A KISS IN THE RAIN [COMPLETED] ✔️

CHAPTER 22: CONFESSIONS

Aashna's POV:

"Wait are you crazy?" He said as i got of my bike and looked at him

"What?" I said as i tried to lift my heavy bike in which I miserably failed! He got down from his and laughed

"You dont see this sign?" He pointed at a no trespassing board "it's illegal to go ahead" he said

"You are scared?" I taunted him

"No" he replied almost instantly "Its just that i have never thought you of doing that"

"I am also not that nerdy nerd okay" i laughed and he joined the plan and threw his cycle inside

He was about to climb the wall when i saw that this asshole didnt help me with my bike

"Wait, help me with my bike too"

"I am not your helper, say please then i will think about it"

"Pleaseee" i said in that typical tone and he picks up my bike like its cotton and throws it on the other side

Then he climbs and jumps wall first, to help me next and I jump down

"Now i will show you heaven on earth" i said and held his hand and we both ran to the place.

We go the sunset point, it was my favourite place where i took him, the one where i could stay alone and gather my thoughts, it was an abandoned place so nobody knew about it! It was like a cliff side and down was the ocean! It was closed long back because of some dumb reasons but I never stopped going here!

"Wow" he said

"IKR" i said as i sat a little behind, and Sanket daring to sit on the tip with his legs hanging lose!

"Why are you sitting so behind?" He said looking back and i shurgged

"Afraid of heights?" He continued

"Nope" i said "i am comfortable here"

He came back and sat where i was sitting

"So lets play a game" he said

"Sure which one" i asked as i looked up at the beautiful sky

"Confessions" he said "i ask you one question and you answer honestly and same for me"

"Will you be willing to answer whatever i ask?" I said kind of afraid from the reaction i saw yesterday

"Yup" he said "okay so what do want to do after graduation?"

"Umm, not given much thought but would probably work in UN"'i smiled, i really don't know, i have many roads and its tough to pick one

"So what about you?" I ask

"I wanna travel the world, be rich, probably a journalist who explored different places" he said (YHJD❤️)

"What happened to your dad?" He asked and i looked at him shocked, i wasn't expecting that question

"I dont know why i am telling you all this, why?i have learnt that People leave, but you if insist then.." i say

"I had many problems in my life, it was as if, a little ray of sunshine came and as soon as i went out to reach to it, the clouds made it disappear. About my family right, it was my mom, dad and my brother and me, i loved my life till i was 6, i couldn't understand things well, my brother was always very caring and protective, my dad though  loved me very much, always took me to places when i was young and wrote their address and attached our photo in our travel journal so i dont forget! But I couldn't see what was coming ahead, I couldn't and i never wanted to see that side of him! After a few years i was 13 and my brother desperately wanted to study abroad and my dad's business had losses, so paying fees there was difficult, we had to cut out on many expenses, my brother however, started to work and earn for his studies when he got to know, but here things deteriorated, my dad's business was fucked up, submerged deep into the pool of losses, he couldn't handle it, so alcoholism and anger issues, i had never seen that side of him before, he got angry at very petty issues like less sugar in tea, or if my mom forgot to turn on the geyser etc," i said with a lump in my throat

"Oh fuck" he said

"So despite my mom not telling me, i knew he was raising his hand on her and one day i saw it, because remember i told you i used to know that he came home drunk, and i hid in the closet! and when i saw it, when i thought to just have a peek from door, i could hear a tight slap and i was shattered from inside, i felt like someone hammered and broke my heart into pieces, i thought of calling my brother, i was feeling so scared, but then I couldn't share that with him, i couldn't give him more stress, so one day i just ran, i grabbed a bag and stuffed some money and clothes that i had and ran."

"Wait, you ran?" He said shocked

"What else do i do? Back then! Put yourself in my shoes, a young girl, bullied, vulnerable,, what better option do you think i could think of back then?"

"Okay okay calm down, go ahead" he said keeping his hands on mine

"So yaa, but then midway or after like a day or so, i realised, i left my mom with him, so i sneaked back into my own house, but unfortunately it was even more worse, i went to the living room, seeing my mom cry, i saw the body of my dad, apparently he died due to Liver failure"

"From then, my mom worked damn hard in getting the name of the best criminal lawyer" i said as i wiped a tear that fell out from my eyes

"Damn, she is strong" he said with a smile and i smiled back

"How did your brother get to know?" He asked

"Yeah that, he had a surprise planned for us, so the next day he came and saw us in that condition, while my mom then wanted to be left alone, i felt like i should have told him, he was angry at me, at one side was my mom not allowing anyone to come in her room, she just came out only to have food, that i kept outside her door and same was with my brother, but one day i wrote him a letter, explained him everything, because i couldn't face him, i couldn't speak to him, during dinner he opened the door and hugged me, i let out all my emotions, cried for about an hour in his arms and then we both convinced mom to start up her legal business back, that she left when she got married because patriarchy, women shouldn't work after getting married bullshit" "so yea that's basically it, now she is the most famous.."

"Pakhi Hegde, the number one criminal lawyer who hasn't lost even one case" he sniffled as he completed my sentence and laughed a little

"Yes, why are you crying?" I said as i laughed a little and wiped a tear from his cheek

He just gave me a hug and didnt say anything! I saw a warm side of him today.

damn, i never knew Mr headache had a heart

"Its okay" i said "it's just one amongst the many" i said as i parted the hug and wiped his cheek with my thumb

"You are damn brave" he said

"I know" i smiled

"Now you tell me about your dad" i said as he was constantly looking at me

"But i would wanna know other things you said" he said

"Maybe Next question but answer mine now!" I said
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AUTHORS NOTE

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