Imperfectly Perfect

Chapter 29

Aarohi pov

He was taking me with him to the stage. When we reach there was a sudden explosion. The whole room was filled with smoke. Somebody pulled me with them. I didn't know who it was in the midst of this smoke. But I let them pull me with them.

We went far away from that hall and reached a hallway. Then I saw who it was. He was a man around is 40s. His black hair was peppered with grey streaks in between. He had the exact shade of eyes as mine.

I felt weird. He felt very familiar and stranger at the same time. I just stood there feeling safe around him. I don't know if it is a good thing or bad. Then he turned towards me and held my hand. I was paralyzed not knowing what to do. Then he said something which made my world collapse.

"I am your father." He said and stood there waiting for me to react and I didn't know what to do or what to feel.

"I know this is a lot. But we have less time now to explain everything. So do as I say." Then he told me the way to get out of there. After that he left me. I have no idea what has happened inside and what's going on now. But I was running in that heavy lehenga towards the exit. I don't even know why I trusted him but I did. My instincts wear saying what he said was true. But for time being I blocked that and ran.

As I was running, a man came towards and blocked the way. I punched him in his face and started running again. Then somebody came behind me and held a knife against my neck. I was breathing heavily. One wrong move and he will slice my neck. I think he don't know how to handle the knife. He was holding in a wrong way.

Then I twisted his hands and took the knife from his hands. I then kicked him and made him fall on the ground. I held knife against his neck. At that time I heard some noise. I turned towards my right to see that Atharva with his brother and friend was there. At the same time the guy who was laying down tried to pull the knife from my hand. But I stabbed him in a place where he wouldn't die.

After him I was scared to step outside the house. So in order to make myself stronger I learnt self defence. And many other fighting skills too. So I knew which point in our body will hurt us or kill us.

Then I looked towards Atharva. For few moments we both just stared at each other not saying anything. Both our eyes were filled with relief. Then I ran towards him and hugged him. We stood there hugging each other feeling happy and grateful to see each other again.

"Are you okay? What happened? Are you hurt somewhere ?" He asked checking me from top to bottom to check for any damages.

"I am okay. I am not hurt." I said. I had hope that he would come for me.

It was not easy to stay strong when I was  alone no one by my side. But life goes on. You have to get up everyday and survive till the last breath. We live in a world of hope. We don't know if we will live tomorrow or not but we make plans for next day. Hope is everything. That doesn't mean we have to sit idle and do nothing. We have to work hard in order to achieve anything. Only then we can hope.

I was feeling happy, relieved and grateful at the same time. I was just hugging him and crying. It felt like a second chance to continue my life.

He hugged me and consoled me whispering reassurance in my ears. Then I came out of his embrace and wiped my tears. When I was crying somehow in that moment Gowtham and Vaibhav had left from there.

After few minutes which felt like hours everyone came to the place where we were standing. Including Kriti and the man who claimed that he is my father.

"Everything has been cleared." Vaibhav said and turned towards Kriti and my father. Atharva turned towards them and he raised his eyebrows showing that he was surprised.

"Let's leave from here." He said. But before that Kriti came towards me and gave me some simple clothes. Atharva didn't protest against it. I think he just wants to dump everything about this here and leave. Then Kriti took me towards a room.

I don't know what to say to her. We just walked in silence. And I am surprised that Atharva agreed to send me with her. I am sure that by now he knows everything. Or maybe I don't know everything.

We reached to a room and I went inside to get changed. I changed my clothes and came back fast. Then we both resumed our walk towards the men.

Everyone were waiting for us. When I reached there Atharva held my hand and we all went outside. We walked for half a kilometre and there was a big hole above us. There was a rope hanging down. First Atharva climbed up easily as if he is doing this his whole life and helped me to come up.

Then one by one everyone came up and we all went outside. After that we came outside that house. There were few cars waiting for us. Me and Atharva sat in one car.

No one spoke anything regarding the events which happened recently. Atharva was holding me close to him. Maybe he was reassuring himself that I am safe. He didn't ask anything. Even though if he ask anything I don't think I will be able to answer. Everything was blank. Everything happened so fast that I am not able to digest it.

I thought he will be taking me to house or mine but he took me to a different house. Then he held my hand and walked me to the door.

Everyone came too behind us.

"Everyone rest we will talk about everything in the morning. " Atharva ordered. Everyone left one by one not disagreeing or going against him.

Then he pulled me along with him and took me to a room. I so wanted to sleep but first I wanted to take a shower. Then I went to closet which consists some of Atharva's clothes. I took a t shirt and a shorts.

I went to the bathroom and did my business. Then I took a shower. I remembered him touching me which made me disgusted about my body. I started rubbing my skin harshly which made my skin red. I then realised what I was doing and reassured myself that it was not my fault. I kept chanting that in my mind and came out after wearing clothes.

Atharva was in balcony talking to someone. I went outside and hugged him from behind. When I hugged him he stiffened and turned around. After seeing me, he disconnected the call and came inside.

Then he laid me on the bed and he came and slept beside me. We didn't need any words to comfort each other. Each other's presence was enough. The silence was speaking volumes in this chaos.

Then we both slept hugging each other forgetting all the problems for time being...

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