Him || Dulquer Salmaan and Vijay Deverakonda

chapter sixteen

Hey guys! I'm really sorry that I haven't updated the book in a while. I'm in India and so I've been busy. I'd also like to add that I met VIJAY DEVERAKONDA!!!! It was really fun and he was super nice!!

I'll try to update as regularly as possible.

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Appu's POV

Prashanth grabbed my wrist as he took me inside the house. As soon as the door opened, Anna and vodhina rushed over to me.

"Are you alright?" Vodhina said with worry laced in her tone. She cupped my face and scanned my features.

Anna rushed up towards me and hugged me. "we knew you were with Dulquer but we were still shit scared" he said. Vodhina removed her hands from my face to my shoulders.

I felt guilty swarm through my body.

"I'm really really sorry. I really should've told you guys that I wasn't coming. I'm really sorry." I said. I hugged Anna and vodhina.

"It's fine" Anna sighed. "Go freshen up and rest" he added.

I nodded my head and walked started to walk towards the stairs. I stopped in my tracks when I felt a tight grip around my wrist. I suddenly turned around to face Prashanth. He let go of my wrist and ran his hands through his hair. I patiently waited for what he had to say.

"I have to ask. Did you and Dulquer... you know..." he said as he moved his hands in a circular motion.

I felt a little pit in my stomach as he asked that. I didn't like how he thought I would do it so quickly with someone I almost recently met.

My eyes went wide once I knew what he was talking about. "No." I sternly said. "No no no" I added.

"Oh uh okay" he said as he nodded.

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I headed towards the stairs as I grabbed my phone from the couch in the loft. My phone was going crazy at this point. Thousands of notifications from almost every social media platform. I quickly went into settings to turn off my notifications for all my social apps.

I walked down the stairs in my PJs to find Prashanth sitting on the couch.

Prashanth's POV

"Appu! Come here I wanna talk to you" I said as I saw her walking down the stairs. She sat beside me as she was tying her hair into a ponytail. Wow. She's literally so beautiful I thought as I was staring at her.

"What?" she asked as she noticed me staring.

"Uh nothing" I replied as I shook my head. "Anyway, I wanted to tell you something."

"Okay" she said as she nodded.

"Listen I know that there's just been this weird tension between us and I have to admit that I hate it. I hate that we're not the best friends we used to be and I want that back. I also have to admit that I only pretended to like Nithya in hopes of making you jealous and I feel really horrible saying that. But after a date that we recently had, I think I like her. We kissed and it felt special. I thi-"

"Wait. I want you to know that I pretended to like Dulquer to make you jealous too. But now I think I actually like him." She interrupted.

For some reason, I felt a pit in my stomach when she said she liked him.

"Well that's okay. I think that we should remain as friends. I still may have feelings for you but I think I should put them aside because I'm not willing to jeopardize our friendship again. You like Dulquer and I like Nithya. We should just proceed with that. And I'd also like to apologize for lashing out on you that day about Dulquer. It was really insensitive of me and I shouldn't have done that. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay. It's good that we had this talk and I agree with everything you said." she looked down at her hands for a moment as she said "I really f*cking missed you".

I hugged her as she hugged me back.

"I missed you too" I mumbled into her shoulder.

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