Galatfahmi

Chapter Twenty one: Blooms in darkness

UDAIUR

NAINA

She rushed to her room. The moment she was inside she shut the door and sat besides it. She took deep breaths. One. Two. Three. But....eyes betrayed and soon her cheeks were wet.

All of sudden her life was back to its root. Back to where she had left three years ago. Back to where she had nothing but darkness....

She had been always trying to get away from him. Even when it made her do things she had never considered. Like feigning herself worthless. There were two chances when she had found herself face to face with him. And...she had not taken another second to run away.

She had been running away like a person from plague. Like vapour from fire....but...

....in the end she was the moth who came back to fire, wasnt she!

Naina somehow stood with support of wall and resumed her previous position. Her desk....her study table. How much she had been loving that piece of wood only she knew. Days she had spent crying on it, hugging it to her heart, and then finally falling to sleep after exhausting herself.

Life has never been easy.

And for her...it was perhaps most difficult.

She went to kitchen and filled one glass if water. Soon she filled one more. Her throat all of sudden went dry.....

....Why was Rajveer here in place of Shashank himself?

As she knew him, he was the last person to be considered for the last moment replacement. He was the last one to be disturbed. Then why? Why he was here?

Shashank could be easier to deal with!

Her head ached. This was too much to take. Rajveer was away from her life, wasnt he! Then why she was wasting her time and energy after him? Did he do something worth her time? Ever...

She choked.

Whatever happened with her was supposed to distance both! But...they were now and then coming face to face. Facing each other and....

.......Filling some viods from her side at least.

Naina.....You know its better to be alone then dreaming and later seeing those dreams falling to crushes hopelessly....

She choked once more.

Naveen....annie...Her duty....Her past...Her failed relations....

Come on...List was long. And Stockholm Syndrome was not supposed to make its place...

She straightened her clothes and went into washroom.

Perhaps she needed a do-over.

And....For getting away from one failed short lived relation she needed to strengthen her new one..

When she came back, she called Vihan for a coffee.

In distance she could hear someone laughing at her.

Leading someone the same passage to hell! Bravo Naina!..

She shut her ears. No it was not wrong...She deserved few moments...didnt she! And....Blooms in darkness were perhaps one and only option...

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She spent whole evening with Vihan. He was curious before but soon his over enthusiasm took over and he indulged in chatting. He told her every type of story he could recall about Udaipur. For seconds Naina would be interested and soon her interest would wash off. But she tried to listen him attentively. She tried...