Solace of love

4✨

Sitting on the bench in the empty garden of her college, Shidya is sniffing as the memories of her harassment keep playing in her head in loops. Tears flowed down her face continuously. Her eyes stared aimlessly in front.

She never ever experienced a situation like this in her life till now. Now after going through this horrible incident, she is in shock. It's a nightmare, a very horrible one.

Her throat tightens as she controls herself from breaking down. Her fingers fist her torn kurti over her scarf which is covering her chest area.

“Shidya…"

She turned her head slightly hearing her name and saw Vihaan looking at her while huffing as if he came running here.

He walked to her in worry seeing her condition.

“What happened, Shidya?" She choke on her sob as he softly asks her.

The next moment she hugged him tightly and cried out loudly hiding her face in his chest. Vihaan gets panicked at her sudden breakdown but still wraps his arms around her.

“Hey…I am here, love. Shh,...," he softly whispered and gently caressed her hair.

He gets worried seeing her crying badly. He doesn't know how to console her.

“Shidya, please don't cry ... .tell me what happened," He asked her in his soft voice.

Her cries soon turn into sobs as she feels safe in his embrace.

Vihaan cupped her face and made her face him. His inside clench in pain seeing her teary red face before lightly cleaning the tears from her cheek with his thumb.

She sniffed softly, feeling his tender touch as she looked at him innocently with glossy eyes.

“Shh…no more tears," he whispered, slightly shaking his head seeing her eyes filled with more tears.

Smiling lightly at her,he again cup her cheeks and ask,
“Tell me what happened? You can trust me, Shidya…"

"He touched me….he touched me wrongly,” she whispered in a broken voice and shut her eyes tightly, feeling them burning.

Vihaan's eyes widen for a second before they turn dark.

He looks at her face which shows her pain. He gulped hard seeing her like this.

“Who was he?" He hides his rage as he doesn't want to scare her when she is already feeling so low.

She shook her and leaned against him, placing her face on his chest. Few more tears rolled down from her eyes.

“I don't know…I didn't even do anything…" She looked up at him innocently.

"Shh…I trust you, Shidya. Don't cry…” his heart broke seeing her silently crying while giving him an explanation.

“Why did he do this to me? He touched..d me badly, Vihaan. I didn't like his to..ouch…" she again burst into tears telling him about the horrible incident.

Vihaan cups her face with both hands and shakes his head lightly, seeing her crying badly.

“Shh…calm down. I am here, Shidya. He will pay for his horrible actions. I promise you," saying he wiped her tears from her cheeks and placed a very light kiss on her head making her melt at his act and close her eyes.

He looked at her face and brushed her baby hair from her face lightly when his eyes fell on her kurti as her dupatta slipped from her front.

His jaw clenches in rage as he closes his eyes to control the bubbling anger inside him for the man who dares to touch her.