Finally managed to land on a thread of yours! 😃
I shall forever be in awe of the commitment and promptness of the writers here, esp. Surbhi and you! So many gifts you shower upon the readers!
Honestly I wasn't that affected by the spoiler because it sounded very exaggerated. I don't think it would affect me even if that one turns out to be false. Nevertheless, I'm glad that it came out, for it made you wield the pen and create something as good as this. How lightening fast are you!? 🤢 *Touchwood* Hope such ideas keep striking you all the time!
The best part of this write up to me was Naina not shedding tears over Sameer's thoughts. Rather, she decided to go the smart way by joining her friends and conspiring ; that too by teasing him, invoking his possessive side and driving him to a point of extreme restlessness.
It is natural for a seventeen year old to be affected by such taunts, because although by coincidence, his life does seem to be following an unpleasant pattern with regard to the people he loves. He had turned so self critical and had been trying to judge his own life based on the unfortunate incidents in it alone. No amount of preaching or advice would have worked there. The whole scenario had to be recreated before him in such a way that he is able to analyse it all like a third person. Not until Naina called herself bad luck, did he realise the absurdity of the thought he'd grown to believe in!
I loved how you used the kiss here so situationally. Though it appears all through the story, it isn't the whole point! The kiss wasn't used to portray something just physically intimate here, but rather as a means to just tease his instincts. To make the guy who had been running away from her, stop, take a U turn and follow her, so that when he finally appears before her, she could knock some sense into him.
And you managed to do that in a very adorable way, just like adolescents would do!
Thank you so much for this piece that I thoroughly enjoyed reading! I shall read all your works soon! 😊
Love
Anju