Spin the earth with me

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Pity those stars who are shining long in the night
Pity those Flowers who have bloomed mildly in the divine
Pity the heart that has won all the battles
But don't  ever pity those stars who are afraid to shine
Don't pity those stars who are already lost in the twilight. Julia.

My grandpa always used to tell the phrase which I was reciting in my mind.

When his dark hazel green eyes were boring into mine.

As he was trying to do something from his heated gaze, I wanted to run away from here and never fall onto the ground. However, I didn't. I was merged between the two worlds.

"Julia? You never told me you knew Neel?" Arnav was looking at me raising his eyebrows, spinning his head in all the directions only to glare at me more.

Why do these men always think of them as superior?  He was gazing at me as he owns me. Owns my thinking, my thoughts, my everything...

"I didn't know you had any cousins," how can he forgot that he never introduced me to his family before.
Before he could reply to me his cellphone started ringing,
"Anyways, you guys catch up I have a call to attend," then he vanished into the crowd.

"You still looks the same, with those warming eyes that could pierce my soul, you have no idea how much I missed you,"

"Well I didn't" I looked away, my voice was as harsh as a  piece of coconut.
Though I might be wobbling like a tad ahead of him.

However, I had made sure that he would not get any indication from my side.

"What do you want?"

The glass was still on my hand if I could want, I could splash all the contents of it on his head that he would forget even his existence on this earth.
That would be demeaning him and insulting him up to the core, yet I didn't do it! Because my sanity and my heart don't allow that!

I might even want to ask him what is he doing here? Don't he has a wife to be looked upon?
Or he just wants to play his games again, the games which he never got the chance to complete!

Then I looked at his baggy eyes, to his devouring shadow, his shadow remarked his presence after all these years,

"I will do anything to prove myself," his stormy eyes mixed with anger were lying to me.

"You have only 27 days to exists in my life,"
I said while walking away from his presence.

Yeah, there are only twenty-seven days left for my wedding with Arnav and twenty-seven days for him to exist in my life again.

I went to where Arnav was stood, he was engrossed with talking to some of his friends who were acknowledging everything with their sharp eyes.

Arnav looked at me when eyes were dancing with the thunder, he encircled my waist from one of his hands. As he wanted to show everyone that I, Julia belongs to him and only him.

The sudden urge to run away from all the men interrupted my thoughts and then I saw Jessica, half-sister of Neel was looking like a sleek goddess streamed, taking her steps towards me.

What is she doing here now?

My mind went to that time again when in California she warned me about his brother's behaviours with girls but at that time I declined to everything and listens to only my heart.

Now my heart has been abandoned a lime time ago.. I only have the brains to work with.

"Julia, nice to meet you again," her husky voice was silky smooth as it was a long time ago.

Her perfect brushed lips were hard to contingent, her dress was hugging her curves so gracefully, she could be a top model.

However, she was radiating all the colours of life and looking beautiful.

Her arm brushed mine, in a captivating way as she wanted to talk to me somewhere private, she even hinted at me with her stare while raising one of her eyebrows.

"How do you know her?" Arnav's voice was demeaning, maybe he couldn't accept the fact that I know some of his relatives before he could introduce me to them.

"She was very popular in her university," she winked at him which made him stare at me furiously, his grip on my arm tightens once again," you are very secretive, you know," his voice was dark, he whispered to my ears, almost touching my ear-lobe as he is going to do something sexual to me. A shiver went down my spine when I felt him so close near to me.

"Arnav, Aunt Malliskha was asking about you," he nodded at her and went in the direction of the crowd where most of the people were engrossed in gossiping.

"Why are you marrying him?" Her voice was stern and bored into me, she already had a glass in her hands.

"Why are we having the conversation about me being marrying him or not?"

My attitude lifted once again, what's with everyone asking me all the time to behave and do things in their manner. If I have decided to marry him then what's the dilemma about it?

"Well- you don't love him!"
She smirked, looking straight into my eyes, reading my postures as was one of the critics.

However, how does she know that?
How does she know that I don't love him?

"No you are wrong, I love him!" I lied, while not meeting her eyes and finding any way to escape so that I  don't have to have this conversation with her.

For one whole second, she shook her head and laughed at me, laughed at my poor state of how my life is playing games with me, laughed at me because I was the only one whose life has always been misery.
Laughed at me because it has always been easy to mock other people's misery.

"You know Julia, you are still that girl whom I met five years back who cannot lie," and with that she walked away, making me regretting more why I am an open book for everyone, especially for those who hurt me a lot.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, let's begin the celebration, shall we?"

And with that lights went off. Only the shine illuminating was on a couple of tonight.

Arnav was already at my side, asking for my hand to hold his forever when my heart was about to explode in my body, everyone's eyes were on us. Neel's jaw was clenched and veins on this forehead were popping out from too much staring.

His hand went to the hem of my back, encircling me to the warmthness of his body when my soul was suffering from a never-ending cold.

He intertwined his fingers with mine and started swaying to the beat of the music.

He took two rounds with me until he was just about to close the distance between us, and  I was anxious, it was getting too rapidly that my mind started slipping from all the outcomes.

I was on the vague waiting to come it closer until the music stopped and everyone applauded us with their sheer laughter.

I just wanted to go to my room and sleep everything that is happening with me was very hard to digest, and I have always been vulnerable to all the storms.

Just when I was about to get away from the world, I  heard a very familiar hard voice approaching to my ears once again, "May I have the pleasure to dance with you?" Neel's eyes were bored into mine, and before I could reject his offer. My father already started whopping in happiness as he wants this night to never end.

So I did, I gave him my hand because my papa was glittering in this obnoxious night.

He gripped his hand on my waist so close that it would make my body turn into a jellyfish, his eyes were dangerous more than a storm and the fainted lights we already alarming in their deadliest war the future is near to end, " In these 27 days I will make you mine!" And with that, I was on the air again, ready to fall on the floor, Only to realise for the first time he didn't let me shatter into pieces.

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