INTROVERT

She enters into the room with a great smile today. Soon, he enters too. She offers him the seat and asks how is he. He, in a good mood, answers fine.

She asks, "Do you know what was today?" After a pause of two minutes, he answers that he don't remember and asks back.
She gives a angry smile and answers, "You! Do you remember, I had taken part in the drawing competition?"
He tells her that he remembers it very well and asks further.

She tells him in a joyous voice, "Today results had to be announced. And guess what. I've topped. It's me, who've stood first among all the participants."
He cheerfully says, "See, I'd told you earlier that you'd make it. And you did. I already knew that you'd stand first b'coz you can do that. You've that ability. Congratulations to you. Congrats."
She starts staring at him after listening this.
He asks, "Why are you staring me now? You always keep requesting me to praise you and now when I did it on my own, you're staring me. Why so?"
She answers with the calm as well as shy expressions, "I'm surprised for two things. First, that you really! You! You're praising 'me'. Wow. Thanks. Thank you so much for saying that."
He smiles and asks for the second reason.
She asks him in a lower voice, "Umm, do you really think it was my ability, hard work and talent which gave me this result?"
He, narrowing his eyes, answers, "Obviously. What else could it be!"
She says, "I don't know what was the exact reason, but the reason I believe for this result is your wish. You wished me luck and that's why, I was able to do that."
He wonders and asks if she has gone mad.
She smiles stupidly and tells him, "I don't know. I believe that only. I don't think if I would ever be able to give my best in anything for which you'd not wish me. That's what I believe. And I'll give the credit for this result to you only. That's it. I don't believe on anything except your wishes."

Before he could speak anything on that, his phone rang and before receiving the call, he speaks that he doesn't think even 1% of it, is true b'coz he was not at all a part of that competition anyhow.

Before she could speak anything, he picks up the call. The room listens to just his voice for about half an hour while she was busy looking at him how he moves, talks and other minute things of him.

When the call ends, she pretends as if she was busy in her phone and didn't look at him even once. He gets back at his place.
She speaks, "You are the reason of my this result and would always be, for all my good results, in future, whenever you'd wish me and.." He interrupts her and asks, "How do you think your future partner should be?"

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he awkwardly stares him for interrupting when she was telling such an important thing about him and asks, "Don't you think we're talking something?"
He hurriedly repeats the question and asks her to answer.
She considers that this might have been the topic of such long convo on the call and answers, "I.. I really don't know. He should be like; Umm, I don't know."

He asks her, "If you'd have your future partner in front of you for the first time, what would be the first thing you'd wish?"
She immediately answers, "I'd wish that he shouldn't be an introvert."

Just after she finishes his sentence, she realized how bad and rude she might have sounded to him, who is a proper introvert.
He quickly stands at the very moment and utters, "You said 'this' to me. Have I been so bad to you that you don't want an introvert as your life partner? Just sometime ago, in today's convo only, you'd accepted that this good result was just due to my wishes to you. And in the next moment, you said that you'd wish no introversion in your life partner? That's my biggest trait and if you don't like it, what's the.. ehh.. leave. I wanna leave. Now!"

She felt guilty on her immediate answer and feels even more guilty after listening his reply. She gets so lost into the bad moment that she didn't stand and just continues to ponder about the very moment.

His going footsteps' sound alerts her and makes her stand immediately.
She turns towards going-him and speaks out loudly, "No. I never meant to say that. And that really didn't mean what you've understood. Please stop."

He doesn't stop and keeps on moving towards the door. She yells more loudly, "Pleeeease!"
He stops. She runs towards him.

When she realizes that he won't even turn towards her, she speaks in a voice loaded with guilt, "I.. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. It was my mistake to say that. I'm really sorry. I'd think twice always before speaking out anything. I.. I'm sorry, please."
He turns towards her and asks if she has anything else to say, she's allowed to say; he would go otherwise.

She says in a very low voice, "I.. I can explain. But. Please! Don't go like this."
He askes her to explain it fast and she finds herself unable to speak out the explanation.

He turns towards the door again but before he could take his foot ahead for the next step, she holds his hand. The grip tightens when she says, "I can explain. Look. I.. I know you're an introvert. But, I also know that you won't be mine ever. I.. I'm nothing. I'm just nobody to you so I can't even think of you as my life partner b'coz that's never possible, even not in the dreams of my dreams. But, my heart. It's damn stupid. My mind keeps on telling it that you won't and can't be mine ever, but still it doesn't understand anything. It keeps on wishing for you every single second, every single moment. So, that's the way, I've found out to minimize its urge for you. Yes, minimize. The urge for you won't stop ever. So, I've consoled my heart to wish a future partner that won't be an introvert, so that, there comes atleast one way to separate these thoughts. You, being an introvert, my life partner.
Whenever there comes a talk of 'life partner', it thinks of you. And when it comes to 'introverts', you're the only one it speaks out for. And that's why, I've taught it completely that these things can never be one. This way is as stupid as it sounds, but I'm ready to accept these stupid logics too, if it urges less for you by this."

He holds her hand and removes it from his. She assumes that he wants his hand to be left as he might not want to stay there anymore and hence starts speaking again, "I'm sorry. I won't say that again. I'll think twice. No, wait; I'll think ten times before saying anything to you. Sorry, please."
He turns towards her and hugs her and says in a teasing manner, "I removed your hand b'coz while you were speaking all this, you didn't realise that your grip got more and more tightened and now it's paining a bit."
He wraps his arms around her more tightly and continues, "And don't even dare to think ten times before saying anything to me. If you'd do so, I would never be able to find out such beautiful stupid things which only your heart understands."

She blushingly hides herself in his arms and says narrowing her eyebrows, "Sorry for that strong grip."
He smiles and tells her, "I didn't know your heart urges for me."

She says in an inaudible voice, "You don't know most of my heart. It was just like one small drop out of an ocean."

He asks if she said something but her blush didn't permit her to repeat these inaudible words to him.♡

~Miss V