The Shore of Solace

Chapter 5

  The city traffic could really drive you crazy sometimes. The hot scorching sun, the chaotic honking and hordes of restless travellers.But Arnav was in a good mood today, grooving to his favorite song, humming the lyrics, he sat in his car tapping at the steering wheel.

Life had been fair and awesome for him in all these years. He topped almost all levels of entrance exams and secured his place in one of the prestigious medical college in India.After passing graduation with flying colors ,he went to Canada for his higher studies on medicine in one of the best university, that life gave him a lot of  experience.  After passed out as a Gold medalist,he  had learned and practiced a lot in the particular field, done internship in one of the famous hospital there .Even he got many permanent job offers there,but it was his choice that come to India and do his practice ,staying here in Nila with his family.

He knew it wasn't easy being a successful businessman's only son ,for change the profession to some other field rather than taking their business empire.

He credited his family for standing by him through this difficult journey,expecially his father who shoulder the whole Raizada Empire on himself.His father supported him like as always to fullfil his dreams.Though he had reached great heights of success, he was as humble and grounded as ever like his family.

He love to spent time with his loving family,especially his mother and grandmother who never behaved their age and kept the mood in their house as lively as ever. He is loving, adoring and respecting his beautiful family which meant the world to him.His mother raised  him with as much harshness as love. She inculcated all the right values in him, which had flowed down in the Raizada legacy.

He also loved and cared his best buddy Aman who had completed his MBA from Harvard and had taken over the responsibility of Raizada Industries completely in his shoulder as a CEO along with his father.

Life was good, and it couldn't be get better, or so he thought.

He is being an introvert, had not made a large number of friends at university.And his romantic life had not been that great, dating a few girls,no need to mention,it was always the compulsion from the girl's side. All his dates ended one or two weeks maximum.But never ever had he fallen in love. He had always been fascinated with the idea of it. He had seen his parents  since childhood, very madly in love with each other. How will be that feeling, he always wondered looking at them. He had tried to feel that for few girls,but failed completely , had known this can't be it,ended up as single. There was some unknown sparks and some connection missing in his own eyes when he looked at that girls then. He had always seen that sparkle in his dad's eyes when looking at his mother. It may sounds too weird, but it is the truth that 27 year old well known doctor and one of the most eligible bachelors in the city had never fallen in love.

Then she came like a hurricane,he don't know what happened to him,from the moment he saw her at his home door step,his heart and mind are not with him.He silently watched her,a thin,fragile girl wearing light blue cotton saree that clung to her body.Her thick,dark  hair was tied in to a long plait. But it was her eyes that nearly took his breath away.Her dove dhaped eyes which have a shade of dark brown mixed with hazel shielded by her black thick eyebrows. Besides the lines of kohl below her luminous eyes,her face was devoid of any makeup.And her sweet honey like voice which he heard before some where....that was also cleared in this morning .

At breakfast table his mother announced  that she is the same girl who selected as new music Instructor in their institution. But she had no idea about that because the process is still pending there in HR side ,they need to inform her with an offer letter. He was there in the  panel which checked the final candidates list,heard her sweet melody like voice. Each candidate was instructed to send a voice clip which contains one classical item and another melody one.Then and there he had been captivated with her voice before seeing her.