Chap 9 BUNNY,her childhood friend

Ghazal missed Samar more than she had imagined. Daytime was easy to pass as she was busy in school but in the evenings she missed him a lot. Although they messaged each other whenever possible,yet it was their chats and his funny comments she missed the most. She wanted to share so much with him,all her memories,good n bad. Memories of her childhood n those carefree days which she had shared with her best friend,Mihir.
   Mihir whom she called BUNNY teasingly as he was fair n a little on the healthy side. Although he had grown up to be a handsome guy,yet the childhood name still existed between them.As a kid he used to run after her when she teased him,but now he only smiled at her with affection in his eyes.No one was allowed to call him with this name as she had the copyright to do so.They had so much fun playing their favorite games (cricket n chess )which were even Vrinda's favorites now. Together they used to play pranks on their school friends and mostly got away with them. Happy memories of her childhood usually brought a smile on her pretty face except when she missed Mihir a lot.It had been a long time since they met,as he had settled in U.S.A. Memories of that day came flooding back when he had come to meet her on the day he was leaving. Ghazal had been very upset for last few months.She was married to Arun who had never accepted her innocent friendship with Mihir and never missed a chance to insult Mihir. She had felt bad at her friend being insulted and had often tried to convince Arun that he was more like a brother to her,but Arun was impossible to convince which resulted into heated arguments between the two. A day came when Arun had given her ultimatum as to make a choice between him and Mihir. Mihir then had decided to leave India for good and settle in U.S.A.so as to protect her best friend's married life.It had been eight years since that day when he had left her house with tears in his eyes and never returned to India ever since.They talked on phone but that was only for a few minutes.Gradually years had gone by healing her wounds but sometimes their scars still hurt her a lot. She felt tears flowing down her cheeks, as she missed both her childhood friend and her new friend.She felt lonely and the Sun going down made her even more sad.
    But such is life. She couldn't fight with her destiny which had denied her love in every sense of the word. (: