No one noticed that they came to the place by bus so how could she say that she was travelling after so many years.
Longer than ususal update ahead
This one's for Drikshit_lover who always wnat long updates! Anyways, Love you bro *shows teeth*

This time will always
Be Special
For me

R A K S H I T

The bus travel was not so comfortable for us, as there was no vacancy and each one of us had to travel by standing all the way. Completing the bus travel somehow, we managed to reach the metro on time and paid for our tickets.

"Drishti, are you hungry?" I asked her. I knew Divya and Natasha had their lunch before we left but Drishti did not like to eat before travelling in some 'non air conditioned transportation so she must have been hungry.

"Yeah, I'm starving" hitting her stomach with her left hand she took a deep breath as if she had been waiting for this moment when we would be finally getting something to eat.

"I have to talk to Romi for a minute. Can you go and get something for me too?" I mean, if she was being so good, she should be volunteering to do it herself.

"Me?" Drishti turned around looking everywhere, trying to see if someone was there. With her fruitless attempts to find any person around her she moved her face back and looked at me "But, I don't. Want To Go"

"Drishti"

"No"

"Please"

Tapping her feet impatiently on the floor, she crossed her arms arcoss her chest and leaned in to and fro motion of her body while her face before looking at me and huffing in disappointment "Ok fine. What do you want?"

"Anything"

"Poison?" Smiling widely at me, she stood at her place quietly and watched me smile at her with an equal creeo expression.

"Only after you take it"

"Mean"

"Meaner"

"Meanest" she said

"Yes you are" I chuckled. When she understood the meaning of my statement, I earned a whack on my shoulder after which she pushed me away and left to buy something to eat. I looked back at her and saw her grabbing Divya's hand, pulling her away.

"Come on Divya let's get something to eat" In the way, she saw Natasha and took her hand too, dragging the girls away "Natasha can join us too for something something. God I'm starving and still have to walk, draining the little energy left in my body"

"Over dramatic" I smiled at her antics and then noticed Romi and Vicky.

Don't even start at them.

Vicky was pulling Romi's jacket like a child and Romi stood expressionless, was looking at the wall in his attempts to ignore Vicky. Now I needed to know what was going on between these two?

Knowing that I would never get a proper answer to my question when the person answering it was either Romi or Vicky, I still reached them and asked what was going on between the two. "I don't know. He dropped his brain somewhere in the way, like who the hell stays angry for so long? It's been two hours he has been ignoring me" Vicky replied

"I asked you what happened?"

"Ask him" Vicky spat and turned his face to the side opposite to Romi.

"Romi?"

"You ask him" Yeah, and I am a fool who wanted to pass his entire time here, ignoring the looks people gave us because of their childishness and their screams when they were saying 'ask him'

"Ask him"

"No, ask this wolf man standing behind me"

"Excuse me?" Vicky gasped in surprise and turned towards Romi, pulling him back to face him. "You called me wolf man?"

"Shouldn't you be thankful that I didn't call you a bear? Have you ever seen the amount of hair on your legs? The chest hair growing like a climber and peeping out through your shirt? But I don't know how your arms are maintained. Geez, no hygiene!" With this, Romi gave him another eye toss while Vicky stood rotted at his place and finding words to say.

"Guys please. Don't I deserve a proper, nice, meaningful answer?" Living with Drishti, my tolerance level had reached the extent that I could tolerate any nuisance for what we can call hours. "Please"

"Wolf man" seeing Vicky's face, I could feel that he could cry at any time. "He called me wolf-man. Rakshit, am I this hairy?" He looked at me with hope and I could do nothing but look at the ground and play with my feet.

Truth is bitter, but the truth is the truth, is the truth.

"Wow!" He cried making a baby face and coughed ineveidently while laughing in between to express his sorrow in a different way.

While his crying was still continuing, the girls returned with some eatables chiming about something while they looked really annoyed. "You should have let me punch him" said Drishti.

"I agree with her for the first time. That guy really deserved it but you have to be the saintly figure all the time" said Natasha.

Okay

Did I just hear Natasha agreeing with Drishti on something?

That too on hitting someone.

"Why so violent? Stay calm na!" Said Divya before looking at us "Let's go. I seriously don't want to stay with these two. The train will be here soon and I will be RIP from these two"

"You know I was going to beat a guy when he told me my girlfriend's choice of words is dumb" Romi whispered in my ears before smashing his head on my shoulder "I think he was not that wrong"

"Nobody loves me. I'm so sick of this world. I was trying to save them but they were so not ready!" Complained an angry Divya as she looked at us.

"She was trying to save the guy who was clearly trying hitting on her! And she says she was saving us?" Sighed Drishti.

"Oh yes. Only you two are correct. I am born wrong, my whole existence is wrong!" I would say her brain nerves would burst seeing the level of frustration.

"Huh, okay, okay. I got it. You saved them, wow! Congratulations! Now give me the food while I handle her" Romi buried Divya's face in his chest and patted her back while taking a package from Natasha. "My strong love" pat "you deserve noble prize" pat "every bravery award" pat "enlightenment award" pat "the entire world"

In the main time, the train arrived so we all got inside and had our seats. The sitting arrangement was quiet obvious. Natasha and Vicky. Romi and Divya. Drishti and I would be sitting be each other's side but maintaining a distance from the pairs so that we all could get some

Privacy

"Did you know?!" As we settled on our seats, Drishti didn't waste a second to start elaborating how a guy walked upto Divya and started some double meaning talks and how Divya couldn't catch what he meant. "These girls! Still being silent. I was going to punch his face but Divya saved him and that person ran away! Like, who even does this?" Opening the pack she had with her, she pulled put a burger and handed it over to me before taking out another one for her, followed by two small packets of ketchup "Can't believe she did that!"

"Can't believe you left him so easily" I smiled at her and started eating my burger while the fries were absent. When I aksed she told me how she got so angry on her way that she ate every single fry in the packet. "Greedy"

"I am" shrugging her shoulders, she stood up and looked at the back seat where Divya and Romi were seated. "Where's my coke Miss Unnecessarily heroic personality?"

After she got her coke hearing an earful from Divya, she jumped back at her seat and opened the bottle. I had already finished my burger and now, I was looking at her as she was gulping the coke.

Did I exist?

I was looking at her so eagerly that I placed my chin on my hand and continued looking at her till she gave me the required attention. "What?"

"How greedy you are" was all I could say as I sighed dramatically while acting as if I was broken by her act. "Didn't even care to ask me if I wanted a sip? I'm hurt!"

"Ah, what a nice low budget acting. You should've asked" she smiled gently as she offered me the bottle to have a sip from it. "But leave some for me, okay?"

"Yes mam!"

The time was going better than what I expected it to be, talking of her behavior, it was something more than an attempt and something less than a complete change. But the thing that meant the most was that she was trying

If changing yourself was this easy, imagine what the world would've been. Not everyone can change themselves to be a completely opposite person, but she was showing the signs that she could do it and the type of person she was, I knew she would never be giving up. Unaware of what the future had for us, we were happy with the time we were spending now.

We sat quietly for half an hour as she was busy looking outside the window showing a complete black tunnel view and a few metro stations when they came. As I was looking at the other side, her head slowly leaned on my shoulder and her arm wrapped around me like they usually did. Right in front of our seat, Natasha and Vicky were seated and we could see Vicky's hand moving in a circular motion towards Natasha which meant he was holding her.

It was only after another couple of minutes she decided to talk to me, starting the conversation by calling me "Rakshit?"

"Yeah" turning my face towards her, I rested my head on the head rest and listened to her.

"Do you actually like me?" No

I mean, come on! I love you but I would not be the one confessing it first. "I do"

"Oh" she said and left my arm as she laid back and looked outside once again. If I was correct, it was due to Vicky's recent act.

"Are you, by any way, thinking that it's only who stays close to me and holds me while I don't?" I asked her. She shrinked in her seat and nodded her head in a no but finally looked at me and nodded her head positively. At least she is clear with what she felt.

"Oh come on! Seriously? You think I don't like you" I sighed and put my arm around her shoulders, pulling her closer "You literally are the dumbest creature alive"

"Not more than you" she mumbled as she looked at me and interviewed the fingers of our free hands. "We're doing this so often, right?" As I hummed she tightened her hold "It feels good" she admitted again.

"It does. Everytime"

"Do you think things will be good for us in the future?" The feeling of slight fear of insomia was clear in her tone and hef body language.

"I don't know, but we will try our best, to stay together, right?"

"We surely will" kissing my cheek and smiling at our hands, she closed her eyes and soon drifted to a peaceful sleep.

Life is unpredictable but that didn't mean we should spend our time fearing the unknown and not live it. The beauty of life is contained in the moments we decide to make special, not anything more, not anything less. A combination of ups and downs, breakings and healings, not knowing if you would be alive the next day, you still stay. Stay with your life, so why wasting it and disrespecting the true beauty of it when you can find your happiness according to your terms.

Remember, happiness is how you explain it.

A thing that makes a person happy is not bound to have the same impact on another person.

Happiness is described in your own terms. It is as easy to be happy as it is to be sad. So chose wisely between the two.