Complex & Smooth
She got home showered and knocked on Naina’s door
Naina opened it startled, “Don’t do this to me Naina” she hugged her tight and let her tears flow
“Kya matlab?” Naina pretended not to know “WHY are you crying Veev?” “Did he do the same to you? “I TOLD YOU” she seemed to soften up immediately to Viveka’s shock
“Naina… please yaar baith…” Viveka sat down and sighed
“I am telling you they are narcissistic nobodies”
“Naina I haven’t broken up” Viveka rushed to defend the Parashars
“Then what do you want from me dude?” she pulled away immediately stumbling
“Naina… I have never hurt you. I love you to the moon and back. MUJHSE itna gussa kyon hai tu babe?” Viveka begged
“You got engaged to spite ME” Naina was losing her mind
“MUJHE kaise pata Inder aur tera break up ho chuka hai, the day I said yes to him you came in crying you broke up, you never even texted me”
“Veev… dude… you think Raanav did not know?”
“You think he planned this?” Viveka was shocked
“You are either naïve or you are just pretending Veev” Naina began to cry
“You said it didn’t matter if he didn’t love you, the s—was explosive” Viveka was genuinely shocked
“Oh pleeez I later told you I can so imagine a life with him”
“You’ve said that about THREE other guys Nainaaa”
“Mujhe taane maar rahi ho?”
“Nahi…”
“Even You said Abhishek is at the same wavelength with you and you could see him as THE dude” Naina was sharp
“I knowww I said that” Viveka hung her head in shame…
“And Oh! What about that Research advisor when you did that summer thesis after undergrad (Viveka’s first relationship), what was his name”
Viveka cringed
“You should know me better than Ma and papa Veev… hum sab kuch share karte hain”
“I am sorry… I just want to… I just want us to go back to where we were babe”
“How can I? I am still hurting sooo much”
“Only my breaking up with Raanav will give me back the love and closeness we have?” Viveka was astonished
Naina struggled to agree with that line, now that Viveka had so clearly spelled it out
They were siblings afterall
Naina realized for a brief second how unreasonable and cruel she was being, but that moment was… brief… and lasted a second
“Everytime I will see you with Raanav I will be reminded of what I could have had with Inder”
“I want us to go back to being normal Naina” “I am unable to stare at your locked door” “Mujhse ek baat nahi karti tum”
“I miss you too” Naina’s shoulders slumped in defeat
The girls cried for a bit, getting it all out of their system
“Do you love him?” Naina asked cautiously
Viveka blushed magnificently, “I think he is great… he is unlike any man I have met before” she said haltingly
“So you do love him”
“Naina I think about him a lot… when I am not with him, before I said yes, I would wonder what his typical day was like. Who he spoke with. How he picked his clothes, how long he showered” Viveka laughed nervously
Naina felt searing jealousy at that comment. To have such intimate thoughts about a gorgeous man, like she had about Inder
“You are only infatuated right?” Naina tried to rationalize
“Umm.. I don’t know.. We have such, we have had such intense discussions, the way he provoked me caused me to tingle” Viveka smiled “I understood what you meant by the electric attraction, I found myself checking him out, waiting for his arrival or missing him… one or the other. I knew when he was looking at me in a crowded room”
Naina got off the bed abruptly and paced the room
This was not going the good way
Viveka was head over heels in love it appeared
“So umm.. yeah… OK” Naina mumbled
“And then he proposed Naina he said he was “hopelessly in love. He said so many things” she blushed trying to hold back some R rated stuff “He is not flaky and superficial as I had thought, he is deep and complex.. and its going to take me many interesting years to figure him out” Viveka was breathless and dreamy now
“They are such smooth operators!!” Naina declared all knowingly
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