Mike accepted that he can never move over Max as She was, She is and She will always be his love.

He had accepted it and found solace in only being around Max but haven't told any except Mr. And Mrs Jeff.

Their families know that Mike is not dating Elizabeth, none of them explained anything to anyone. Max didn't answer anything as she had feel of guilt to choose a wrong girl for Him.

Mike didn't say anything as He had no explanation of his emotions. Why He tried to move on? Why he couldn't move on when Max always took him as friend only?

Instead He had his own questions to solve.

'How long he could hide his love from Max, under the Vail of friendship?'

'What if Max found that He was still nurturing those feelings?'

'What if Max don't have any feeling of Love for him?'

'What if someday Max fell for some one else?'

'Will he be able to let her go?'

'Will he be able to suppress his love forever?'

So many what if's! So many possibilities, But nothing clear.

But he couldn't give up on His love, His life! He couldn't give up on Her.

Days started to fly and Mike started to live as he always lived. Nurturing each and every moment he gets to spend with Her, while joining the enternship at a reputed company.
His life got busy but he was sure of one thing, it's on track.

Every morning he wakes up with a wish to see Max and hear from her that He is more than Just a friend!

First thing he do after leaving the bed and last thing of day before hitting it back at night was to gaze at her window with a deep desire of her one glance.

Most of times they talk on calls and sleep while talking only.

One such night before falling asleep,
"So..." Max said to hear further from him.

"So? What?" He inquired back.

"What ! What? Tell me further what that new intern said ? I think She is falling for you." She said biting her lower lip.

"You thought the same about Elizabeth." He said with a fake laughter while his brows furrowed a bit with thought of facing that awkward moment again if he took Max's word lightly again.

"Ok am sorry about Elizabeth but I still feel that She had feelings for you." Max said closing her eyes tight.

"No She never had anything like that. But yes She was a nice girl." Mike lied sitting back in his bed.

"Ok fine! I got it. But what next? What about that intern you were talking about? Is she pretty?" Max inquired nervously.

"Max!" Mike took a pause to calm himself as Her inquiries about another girl was now annoying him. He wanted to tell her to stop thinking him with anyone else! Stop playing his Cupid! Stop the silly match making!

"I think we should sleep now." He added controlling the wrath and pain in his voice.

"But." She felt his anger but couldn't get the reason behind it.

"But what Max? Can't you get one thing clearly? " he said as calm as he could, "that am not interested in your matchmaking!" A tear started to form in his eyes.

"Mike... am just trying to get you the best. You deserves the best Mike. And I will get Her for You." She murmured with a vibrating throat and get out of her bed to reach the window facing toward his home.

"Best! No, You can't. Because The Best one for me is You!" He said it in intensity of the moment, a tear drop slipped from his eye and at the same moment he felt as if a mountain had been removed from his chest.

"You deserves the best Mike. And I am certainly not the one." She felt her heart shiver at the thought of denying him for the second time. Now when She knows Him! When he is the essential part of her life!

What if He got angry!

What if it hurted him!

What if He actually moved ahead in his life leaving her! breaking their friendship too!

"It's ok Max." He rubbed his eyes and stepped toward the window. She was standing there in her window, "I am not proposing You. You don't need to trouble yourself for denying me." He said coldly and added further, "What I said, I meant that You are the best person in world I would meet ever but we are just best friends so stop thinking to get The Best for me. I have found someone already." He said to cover up his recent revelation.

"You have found someone? " she repeated and her hands started to shake.
"Who is She?" She whispered hardly.

"Max! I need some rest. We will talk about it later sometime."

"You don't want to talk to me?"

"Nothing like that. Am just tired." He replied and turned away from the window.

She felt a shock when he turned away, her feet drew back her to the bed.

"You are angry at me? We are not talking anymore? " She asked blankly dashing on her bed.

"Max! Nothing like that. We will talk about it tomorrow." Mike replied and cut the call in haste. He felt his heart sinking as he felt the hurt in her voice.

"Hurt! Was she hurt by my words? No! No! Why would it hurt her if I am with anyone else. In fact she wants it desperately." He said under his breath, tossing in his bed.

"But if She wasn't hurt then why she thought that am not going to talk to her?" He stayed flat on his back for a few moments.

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On other hand as he cut the call, Max stayed still, lying like a motionless piece of flesh.

Tear started to flow from her silent eyes.

"He got his best one. I should be happy for him. Yes, I am happy. Am very happy for him." She wiped her eyes roughly and sat back.

Zebbu was staying with Max only for the night. As he saw her tears, he jumped next to her and kept his head in her lap.

"Zebbu, you gonna get a new mommy! Yes! He got someone. Someone, and I don't even know Who! Why? Is it because I don't deserve to even know Her? Yes! I don't. I shouldn't intervene in his life now." Her hands started to shake badly till now.

She felt her whole body shivering with the cold as the thought flashed across her mind, "Now he will not have time for me. He should give more time to his personal life. Zebbu, I am not giving you." She hugged Zebbu firmly.

" No, Not at any cost." She started to get uncomfortable, even speaking seemed like a tough task to her.

"Zebbu... my tabs! You wait here ok. Am.. I need it." She started to search her medicine, frisking drawers, purse, bags, under bed sheets, everywhere.

Zebbu kept looking at her helplessly then he thought for a while and started to bark standing at window.

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"Why am feeling so restless! Damn! I never talked to Max so roughly. Why I did that!" Mike was pulling his hairs in frustration. When he heard Zebbu barking aloud.

"Why Zebbu is barking like this?" He said to himself and reached quickly for the window and looked at her window. Zebbu was standing there with his front paws on the window sill.

As Mike appeared Zebbu barked more loudly and rushed to Max then came back to window.

Mike took no time to get the messege that he was needed there.
Without wasting a second he rushed down from stairs and reached at her door. Before pressing the door bell he paused for a second and next second he rushed to climb up at the tree next to the window of her room.

Within five minutes he jumped in her room through the window.

What he saw was devastating.
Her whole room was a mess. Clothes, papers and her old soft toys everything was on the floor, bean bag and bed. He took a minute to find her struggling to fetch something from beneath the study table.

"What the heck happened here?" He gasped and reached to Max. As he stepped next to her She looked up at him. Her eyes were red, her face was red as well. Her lips were shaking.
As She realised it was Mike, She quickly turned her gaze away, back to her previous work.
Fetching the medicine!

" Max what are you doing?" Mike asked, sitting on his knees seeing her devastated.

"Nothing. You go, sleep. You have job and a lot more important things to woŕry about." She replied sobbing, almost laying on ground to reach her arm to the bottle, stuck somewhere between the wall and hind leg of the study table.

"Stop it Max and look at me." He held her shoulders and pulled her back from ground to sit back and face him straight.

"I have stopped Mike you too stop worrying about me and Go! Go, live your life without a dipressed insane girl. I need medicines not You." She replied furiously, crying badly, panting to breath even.

"God!" He gasped to looking in her red eyes, he got that it's nothing but he reaction of his own words.

How can he forgot about her depression? How can he just be so careless with her? He quickly grabbed her wrist and pulled her close.

Next second with a bang she collided with his strong chest and his arms wrapped her firmly.

"Am sorry Max. Am really very sorry. I really didn't mean that." He himself felt his heart shattering to think that he was the reason of this devastating state of her's.

"Leave me, Leave me Mike!" She placed her palms at his chest between them and started to push him away.

"No! I will not! I am sorry Max. Please, please forgive me. I promise, will never repeat it ever again." Tears started to pour down his cheeks as his arms soften the grip around her body.

He drew back his face a bit to kiss her forehead tight, " I am Sorry, please. please don't cry." He said under breath, his lips still brushing against her forehead.

"No. You want to go. Goo... Go.." she started her words with hitting him at chest but by the time ending her sentence She broke into sobs, grabbed his vest firmly and dugged her head into the mid of his chest. "Just leave Mike please go. Like everyone."

He embraced her firmly once again and placed a soft kiss on her head, "I am not going. I am not leaving you so now just calm down." They sat like that only for next few minutes. There was nothing between them except her sobs and his heart beats, echoing in her ears.

After a few minutes when her body stabilized a bit and stopped shaking, she took a deep breath to inhale his essence, felt him with close eyes as if his body in her arms was not enough to prove his presence.

"I am sorry Mike. Thanks for coming." She said controlling her need to hold him a bit more longer and released him from her arms.

"Anytime Max. And I am really sorry for my rude words. I really didn't mean to hurt you. I was just too irritated of this." He said cupping her face in his palms.

"This? You mean tired of me?" Max questioned placing her palm on his hand at her own face.

"Shuuu..." he pulled her closer and kissed her forehead tight. She felt a stream of shiver running down her spine.

He wrapped his one arm around back of her ribs and other around her knees and stood up, lifting her up in his arms.

She stayed still like hypnotized kid, looking straight in his eyes. Her arms encircled around his neck.

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