So Cheesy Pizza !!!

JIA : PLEASE STOP ASKING ME THE SAME QUESTION OVER AND OVER AGAIN. ITS EXTREMELY ANNOYING.

She replied teary eyed with this unreal anger she was showing Aarav. This was never she wanted to do but then again all the importance that remained was given to his friends and she couldn’t take it, Aarav’s importance couldn’t  be shared. While the same Aarav got no time after his office, this little girl expected her Aarav to be a little bot and never change. She wanted him to be the very same as before, that Aarav who would care, who never had a no to say, who never let his girl cry, that’s how Jia’s Aarav was. She could not take that. She loved him unconditionally with her own conditions. She decided it was enough and this time she was firm to move on. She spent her days crying and missing him, her world around Aarav and she had no other friends that made it all the more difficult. She started being on herself all alone. Getting active on all social networking sites to curb her pain, to stalk him, to know how he was doing. Everything Jia show, reminded her of Aarav. Those streets where they took long drives, those parks where they spent their evenings, restaurants, theatres, malls everywhere she missed him. It had been a week and she did not hear anything from him, his message stopped, no networking site he was active on, she also tried to call his friends but no one had clue one such a day. 

While she missed him crazy she decided to visit their frequently visited and favourite joint ‘pizza hut’ to feel his presence around her. Being their regular customer, she was welcomed with a wide grin and question by a person on gate, “Mam, Why are you alone? Sir kahaan gayein?” She did not speak anything and move inside swiftly expecting Aarav inside the restaurant. She felt broken as she imagined the couple their a cheese loving Aarav and lactose intolerance Jia and the way they share their pizza. Aarav’s Cheese and Jia’s Pizza. She took their favourite place (the corner table beside glass window). As soon as she took a seat, waitress rushed to her saying, “It’s almost been a month. Kahaan ho aap log?” She got an idea that Aarav had never been there too. Tears on her cheeks noticed by waitress and she decided not to bother jia anymore. After few minutes a person came to her and asked for the order. “So Cheesy Pizza”, she said and burst in to the tears. Jia did not eat that pizza and found herself giving it to the baggers exactly like Aarav did where she was greeted with the same question , “Saahab kahaan gaye, madam?” And she asked the question to herself the millionth time of where would Aarav be.

*sobs*

Token of Love

The phone beeped, the screen flashed her name.

JIA: PLEASE STOP ASKING ME THE SAME QUESTION OVER AND OVER AGAIN. IT’S EXTREMELY ANNOYING.

Aarav looked at it as tear streamed down his cheeks. He’d already cried gallons since the morning. He wanted her to show him that last bit of pity, he wanted her to turn into that cute girl again who he had fallen head over heels in love with, he wanted one last chance one last time. It wasn’t like they never broke up before, they did like 17 millions time but that’s how Jia got Aarav back on track, it was her weapon to fill sanity in him. But this time it was over. No last chance, no patch ups, no next times. She was rock stern. And the break up she kept, even when it tore her in to pieces. She had her own family issues and this silly fights with Aarav just added up to it. She could take it no more. Similarly work pressure built frustration with Aarav and these fights did not justice to him. Aarav put endless efforts but no success she was hell bent this time, she couldn’t and did not take it. The beautiful couple was no longer together, that couple which people looked up to and even envied sometimes had fallen apart.

He replied.

AARAV: OK. SORRY.

Clicked the send and directly went to his phone gallery- DCIM>PHOTOLOCKER>UNHIDE>PASSWORD>(JA/AJ)>LOVE>*1224 pictures unlocked*

He went through all of them again almost 10th time today itself. Loads of selfies, loads of memories, poses, smiles, faces, kisses, hugs and token of love, the auto play has stopped at the last picture in the folder, both their hands holding the key chain, their own parts of the key chain. He recollected how Jia warned him this was the last key chain she bought as silly Aarav already lost couple of them.

He recollected the day. It was their 3rd month anniversary; Jia got him this key chain cutest of all the previous ones a little girl and a little boy holding two pieces of heart and together those pieces made one whole. The corners of his lips turned into a smile as he memorized her innocent angry face while she said, “don’t you loose this one!” And with a smirk he replied, “good I lost those two else we wouldn’t get this one”, while she snapped back, “Aarav this is the last one if you loose this doll(key chain) you will loose me” and Aarav promised her he wouldn’t loose it ever(and her too). He kissed her to soften the intensely heated conversation. As their kiss broke she looked up into his eyes and said “This doll my dear boyfriend keep an eye on you whenever you miss me”. “You mean to say you are a doll?” Aarav ticked back to tease her as she slightly punched his shoulder pretending to be angry. Jia loved Aarav in unconditional ways, she loved his humor, his serenity, his immaturity and everything. Aarav she believed was perfect. And here he was smiling teary eyed, broken. He wanted her back, he wanted to be happy again and indeed make some memories now which he never realized he made unknowingly.

He walked to his room and got little Jia out of the shelf, that key chain lay there smiling at him. It’d been one and a half year that this key chain meant everything to him, he’d smiled, laughed, complained, fought and teased the key chain whenever Jia wasn’t around. He treated the key chain like it was the living miniature of Jia. They had beautiful times together, they made promises together. He himself promised JIa that their relation would never end while they shared the first kiss of their life, he promised her he would handle all the hurdles that came their way. He cursed himself to break this promise, he broke out in tears and held Jia close to him as he kissed her and whispered “I M SORRY”.

*Sobs*

- Sarthak Naik & Siddhi Waingankar