Eluding the Labyrinth

"I am back," she whispered. Her lips carried a sorrowful smile, as her eyes met the tall, grey walls of the familiar crossroad. She ran her hand across the rough, rugged walls pensively. She made these. This was the labyrinth she knitted, solely from her buried feelings. Buried, but alive.

Looking straight ahead, she noticed a white fluffy bear on one side of the intersection. She habitually took steps forward. As soon as she was within its reach, it held her arm strongly. "Why are you anxious ?" she chuckled, "It's not like I wouldn't choose you." She stroked its fur gently, only for it to scratch her arm brutally. Unfazed at her wound, she exhaled, "I choose you, like always."

It would hurt, she knew it. She would never escape, she knew it. 'But I won't lose my hope,' she repeated the sentence she always did to comfort herself. A sudden tug brought her a step closer. "I am coming," she assured the impatient bear. A lazy voice echoed as soon as she took a step forward.

" You have no sense of direction Akshara, I am over here idiot." She turned around to see a silhouette she knew all too well. He leaned onto the rugged walls, of the other junction, leisurely, as if the sharp edges didn't pierce his skin, "Come on now."

"I can't," she shook her head.

"Why not?"

"It won't leave me."

"You abandon it then," he shrugged, "come on, I don't like my ice cream hot."
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This is a fanfiction on the 3rd generation of yeh rishta kya kehlata hai.