The Last Goodbye

Chapter 49

"So who all are ready to walk back down?" Dev asked.

"I, Divya and Kriti, we are coming Nandini and Rajshri are going with Aman to the other point." Simran answered.

It was 4 pm and ideally they were going to trek back down however Aman, Jignesh, Nandini and Rajshri wanted to check the highest point to which there was a different path.

Divya herself wanted to join them however she could feel the soft pain of cramps that had started building up in her lower back, she thought it was better to go back downstairs than to walk herself into more pain.

"You wanted to come with us right?" Jinesh whispered beside her.

"Yeah but I am not feeling a little well, I would rather go back down."

"You sure, anything serious?"

'Na, you guys go ahead,"

And with that Aman and the group began walking up, whereas Divya, Simran, Kriti, Atharva, Dev, Madhav, Manav and Rishi began walking down to the base camp.

The path walking up had felt difficult, however now that they had begun walking back downstairs it seemed that walking up was much better than walking down as at times they would have to crawl on their buts, hold onto each other's hand even to stand still or best just let the wetland let them slide down.

Though sliding down had been fun, it had only made their clothes dirty. Around half an hour into the journey they came across a waterfall, Divya walked ahead to it and began washing away the mud on her shoes pants and her jacket. She then washed her face and could feel the hotness on her face subsiding slowly.

The rest as well joined her as surprisingly this time Madhav was at the back whilst the rest of the group was walking ahead, especially Divya who made sure to stay away from him and only with Kriti and Simran.

"I knew Divya would do this. I won't be surprised if whilst going up as well she would have wanted to come here to wash her face." Madhav commented as soon as he saw everyone washing their respective shoes and joined them as well.

"Well what's wrong with that? It's the natural water, even I washed my face while going up" Kriti commented as she shrugged her shoulders and the three - Divya, Simran and her began walking ahead.

"Dev, we are going ahead, you guys join us when you are done." Divya yelled back as Dev asked them to be careful.

Slowly and steadily the three girls began walking ahead, the air around them had grown chilled and Divya could feel her hands going cold. Helping each other they had just come out into a clearing when Simran stopped.

"Shit my shoes have completely gone."

"Why dont you remove the sole? I am sure there is a covering at the end, let's try to make it to the last point with that, we can walk slowly." Divya suggested as Kriti and Simran agreed and began walking.

They had just taken a few steps ahead when the boys walked up to them. Simran explained her situation as they as well suggested what Divya had said and walked ahead leaving the girls behind.

But it wasn't just the girls who were behind but as well Madhav who was finding it difficult to make his way down.

Divya ignored him and began walking along with Simran, but somewhere to the point, she had somehow deviated her path from that of Simran's and Kriti's and was walking on her own when it began raining.

She stood there trying to pull up her jacket over her head when Madhav walked up to her and helped her. Surprised all she could say was thank you. She waited for him to say something, but he didn't, she saw around them there were a few other tourists and Simran and Kriti were walking ahead of them and the boys had already gone far ahead.