Her Name

Milly: If you don’t mind, may I ask you a question

Nikhil: You may ask

Milly: who do you love?

Smile faded from Nik’s face. He averted and sighed.

Nikhil: I can’t tell you

Milly: You can’t tell me! You share all your feelings with me.

Nikhil: Trust me. I want to tell you but I can’t.

Milly: Is that person a boy or a girl?

Nikhil: Obviously! She’s a girl. Stop kidding.

Milly: Who’s she?

Nikhil: You’re again asking the same question.

Milly: Okay, tell me is she your classmate?

Nikhil: I don’t know

Milly: Okay, you may tell me the first letter of her name.

Nikhil: Why should I even hint you? What if you come to know…

Milly: Fine

She took a pause and added-

Milly: Did you ever propose her?

Nikhil sighed again. He had always
preferred to keep such thoughts out of his mind infront of others. But now her words were impelling him to speak. So, he did.

Nikhil: Listen Milly. She’s my good friend, and I don’t want her to end looking me with that regard. I fear she would hate me if she comes to know the truth. So I just avoided
doing that.

After a pause he added

Nikhil: Hey, if I ask you, would you tell me who do you love?

Milly blushed a little, and replied–

Milly: Actually the person with whom I fell in love with was our senior. He left the school two years back, and me- disappointed.

Nikhil: Sad to know that. Means you never fell for somebody else.

Milly: No, never. As now I’ve told
you about my secret crush, you too
should tell me about yours.

Nikhil sighed again

Nikhil: Okay. I’ll tell you, but not simply this way in a conversation. I would rather whisper in your ears.

Milly: You can simply tell me. There’s no one by us.
Nikhil: Please!
Milly: Okay, fine. As you say.

He stood up, gently took her hands and made her too to stand. His lips went for her ear. His heart was pounding heavily. Afterall it was something he was too much concerned for. With a perfect
patience and tone he whispered-

Nikhil: Milly….. There’s girl. Her name is Milly Arya. She’s my classmate. Actually she’s a good friend of mine and I have some feelings for her.

He paused in between while he spoke. He still had her hands in his. They both could feel each other’s breath.

Nikhil: I always doubted that does she even consider me a good friend or not. I never knew whether she replies to my text just for formality or did she ever had some feeling for me. I don’t know, I don’t know anything. I just miss her, always, all the time. And I think I’m falling for her. And I
don’t wanna lose her ever. Even if I have to keep it a secret and consider her a friend or a sister forever, I’ll go for it.

For a moment there was a dead silence around them. A suprising growth of emotions. Milly’s tears rolled down her cheeks and fell over Nik’s shoulder. She took her arms around him. Nikhil burst into tears giving her a tight hug. They both cried hard holding each other for long. And this marked the onset of a beautiful love story……..

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