NEVER LET YOU GO.:
PART-9
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15th Oct 1996
A week rolled by since that night and i managed not to speak to niha about my confrontation with kabir.. On the other hand... Whole college began to witness the emotional bonding that i and niha were sharing... It was still like a dream to me that i grew more and more comfortable with a girl i never known before and that too in no time. Though the moments we shared were short yet they were so worthy and lovable and they meant a lot to me. What ever...i Just concluded only one thing that i was irrevocably, truly, madly and deeply in love with her...
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Randhir's mobile beeped dragging his attention, he quickly fished it out from his pocket and the screen flashed 2 missed calls and 1 new message from jiggy... He checked his watch and it showed 3 am... He opened the message and it read
"bhai... Koustu is wrryng abt sanyu... Is she wid u... nd whr r u"
"she's wid me nd we r in library, we'll b bck soon whn done studying" he quickly typed the reply and texted back.
Sanyukta was watching all that was happening "such a liar you are" she faked disgust.
"aur kya? Do you want me to say him that we are locked in vardhaan sir's room and wrapped in single blanket reading his diary, and will come back when ever we get the key??" he rolled his eyes.
"shut up" she hit him playfully on his shoulder.
"ouch!" he faked pain "whatever, it's just a fib" he said and she chuckled for the first time. might be not for the first time but he noticed it for the first time. He shifted his gaze as if he really don't care, yet he smiled... she to backed to normal taking those diaries lying on the floor to her hands
"what should have happened randhir most of the pages were empty in between??" she expressed doubt flipping the pages hastily.
"who knows let's find out!" he said gesturing her to turn the pages..
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20th Oct 1997
a year passed by and i expected kabir to forget everything that had happened between us and thought every thing will be back to normal again... But it was not.. and i felt like giving him much importance was waste of time.. Some times things go without our Involvement and we were just left to watch them happen the way they were destined and i did the same.
It was the second year of our engineering and due to hectic schedule of our dream team tasks and academics we almost skipped going to terrace in the morning and we spent most of our time in the lab itself... Niha, whilst working would care about nothing... I wonder why she was such doted about the machines.. She was doted to machines and i was doted to her
It was prof.raghu ram's highly boring fluid mechanics class that day. I skipped the class and left for the lab. To my surprise niha was there working on a machine. Gosh! It's an unconditional reflex, my lips broke to smile... As soon as i saw her. I often wonder, is it her who made my lips learn how to smile? Might be...!
I entered in the lab exuberant and stood facing her, she didn't notice me, i coughed a bit. With that she glanced at me once and backed to her work.. Her sleight of hands on fixing machines was really appreciable and i stood there staring at her..lost. Might be i could spend years like that...
"Niha...let's go to canteen" i interrupted her work..
"vardhaan, not now! let me work and you too help me" she quipped handing gear box to me not even looking at me! I know she wouldn't pay any heed to others while working but still i love to disturb her and enjoy staring at her cute face when she fakes disgust and Often makes puppy face... She looks more and more cute in that case! What ever i assigned a work and I too began to work.. an hour passed so when She was done with her machine and looked up at me, i stood there fixing that silly gear box for the past one hour...
An hour passed when she completed her work and came to me "vardhaan.. Still you are working on it???" she almost guffawed but controlled her self as i glared at her...
"oops! Okay...! Ummm! Come lets go to canteen" she said grabbing my arm...
"don't talk to me! I am angry with you..." i faked anger
"awww.! My engineer... You are angry on me!??" she said pinching my cheeks... I almost blushed but tried hard not to get her know that i was just faking anger. When she was around It was really hard to act like i was angry on her, every now and then i managed hard not to smile and not to look at her,..
"my cutiee engineer.. am choo choorrieee..." she held her ears with her fingers and made her most appealing posture... She tilted her head side ways and blinked her eyes, smiling... "aww!" my heart melted... But i still tried to be stubborn and continued to fake anger.
"still angry on me?" she crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes. I didn't look at her and continued to fiddle that gear box "Ok then!" she said staring at me and with in seconds she fell silent. I was still standing there with my head hung low and was wondering what could have happened... Couple of seconds passed and i began to steal glances at her. I found her staring at me smiling without any hiatus...
"what??" i raised my head, trying hard not to smile
"what??" she frowned
"why are you staring at me?" i posed
"why are you staring at me?" she repeated
"niha..!" i placed screw driver on table...
"niha...!" she did the same, repeating my words
"arre..!" i rolled my eyes.
"arre..!"she rolled her eyes... I was near to broke in to smiles at her actions...
"why are you imitating me?" i said pointing my finger at her...
"why are you imitating me?" she repeated...
"uff!"i let a deep sigh out placing my arms on my hip and she did the same... This went on for a whole good 10 minutes and i finally gave up.. I knew how stubborn she was in each peculiar thing and how she never want to lose..
"ok..ok..baba... I can't win over you.." i smiled finally making puppy face, because suppressing my smiles for long time became really a difficult thing that too when she was around.
"ha ha ha!" she burst out laughing..."niharika here..! Don't ever try at least..." she said stepping towards me.. I stood there smiling like an idiot but last act of her made me froze at that moment... She neared me and hugged me. She planted a deep kiss on my cheeks...
"aww! My cutiee engineer... Love youu..." she almost sang with typical girlish tunes and i heard 1000s of bells ringing in my heart... I was just frozen.. I didn't even hug her back... I don't know whether it was a feeling of shock or confusion or astonishment.. I stood there dumb.. Seconds later.. She released me and stepped back.. She just couldn't help laughing at confused expression on my face..
"ha ha! Cho chweet..." she said pinching my cheeks smiling.. I wondered what made her feel "cho chweet" about me.. Hope i didn't smell like a Candy or something of that type..
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" tch tch tch.!.Poor vardhaan sir..Perfect teacher... Poor in romance! Seems like he needs some special training for these sort of things" randhir guffawed closing the diary.. He couldn't control his laughter after reading the last lines in the diary, sanyukta, though felt a bit disgusting, was surprised cause she didn't remember when was the last time she had seen him laughing his heart out probably might never ever before..
"what's so funny?? You don't know how it feels like. Uh! of course how would you know.. You don't even have heart to feel! And it's you who need training for these sort of things... To be a perfect boy friend!" she gibbered pointing her finger at him and soon she witnessed a huge swing of emotions and feelings in Randhir's face, of most it was clear that he was hurt deeply by being called "heartless" by her. His perfect orbs turned so red revealing his anger combined with feeling of hurt! Sanyukta was hell scared, she was worried too..
"oops.! I think i hurt him. Should i have to ask him apology" she asked herself and so raised her voice "i don't mean to.." she tried to speak but he cut her off...
"shut up farzi!" he was crying almost. His voice trembled.
"Randhir look!" she pointed her finger at him but he gripped her wrist tightly pointing his finger at her...
"you listen to me! You may never know how my heart throbbed out my chest when you neared me! Only i know how many times my heart skipped it's beats while thinking of you.. And you call me heartless??" randhir blurted out of his rage and hurt. His eyes met her's and Her eyes widened...
"what do you mean... Say it straight randhir!" she said releasing her hand from his grip.
"god... did i just said that???" Randhir asked himself and he averted his gaze.
"what? Answer me! face me!" she tried to make him look at her but in vain.. She was hell surprised by his words.. Bewildered too.. She wondered whether a person could get loved and hated at the same time. Till then she felt like only she "likes" him But then! Her heart tried to make sense but that could only be possible with randhir
"randhir" she called out.. but he didn't pay any heed... he was silent and she was more worried then... cause she witnessed a lone tear rolling down his cheek... she inched him closer and placed her palm on his shoulder... he gently shoved off her hand and continued to read further
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