PART THREE
" shes such a chipkoo yaar... i just noticed that" angad said lying on the bed talking to his friend on teh phone... " but i still love her..."
manan sighed... " you're crazy angad... hey i gotta go... but do remember my words... you are CONFUSED... bye..." he hung up and so did angad...
angad hung up too and stood up...finally simone had gone to meet her frind adn he was free... the first thing he wanted to do was get a gift for kripa... it was weird how he never remembered simone's birthday in these two years nut he just couldn't forget kripa's birthday... he looked at his window and saw kripa on the roof just outside her room... reading a book... typical he thought...
tomorrow was kripa's birthday and teh whole house was a chaos... kripa's dad, Dev and Yash were arguing about whose house the brthday partuy is gonna be organized... while naina and Nandini(kripa's mom) were arguing if the cake should be ordered or home made... kripa shook her head listening to them... she dint want any of these.. she just wanted a small get together with dadi's yummy chocolate cake and dancing and singing later... and just have fun teh hwole night... but she thought how excited they were on throwing this party...soo she dint say a word... finally getting irritated she said "STOP!"
everyone got quiet at once... she breath a sigh of relief... " now... dad, unkle, mom and aunty... how about we have the party in dadi's place... with dadi's precious... million dollar chocolate cake?" she suggested...
everyone looked at eachother and opened their mouth to speak but shut it when kripa said " its my birthday and my decision..." she walked to hthe theater downstairs and sat there watchng 'Maine Pyaar Kiya' for teh thousandth time... she was soo immersed in the movie that she never noticed when it stried 12 and it was already her birthday... she heard a whisper " HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRIPA!" she quickly turned around... angad was bent to her ears and she looked at the clock which said 12:01... she smiled.. as usual... he was teh first one to wish her...
he walked to her side and sat beside her... they both sat in silence... angad broke teh silence... " sorry... dint know what to get for you... soo... what do you want..."
kripa was silent for a second... " your friendship... (pause) forever..."she dint look at him but raised her hand... angad just stared at her for a sec adn put his hadns over hers... adn held it tight...
" Forever..." he repeated... kripa turned to his side without looking at him adn hugged him tightly... angad confused... hugged her back... after sometime she pulled away... he was glad she wasn't crying... he finally breath... he realized he had held his breath teh whole time hopng she wasn't crying... she looked at him with playful eyes adn grinned...
" i wont say sorry... i have teh right to hug you whenver i want to..." she wrapped her hands around his arm and dropped her head to his shoulder... closed her eye... " i think you should leave now... simone must be waiting..."
she said moving away from him... she yawned adn grabbed another DvD...
angad quietly left teh house... kripa fell asleep watching anpther movie...
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" but...but..." kripa was in teh verge of crying... adn angad noticed this...
" sorry babes... i got a lott of things to doo..." teh person on teh otehr side of the phone said...
" BUT YOU PROMISED!" she said like a stubborn kid...
" yea but.... i am sorry kripss..." teh person said...
" I HATE YOU!!!" she yelled and hung up...
she stomped to teh breakfast table where everyone was waiting for her..." whats teh matter kripa?" Dev adn Yash asked n unison...
" hes not coming..." she said silently...
yeash's face dropped as well adn so did dev's... nandini and naina sighed and ate... angad's apetite was full seeing the atmosphere... simone was teh only person actually eating... kripa silently finished her food and walked out of teh door... she turned around run to her which is now simone's room... 5 mins later...she came back..." i will be at dadi's place at teh time of teh party.." sh said siletly adn walked away with a sketch pad adn pencil...
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" everyone is soo distant from mee now..." anagd said his voice was hurt adn disappointed... " you were right... i shouldn't have brought her here..." angad said with regret...
" now what you did... is you did... now think of what wll you do now?" manana asked him...
" i dont know... i need to somehow send simone back... do something yaar! as long as shes among us i will never be able to convince my parents..." he said rubbing his forehead...
" ok.. i'll do something... she'll be gone in a few days..." manana said...
" thanxx manan... bye.." angad hung up adn looked at teh time... it was almost party time... he walked to teh close and took a photo album out... it mus be about 500 pages thick... he looked through it... it was kind of a scrap book kripa had made... with pictures of every important event of 'their' life... as he was flipping through te pages he felt he was living through his childhood... finally flipping through pages he came across the picture of the senior prom... he looked at kripa ad his piicture... she looked soo nervous... and indeed she was... he had to drag her into the pro as she was ervous about going to teh senior pro being a sophmore...
that was teh first time she had let him kiss her... their first kiss... 2 years she hadn't let him come too close to her... physically that is... but then she had willingly kissed him... they had danced...swayed in other's arm like there was noone except for them... teh feling was still fresh in his heart and mind....how complete he felt with her in his arms... her head resting on hie chest adn his face buried into her hair... her sweet smell... soft touch and the soothing voice...was still there... he culd relive that moment... he sighed and flipped to another page with his cheeks pressed her hers and her laughing openly... for teh first time had he seen her soo opnely laughing adn enjoying her day...
he closed the book after looking at the last page...but then he he saw there was somethign behind all of those... he looked at that and saw " THIS WAS THE LOVE STORY OF ANGAD AND KRIPA... THE LOVE IS LOST...MAYBE ENDED, THE STORY WILL CONTINUE..." and there was signed kripa...
he felt his heart rip... that was not true he told himself... their love hadn't ended... maybe it was lost... he looked at himself in teh mirror...and somethign inside him told him that their love had ended from one side... she had loved him and will love him... he had ended it... he regretted even thinking that...
he wet to teh shower and got dressed then forgetting about simone he left for dadi's plce... it was early... but he neede to talkto her... her needed his dadi more than ever now... to take him out of this maize of lost love...
Edited by MUNNIBABA2006 - 18 years ago
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