DESTINY (on hold)

2: Journey

Manyata's POV
"yo Monya now we will go and have fun in Rajasthan, I have everything planned out, first Jaipur then udaypur, Chittorgarh is nearby then we will go to Jodhpur and near jodhpur is Devgarh and Jaigarh, you know it's going to be awesome..." I heard Kanika's rant about the trip, here I am feeling a ton lot of guilt that I am lying to my family about something so big, and this drama queen is planning our trip.
I hate to lie to my parents, how can I?
"Manyata Sharma I am going to kill you if you even went to guilt trip again, it's okay we will tell them the truth when we come back and I promise they will understand," said Kanika she is trying to do everything to make me excited about this trip and actually I am pretty much excited it's just the guilt that is eating me alive.
"Kanika when will you come tomorrow to get me" I cut her off, this is a very annoying habit of mine I always cut people in the middle of conversations, Kanika sighed on the other side of the phone possibly irritated by my this habit, "at 8 AM I'll be there on your gate?
Tomorrow is our D day Kanika's parents are taking us to railway station because they know about our trip also they are close friends with my parents so they trust Kanika's parents, I signed and pray to Kanha Ji idol that I have in my room to let this trip of mine safe and happy.

NEXT DAY

"Beta remembers to eat Puri-achaar I packed for you and share it with others also, Papa packed some lays and namkeen eat them when you feel hungry, call us when you reach Delhi okay... . .... Also yeah if any boy tries to come close scream bloody murderer okay..." Screamed my maa she is sick scared about me and has been repeating this for the 50th time today".
"Maa I am in the car let us go now okay, I will be fine don't worry and I will call you okay, take care, tell everyone that I love them" I wriggled my hand trying to reach out to hold hers that are on the Window of the car but the fact I am sitting in the middle of the seat with three people on it is not helping at all, but somehow I reached her hand, I don't know why but I felt emotional it's not the first time I am leaving my home to go somewhere but this time it almost feels as if I'll never come back. I brushed off this thought maybe because of my guilt I am feeling so.
I waved her, as the car started and we were off towards railway station, I looked behind with very difficult because of the sitting situation to see Mom from the back window, I saw her red and blue saree wrapped around herself and before I could see her face, the car took a left, my mom was left behind, I could not see her anymore, my house was out of sight, all the emotions rushed inside me suddenly my eyes were suddenly moist, is it how every bride feel when they leave their home is this how it feels to part from your family because I feel as if my heart is going to burst any moment.

"Attention train no 23451 Bananas to Jaipur via Agra, Marudhar express is arriving on the platform 3" the usual voice at railway station announced that our train was here so we all were ready with our luggage which is only one bags per person to settle in our seats, we have booked A/c, 1st class five-seater cabins for ourselves.

we said goodbyes to Kanika's parents and locked our bags inside the berth me and Kanika have taken the lower berths and the twins have settled on the upper berth Kanika is in the lower berth only one berth is empty and I am scared what if some creep gets that seat we all discussed this and made a decision to protect ourselves "I am a taekwondo black belt okay don't worry" said kritika "kritika you are not you just enrolled into the classes and never attended them" "the creep does not need to know okay.

The time train started running on the tracks it was already 7 Pm I am glad that the journey is of night and we will reach Jaipur in the morning tomorrow, we all played Cards together, when we reached Kanpur it was somewhere around 12 in the night we all stopped playing at and retired to our own seats, nobody came on the empty middle berth seat till now.

It was somewhere around 3 in the morning when I heard someone talking inside the cabin I opened my eyelids just half just to see a figure standing in the middle of the cabin with his duffel bag I can figure out that he was wearing jeans and shirt he was carrying a guitar and was tall I saw Kanika was also awake and angling the stranger.

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"Pragya you can go now the bathroom is empty, and please wake up Prachi too," said Kritika while entering the cabin with her facewash and toothbrush in her hand.

we all woke up at 8 am with the chai vendors sounds outside our cabin, it's now almost 9 am we are all freshen up except the twins. The middle berth guy with the Guitar who is from Agra also became familiar with us his name is Rishab, he is going to Jaipur as he works there as a software engineer. He and Kanika have become closer I feel Kanika is quite having a crush on this guy but sadly this love story will end as soon as it is started because we will part ways very soon.

we will be reaching Jaipur junction in half an hour pack everything, Kanika, Manyata, you two get ready.

"Rishab your pick," said Kanika while handing the guitar pick to Rishab, aww baby she is having a crush on him I can see her blush too.

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