rajveer naina - fated

chapter 9

He finds his gaze drawn to her more and more these days.

He knows that he shouldn't be watching her in this way but still…
Her smile draws him to her.
Her eyes make his search for her again and again.
So here he stands watching her while she talks to the other cadets, her eyes sparkling as she laughs, and he loses his heart to her all over again.
He knows he has to control his feelings, she's still his cadet and he's still her teacher, and there are quite a few months more until that situation changes.But God, how he loves her.
How he burns for her. How he spends every day waiting for the moment when he can finally express his feelings to her.

Then she turns around and looks at him self consciously, before lowering her gaze slightly, a hopeful smile hovering around her lips.

And he knows that whatever happens, no matter how hard he might try, he will never be able to stop loving her.

The only thing he can try to do is to keep his feelings under control until the day when…

The day when…

/Dhiraj woke up, sweat pouring down his face, his entire body damp. Glancing at the clock by his bedside he saw it was only 4am, an hour before his alarm would normally go off.

Dhiraj checked the other bed in the room but Samir was still sound asleep, muttering something that Dhiraj couldn't understand.
Rather than wake his friend up, Dhiraj takes his towel and clothes and enters the bathroom to get ready for the day ahead.
Stepping under the warm water he tries to relax, tried to forget about the dream.But the truth is that he dreamed of her increasingly often these days.

He doesn't know how but every time he wakes up from these dreams it is with such a powerful feeling of longing, that it takes all of his willpower not to walk up to her door and knock on it, no matter what the time of night.
Because just as in his dream he really does want her, long for her, burn for her.
And it makes absolutely no sense at all.
Dhiraj has never been the type to fall in love at first sight, infact he's never been the type to fall in love at all. The girlfriends he's had in the past have complained that he always seems to be rather detached, as if reluctant to give himself wholly to the relationship and Dhiraj knows that they were right.

There has always been something undefined that stops him from wanting to fully fall in love with anyone.
Could Samir be right? Could he really be in love with her?

It wasn't possible, Dhiraj knew that it wasn't. They barely knew each other, they hadn't even had that many conversations together.
And he wasn't the type of guy to fall in love like that, he really wasn't.
It was just a simple case of attraction, that was all, and Dhiraj could definitely control that.

He has to.

/Hussein is scheduled to be on base for the next week but Asha and Amiya are heading out on a patrol.

"I know you'll miss us," Amiya tells him mischievously, "Face it, you don't have any other friends as interesting as we are,you'll be bored without us."

"Actually I was looking forward to some peace and quiet," Hussein replies,
"When I can finally write as many love letters as I want without fear of you trying to find out who I'm writing to."

Amiya makes a face at him while Asha tries not to laugh.

"So who are you going to patrol with this time?" Hussein asks them, not having checked the lists since he knows that he isn't scheduled for any.

"With my new hero, Captain Kapoor." Amiya declares brightly, slyly looking in Asha's direction to see her reaction.
Sure enough, Asha starts choking on her coffee, and Hussein leans over and pats her on the back until she calms down.