rajveer naina - fated

chapter 14

She wakes up and for the first few minutes she just concentrates on breathing.

She breathes past the pain, the pain of having to live in a world where he no longer exists.

She concentrates on this, because honestly she would prefer it if her breath was to stop and her pain was to end once and for all.
But she keeps breathing, and after a few minutes she's finally able to get up, to get ready for the day ahead.

She continues because she has no other choice.Captain Rajveer's protégéwill never admit defeat.
She breathes in, she breathes out.
But the pain never goes away./

Asha woke disorientated, unable to remember where she was or who she was… all she could feel was a sense of loss, so piercing that she could feel a sharp pain in her heart.She breathes in, opens her eyes and remembers. She is at home for a week, suspended from duty. At home…Asha sighs, it is only the beginning of the second day and already she is eager for the week to be over. The first day had been spent explaining to her family exactly why she was suspended and why she should be going back to Tawang again after the suspension was over.
They had wrongly assumed that being punished might make her want to give up the army, to finally abandon her dream.
Asha wonders whether they will ever give up trying to convince her to leave the army, whether she will ever truly be free of their expectations.
She bathes and dresses slowly, not wanting to go downstairs and face another day of it. Eventually she makesit to the dining table, intending to have a slow breakfast while she faces yet more questions and suggestions.
However there is a surprise waiting for her there.A very unwelcome surprise.

"What are you doing here?" Asha asks him flatly with a touch of hostility. "Shouldn't you still be in Tawang?"

"Well I was due for a holiday," Rajesh explains, a slight smirkon his face,

"And what better time to come home than when you would also be here."Asha struggles not to glare at him and then wonders why she is trying, she then turns to her mother."

And who mentioned to Rajesh that I was home for the week?" she asks accusingly, and her mother looks slightly guilty for a moment before recovering.

"Now don't be like that, Asha." She tells her, "It's very nice of Rajesh to come and visit while he can spend some time with you, perhaps now is finally the time to…"

"Excuse me," Asha announces hastily, leaving the room without any further notice.
The first thing she did was to message Amiya that there was an emergency and her help was required./

Amiya turned up within half an hour, Asha spotted her through an upper window where she had been hiding in her bedroom and rushed to open the door, ushering her friend inside and up the stairs before Rajesh could spot either one of them.

"What's the problem?" Amiya whispers to her, "What's the big emergency?"

"The problem is currently sitting in my living room charming my parents," Asha informs her,
"Can you believe he's followed me here too?"

"Can I just get it straight who you're talking about?" Amiya asks,
"Because from where I'm standing there could be a couple of options of guys who would follow you home."

Asha gives Amiya a look of disbelief.

"Rajesh, who else? Who were you thinking of?"

"Well I was just wondering why you would be angry if he came to your house…" Amiya muses thoughtfully, and then seeing Asha's expression quickly tries to cover her mistake,

"Uh, I thought maybe Hussein had come to visit."

"Why would he? He's probably having a great time with his Abu and Ammi who are not at all angry about him being suspended." Asha fumes, and Amiya nods.