Three.
Zoya *
Life has been smooth past the engagement ceremony since I haven't seen Adi for two weeks. When I last saw him, he was there in the venue looking ripped yet handsome. I have known him since forever. I have seen him growing up. I have seen him, graduate. I have seen him going for his first date. I have known everything about him, yet that night he was mysteriously unknown to me. He had concealed himself from me; however, just by looking at his eyes, I knew he was hurting. I have been doing that for a long time.
"Zoya,"
Someone called, that voice was huskily low but too familiar. It evoked strange things to my body and by the way, the butterflies come alive inside my stomach, I knew the person who was standing behind. The same one I had been playing hide and seek with. Mr. Aditya Hooda, my unrequited love, until he confessed. He became the one I could never have in my life and we both accepted that whole-heartedly. As he always reminded, we have born to be with a different person not with each other. How someone could possibly love his brother's girlfriend, oops I would like to correct it, brother's fiance.
I looked up gathering all courage I could muster at that moment. He was standing there, in front of me in his all glory. The tight smile on my face widened slightly when I took a minute to look what he was wearing; the gray color suit perfectly clung to his body. I smiled at the memory, at that cute irritating face he made on that day when I pushed him into the changing room.
"Thinking about that day?"
An amused smile formed on his lips, making me stare at his gorgeous face, he was adorable in every sense, that cute dimples on his cheeks shouted his innocence, his playfulness, he was childish in every way possible but the maturity he had was incredible.
The world seemed blank to us, the people around us seemed ignorant to us, and we forgot the audience we had. Staring at him, I saw the changes; there were some changes in his appearance, his eyes looked almost dead, it was emotionless, and the slightly grown stubble added maturity to his face. I imagined me touching them. How creepy that sounds? Still, I wanted to do that.
I hadn't realized until someone interrupted, that I had raised my hand to feel his stubble.
"Which day?"
I heard another familiar voice, which didn't affect me how that supposed to. My fianc decided to break my moment. The curiosity was evident in his voice. Sincerely, I felt bad for that man. He loved a girl, who didn't even have the heart to reciprocate his feelings and the heart he wanted, belonged to his brother. How ironic!
My hand froze in the mid-air, freezing me on my spot. The reality check was hard as if even God was against me being with Adi. A cold hand lightly touched my shoulder causing me to come out of my dazed world. From the tingles, I felt I knew it was Adi, who touched me.
I have known him since I was in diapers, so obviously, I was used to his touch, but the tingles were new.
"We were just talking about the day we went for shopping to buy this suit," Adi answered pointing a finger at his perfectly ironed suit.
"I'm quite sure, Zoya selected it, Am I right?"
Yash walked towards my side with a cheeky smile after sharing a hug with his brother. To my surprise, he wound his arm around me and pulled me towards his side proprietarily. I could feel possessiveness in that hold. The hurt ran across Adi's face blemished my mood, his eyes stayed where Yash had placed his arm.
"Yeah, she did."
Adi curtly told in his unusual cold voice. Yash was smitten from the looks he gave me, and I for the first time thanked my stars. He didn't pick up the hurt in Adi's face.
"That's cool; my fiance has a good choice, Just look at me."
I mentally cursed him for his wrong timing, I did not choose him; he did. He did choose me.
"Yeah, I agree. She did choose the best and the right one."
A few seconds ago, if I wanted to curse Yash then at that moment Adi spoke I wanted to hang him until he dies. For god sake, they were talking about me while I am standing beside them.
What am I? A freaking potato,
"I will leave you both, I have to meet dad."
Adi might have perceived the change of ambiance, after a few minutes of staring Adi left me with my so-called fianc.
Yash was definitely a very good person and I love him dearly but my emotions were misconstrued. He was not a bad person, not a clingy fianc, nothing like that. He was far from it. It would be an utter lie if I say that he was perfect, no, he was not perfect.
Then who was perfect in this world? None,
He was the sweetest person. However, the problem was the feelings he had for me were not mutual. He was aware of it, but he was not ready to give up, whenever I tried to make him understand, he would always reply with his famous line ' I know Zoya the feelings are not mutual now, but it will be, I have that faith.'
I did not know how someone could be that much hopeful; his expectations were terrifying. Nevertheless, my feelings for Adi were stronger. Only, Adi, Arjun and I knew about it. It would have been easy if Adi was ready to fight for us, but unfortunately, Yash was more important for him than his own happiness. He sacrificed his love for his brother.
I used to think, what I was, a toy... yeah, a toy that Adi wanted to play according to his rules. However, after the confession act, he pulled out I had decided that I would not allow him to toy with me. If my happily ever after was with Yash then fine, I will have it with him, happily. I at least can try.
"Back to your seats ladies and gentlemen, they are here."
Do not get confused now; I am at Anjana constructions, Anjana Hooda is Adi's mother, Mr. Harsh Hooda's wife. I have been working here for few months; an internship-program Harsh uncle offered.
I have known these three guys throughout my life, Adi was the elder one in our group and the mature one too. I had developed a small crush on Adi in my teenage days. Being the mature responsible one, he rejected me at that tender age. My whole fantasy world, my whole dreams crashed down when he decided to move out of the country, he left me hanging. That was a shock, the Zoya I knew changed into someone I did not know. Life changed since that day, I buried my feelings deep inside, and the cold exterior helped me to overcome the rejection. Little did I know, he would be back to shatter the exterior I had made.
After a few minutes, everyone settled, the black door opened with a clinking sound, my eyes subconsciously moved across the room to catch a glimpse of him, but his seat was empty; a frown came to my face. Harsh uncle introduced everyone along with Arjun who was sitting right beside me; I was sandwiched between him and Yash. Adi's seat was still empty, which was right in front of me.
"Where is Adi?" Arjun leaned closer to me and asked; his breath fanned my earlobes.
"Why don't you ask him?"
"Someone is feisty."
I rolled my eyes at his bluntness; it would be an understatement if I say that I was irritated. My heart was beating faster than the usual pace, it was throbbing inside my rib cage and the nasty feeling came back to my stomach, at that time I knew, something was wrong, something was going to happen which I would not appreciate at all.
After one hour of presentations, doubts, questions, the meeting came to its end, yet there was no sign of him. I was angry with him, I was angry with me, I was angry at our situation, more than anything I was angry at these stupid feelings.
"Zoya,"
"Zoya, did you hear, what they said?"
"Zoya, back to earth now."
Someone nudged me; I looked towards my right to see an irritated Arjun glaring at me.
"What happened?"
"You again went to your dream world, that's what happened." He glared.
I looked around to see the hall empty, everyone left. The meeting was over, but I did not notice it. I was deep in my thoughts.
"What happened, whom they chose?"
My hands were sweaty, I was apprehensive about this since the time I entered this hall.
"You,"
"And"
"Adi"
I choked my own saliva, did I hear that correct?
Yes, you did dumbass. Someone snapped.
"What"
"Yeah, it's you, who is going to New York with Adi," Yash said and I stared at him with a horrible look, he was beaming with happiness. How someone could be so happy to hear the news of his fiance going for a business trip along with another male who supposed to be his brother, that too for a month.
That is because Adi is his brother. My consciousness took the opportunity to intervene.
"You are happy for that," I knew I sounded stupid, but who cares.
"Of course, I'm damn happy, you deserve this."
Only if he knew a few more things. Arjun had already left in the search of Adi, so it was Yash and me alone.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" He frowned.
"I thought you would have some problems with me going with Adi," I asked him confused, his happiness was weird.
He gave me a perplexed look and burst out laughing, he was laughing so hard holding his stomach.
"You really thought that, oh god Zoya, I trust Adi in that more than you."
He pulled me into his arms; it was a friendly gesture. My hands were on my side for a few seconds, but eventually, I lead my arms around his neck. I regretted that action as soon as I did it, at the door, there was Adi who was holding the door a bit tight than needed, his knuckles turned white, his eyes were dark, and for a moment, I thought he would pull me away from Yash. Since Yash's back was facing the door, he did not see Adi.
It didn't take much time for me to see, the pain his face reflected, Arjun was standing beside him, his hand was on Adi's shoulder, he really knows how to support a friend.
Adi was neither angry nor jealous; he was broken. He was holding himself together from the further damages, at that time I knew, he heard what Yash said. His eyes reflected the pain, the pain of betraying his brother.
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