Their Equal Share

3.Best friend

Niranjana p.o.v.

I stopped my bike in front of a girl who was dressed in a peach colour salwar kameez,her fair colour and slim figure complementing her attire.She waved at me with a smile and climbed on my backseat of the bike."I thought I was going to wait for another longtime but you made it as planned.Well done girl!"she patted on my back.

"Harini! I gave you my word that I will come earlier,so here I am without fail"I viewed her nodding her head in my rear mirror of my bike. Harini is my best friend since my schooling.Luckily our choice of career was also similar and we ended again in same college.Few of our choices would be always similar like this selection.

"Did you sleep well?"she asked coming closer to my ear.I shook my head as no.

"Well!then I guessed right from your dull face.What happened?"she asked with a concern voice.This is what I like more about her,she knows very well about my mood wings.She knows when to tease me,when to comfort me.She can guess just by seeing my face if something is off or on. "I will tell you once we reach our college."

Soon enough we reached our campus,parking my bike we headed directly to our classroom. Only four of my classmates were already in our class doing their work.Why not?this is almost end of our working days and all have their work to complete before examination.

Myself and Harini took our regular seats and started our pending work."so...tell me what happened that you were not able to sleep well?"she asked while continuing her work.But after that question I was not able continue my work while talking, like always I do.My thoughts suddenly drifted to the dream.

Should I tell her?Yes definitely I should,she is the only one trusted friend from school with whom I can share everything without filter.My secrets are always safe with her and same goes with me,her secrets are also safe with me.

"Hmm...you know I got this wired dream....."just like that I told everything to her with light and calmer voice so that other four people in the class could not hear.Her work stopped long before during my narration.When I completed telling she was looking at me with a teasing smile.

"So...you mean you didn't see who it is other than his eyes?"she asked me while staring at me with complete concentration."yes! those eyes looked familiar and I had tried to remember but I could not even guess whose eyes are those"I told her by leaning back on the seat with a sigh.She was thinking by keeping her forefinger and thumb on her chin.

"I think these are effects of the fairy tale stories told by your grandmother. Those may be the reason,because you wished for a prince when you were kid.It may be those effects."I shrugged at her,she had a point,like every girl I too dreamed for a prince when my grandmother told me fairy tales when I was kid.

But when I grew up,few incidents made me realize that Prince,princess and happily ever after are all fiction and would always remain only as stories.And I lost my interest in those stories when I realized those could not occur in real life."You know very well that I am no more kid and I lost my interest in those kind of stories."she nodded in understanding.

"I know even when your not interested,those stories are still stored somewhere deep in your heart.And it might also be a reason for such a dream."I shrugged again."May be" I told by nodding at her.

"Ok!let it be apart,you said you asked him that 'what are you doing?'when he came near, right" she asked with a teasing smile and I nodded avoiding her eyes."OK! why did you ask him 'what are you doing?' instead of 'who are you?' " I felt something in me by her comment."I...don't know,for god's sake girl it was a dream,it is not like it happened in real so that i can plan my words."I tried to divert that topic.just tried.

She smirked at me "then miss Niranjana would you mind to tell me the details if it happens in real with your so-called mysterious man" by now my cheeks are already heated with her comment.

"You..shameless i***t"I slapped her shoulder and our laughter echoed in our almost empty classroom making other four people to turn towards us.Our day passed with our hectic work but still Harini would often whisper and tease me in between.Then I too would get my revenge whenever I notice a boy looking at her who has this big crush on her.

These kind of teasing always would be for fun between both of us and we would never take it personally serious.Because we both very well knew that what these kind of relationships are capable of,especially Harini. She had experienced it personally.It will take everything you have and will leave you alone completely vulnerable and heart-broken.