A year had passed and Arohi was finally used to her new life with family Raichand. But above all she was finally able to make clear she was madly in love with Arjun. It was too long living in a constant and unbearable indecision between Arjun and Aditya, then, after the episode of Nisha and Prem, she understood: the false attempts of Kajal to take away Aditya had made her jealous, but only because she did not want her to take away his best friend and despite declaration of him, Arohi had realized that the person who truly loved and deeply from the first look was only Arjun . He had to tell him and also to Adi.
The girl was leaving the courtroom to go to her tennis coach, when she met two people she knew very well. Arjun and Chandan were near the window of the hall and chatted among themselves as is now happening for some time.
Arohi: * Arjun * How handsome - she thought, feeling her heart miss a few shots - * the wind coming through the window messes his hair and gives him an air almost divine ... you ... I have no doubt.*
The two had quite relaxed expression, this strange thing, because often when talking with Chandan, Arjun was always in a melancholy gaze, as if he had just received bad news. She decided that now, at this moment, she would have confessed her feelings once and for all. She was about to call him when a sentence pronounced by Chandan, she listened unwillingly, stopped her.
Chandan: "Then Arjun ... yesterday I saw a girl who often comes here to see you, I think she's called Kajal. I must admit that she is a beautiful girl! She told me you were dating each other. Why charming man like you gave up to a gorgeous girl like her? It was not your type perhaps? "
Arohi could not move a muscle. What would have said Arjun?! The seconds passed and Chandan expect an answer. Then, after a time that seemed endless to Arohi, Arjun said:
Arjun: "You know Chandan ... actually I have to admit you're right!She is beautiful"
Suddenly Arohi's knees did not seem to want to support her, her heart no longer wish to beat ...
Arjun: "Kajal is really a wonderful girl. She's nice, kind, witty and although it is very bad tempered and sometimes too "sticky", I must admit that she is a golden girl. Sometimes I happen to think that maybe I should stay with her ... "
It was too much. With great difficulty, Arohi turned around and began to leave, before walking slowly and quietly, but soon she found running at breakneck speed, as if fleeing from death itself.
Arjun "... this, however, I felt him before I met Arohi."
Chandan: "Arohi?! What do you mean? "
Arjun: "I mean that I am in love with Arohi from the first moment I saw her sitting in that restaurant."
Chandan: "..."
Arjun: "I do not know how she does it, but when I'm near her I feel less and less burdened by the world alone. She has the power to make me happy just by her presence. "
Chandan: "You know, I'm very happy for you, but I think you should say these words to her then, not to me"
Arjun: "Yes, I will speak to her. After fixing some annoying issues in my life, I will explain to her my feelings and my intentions. After all she has to clarify her feeling: Dd not forget that among me there is still Adi and I think that for Arohi he is not entirely indifferent. I must say that it is the first time that I really want to be with someone, but I decided that if she chooses Adi, I do not ever speak of what I feel now and I'll act just like a normal friend."
Chandan: "You think you can? It is not easy to repress feelings for a person plus you face her every morning. "
Arjun: "I know, but I'm a champion in hiding my feelings do not you remember it?"
Chandan: "Yeah ... it's true."
Arjun: "... well that day that Arohi was in the hospital ... I went to visit her. It was there that she slept ... beautiful ... and I had a craving to kiss her ... "
Chandan: "... why did not you do it?"
Arjun: "... I was afraid. It may seem ridiculous I know, but I was afraid that if I did then it would have been harder for me to pretend I do not prove anything for her. I do not want she notices it, or at least it is not right now: if she really feels something for me, she will tell me, she will choose between me and Adi. I will not submit to any kind of pressure. "
Chandan: "... I would have kissed her too ... even at the risk of catching a slap in the face!"
Arjun: "I would bet! Ah Ah Ah Ah !!!!"
[...]
The thunder of f Arohi's footsteps had disappeared, she was found in the schoolyard without even realizing it. She stopped, and only then she realized that salty tears had crossed her face.
Arohi: * Kajal ... ... how could I even think of comparing me to a girl like her! As I have thought that Arjun could somehow reciprocate my feelings, after all, we know very little ... I would have to notice posted on the behavior that Arjun has always been to me. He regards me as just another member of the family.*
This awareness of Arohi fell on her like a bucket of ice water, the pain that exploded in her chest made her desire that she had never met Arjun, she never looked into those deep eyes in which she had so often lost, not having never smelled his perfume that was so rooted in her that she fear that she would never be abandoned. The pain was never tried, that was scary. She wished not to be there at that time. She wished had never been born.
[...]
In the weeks that followed a change was perceived by Arjun towards him from Arohi: it was colder and less spontaneous.
Arjun: * I do not understand what is afflicting her... I am sorry to see her so down. Right now I have too many thoughts in the head to dedicate myself to her, but I'll talk soon.*
But that waiting cost him his happiness.
[...]
Arohi: "I need to talk." The girl was approached with these words to Adi catching him by surprise. She had thought in those days: she had suffered much for the words of Arjun and still suffered from knowing they can never have the thing she wanted most in the world, but she did not want to take advantage of the love of Adi to her and use him as a lifeline.
Arohi: "In recent months, I realized that both count a lot to me, but right now I'm not going to start a story, I do not feel emotionally able to take this road and ..."
Adi: "You love him AROHI?"
Arohi looked in Adi's brown eyes, those eyes so familiar, sweet, but now it just seemed very firm and determined.
Arohi: "I'm not sure. And in any case he was ... I considered him only as a member of the family that would not make any difference. "
Adi: "And for me ... do you feel?"
Arohi: "..."
Adi: "Honestly."
Arohi: "... I love you very much, you're my best friend and you occupy an important place in my heart, but I do not know if it can be called love ..."
Adi: "Once you've been in love with me, what makes you think that it can not be more so?"
Arohi: "..."
Adi: "Hey Arohi, I think it might work. I love you always and I'm sure that if you give me the opportunity, I could awaken the love you felt for me. I only ask you to let me try to give me a chance. "
Arohi began to cry. What should she do? She knew it would not be fair to stay with Adi aware of being in love with another, but his words did not seem completely absurd. Despite all she had loved him very much, even now she felt strong feelings ... and then wanted to forget the pain. Seeing her confused and uncertain, Adi instinctively approached her in an embrace sweet.
Adi: "Let me come into your heart and make you a happy girl."
So saying, he put his hand under the chin of the girl and gradually lifting them gently kissed her face.
Arohi: * After all I once loved him ... and then ... I want to forget the pain ...
[...]
Arjun felt like it was crushed by the weight of the world. They were all together at the table when the phone rang. Arohi's mom went to respond.
Mom: "It is a moment ... Arohi! There is Adi on the phone! "
Arohi got up from the table with her eyes fixed on the ground. When she sat down her face was colored with a slight blush.
Mom: "So treasure. Why Adi was calling you at dinner? "- Said the mother maliciously having understood what was happening.
Arohi: nothiing. School things. "- She said, but that excuse did not convince anyone, including Arjun. After insistent questions and insinuations on the part of all, the truth came out
Mom: "Really, you and Adi are dating each other! But it's wonderful! "- She said with a big smile on her face -" I have always been favorable to your relationship with him, I'm really happy! "It was not the only one. All congratulated her, her father even though everyone knew that its approval was not total.
Mom: "Arjun, what do you think? Have you had an occasion to be familiar with Adi. What do you think? "
For the first time since the beginning of the conversation, Arohi looked up: Arjun had his eyes fixed on the table, indifferent as his interest in her. He looked up and the only thing he said was:
Arjun: "Congratulations Arohi."
Then he got up from the table and went to his room. Arohi was like receiving a stab to the stomach, she felt th chill of indifference like the blade of a knife, penetrate the flesh. It was over.
Arjun entered in the room. Once the door closed, he leaned back and slid along the wood up to find himself sitting on the ground. He said to Chandan that if Arohi had chosen Adi, he would have stepped aside and become only a friend to her, but he was not prepared for the flood of grief that seized him, he could not understand why he felt so destroyed: may his love for Arohi had grown up to this point, so as to pervade the depths? He could not believe that he could feel so much love for a person and with knowledge of the love he had lost forever, he did something that for so many years he had managed to control and suppress: he cried.
From that day forward, everything changed in their lives. The relationship between Arohi and Arjun became almost nonexistent. When they were at home she spent most of the time in her room, to avoid those eyes full of frost, but still shook the depths, when they were in school he tried to stay as far away as possible from the couple. They spent two years as well. Arohi was able to fool everyone, even Nisha, even herself about her feelings for Adi. All of classmates and parents thought that that was certainly a happy couple.
With the approach of graduation the air began to be aimed not only at school but at home too. One evening in particular was as if a bomb had fallen in the dining room.
Arjun: "I need to talk." - The boy's words caught the attention of all within five seconds.
Arjun's Mom: "What are you so serious?" - Asked the astonished mother
Arjun took courage and spoke
Arjun: "As regards the choice of the university, I would love to attend the faculty of business management. Taking information from studies of business and several other faculties, I was told that the best of all, if I want to attend it seriously, it is in America, more precisely in New York ... and that's where I want to go. "
BOOOMMM. As if it was immediately following the detonation, the voice of all exploded simultaneously. Arjun's mom voice was certainly the most upset.
Ajun's mom: "What! You want to go to America?! But it is so far from here, you can not think about it? "
There was nothing that could even make Arjun change: his decision that he had definitely taken a long time, after having gone through every possible solution. Everyone thought so, and soon gave up seeing the boy's face printed on the decision. It was true that the decision had been weighted down; it was true that New York was one of the best faculties of business management of the world, but the reason why Arjun was chosen the "exile" was another. He had spent two years in the worst round of hell every day see the woman he love more than life, but with whom you can not even talk it was too much, and his efforts to maintain a cool and detached attitude toward her , had already reached the limit. He knew that sooner or later his body would have done something that should not have: a caress, a hug, a kiss ... He could not allow this to happen, because it seemed that things between Arohi and Adi went very well and he had no right to interfere. That was why he had to leave, to go as far as possible from her, from that pain ... to forget.
The only voice that wasn't heard in the uproar was that of Arohi: the shock had completely paralyzed. Within a few seconds she imagined herself getting up in the morning, get breakfast and find all ... except Arjun. It was as if someone had torn a part of the heart, had thrown to the ground and now jumping over it. She would not see again. For how long? Although virtually not speaking, only the presence of Arjun in the same house was enough to balance her world, and now everything would be in an eternal chaos. She did not dare to utter a single word, much less to look up: if she did she would probably at the sight of Arjun started to cry.
Soon the news spread among their friends, who were all quite surprised, but Adi not. He was concerned for Arohi ... ... for both of them. In these two years he was with her knowing that the ghost of Arjun was always present among them; Arohi could not deny that she felt a deep affection for him.
Adi: "Arohi how you feel?" - Said to her when he had the chance to speak freely on the sidelines.
Arohi: "What do you mean?" - She said, pretending nothing, but knowing what he meant.
Adi: "Now that Arjun will be gone from your life how you think you'll be? You'll miss him? We were together for two years, but I feel for you he is still very important. Perhaps this departure immediately hinted that he is more important than it is me and ... "- he could not finish the sentence, because she stopped him with a kiss. It was the first time it happened thatt they kissed at school. Virtually no one took any notice ... except one person. Arohi can't even explaining what had taken to react that way ... or maybe she knew, but she did not want to admit the fact of having to think about whether Arjun would have missed it or not, had sprung a chasm of melancholy in her and he had tried to reflect to exorcise that fear kissing her boyfriend. The worst thing was that Adi saw it as a positive thing: seeing that so instinctively Arohi kissed him in front of everyone, after all, convinced him that his girlfriend loved him most. With all the courage with which she was, she broke the hug from Adi and said:
Arohi: "Yes, I will miss him because he is my friend. My life is with you now. "- She lied and she was ashamed for this, but in those years she rediscovered her love for Adi and hoped that this time, after the departure of Arjun, everything would be fine. What was wrong?
[...]
So it was. After the departure of Arjun, Arohi began her career as an interior designer, Adi to a lawyer. They both graduated at twenty-two years and one year after Adi asked her to marry him. She accepts without even thinking about it: she was succeeded in her intentions ... she was able to forget. Now she was twenty five years. There were eight years since she saw Arjun, and neither hears his voice. Everything had felt for him was like disappeared, or so she believed, because due to a damn picture, her whole world was turned upside down again and all that she had feels for Arjun, emerged stronger and more painful than ever