Broken to be yours

1. Akriti

The sky is still dark, and the forest is scary but the only thing I am worried about is getting her and myself out of this damn forest safely. My whole body hurts, from head to toe but I can't do anything because the scary forest and night are the exact settings where monsters lurk. 

I am panting for air, leaves are scrunching beneath my feet the distant voice of animals, all of these things should be enough to scare a 20-year-old girl but I can't feel anything apart from the need to take this unconscious girl beside me safely home.

I may be the one who lost everything today but I will die before I let anything happen to this girl. She is too pure for the world to be ruined 'You were innocent too', my brain mocked. I ignored my brain and continued walking the path I think led back to the camp. 

I cannot help but remember how much I was excited for this camp that I begged my parents to send me here even though they were worried about me, it made me feel how much our parents are right about things like these. 

I should have listened and stayed......no no no this is no time for regrets, nothing that happened today was my fault and I won't blame myself.

A movement beside me brought me out of my thoughts, and I saw the girl I was carrying with my hand on her waist and her hand on my shoulder with all her weight over me waking up. She observes our surroundings and then looks at me, confusion is written all over her face, and after a minute realisation draws upon her.

"H-how?"

"Don't worry about anything we are safe now I will not let anything happen to you and the camp......"I was interrupted when she suddenly hugged me.

"Thank you di, thank you so much if it weren't for you I ....", she sobs against me.

"Shh I am here everything will be alright." she stopped crying after two minutes and we both again started moving towards camp when we suddenly saw light and looked at each other.

"We are safe now di"

"Yeah, we are" I replied.

The moment we entered the camp area we saw all the students sitting with worried or frustrated looks on their faces and the organizers and teachers running here and there while talking on their phones, there were also two men I don't think are part of camp because one look is enough to know they are from a very different world than ours and I am not talking about their face since their backs are towards me, it is the way they stand and the aura they radiate. 

Wow what in the fucking hell I am thinking about if there was any other girl in my place she would be bawling her eyes out now but I can't feel anything, it is like that part of my body is dead.

I was just leisurely walking towards the camp when the girl beside me screamed "Bhaii", and the relieved look on his face after seeing his sister made me jealous, it left a sour taste on my tongue because no one from my family was here. 

I left from there after knowing that she would be safe now and directly headed to the tent that was set up for a bath and took a shower the darkness I was avoiding came back with full force and the helplessness I felt at that moment and everything that happened to me came back but I didn't cry more like I couldn't because the girl who cries on every small thing is gone, and I don't know how long I spent inside that someone has to call for me. 

I came out of the bath and acted like I was a normal person and not a shell of my previous self. 

It has been an hour since we returned out of which 45 minutes I spent in the bath well that should be normal for a girl, anyways here I am sitting with her telling the organizers that we lost our way while exploring the jungle. 

It is far from the truth but who will tell them since she was unconscious the whole time and I made sure she won't tell the parts she knows. I was the only one who knew what happened in that damn forest.

We got scolded for roaming in the forest and now I am standing outside looking at the moon while she already left for home with her brother but I couldn't care less about that.