Abhigya-Made For Each Other...

14. Revealations

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"Words in double quotes" - Talking

'Words in single quotes' - Thoughts

(Words in braces) - Telephone conversations

Chapter 14

Abhi could feel the sweat roll off his forehead from fear. After all, it wasn't everyday that you saw a live bear in front of your eyes, that too only a hair's breath away from yourself.

He tried to remain as still as possible. 'Maybe he will think I'm dead. I hope he thinks I'm dead.'

"Abhi, I know what you're thinking. But it won't work." Pragya whispered to him. "How could even think of such an irrational idea?"

"Of course he will know it now that you told him!"

"Firstly, it's not a 'he', it's a 'she'. Secondly, she's got enough sense to figure that out!"

"Grrrrr!" the bear growled as it raised its paws to slash them.

Abhi grabbed Pragya's shoulders and hid her in his embrace to prevent her from getting hurt. He shut his eyes tightly expecting the pain of the attack.

"Bhai no!" Aliyah screamed from where she stood nearby along with Purab and Nitin.

However, at the last moment, the bear stopped as it heard a tiny sound from nearby.

It was the voice of the tiny bear that was in Nitin's arms.

As the bear cub let out a tiny growl, the bigger one turned her head to look at it.

Feeling no pain, Abhi opened his eyes and looked at the bear. 'Eh? She's not attacking? What gives?'

"This is our chance Abhi. Let's make a run for it!" Pragya whisper-shouted to him, trying to pull him back.

"But...but she ain't attacking."

"Yes!"

"But why?"

"Would you rather have her slash your heart out than stop attacking!? She's not attacking. So stop your gibberish and run!"

"Thank goodness bhai is safe." Aliyah said in relief as she saw them slowly edging away from the distracted bear.

"I don't think I can say the same about us." Purab spoke out in fear as he noticed the bear looking their way. "Now, we're it's target!"

"I don't think so." Nitin reasoned. He caressed the head of the cub in his arms. "It's this cub that she's looking at. Something tells me she's the mother of this cub."

Abhi continued staring at the bear all the while he was walking away. He followed her line of sight and gasped as the bear saw where it was looking. "Aliyah?! Shit!" at once, he sprung to action and grabbed Pragya's hand. He made a run to where Aliyah stood with the other two. "Aliyah, run!"

"No! We mustn't run. She just wants her cub." Nitin shouted back. He could clearly see how the mother bear was looking calmly at it's cub. It's anger seemed to fade seeing her baby, being replaced by concern. "I'll hand it over to her peacefully."

"It's an animal! Even if we try to hand the cub over, it might attack us thinking we took it away." Purab reasoned as he kept looking at the cub that was calling out to it's mother. "Let's take the chance and make a run while the big bear is distracted."