Know Me Not....

BETWEEN THEM
Part 39


There was something in his eyes that night ..... Tears?

The answer was "almost never" when it came to the question of how many times Krish had shed tears....

Maybe over a painful hurt in childhood... Maybe due to the harsh words of a friend then.... Maybe due to death of someone close....

But today was different....

It was over the ignorance of love.... A love more pure than he had thought.... Something that refused to succumb to time and space and forever....

Love that had been refused all along.....


A tap on his door.... He did not open it....

"Who is it?"

She answered from behind the closed door....
"Me... Krish.... Preetha"

"What?"

"Sorry about today... Aunty told me you could not stand the smell of blood...."


He was getting irritated... He had forgotten the quarrel and was sullen about the information his mother had passed on to her....

"It's fine... I did not mind much"

"But I really wanted to ...."

"You can go Preetha"


He was thinking about that photo... And her voice as she had called out his name.... Her eyes.... And the way he had held her that evening.... And her shying away in the car....

"Shriya.... Don't get close to me...."