Insecurity or Freedom?

Freedom. That is what every human being seeks in Mumbai. The city of dreams. Sneha too sought the same thing.

Being from a conservative backward family she was always in the protection of her parents. Protected freedom. So she hit it off immediately when she found attention from Rohan and Harry.
But she soon fell in love with Rohan. The mature ever understanding mature Rohan. The kid Rohan. Harry became the best friend whom she always wanted there.

Harry had a girlfriend. 4 years in a relationship. Harry and senha always stayed together. Talking to each other. Standing for each other. They soon fell for each other(maybe).

Rohan did everything he did best. Standing there. Understanding the best he could.
Seeing them get closer Rohan was reminded of his old scars. Old insecurities of him losing people he loved. He lost his best friends in school, college, ex girlfriend leaving him guilty when he needed her the most but most of all his protector. He became really insecure and felt empty and uneasy.

He did not want to blame or want a justification. He just wanted to protect himself from being hurt as he had always been hurt by people moving away. He used to act hastily in his insecurity. But this time he chose not to make a mistake.

He asked both of them If they loved each other. If they did he would walk out of their lives. Harry and sneha both said that she loved Rohan and the former was just a best friend. Rohan accepted asking them to just reduce the physical intimacy of holding hands in public.

Soon the intimacy occurrence increased and with that Rohans insecurity. He still chose to be patient. He again asked them if there was anything on but both denied with the same reason.

Things between Rohan and sneha remained the same. Just that Harry started doing things similar to what Rohan did. With Harry being physically more present and Rohans questions daunting her freedom she latched onto Harry. She got angry at Rohan daunting her freedom asking her the question repeatedly.

Irritated at justifying she said yes she had fallen for Harry. Rohans insecurity barrier was broken and everything of the past hit him. He asked Harry if he had similar feelings and he said yes too.

Being possessive and a little insecure because of a past was the only mistake Rohan made. But because of that he had to pay the price of loosing his love.

His entire pain and anger came out on Harry blaming him for everything that happened. Cursing him day in day out without understanding what had happened. He thought sneha was a substitute harry needed when he missed his girlfriend. Maybe that did happen. He did miss his girlfriend. But Harry had just been protective of his friend when Rohan was insecure.

He just went with the flow protecting her. He behaved the way she demanded him to be. She seeked Rohans attention but in his insecurity Rohan did not see the need. She needed Rohan to understand that her freedom and identity matters to her but Rohan and Harry matter to her more. That she loved him always and Harry was a best friend. But she found it in Harry.
The same connect. Same attention.

Maybe none of them were wrong. A little better communication from Harry or a little more patience and trust from Rohan or a little more understanding from sneha and things would have been different.  Normal.

But they weren't.  Sneha moved away from Rohan. Harry was pissed at Rohan for constantly asking those questions and Rohan was in his insecurity yet again.

Rohan doesn't know what can be done to get things normal.  Or get the connect back. In the entire mash up of feelings the flower of love withered away..
1000 right things make a connect but 1 wrong things destroys it? Who knows..

Continuing the traditional fictional character of Rohan and his stories.