His Yarra Girl

Chapter 15

Navya Tandon

Driving aimlessly through the outskirts of the city, I was thinking of how pathetic my life is. All I wanted was people around me to be happy, for which I'm trying my best. What I didn't know was, that I'll get hurt when trying to keep others happy. I don't want to choose between my mom and Sharav, because they've helped me to regain my life.

A second chance to live my life. 

I still remember those dreadful days, which I don't want to live again. Wiping the tears that kept trickling down, I saw just the empty land in front of me. It's the same place, where Sharav brought me yesterday. Thinking about him, made me cry even more, why couldn't mom see the difference between him and his parents. Yet I could understand why mom reacted that way.

Escaping from the clutches of the human monsters who held me captive, I ran miles away from them, searching for my papa and mamma. I didn't know where I was? I just know that I was Niyati Chabra. My parents taught me my full name. Roaming around the streets with the drug effects still lurking on me, I didn't know where to go?

The whip marks were burning my skin. The cold night and the windy weather was consuming my body. When I couldn't walk furthermore, I collapsed on the ground. All I knew was I laying on the street in the middle of the night. When I woke up I cringed at the thought of being caught by them again. But the room gave me a feeling—a feeling of safeness. I even saw that all my wounds were treated. 

But only one thought was running in my mind—where am I? Who took me in? Since no one was there inside the room with me, I hatched a plan of getting away. Opening the window of the room, I was about to jump when someone pulled me from doing it. I tried getting away from their hold. I pried their hands which were on my body, all the nasty behavior of the men who held me captive rushed back to me in an instant.

"Shh! Child calm down, we won't hurt you!", I heard a woman say. Turning my head, I saw a woman looking about the age of my mother seeing me with all the love and care in the world. I instantly went and hugged her. I felt secured being in her arms. Then I saw a man in the same room. I was afraid of seeing him.

"Don't worry he won't hurt you. He's the one who brought you here", the woman said to me, whilst the man nodded his head. He took my small hands in his big ones and said, "I'll never hurt you, my princess". 

They helped me rebuilt my life. We searched everywhere for my biological parents. It was like they never existed. The couple who helped me were Tejal mom and Ajay dad. Time passed by, yet we couldn't reach my biological parents. Amidst this, I had frequent nightmares of the days, I was beaten to death. These two helped me to live my life. Slowly I started them accepting them as my parents. 

They literally went bonkers, when I called them mom and dad for the first time. It's because they were childless at that time. Nothing could help them to have a child of their own. They adopted me legally.

They hugged me and cried on the day they adopted me. So they named me Navya Tandon. They gave a new name to survive in this world. To begin a new chapter of my life. I couldn't ask for a better tomorrow.

Once dad returned home with a toddler in hand. On being questioned by mom, he told how he saw the baby left in the garbage to die. 

Since no one came forward to accept the child, he legally adopted the girl and brought her home. I was happy that now there was another little child whom I could pamper and fight with. Mom and dad made me sit and placed the little girl on my lap. She was barely one-year-old. She instantly hugged me. And I hugged her back too. They were so happy about seeing our bonding. From that day, I got another relation. A sister, whose name is Ruhi Tandon.

Everything was going well in my family, except for the dreams and the way I react to seeing new people. So to have a change of life, my dad shifted his business to London, when there was a risk where our business could face terrible loss. But he took the risk for me. He only wanted his daughter to get alright and nothing less mattered to him when everyone questioned him.

I hugged him cried so badly that day. From that day onwards I grew closer to dad, whilst Ruhi to mom. Yet we loved both our parents, and they loved us as their own. With time, we shifted here to London. The change in the environment showed a little improvement in me. I was afraid to go to school, 'cause my English was not up to the skill. But the best parents they were helped me to overcome this fear too. Then I started going to school, where I met Jeremy and Matt.

We three kinda grew close together with time. Jeremy's parents were divorced. So he grew up going back and forth to the parent's home. Once Matt's dad came to know about my dad's business and came forwards to help him, at first dad was hesitant, after a lot of persuasion from Matt's dad he agreed. Dad's business started to flourish, along with the Evans groups. 

But nothing helped me to get rid of my fears. I would have sleeping pills to sleep. I was only comfortable with Matthew and Jeremy. We did play pranks on each other. As time passed the fear of mine meeting new people vanished. I started getting along with everyone. I met Hazel during my first day at college. We both chose journalism as our stream. Then I introduced her to my boys. As a group of four, we used to hang out. 

Then Jeremy's liking towards boys came out of the blue. But we supported him and explained to him that it's his life, and he can live the way he wants, with anyone. Aaron happened to him, who changed his views. And now here we five are. Inseparable. With the help of these four and my family member, I started facing my fears. Once I asked them to accompany me for a trip to Paris. But none accepted the offer.

The stubborn person I was, came alone on the trip. I never thought that I would meet my cure. The cure to my nightmares. Never in my life, I imagined kissing a person out of blue, yet I did. All I wanted to do was to escape from the rogue. To compensate for the lie, I had to kiss him. Still, my heart says it's not the reason. A reason which I got after meeting him again here in London. Maybe love at first sight. 

After the little stunt I pulled, I secretly followed them. His face was registered in my mind. The kiss had so much effect on me that I forgot to take my pills that day. To my surprise, I didn't have any nightmares the previous night. So to know more about my first kiss, I followed them. I came to know who he was and his family. I feared when I came to know who is parents were. But he totally changed my view when I saw the news on his parents' arrest. He was kept unknown from this. Like others. 

I want someone to love me. Someone to help me face my fears. And that person is Sharav. As I said unknowingly he became my cure, now it's my turn to cure him, which I'll do at any cost. But I don't want to hurt mom during this. I'm torn to choose between him and mom. I don't want to choose anyone when I love both of them. One gave me the love of a mother, whom I lost and the other one gave me the reason to fight my fears. 

Still, a part of me secretly wishes to meet my biological parents. The person who gave birth to me. Niyati Chabra. The people whom I used to call mumma and papa. Even though I barely have memories of them, I still have a picture of them. I have put them in my locket which hangs around my necks all the time. Hoping to meet them soon.

I couldn't help but think about what they would be doing now. Would they think about me as I think about them? I wiped the tears and opened the locket. Glancing at their pictures, I whispered,

"I hope you both are safe somewhere in the world. I miss you mumma and papa"

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Hey! Today is the day I came crying my lungs out. Bloody hell I'm getting old and it's... I don't what to say! But yeah... I'm very happy though! Thanks for being a part of my life guys....

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