Pranbir: His broken Angel

Part 16

Prachi's POV:
Even I don't know what happened just now.
Why do I feel like my heart will just come out? It's beating so fast around Ranbir.
And this performance?
What happened to us?
Nothing as such happened during the rehearsals but now.... What just happened?

I moved back and looked at him.... He came out of the trance just now. But he wasn't confused like me. Instead, he was calm and approached me to comfort me as well but I moved away.
I shouldn't be close to him, right now. I need to figure out what happened first.

So I just moved away from there.... I rushed to the small room allocated to us. I knew he wanted to follow me but I saw that Aryan caught him.

And I ran... I went in and locked it. I slouched down on the floor and the tears came back.
'Why am I feeling like this? What is this feeling? My heart....'

My hands went there and felt how fast it was pumping... I could only think to take deep breath to calm myself down...
But whenever I thought of Ranbir, it started to beat fast again.

Then, it started to dawn in....
'I am falling in love with him.....'
As if my heart wasn't enough that I started to have goosebumps.

I stood up and went in front of the mirror. The first thing that I noticed was my red cheeks... they were the brightest red possible. I touched them as if it was going to make a difference.

'I love Ranbir...' I couldn't help the smile that came on my face. The moments we had came back. How he called me cute, his concern, his help, his hugs and the feeling that came with the hugs.
I couldn't stop myself from twirling around happy with this newly developed feeling.

But as we say happiness is only there for a short time.
My shirt lifted a bit and the injuries came in view. All smile that I had was officially gone.
All of it was gone the moment I realised what happened a few days back.

Unknowingly, my hands lifted the hem of my shirt and I removed it. All the disgusting things that I went through.
Seeing all these injuries haven't been this heartbreaking before.... I could never be worthy of him.

I was too disgusting for that. Forget Ranbir, who is such a nice and wonderful boy. I wouldn't even be able to get out of there.
Ranbir doesn't deserve this.... this disgusting girl who has so much marks on her... who is so disgusting.

I felt my knees became weak and I didn't even have strength to hold myself. I let my body dropped to the floor.
The heart that was beating so fast was suddenly so quiet as reality hit it hard.

And the reality that I was raped, I was disgusting and that I will never be worth him.
I don't have the right to feel this way,

Ranbir has a perfect life, he loves that girl immensely... He deserve to be with that girl itself and not me. I cannot ruin his life like that.
No, these feelings have to go....

I hugged my knees as the sobs started coming.... it was hurting too much, worst than all the physical torture that I went through.
I tried to convince myself to stay away from him but my heart.... it was hurting just thinking about being away from him.

The little sobs soon turned into vigorous cries as I hugged my knees and went into a fetal position on the floor.

Ranbir's POV
I wanted to go behind her but Aryan stopped me telling me to let her deal with her feelings.
I didn't want to leave her alone and told him and he understood but all the family members joined us.
Abhi: 'You were wonderful, Champ.'
I nodded at Chief, I needed to go to Prachi.'

Mr. M: 'Why did you change the performance, the end?'
He tried to hide the anger behind his words but we could see it clearly.

'It wasn't me, it was the organisers as they watched our performance earlier. They wanted it more romantic to create the hype.'
I had to lie, otherwise, he might get angry at Prachi.