CHASING STARS

Chapter 15 - (EASIER)

EASIER

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The jazzy music dancing in the air of fancy coffee house is doing a terrible job reaching her ear-drums forget her heart. She is not used to this, she is trying but Devi Maiya knows her heart is full of her distant rabba ve melodies. Her coffee getting cold, Lavanya ji speaking about some new boutique she discovered in Paris. She smiles to her now and then but she hardly cares. It hurts to smile. Life has been easy on her since she left her everything. She left her home, her family, her relations, her own self. Now and then she remember the good times spent with her family and cries to her core. Picks up phone to call or even hear their voice then the sound of being alone, images of being left alone comes in front of her eyes and she loses the strength. She wants to ask them if they are doing good? Her Jiji is pregnant, is she okay? She knows they are trying to reach her. They call Lavanya ji every day asking about her and she denies talking to them. She cannot help but everything now overwhelm and numbs her at the same time. Life is steady these days as she is learning to be on her own. She has started teaching classical dance to little girls of her community here. The only thing which provides her any kind of comfort. Lavanya ji has been her blessing. Her heart swells with gratitude when she thinks about everything she has done for her.

When she moved here in London with her she has no idea is if she is gonna survive here even for seconds. With her help, hope has knocked her soul again.  She owe it to herself that much.

She is learning living on her own and alone. It's not easy but not that it matters anyway!

Lavanya ji's family has been very kind to her, welcoming her, caring for her, helping her in getting better. How lucky it is to have your own family, she thinks to herself which immediately breaks her heart. Everything seems like a lost dream to her but at least she is not living in her day dreams anymore.

"Khushi let's go! Mom has called me like thousand times already!"  Lavanya says while looking at her phone.

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After finishing her dance classes, Khushi decided to take a walk as she grabbed her coat. The cold outside matches her heart. Everything is empty, everything is faded. She doesn't wear bright colors anymore. She doesn't sing her songs. She forgets to eat. She no longer craves her Jalebis. Her old self is an alien to her now. She wonders if it is even possible to change that much? She passes by the window of a store and looks at her reflection. Her skin has turned paler. Her eyes look haunted. These clothes her long coat, her boots, everything is so new and faded. What has she become? But that's okay for her heart. Colors are not always about happiness anyway!

As she gets near to her place, she notices an black Suv and few men near by in black suits with ear pieces attached to them and her heart beat picks up. It skip the one name.

Arnav ji

Arnav ji can't be here. She tries to calm herself. They are dressed like him but they are not her Arnav ji.  She hurries to home not wanting to think much about it.
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The night rain was something else tonight.

Khushi wakes up from her sleep with the sound of  thunders. She is still scared of them.

Nightmares will follow her everywhere, Khushi thinks to herself.

A tear rolls down on her cheek with the sound of a earth-shattering thunder. Her heart beats his name, As she sits down on the floor and hugs herself.

The emotion was already a burning hell for her but how could she still can feel about him in this manner. This separation with him is lethal. It's hurting her physically. Her mind goes back to the last night before she left him. Her Arnav ji was only hers that night. He held her so close that even now just thinking about it, her insides tingles. He cried for her, he held her like a baby. He was scared to let her go!