Chapter 37

                                        

                                              

" Please say something." 
                              
He asked her after a lot of silence between them.
                              
" I will go now." She said standing up.
                              
" What? But you said you would listen to me." He said exasperated.
                              
" I listened. Didn't I?" She asked and turned to leave.
                              
" I am not over yet. I will not let you go until I say what I wanted to say." He said sternly holding her hand.
                              
" What are you doing? Leave me." She said trying to move away.
                              
" No." He said moving close to her.
                              
" Leave me. It's not right when you are engaged to someone else." She said when he pulled her closer.
                              
" Who said to you that I am engaged?" He asked angrily and she looked at him furiously.
                              
" Did I say it?" He asked.
                              
" Tell me Aadhya.....Did I say to you that I am engaged?" He shouted angrily and she shook her head in no in fear.
                              
" Then? Won't I share with you if such thing really happened in my life? Wouldn't you know if anything like that is going on in my life? Tell me Aadhya.....Why you assumed such things about me and made everything difficult between us?" He asked angrily with red face and Aadhya trembled in his grip.
                              
" Why don't you trust me Aadhya?" He asked sadly and left her.
                              
He cried standing there helplessly while Aadhya was shaken from inside.
                              
" I trust you." She whispered.
                              
" No you don't. If you have trusted me then you would have asked me before assuming anything." He said chuckling bitterly.
                              
" I don't need to prove you anything." She said sharply.
                              
" I am not asking you to prove me. I am just asking to believe me when I say the truth." He said sighing.
                              
" About what truth you are talking about?" She asked seriously.
                              
" That I am not engaged!" He exclaimed loudly to which she flinched.
                              
She looked at him shocked.
                              
" What? I myself heard people talking about your engagement at the party that day. Neetha herself told me." She said.
                              
" She had a plan of getting engaged to me by announcing about the engagement in front of everyone without letting me know and when I came to know about it, I stopped them." He said and she frowned.
                              
" Why? Don't you love her?" She asked.
                              
" NO!" He shouted loudly and she looked at him wide eyed.
                              
" What even in the world gave you that idea?" He asked exasperated.
                              
" I thought you were close friends from childhood and also like each other as you have gone dates with her and you have also gifted her a dress. When she told me happily about your engagement, I thought you both love each other." She explained painfully.
                              
" That's all bull shit." He said angrily.
                              
" Why would a girl lie about such a huge thing in her life?" She asked.
                              
" Because she likes me and I don't like her back. She wants to make me agree to marry her and so she has done that stupid thing." He said.
                              
" You don't like her?" She questioned.
                              
" God! No!" He cried.
                              
They both stayed silent.
                              
" Did you leave because of that?" He asked her after a moment.