Rashmi's POV

I stepped into Aryan and Anaya's house only to spot everything scattered on the floor.

"Hey Riya" Anaya said.

"Did a hurricane hit your house?"

"We were going through Aryan's old stuff in the hope of finding something"

"Great, I will help you"

I said placing my handbag on the table but I was clumsy enough to drop it on the floor and everything fell on the floor.

"Oh shit" I said as I sat down to clean it up.

"Let me help you, with that"

Anaya said as she sat down as well and started picking up my stuff.

"OMG you look so cute in this"

Anaya said looking at the picture in my purse.

"That's Samir he was my boyfriend he died in an accident a few years ago"

"Oh my, I am so sorry"

"Don't be, I have made peace with it"

"But losing the person you love is not easy, sometime back when I thought I will never see Aryan again it almost killed me from inside you must be feeling much worse"

"You love him a lot don't you?"

"Of course I do"

"Anaya, is this box of my old underwear can we considered it as proof?"

Aryan asked from the other side of the room.

"Although I am not too sure why" Anaya said.

I laughed, as she stood up and went near Aryan. I looked at my purse we looked so beautiful.

***

_Flashback_

Samir was my neighbor though we knew each other since childhood we never had a proper conversation it was partly because I had a huge crush on him since my school days, It would have ended like that if I hadn't coincidently joined the same collage as his, I can't even explain the amount of happiness I felt when I saw him on the first day of collage, I knew he was totally looking at me too, I had started to dream about us being together but we were still having problems in starting a conversation, that was when one day out of the blue he texted me. After few days of conversation we decided to meet outside we went to a collage party together soon we became great friends.

***

I was sitting in the canteen one day when Samir came running towards me.

"Hey"

"Hey, what took you so long?"

"We are having an inter collage dance competition"

"Great, so you got one more dance competition to win"

Oh I forgot to mention he is a great dancer.

"I want you be my dance partner"

"I can't do that have you even seen yourself dance, how the hell am I going to match that?"

"I will train you"

"I don't know yar"

"Trust me"

He said placing his hands on mine. We won the dance competition with ease and since then we have been partners in every event and also in class work.

***

The day my parents decided to marry me off, I called Samir.

"Hello Samir"

"What happened you sound weird?"

"My parents fixed my marriage"

"Oh congratulations"

"I really don't wanna get married"

"Come on yar they are your parents, they must have thought something"

"What?"

"Come on there are many arranged marriages that work, who knows maybe you will end up loving this guy"

I didn't believe how chilled out he was about the whole issue, I cut the call without even saying a goodbye and never called him again. As he had moved out of his parents' house a year ago he didn't get an invitation to my wedding as well.

_Flashback ends_

***

I stared at the picture once more before closing it and dropping it in my bag.