31 Thrishul opens up... (1/2)
”Prakruth I heard you stay in farm house, can I see it once?” asked Punya.
Prakruth was driving her home, he just chuckled.
”Am I not eligible for visiting your farm house too?” asked Punya in a fake sad voice.
”No Punya, you may not like it. It lies in a village, not like this city” he replied.
”How can you decide that without showing it to me?”
”Ok I'll take you once, you can decide it yourself”
”When tomorrow, day after or weekend?” she was enthusiastic about it.
He laughed... ”After final exams. I can't risk when your hand is like this and after that it's exams so...” he explained.
”That's too long, I want to go now” she demanded like a kid.
He laughed and said ”Go”
She was surprised by that word and asked ”Where?”
”Your home Punya, we've reached” he smiled and walked down to open the door for her.
”I forget everything in your presence, you're mesmerizing” she said and got down from the car.
”Can I take that as a compliment?” he asked.
”Of course why not? But many might have given such comments already, may be mine doesn't even matter” she chaffed.
”Your every word is important to me, this is the precious compliment I will remember forever” he said with a charming smile.
Punya's heart started pounding on his smile. Both the young hearts bid a bye with the heaviness. .
.......
Classes, lab practicals, notes, Thrishul's pick up and sometimes Prakruth dropping off, assignments, records filled up the routine schedule of Punya's college.
After three weeks the cast on her right hand was removed but parents restricted her from taking two wheeler for another month.
One day at college during lunch hour, Disha came running to Punya and said something so fast that no one understood.....
”Disha relax, drink water, sit down” Punya eased her.
After a couple of minutes, Disha said ”Prakruth doesn't love Roshni”.
Siri and Jyoti were shocked but Punya felt happy.
”Explain properly” ordered Siri.
”I heard her talking to her friends in her classroom, I was sitting in the corridor just outside the window with Dikshith and she revealed all the secrets” said Disha.
”What secrets?” asked Jyoti curiously.
”Roshni is forced to make Prakruth fall in love with her by her father. Her father wants a rich son in law, so he is using her as weapon but poor girl couldn't turn him from past two years. She was scolding Prakruth as stone hearted, cold and typical idiot... who doesn't know what is love or romance or at least the value of her beauty.” Disha narrated what she heard and turned to Punya and said ”She also knows that Prakruth is close with you Punya, she might plan a revenge, be careful”.
”I can handle it don't worry about it” said Punya.
”Well hurting Punya when I'm alive is impossible, your senior has to learn that” said Thrishul who had just heard about revenge.
”Thrishul I can....” Punya tried to tell something but....
He interrupted ”Shshshhhhh Punya, I know you are strong, independent and doesn't want me to help, but it's my responsibility to protect you” he said in authority.
”But why” she raised her voice.
”..... because” he muddled between telling her or not.
”Tell me why you interfere in all my issues, I told you 100 times that I can handle yet you do this, you warn me not to do this, not to do that, not to be close with senior, poke nose in my relationships and friendships, why are you doing all this.... Thrishul you have to explain it now....” she almost screamed.
”Now?” he asked.
”Yes right now, or else I'll never talk to you” she warned.
”I can't stay without talking to you, or even seeing you....” he panicked as his heart was sinking low.
”Why?” she satirized which further triggered him.
”Because I love you, I love you from the bottom of my heart” he yelled.
Jyoti's heart broke. Punya was startled.
Silence filled the whole classroom till the bell rang for the next class.
Thrishul spoke first ”I wanted to plan this in a more special way, but you enraged me to blurt out, I'm sorry” he said and walked out of the classroom.
Jyoti ran out with eyes welled up. She enters the indoor badminton stadium, sits on a chair and starts crying loudly.
Prakruth who accidentally walks in approaches her....
”Jyoti, are you crying?”
She closes her face and continues to cry.
He sits next to her and rubs her back to console her.... She turns to him and sobs on his shoulder.
”What happened?”
”I'm unlucky girl on this universe” she said sobbing.
”That I'll decide after you tell me what happened? So please drink this water and tell me...” said Prakruth giving her a bottle of water.
After relaxing a bit, she starts ”I liked a guy in my class from day one, I used to do anything he asked me to, he used to be so close to me... I have helped him with math. Though he's bad at it, I never lost my cool. He offers me chocolates every single day. He gave me a coat on the beach when we went out. I love him very much, I wanted to tell him but... ” she stopped.
”But....?” asked Prakruth.
”But he proposed to my close friend today, I can't blame her as she doesn't love him, it's all my ill fate” she burst out crying again.