She heard Arjun slumping on the couch. Her heart raced, it had been 10 days, she has last seen her. She clutched her heart, and went outside.
Looking at him, with his head planted in his palms, an indecipherable emotion swelled in her heart. Her eyes stinged with unshed tears.
She slowly approached him. And just like that in a flicker of a moment, something changed. She smacked his back.
Arjun, who was unaware of her presence, got bat shit scared. He screamed clutching his heart, looking at Sunaina, he got even more shocked. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
He stood up in front of her. Sunaina's eyes swelled with tears. She picked up the cushion and started hitting him.
"How dare you!" Smack.
" How dare you leave me alone." Smack Smack.
"You have any idea, how pathetic I was!" SmackArjun was jumping on his feet trying to defend him, but Sunaina was attacking his uncovered places.
"Ouch, Sunaina, Ouch, calm down. Ouch!"
"Calm down, you are telling me to calm down? Here you are ruining my sanity for the last 10 days and you are telling Me to CALM DOWN?" Her voice getting higher at the end of the sentence.
Arjun was rubbing his attacked place.
"I won't spare you today. I will kill you, tonight." Sunaina charged him with the same cushion, while washing away her tears.
Arjun was going back on his feet, "Sunu, listen to me."
Sunaina used the cushion to point at him, "Don't Sunu me, at all!"
"Sunu, lets si-" his words were cut off by her flying pillow. She has thrown the cushion squarely at his face.
Arjun couldn't get out of the shock, Sunaina grabbed him by his non existent collars of his tshirt. "Listen to me, Mr. Arjun Singh, and listen to me very carefully," she sniffed, her eyes read to the brim. "I don't allow you to leave me. If you even think about abandoning me, even in your dreams, I will cut your body into pieces and sell them off to some Chinese market. Don't even dare to ignore me. Understood."
Arjun was baffled to see her in this state. He mentally cursed himself to have done this to her. He gently cupped her face, washing away her tears with his thumbs. On a reflex, more tears brimmed out of Sunaina's eyes, the more he washed them, the more they flood her face. Her nose red like a cherry. All his anger, all his insecurity, all his wish to stay away from her flew straight away the window.
Sunaina burst into sniffles and hit his chest once again with her fist. She complained looking at him through her teary eyes, "How could you?"
His heart shattered into numerous pieces. How could he hurt his Sunu like this.
He washed away her tears once again, and thrusted her face into his chest holding her nape. She hugged him tightly breaking into more cries. He hugged her tighter, bowing his head into her hairs, whispering, "Shh, am sorry naa, Sunu, can you forgive me this time." "Please, don't cry, love, please."
Sunaina pulled back her face, and looked at him, "Why didn't you reply me?" Arjun couldn't form an answer. Sunaina again spoke, "Do you have any idea, how much I have missed you?"
Arjun placed his lips over her forehead, kissing her, pulling her in his embrace once again. He thought to himself, "I will never do this again, I can't see her like this, so what she can't love me? I will love enough to compensate for both of us, I can never make her cry this much. Never."
When her cries subsided, she again looked at him, "Promise me, you won't do this again?"
Arjun cupped her face in one hand, "I promise." He said looking in her eyes. He touched her forehead with his, and spoke ever so gently, "I will never leave you. I promise to make it up to you. Don't ever ever cry like this. Hmm?"
Sunaina hummed nodding, both of them still in that pose.
Arjun whispered, "I love you."
He expected no reply.
But, after a pause of some minutes.
Sunaina mumbled hugging, "I love you, too."
Arjun's eyes went wide like big saucer.
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EARLY UPDATE coz my bestie is in a bad mood. Next update will be on next week. Thank you for reading, let me know how you like it in the comments below.
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