It was when Eshaan turned 19 and Varsha was just done with her graduation he decided he would tell her his feelings.

He approached his sister first.

"Di! I want to tell you something."

He sat beside Anaisha who looked at him raising his eyebrows.

"Kya kaand krke aaya hai?"

"Koi kaand nhi kia. Wo mai-actually-mai na wo-"

He didn't know how his sister would react knowing he had romantic feelings for her best friend.

"Aaj ke din mai bolega?"

She jibed and he gulped.

"Wo mai Varsha ko pasand krta hu. I mean-I love her."

Anaisha looked at him open mouthed.

She sat staring at him for a full minute and then said.

"Tu? Varsha ko? You love her? As in romantically?"

He nodded and she nodded as if in a deep thought. Then she turned to him with a mischievous grin.

"So my baby brother is in love!"

She pinched his cheeks and he sighed. Thank God she wasn't upset.

"Di! How do you think she will react after knowing it?"

"How can I say that? Ye toh uska decision hai na."

Anaisha shrugged and Eshaan pouted.

"Do you think I should tell her?"

"Ye toh tera decision hai."

She said making him huff in annoyance. She chuckled and turned to him.

"Listen! Tu usse batana chahta hai toh zarur bta. Bas agar wo reject krde toh crazy aashiq mat ban jaaio. You will have learn to accept her decision."

He nodded and she kissed his head wishing him all the best.

He immediately went to her house. He rang the bell and her mother opened the door with a huge smile.

"Namaste aunty! Varsha hai kya?"

Her mother nodded and that's when Eshaan noticed some people sitting inside.

"Koi aaya hua hai aunty?"

"Haan. Varsha ke sasural wale aaye hai."

His smile fell. He tried putting on a polite smile and asked.

"Sasural? Wo shaadi kr rhi hai?"

Her mother nodded and Eshaan couldn't understand anything else. She was getting married and no one knew. Not even Anaisha.

At that moment he felt something breaking inside him. How would he ever see her becoming someone else's.

He reached home and Anaisha gasped looking at him.

"Oyee! Kya hua tujhe? Dekh bura nhi maante haan. Abhi hamari baat hui thi na ki tujhe uska decision accept krna-"

"She is getting married!"

He whispered making her go mum.

"What?"

Anaisha immediately called Varsha which she didn't answer.

Only he knew how he managed to go through the two months her marriage preparations were going on.

He stopped going to college, he started avoiding her and any conversation related to her. He didn't have the guts to attend her marriage.

The most difficult period for him was the month after her marriage and before the truth came out.

Imagining her with someone else, in someone else's arms killed with him.

One day when Anaisha came home and told him everything that had happened he was engraged.

That bastard of a man had gotten such a precious gem but he betrayed her and broke her heart.

He wanted to kill him but he had to be there for Varsha first.

He immediately went to her home and looking at her condition broke his heart even more than when he heard about her marriage.

He had always seen her happy and smiling and seeing her crying and vulnerable made his heart bleed.

"Varsha?"

He whispered sitting in front of her send looked at him. The tenderness and the warmth in his eyes made her tear up again.

She launched herself in his arms and sobbed. He held her protectively and rubbed her back.

If not for him and Anaisha who didn't leave her alone even for a moment Varsha still would have been crying for that man.

And now four years later he had again gained courage to tell her his feelings.

"Hey! Kya plan hai aaj ka?"

He asked her when he was dropping her home from college.

"Kuch nhi. Aaj aisa kya special hai?"

He gave her a side eye and said.

"It's Valentine's Day yaar Varsha. You couldn't be sitting home doing college work."

"I am doing exactly that. And I don't believe in these nonsense things."

He rolled his eyes and said dramatically.

"Come on. I know what a romance sucker you were."

She looked out making him realise his folly.

"Varsha yaar! Come on. Apne liye na sahi mere liye. Mujhe Valentine's Day par akele nhi rehna yaar. Please!"

He said making a puppy face and she sighed.

"Fine! What do you want me to do?"

He grinned and said.

"Go on a date with me?"

She narrowed her eyes at him and he quickly corrected.

"Friend wala date."

She hummed and asked.

"Where?"

"Meet me in front of your home 8 bje. I want to take you somewhere."

She nodded and went inside her house.

It was 8 and she was waiting in her room. She heard a honk and rushed down after confirming it was him.

He greeted her with a huge grin and flowers.

"This is for the beautiful lady. Shall we?"

He asked and opened the door of the gate for her.

She chuckled at his chivalry and sat inside. She sniffed the flowers and smiled.

Her smile wavered as she realised what she was doing. She wasn't supposed to get habitual of it.

He stopped near a big building which looked like an expensive restaurant.

"Eshaan! Plesse don't tell me we are going in here?"

He knew she didn't like expensive restaurants. She was more of a street food lover.

"We are going to. But later. Pehle kuch khaa le."

He said making her look at him confused.

He got out of the car and helped her too.

Holding her hand he took her to a street food vendor and she smiled making him grin.

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