She Fell First but He Never Did!!
You're different!!
The days blurred into evenings...
From shy glances to shared silences, Meihika didn’t know when her world quietly shifted... and he became the center of it...
Veer...Her senior...Her maybe...Her ache...
They were something in-between...
A limbo laced in laughter, and laced with longing...
One Afternoon – University Garden!!
The sun filtered through the tall gulmohar trees...
Crimson petals scattered over the grass like broken hearts fallen from the sky...
Meihika sat cross-legged on the stone bench, a worn-out poetry book open in her lap...
She wasn’t reading...Her eyes were stuck on the screen of her phone...
She was about to text him first...
Veer
Still waiting for the right metaphor?
**voice landed behind her like silk and thunder at once**
Meihika
**She looked up, startled, her breath hitching slightly**
Meihika
You scared me...
**she smiled, brushing her hair behind her ear**
He took a slow seat beside her, not too close, not too far...
Veer
You just looked too caught up in that... Shakespearean panic!!
Meihika
**She laughed, gently**
Maybe I was just waiting for someone to come distract me...
Veer
**His gaze met hers, intense, unreadable**
I distract you?
Meihika
**She blinked**
Sometimes…
She said, her voice barely above a whisper...
Veer
**He chuckled**
Good...
Just that... One word...And everything inside her fluttered!!
Later That Week – University Stairs...
They sat on the stone steps that led nowhere, abandoned corners of the campus she now claimed as theirs...
Meihika
Because life makes more sense in metaphors...
Veer
**He tilted his head, studying her**
You always talk like you’re a line from a poem, you know?
Meihika
Maybe I am...
**she smiled**
Those two words hung in the air like stars suspended by a string...
Meihika
Different?
**she echoed, her voice trembling slightly**
Veer
**He looked at her those beautiful, deceiving eyes softening under the streetlight glow**
Not like the others...
Meihika
**Her breath caught**
She looked down, hiding the storm that rose in her chest.... She’d heard compliments before...
But this one sounded like a promise...
And she, a girl who believed in words more than anything, held onto it like a vow he never meant to make...
Veer
Still awake, Literature girl?
Meihika
Couldn’t sleep. Too many thoughts...
Meihika
A boy who says things that sound like poetry...
Veer
Ah, he must be dangerous...
Meihika
He is...Especially when he says I’m different!!
Meihika
Don’t say it if you don’t mean it...
She stared at the screen for five minutes after the blue ticks...
Meihika
**Her heart sank**
And just like that, she fell a little deeper...
Another Evening – Library Corner...
They sat beside each other her eyes pretending to read, his fingers flipping through a book he wasn’t really seeing...
Veer
I like how quiet you are...
**he said, breaking the silence**
Meihika
Is that a good thing?
Veer
It’s… peaceful...Everyone’s so loud all the time!!
Meihika
And I’m just... silent chaos?
**she offered with a crooked smile**
Veer
**He turned to her**
No...You’re a poem I haven’t finished reading yet!!
Meihika
**Smiled, cheeks flushing crimson**
She wanted to believe he was real... That this wasn’t another daydream...
That his words weren’t rehearsed for a dozen others.
She wanted to believe she was different...
Meihika
Tell me something honest...
Veer
**voice on the line turned soft**
I don’t lie...
Meihika
That’s not the same as being honest...
Veer
I like the way you look at me...
Veer
Like you’re seeing through me… and still staying...
Meihika
**closed her eyes, warmth blooming in her chest**
I like the way you smile at me...
Meihika
like it’s okay to be soft in a world that’s so cruel...
Then Veer spoke, voice low...
Veer
Maybe… we both need each other’s softness!!
She didn’t say anything...She couldn’t...
Because at that moment, she was falling too fast, too deep...
And he was watching her fall...
With that same calm, cruel smile...
Her Journal That Night...
[He says I’m different...
I wonder if he notices how I hold his words like they’re sacred...
He paints stars in my skies and forgets to name them after me...
I think he likes the sound of my heart breaking...
Because he keeps coming closer…
Only to leave just before I touch hope...]
The Reality She Didn’t See...
Veer looked at her differently...
Yes...But not with love...With curiosity...
She was the girl who blushed when he stared too long...
Who remembered the tiniest things he said...
Who laughed like his presence was a blessing...
And he liked haunting people who felt too much...
She texted first...Called back...
Smiled even when he didn’t smile back...
He never asked her for anything...Never promised anything..m
He only let her hope...And that… was enough....
Another day....Staircase Again...
She sat beside him, gently leaning her shoulder against his...
The moonlight bathed her in silver...
Meihika
Veer...
**she whispered**
Meihika
If I fall… will you catch me?
Veer
**He turned to her, eyes unreadable**
Veer
Don’t fall...
**he said softly**
But his hand brushed hers again...His eyes still held hers...
And his smile still made her fall all over again...
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Golden Heart
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2025-08-06
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