❤️CHAPTER 5❤️ STRINGS OF MUSIC

Not wanting to moisten her eyes anymore, she quickly closed that diary. She didn't have any more courage to go through it and read it. It had taken all her inner strength to open it and read it in the first place, now she didn't want his thoughts to wreck her brain anymore. She was still recovering, even after 4 years of him being away from her.

The last time they spoke to each other was in when she was 16 years old, their 10th standard and the last time they saw each other was when she was 18 years old, their class 12th farewell. She still wonders was that the time when they saw each or was she just the only one to see him. Life was smooth, she had everything she wanted but one thing that she always lacked was that one person she thought of each time a good thing happened to her.

Closing her diary she looked at her guitar which she hadn't touched or seen after her class 10th. Life had other plans for her today. The more she tried to run away from those memories and the more she tried not to cry, each and everything in that room today reminded her of him which led to her going into that flashback again.

*4 years ago*-

She was sitting with her guitar in her hand, practising chords for the upcoming competition. She was a newbie with a guitar she adores a lot. Everyone used to practice in the dance room and every class till 10th standard happened to come there once in a week. It had been 2 weeks since she had been practicing. She was happy that she got guitar as her instrument because she knew Milan loved guitar and was super great playing it. She wished for him to notice her and he did. After 2 weeks of coming there everyday with his own will, he came and sat with her one day when she was practicing alone. Her heartbeat started accelerating and she was very happy to see him.

"Can I have this guitar for a moment please ?" He said.

"Sure" she said and passed the guitar to him with trembling hands.

He took the guitar and started playing. All she could do was just admire every one of his features and realise that this was the first time she had seen him this closely after 3rd standard because that was their last class together, the last time they sat together and the last time they had a talk together. After 3rd standard Milan and Falguni had different because of the shuffling of sections in class 4th on the basis of different foreign languages they chose. 9th standard United them again and kept them together for 2 years, after that life had something different in store for them.

She kept looking at him, he played for her, something she had always wished for. He talked and she listened. She talked, he listened. The situation was so beautiful, so dreamy that she never wished it to end, she wanted it to go on forever.

And then he started pulling out the strings of the guitar till the situation where all the strings were so loose, that they were almost about to come out.

Then the period bell rang and he said bye and went away laughing. She was sitting and laughing because she knew that this wasn't the first time she had to clear a mess that he made. She used to do this before and she could gladly do it forever, that's what she thought smiling while arranging the strings perfectly.

*Present day*-

A smile crept on her face when she touched those strings and that pick which he used while playing that guitar. She could feel him while touching that guitar, that pic, maybe that was the reason why she never touched it after that. Touching it gave her goosebumps.

But suddenly that smile started to fade away and her heart became heavy with some feeling because she knew that he doesn't feel the same way that she does for her and he could never feel what she felt for him.