WHY THIS DISTANCE

75| Aadriti

A/N: HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL🥰🥰 I hope you ate happy to see the updates back.

I know I shouldn't have let the copying stuff affect me that much but I was already dealing with personal stuff and when this added to it I thought stopping for a while will help me clear my mind.

Sadly nothing is yet solved but we can't do anything about it now. I have realised it the hard way so there is nothing I can do in this situation apart from being back on track like before.

I don't know how many of you were still waiting beacuse I also lost intrest like many of you not in writing but in general in life too.

But New Year New Beginnings, I have decided to give myself another chance I hope you do too.

I might have said this a hundred times before but still Thank You so much for being the happiest part of my life

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"Yes uhm, That's what I wanted to show you, see-" I mutter with a sheepish smile when Papa narrows his eyes at me. "There is nothing in the sky!" I exclaim, shrugging my shoulders.

"Tumhara hogaya toh ghar chale ab?" He asks sarcastically, retrieving his shades back from his front pocket and putting them on before walking ahead.

(If you are done can we go back home now?)

I stay rooted in my place as the guards start stepping behind him one by one. My gaze strays towards the hallway corner where Agastya is standing looking at me hopefully. I purse my lips together giving him an apologetic look when papa stops in his tracks.

He looks back at me wondering why I haven't moved, making the guards stop as well. Even through the shades he is wearing I feel his piercing eyes on me as I quickly step forward with zee following closely behind me.

Papa turns ahead and starts walking as I simply walk beside him folding my hands at my front. I throw a look back at Agastya who looks unhappy as I walk away with Papa.

I silently sit besides Papa in the car looking out of the window when he speaks breaking the cold silence in the backseat "Yeh jo entrance exam ki baat ki hai tumne-"

(The way you brought the topic of entrance exam-)

'I hope fail hojau! Papa khud hi Mumbai wapis bhej denge mujhe' I thought to myself and giggled mentally.

(I hope I fail the exam so dad will send me back to mumbai himself)

"I am very proud of you" His words catch me off guard as I turn to stare at him. There is a proud smile on his face as I hear those words from his mouth for the first time in my life while he gently pats my head.

I have never done anything in my life to hear those words from him as my brothers have. I never expected to hear it from him before. I never thought those words would make my heart swell, because I never knew its importance.

Instant guilt and regret fill my body at my earlier thoughts as I keep watching him.

"Waise toh tume ye exam dene ki koi jarurat nahi. Principal humare kehne pe tumhara admission kara dete, lekin ye exam dene ka soch kar tumne humara sir uncha kar diya" He says with a smile causing me to lower my head in shame.

(Even though you don't need to give this exam. The principal would have done your admission on my word, but by thinking about giving this entrance exam you have raised my head in pride)