Fates

Part 106- What The Heart Wants

Rishi sat in the middle of the floor of his dark cabin all alone, the only one in the office now, having given his employees the rest of the day off.

He sat there with a defeated look on his face as silent tears streamed down his face, the only sound that could be heard was the tip-top of rain hitting the window. Sitting there with numerous pictures of him and Priyanka laying on the floor surrounding him, as if like a cage.

"How could you?" Rishi asked bitterly as he picked up a picture, one of his tears falling on it, a picture that was solely of Priyanka but one that he had taken, smiling a little even as tears streamed down his face, thinking back to how he had taken that picture in the first place...

"Priyanka move out of the way, you're ruining the view." Rishi said jokingly as he was holding a Polaroid camera, on top of a cliff, at night trying to capture the pretty landscape in front of him, but Priyanka who was pacing around worriedly came in front of the camera.

"Idiot, our friends are missing and all you care about is the view?!" Priyanka yelled exasperated.

"Okay calm down drama queen, they're not missing they're just lost." Rishi explained.

"That's worse!! What if they're hurt, or wandered off into the jungle, what am I going to tell Chucks, that I lost Riya at camp-?!" Priyanka began to yell now panicking.

"Quiet." Rishi said putting a finger on Priyanka's lips, standing inches apart, getting lost in each other's eyes for a while.

"Riya and Sahil are both smart people, not little kids, who would just wander into a dangerous jungle. In fact, knowing them, they're probably back at the campsite." Rishi reasoned, breaking out of his trance.

"How do you know that?! For all we know Riya and Sahil could be lost in the dark jungle, scared and screaming for help!" Priyanka yelled worriedly, she too breaking out of her trance, moving away from Rishi, and beginning to pace again.

"They're probably too busy romancing each other to be scared." Rishi whispered to himself with a short chuckle.

"What did you say?" Priyanka asked confused, as she stood in front of Rishi again, stopping her pacing.

"I said let's go back to the campsite and ask our classmates if they have seen Sahil and Riya. And if they haven't then we begin to panic. Panicking before we know the whole story is going to be useless." Rishi reasoned.

"Okay then come on let's go back to camp." Priyanka said turning around to walk in the other direction.

"In a minute, first I have to capture this amazing view." Rishi said as he brought up the camera in his hands to his eyes, to click a picture.

"Well hurry up, it's about to rain soon and I have no interest in getting drenched in the rain." Priyanka said rolling her eyes at Rishi.

"That's even better, we should wait for it to rain, it'll make the view, even more, prettier, because it makes the flowers bloom, makes the grass shine, and there might even be a rainbow when it's over, it'll be beautiful. Getting drenched in rain for that view is worth it." Rishi said half-seriously and half-jokingly.

"No, you're wrong. The rain doesn't make anything bloom, it isn't beautiful. The rain comes and takes everything with it. So deafening that you can't even hear yourself think. So cold that it numbs you in the worst way possible." Priyanka said in a mere whisper, turning away from Rishi as a lone tear fell from her eye.

"Priyanka-." Rishi began to say worriedly, having heard her, forgetting all about the picture he had to take to stand behind Priyanka who had her back towards him, about to lay a hand on her shoulder to get her to turn around.