After the party, Swayam walked on the streets. It
was a moonlit night and all he could remember
was the time spent with Sharon at the party. Her
hug.it had been so sudden, but so blissful. He
knew she hadn't done it on purpose. It just
happened, yet he was so happy. He felt like
dancing on the road.. Sharon's hug..it had been
so instantaneous.. He was noticing her ever since
she sat at his place to take care of him. That was
her first step to melt him down, which he loved.
He loved it , the way she used to make him feel so
special..so loved .. so overwhelmed. He just loved
her, he never made it prominent, and the fact
was that he was noticing all her genuine efforts to
claim him back. He found them cute..yet he did
not make it evident.. but these days what he
liked most about her was the fact that she was
being professional. Not dragging personal fights
into the workshop business.. Sharon had not
changed. She had altered. Altered a bit, for
good..
A smile was playing on her lips thinking about
her.. She was so good.. And he loved her so
much. He couldn't help it. He was falling in love
with her all over again..
"Hey." Someone called from behind. He heard her
voice and turned back..
He heard her voice and saw her standing there
smiling at him.. He smiled back at her and said,"
hey Sharon" she walked upto him and taking his
hand in her's she started walking..
Swayam was taken off guard momentarily first
the hug and now the intertwined hands.. He
looked at her dazed and dreamily while she
walked ahead oblivious of his silent admiration..
She yet had a huge effect on him whether he
would admit it or not to her.. He might be
pretending to be oblivious to her efforts in front of
her but deep down he acknowledged them and
he loved them with every nerve of his body.. He
had loved the breakfast she had cooked for
him,her dressing up as his dream girl, the
payal,the secret admirer gifts, the dance on pehla
nasha she had left no stone unturned to make
him feel special and he was loving it.. He felt a
strange high when dancing with her on pehla
nasha it was their song.. She was a changed
person now and she had changed for good
maybe handling her professional and personal life
efficiently.. He wanted to love her but he could'nt
coz of the fear of suffering another heartbreak he
was in a fix what was he going to do about them
he was confused a battle raging between his
heart and mind where his heart told him to get
back with Sharon while his mind made him feel
wary and cautious..
Stop." He said. "What are you doing?" He realized
that they had already broken up and they were
not together anymore. They couldn't be together
either, but she was walking as if they were! His
opinions were important as well? So why was she
acting like that?
"Swayam..are you okay?"
"Sharon, we are broken up. We aren't together.
So why are you doing this?" He asked, dazed.
"We might be verbally broken up..but our hearts
are still intertwined with each other." She smiled.
Swayam gaped at her, digesting her words. She
was never too bollywood-ish. But then, Swayam
also knew that Sharon's opinions were not the
only one that mattered. Swayam was an
important factor too, and he did not wish to
accept her love, because he knew that her love
was temporary ! He couldn't be friends with her,
because he loved her! He couldn't be friends with
the one he loved. Over all.. he didn't know what
relation he had with her.. maybe no relation?
"Stop Sharon.." He said as he freed his fingers
from her grip.
"Why are you doing this now? Your chance to
prove your love is over jab tumhe bolna chahiye
tha you went on and mere 5 saal ke pyaar ko
tumne paanch second main sabke saamne ek
mazzak bana ke rakh diya jhutha sabit kar diya
tumne mere pyaar ko. I have nothing to give you
now Sharon. I will continue loving you but can't
be together because being friends with the one I
love is not an option which is feasible for me and
tum mujhse pyaar nahi karti you only feel you
love me aadat ho gayi hai tumhe mere pyaar ki
aur meri bahut jald you will realise its just a phase
temporary hai jisse bhulke tum aage badh jaogi.
So don't make this hard for me let me be please
Sharon forget me and move on in your life.."
She heard all this silently and with every word he
spoke she broke a little from the inside.. He
thought this of her that he was a habit for her,
her love for him was merely a need? This was the
image she had formed in his mind of her?
She turned to walk away quietly as he talked
further with his back facing her..
"I just can't be with you. Being in love, you need
to face it and its consequences, which you
couldn't do at all! Sharon whatever your reflex
was.. or whatever it hurt me, and it's probably
beyond repair."
Sharon turned for a moment.
" I wanna ask just one question.." She said.
"What?"
"Just like you, who can keep loving me, I can't
keep loving you? I don't want to move on from
you because I love you. I'm not infatuated by you.
It's pure love which I've never felt for anyone.
What surprises me is that you don't believe even
a bit in your promise?? You don't believe that I
love you? Is this the trust you have on your love? I
don't know how love is defined..all i know is that
for me, love is you. Swayam Shekhawat. What if
we can't be together.. I will still..always continue
loving you. Thanks for listening to me.. Good
bye." She said quite impassively . Swayam
showed no reaction.
She turned and walked on..tears dripped down
from her eyes.. She had tried to win him
back..but she couldn't..just couldn't.. She felt
helpless.
He saw her walking away from him wiping her
silent tears as they came pouring out of her orbs
and he was'nt feeling good he was'nt getting
good vibes about this he felt like he was probably
going to see her for the last time..
He again slipped back into his shell thinking
contemplating over every word she said.. She was
hurt deeply hurt by what he said.. Her words
forced him to think about the promise he had
made to her and more importantly to himself of
making Sharon fall for him and after succeeding
in it he thought she did'nt love him? Did she
really love him and the first thing that came into
his mind was the dance on pehla nasha which
she had initiated that was by far the most special
thing she had done for him she made him realise
that day how much she affected him.. He
remembered every minute expression of her face
and he could see nothing except love and longing
for him and his love.. She had surrendered to him
yet again that day giving all of her.. Her
excitement to fulfill his wishes, staying back to
take care of him like a doting girlfriend she sat by
him taking care all night.. All of which just hinted
at one thing that he had been wrong all the way,
he had misjudged her efforts and feelings and he
had to undo that he had to go speak to her and
clear everything and he wanted her back, back in
his arms where she and only she belonged.. His
rude words came back to him in a speedy blur
where he remembered calling her selfish for
holding onto him in d classroom where they had
confessed, calling her impulsive and what not..
He put a hand on his forehead and ran his hand
in his hair frustrated with himself.. She had only
showered her love and he gave her pain and
suffering in answer.. He felt angry at himself.. He
had dragged this too long and he realized this
now when she walked away from him.. He looked
at the time and realized it was 7am he had spent
all night thinking and contemplating all night he
shockingly realized.. He had to talk to her ASAP
with that thought he showered, dressing up he
went to her place and ushered in her room
climbing through the window but to his utter
surprise and dismay he found the room empty he
walked in calling out her name with a hope to see
her"Sharon,Sharon are you there?"
Thinking maybe she was in the shower he
knocked on the bathroom door to get an answer
but he heard no sound he opened the door with
closed eyes but yet again it was empty he went in
and checked the whole house he found her
nowhere thinking maybe she had left for college
for rehearsals he left for college too with a hope to
find her there..
On reaching college he directly went to the
rehearsal hall and found everybody practising
except Sharon she was'nt seen anywhere..
"Simmi Sharon kaha hai have you heard from
her??"
"No I hav'nt heard from her Swayam" she said
coldly eyeing him impassively..
That was when Swayam started feeling worried
he went and checked every place he had a hope
he could find her the abandoned corridor, the
computer room, the fire exit, the terrace, the
prop room everywhere he also checked Girls
common room from outside but she was nowhere
to be seen..
"Where the hell are you Sharon kaha ho tum
please sirf ek baar mil jao please I swear to god I'll
never ever let us part from each other"
Everyone started finding Sharon but could not
find even mere traces of her.. At the end they all
returned defeated to the rehearsal hall where
they saw a letter lying addressed to Swayam,
"It was my mistake I could'nt admit my love for
you in front of you everyday and my so called
"reflex" ruined everything beautiful we had
between us.. But I swear Swayam not for a
second was my love a lie for you it was true and
pure from the very beginning.. I had always loved
you right from the moment my eyes laid upon
you as you danced away to glory by me.. But I
was only scared to admit it as I have always lived
a life of seclusion and had never expressed
emotions and you taught me that.. I will love and
cherish every little moment we spent and will
always keep loving you till I die.. You wanted
distance and space from me you get that
Swayam I am going away from you Swayam
forever to some place where the shadows of my
actions would'nt affect you..
Yours and always yours, sharon
I LOVE YOU...
The letter dropped from Swayam's hand and he
sank to the floor after reading it completely
devastated... Sharon didn't lose hope. She just
wanted to be alone for a day. The letter..she
didn't know why she had written it.. But after
writing it, she wanted Swayam to not read it. Yes
it was true..Swayam had hurt her but she wanted
to stay alone only for a day.. She would be back
to normal the next day. She was sitting alone on
the terrace. The door was open, but no one
except Swayam knew that it was her I wanna be
alone spot.
Swayam knew exactly where she had been. But
she didn't want to talk to anyone..not even
Swayam..one day without anyone's intervention
was what she desired.
Swayam was eager to talk to her and sort things
out. But he didn't know whether she'd be happy
seeing him or no. Hopeful and worried, he walked
up to the terrace, in an attempt to find her.
He stood outside the door contemplating whether
to go in or no a battle raging inside of him finally
he gave in to his heart and stepped in opening
the door and he finally saw her sitting on the
ledge of the terrace her legs crossed and her chin
resting on her knees.. Her back facing him.. She
sat there thinking lost deep in the quagmire of
her thoughts about Swayam and the good times
of her relationship with him completely oblivious
of Swayam's figure standing beside her looking at
her intently.. She tried to reign in her tears and
put a stop to them but remembering the words
Swayam said she would again start shedding sad
tears..
"Sharon" he called her name out softly..
She turned to look at the source of the voice and
saw the very same person standing whom she
did'nt want to speak at present..
"Kyun aaye ho yaha Swayam" she asked
"Mujhe baat karni hai tumse Sharon"
"But mujhe nahi karni ab please leave me alone
for sometime Swayam akela chod do mujhe kuch
der ke liye" and she stood up to leave.
Her behaviour irked him and he caught hold of
her arm and stopped her saying"Ruko"."What is it
Swayam?" She asked anger evident in her voice.
"I want to talk to you. Why are you ignoring me?"
Her brow corrugated. "Me? I was ignoring you all
this while? Was it me who was giving a damn to
the one she loves??? And in return mujhe kya
mila?? Nothing..Bas I got to here that the one I
love does not think that I love him..and to be
frank, mujhe laga that this guy knew me in and
out..! I was wrong I guess."
"Listen Sharon..kal jo bhi kuch hua..." He said
tightening his grip, knowing that she was upset.
"Yesterday jo bhi kuch hua, usse bhul jao! Forget
it. I can tolerate your rude behavior, you ignoring
me..anything.. but ANYONE, I repeat ANYONE,
especially you pointing a finger at my love..or
saying that I don't love you.. I can't tolerate.
Calling my love infatuation..temporary crap or
what not..i can't tolerate...you were right..maybe
we are just not meant to be.." A silent tear
trickled down her eyes.
"Sharon..listen to me.."
"Leave me Swayam." She shouted. "Leave me
right now."
She was hyper..she was angry.. She was fuming
and her eyes were red. She choked once, while
Swayam thought it was her asthma and fished for
an inhaler in his pocket, but she didn't accept it.
Swayam was taken aback, by her behavior. He
hadn't expected this kind of reaction.
"Swayam... please give me some time..mujhe
abhi kissi se baat nahi karni..you hurt me last
night..mujhe ab tak lagta tha ki I deserve the
worst for hurting you..but itna hurt mein kabhi
nahi hui..never in the last two months.. I need
some time.." She said and tried to leave..
He held her wrist firmly not letting her go, while
she tried to protest. He pulled her towards him
and she banged on his chest..In spite of her
asking him to leave her, he engulfed her in a
passionate hug.
She was home in that moment.. Pure bliss is an
understatement to what she felt the moment
Swayam's arms engulfed her in a bear hug
crashing her being against his.. She savoured in
the moment of togetherness which she knew was
short lived because the moment Swayam would
realize the proximity they are in he would back off
leaving her alone just like he did after the dance..
She was hurt immensely after her love being
called a lie,a temporary phase of her life which
she would forget with time.. How dare he think of
her like that, how could he make such things out
of her feelings and she pulled out of the hug half
heartedly and again started moving away from
him to get some time to think straight and again
get back to normal so that she could get renewed
strength to win the love of her existence back..
Moments passed..a few minutes passed. Sharon
didn't want to break apart.. but what was
surprising was that even Swayam wasn't breaking
apart.. Thank god for that.
Swayam was rubbing concentric circles on her
back.. tried to pacify her, calm her down. She
needed support, love, care, warmth, which only
he could do.
His phone beeped after a while. It was Rey's
message. He wanted to know whether he had
found Sharon.
Dressed in a jumpsuit, Sharon reluctantly broke
apart. Swayam looked at her dismal condition and
kept the phone in his pocket again.
"Can we talk now?" He asked. "Are you okay? Are
you feeling good now?"
Sharon turned for a moment. She was actually
blushing sheepishly, but she didn't want Swayam
to know that. She turned again to face him with a
straight expression.
"Yes." She said. "Quick."
"Okay, if it's quick, then only one thing, I love
you. "
Sharon was taken aback by this sudden
statement of his. She felt elated when he said
that .. but what was he planning to do?
"So?" She asked. Swayam was disheartened by
her reaction
She was confused with his behaviour what did he
actually want from her sometimes he says he
does not want her and he cannot be with her and
now he says he loves her.. He was all making it
confusing she could'nt make out what he
wanted..
"So Swayam what if you love me?? You don't
want me but.. No matter how hard I try, no
matter the number of times I try to prove to you
my love.. What is the meaning of your love if you
don't believe in my love and you consider is it as a
phase and some temporary nonsense..?
"No sharon it is not like that"
"Aisa hi hain Swayam what is the meaning of
loving each other when it cannot bring us
together.." "Sharon listen to me.."
"No Swayam, you listen to me.. Whatever is going
on..is not me.. The way I'm behaving is not me..
Jaisa mein behave kar rahi hu, is SO NOT SHARON
RAI PRAKASH. I can't tolerate stuff BUT a believe a
hope, gave me the strength to tolerate your rude
behavior. I agree you had every reason to stay
annoyed but calling my love fake? Is this how
your love is? Weak? You don't trust me? Whatever
i did is for you Swayam and you couldn't see it.
Yes, I'm selfish. I'm selfish for you, because I can't
share you. I just can't. " She said. Tears poured
down her eyes.
Not this time Swayam. He reminded himself. You
have hurt Sharon a lot in the past few hours,
please don't do that mistake this time."
"Okay, we can talk calmly."
"Baat karne ke liye bacha hi kya hai? You don't
realize how much you hurt me by saying that.."
"For gods sake Sharon stop it!"
She looked at him.
"Jab tum roti ho, tab even I get hurt, when you
fall, I get hurt, when you say something rude to
me, every inch of my body suffers badly Sharon..
Just stop it.. And now you say that I don't realize
how much I've hurt you? Yes i do! Because I love
you. I love you way too much..!!"
She stood there shocked with his confession..
Tears welled up on their own accord and fell
down..
"Don't waste these they're way too precious for
me Sharon.. Not a single tear Sharon no more we
have both cried enough.. We hurt and got hurt in
maintaining distance.. We're meant to be Sharon
I am incomplete without you and you are
incomplete without me.. Let's be back to Swaron
instead of Swayam and Sharon. I miss you bad"
Sharon smiled through her "I'm sorry.. I'm sorry
because I didn't trust your love. I was way too
hurt by that incident and i didn't know what went
inside me to think like that.."
Sharon looked at his innocence and let out a
small smile.
"Let's forget it now?" She asked.
"I'm just so sorry Sharon.. I really am."
"No.. I am.. I drove you to thinking like that. The
root cause is me. Had it not been me, you
wouldn't have thought like that.. I'm just so
flawed." She said, sadness evident in her voice.
She looked down.
"Don't say that Sharon.." He said. "It's okay. Now
that we are together we can do anything and
everything right??"
She didn't look at him.
"Right?" He asked her again.
"Right." She said as she smiled looking at his cute
face.
tears listening to Swayam's words and said," I
love you Swayam I love you too much for your
own good"
Looking at him she felt the urge to engulf him in
his hug and giving in to her urge she wrapped
her arms around him hugging him close to her
basking in the happiness of again getting him
back in her life.. She raised herself up on her toes
and placed her lips upon his taking him in for
passionate kiss..
Shocked at first he later gave in picking sharon
up in his arms wrapping his arms on her waist
and kissed her like there was no tomorrow..
They parted struggling for breath smiling wide
they both said in unison,"I love you" and smiled
at the sheer beauty of the situation and again
hugged each other looking forward to a beautiful
tomorrow..
The end..
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