Love that Hurts

UNTREATABLE

Aryan was at practice, Raina at home, like she always was. There was yet some time to join the institute, so spent her days concocting, thinking of and revising plans of escapades. Every time she would be at mere meters away from their building, her phone would light up with a frenzy of texts. 'Where are you?', 'Why aren't you at home?', 'Are you alright?', 'Do you need something?' and a dozen other texts would float through her phone. He was suffocating her, before with his hate and then with his love. Every action of his was draining out air out of her, constricting her to an even tighter space. She had been in contact with Joey, conversing with him on how to get out of this mess. Every door seemed to be shutting close on her face. 

"I don't know what to do anymore, I'm exhausted."

"You could try and file a divorce, what baffles me why you still haven't told your dad. I mean, do it! Before someone else does, you wouldn't have that sword hanging over your head all the time and you could leave him for good."

"Yes, yes I think I will tell dad."

"When? You cannot put this off anymore."

"Tomorrow, I'll tell him tomorrow."

Just then, she heard the lock turn. "I'll call you later, he is here."

"How was your day?", Aryan asked her, all giddy. He was dressed in his sports attire, all red and disheveled from his practice, if she were old Raina she would've swooned and melted into her floor after looking at him, he looked like he had been handcrafted by God himself, like he was made in the image of the most beautiful human to ever exist but this Raina knew better than to fall for his unbeatable beauty, she knew what lay beneath that breathtaking exterior.

Raina chose not to answer and let her back face him as she focused on her laptop, he sat beside her and shoved the laptop away.

"I asked you something.", he asked, with a face full of smile.

" What would it be like Aryan? I'm trapped in this hellhole with Satan's spawn, so you tell me what would it be like ? "

He laughed out loud like she had made the joke of the century, " You and your humor, never fail to amaze me. " There was a moment of pause where he engulfed her in a hug and then spoke into her ears directly, "There are herds of girls out there who would kill for your place, for your place here in my arms. But I chose you, why can't you just be thankful for that once in a while? You act like I disgust you, every word that comes out of my mouth makes you want to throw up but deep down you and I both know what you feel for me is love. All those times before you begged for me to love you, to want you, you are getting what you want now, be thankful for that. "

FLASHBACK

Raina was busy reading a paper on the higgs boson when she heard a scream from downstairs, it was loud and almost ear-piercing. She rushed down only to see Aryan holding out his hand to a maid who, from what it looked like, was doing a terrible job at cleaning his wound.

She rushed down and took the cotton swab away from her, " The wound isn't even cleaned properly, you shouldn't give first-aid like this. Leave it to me. "

The whole time that she was attending to his wounds, Aryan faced the wall to his right, he would always try his level best to not look at her. She invoked a gagging reflex in him, his exact words. Raina was dressing his wound he said, in an unknown deep sickly voice, "Don't you think, you doing things like these for me, taking care of me would change my mind about you. You were and will always be unwanted. " With that he snatched his hand away from hers in a swift stroke and went up to his room.

His words, like always, pierced through Raina's heart like a poison induced arrow, every word inching her closer and closer to endless tears. No matter how mean his words sounded she couldn't help but notice that he sounded sick, and his body felt alarmingly warm. He was visited by his mistress that evening as well, like most days then, only that day it was cut short. Raina heard coughing from his room that night, so she gathered the pills required to the best of the knowledge and walked into his room, his was in his sweats, looking rather pale. She handed him the pills and a glass of water. He turned red in rage.

"What the fuck are you doing here? I have informed you time and time again, you are not to enter my room. And what is this caring facade that you are putting on? You think this will make me think differently of you, I told you nothing ever will change that. You are the biggest tragedy in my life!", and then with a stroke of his hand, the glass fell from her hands and broke into a million pieces.

With a face full of tears, Raina bent down to gather the pieces of the broken glass. Then too, all she could think about if he would get hurt from them.

Flashback ENDS

Raina pushed him away from her with all her might, "Get away from me!"

Aryan smirked in response, circled her waist and pulled her into him. She looked at him bewildered and before she could react, he pushed his lips onto her and started kissing her hungrily. He pushed her closer and closer into him until she was practically sitting on his lap, Raina was trying her best to push him away, but he would just hold them behind her back and continued kissing her. He was looking for an entry into her mouth and she let him, but as soon as he did, she bit his lips hard. Aryan pulled away laughing, and touched his now bleeding lower lip, "My kitten's growing fiester with the passing days. Thank you for the gift. "

PRECAP

"Dad. I have to say something to you. "

"What is it Beta? And also, why didn't you bring Aryan with you? He has been visiting quite often these days telling me how great you are, how great it is going. He even has a surprise for you, but don't ask me since I can't reveal it. "

"It's about him and me. "