Neha's Point of View:
I was very curious to know what were going on among Esha, Sara and Ms. Rokhsana in her bedroom. I could no longer suppress my curiosity. So, I went forward to ma'am's bedroom without telling anyone.
As soon as I reached the front door of the room, I saw the door wasn't completely closed. There was merely an inch gap between the door knob and the surface of the wall. I could watch everything clearly what was happening inside from the position where I was standing outside. I also could listen to their conversation clearly. I tried to pay my attention towards them to know what was exactly going on inside.
I heard Esha's voice clearly, saying, "Just try to understand the whole thing. Yes, I'm gay too but I love someone else. And that is Neha."
I couldn't believe my both ears. What the hell did I just hear at that time!!! Esha's words started to ring repeatedly inside my head just like an echo.
Suddenly I felt someone shoved at the edge of my shoulder and rushed towards nowhere. A moments later I realized it was Sara who bumped on my shoulder as I was focused back to reality from my own thoughts spinning around in my head. She bumped into me as I was standing straight in front of the door blocking the way. I saw Sara went upstairs crying as loud as she could. I was absolutely baffled and speechless looking at Esha. I saw Esha was coming near at me. Immediately I felt a hot flush just went down my whole body as I saw her coming close to me. I couldn't control my emotions anymore as my heart started to beat unsteadily and my eyes started to fill with tears. My whole face turned red as my cheeks were burning out from the rapid blood circulation inside my body. So, I covered my whole face with both of my hands and started running towards the swimming pool situated in the backyard of the house.
I saw she was following too on my way, chasing me so she could stop me right at that place. I didn't stop until I reached at the edge of the pool.
That place was extremely quiet only the chirping sounds of the night crickets were heard as there was no one. It was almost pin dropped silence. Esha stopped behind me. So I turned around to face her. Now she was standing in front of me face to face.
Then the two of us remained silent for a while.
Esha initiated first to break the silence between us and spoke, "Neha, I don't know how you feel about me...but one thing I wanna say right now. I guess I shouldn't care anymore of the consequences. I must confess to you now, right at this moment." Esha paused for a moment as she sighed.
She then took a deep breath and muttered in an audible tone, "I love you, Neha."
At that time my eyes widened as I looked up at Esha with a bewildered look. I almost choked on my own breath. My heart started pounding so fast against my chest that I could clearly hear my own heartbeats. My cheeks turned red due to the rapid blood flow all over my body and I started to feel the hot from its tremendous speed. I started sweating.
I swallowed a gulp and stuttered, "W-what...did you....j-just...s-say?"
"You clearly heard what I said, Neha. I don't fear anymore to repeat those words again and again. What's the point of not saying it again since I've already said it? I love you so much, Neha. And it's not that kind of love which comes from friendship. When people love someone more than just a friend, that's how I love you."
I couldn't believe the reality anymore. I thought I was dreaming. I slapped my own face just to be sure that I was still in reality. Yes, I was. I was so embarrassed that I couldn't look at Esha in her eyes. I looked down. After a while, I saw her dipping her feet in the water of the swimming pool and sitting at the edge of its brim. I didn't know why, but I didn't have the courage to sit next to her. My chest was throbbing like drum beats.
Esha said, "I fell in love with you from the very beginning of our university life when I first had a conversation with you. I was absolutely enchanted by your charming personality. I have been in love with you for the last four years, Neha. I tried like a hell but couldn't forget you at all. Please Neha, you should say something. If you don't say anything, I'll assume that you're expecting me to wait a little longer. If you don't like me back that way, do whatever it takes to reject me right now. I don't want to suffer any more."
That time, for an unknown reason I got a lot of confidence after listening to her words. I went and gently sat next to her. She turned around and looked at me as if she wanted to say something. I didn't know why I started to feel agitated after sitting next to her. I could feel the heated tension again just right after coming close to her. I immediately got turned on just by coming near of her. I could find no reasons to restrain myself anymore. For the last four years I had to hold myself through a tough battle of self-control from not letting myself drown into that. Drown into that touch, which I had been craving for the last few years. That damn boundary between us was surely going to be destroyed at that night. That night, I received the long awaited unrequited love to myself for the first time.
Now that I've got it on my own, why should I refrain myself from tasting it?
I didn't let Esha start talking again. As excited as I was, I leaned forward and crashed my lips against hers. We both were lost in the taste of our unrequited lips. We had no idea where we were, whether anyone would see us, whether we had objections to each other's every single new move, we didn't care any more about anything else. Our lips began to meet each other's in a sync at a great pace. We both were panting heavily in between our kiss. We were almost out of our breaths but no one of us wanted to stop. Guess, everything would end immediately if we had stopped. I was getting the taste of our eternal love from our endless making out.
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'When you get to meet the right people in your life, even the smallest things seem much more perfect, much more peaceful.'
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We didn't know how long we had been kissing but when we suddenly heard the sound of someone coughing we stopped.
We immediately moved away from each other and looked back. It was no one but Mahdin who himself coughed. Both of our faces immediately turned red like tomatos after seeing him right at that embarrassing situation.
Mahdin coughed and said, "That was more than enough lovey-doveies. Now get up and let's go home. It's almost late at night and the party is over."
Esha suddenly got up and ran towards Mahdin and snapped, "What the fu*k, Mahdin!! Are you an ass?! When you saw that we were in an intimate situation, shouldn't you have given us a little more space? Do you know that there is a thing called privacy? You're such an asshole."
"Hey, hey, hey, calm down. Why the hell are you yelling at me? You're behaving like as if I knew from the beginning that you two are in love. Just right now, right at this moment I got to see by my own eyes the hell you two were doing. Moreover, both y'all should be grateful to me for interrupting you. If it wasn't me then it would be Rokhsana ma'am for sure catching both of you two messing her backyards. Only while you two are having sex and all the clothes of y'all are dropped into the pool. Hahaha."
I rolled back my eyes at him then yelled, "Shut the fu*k up, you stupid, asshole! You're an ultimate ass. Now please stop rambling bullshits."
Esha shrugged and said in a tired tone, "Yeah, we should head towards home now. It's been already late night. See ya tomorrow in the class."
Esha started to leave with Mahdin, at that moment I grabbed her hand from behind and said, "Can you please stay over at my house tonight? My mum and dad are outside Dhaka today. They'll come tomorrow evening. I'm also all alone. It'd be great if I get your company tonight."
Esha was just about to say something, at that time Mahdin cut her off by saying, "Oh my Gosh, guys! What are you guys planning to do in the empty house just the two of you alone, huh? Surely y'all will do it just by tonight, right?" He said while wearing a devil smirk on his lips.
Esha rolled her eyes at him and snapped, "Ughh, M!! You're such a pervert ass! Can you please stop imagining shit for a damn moment?" She sighed and slumped her shoulders down in annoyance as she was tired of yelling at him again and again.
Then Esha looked at me with a soft smile and said, "Not today. Remember, tomorrow is the last date of submitting our assignments? I have to complete that right by tonight. Also I have to look after my mom. She is sick and completely alone in the house. Hopefully I can go and stay over in your house next week. Because my aunt will come to our house to stay with mom in the next week."
I got immediately disappointed when she said she couldn't stay over at my house that night. But got relieved at the thought of her staying at my house in the next week.
After that, both Esha and Mahdin left. I also drove back to my home. I immediately texted Esha on the whatsapp after arriving at my house typing, "I have loved you for the last four years, Esha. But I never dared to confess my feelings towards you."
Esha immediately read the message and replied, "Now it turns out that the two of us had the same case when it came to confession. And that was fear, lol."
I wrote, "So from now on your official tag is my girlfriend. From now on you can't tell anymore that you're single."
Esha replied, "Well, alright, baby. I won't anymore. Love you. Take care. Good night, my precious baby girlfriend. Xoxo."
After reading her messages, I fell asleep with a kind of amazing peace in my heart.