Originally posted by: jumz86
Actually, when one friend falls for another it's always very hard for the other to tell...they think every gesture is that out of friendship. Zoya is not ignorant, she is oblivious. Adi has always watched out for her even when he hated her and now that they are friends, she feels he is doing everything out of friendship. Zoya has never had a male friend and so she cannot distinguish gestures made out of friendship and those made out of love. I completely relate to her, because I have always been that woman. Unless a guy comes up to me and tells me straight up that they like me, I will never be able to guess their feelings.
Another reason that Zoya is not able to tell Adi's feelings is because she literally lived through the emotional trauma of their past relationships right along with Adi. Adi herself once told her that after everything that happened to them, he didn't think he would ever fall in love again. When she has seen the emotional trauma he went through, how is she to believe that he may have fallen in love again and that too so quickly?
Every word of THIS. Completely agree--when you're friends with the opposite gender, it is sometimes hard to make out if they're making a gesture out of love or friendship.
@TM :
From personal experience, I've been the Zoya of today, more than once, and at least one time it turned out very badly, because the guy thought I was leading him on, whereas I was just being friendly.
Adiya always had a certain chemistry--Adi has taken care of her and gazed at her and held her and carried her and what not even when they 'hated' each other. So the usual cues, of when a guy goes out of his way to do things for you, to touch you, or look at you--are not available to Zoya--she's seen them all from Aditya when he was not a friend, and also when he turned a friend.
And as to not understanding things, you're right, she's Not trying to look at it from Adi's POV. Because her subconscious and her body knows the truth, knows that he loves her, and after the betrayal and the agony she's gone through, her subconscious is protecting her from it--she hasn't yet healed enough from her experience. She has buried it, she has buried herself in work, and supposedly moved on--but has she, really?
Sometimes we ignore what we don't have the readiness to see, and right now, it would have been unnatural for Zoya to catch on, and react. Only when she has another man in her life, one who is there with absolutely lover-like, husband-like intentions, will she start to realize what she has with Aditya. It is all a part of her journey.
I understand where you're coming from, but this story is a little different from the ones we normally see, where the protags are falling in love for the first time. Both the protags here have been through hell and back in their earlier relationships, so the story will progress differently.
Edited by Neemsundari - 7 years ago
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