The Voice within [Completed]

Chapter sixteen

Anamika's POV

I couldn't digest what I just heard.

The world around me seemed to be spinning as I walked out to hear a voice calling out my name.

"Veer just leave me alone please" I said as the tears and the emotions took a toll on me.

"Anamika please don't do this to yourself. Come on I'll drop you home!" He said.

"I don't want to go" I said crying.

"No No Samara I mean Anamika sorry please please stop crying... It's okay We'll figure this out" he said putting an arm around my shoulder.

"Veer the cab is here" I heard Arjun's voice from a distance.

"Come on come with me" he said catching me by arms and guiding me through the way to the cab.

Arjun as usual occupied the front seat and put on his headphones after gesturing something to Veer.

My mind was a mess. Everything around me was a blur. I began biting my nails as I couldn't understand anything what was happening.

Veer pulled my hand away and looked into my eyes.

I had lost all the courage I had mustered up until then and broke down as he hugged me and kept caressing my hair through out the journey.

Soon we reached home and I walked out of the cab.

"Veer I'll take the same cab home" Arjun said as Veer nodded.

"Ms. Goodygood in two shoes stop crying your nose looks like a tomato and I hate tomatoes" he said making a face

I smiled at his stupid attempt to make me laugh.

"Let's go" Veer said as the cab drove off and vanished real quick.

"This was my old home" I said.

"I know. Samara had told me it was a friend's place though" he replied.

I walked in and sat down on the couch.

"Do you want me to cook something for you?" Veer asked.

"No I'm not hungry." I replied.

His eyes showed the kind of gentle concern Anwar used to have. He laid his hand lightly on my shoulder, and instead of flinching like I usually did, I was soothed by it. He left his hand there and spoke with such a soft voice I felt his words calming me more by the way they were said than the actual words.

"Eat something you'll feel better. I'll make you something okay?"

It felt as if I were wrapped in a blanket of his caring. How could I not consider my actions now, now that I could see how profoundly they effected him too.

He walked into the kitchen and began cooking something while I walked up to him.

"What's wrong Anamika?" He asked chopping the vegetables.

"It's just that I'm scared of being alone now" I said.

"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked as he continued to prepare the curry.

"About what?" I asked looking at him.

"Your personal life.You said it was complicated. I mean you told Abhimanyu things weren't going right between you both all okay?" He asked

"No Veer. I and Anwar were really happy together. Even after the accident. But there was one thing what troubled me, He never wanted me to talk about you and I really don't know why" I said when he stopped what he was doing for a moment and then continued.

"Samara loved me Anamika. And there could exist only one person in you. He was probably just scared. Of losing you" he said as he finally placed the lid on the container and a rich Aroma filled the room.

"Are you not scared of losing Samara then?" I asked him curiously out of pure instinct.

"I've lost her once. Losing her again is no big deal for me" he said in a sad tone.

"Veer You said Samara loved you she wouldn't want to see you like this. She wanted you to stay away from all this you said"

He just sighed.

"I'm forced Anamika. It's not that I have a choice. My family is at stake" he said regretting every word.

"Anyway let's eat I'm hungry" he said as I served the food and we both sat down to eat.

"And also there is his friend called Paridhi who moved in recently. They are very good friends. But since the past two three days his behavior has been weird. They're behaving like a couple" I said sighing.

Veer giggled.

"Can you please tell me what on Earth is so funny in this?" I asked him.

"You sound so cute when you are jealous" he said and continued to giggle.

I was taken aback. I wasn't used to compliments. And above all treating my flaws like something great was amazing. I think I know why Samara loved Veer so much. He makes people comfortable.

He doesn't judge you for anything. I was so wrong about him. I really wish I knew about this kind heart behind that gangster image he's carrying. He needs to come out of all this.

He deserves better.

He deserves his team.

He deserves his family

He deserves his career

He deserves Samara

He deserves me! Wait no! He does? Doesn't he?

The sound of a child screaming emerged from the backdrop of city noise, at first it was distant, too far away to even justify peering from the window down the wide moon-bleached avenue. But it came steadily closer and all the while becoming more intense, more distressed, until it was undeniably in the house itself.

"But why is she your alter ego?" Veer asked "why her why not anyone else?"

"Veer did you hear that?" I asked him.

"What?" He asked surprised

"The cry" I said.

"Anamika you're tired come let's go to your room and we can take a nap" he said as I showed him the way to my room.

"I'm here on the couch" he said sitting there.

"Can you please sit with me on the bed until I fall asleep?" I requested.

He nodded.

I was shaking with fear and sorrow at the same time and then I blurted out a truth.

"I was fifteen when she died" I said as I felt I saw a glimpse of her near the door.

"What?" He said sitting beside me on the bed

"Someone had killed her in front of my eyes." I said clutching Veer's arm.

"Who killed whom Anamika?" Veer asked patting my head gently.

"I...I.. killed Samara 5 years ago".