Rich Kids | ✓

Ch-7 Hidden Destiny

Recap:
Hi it's me Riya. I'm back again to tell you the next part of my story. Firstly, here's a quick refresher: in the last chapter, I discovered that Aliya was responsible for all the hate mails, so she got asked to leave Plutus Heights. Then Nisha moved out too so I moved in with her and that's when she told me she felt as if was in love with me. Fortunately, after I politely rejected her, we could still be friends. As for things with Sameer, we bumped into his parents in a French restaurant right on our six-month anniversary and his dad told him to break up with me! I hoped that he would protect me from his dad's insults, but no - can you believe it? Sameer didn't even stand up for me. I was so angry and we started  quarreling. Then I went on a trip with Nisha, Shiva and Ranjan; where Ranjan told me that if I was his girlfriend, he'd never let anyone hurt me.
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When we got back from that trip, I felt much better, because it reminded me how amazing and supportive my friends are. 

I kept thinking about what Ranjan had said - that I had to go speak to Sameer and see if he thought we had a future together. Maybe he was right.

However, Sameer and I hadn't even talked since then. 

In fact, he hadn't even tried to contact me - this silence made me exhausted. Although I couldn't forget what Sameer's dad had said about me, I still loved Sameer so much, and honestly I missed him like crazy. 

I couldn't wait any longer so eventually, I decided to just call him.

When he answered, he sounded like he didn't even have time to speak to me and his voice had such a cold tone, that I found myself apologizing to him for what I'd said because it was not okay. 

Then I said that I wanted to continue with our relationship and that we didn't need to worry about the future yet because we were still so young. Sameer agreed, but he didn't say much - just that he was busy and would call me back later.

Afterwards, I felt relieved the cold war between us that had made me sad and miserable was over. Everything was going to be okay, and yet I couldn't get his cold tone out of my head. 

Why was he acting so indifferent? Did he not love me anymore?

A few weeks later, things weren't much better - I could count on one hand the amount of times Sameer and I had seen each other, because he was so busy with his company and the investment club. 

If I didn't call Sameer, he wouldn't call me at all. As for me, I had to study a lot before graduating so that I could help my parents - it was really frustrating.

I often looked at the ring that I'd found when he saved me and found myself getting lost in thoughts of the past. He used to call me all the time no matter how busy he was. 

He would give me cute nicknames like Rose, Pumpkinpie, etc. We would spend so much time together and I missed that.

Suddenly I felt like our love was fading and nothing could prevent it. If that really happened, how would I be able to handle myself?

One day I called my dad to see if he was okay and he sounded exhausted. Then he told me something that shocked me even more than the bankruptcy: my dad and my mom were getting a divorce.

I couldn't believe it!

I asked him how this had happened but he just sighed and told me that he wanted rest and would call me back later and then he hung up.

Eventually, I called my aunt who was my dad's sister to find out the truth. She said that my mom had been having an affair with a rich man who'd been my dad's partner for a long time, because she couldn't stand this poverty anymore.