His words kept ringing in her mind every now and then.

"I love you Naira, I really love you so much."

With so much difficulty, Naira took him to his room, while he kept murmuring the same thing. She slowly laid him down on the bed, and got up, but her hair was stuck in his button, and before she could do anything she fell on the bed too. Naira looked up, to find Kartik looking at her, and at that moment, they both shared an eyelock. Kartik slowly moved strands of hair from Naira's face, while she looked at him, with confusion. Her heartbeats kept racing, while they both were so close.

Suddenly she heard someone walk in the corridor, so she detangled her hair, and got up to leave. Closing the door behind, she peeped back to see if anyone saw her.

She was struggling with her mind, if what Kartik said, was just like that, or he actually meant it. He always made her feel different, since the very first time they both met. She just couldn't stop thinking about him, and his words that made her heart so confused. She herself didn't know what she felt about him.

The night passed by and it was the next day. They all were going back to Udaipur. Both of them didn't talk to each other. Kartik tried to recall what had last night, and all he could remember, was him confessing something that he himself hadn't realized completely yet. Did he actually love her?

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On reaching Udaipur, Naira and Kartik stood waiting for the taxi, while Kartik looked at Naira, and spoke,

"I am sorry, for yesterday." He said, and without waiting for any reply from her, he sat back inside the car. Naira turned back to look at him, but he was no where to be found. Her heart was confused, and so was she. She didn't know what she was feeling.

Days passed by and both of them kept thinking about each other almost every moment. They hardly spoke in college, or anywhere else. And finally now, Keerti and Naksh's wedding dates were fixed, and so, Goenka's were about to come to meet the Singhanias.

"Bhagwaan ji, yeh kahaan laakar khada kar diya hai mujhe. Mujhe kuch samjh nahi aa raha." She spoke.

"Naira, you're not ready yet?" Akshara entered the room, and glanced at her daughter. Naira turned back to look at her.

"Just five minutes mumma I will get ready." She replied smiling slightly.

"Okay baccha, they all will be arriving soon, you get ready and come down." She said cupping her face, smiled looking. at her and walked towards the door. As Naira turned back, Akshara spoke again,

"Naira, sab theek hai na? Since the time you are back from the trip, you look really disturbed. Kuch hua kya wahan?" Akshara asked, and Naira felt short of words, as she didn't know what to tell.

"Na..nahi mumma kuch nahi hua, I am fine." She smiled forcefully, and Akshara seemed quite convinced, so she walked out of the room.

"Yeh kya ho raha hai bhagwaan ji! Uski baat mujhe itni kyu affect kar rahi hai, hum toh sirf dost hai. Lekin jo usne kaha kya woh sach mein mean karta hai? Ya sirf aise hi keh diya?" Naira thought.

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Naira walked out in a hurry, and came towards the main door, and suddenly she bumped into someone, and her eyes looked up, to find his brown eyes, that looked back at her. He held her before she could trip over.

"Kartik" She whispered looking at him, and stood up instantly. Trail of thoughts running in her mind, the night in farmhouse playing in front of her eyes, she looked up at him, and walked to go away.

Before she could move, the flower decor above them, dropped over them, tangling them together. Naira tried to get off it, as she moved her hands to help herself, but she got tangled more.

"Kuch bhi cheez ko jald baazi mein suljhaaoge, toh aur ulajh jaaoge, aaram se karne se sab theek hojaayega." Kartik spoke as he slowly removed the garlands, and detangled her and himself from it.

His words, pointed out much more than the situation that was there at that moment. She knew his words were an answer to the questions that were troubling her since that day. She looked up at Kartik, before he spoke,

"I am sorry for that day, can we forget about that day, and be the way we were earlier? I was drunk and was not in my senses, I didn't know what I was telling." Kartik spoke, not glancing at her, while her eyes were fixed on him.

"Just don't drink and drive, agar uss din kuch hojaata tumhe toh?" She asked.

"Nahi hua na, aur aisa kabhi nahi hoga next time." He said, and Naira smiled that gave him assurance that everything is better now.

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