Too Stubborn To admit ," We need each other !"

Submitted into Contest #94 in response to: Write a story about two people who need each other, but are too stubborn to admit it.... view prompt

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Bedtime Creative Nonfiction Friendship

"Never believed much in horoscopes , But encountered a whole different vibe when conversations clashed between a Taurian guy and a true Sagittarian woman who were kinda obsessesed with each other but were too stubborn to admit ". -Suzanne

An year back when everyone was being stuck at homes for the best, one night Suzzane got a link request on some social media for a connection. She kinda ignored it as it was not something new to her. She was hella pretty ans she kept receiving it , so she didn't paid the attention. She was fierce , independent , outspoken and blunt in her nature and attitude , so any common person was not able to understand her stuff attitude yet she has a soft melting heart. But , it was not for everyone. In her life till now where she is 25 has achieved enough her age. She was an app developer and a writer but also had experiences of facing shit as a result of her blunt nature. Since she was outspoken and emotional yet sometimes repeatable for sharing much of her stuff to people. She was kinda enjoyable in her own company till now and had 3 friends on fingers. And it was hard to believe hella pretty girl like her a snot in touch with any guy other than her work. She has moulded herself in her own niche.

After quite a time , she randomly selected her connections on that social app. That guy used to draw her attentions by mentioning her in work related posts and all ans she noticed somehow and decided to see his profile casually .

One fine day she posted her views on something brutal that was happening in the country and it takes courage to share one's opinion on a platform where you gets judged every time you do something . That guy , Shawn , talked a whole lot of that thing to her and she was also not reluctant to have a convo where sharing of opinions was prioritised. She casually did it. For the upcoming days , they started talking on different issues in the country and started sharing their opinions on diversified topics . She did too find it relaxing to do the same . Because, it was something new to her where any guy was doing the same rather than sugarcoating her about her beauty and boring stuff.

Now , both started to develop sharing of opinions daily after dinner once get free from daily chores and work. Its was kinda therapy to both. Both decided to be in a zone of friends who are there for each other when it comes to talk about random stuff.

An invisible string was attached , yet both didn't wanted to accept.

During weekends , they were in the same space and a consequence of some thought process , they started to talk about "Boundations of being in relationships". They conversed for about an hour in the same zone. Vibes were too good and dreamy , as it's difficult to find someone where you can share your thoughts without being judged.

At a point in their convo , there came a delusional contradicting points where Suzzane got her fierce and outspoken vibe to a. level where she kinda insulted him for having his thought process for the same as she thought his words were of an immature guy and not mature man , which she used to get anytime talking to him. Shawn was quite thoughtful about her sudden behaviour like this as she was not Like that since past days. He ended the convo with a sorry and didn't texted anything anymore.

Suzzane went to sleep and was pretty confident about his texts the next morning as he used to greet him daily in the morning .She woke up the next morning and there was no text. since she have been dealing with the boys from past where no matter what , guys would have been responded inspite losing their self respect as her existence was more important than their self respect , so it was quite shocking for her to meet a man like him who didn't text as. sign of self respect.

Few weeks passed and he didn't text neither she , yet both wanted to reconnect but was at fail.

Both were waiting for the same but no was strong enough to step aside their egos and self respect to text the first.

She was back to her normal routine yet sometimes missed a lot , those free convos .

For the first time , she encountered a Taurian guy who didn't put efforts to maintain that vibe they used to carry. She was upset , but it was something new to her where guy didn't approach after heated argument .

She was confused that even though things didn't went her way but the respect for him remained the same .

She was even trying to figure out the same .

One fine day , the place where she worked , a recent trainee joined in her team , so she was given the responsibility by her seniors to give the knowledge transfer to him about the work they do at their workplaces.

Since , the situation was pandemic & everyone was stuck at home , so every co worker was connected to one another through audio calls and meetings. She wanted a break but still agreed to do the same. She deliberately didn't tool much interest in the guy she was giving knowledge transfer to. That new intern was also kinda mute guy who just have its salvation only in listening . He sounded lazy to her so she just used to give her part and left the call and he used to clear the counts the next day !The same happened till the days when the time came , where one of the seniors was resigning off the company and everyone gathered virtually to bid him the farewell.

She after a long time dressed quite official and attractive as around 50 people were there to Join that virtual Video farewell. She likes to dress up and she exactly did the same !That new intern was told to prepare a farewell speech as a token for appreciation as he was the language expert in his niche .She was expecting that she will get the responsibility for the same but anyways , she overcame that.

The time that virtual meet started everyone wished each other and that intern came in for the main farewell speech . The time he started he wa son the main screen and suddenly he caught the attention of Suzaane !!!

Boom !

That same Taurian guy , Shawn ....It took minutes for her to realise that this was actually happening . She felt safe but , was quite awkward too. She heard the full farewell bid and left that virtual meet and gave her kind words to one who was leaving the workplace personally.

She was not able to sleep that night and was thinking of Shawn..She asked the database guy in office to do a background check for Shawn and then she realised he was the same guy he was giving that lessons on call during work hours. It was so emabrassing for her. She took a leave for few days from work and requested her senior officials to change her team as she didn't wanted to work with him for no good reasons.

She joined back office but with different team with new people.

Shawn was working into another team and she left no ways where they cold actually encounter each other once again.

So , now Suzanne knows the whole plot and lets see till when Shawn will be unknown to the same plot and what will be his reaction to the same !!

Even though Suzzane didn't commit , but somewhere in her heart she was also waiting for him to recognise the same.

After all ,

That Saggitarian woman never met a man like that Taurian guy , Shawn.

May 16, 2021 20:02

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FAZLULLAH MD
11:28 Nov 27, 2021

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20:07 May 16, 2021

Any Horoscope fans ????

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Rohan S
12:52 May 24, 2021

Yaa...But Shani Bhari chal rhe h abhi..😞

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