A PIECE OF LOVE (RIKARA SHOTS)

Piece - 1

Love and life are quite similar in many ways.... It throw challenges... Make you face difficulties... Gives you immense pain... And yet... It's something that proves you are alive...

But then... What's the difference between love and life?? The answer is quite simple... No matter how difficulty life gives you... You will never want to give up living... Not until you loose your courage to live...

But Love?? It takes more courage to Love someone more than life... More tolerance to endure the pain of it... And that's why... Normally people tends to give up on love more easily than life...

But not always... There are times when love has overcome all difficulties... And that's why there's a saying that true love always finds its way....

True love... That makes you stronger so you can go against anyone for your love... that gives you the ability to see the world differently, So you can see that person in a different way... the way no one else can. It gives you more courage and tolerance so you could never give up on the person you love... no matter what...

But that kind of love is very rare isn't it...?? Atleast that's what Gauri always thought... She was living a life where she was satisfied with what she had... Gauri just wanted to study hard, be successful and make her parents proud... And about love... Well, for her... The love she got from her parents and friends was enough... She was happy... Satisfied...

A loving family, goals and dreams, true friends... There wasn't anything else she could have really wished for...

And a part of her never wanted to experience that rare kind of love... Because she was scared... Scared of the pain that love can cause... Well, she did read those love novels where there are more tragedies than happiness.... Why would she wish for something painful when she was good with things she already had??

Gauri was so sure that she could never love anyone that extremely except for her parents... And seriously she couldn't imagine any person to love her in that way either... she believed she was just a plain simple girl afterall, nothing special...

But maybe god had some different plans for her... And that's why, she was destined to meet Him...
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It all started with her college... As a small town girl from Bareilly, she wasn't really fit in for that big city environment at all... She was nervous... Very very nervous... And when she realised that she was about to get bullied by her seniors, she was literally shaking...

They told it was a tradition to welcome newbies like her... They also called her too innocent for their college... She didn't realise what that really means... But still, as part of their tradition, she was given a peculiar task...

Standing at the college campus entrance with a rose in her cold hands, she was ordered to say "I love you" to a random guy who walks into the campus first...

They believe it was a fun task... But for a girl like Gauri who never talked to any guy other than her father... It was like going into lion's den...

She didn't wanted to do it... But she couldn't oppose it either... Otherwise she would have to bear their torture for whole year... She thought it was better to end it right there...

Her eyes were fixed on the floor out of embarrassment and fear... But soon she realised that a tall figure was walking towards her... She closed her eyes, gained some courage and uttered those three magical words which didn't seem magical to her at that moment...

"I... Lo... Love you..." She finally managed to get these words out of her mouth... Her eyes were tightly closed and her hand that was offering the rose to that random guy was literally shaking...