"Wassup Swayam?"
Swayam was sitting on his bed in some deep thoughtsabout Sharon as Neha, his bestie, slumped on the couch.
"Swayam? Swayam?" Neha waved her hands in front of his face breaking his reverie.
"Yea. . .Yeah. . .Hi Neha! How are you?" Swayam finally answered gathering himself.
"How am I? I thought we just met two hours ago Swayam" Neha said making a weird face.
"Ummm. . .I mean yeah. . .You here?"
Neha looked at her best friend and sighed.
"Swayam are you high?"
"What?"
"Its okay if you have gulped down some shots of vodka or tequila or a bottle of beer. . .I wont tell Uncle I promise" Neha said sympathetically. He looked at her clueless and rolled his eyes.
"Don't roll your eyes at me like that. . .It was your plan to watch a movie together at the weekend and that is why I am here but you have very graciously seemed to have forgotten everything" Neha pouted grumpily.
"Oh Yeah sorry I forgot!" Swayam apologized genuinely.
"You want something?" Tea or coffee?" Neha asked eyeing him suspiciously.
"I don't drink either of them Neha! Don't you know that?"
"I do . . . But Dr. Sheldon Cooper says whenever someone is upset offer them a hot beverage" Neha said fluttering her eyes.
Swayam looked at her and finally smiled in whole two days since his encounter with Sharon.
"Is it Sharon stressing you?"
"To be honest Yes."
"Did you talk to her?"
"I did"
"Well?"
"Well. . . I am not able to judge what is going on. . .Sharon Rai Prakash is a Dazzler. She gets what she wants. She is someone who does not take shit from anyone. She is rude, stubborn, mean, and arrogant and still every other guy in town is ready to die for her and one day she comes and announces in front of whole college that she loves me-Someone who doesn't even exist in her world."
"Did you tell her that you don't love. . ."
"Yes I did"
"Hmmm. . .So the chapter is closed! Why are you so tensed then?"
"Because from whatever I know about Sharon . . .She should have been mean, rude and blunt. . .Damn! She should have shouted on me but in real she was silent . . . She said nothing simply nothing. It was just not what I expected. . .she looked hurt." Swayam said everything in one breath.
"Swayam! It's okay! She probably didn't know how to react . . . You must be the first person in the whole world who has rejected her. It must have been a shock after all you did burst her bubble that she can get everything she wants. I am glad you rejected her . . . She doesn't deserve you." Neha said offering him a Coke.
As much as his mind nodded in agreement with Neha, a part of his heart frowned at her words discarding it totally. It just wasn't ready to accept that what he saw in her eyes other day in abandoned corridor after him rejecting her was not genuine. What he saw was something different advocating her words she said in canteen.
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"How dare you sit here?" Its Dazzling's chair. Don't you know that?" Sharon glared at Vishakha. Yes, she loved Swayam and adored him but then it applied to Swayam only and not his team. She was a dazzler and loathed all weaklings except for his Mr. Messed up Hairs. Yeah! She called him that in her imaginations. It was way too much unlike Sharon to call him like this in public even in a fight.
"Excuse Me. . .Is your name written over here? Or is it like you own this place? If you don't know this is a public property." Vishakha fought back.
"Nobody dares to talk like that to Sharon Raiprakash. . .Especially not a Weakling" Sharon gave her a disgusted look.
"Oops . . .I didn't know that! But then who cares? You fell for a Weakling at the end of the day and got rejected too . . . Must have hurt na?" Vishakha taunted her.
Sharon fell silent for a split second at this and Vicky took over.
"Who the hell is he who will reject Sharon??? Sharon is Class while that Swayam is nothing more than Crass . . . He better knows his deserved place! Bloody Weakling" Vicky barked.
Sharon couldn't listen to anything after that. Yes! Swayam Shekhawat has rejected her she cannot fight this back . . .She loved him crazily and he, well he feels nothing for her, absolutely nothing. Sharon gulped the bottle of emotions threatening to break through her eyes and turned to leave when she bumped into Swayam. They both stared in each other's eyes till a tear escaped Sharon's eyes and Swayam gaped seeing her like that. She broke the eye lock and ran out of the canteen.
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"Sharon?" Swayam entered the rehearsal hall.
"Ummm. . .Swayam? You here? You. . .You need anything?" Sharon said wiping her tears and looking everywhere but at him.
"I want to talk to you" Swayam said firmly.
"About what?" Sharon said.
"Is everything okay, Sharon?" Swayam said surprisingly concerned.
"Yes. . .And let's just talk professional Swayam. . .I don't think you want to talk about anything professional and I don't want to talk anything except for Upcoming Dance Fest." Sharon said walking out her way off the hall.
"Sharon. . .Sharon. . .Sharon wait" Swayam called out to her but she didn't stop.
Swayam pulled her by her arms and pinned her to the wall blocking her way with his hands on her either sides.
They both stared in each other's eyes. The pool of emotions which Sharon's eyes exhibited hit Swayam like a Tsunami.
"Please Swayam" Sharon whispered looking into his eyes pleading to let her go before her break down. He couldn't believe that Sharon Raiprakash who was looking so strong in her mean avatar before his friends some minutes back can be so vulnerable in front of him. Never ever in the period of him knowing her he has seen this soft side of her. He backed off quietly never leaving her eyes and Sharon retreated away from his scorching gaze.
"Have I been too judgmental about Sharon? Have I judged her wrong?" Swayam muttered to himself.
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NEXT PARTEdited by ..MiStLeToE.. - 10 years ago
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