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Chapter Nine - Two Promises
I sat waiting in my room for her return. The clock struck twelve at night and I grew more worried. I decided it had been long enough. I got up and ran out of my room and down the stairs. When I looked at the doorway, I noticed her standing there in a slump position. She was knocking on the wood lightly and giggling to herself.
"Knockkk…knock!"
She giggled again as she spoke with slurred words. I began to walk towards her when suddenly her eyes shot in my direction. They were red from tears but the expression on her face was completely opposite from what her eyes read. She smiled at me goofily and then attempted to step forwards. With only one step, she stumbled into my arms.
"Madhu?!"
"Mmm…I likeee…this!"
She wrapped her arms around my neck as I stared at her shocked.
"She's drunk again?!"
I turned my head to see Trishna standing behind us in her pajama shorts and tanktop.
"Watch yourself…last time she was drunk, she thought I was him."
She shuddered and walked up the stairs to go to her room. I looked back at Madhu who was smiling with closed eyes. I bent and picked her up to take her to her room with a bit of trouble considering one of my hands was casted. The entire way up the stairs, she nuzzled my neck whilst letting go of a few giggles here and there. When I reached her room, I kicked her door open with my foot. I walked in and was headed to her bed when she started whining.
"PUT MEE DOWNNN! NOW! NOWWW! PLEASEE?"
I looked her in the eyes and she put on this puppy-eye face. Being the softhearted person I was, I fell for it and put her down. For a moment she had to hold onto my arms for support, but then she managed to stable herself…or so I thought. She pushed me into the draped wall behind me as she stabled herself against my body. I cupped her face with my only working hand and made her look me in the eyes.
"Madhu, what's wrong?"
She seemed as though she were about to speak but then she hiccupped and followed with a giggle. She leaned her face closer towards mine and I smelt the alcohol from her breath. I didn't understand what had caused her to drink, but I figured it was probably because she had opened up to me. I tried to push her away gently but she fought it. I didn't want to hurt her, so I let her pin my arms against the wall with her hands. She began to close in on me while giggling. I tried to speak her out of it.
"Madhu, stop. You don't want this. St…"
Before I could finish speaking, she had smacked her lips onto mine. I could taste the alcohol on her mouth as she kissed me with her moist, tender lips. Once the shock of the kiss slowly wore off, I gave in. I ran my only working hand across her waist and pulled her close as she ran her hands up my bare chest and then through my hair. It was too late to back out now, I had given in and there was no going back. Thinking of it that way, I decided to give it all I had. I kissed her softly at first, but when she moaned beneath the kiss, I couldn't help but kiss her greedily. The kiss grew a bit intense when suddenly I heard someone at the door.
"Ahem."
I didn't break the kiss but I opened one of my eyes to look behind Madhu's face. I saw Trishna standing there with her arms crossed. I instantly pulled away from Madhu and looked at Trishna with wide eyes.
"I told you to watch yourself."
Madhu giggled and turned to look at Trishna. She gasped and put out her arms as she ran towards Trishna.
"RK!"
She was just about to reach Trishna when suddenly Trishna closed the door. Madhu turned to look at me with a sad look but the instant her eyes met mine, a smile lit her face. As I looked at her face, I couldn't believe I had just kissed her. How could I do that to her? I knew that she was waiting for him; I knew she didn't want this…yet I gave in. Why? I felt terrible and angry with myself for kissing her that way.
She ran towards me and grabbed my hand. She pulled me towards her bed and got comfortable on one side herself as I stood staring.
"Sleeep with meee pleeease?"
I couldn't say no to her, but I didn't want to sleep with her either. I decided that I'd just lie beside her until she fell asleep and then I'd go to my own room. I got into bed beside her and pulled the covers up to our shoulders. She wrapped her arm around my bare chest and I felt butterflies forming in my stomach. She was beginning to have an effect on me and I didn't know if that was a good thing or not. As she wrapped her arm around my chest tightly, she snuggled her face into my shoulder and closed her eyes. Then she spoke the words, which confirmed what I had been denying all along.
"I lovee youuu RK…myy Rishabh…myy little Kundraa."
My heart, which had been beating faster than usual, came to a stop. My body froze beneath her tight embrace as my eyes landed on her. Things began to click in my mind…obvious things, such as her name, Madhubala Malik, her childhood friend, how she would never say my name…Midhi…
My eyes widened as I realized I was in bed with my Midhi. I felt good yet bad at the same time. I wanted to wake her and tell her, but I couldn't. She was a star…how could she have made it so big while I was still so small? I was the one who had promised to cast her in my film. I was the one who told her the next time we'd meet would be when I was famous…I felt like a failure. I stared down at her, as I was still slightly stunned at my recent discovery. When she was fast asleep, I slowly moved out from beneath her embrace and gently placed her head down on her pillow. I put her blanket up to her shoulders and then my eyes fell onto a mini dresser beside her bed. I wasn't the type to snoop usually, but I had to do it. I opened the top drawer but found only magazines with her covering each one. I slowly opened the bottom drawer and that's where I found her past in pictures. I was afraid to open the album after I pulled it out…but I swallowed and told myself I had no other choice. I slowly opened the first page and instant tears formed in my eyes. There in front of my eyes was a picture of Midhi and I at the playground when we were just eight. I saw a tear of mine fall onto the picture and I quickly wiped it clean. I turned the page and saw the parents that had dragged her away from me that day. A sudden flashback of Madhu speaking crossed my mind at that point; my father had an affair with my best friend's mother. I felt my blood beginning to boil as I stared down at the man who had ruined my life. Rage took place of the love that had been present in my eyes seconds before. That's when I made two promises to myself: One, I would only tell Madhu who I really was after I casted her to play opposite me in MY own film after I made it big, and two, I would get my revenge from her father; I swore to destroy him no matter what it took.
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