Chapter 11
When Chhavi came back to the hall, it had totally changed. A big table was situated in the middle and Tushar and Salil were arranging the chairs.
"What is this? What is happening...?" Chhavi asked while sitting down.
"We are going to play truth or dare..." Priya replied and placed an empty beer bottle in the middle.
"Hey Parth..come na..." Salil exclaimed from there. Chhavi turned and saw him in the drinking parlour.
"You guys play, I'm just coming. Last drink.." He held his glass high. Chhavi shook her head and turned forth.
"Ok! Everybody has come na?" Malvika's sharp tone rose, she took a glance around the room once. "I'll do the first spin..." She said with excitement.
"Go ahead..." The boy next to her encouraged her.
She spun the bottle; and the bottle stopped directed towards Priya.
Everybody clapped and some of them whistled.
"So Priya truth or dare...?" Malvika was too excited.
"Truth..." She replied giving her a small nod.
Malvika took one look at Tushar and said, "So tell us how did Tushar propose to you?"
The hall burst out with hullabaloo. Priya chuckled.
"Actually, he had never proposed to me, it was me who proposed first!"
The girls from the room started laughing.
"Yaar, what the hell man? You had never proposed?" Salil asked, looking at Tushar.
"Arree!" Tushar took a second to think before giving them an explanation. "It was so sudden...that is why." He scratched his head.
"So you have to take dare and you have to propose to her..." Viraf said with a smile.
"Now stop it guys, it's my turn." Priya said and spun the bottle and it stopped facing Chhavi.
"Truth or dare...?" Priya asked.
Before she could say anything, everybody from the room started shouting with "Dare", "Dare."
"This truth thing is very boring, take dare..." Neil said while sitting down facing her.
Chhavi understood that she had to take dare, she looked at Viraf from the corner of her eyes. He gave her a nod.
"Ok..ok dare."
"So you have to say I love you to your would be husband..."
"Wow! Now this is something interesting..." Someone commented from the back.
Chhavi became numb for a moment, she looked at Viraf who too was in a shock hearing this sudden proposal, his smile was fading away.
"Arre say to Parth na! What are you thinking...?" Priya asked, she was surprised to see her so flabbergasted.
"C'mon! Chhavi, don't be shy..." The room started encouraging her with claps.
"Priya..." Chhavi gulped down the rest of her sentence, because actually there was nothing she could use to clarify her problem.
"Chhavi, what is the..." But she stopped as Parth's voice came like a sharp shaft.
"Why would she say to me? I'm not her would-be husband. Am I Chhavi?" He said, looking directly at her. He was trying to walk, but his legs were tottering.
The rest of the members of the room shared a surprised glance with each other.
"What do you mean? Are you drunk...?!" Shruti couldn't believe her ears. Parth and Chhavi had been together for several years and now it was completely unbelievable to assume things like this. Parth was still holding his glass in his hand.
"Does it matter baby??? She has seriously broken up with me because..." He turned and faced them all, "Because, she is in love with someone else..." Parth gulped down the rest of the drink and put the glass on the table with a bang.
"Really Chhavi? I can't, believe, you are in love with someone else. With whom..?" Tushar asked.
"The way she was reacting then, I already had a feeling that there is something unusual..." Salil gave his sarcastic comment, which made the situation more grumpy.
Chhavi was in a state from where she couldn't even escape, now she could understand why Parth was so calm that day and even today in the car, because he was planning to insult her in this party. She tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear.
"Yes, actually..." She got up from the chair and was about to tell the truth when she felt a warm touch on her hand, she turned her face at once and saw Viraf who was standing beside her.
"Actually Parth it's a very personal matter, but if you insist...I think I should give you the answer on behalf of her..." He stopped for a moment and then added.
"It's me..." The hall was covered in pin-drop silence.
"What...?" A faint expression came from Neil's side.
"Yeah it's Viraf...I'm in love with Viraf..." Chhavi said, as Viraf held her close.
"You both are...but...we didn't know...from when..." Priya was stunned.
"It's a long story...I'll tell you later..." Chhavi replied.
"Why only her Chhavi, tell me too nah...!" Again Parth's fuddled tone rose, "What he did to you in particular, which I couldn't...?!" An indecent smile played on his lips. He came one step forward to her.
"Parth..!!!" She growled, "You are insulting me."
"Oh really...!!!! I'm insulting you? And what about me sweetie...??" He asked gritting his teeth. "Oh, I know, Actually, I've gone old, so you need a new partner..."
"Parth..." Viraf screamed, "Don't you dare insult her." His rageful voice shut all the voices in the room.
"Cool down dude..." Parth placed a hand on his shoulder gently, "She is too good na...?" He winked.
Viraf grabbed his collar at once, "How dare you...?"
Salil, Tushar, Neil and everybody from the hall came running towards them as Viraf was almost going to beat him up.
"Leave him, Viraf, leave him..." Salil exclaimed while trying to stop him.
"Shame on you Parth...don't you have any sense of ethics? You just can't insult a girl like this..." Tushar shook his head looking at him.
"Chhavi...Chhavi..." Malvika's sharp tone came as a halt to their mayhem which made them all turn back and they saw Chhavi who was leaving the room with her steady steps.
"Chhavi...wait...listen...!!!!" Viraf exclaimed, he looked at Parth and removed his hand from his collar, and ran behind her.
TO BE CONTINUED. . .
Edited by mon.sayan17.com - 9 years ago
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