where he forced me to agree to join the party despite having a broken leg just becuz he said "with their best friends, even anti social people go to parties". I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be angry or if I'm being selfish. I mean, if he likes her, he should obviously be super happy and I should be happy for him becuz his happiness means more to me than some stupid dance. But I wasn't happy. 

Anushka: I feel bad. Don't you?

Jannat: I feel like I'm being selfish in one way

Anushka: What do you mean?

Jannat: He's more than happy right now, and I'm supposed to be happy for him too right? But I'm not. 

Anushka: I'm not happy about the fact that he literally bailed on us without realising it. I would have been more than happy if he had told us that he couldn't go with us becuz he was going with someone else.

I stayed silent and Anushka came and sat on the chair beside my bed.

Anushka: Jaanu, are you okay?

I nodded in a NO

Anushka: Aw, man. I know it feels bad. I mean, I've just known him for a semester and it hurts, I can't even imagine what you're going through right now. But hey, its okay. Being sad is completely normal.

I smiled weakly as I looked at her but I didn't have the strength to reply. Such a meek matter shouldn't get to me, but why is it getting to me so hard?

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