She Fell First but He Never Did!!
The Cruelity of Hope!!
A soft, lazy silence wrapped around the campus like a warm shawl...
The kind of day that made even the wind forget how to rush...
Meihika didn’t have classes...
But something inside her tugged gentle, persistent—until she found herself at the library again...
Maybe it was hope pretending to be coincidence...
She picked a quiet corner seat, hidden away behind tall stacks of books, facing the window where sunlight dripped like spilled gold...
She wasn't looking for him... No, truly, she wasn’t.
At least not this time...
She took out her books, opened her journal, and drowned herself in words...
Two hours passed in silence... Pages turned... Pens glided... Her tea cooled beside her!!
Somehow, even before she saw him she knew...
Meihika
**Her skin prickled**
Meihika
**Her breath caught**
And then she lifted her eyes...
Wearing black... Hands in pockets... That same unreadable calm painted across his face like a masterpiece of indifference!!
He was walking towards her....
Their eyes met across the quiet room...
He saw her... And still… he looked away...
Only to take the seat directly in front of her...
One table away...Facing her...
Close enough to notice the shade of her eyes...
Far enough to say it wasn’t intentional...
She tried... Oh, she tried not to look...
He sat there, pretending to read turning pages he didn’t glance at, drumming his fingers against the wood, his lashes lowering just enough to look sinful every time he peeked up at her...
Meihika
**dared a glance**
And then he looked away... Slowly... As if letting go of a secret....
Minutes passed like molasses...
They didn’t smile... Just… eyes.
Veer
**His gaze flickered again**
And this time his smile came with it...
A half-curve...Soft...Dangerous...Made of “maybe” and “what if.”
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[Like he was saying, I see you...I feel you... And also, But I won’t say it...]
Meihika swallowed hard, her fingers trembling slightly as she underlined a sentence in her book she wasn’t reading...
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[He gave her attention in pieces...]
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[Was that it?]
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[Was she just a pastime?]
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[A weekend distraction?]
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[Then why did he look at her like that?]
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[Like she was sunlight on the edge of winter.]
After a while he stood up...
Meihika
**Her heart dropped**
He walked around the table… and sat beside her...
Not across... Not diagonally.... Beside.
Veer
Reading anything good?
His voice was a whisper... Measured... Lazy... Like velvet smoke...
Meihika
**She blinked, startled**
Trying to...
Veer
Not trying hard enough...
**he teased**
Meihika
**She smiled, nervously, her heartbeat galloping against her ribs**
Veer
I thought you liked sitting by the window...
Meihika
I do...
**she murmured**
Veer
Then why this dark corner?
**His eyes burned into her**
Meihika
**She shrugged, whispering**
Sometimes I don’t want to be seen...
Veer
**He leaned closer, voice low**
And yet I still found you...
That single sentence—it undid her...
They didn’t speak for a while... Just sat... Breathing...Existing...
Meihika
**She focused on her book**
He didn’t touch her... But his presence was loud...
And then... A brush of fingers...
Their hands met as they reached for the same pen lying on the table between them...
Veer
**He picked it up, Handed it to her**
But his fingers lingered...A second too long...
Meihika
**Her skin sizzled**
Her soul?... It imagined a future.
Veer
I like your handwriting...
**he said suddenly, looking at her notes**
Meihika
**She smiled shyly**
Thank you...
Veer
You always write in cursive?
Meihika
Only when I’m not thinking...
Veer
**He chuckled**
That must be rare, You think too much...
He turned his face toward her... Closer than before...
Veer
You bite your lip when you overthink...You’ve done it five times since I sat down!!
Meihika
**She flushed**
You count?
Veer
I notice...
**He said it with a shrug**
But it hit her like a confession...He notices her...He sees her...
Or maybe... He just knows how to make her believe he does
Their arms rested inches apart...His shoulder brushed hers when he leaned to check the time!!
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[It was nothing...]
Hazel [AUTHOR]
[It was everything...]
Finally, after what felt like an entire lifetime packed into fifteen minutes, he stood up again...
Veer
Same time next Saturday?
**he asked casually, slinging his bag over his shoulder**
Meihika
Maybe...
**she replied, smiling like an idiot**
Veer
**He winked then walked away**
And Meihika sat there...Still...Silent...
Her book forgotten...Her tea cold... Her heart… foolishly loud...
That night, she wrote in her journal...
[You didn’t promise me forever...
You didn’t say love...
You didn’t say anything at all...
But your eyes…
God, your eyes lied so beautifully...
And I keep believing them...
Because hope wears your smile...
And I’m too in love with both...]
But what she didn’t know was…
He knew she was imagining things...
He knew she was building stories in her head...
Because it felt good to be adored...
To be looked at like the sky...
Even if he never planned to land...
Because Veer was never falling...
He was just… enjoying the view...While she plummeted...
One cruel whisper that sounded like something it wasn’t...
I hope u are liking it...
![Hazel [AUTHOR]](https://up-pic.mangatoon.mobi/contribute/fiction/11452010/avatar/49928807/1754586510303.jpeg-s200webp?sign=921a3a399a80d2fbd119af181beed1bf&t=68adc9d9)
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