Enigmatic Darkness

Chapter 27 - His Feelings

What was darkness?

Sitting on her bed, her hands played with bedsheet and she gazed the night playing in forest through the window. Beautiful and scary night with equally attractive and dangerous forest. The sight seemed tragically beautiful and she wanted to gaze it for infinity without thinking about her own life.

Blank was how she wanted to spend her time. Without crying or thinking over her past and present. Just she and the nature.

Even if it was terrifying, wasn't it better than her past?

Sighing at the repetition of past, she leaned on headboard. She shouldn't bring the past in every thing. Particularly when she was trying to forget it.

The footsteps with noises gained her attention but she didn't turn to look at the source. Night was all she wanted to see and think. Silence was all she wanted to enjoy.

"Ain't you packing for trip, Piya?" The question brought her out of the numbing session that she was practicing with so much effort and failing.

Piya turned to Maya and gave her a long look.

Maya had returned after she was briefed by Abhay. She felt guilty for leaving Piya but she explained how she was blackmailed into leaving and had no other choice. Apparently, Kabir held more weakness of Maya than he could find about Piya. Nevertheless, after crying and apologizing both decided to move on with each other support.

"Am not going." Piya answered, dangling her feet from bed and watching them.

There was a pause for long minute.

"Do you have other plans?" Maya asked cautiously and sat beside Piya.

Piya shook her head in denial. She didn't look at Maya. Her mind playing the time when she informed Abhay about the trip.

"Then why?" Maya asked "you should come with us, Piya. Its great time to forget what happened and move on."

Piya smiled lightly. She could feel what Maya was thinking about. But there was nothing like that. She wasn't pitying over what Kabir did and no way denied to go because of everything that happened.

"Abhay doesn't want me to go." Piya informed, looking at Maya this time and recalling how Abhay had stopped her after she informed him about trip.

"Abhay stopped you?" Maya repeated in confusion.

"He thinks it isn't safe for me." Piya said gazing outside the window with same detachment as before.

"Isn't Kabir's chapter over?" Maya asked with certain fear in her voice that Piya didn't blame her for. Kabir had tortured Maya more than he tormented Piya.

"It is." Piya assured Maya with a small smile and turned back to watch the night "I don't know what's going in his mind. He never explains." Piya said with a sigh and a small smile lingered on her face. She wanted answers but she was satisfied of his support too so it didn't bother her much.

"I think he likes you." Maya said carefully observing her expressions.

Piya shook her head with a smile that didn't reach her beautifully sad eyes.

"He has someone else's in his heart. He is doing this because he is too good and worries for everyone more than anyone could." Piya answered in a trance.

She recalled how frenzy Abhay had sounded when she had informed him about the trip. So much terrified that he had called her with a name that she had heard before but Abhay didn't even realize his mistake.

"Maithli, trust me its not safe for you to go. Stay back. I'll be there with you. Don't go." Abhay had said to her after a long moment of silence and she had looked at his panicked face trying to find if he realised what he said or not.