Somewhere, Beyond The Dark Cloud (Complete ✅)

8. Fall

Chapter track
Without you- Finding hope
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The world is familiar with several tales- portraying stepmothers as pure evil. I thought that too but I was glad to be proven wrong by her. Not only did she help my dad come out of the grief but she also turned our lonely apartment into a home. She held the family together, with love-like it once did.

"Aahana, where are you going so early? Don't tell me you've started working on Sundays as well." My new mum spoke from the kitchen as she watched me wear my jacket, with her hands safely placed on her eight months old pregnant belly.

"I just need to get some files. It's important." I replied with a small smile.

"Well, at least have some breakfast."

"Don't worry, I'll be back within an hour but don't wait for me. Have your breakfast and don't forget to take your meds."

"You should take a break from your work sometimes. Don't stress yourself too much."

"I'll be alright, mum. Don't worry." I hugged her and marched out of the apartment.

There wasn't anything important. I just wanted to get out of my room.

The room where I'd spend hours talking to you. It makes me dream of you-someone who I might never have in my life.

I ignored taking my car and walked down the streets, but I soon regretted my decision as the chilly air hit me and made me realize how it only reminded me of you.

It was fall when we found each other for the first time-in the midst of our lonely lives. The time is still frozen for me. The world keeps revolving on in it's fastest orbits while my heart remains where it was five years ago, still longing for you.

They say that time is the best healer, but is it? Because there hasn't been a single day I didn't think of you. The memories haunt me and have changed its form into a scar which only seems to deepen every single minute-no matter how much I try to bury it within my chest. And it hurts, oh dear, it hurts so much that sometimes it gets impossible to control the pain trying to escape my scalding eyes.

Wish I'd known earlier- what you meant to me, when you were here, with me. Oh how much I wish I could tell you what more I felt for you. How much this selfish part of me still wish you wouldn't have gone. Now I dread to see you, at least a glimpse from afar.

It was foolish of me, to have thought that your betraying black eyes held love, for me-when it never really existed. If only have I ever been able to place myself in your heart then it wouldn't have been so easy for me to fade away so soon from your life.

Thank God you're completely healed now-the miracle finally happened-its the only fact that helps me go on. Thanks to your parents, they let me know about your well-being. Heard you are a very successful engineer now, I'm so glad to know that. Might you have settled down and even have someone you adore-as close as I always wanted to be?

I wish I could move on, as you did. I tried though, God knows I tried. I tried to have fun as my friends do but little did I know that being happy wasn't something so easy, so I conceal myself with piles of work. At least it helps me pretend that I don't miss you.

I was so immersed in my thoughts that I didn't realize the sound of the horn blowing behind me. Just as I finally noticed that I was walking in the middle of the road-I moved aside to let the vehicle pass by-but it didn't move. When I turned my head to look at the person driving the black car-I was stunned.

The eyes I'd been dying to see for the last five years were staring right back at me.

Nikhil walked out of the car and stood by it. He looked the same as he used to but yet so different. His hair was silked back, giving him a neat and smart look. He was dressed in a formal grey suit under the black overcoat. He looked fit, handsome and most of all-he was standing, on his own and I never knew he was so tall.

I could see several emotions in his face but I couldn't figure out what they were. Was he amazed? or horrified?-I was confused.

I couldn't stop my feet from moving towards him. I wouldn't have realized that I was crying if he wouldn't have wiped the tears on my cheek, softly with his thumb when I looked up at him.

Thousands of questions ran across my mind, millions of things to say but my lips couldn't manage to utter a single word.

There might not be a single soul except us, as the only sounds I could hear was the silent howling of the autumn breeze, our colliding breaths and the ever so thumping organ inside my chest.

"How have you been?" He broke the silence.

"Miserable." He suddenly wrapped me within the cage of his arm as I buried myself underneath the place warmer than the hot summer sun which made me melt away.

I can't let you go now, not anymore.

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A\N: So, what do you think?

You have no idea how I felt while writing this chapter. Writing is very difficult, drills your brain, breaks your heart and makes you happy at the same time.

Well, only one chapter to go and then you'll have to read-'Trustfall'- to know more about Nikhil and Aahana.

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