UNREQUITED LOVE-THE UNSTRECHED STRINGS OF TWO HEARTS ✔️

30.JUST FRIENDS

After a few minutes of silence he finally spoke...
"Can't you forget it Shehnaaz"

The whole world as if stopped for me, my eyes were full of tears threatening to fall any second. How could he say it that easily? I found my voice chocked due to the affect this had on me.
I didn't answered it still lost in my thoughts and when we reached my house he said holding my hand.

Sid: Sweetheart just say .......
Sana: You..You were joking right.....
Sid(with teary eyes): Tumhe lag raha hai that I'm joking. I'm pretty serious meri jaan please just one chance.....
Sana: Just...Just leave my hand Sidharth.
Sid: Sweetheart just listen to me once na..
Sana(angrily): What should I listen Sidharth, har time tum sahi nhi ho sakte, kitna easy tha tumhare liye voh sab bolna aur ho bhi kyun na I was afterall just a timepass.
Sid: Enough Sana, mujhe bol jo bolna hai don't say anything to yourself....
Sana: Actually sahi hai because voh toh sirf tum kar sakte ho na.
Sid(pleading while cupping her face): Sweetheart please calm down.
Sana(angrily): Tumhare liye easy hoga Mr.Arora but mera kya, I lost everything I had that day my personality, my friends, my happiness,my trust on love.... fucking everything Sidharth and you are asking me to forget it, kitna easy hai na tumhare liye.... uss din bhi it was just you, your decision your life but mera kya haan aaj bhi u are asking me to forget everything in just a blink. They are fucking 6 years of my life Sidharth, I hardly interacted with my parents in these years, roz unhe meri vajah se tut te hue dekha hai and you are asking me to forget it. How easy na Sidharth?

Tears were falling freely from my eyes, the frustration I kept inside me was finally coming in the form of anger. Anger on him and may be everything around me at present at that moment.

Sid: Shehnaaz relax...
Sana: Tum karo relax and I request you please don't make it more difficult Sidharth, I'm actually no one to you except your co employee so it's none of your fucking business that with whom I'm or with whom I'm not.
Sid: Don't cry na baby I can't...
Sana(wiping her tears harshly): Don't say those words which you don't even mean, u can't see me crying but you can actually break me to a point that I have no other option than to cry my heart out Sidharth.
Sid: But Sana you had everyone around you, your parents and even mine too.
Sana: You are highly mistaken, I had no one, apne parents se kya kehti batao ki I am in love with a person who just........ Aur tumhare parents I met them here after 6 years Sidharth, I had no contact with them too.

I saw his expressions changing from upset to shocked. Didn't he knew this?

Sid(shocked): Tum Maa-Baba ke contact main nhi thi?
Sana(while crying and hiccuping): Nhi thi Sidharth ..contact rakh kar bhi kya karti kya kehti ki kyu alag hue hum, kyunki joh reasons tumhare.. the na voh unhe toh kya khud ko bhi bol nhi paati main. I didn't wanted to see the disappointment in their eyes for us. They got your love after so many years Sidharth and I didn't wanted them to loose their son again because pta tha mujhe that they would still consider me their daughter even after whatever happened between us and tumne toh saaf saaf bola tha ki tum mujhe.....
Sid: Sana I didn't knew that you too were all alone, I thought tumhare pass....
Sana(crying): Tum kuch nhi jaante Sidharth kuch bhi nhi.

He suddenly hugged me so tightly that I felt myself being chocked but I didn't had the courage to even fight back because this was the first time I spoke about these years so openly. I felt him caressing my hairs to calm me down and well that actually was working
Sid: Shshsh... Sweetheart please don't cry, maar le gussa kar le gaaliyan bhi de de but please meri jaan ro mat.
Sana: Kyun aaye vapis Sidharth jab sab theek ho raha tha? Kyun?
Sid: meri jaan bus ho gaya na, please don't cry, I didn't knew that I would get you as my co-worker.
Sana(broke the hug and looked at him innocently): agar pta hota toh nhi aate?
Sid: kaise nhi aata meri jaan main toh....
Sana: Tum toh?
Sid: I'm sorry.