Chapter 8
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Okay guys, next part as promised. See, for once I was actually on time! hehehe
Meanwhile Naina and Alekh had left the mess and were sitting on a bench by the lake.
"Bol Alekh, kya mujhe Pyaar hogaya?"
Alekh just shook his head at her in disbelief. "Apun to kyun pooche, khud se poocho."
Naina sighed and began tracing designs on the bench with her finger.
"I know Alekh, I should know myself, but it's all just so confusing. My feelings have changed so much in the last few months and I just can't figure it out. Because if I'm in love then I shouldn't be in love…I can't be in love…"
"Dekh Naina, nobody can stop themselves from falling in love, it just happens."
"I know, but it shouldn't have happened, and I can't work out how it happened or when…"
"Bodh pele ho chukka tha."
"Kya???" Naina asked him, shocked.
"You just didn't realise it until now."
"But does that mean that you know who I'm talking about?"
He gave her a look of frustration "Naina I'm not stupid, I might not say much but I see everything. It happened to you a long time back, I've known since then."
"Lekin, I never…"
"Naina tu apun ki best friend hai, I know you, and you've loved your Sir for a long time now."
Naina just stared at Alekh in shock, unable to believe that he'd guessed the truth, and that too before she'd managed to understand her own feelings. He really did know her better than she knew herself.
"Then that day when I wanted to know why he was being so rude to me, when you said that he thought I loved him…"
"I knew that you hadn't worked it out, so I didn't think it would hurt to tell you that." Alekh pauses, and thinks carefully before what he wants to say next. "Lekin bole to, maybe I had told you the wrong reason that day."
"Mahtlab?"
"Maybe I should have said it the other way around."
Naina waited for him to say more but he stood there looking at her with expectation on his face until she finally worked it out.
"No," she finally said shocked, "Rajveer Sir mujhse pyaar nahi karta hai"
"Nahi?"
"He's just done things for me because I was his best friend's sister, maybe even because he felt guilty for my brother's death, but not because…"
She turned to Alekh horrified at the thought, "He can't love me, if he loved me then why did he tell my parents the truth, they'll never accept him now."
Alekh stepped closer to Naina and placed his hands on her shoulders to calm her down. "Could someone who didn't love you have done something like that?"
And suddenly everything made sense to her, what had happened during the mentorship program and on the camp, his behaviour towards her afterwards when he had distanced himself, his visit to her parents house.
"No…" she whispered to herself, even as she accepted that everything Alekh said was true.
"Bole to," Alekh said "Yeh to kuch zyada filmi hai, henna? Bilkul rohna dohna serial to jaisa."
And he was absolutely right. Because in the land of Mirza and Sahiben, who would ever forgive a girl who loved her brother's killer?
Meanwhile Naina and Alekh had left the mess and were sitting on a bench by the lake.
"Bol Alekh, kya mujhe Pyaar hogaya?"
Alekh just shook his head at her in disbelief. "Apun to kyun pooche, khud se poocho."
Naina sighed and began tracing designs on the bench with her finger.
"I know Alekh, I should know myself, but it's all just so confusing. My feelings have changed so much in the last few months and I just can't figure it out. Because if I'm in love then I shouldn't be in love…I can't be in love…"
"Dekh Naina, nobody can stop themselves from falling in love, it just happens."
"I know, but it shouldn't have happened, and I can't work out how it happened or when…"
"Bodh pele ho chukka tha."
"Kya???" Naina asked him, shocked.
"You just didn't realise it until now."
"But does that mean that you know who I'm talking about?"
He gave her a look of frustration "Naina I'm not stupid, I might not say much but I see everything. It happened to you a long time back, I've known since then."
"Lekin, I never…"
"Naina tu apun ki best friend hai, I know you, and you've loved your Sir for a long time now."
Naina just stared at Alekh in shock, unable to believe that he'd guessed the truth, and that too before she'd managed to understand her own feelings. He really did know her better than she knew herself.
"Then that day when I wanted to know why he was being so rude to me, when you said that he thought I loved him…"
"I knew that you hadn't worked it out, so I didn't think it would hurt to tell you that." Alekh pauses, and thinks carefully before what he wants to say next. "Lekin bole to, maybe I had told you the wrong reason that day."
"Mahtlab?"
"Maybe I should have said it the other way around."
Naina waited for him to say more but he stood there looking at her with expectation on his face until she finally worked it out.
"No," she finally said shocked, "Rajveer Sir mujhse pyaar nahi karta hai"
"Nahi?"
"He's just done things for me because I was his best friend's sister, maybe even because he felt guilty for my brother's death, but not because…"
She turned to Alekh horrified at the thought, "He can't love me, if he loved me then why did he tell my parents the truth, they'll never accept him now."
Alekh stepped closer to Naina and placed his hands on her shoulders to calm her down. "Could someone who didn't love you have done something like that?"
And suddenly everything made sense to her, what had happened during the mentorship program and on the camp, his behaviour towards her afterwards when he had distanced himself, his visit to her parents house.
"No…" she whispered to herself, even as she accepted that everything Alekh said was true.
"Bole to," Alekh said "Yeh to kuch zyada filmi hai, henna? Bilkul rohna dohna serial to jaisa."
And he was absolutely right. Because in the land of Mirza and Sahiben, who would ever forgive a girl who loved her brother's killer?
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