Virika: The Army Love

Chapter 5

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2 days later

Viren was on his way to Delhi. His Colonel asked for a full report of the incident and then, decided that his team should head back.  Viren didn't want to leave as he wanted to spend some more time with Jeevika because he knew that after this, they were never going to see each other, even if they both lived in the same city. He never liked someone so quick. It seemed to him that he may have fallen in love with her. After all, love at first sight was a thing.

All the way back Viren was just thinking about Jeevika. He wanted to exchange numbers with her so they could at least chat on phone but he couldn't make the time for it.

On the other page, Jeevika was given discharge on the day Viren left as she was stable and was recovering fast. Jeevika also left for Delhi on the next day. She wanted to meet one last time but her destiny stated otherwise. They both thought that they would never meet each other again.

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It was almost 3 months after that incident took place. Jeevika had recovered fully. She now had resumed her job. Her day would always start with a rush as she had to prepare breakfast for her family.

A few weeks back, Asha, Jeevika's mother faced a terrible accident which caused her, her life. The injuries on her head were too much and she also suffered  internal bleeding.
For days, no one talked in the house. It became a house not a home. An eerie silence engulfed the whole house. While Jeevika's siblings and her dad put on a brave face and carried on with their life, Jeevika couldn't. She was more close to her mother than her father unlike her siblings who were close to their father. But Jeevika didn't allowed herself to be submerged in depression. She went to work daily and started small talks with her family. She didn't want to loose her family.

After her mother's expiry, all the household work came on Jeevika's plate. She had to take care of her brother, sister and father. Her brother, Sameer was in college while her sister, Anya was in 12 standard.
They both were immature and fought with each other, sometimes pranked too.

Jeevika as usual woke up at 6 in morning. She first prepared breakfast everyone and then lunch for her brother and sister as she didn't came home at afternoons. She, then, carried on with cleaning her house.
Her father woke up, sometime later, followed by her sister and brother. At around 8:30, she finished all her household chores and till then her family had left for their respective destinations after finishing their breakfast.

Quarter to 9, Jeevika started collecting her belongings which she needed for work. It took her half an hour to reach her office, so she didn't had to worry about getting late. Locking the door behind her, she opened her Nissan Datsun Go and placed her things on the passenger seat before getting in herself. The aqua coloured car was a gift to her by her parents when she secured her job as an interior designer in a leading design company.

Jeevika entered her office with a smile and greeted the receptionist, who greeted her back. She took the files which needed her attention, to her cabin. Her cabin was a small room which had a white desk with a chair, with shelves to keep the files and a couch along with a coffee table. It was a bare room to which Jeevika added life. She added many colours to the room making it modern and colourful.

After all, I'm an interior designer!

She had said to herself when she checked out what her cabin turned out to be.

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It was afternoon when Jeevika heard her stomach growl. She chuckled and stood up. Closing her laptop and switching off the lights, she made her way out of the cabin. Locking it, she saw that almost everybody had left for lunch.

The office canteen was closed due to some reason so she decided to walk to the restaurant across the road. Opening the door, a bell jingled above her as she noticed that the restaurant was quite full.

Making her way towards the counter, she greeted the lady before ordering her meal. It hardly took ten minutes before her order was placed in front of her. Thanking the lady, Jeevika turned around and looked for an empty table when someone bumped into her. The collision resulted in falling of both the trays of Jeevika and the other person making the food spread all over the floor.

"I'm so sorry" the person said. Jeevika looked up and was about to say it's okay when she was left dumbfounded.

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