Her Secret Smile (#2)

Chapter- 5

5. "I found the love of my life, on a rainy day!!"

"Nidhi, I am sorry!"

Reminding the words that Varun said yesterday has really got something in her.

She can't forget him, his words or their almost a year secret relationship, even if she wants to, he is not letting her do that, she was totally bound to him by his extorting love and now she's regretting letting him and his love into her peaceful life.

"Nidhi, what are you thinking?" Roshini asked Nidhi who was immersed in the thoughts without eating her lunch.

"Nothing Rosh, my head is aching," rubbing her head Nidhi answered and looked away. Nidhi wanted to tell about her confusions and this depressive relationship with someone. Roshini must be a good choice but still, Nidhi is afraid. She felt whether Roshini will think her as a flimsy girl who can't even control her heart and without properly knowing about a person fallen in love like a fool. She felt it is kind of a shame.

Whether love between two unmarried individuals is an unethical thing? Maybe Yes. That is what Nidhi is thinking for all these days. When the day they started this relationship, from that very moment she started having an unknown fear. The fear of losing her parents love and this society's accusation if her secret love comes to the public.

When she was chewing the food in a slow motion her phone vibrated. She casually took that and noticed a message and that message from Varun.

Her eyes widened in a shock, she looked Roshini but she was in her own world of thoughts. Before reading that she thought for a while, whether to read or to ignore just like whether to continue this relationship or to end.

But something inside her shoved her hand to open.

'Are you still angry with me? Yesterday I apologized right. I want to see you, will be waiting for you before your college at evening. Love You’

Reading that message she immediately typed No as a reply. But she knew that he won't listen to her words.

Now her mind clouded with the ways to escape from Roshini, she wants to do something to leave now and that too without any suspicion.

"Roshini, I am leaving." She said suddenly.

"Uh? Why?" she asked coming out from her thoughts.

"Yeah, my headache," Nidhi sounded like she indeed having a headache.

"Okay, do you want me to come with you?"

"No! I can go by myself." Saying that Nidhi stood up closing her lunch box. Placing that in her bag she left taking confusing steps. 

Roshini, what happened to her? Why she is acting weird?

Nidhi thought here's something big going on her mind and went to the library. She took a random book and sat at the place where no one can see her.

By sitting simply, she starts to think about Varun, the more she wanted to avoid him, the more he ran over her mind.

She can't help it. She can't push it. And she can't take it fully. Totally she can't find a way to get over it.

The first time she landed her eyes on him, was two years before, that one fateful rainy day just changed her life into something much unexpected…

After completing her board exams Nidhi and her parents shifted to the new house now they are currently staying in. She was little excited that time, she got good marks, a nice college, and the house looked so pleasant. Everything seemed so beautiful and perfect.

When the day she came to this house, she instantly befriended with the lady living in the bungalow opposite to them, Nidhi was happened to meet her when she came out of her house to ask where the convenience store is. Nidhi with her good attitude and reverence captured her heart greatly.

That day after finishing off the household work with her mom, Nidhi went to her room and started arranging her things in the places where she wanted to. While busily working her mom came in with a cup of coffee and asked to drink before it gets cold. She nodded and started cleaning the floor. Suddenly a huge thunderstorm paused her actions.

By taking her coffee, she came out of the house and stood before the entrance and watched the showering rain.

She doesn't like to soak in the rain but likes to feel the drizzle over the face.

By sipping the coffee, Nidhi watched the enchanting rain.

In that peaceful moment, she heard a disturbing loud horn sound of a bike. She turned her gaze from where it is coming.

Two guys already soaked in the rain stopped their bike before that house. The guy who is sitting behind ran into the house like running a marathon. But the guy who drove the bike stood under the thundering sky, he lifted his arms wider and his face plastered with a big smile.

Nidhi smiled looking him, she never seen a guy who enjoys the Rain, more like an enjoyment his face reflected a kind of satisfaction. Seeing him her heart skipped a beat. She not even noticed his face properly in this pouring rain but his physique was good. He is wearing a white shirt and black trousers that were entirely soaked.

Without her control, she stared him forgetting to blink her eyes. Suddenly that guy turned his eyes to her and looked her smiley face.

Soon her expression changed to notice that.

Nidhi's heart just jumped out in a shock. She looked into her coffee mug and bite her lower lip out of embarrassment.

'But why I have to turn my gaze, it is not like I am admiring him, I am watching rain right!' the brave girl inside her encouraged and she hesitantly looked at him again.

He gave a curious look, but he not even cared about that he is standing in a sinking rain and casually stared her back.

"Hey, Varun! Mom is calling you! Come inside!" the guy who first went inside the house shouted at him.

He came with an umbrella and Varun still looking at Nidhi nodded his head. He joined with his brother in the umbrella and walked inside. But he kept looking back at Nidhi who is awestruck.

Realizing her situation Nidhi strolled into her house. In a swift moment, she locked her room door and laid in her bed. 

Leaving a huge sigh she smiled with a blush. In her eighteen years of existence, no one made her feel this way.

But soon she brushed that thoughts away and continued her work. In that following days, she came to know that guy's name was Varun, and the other guy was his elder brother Bala. That lady she befriended was their mother.

Later she started to know more about him since her mom and Varun's mom became close friends in a short span of time and Nidhi is one of the reasons for that.

Varun was pursuing Law and Nidhi felt that profession really suits him. Because he is a kind of a person who smiles very less. He always keeps a stern expression on his face. Only on that rainy day, she saw him smile and she never noticed him smiling after that. Within a month after that rainy day, his brother went to the US where he got a job in a multinational company. Varun's dad was doing a business and his mom was a housewife.

She finds herself curious to know more about him, who can't be when a handsome guy who glances you with a kind of expression that stirs up your inner feelings like crazy. She sometimes secretly steal glances whenever she accidentally meets him.

But Nidhi tried her best level to avoid that and sadly she failed terribly too. She never expected that Varun will propose her suddenly. Still, she can't believe that moment....

When she was in her thoughts her phone starts to ring. She took that from her purse and saw Varun's name. She left the library to talk with him since using the phone inside the library is prohibited.

"Hello?"

"Where are you? I am waiting before your college," he sounded little irritated.

"Just two minutes I will be there," Nidhi ended the call and walked in a fear, instead of excitement. This relationship made her this way, to fear. Fear about him, on how he will react. How he will talk and all.

Their relationship doesn't contain flying colors of love and compassion instead misunderstandings and quarrels. Most of the times Varun is the reason, his short temper was the reason.

Nidhi was tired of this dominative, overruling love. Now she has to do something to end this.

When she saw Varun, she gave a weak smile, but he didn't smile back. She stood in front of him and doesn't know how to start the conversation.

"How was your day?"

"Fine," he replied without looking her face and sat in his Royal Enfield.

"Get on!"

Nidhi looked him raising her eyebrows like asking where? He looked clenching his jaw.

Understanding the seriousness, she sat behind him without talking back. She looked around to find whether anyone watching them, especially her classmates but noticed no one.

Roshini without attending her last class, walked out feeling so tired. She doesn't want to listen to the lecture or anything now. This tiredness and irritation are all because of that Siddharth. Today she saw him talking with her classmate Aishwarya and that too in a very sweet way. He was smiling ear to ear while conversing with her. Seeing that she felt something burning inside her.

That Aishwarya was considered as a class beauty. 

But why she is talking with him Roshini questioned. When she reached out, she looked left side to cross the road.

At that moment what she saw just shocked her, she can't believe her eyes. Nidhi sitting behind a guy on a bike crossed before her.

"Nidhi!" she whispered. And again cleared her eyes to find is it really her.

Yes, it is her.

But who is that guy?

Why you lied Nidhi?