FRIENDSHIP OVER LOVE

FRIENDSHIP OVER LOVE

I don't know from where to start. The story isn't so long but the impact it had on all of us in quite big. We six friends were so close that no one even thought of breaking our friendship. I had just reached home from work. I don't know how, but my sister just asked me suddenly "are you six friends still close?" I dint know how to react nor did I have any option to lie to her. I started narrating her my story because I could no more keep the burden in my heart. I then started narrating......"it all started when we were in 9th grade. I and Riya were in the same section but Jessi, Shreya, Ana and Aditya were in another section. I and Adi (Aditya) had joined this school in 9th. Starting we used to just call each other best friends but we actually became really close in 10th. In 10th all of us except Jessi was in another section. I and Adi got closer because of Jessi. Adi loved Jessi and she knew about it. Actually both of them loved each other but Adi's love was a bit more. He used to tell me everything and then I used to tell everything to Riya. Adi had no idea that I used to tell almost everything to her. But it wasn't a big deal because even both of them were quite close. Riya and Adi used to fight a lot. Even though the matter wasn't quite big, both of them used to get mad at each other. These fights aren't the usual fights that you see. Whenever they used to argue, I could always sense something. I dint know at first but later things were clear. Riya once told me that she had a secret crush on Adi and I went and told Adi about this. But nothing changed between them. The more they used to fight, the more close they used to get. Adi always kept telling Jessi to get committed to him but she was too scared to take this step. If Adi and Riya used to get close to someone else, i used to be damn jealous about it because we three shared a bond, a bong that was strong, stronger than the one that six of us shared. I and Adi couldn't talk much in school the way we chat at social networking sites because then the other students would make up some other story in their mind. Riya knew what I and Adi meant to each other. She knew that i would always develop this jealous feeling inside me whenever Adi used to talk to some other girl except Jessi. If I used to not be around Riya and Adi would talk a lot, fight, pull each others legs, act like fools, use slang language, make fun of the people passing by and what not. Both of them were crazy. But I felt blessed to have friends like them. Riya and Adi had the same kind of thinking but not me. I was completely the opposite of both of them. As days passed by I felt as if Adi started feeling something new something more towards Riya. But i dint talk to them about this because I dint want to bring any wall between our friendship. Even if I had told, I guess there wouldn't have been a big problem. They would have just laughed. The main problem was this that I dint want to be the laughing stock. We three kept telling each other I love you. I love you to three of us meant that nothing could break our bond. Me and Adi used more I love you's but Adi and Riya used more I hate you's . And me and Riya used equal I LOVE YOU'S and I HATE YOU'S. Me and Riya used to tease Ana with Adi but both of them had no idea about this cause we used code names*. Teasing them used to be fun. Shreya was the only innocent member in our group. 10th got over so soon. It felt as if 10th passed in a blink of our eyes. Jessi promised Adi that she would date him after 10th. And so it did happen. Me, Riya, Ana and Shreya were so happy for both of them. Jessi threw a big party for the six of us. I somewhere felt Adi wasn't so happy. I felt odd because this is what he wanted and now that it happened he isn't so happy. Though he dint show that he was upset, I could read his mind after all he was my best friend. Riya too knew that he was acting wierd and asked him about it. But he dint tell her anything because he dint tell me. Years passed but the three of us remained the same except for one feeling in Adi which none of us knew except he himself. I tried asking Adi many times but he always replied that he was perfectly fine. When Riya used to ask him, he used to tell her to keep her mouth shut. Jessi was in her aunt's place and Ana and Shreya were had gone somewhere. We three were in my room. I had just gone down to get some snacks and when I returned......what i saw was just astonishing. Riya and Adi stopped were standing so close to each other. Her hands locked his neck and his hands locked her waist. Both of them were lost in each other eyes, moreover they were tears in their eyes. When they both saw me, they just turned towards me, but they were still holding each others hand. I knew that something was not right. I asked them to tell me the story." So now who told the story? And whose story was it? The words fluttered and flew in the wind. "Three of us sat in a circle and were quite till Riya started crying again. I went and hugged Riya and told Adi instead to tell me what's wrong because she wasn't in a state of telling anything. Adi told me everything. After he told me, I dint leave them, instead I caught Adi's hand too. They were shocked at my behaviour because they thought that I would get mad at them and that's why they hid it from me all these years how much they loved each other. Adi and Riya had done their masters in not showing their emotions and that's what they were experimenting for all the years. Adi and Riya dint tell me this bacause they knew that I and Jessi were like soul sisters. Today Adi and Jessi are married and Riya just got engaged. I am even having a kid who turned one three days back. We dint tell anything to Ana and Shreya nor Jessi cause we dint want to hurt them in anyway. Jessi is happy with Adi because she gets all the love and care that a wife needs from her husband. But Adi is actually keeping Jessi happy because Riya told him not to leave Jessi. We all knew how much Jessi loved Adi and telling her this would lead to circumstances unimaginable. It used to be hard for both of them seeing each other not in each others arms but in someone elses. Even now both of them love each other the same way. At times I feel guilty beacuse maybe I had asked them at that moment itself what was going on, today the situation would have been something else. Every night before sleeping, all three of us cry thinking about it and keeping the rest three of our friends in dark. But we knew that whatever we were doing, we were doing it for each others good. Riya and Adi, thought they loved each other so much, they never crossed their limits. They knew their limits very well and even better they knew how to hide their emotions as they respected friendship". So didi, is this true love? 'YES IT IS TRUE LOVE. ANOTHER NAME FOR TRUE LOVE MAYBE RIYA AND ADI!"