Chapter 4
Aarush woke up in a hangover with limited memories of last night. All he remembered was the horrible feeling with which he was missing Koel, his ex-girlfriend!
‘Argh!’ Aarush tossed the AC remote towards the opposite wall, and it flung through its bed to land on the floor with a beaming ‘thud’. He was angry. Over her, over himself. She was happily married, enjoying her life! Her photos on Facebook, proudly boasting of her newly wed husband Luckwinder, and her honeymoon in Mauritius, made him even angrier.
‘Why this had to happen to me?’ Aarush was tossing inside his sheets. He was frustrated for his life. No matter how happy he was outside, and how hard-hearted he looked, but inside, he was still soft, and broken.
He let out cold breaths, and got up from his bed to make him some lemon-water to get rid of the last night hangover. After stumbling upon a few scattered reminiscence of his last night’s faded memories, he also stumbled upon a handkerchief. He had no memory of carrying a handkerchief along, surely not a pink one!
He rushed inside his bedroom and picked up his phone. The call records included many calls to Sahil and Love at 02:30 am and then at 03:10 am. Sahil and Love were his Infosys colleagues, and Love was the same guy who was calling him when he stumbled upon Radhika in R-City mall that day. He called them back to know what happened last night.
‘Hey Sahil, bro…yeah, I’m good, I actually…no fine, I’m fine…I wanted to know what happened last night?’ he was hoping for some reply that would clear things out for him, but instead his friends started pulling his leg.
‘Bro, you tell us what happened last night? You were with that hot girl, she was in your bedroom, and it’s us who should be asking what happened last night?’ Sahil said with tongue in his cheek.
‘Oh God, Sahil I have no memory of last night, I’m not joking!’
‘Ahem, no memory! What did that girl do to you, dude?’ Sahil had purposely put his call on speaker phone, and his entire group was laughing behind him.
‘Fuck-off asshole!’ Aarush hung up, and thought to call Love, but it would prove to be as futile as calling Sahil, because Love was his room-mate only!
‘Who the hell should I call?’ Aarush was scrolling down the list of calls made from his phone last night, and he stumbled across an unknown, unsaved number. He called at that number in hope of getting some answers.
‘Good Morning, Aarush!’ a chirpy voice greeted him. He was shocked beyond his wits. He didn’t even know the girl, and the girl was wishing him a ‘good-morning’?
‘Morning? May I know who is it?’ Aarush was confused.
‘After spending an entire night with me, you are still asking who I am!?’ the girl scolded him.
‘I’m sorry miss, I don’t recognize your voice…’
‘Seems like you’re still confused, and your friends didn’t help you at all, right?’
‘Umm…yeah, how do you know? Who are you actually?’
‘Sahil called me and told that they were teasing you pretty bad!’
*How the hell does she know Sahil now?* Aarush’s inner voices were screaming!
‘Now you must be wondering how I know Sahil. Well, the same way I know you. Last night, Blue Frog, remember anything? Oh wait, how will you remember, right? Let me tell you then – you passed out at about 02:20 last morning. I and my friends tried to wake you up for a good ten minutes, but you wouldn’t just obey, so we pulled out your phone, and thankfully there was no lock on it, so we dialled the first number that was there, and it was of Sahil. He came to us, despite the loud noises and music, and then we all tried to wake you up, but you were constantly saying – Koel please come back, I can’t live without you, and some more bullshit. Sahil slapped you, in front of whole club, but you still won’t wake up! You behaved like such an asshole last night, for passing out and all. We then danced for some more time, and at around 03 am, we called up Love to get the car so that we could throw you to your place. The keys were in your pocket, and we all, I mean, your friends and mine, we all landed at your awesome apartment, had an after party, Sahil tried to cook something, and burnt your shirt, but it’s okay, we threw it in the bin, and then at 05 in the morning, we all left, leaving your miserable and passed out ass in your bed! Story ends!’
‘What? Slapped me in front of the whole club? Burnt my shirt? The fuck? So much happened and my friends can’t tell me a thing!’ Aarush now understood the mystery of pink-hanky!
‘But tell me one thing…’ Aarush asked the girl.
‘What?’
‘Who are you?’
‘God! Aarush, I’m Radhika. You were so stoned last night, that you don’t even remember my face?’
‘I had a hint that it might be you. You said something last night about the third-time, right?’
‘Yeah! I said we were meeting for the third time, and that too unplanned.’
‘Okay. Can I ask you something?’
‘Sure, go ahead.’
‘Don’t be angry, promise me first.’
‘Sure I won’t be, ask?’
‘Promise, Radhika?’
‘Yeah, don’t make me mad now, just ask!’ Radhika was being restless.
‘Okay. Are you sure. I mean. Nothing. Well…’
‘Will you please be fast? I don’t have all day!’
‘Alright, alright. Are you sure nothing happened between us last night?’
‘WHAT?’ Radhika was pissed off.
‘I asked you not to be angry, see?’
‘You’re such a prick! Helping someone these days is so selfless, people ask the next morning if they had some fun too. What a sick man you are? Of course nothing happened! You think you were in a condition of doing something?’
‘Alright, calm down, I knew it would make you angry, that’s why I gave you a prior warning!’
‘Yeah right. So be happy that nothing happened between us…’
‘I’m not happy about it. Not at all!’
‘WHAT? Oh God!’ Radhika hung up.
Aarush laughed.
Comments (81)
Archana kini
July 14, 2015
Awesome start dear.. ❤ keep rocking
Mehek
July 14, 2015
Thank you dear, I hope you like the further chapters too!
Ruchi shukla
July 14, 2015
Lovely u write diii :-*
Mehek
July 15, 2015
Thanks Ruchi 🙂
Geets
July 14, 2015
You have an excellent narrative style of writing.. the story seems interesting..
waiting for further chapters to come out soon..
Cheers
Mehek
July 15, 2015
Thank you Geets. A new chapter is posted every night at 09 pm. Hope you like the story further! 🙂
aditi singh thakur
July 15, 2015
beautiful beginning
love story
<3
Mehek
July 15, 2015
Thank you Aditi 🙂 😀
Irtayag
July 16, 2015
Awesome… I just feel like reading continously…. please post the chapters soon..
Mehek
July 16, 2015
Thanks Irtayag 🙂 I post a new chapter at 09 pm every night!
nutan sharma
July 16, 2015
Very interesting .
i love ur imagination mehek .
thnku
Mehek
July 16, 2015
Nutan, thank you for reading and appreciating. I hope you will like the further chapters too… 🙂
Bhav
July 16, 2015
Just loving your style of writing!! 😉
Mehek
July 17, 2015
Thanks Bhavana 🙂 Stay connected and keep reading, a lot more to come!
Shivam patidar
July 17, 2015
It was very mind blowing chapter ,mam!!! Thank you ,mam!
Mehek
July 17, 2015
Thank you Shivam! 🙂
RIYA
July 17, 2015
Seriuosly,its a awesome story and feel like keep on reading
Mehek
July 17, 2015
Thank you Riya, I also feel to post all the chapters at once 😛 but I need to keep the readers engaged…don’t worry, there are 2 more stories ahead after this. Inconsistent Love is a part of a trilogy named ‘Dare to Love’, remaining 2 parts of which are yet to be posted. Stay connected!
Soumyatarini Mishra
July 19, 2015
Message*just woooooooooooowwwwww. loved it
Mehek
July 20, 2015
Thanks Soumyatarini 🙂
pragya
July 20, 2015
Simply awesome… Nd in love with ur writing skills…
Mehek
July 20, 2015
Thank you Pragya, I’m glad you liked it!
Madhavi
July 20, 2015
Hi Mehek!! I haven’t started the story yet. But i know even this gonna be an awesome.. Please post an entire chapters ASAP.. As i cannot hold my curosity anymore…..I cannot read in chunks I need an entire chapters….
Mehek
July 20, 2015
Haha, thank you for the compliment Madhavi, the story will end this Saturday, then you can read all the chapters together!
Riya
July 21, 2015
luv u mehek☺️☺️….. for such a wonderful story and i ll always connected wid ur website!!!
Mehek
July 21, 2015
Thanks Riya 🙂 Don’t miss the coming chapters of Inconsistent Love!
Name*
July 21, 2015
Awsome stories mehek…
I wana read all chapters togather..
Plz post thm soooooooon…:*
Mehek
July 21, 2015
Thanks 🙂 I am posting one chapter per day. You can read the entire story after 25th July 🙂
Parul
July 21, 2015
Loved it… <3
Mehek
July 21, 2015
Thanks Parul 🙂
Eali
July 22, 2015
How can you imagine so nicely!!!
I have tried alot bt cant..
Tell me the secret….
Mehek
July 22, 2015
Haha, the secret is – little things. Focus on little things, imagine your character, but also imagine the pen he’s holding in his right hand, the piece of paper under his left elbow, the computer screen in front of him, his glasses sliding down his nose and so on… Basically, details and little things are a key to a nice-piece of writing! 🙂
Riya
July 22, 2015
I ll never miss ur chapter is jst lyk a regular habbit for me……
pr ek cheez btao ye story true h!!!!!!!!!
Mehek
July 22, 2015
Thanks Riya, it’s not a true story, just fiction 🙂
Bhawna
July 22, 2015
Awesome:) just love the way you write 🙂
Keep posting !!
Mehek
July 22, 2015
Thanks Bhawna 🙂 Stay tuned for more chapters!
vashi
July 22, 2015
Awesome as always
I simply love your works
Mehek
July 23, 2015
Thanks Vashi 🙂
Varsha
July 23, 2015
Mehek, though its a fictional story.. Bt ur writing skill is so magical that wen u start reading, it feels like its a real story… Jus keep writing like this…
#inlovewithyourstories…
Mehek
July 23, 2015
Thanks Varsha 🙂
Eali
July 23, 2015
Hi..
when will you post the next story after this one??????
Mehek
July 23, 2015
Hi Eali, this story is of 12 Chapters, first let me finish posting all the 12 of them, will notify the readers about part 2 very soon 🙂
PRIYANKA
July 23, 2015
I Love this part…for proposing style…
Mehek
July 23, 2015
Thanks 🙂 Proposal or not, coming up in Chapter 10! 😛
Parul
July 23, 2015
yeah….m eagerly waiting fr d next chapter…. 😉
Nikhil
July 23, 2015
I cant believe that is it just a fiction..?
Mehek
July 23, 2015
Yeah, you have to, because it is!
Nikhil
July 25, 2015
Superb going.Emotional, friends detached.
Mehek
July 25, 2015
Thanks Nikhil 🙂 Friends detached, but that’s how life is. Good things, seldom last!
Sriparna
July 25, 2015
and so you are back with this amazing story… first the “arranged” series and now this..!!
was really happy when got ur first reply on fb..xpcting this time also 😛
love ur stories :*
Mehek
July 26, 2015
Thanks dear 🙂
Dimpi
July 25, 2015
Awesome Mehek .. I loved it. Eagerly waiting for next part. 🙂 When you will post it ?
Mehek
July 26, 2015
Thanks Dimpi 🙂 The next part will also be posted soon. Hopefully September, as I have exams in August…
kajal
July 27, 2015
Omg that was an awesome story ..i love every bit of it ..eagerly waiting for the next part
Mehek
July 28, 2015
Thank you Kajal 🙂
Ria
July 27, 2015
oh god, mehek post the other parts soon…cant wait longer to read them….da ending was so mysterious dat i cnt wait longer..4 da next parts….plz post soon….:(
Mehek
July 28, 2015
Thanks Ria, the story will continue in September because I’m having exams in August.. 🙂
Madhavi
July 28, 2015
Hi Mehek.
Hey Accenture is not that BAD!!.Happy to read guy worked with Accenture where i work. Story was great kindly post the next articleASAP. cant wait more.September is so far yaar….
Mehek
July 28, 2015
Haha, thanks Madhavi and I never wrote ‘Accenture’ is bad or something. It’s a fiction, and the characters are free to feel whatever they want to, for the companies they are working in. Besides, Aarush is ‘not’ leaving the company because it’s bad or something, but because he wants something else in life, and that is, his start-up. And the next part will be posted in September hopefully because I have my exams scheduled in August.
Pujan
August 22, 2015
awsum story mehek… M really hooked wid ur stories… Ur writings r mind blowing… keep writing…
Mehek
August 24, 2015
Thank you Pujan 🙂
Ayushi
September 1, 2015
When part 2 is coming….plz yr m dieing to read it plzz
Mehek
September 1, 2015
Soon 🙂 I’m also dying to post it, but I’ve been very busy in my college projects lately, so I couldn’t write the climax to the second part. Once it is done, I will start posting 🙂
Ayushi
September 1, 2015
When part 2 is coming….plz yr m dieing to read it plzz
Ayushi
September 1, 2015
Plzz tell me when the 2nd part is coming….m dieng to read that plzz
Madhavi
September 8, 2015
I hope ur EXAMS are over..Post fast the second part MEHEK
Mehek
September 8, 2015
Exams are over dear, but I’m stuck in college project, as I promised it will be posted in September only 🙂 Might be delayed a little, but will post it soon…
Madhusudan
September 25, 2015
Awesome 🙂
Mehek
September 25, 2015
Thanks! 🙂
Swathi
December 31, 2015
To be frank, this story is not upto ur mark. A dull and boring story…..
Mehek
January 1, 2016
Thanks for your opinion Swathi 🙂 This story does not end here, it has another part too, you can read it, but only if you wish to…
aftab
July 24, 2016
awesome story
Sarbaljot Singh
August 10, 2016
Superb mehek!!!!!really liked ur stories…..I think you must compile all the stories and publish them in a book…..
Mehek
August 16, 2016
Thanks! 🙂 For compiling and publishing them, the publishers demand that I take them down from my website, which I don’t want to do. So for now, I am happy with my blog, as long as everyone has a free access to the stories 🙂
Aditi
January 22, 2017
I really like the way you write..very interesting.
Aditi
January 22, 2017
I really like the way you write…very interesting.
Mehek
January 22, 2017
Thanks Aditi! 🙂
Nilima
September 29, 2017
After a long I m reading something which remind me my old romantic days. Me lucky enough that i married to my love but was occupied so much in my kid and home that I just forgot romancing. Thanks Mehek for reviving all these feelings again. Sure my husband ll be feel something sweet weird around today night.he he
Mehek
November 13, 2017
That’s such a delight to know Nilima! <3 Also try reading 'Arranged Love' if you get the time. I'm sure you will love it too...that's there on my blog as well, in the 'stories' section.
Ritika
November 23, 2017
Got this link from quora … loved ur style of writing.. U inspire me ..its after a long time that i liked some romantic plot..Kudos !!!
Mehek
November 26, 2017
Thank you Ritika! 🙂 <3 much love...