Her feelings-II

Pernisa took the longest way back to her home. Her hopes, her dreams had fallen apart that day.  Her eyes had swollen and her thoughts were solely on, If Swikirt will ever be with love of his best friend.

On reaching home, Pernisa’s mom asked why she had been so late and if she had been crying?  Pernisa had the impeccable excuse for her swollen eyes, “my stomach is acing” she said. Even though “stomach ace” might be a very difficult thing for girls, I am sure it has saved them in more difficult situations. 

She spent the entire evening thinking about how she had planned to ask Swikirt out right after SLC, then how they would go to same college and how she would express her feelings for the first time, how happy she would be after he finally said yes!! After all, girls are good dreamers, aren’t they?

Her Facebook was over flooded with “things will be fine”, “Sabal is also good” and “you still have probability of getting Swikirt” among which the last ones were the only texts that made her feel a little better. After chatting to her friends for an hour about her inane problems Swikirt came online! “Talk to him! At least you do not have to worry about him not replying now” her friends said! “That’s true “, she thought and for the first time she was finally able to press enter after typing “hi”.

After a little bit of formal talk, Swikirt asked Pernisha “What do you think about sabal?”.  “I don’t know” was her perfect reply.  “When will you know then  J ?” asked Swikirt. “I will let you know when I do” she said. Well, She already knew it but now she also knew that Swikirt will be talking to her, may be for his best friend, but still And that’s what mattered!! ! “Good going parni! “She told herself.

They talked for next two hours about how great Harry Potter was, how reading 2 states was ten times better than watching it, how stupid Mr. Banshal was and how they liked some food. Pernisa realized, “the worst day of her life” had changed to “best day in forever.”

Next day, Pernisa was both nervous and excited about facing Swikirt, She started getting ready earlier than usual and made sure her hair, skin looked good enough. She took extra time to brush her teeth, iron her clothes and to perfectly wing her eyeliner.

Not only that, she reached school thirty minutes before the bell and waited for Swikrit to come. Her friends were surprised to see her that early, “Are you all right?” they asked. “Yes I am super fine” she replied. When she had finished telling her friends about her reason for being super fine Swikirit and Sabal entered the classroom.

Pernisa could not help giving a big smile to Swikirt but to her incredulity Swikirt did not even respond. She felt like an idiot! And for rest of the day she felt so ashamed and she could not wait to go home.

She spent her entire evening waiting for Swikrit to appear online. When he finally did, she was glad that she did not have to be the one to start the conversation. Pernisa asked why he did not talk to her that day, to which swikirt said he is not very comfortable around girls.

Days passed and so did months, they would talk every day for hours and share every little things with each other. In other words, they had become virtual best friends. Pernisa liked Swikirt more than ever and she was pretty sure that Swikirt liked her too. She was so happy that her crush had turned out to be a best friend who liked her.

However, one thing always bugged her, and that was Swikirt’s behavior at school. Forget about talking he would not even smile at her. Which made Pernisa find things fishy!

One day, she could not resist herself! So, somewhere in between their never ending conversation, she asked, “you act like you don’t even know me at school, sometimes I feel like you are not even Swikirt !”

“Yes, I am not him” was the reply!

To be continued….