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Moonlight!

'Dei macha?!'

Aabharan jerked from his thoughts, who didn't know when Dakshan came there,

'Va machi, okkaru..'

Aabhran moved aside on the bench, while Dakshan frowned and sat beside him. It was not hard for him to find out that his friend was not in a good state.

Dakshan looked at his confused face and sighed before talking,

'Enachu da?'

Aabharan closed his eyes for a second, knowing that he would never mask himself from Dakshan, and it is always him who finds out whether he is okay or not,

'Onumila da..' he dragged, while Dakshan shook his head in disbelief,

'Seekram solita na nalladhu..'

Aabharan gulped, knowing that he was not going to spare him, and turned towards him,

'Na thappu panrena macha?'

Dakshan frowned at his open question, as he was not sure what he was talking about at the beginning, but slowly opened his eyes in realisation,

'Ethathu sonangala avanga?'

Aabharan quickly intervened,

'Che che! ava ethum solala..na tha etho..thappu panreno nu thonudhu..'

Dakshan sighed, as he knew that Aabharan got influenced by someone's opinion. He knew that Aabharan is a person who values his inner feelings and never gives up easily, so if he stumbled somewhere, it should be something which had affected him through his closed ones,

'Yaru enna sonaa ipo?'

Aabharan hesitated for a while, knowing that Dakshan was going to give another set of advice, which he usually does when Aabharan loses his sanity,

'Venkat uncle..'

Hearing his name, Dakshan huffed,

'Nenache! avara tha irukum nu..yen da?! epo paru avaru ethum thappa nenachuka kudathu, avaru kashtapada kudathu, avara disappoint pana kudathu ne nenachutu irupiya? unaku nu oru life iruku la macha?'

Aabharan kept silent while Dakshan continued,

'Avaru kashtapada kudathu nu antha Saasha torture ah kuda thaangitu iruka..seriously macha? un manasuku onnu pudichuruku na atha yaralayum unkiternthu parikka mudiyathu..aana ni, vita antha Saasha vaye kalyanam panipa po..(la)..'

His words halted in the middle, when Aabharan raised his voice,

'Niruthu da!'

Dakshan got startled when Aabharan shouted, and stood from his bench,

'Avaru mela enaku yen ivlo mariyadha iruku nu therinjum niye ipdi pesalama da?'

Dakshan kept silent, as he realised that he himself lost his temper, looking at his friend's condition. He couldn't tolerate himself when Aabharan is always concerned about others but not him. He was actually afraid of what would happen in his life because of this nature of him.

Dakshan knew about Saasha. He came to know about her deeds starting from the smallest thing to the cheapest thing she had done to attain Aabharan. At the beginning, he warned Aabharan, but for some extent Aabharan didn't believe Dakshan as he trusted that Venkat's daughter won't behave like that.

Dakshan tried to prove her deeds with proper evidence each time when she did something, but he failed each time as none of the victims dared to open their mouth to reveal the truth. Since then, Dakshan realised that it would be useless to expose her or make Aabharan know about her deeds, so he determined to protect him from her.