Love Again & Again Pt 2

Talking about falling in love again or atleast thats what Amisha thought, here is the next love/lust/crush encounter. 

It was when she was in class 9th and joined a new tution class. There was this guy, lean,tall and had a pretty face. She was soon introduced to him as Aniket, same school, same grade, different class. 

They soon became acquaintance and then friends.

That was the time when the social media was new. There was a new social media platform introduced which can connect people through out the world, people can add friends, chat, send pictures, add a post.

Being new it was exciting. Amisha also hopped in to the trend. She met people accross cities, states or even countries. A few days later, the app suggested a friend i.e. Aniket's account. Without even thinking for a second, she sent a friend request.

Minutes later, notification popped up. "Aniket accepted your friend request. You are now friends. Say a Hi."

Her heart smiled.

They started chatting about gossips, hot updates, classes, test. They became close friends soon.

Amisha didn't realise she started liking him until she felt he is dating someone or atleast likes someone else. Out of nowhere the jealousy started peeking in and that made her realise she might have more feelings for him than just a friend.

During school assembly, he used to stand a few queue ahead of Amisha as he was in 9A and Amisha was in 9C. She noticed him staring at someone in 9B. But it was unclear as in who was the one. Amisha was curious. 

One morning, while chatting with him. He asked her "Do you have a boyfriend Ami?"

"No." Amisha got the perfect chance to get it out from him. "Do you have a girlfriend?"

"No. "

"Crush??"

"Actually yeah okay. But first promise me, you won't say it to anyone."

"Promise. You know I don't act like a radio like Ruchika."

Ruchika is Amisha's bestfriend who is the radio of their class. Any news, any gossip, who fought, who proposed, who is dating who, no secrets stays with her. If you tell her anything, its known to the whole world.

"Okay. So you know Diksha? She is my ex."

"Whattt??"

"Yeah, she dumped me for some senior guy but I still like her. I want her yaar but she doesn't understand."

Amisha couldn't understand if she would be happy that Aniket confided in her or sad to hear he likes someone else. She was little happy when she heard Diksha is not interested.

The same evening, they met at the tuition classes. 

Amisha & Ruchika were parking their bicycles when Aniket rushed to them and pulled Amisha away.

"Listen. Please don't tell anyone anything about..you know."

"I won't." Amisha was already in another world when Aniket held her hands and pulled her aside. 

Ruchika heard them. Aniket went inside while Amisha was locking her bicycle.

"What did he say?" Ruchika inquired.

"Nothing Ruchi. "

"I heard he said not to say about something. Did he share anything with you?"

"No."

"Don't lie Ami."

"See I made a promise. So I can't. I am sorry. We are late. Lets go in."

Ruchika's face was now red with anger. She sat away from Amisha to convey the same. As usual Ruchika didn't want to miss out on anything.

Aniket looked at Amisha and raised his eyebrow indicating why the inseparable bestfriends are separated today.

Amisha signalled to tell him later.

Days after, Ruchika was back to her chirpy self. How can the duo stay away. Impossible. 

One day while returning back from the tution, due to a fight over another friend, Amisha and Ruchika were not in talking terms with Aniket. Aniket pleaded but the girls were adamant.

Aniket rode his cycle faster and met with an accident causing minor injuries. By the time Ruchika & Amisha heard about this, his friends had already taken him home. Ruchika knew Amisha had his number.

Mobile phone were not common then. Aniket had put his mother's number on social media account, which Amisha had. 

Amisha called him up and apologised back and asked about his health.

Later at night, Amisha got a notification.

Message from Ruchika.

"Hey Ami. Can you share with me his number? I wanted to apologise too."

Amisha didn't want to share his number. But how could she deny. She also knew Ruchika just wanted his number, not to apologise but to chat with him, get closer to him. Amisha always sensed Ruchika being jealous of their growing friendship. How Aniket shared everything with Amisha.

Amisha shared his number but also warned it to be his mother's and not his.

Ruchika pinged Aniket and that led to their regular chatting. Amisha could notice them smiling looking at their phone in tuition, chatting during classes. Ruchika never shared that they chat regularly. But Amisha noticed the timing of Ruchika sending a message and immediately Aniket checking his phone and vice versa.

Amisha wanted to cry bad. She didn't like this.

Aniket was flirty by nature. He used to say those lines a teenage girl could fall for. 

"What would I do if you don't attend the school today? Won't I be bored?"

"You looked beautiful." 

Blah blah blah...

Amisha could never confess her feelings. She did what every teen and stupid girl does. She started teasing her so called bestfriend using the name of her so called crush. And guess what? This teasing acted as fuel to fire making Ruchika fall for Aniket.

Heard about digging hole for self? Thats what Amisha did. 

Ruchika confessed to Aniket. Amisha was heartbroken. As every teen, she cried and tried to remove anything related to Aniket she had, like the pen he had given her, the exam sheet he distributed, wrapper of the chocolates, she threw them away.

Aniket said a No to Ruchika. Ameha was happy. Yeah selfish brat. Ruchika cried and Aniket being Aniket didn't like that, so then he said a Yes just to not make her feel bad. There were no emotions involved from his end, so as every other guy does, he broke up few months later saying "Parents got to know about us and they want me to end this."

Ruchika was devastated. She was about to pharm herself when Amisha reached and slapped her hard

"Have you lost it? For a guy? Like him?? You deserve better."

Now you must be thinking, Is this Amisha being dramatic like TV shows? Acting like a vamp, showing fake empathy? But happy they broke up?

Sorry to disappoint but nope. Her care was genuine. Why she changed? Lets go behind a little.

***FLASHBACK***

Amisha had accepted the fate that Aniket can't be hers. She was trying really hard to be okay with this. 

She found Ruchika in tears climbing down the stairs. They reached the tution early.

"What happened now?" This was now a ritual.

"He said No again." Aniket's No & Yes to the proposal kept going on.

Amisha was genuinely annoyed this time. She went upstairs to find Aniket sitting.

"What are you doing? Why don't you clarify once and for all? Is this a game?"

"You know well Amisha. I don't like her. Whenever I say No, she starts crying and then I have to say Yes."

"Let her cry but instead of making her cry everytime, sort it out at once."

"I will. " Aniket hugged Amisha. Amisha had butterflies. This was her first hug with a guy, and not any guy, a guy she likes. 

When they pulled back, Aniket tried closing the gap to kiss her but Amisha stepped back.

"What are you doing? You are still my bestfriend's boyfriend." Amisha didn't like it. 

But as usual he was back with Ruchika again playing around. On Ruchika's birthday, Amisha was at Ruchika's home. She never mentioned the incident with Aniket to save her friend's heart. They were back in relationship. It was her birthday but Aniket didn't even care to wish. Ruchika being Ruchika called him instead to which he replied he was busy and not to act stupid and not call him always. She was heartbroken.

Amisha was annoyed this time. This time she called him and he picked up talking casually. Amisha scolded him for being mean. He immediately called Ruchika back to apologise and wish her. 

But incidents like these kept piling up and Aniket broke up saying parent do not want this. 

Days later Amisha found out that Aniket loves playing around with people's emotions. He goes to club with random girls and make out with them and dating was not on his list.

Amisha was thankful that God saved her and her friend from a womanizer.