Ye Ishq Hai

ch-17

       Whole night and next whole day, Avantika was feeling restless regarding upcoming meeting with Aditya. She wanted to avoid it but she knew she can't do it for long, so she decided to face it.

           "First thing, I will say sorry for yesterday's stupidity. God only knows why I did that? Why I went to his cabin like that and behaved like a real girlfriend? What he must be thinking? It was so embarrassing." She thought to herself while winding up for the day.

     When she was almost ready to go, she got text from him and he told her to come to the parking directly. She took deep breathe and prepared herself to face him. She went to the parking. He was already there. He didn't say anything and just signalled her to sit in the car, she did as he said. Then he too sat inside the car and started driving. Both of them were silent for different reasons.

     After some time, he stopped the car in front of the most exotic restaurant in that city. It was beside a beautiful lake and in open area, best known for privacy more than food. Since, moon had already arrived, it was looking more beautiful under moonlight beside water. There was advance reservation system for entry and Aditya had already done that. Avantika came out of the car and got
mesmerized looking at the view in front of her. It instantly lifted her mood as she was feeling so awkward during whole journey. Soon, Aditya joined her after parking the car.

    " Let's go inside" he said to her. She just nodded her head.

   Restaurant staff led them to their table, took order and went away. Avantika was still observing the beautiful setup and surrounding.

      " Have you come here before?" He asked her.

     She just shook her head but didn't say anything. Aditya sighed because he could see that she was feeling awkward. He thought to make her feel comfortable.

     " Avantika, I am sorry for overreacting yesterday. Please don't take it at heart and forget whatever happened. I should not have behaved like that. It won't happen again." He apologized genuinely.

      Avantika was taken aback as she was too thinking to say sorry but didn't know from where to start and here he was saying sorry when it was clearly her fault. She created that unnecessary drama without thinking anything. Now she was feeling even more uneasy and didn't know what to say after that.
" Avantika, today we came here to talk about something important. Please listen carefully whatever I am going to say before reacting. It's something serious." He explained.

     Now Avantika was really curious and confused about what he was going to say because she was completely clueless. So she again just nodded her head without saying anything.

      "Avantika, I hope you know, why I forced you to think about your career. My only aim was to make you independent so that you can live your life according to your own choice and will. I was doing everything in my capacity to help you in starting your career, but I didn't realise that while doing all of that, I am making you dependent on me completely. This cancelled the whole purpose of my idea.
When I won't be here, then how will you handle everything on your own? Even if I am here, technically it should be you who is supposed to handle everything because it's your business but I am not letting you do that because I knew you can't do that as you are not ready and you don't have any idea how these things work? So, I thought to make everything easy for you. This is where, I completely went wrong. Instead of preparing you for business field, I took all the responsibility on my own and took away your chance to become truly independent. I want to rectify my mistake. I won't do anything on your behalf from now onwards. You will have to do everything on your own. But for doing that, you have to first prepare yourself for it because currently you don't know anything. You have to first finish your degree and learn how to handle a business on your own then
only you will be able to do it properly. So, it's my suggestion and request, let's hold this work for a while and finish your degree first. It will take 1-2 years max. When you will start working after that,
then it will boost your confidence and you won't need me at all. You will be able to do everything on your own." He said all what he wanted to say to her.