Ritik's POV:

"Man, will you calm down a little?" Sakshi asked however I ignored it. I was angry in fact I felt my blood boil to see Kiara ignoring me.

"No. I don't want to."

Mom made white cream pasta today. Basically it is Nia's favourite. She always says that my mom makes it better than Kriya aunty. As it was in today's menu for breakfast, Mom invited Nia. Kiara was here to give Mom's earrings which she borrowed from her and because it was the time for breakfast mom told her to stay and Sakshi was here to take me to the college with her.

"Ritik." Sakshi called again, this time slapping my arm.

"Why? Why should I calm down? What does she thinks of herself? Just two days ago, She confessed of loving me. We had a proper talk on that topic. I assured her to sort everything and yet she is ignoring me now. Don't I have emotions?" I asked angrily.

After the night of that wedding, I thought everything between us will be normal but when I saw Kiara in the college, I noticed she was ignoring me. I was scared, I didn't wished to get hurt again so I went and asked her reason. The answer she gave, not only broke my heart but also made me angry at her foolishness.

"I'm sorry about whatever happened yesterday. We can't be together Ritik, please forget about it."

Practically, Kiara was telling me to forget about something which was a very special moment for me. I wanted to ask her more but she went away and since then she is running away from me. I tried to call her but now I have lost interest.

"I will talk to her but..."

"No, you are not going to do that. Even I'm not going to talk with her now. If she wants to stay away, fine. I will do what she wants." I stated.

"Ritik, anger and ignorance spoils everything. If she is stubborn at least you should be calm and think wisely. Please."

"Sakshi, I don't want to take my anger on you. Please leave this topic." I requested, though it came out like I was warning her but I didn't cared much as at least she knows me well and won't get angry over it. I went towards the balcony and stood there looking at the sky. With every second that passed. I felt myself getting more and more angry.

"Did you talk with Nia?" Sakshi asked as she followed me. Nia's name somewhat made my anger fade. I'm guilty about what ever I did with her and the fact that I have not yet talked with her makes me more guilty.

"No. She was at her grandparent's house when I called and after that we didn't got time to talk."

"Oh ok. She was looking at you when she came here." Sakshi said making me feel more guilty now. Everytime I think about her, I hate myself. Before I hurt her more, I should tell her everything. I convinced myself to talk with her today and so I took out my phone and texted Nia to meet me before going home.

"Where is Viraj?" I asked and came to know that he will be here anytime soon.

"What are you going to do next?" Sakshi asked again.

"Nothing. I'm done now." I replied. I know it was too soon to say this statement but I didn't knew what to do anymore. According to me, Whatever Kiara was doing is complete foolishness. When we can sort things properly, she was making them difficult.

"Kiara, Ritik wants to talk with you." Sakshi said. I turned and saw Kiara standing there and for the first time I was not happy to see her, all I felt was rage.

"I don't want to talk." I stated.

"Ritik please." She said and signalled me to calm down.

"No Sakshi. I don't want to talk. I was wrong to love someone who doesn't care about my emotions. She wants me to stay away from her, I'm doing it now. Tell her go away, We have nothing to talk about."

"Ritik, you are hurting her." Sakshi whispered.

"I don't care about her." I replied and looked at the other side. I felt Kiara walk from there and then a angry Sakshi came and stood in front of me. Before she could say anything, I felt bad about whatever I said now.

"I didn't mean to hurt her." I said and went behind Kiara however she entered Kitchen and as mom was there, I had to stop myself.

"What happened Ritik?" Nia asked.

"I mean you asked me to meet you, Tell me." She said further.

"Yeah. Shall we talk later?" I asked. She agreed immediately and sat on the dining table beside Aashika. Since the day she asked me those questions, She has maintained proper distance from me. No calls, no messages..nothing.

"Ritik and Sakshi, you also sit. I will serve you." Mom said as she came out of the kitchen with few plates in her hand. I waited for Kiara to come but she was not doing that.

"I will get sauce." I said and before mom could offer to bring it, I went inside the kitchen. Kiara was drinking water, while trying to hide her tears. My heart broke at the sight for her. I didn't mean to hurt her but I was so angry because of her behaviour and in that anger I blurted out all those things.

"I'm sorry." I said and saw her startled.

"I'm sorry again." I apologized however she ignored it.

"Kiara, I'm...."

"It's fine Ritik. I'm happy to know that you don't care about me. Its a good thing for both of us." Kiara stated making me angry again.

"How can you be so stubborn? You are becoming heartless."

"Leave it Ritik." She said and started walking however I was not willing to leave the conversation here.

"No, we need to talk." I said as I took hold of her wrist and made her stand still.

"Like you said earlier, we have nothing to talk about. Let's end this here." She said and once again I lost my temper.

"I felt bad to hurt you and so I was here to apologize but you don't deserve it." I said and went out of the kitchen.

"Where is the sauce?" Aashika asked.

"I didn't got it." I replied and sat down. I felt Sakshi looking at me but she didn't say anything. Mom said she will get the sauce and so she went inside.

"Maybe some other day." I heard Kiara say as she and mom came out of the kitchen.

"What's wrong Kiu? Are you sure you are not crying?" Mom asked.

"Why would I? Its just that I didn't got proper sleep last night." Kiara lied.

"I really wish you stayed but as it is important I can't force you either." Mom said sadly. Kiara replied something and gave her a hug before bidding her goodbye to Dad.

"Drive safely." Dad said to her. Sameer came to drop her.

"You hurt her again, didn't you?" Sakshi whisper asked me.

"Isn't she hurting me?"

"Is it a give and take thing?" She asked angrily. I hated the fact that Sakshi was not understanding me. I love Kiara but what about her behaviour towards me? I was hurt too.

"Leave it. I don't care." I replied and looked away. I tried to ignore Kiara but it was hurting me more to see her go. We could have had breakfast together but she was going just because I hurt her.

"Bye everyone." Kiara said and started walking. I kept telling myself, not to go behind her but I failed.

"Kia stop." I said and went behind her. No doubt she didn't stop but continued walking faster however even I didn't gave up, I followed her until we both were out of my home.

"Why are you doing this Ritik? You shouldn't have followed me. Can you even imagine what, uncle and aunty must be thinking now? Even Nia must have figured something now. Why are you hurting her? Can't you understand I don't want to be with you? For once take a no as my answer and please leave me alone." Kiara said. She was crying more now however this time I didn't felt guilty about it.

"Please stop following me." She said and turned to leave.

"Wait." I said as I went and stood in front of her.

"What did you say, I'm not taking no for an answer? What was it even we talked that night? Did you kissed me because your answer was no? Did you reciprocated my 'I love you' because your answer was no?" I asked.

"Let's not talk about this." She said and began to leave.

"No. You want to end this, let's end it properly then." I stated.

"You don't know what you want. You want to step on two ships at the same time but mark my words you aren't going to achieve anything good out of it. You want me to stay away from you? Fine, I will do that. My self-respect ain't so low to waste it on you again and again. I'm never crossing your paths again but make sure not to come back in my way." I said and turned to leave.

Kiara's POV:

As I kept looking at Ritik, I felt myself being more guilty. All this while I never thought about his emotions, all I cared about was Nia. Today for the first time I realized I was hurting my love as well. Ritik came to me again and again however everytime I pushed him away.  Like he said earlier, he loved someone who didn't cared about his emotions.

I felt more tears running down my cheeks remembering all the words Ritik said. If he said he will stay away from me, he will do it for sure. Just the thought of him not coming back to me, made me cry again. Ritik was right when he said even I don't know what I want but what can I do? If I want to be with him, I don't even want Nia to get hurt. Even if I try, I can't make both of them happy.

I guess whatever happened, happened for the good.

I wiped my tears and turned to leave. A person sitting on the bike, outside the gate caught my attention but he failed me make me smile this time. I saw Akshay looking at me but neither he made an effort to talk nor I did. I assumed he was there for Nia otherwise I don't think Ritik and Akshay are that close. I went a little ahead and took out my phone to call Veer to pick me from here. I was hurt because of whatever Ritik said but more than that Akshay's face flashed before my eyes. Was our friendship so weak that he didn't cared about me even after seeing me cry? After the day of our argument we didn't talk with each other but still I was expecting him to talk with me now but I guess I was wrong to expect. After all our expectations only hurt us.

As I kept thinking more about it, I felt a bike come and stood next to me.

"Hi."

"Hey wait, why are you crying?" The person asked and for the first time I felt like opening my heart to someone.

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