Rohan quickly took a walk around the whole area only to realise Naina wasn't here, she was somewhere else... and well having read her diary made it pretty easy to guess where she was – under the stars, sitting on top of her neighbour's car.

"Ab tum kaha jaa rahe ho Rohan!!" Aziza shouted when she saw Rohan quietly sneaking away from the Venu.

"Aa raha hu bass 5 minutee"

And he was right. He stood in front of Naina's house and could clearly see a figure with long hair- which he would have misakten as ganji chudail- sitting on top of the neighbour's car.

"mujhe pata hi tha ki tum part time chudail ho aur raat me bacche churati ho"

"Whatt! tumhe kaise pata mai yaha houngi"

"um vo thoda..." Rohan said lifting up her diary 

"KUTTEEE tumne meri diary padhi! privacy naam ki bhi cheez hoti haii just because tumhe privacy ki spelling nhi aati doesn't mean tum uske baare me bhul hi jaoge"

"areyy baba shaant vo khuli thi and maine ek page padhlia... it was so beautiful that i could not stop myself from reading more poems. the more i read the more i felt. Aur aati hai mujhe privacy ki spelling P-R-I-V-A-C-Y.

Naina remained quite, she had never let anyone read her poems before so compliments were something new and that too one in such an elaborate manner was rare. 

"Why did you run away naina? tum to ye krne ke liye itni excited thi and apni hi performance se pehele bhag gyi. Hadd haii!"

"I-I'm sorry" Naina whispered, a quite, tired whisper.

"kya hua ye batane ka kya logi?" 

"pata nhi bas sab ajeeb hai" Naina replied after a long pause. this was her go to response to whenever something when wrong because she could never point out exactly what was wrong or what she was feeling. And people never took this as an answer they either overlooked it or let Naina be, but Rohan did something different. 

"Acha koi nhi, hota hai. Should i keep talking? it will take your mind off things for a while" 

This was an unexpected reply, Naina looked up and nodded slightly. Rohan kept talking, yapping and teasing her until they were both laughing. 

Then Nania took a deep breath and started.

"I got scared, mujhe ese lag raha tha ki mere pass singing ke alwa aur koi talent hai hi nahi and voh bhi maine ayaan se cheena hai. I did not want to take away his light... vo gata hai shuru se it's his favourite thing to do you know. Mumma ne mujhe music classes me sirf esliye enroll kra tha because papa would never agree to send ayaan for a music class. Toh mumma forced me in  and I hated every minute of it ofcourse.  But slowly we both learned music papa was still okay with my singing and complimented it now and then but he never even looked at ayaan, aur ye passion to uska tha na... i always felt like i robbed him of the compliments he deserves. And what about my hobbies? I never got to choose one for myself because the circumstances did not allow. Until one day writing knocked on my door and found me... but maine kabhi kissi ko bataya nhi. agar meri ye dil tuti poems papa ya mummy me se kissi ne bhi padhi na mujhe ghar se fek denge" Naina explained. 

"Well, mujhe nhi laga tha ki I will ever say this, but Miss Naina Malhotra you have quite the talent. Each poem spoke something that can only be felt and singing but theek thaak kr leti ho tum but merese better nhi ofcourse!" 

"Bhakk pagal tujhe aati bhi hai singing?, but thank you yahi rehne ke liye. But mai expose hogyii yaaarrr ab tumhe mere secret pata chal gaya. Mujhe pata h kisiko bataoge nhi but mujhe bohot pareshan karogeee!" 

"Acha chal essi baat par mai bhi apna ek secret bata deta hu, par usse pehle ye bata ki itni 'mera pehla pyaar adhura reh gya' wali poems tu likh kiske liye rahi hai!" 

"Ek, ek ladka tha in high school I know you'll call it a silly crush but I don't know yar I just never forgot him. Agar tum puchoge ki mujhe usme kya pasand aaya toh mere pass es sawal ka koi jawab nahi hoga, I don't know what exactly made me go crazy. Was it his eyes? Uski meethi awaz? Khikhikhi wali cute si hassi? har kissi ki care krne wali adat? Ya vo pura ka pura. Cocaine to tha vo ekdum vese."

"Ya allah mujhe es tharki aurat se dur rakho mai adhi raat me akela hu eske saath"

"Arey tumhe thodi na chhed rhi! Chupp ekdum"

"I always thought I was a yapper, par jaise hi vo bolna shuru krta tha, mai uski baton me ekdum kho jati thi. Vo bolta rahe, mai sunti rahu and god those soft curls which landed perfectly on his forehead. And vo pagal ek number ka nashedi, itni harkate krta tha na kya batau" Naina continued.

"MY god itna tough banti hai but you're such a lover girl. Teri man hater personality ka kya hua. And ab kaha hai yeh unlucky insaan"

"Well, he liked someone else and we all know how this story ends"

Rohan stayed silent, closely observing the way Naina described him.

"Mujhe pata hai tum hasna chahte ho merepe haslo yar" Naina said a little embarrassed.

Instead of replying he pulled out a page from her diary and read out loud:

"Woh aya tha bas ek muskurahat ke saath,

Aur mere liye sab kuch ruk gaya tha us raat.

Na waqt chala, na hawa,

Usse dekhe beeta har pal ek dilkash nazara bana...

Main kehti rahi khudse,

"Bas dekhte rehta hi kafi hai, uski muskurahat me jeena hi toh ishq hai"

Magar ye dil..

Dil to uske jaane se har baar toot sa jata tha,

Esse kaun samjhaye ki vo apna nahi tha, jo usse rok leti.

Vo ek ehsaas tha,

Jo ek lamha man gaya.

Aur mai ek musafir jo bhatak gya.

Voh kissi aur ke zikar par chamak uthta

Aur mai uski khushi me haste haste jal jati...

Voh jab bhi uska naam leta, ese lagta ki mujhe pukaar raaha hai,

Magar meri kismat itni achi kaha...

Voh hasta, muskurata, apni pyaari bhari aakhon se dekhta - usse

Dard bohot hota tha par,

Usse muskurata dekhna,

Nazara kai dilkash tha!

"Kitne pyaar sabdh h Naina I never thought some words joined together could sound like this... I have never fallen in love and if I'm being honest I don't want to either but this relects such pure feelings and hits somewhere in my heart..."

A pause

She never thought that out of all the people Rohan would appreciate her poetry like this.

"Aur rahi baat us ladke ki.." he started but Naina cut him off.

"Save it Rohan relax I've moved on"

" I highly doubt that"

Before the conversation could move forward Rohan's phone rang breaking the moment.

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