Arc Rocks

Close Apart Chapter-31 “The Breaking News” Amrita gave him the breaking news exactly a week later. “Maybe you’ll have to take a leave from your office coming Tuesday.” “Why?” “An important thing might come up!” she said with a sparkle in her eyes. “Yeah! Maybe. Important things keep coming to me from past few days.” “But this’ll rock you like anything!” “Sounds like you’ve planned something!” “Please don’t pin me! I find it very hard to keep a secret long with me. But this time I’ve managed because I have imagined a special way to let you know!” “O.K.” They were crossing the busy streets. Sounds of approaching vehicles were cutting out Amrita’s voice. Aditya’s raised his voice to call Amrita. “Let’s have some cakes today instead!” “Why cake? Why not pizza?” “I thought cakes will be a change” “Then we’ll have cakes tomorrow, today I’m in a mood of having pizza!” Amrita ordered a couple of Lamb Delights and then started chatting about the times that they had spent together in the past. A...

Close Apart Chapter-30 “Those Memoirs…” Why does luck play such games on innocent humans? And to tip that off, the wounded heart behaves in strange ways. Aditya was finding himself in lot of troubles to cop up with the fact that he has to be with Amrita and not Komal. He was in a fix, and he was dead tired thinking over it. “You’ll have to tell her…” “I couldn’t think how I’d do it.” “But you can’t delay this for too long can’t you?” “But… Why?” “Just look at you!! You’re spending sleepless nights thinking about her and trying to figure out how to just meet her once… And then thinking the day away about how she told you not to do so… you are one pathetic mess!!” “Just shut up! You know nothing about it!” “Is it? You’re just trying to console yourself by telling some crap things, but that isn’t going to work with me.” “I can’t tell Amrita all these… “ “You better do or otherwise she’ll get it herself.” “What??...how’s that possible?” “Well let me guess, do you know who the world’s happi...

Close Apart Chapter-27 “Déjà vu…” “Hello Aditya!” “Yes Komal?” “What are you doing this fine morning?” “Planning to have a good sleep.” “Well has anyone told you about the appointment?” “Which one? Well I clearly remember not keeping any one today.” “Yeah you have! You are supposed to meet your girlfriend in half an hour from now. Hurry up!! You don’t want to be late at the meeting… get up.” “O.K. where is the venue again??” “Pizza Hut, 25 mins” “Hey you said half an hour” “And you’ve already wasted 5 minutes!! Hurry!” Aditya was getting ready when the phone rang once again. “Now you’re making me late.” “Hi Aditya its Mr. Arora.” “Oh hello sir! I was just speaking to one of my friends.” “Aditya, I know with whom you were talking, I need to talk to you about something.” “Yes sir…” “The thing I am about to tell concerns Komal, so I need you to be listen very carefully. During her college days, Komal fell for a guy.” “Rohan” “Yes, so you kn...

Close Apart Chapter-26 “ D ear I ’ll A lways R emember Y ou!” Dear diary, I never thought that I would ever face you again!! Life’s changing its course like a fast flowing river, eager to meet her destiny… the sea. So I have also decided to surrender myself to its flow. The last few months have changed everything in my life, I have experienced love, faith, pain, misery, hope… emotions those I even don’t have names for. All of them have molded me into a separate being. And all through this, my love for Aditya has helped me survive. From the first day I saw Aditya, I knew that he was destined to be mine, and now he is!! I would do anything to live this life that my destiny has bestowed me with. From tomorrow, life will never be the same. Our love will blossom to its full glory & I’ll go to any distance to have this. I have wasted so many years of my life searching for him, and now I’m not going to waste any more. I’m going to live the life that I deserve; with ...

Close Apart Chapter -25 “The Other Side of Me” “Let’s go on a picnic!!” Komal said. “That’s a negative. Neither of us is going to have that much of leave.” “Who said we’ll have to go away from the town for a picnic? We can have a nice joyous picnic just here…” “Here where?” “Say… on the roof of your apartment!! Wouldn’t that be great?” “That would be crazy! No one has gone up there in like a million years!” “That would make it even more exiting! Then it’s done, tomorrow at 10:30am we are going up!” So the roof was cleaned, and Aditya’s “rugged old stove” was pumped for one last time. And just when they were all done with spreading mat, and arranging breakfast, it happened almost then. The daylight went dim… and before Aditya could say “crap!” raindrops started falling from nowhere. “And I was thinking that the weather was nice!!” No doubt Komal’s plan had been wasted. Seeing Komal standing in the rain with a childish expression of despise on her f...

Close Apart Chapter-24 “A step ahead” Receiving a bunch of roses in office was not the usual way to start a normal day for Komal! And when the note read “Got you another surprise, meet me after work- Aditya” Komal knew that there’s something really unusual about that day! All day long, she kept on thinking, what may be the surprise! “Is it the movie that I mentioned that day and he reacted like… Ice Age! Aren’t you too grown up for those movies!! Or is it that keychain that I loved in the Archie’s gallery and he winked away!! Oh god! I am too much stressed out! I hate surprises!” “Madam!” Komal was so much sunk in her confusions that she almost forgot that she was still in the office! “Yes?” “Sir asked if you’ve completed proof-reading for your article or not…” “Ah… tell him that I’ll hand it to him within 10 minutes. And again she sank in her trivia hunt!! Basically Komal is a “constant demanding” type girl. Need clarification? Well let’s put it in ...

Close Apart Chapter-23 “New Beginning” It was a fine evening; Aditya & Komal were in the same old spot which they’ve chosen quite a number of times now in quick successions. Having bites from their favorite cakes. When suddenly this topic came up. “Aditya!” “mm hm…” “Where are you?” “Right here! In front of you! Why did you ask?” “You seemed lost…” “Yeah you guessed right, nothing important, past stuff.” “Thinking about Amrita, aren’t you?” Aditya’s sigh gave Komal the answer she was looking for. “Do you know Aditya, why I often ask you to meet here instead of Pizza Hut?” “Why?” “Because that was the place where it all started, because that place is full of her memories. And I thought that may be changing the surroundings may help you to recover fast. Come-on Aditya, for how long will you bear this pain within you?” “Komal, tell me that even you’ve believed that she’s dead.” “You tell me Aditya, you enquired in each a...