Riya was four pegs down. She could hardly open her
eyes but never the less she was enjoying the music at the background. She
hardly cared for the lyrics. One could imagine her state of mind, after four
pegs down; she was almost there in cloud nine. There she was sitting alone at a
pub, enjoying a drink with random people around. She was quite a confident
young girl, go-getter by all means, till she fell in love. Love made her
insecure given it was first relationship and she never wanted anything to go
wrong.
But things haven’t been going her way. Riya loved
Neil a lot and she knew deep inside he loves and care for her a lot, until a
couple of weeks back. Neil had never hidden his first relationship from Riya
but the face that he had come heart-broken from a seven year old relationship
always worried her. It was a usual Friday evening at his place. Both of them
were high and listening to their favourite Beatles, when Neil slowly started
caressing her hair. His touch always made her nervous, but that day it gave her
a new high. She drew her face close to him, put her hands over his shoulders
and whispered into his ears the three magical words. Neil looked happy and
high. Stroking her nose with his, he looked into her eyes, and said “I love you
too Anu”. Anushka was incidentally Neil’s first girl friend.
That one word was enough to bring Riya down many
pedestals from a beautiful dream to reality. She just could not believe her ears.
Her anger knew no bound; she simply picked up the wine glass, threw the
remnants of the glass at Neil’s face and left the apartment. Neil was too
shocked to react. Post that day, Neil had called and messaged her but somehow
she was not able to forget the incident. It had housed deep down in her heart.
Two weeks had passed by. Riya had a fought a
prolonged battle with herself but probably her bruised ego wasn’t ready to
reconcile. But then alcohol can really make people do things they would not do
otherwise. Riya speed-dialled Neil’s number. His number was not reachable. She
tried again but was met with same response. She suddenly felt worried. She
hurriedly dialled his room-mate who informed that Neil had left for Delhi
couple of hours back to meet his ex-girlfriend who has met with a serious
accident. She felt a strong punch in her heart.
Riya left the pub and started walking down all
alone. The tear in her eyes, threatened to wipe off her mascara. It was almost
midnight and she knew it may not be safe to stroll around alone in the street, even
if it was Mumbai.
With great difficulty she caught hold of an Auto
and reached her building. She didn’t know she felt happy hearing about the
accident of her boyfriend’s ex girlfriend or sad that he went to meet her in
Delhi.
As she was trying to open the door with her
trembling hands, a warm touch from behind shook her up. It was Neil, standing
in shorts, with a half smile. She looked puzzled. He gave her hard long kiss.
She opened the door as both went inside. He locked the door and held her close.
Trying to steal glances, Riya looked other way. Neil caressed her finger and
hugged her from behind. Gently leaning towards her, he slowly whispered sorry. Several
questions were running through her mind but she knew it was time to put them
through rest. At the end of day, when it mattered, her man was with him. Riya
felt secured in those arms and wished to freeze that moment forever.
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