The Last Goodbye

Chapter 31

"Madam please sign here these are the consent forms." Divya looked at the rude guy dressed in the ragged shirt and life jacket. His beard made him look bad however the way he talked about with people was what made her more disgusted.

"Okay" Divya took the papers and quickly filled them up. They were supposed to go river rafting today and were a bit late for that.

The group soon began tracking down a rocky road towards the river bank and once they were instructed they began falling into groups. Since there were a total of 8 girls everyone thought it would be better for all the girls to go together and to let the boys be in their own group. However, the instructor had some other plans as he said that it would be better if the girls and boys would be mixed up.

The moment Madhav heard this he yelled out for Divya and Nandini and asked them to come in their raft or boat whatever it was. Divya was so excited that she began pulling onto Nandini's hand as the latter yelled, "arey wait, my leg is stuck." Divya quickly apologized and helped Nandini out of the raft and then walked towards Madhav's raft.

"Thank God. " Madhav exclaimed almost dancing in his place with his paddle in his hand. "I was worried that someone else would come here." The three of them laughed as the other boys got in with Madhav and Manav at the head, with Rishi behind Madhav followed by Atharva and then Divya, on the other side behind Madhav there was Dev, Aman and then Nandini such that both Nadini and Divya were beside each other. All of them could easily look at each other as they brimmed brightly, scared to shit and excited at the same time. The instructor then explained the rules and asked Ms. Jain to join them.

Soon the river rafting began as they moved ahead Divya could feel herself relaxing and enjoying. Time and again when they would be asked to stop paddling Madhav would look back at her with ease and raise his eyebrows at her asking her how she was doing. Divya would then smile back at him and blink her eyes assuring him that she was for sure enjoying this.

"Does anyone wants to get down in the water?" Manav, Madhav, and Dev exclaimed a loud yes as Divya looked at Nandini who shook her head in a big no.

Though Divya was scared, she wanted to go ahead and take a dive. A few minutes later when Aman as well dived in overcoming all his fear for water Divya and Nandini jumped into the water. The water was cold in the beginning however with time they got used to it. After some time the instructor gave them all a rope each and asked them to go farther from the water while kicking their legs.

Divya realized how much she was enjoying herself laughing about and doing things that she had never done. Soon they all got into the water and rafted towards the shore. The moment they reached their Divya's attention went off to the far end and she called out for Madhav who as well called her at that very moment.

"Aloha!" the two exclaimed, making the group scared as Ms. Jain reprimanded them first as Madhav began telling her about the hotel, while Divya looked at him. The spark that Madhav had while he spoke about it, the way he bounced in his place in excitement, the way he had called out to her, all of it was so cute. She wished she could pull her cheeks and kiss them for how cute he looked at that time

Alas, she couldn't.

About an hour later the whole group had returned back to the room, as Divya realized that there was something wrong between Simran and Rohan who had decided to stay back as Simran wasn't feeling quite well. Divya was quite worried for her as even last night the two had been fighting over something while Nandini and she had gone to Ram jhoola. She only hoped that it wouldn't hurt the two of them.

About an hour later they all got ready and were taking out their bags to keep them in the lobby when Dev and Madhav walked up to them and stood right on the door of the lift.