Chapter 1

"Am I despicable? Am I really bad? Why did you leave me? Atleast you should have given me a reason" I asked no one in particular while wiping my tears that were coming out of my eyes non stop without my permission.

"Khushi what are you doing here? why are you crying for a person who is not worth your tear " asked a distant yet familiar voice.

I looked back to see the person and I was right. It was my best friend, my soul-sister. I don't want her to be here yet I felt somehow relieved that she was here. She was panting while coming toward me.

"Niyati am I that bad that he left me," I asked her after she lay beside me.

She was covered in sweat and was panting. It must be because of using stairs. She is crazy!!

Why would she use stairs for climbing 15 floors?

Oh yeah! I know. She would rather use stairs to climb 15 floors than wait for an elevator for 5 minutes.

We stayed silent for a while and gazed at the stars.

"No, you know you are a gem and the person who will have you will be the luckiest person, " she said looking at the sky.

I don't know whether she was being sincere or merely consoling me.

But I felt good listening to this from her. From a person I love but my brain was not satisfied with her answer.

"no, you are lying to me"

"Yeah...I am lying to you. Because I am the only idiot in this whole world who somehow ended up being your friend and me being an innocent soul can't even leave you. So don't trouble me." She said while getting up.

"Get your ass out of here and come with me. I have a night shift and I am already running late. "

"No I don't want to go to that place.... we have created so many memories there" I was dragged into yet another memory lane.

The memories that once gave me a reason to smile are now haunting me. As if reminding me that this is the repercussions of betraying your family.

I never planned on betraying them but I was unable to bring myself to tell them I am in love.

"You can thank me later for suggesting or I should say forcing you to register that apartment on your name. And if you don't want that apartment then you can sell it to me but I will buy it at the price you bought it" I gave her an 'are you serious look?'

"What? You know that my father is a businessman.....so these traits are inherited can't do anything about it" she gave me toothy smile.

This girl is totally crazy with no sense of humor.

"OK fine...I won't utter any non sense now let's go to the apartment." she gave me her hand to get up.

She is one of those persons who knows everything about me.

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Everything was so good when he was with me. My life was perfect. But everything changed, he changed.

How will I live without him? But I have to live for my family and friends.

"Niyati what happened? what are you doing here in my room? "I asked her when she entered into my room.

"Sorry!? what do you mean by 'my', it's not my and your..... it's our, after all, I am your BF."she winked at me.

Niyati

I knew sooner or later this would have happened.

I warned her so many time that he is a piece of s**t. He is not worth her time and love. But she was being stubborn like always and did not listen to me.

It's good that it happened sooner. I know she is sad but I think it happened for her good.

Its good that he broke up with her.

And everything that happened today I knew she must have shut herself in that place and I was right.

She was there crying over that guy. Ah! Come on man, there are plenty of fish in the pond why cry over a piece of s**t. I hate it when people cry because I am really bad at consoling.

Sometimes I feel like they will cry more even if I try to make them stop cry.

After talking for a bit I brought her to my apartment where I live and we sleep together. Yeah! We sleep together but we live in different apartments. I told her so many times to live with me in my apartment but no she was adamant on this, saying that it might be a hindrance to my studies but we both knew that real reason was HIM.

Enough of my blabbering. I made two cups of coffee. One for me and another for Khushi.

I have to divert her mind. We just started talking when her phone rang.

It was from Di(elder sister)I mean Khushi's elder sister but she didn't want talk to her right now so I answered and said that she is fine and asleep already.

And she agreed as everybody in her house knows me and trust me and that's the best, for now, to keep this hidden from her family.

"So what's the plan? "

"Seriously Niyati after all this do you really think that I am going out, "Ah! I knew this would be her answer.

I'm proud of myself that I know her this much. But I am also stubborn like her so I took her to ice cream parlour.

"I have ditched my night shift for you so stop thinking about an idiot. And remember..."

But our peace was destroyed by one and only Parth. I answered his call.

"Hey brother! how are you? "

"Where the hell are you? and what did that bastard do to Khushi?" I had informed him about him leaving Khushi but not the details.

I asked him to meet me tomorrow and hung up.

Both of them though not related by blood yet they behave like real siblings.

They have to make decisions in anger, can't they think rationally and keep calm.

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I have never thought that a day will some when I will fear that I have to face Parth though I did not do anything wrong but talking to your friends or more like explaining a situation.

I hate serious atmosphere.

Fortunately Khushi is not here because uncle called her so she went back to her house.

So finally I am in the coffee shop and in front of me, Parth is sitting with a worried expression.

"Hi Bro!" and here we go with the bombarding of questions.

"Keep your hi in your pocket... first tell me about Khushi."

"She is fine. Uncle asked her to come home in the morning."

"OK so tell me what actually happened? "

"He ditched Khushi. He left even without saying anything."

"I wanted him to be out of her life but not like this, he should have left after giving her a closure" Parth said this with a hurt expression.

"Even I wanted him to be out of Khushi's life because she doesn't deserve someone like him. Anyways did you tell everyone about this? "

"no not till now"

"I think you should inform everyone about this."

"OK but I am going back home for some work so I will tell everyone later."

"I am also coming with you."