*Forever : Love Or Friendship* [Part-16]

~"Break up is not the ugliest part of any relationship, what hurts more than it is the moving on part, living on those memories. Life changes, and you just cannot accept it so easily."~

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With time i got used to it. Her face used to come up in her mind suddenly, and it used to haunt me. But then knowing she was happy with a guy, she was actually happy, it somewhat brought ease to my heart.

I was doing fine too. College and work kept me busy. By choice, i became a workaholic. And my dad, he was really happy to see me like this. He used to say that he was sure I'm gonna make him proud one day, and i knew that it what i have to do, stand unto his expectations.

I had some vacations, so i was back in Mumbai. I did meet her, and she came to talk to me too, but this time it was me, who ignored her. It did seem to affect her a bit, but she never talked about it to me, neither did i try to bring up the topic. She was happy i could see it, and i didn't want to disturb our peace by all that again. She just tried asking if I'm doing okay or not, and i said i was alright, managing.
Hearing that she just smiled.

After a few days, dad sent me to some corporate meeting. And some of his friends' son and some colleagues of his invited me to a drink afterwards. Being a non-drinker, i was quite reluctant to join, but dad wanted me to go and have a bit of talk to them, and make a few contacts. I did as he said.

With all those people, i was sitting and everyone was having quite a talk. We were in one of those posh bars of the city. I've always avoided such places, i just used to feel out of place, but i accompanied them.
In between the talks, my phone started ringing. It was Di, i excused myself and went outside to attend the call.

While i was coming back inside, near the drinks section, i saw three guys sitting. One of the faces, it seemed to be quite familiar. That was the same face, i saw Saanvi hugging outise her college at that time.
That was her guy, that face was of that person who replaced me. I don't know what happened, i just went and took a seat near him, my instincts were telling me that something was just not right. Those three guys were badly drunk. I heard them talking, because i heard Saanvi's name.

The blood in my veins was fuming. Hearing her name, from someone else, i just couldn't bear it.