SanDhir - Along Came She

CHAPTER 4 : The Discovery

"If what attracts you to someone is just their looks, then be sure that it's not 'Love', it's just 'Infatuation'!"

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Sanyukta walked back to her hostel in a daze. She never believed in 'destiny', because life hadn't exactly been fair to her. She had been brought up among hardships and had learnt to survive the hard way. And yet the discovery that she just made led her to believe that may be there was a thing called 'destiny' and that she was somehow fated to meet Randhir Shekhawat...again!

She entered her dorm-room to find Kaustuki studying.

"He's a Shekhawat Kaustuki...He's their son", she spoke without preamble.

Kaustuki looked up in surprise, "What?? Sanyu kya bola tumne?"

"Randhir....He is Randhir 'Shekhawat' ...son of the late Drs. Shekhawats...I just found that out when i went to the admin office..."

Kaustuki's jaw dropped, "He's the surviving son??? I can't believe this...He's nothing like them...From what u said, his parents were extremely humble and compassionate...But randhir? sanyu are u sure about this??"

Sanyukta nodded, "I'm sure...it's him...And yeah, he's nothing like them...May be because he lost them too early..."

"So that's why!!!!" exclaimed Kaustuki out of the blue.

"That's why what?" asked sanyukta.

"That's why his gang behaves like they own this place!!! Randhir does own this place!!! My goddd....Sanyu stay away from him...He'll ruin u..."

Sanyukta didn't reply.

"Sanyu, u aren't thinking of confronting him again ,are u? Please...panga mat lo...He's way above our league..."

Kaustuki was right. Randhir probably didn't even remember that he met Sanyukta 12 years back. Besides it's not they were buddies or anything. Randhir had just come to Dehradun to visit his parents when Renuka told him that Sanyukta was his of the same age as he and that her father was battling for his life. She had asked Randhir to go talk to Sanyukta and cheer her up and that's what he had done. A favour.

"I will stay away.." said Sanyukta, mentally deciding that no one would ever find out that she met Randhir Shekhawat as a child.

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-BOY'S HOSTEL-

It was 5 minutes to midnight and Randhir sat on his bed wide-awake, having flashbacks of that fateful night exactly 10 years back.

5 minutes more and it would be his 18th birthday. He would legally be an adult.

"A legal heir to the Shekhawat empire..." he thought.

His birthday was a living nightmare. It was the day he dreaded the most. Laced with painful memories, this day did nothing to make his survival easy.

His phone beeped. It was a text from Ishita.

"Waiting for u outside ur dorm...Come down please.."

Randhir glanced at Karan and Parth...the former was sleeping, while the latter was listenning to music.

He got up quietly, grabbed his jacket and tiptoed out of the room. Ishita was waiting just outside the gates of his hostel.

"Hey" he said on spotting her.

She came upto him and embraced him tightly and whispered, "Welcome to the adult club."

He hugged her back and mumbled a 'thank u'.