WHITE AND BLACK. # BOOK.1 - THE SWORD OF SILVER

THE UNUSUAL CHILD-PART 2

As Aarav grew up, the more he was losing his ability of singing, the more he was becoming better at drawing.

In his childhood, he was quite a trouble, but he was not stupid.

He had already figured out that he was different from the other boys and girls of his age.

He would get weird dreams, where he became someone else , whose body would be so divine that it would literally glow.

He would watch himself sitting on a throne and around him, he would watch people, who were so different than normal humans.

They would do weird magic and do whatnot.

Some days he would dream of a war which would finally end with him waking up.

And some of his dreams included a woman, who was so much like his mother ( Aarohi) , he would watch her running through dark clouds and it would again end by waking up.

Some times he would dream of another woman, who he would make love with, while he being in the body of the glowing being. He was astonished , that after waking up he would feel like he really did it. He had even named her, Shubhanka .

He would enjoy being with her, although she was just in his dreams.

He would enjoy her lovely giggles and also felt pleasure hearing her soft moans.

He had become such a master at drawing, that he had even drew Shubhanka's face in a canvas.

In the beginning he would get annoyed by these dreams, but once Shubhanka started coming in his dreams, he would enjoy them.

The main reason for that was that Shubhanka resembled someone who, he had a secret crush on ,from his childhood .

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The moment Aarav had joined school, he would get bullied, not because he was new, but because he was extraordinary.

And as it happens to all the people who are extraordinary, the same happened to him.

When a person is intelligent than almost everyone of his age, the person is either considered as brilliant or as a freak.

And unfortunately Aarav was considered as a freak.

None except for two people were his friends.

One was Pranay and the other was....Disha.

He had first befriended Pranay when he had saved Aarav from a senior year bully.

The boys used to spend so much time together that they were inseparable.

They were like brothers from different mothers.

And his other friend was Disha, his secret crush.

He still remembered the day how he had befriended her.

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From the day Aarav saw Disha, he had a liking towards her.

And ofcourse after he came to know that the girl from his dreams (Shubhanka) looked just like Disha, his liking increased even more.

So what happened was that, their biology and chemistry lecturers had created a group of two and assigned them a project.

So it turned out that Aarav's partner was Disha. His joy was on heights.

But he feared whether or not she would like him because from childhood, as always mentioned bio and chemistry were his worst subjects.

But Disha wasn't the sort of a girl who would make friends based on their intelligence and also she knew that Aarav was pretty good at almost everything except for these subjects.

So she started teaching him and day by day their friendship grew.

Though both of them knew it was more than friendship neither accepted the truth.

But to Aarav's bad luck, Pranay , his brother who he cared for more than himself and Disha, who he had lost his heart to, despised each other.

They hated each other and whenever Aarav tried asking both of them would say,

"I don't know, I can't stand that ugly face"

Whether Aarav would be with Pranay, Disha wouldn't talk to him and also the vice versa, but Pranay would not give Disha a chance of keeping calm.

Pranay would always do one or the other terrible thing to Disha, like intentionally making her fall, burning her homework copy using the pocket lighter he would keep carying around or trouble her with insects and bugs, and the next day , he would end up near the principal.

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Aarav's seventeenth birthday was coming closer by the day, and when only three days were left, Aarohi's restlessness was at peak.

So she did the only thing that first came to her mind,

"Friendly priest, please help me, I can't do it. I know I promised you, but I can't!"

Then from nowhere, a calm and peaceful but highly old voice some in her mind.

"What troubled you Princess?"

"You heard me! But why can't I remember your face?"

"Because I don't want Aarav to draw my face."

"But how can he?"

"Don't forget Bhanu, that he's extraordinary even compared to our people. What is it that's troubling you?"

"How can I tell him, and that too after seventeen years that I'm not his mother, how can I tell him that he not my son?"

"But you promised me this before you came to your love. Have you forgotten that?"

"No. But...I can't. Please, try to understand.... I just can't....."

"I loved my mother too... So I can't deny your request... But prophecies cannot be unfollowed, but for sure they can be altered."

"What do you mean?"

"On his birthday itself he will know who he is... Though,not the complete truth... "

"Who will tell him?"

"I know the exact right person!"

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Again the same request , please be patient .This part is a continuation of the earlier , but the characters need introduction, so this was an important one. And i know its a rather small chapter , but i promise i'll try my best in the upcoming chapters.

And as for the story, who exactly is the priest and why is he involved in whatever happens?

Stay tuned to find out.