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Part 19
I needed to draw a line... yes ..I did ... the memory of drawing one last time seemed to have disappear...I didn't know how I had done it back then...
Maybe the dire need to fix him made me adamant about staying as friend and nothing more...maybe he had a girlfriend then..and that made me keep a distance?...but even when I didn't know about his girlfriend... I had decided to expect only friendship out of it...or did i ?
Would it all have ended this badly..if that love element wasn't there...
I searched an answer...and a firm voice said...no it would have still ended badly...because you were not expressing love and expecting it to be reciprocated..you were only expecting your friendship to remain the same...
But does anything ever remain the same..
Yes sometimes we do have the same friends all our life..and we meet each other regularly..but don't priorities change? Expectations shift ? Yes...maybe..
The problem was I had very few friends...apart from him.. I only had two other close friends..and things had been so constant with them that I never got to ponder on how friendship evolves over time..
This brings me back to expectations.. do my expectations as a friend remain same? Or do they change?
Because to know where the line is... my expectations had to be clearly defined...
Ughh.. I felt like i was doing an essay writing.. this was tough..
And I turned and looked at him.. he was humming songs...and he seemed lost...he did not seem to have grown old...he looked exactly like how he looked five years back...well except of a more obvious stubble.. well I liked that ...he looked a little more mature...and yes his actions had proved them...its his eyes and voice that had always intrigued me.. that always had a calling in them...and as he changed the song...i came back to my senses...
And one realisation hit me deeper than before...
That i still loved him...adored him...
My throat went dry...come back to expectations by brain sternly said.. but my heart continued to flutter... i felt like i was in my first year again..when we had gone for our first ride..
I had not insisted on the ride.. he had come to pick up some notes and it started raining..
He started saying how he hated rain...and i said i liked to drive when it rained...and he being the gentleman he is politely asked if i would like to go on one...and we went...
Those were the initial days when i was stil deciding whether i wanted to be his friend or did i wnat to encourage "those" feelings in me.. and I had continued to listen to him humming...his voice then also called out to me just like today...
The battle was back .. I sighed and looked outside...unable to find an answer... what did i want...
And my heart just very simply said "him"
No matter what...no matter how... i just needed him...
...
I noticed her looking at me...i could feel her eyes trying to observe how I had changed...had she always looked like that at me?
From the corner of my eye.. as much as i could see and feel...i sensed an emotion ..a very different emotion...
But I brushed the thought quickly away...
And even she started to look outside the window..
The truth was I didn't deserve her love in any way.. not as a friend .. and definitely not as a lover...
But one thing that continuously made me want to try was her...
She inspite of everything wanted me in her life... could I want anything more? Possibly not...
Yes i loved her .. and i could do anything for her... but i needed to draw a line
First was not raise any suspicion because even though I loved her... i loved her as a friend too and her presence gave me peace like none other
Second... i had to first live to her expectations.. do everything she had always expected but never demanded.. always wanted but never asked..
But what were those?
The deeply i analysed.. I realised I would know what she would expect because deep down.. that idiot me was still there who could have done so many things for her back then but did not and it was high time the idiot boy ... did everything he could...
...
" shall we head back?"
It had been more than an hour... i was still confused... and we had hardly talked..but it was good to not talk and just feel each other's presence..
" Sure..."
He said in a very calm voice...
"by the way ..did you get ajay's invite for the wedding in Goa?"
"Oh yeah... the next Saturday one?"
"Yeah..."
I wanted to ask whether he was going or not ...but my voice trailed off..
Ajay was our good old friend... we had not kept much in touch...but he was always a sweetheart...
" Have you been in touch with him" I asked...
" yeah.. like random texts.. I almost went to reunion because of him.. but then didn't feel like"
I stayed quiet..ajay had mentioned that to me and thats the reason i didn't go to it.. but I didn't want to mention that
"It is a three day wedding...with all the functions.. I wanted to just go for the wedding day..."
" Umm even me.. three day is long and I am not a fan of weddings...though goa is nice"
He grinned and I started laughing...
...
The laugh.. I had heard that after soo long... so peaceful.. so pure.. just like her...
Ohh i was definitely in love with her... but i needed to stepp back and behave as a friend...
I had missed her laugh.. i had missed her smiles
It is true absence only makes u value.. we all take presence of anything granted
" we can go together you know?"
I chose my words carefully... i didn't want to sound persuasive.. demanding or even show that i wanted this
Because i knew she had a habit of fulfilling everything i wanted...
She kept quiet for almost a minute and I wondered
...
Dont say yes... immediately.. my brain warned
But its perfect my heart almost squealed..
The line ! the line!.. my brain hissed angrily
Its just a one day visit to goa.. I anyways had planned to go for the wedding...
And i shut both my heart and mind
And said "yes... sure.."
And a smile... the one that always melted me appeared on his face
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Edited by griffy.fz - 8 years ago