" Soulmate: A person with whom you have an immediate connection the moment you meet, a connection so strong that you are drawn to them in a way you have never experienced before. As this connection develops over time, you experience a love so deep, strong and complex, that you begin to doubt that you have ever truly loved anyone prior."

    (A/N: Ahh, after reading this I want a soulmate aa ^_^ )

    
     The sun is already out, lighting up the streets and buildings everywhere, painting it with vibrant colors.

Aadhya basked in the warm sunshine passing through the windows for sometime before sending a voice message though WhatsApp to Abhi..."I love you very much, today too" and got off her bed with a warm smile on her face to get ready for her day.

Since, they have a class on their project work, Aadhya separated from her roommates and headed towards Abhinav's cabin with her teammates.

They all are reporting the progress in their project work to Abhinav, who was giving them suggestions when needed.

At the middle of the class, Aadhya's stomach was extremely hurt. It pained her to death!!

She endured until the end of the class, gritting her teeth and biting her mouth.

All the students who completed their reporting left the cabin. Seeing that, Aadhya wasn't leaving with her teammates, Abhi stepped towards her to find her drenched in cold sweat, her hand that had been clutching her stomach was shivering.

Abhi feel her forehead with his palm, "Aadhya, are you okay?"

"It's paining..and my dress..."

Since Abhi is a guest lecturer with connections, he have a lounge with bed in his cabin to take rest when he comes to University directly from his company.

Abhi tied his coat around her waist and led her into the room and made her lie down comfortably on the bed.

He went to the shopping mall nearby and finding different types of sanitary napkin's; he called Aadhya's sister-in-law, Anuradha.

Anuradha just got off her shift, when she received call from Abhi.

"Hello..Abhi.."

"Anu, there are pure cotton, cotton with cooling gel, cellucotton and liquid types..which ones is best to use?"

"Huh..?"

"Aadhya is on her menstrual cycle, there are many types of napkin's...I don't know which one is best.."

Anuradha told him which one to pick.

"She is having terrible cramps. What should I do. Is it always like this? I mean, I know it happens monthly, but is it always so painful? How long does it last?"

Anuradha can see that, he was mature, steady, and he really loves and treasure's Aadhya with all his heart. So she patiently explained him what to do.

"Don't let her take caffeine or ice creams. Apply heating pad on her abdomen, let her take more calcium in her diet,she might have mood swings and fatigue..so let her try a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice or a dark chocolate. If the cramps are unbearable, I will send you a prescription of painkiller's..use them."

When Abhi returned to his cabin, he saw that Aadhya was having really bad cramps..it seems to hurt so much that she was practically rolling on the bed.

Painkillers were not exactly harmless, but seeing how much pain she was in. Abhi could not stand to watch her suffer any longer. So he reluctantly let her take a pill.

The painkiller had pretty strong effects as it was. but even after Aadhya took it, it only reduced the pain to tolerable levels. Her stomach still throbbed with a dull ache that made her want to stay in bed.

He did not find any heating pad in the shopping mall and drug store, so Abhi lent her his hand to warm her stomach with. She always thought his palm was scorchingly hot, but when her stomach was hurting, his body temperature felt just right.

He had placed his hand on her belly, massaging it rhythmically, and that eased her discomfort considerably. On the other hand, it tired Abhi out. It was exhausting enough that he had to maintain the same position for a long time, but he kept massaging her.

Aadhya's heart ached for him, so she said she was feeling better already, but Abhi did not believe her. He still kept his palm plastered against her stomach and just kept rubbing her stomach.

Eventually his warmth and caress gradually lulled her to sleep, her eyelids falling to a slow close.

The next day going to University, Aadhya’s whole body felt uncomfortable.The tendency of pain on second day was frightening. Her cramps in the lower abdomen and back increased.

Everyone arrived at the lecture room one after another. When Aadhya sit down, she took her bottle of warm water and sip it little by little hoping to stay awake, as she have trouble sleeping last night.

After some time, Abhinav comes in and the class started. At first it was as though Aadhya was listening attentively, but after a while her eyelids began to lose the fight and slowly her eyes close and fell asleep.

The first person to find Aaradhya sleeping was Abhinav. Abhi gave them a situation and asked them to tell their views on marketing analysis. During class unless they were specifically named by Abhinav, everyone would speak one after another in accordance to their seating. Soon it would come to Aaradhya's turn but suddenly Abhinav called out other student's name.

Heard his name being called out, the named student told his analysis, then Abhinav speaks again, "Hmm.. next person."

Abhinav was ready to close today's lecture after seeing that everyone has taken their turn when Moulika suddenly speaks, "Professor, Aaradhya has not spoken. Ohh, how could she falls asleep during the class?"

Abhinav looks at Moulika with calculating gaze.

Moulika can be said as Aadhya's acquaintance, who takes Aaradhya as her nemesis.

They first met at their engineering University.

Moulika was treated poorly by her family who prefers boys over girl child. After Aaradhya got acquainted with her, she manipulated Aaradhya into feeling sorry for her. Well,its unfortunate or rather absurd to get poor treatment from family. So Aaradhya treated her well despite her friends saying her not to.

However, Moulika thought Aaradhya's friends were not good and started making up stories or gossip about Aaradhya behind her back so that others will have negative feelings towards her and they won't be friends with her anymore then she can be the only friend for Aaradhya.

And bullied the students around her to gain a false sense of power. (She is having a personality disorder of wanting a person to be only friend's with you, to only talk with you and wanting them to depend only on you by making her closed ones hate her.)

After Aaradhya got to know to about these things from Keerthi, she adviced Moulika not to be like that and seeing her not taking her words to mind, she cut her ties with her. From then, Moulika always tries to got in Aaradhya's way and tries to blacken her.

If Moulika knew Abhinav's thought, she probably would regret poking on the wasps nest.

In the meantime, Keerthi thought in her heart that this Moulika is really unlucky. Why do she regards her as unlucky? Because Keerthi can see that Professor Abhinav loves Aaradhya with his entire being. That meant if Aaradhya said the sun was square, he'd be the guy who compliments just how nice the sun looked as a square. Moulika was dare enough to compliant about his beloved wife.

Everyone in the class heard Moulika's words and looked at Aaradhya in unison. They saw Aaradhya sleeps very deep with her head leaning on Keerthi's shoulder and it seems like she had been asleep for a long time.

Keerthi softly called Aadhya's name, trying to wake her up. Aaradhya looked blankly at her before she realized that she is still in the class at the moment. Looks like she has unconsciously fell asleep. Aaradhya stood up and quickly apologized, " I'm sorry professor."

Abhinav stood up and picked up his laptop on the table, " Aaradhya, come to my office after this."

Aaradhya nodded,"Okay."

Everyone watched as Aaradhya went out. Some people had pity in their eyes while some took pleasure in other people's misfortune.

Walking into Abhinav's office. Aaradhya stood in front of his desk and lowered her head -- How could she falls asleep? Furthermore she was actually in a middle of the class -- Just thinking about her own actions today, Aaradhya really wants to ...

When she wanted to knock on her head, her hand was caught by Abhinav. Abhinav led her into his lounge and made her sit on the bed, then he handed over a cup of ginger tea, "Drink it and sleep for a while."

Aaradhya took a sip and asked, "You are not going to scold me?"

Abhinav raised his eyebrows, "Why should I scold you?"

"Because just now I fell asleep during the class. "

"If you fell asleep then just fell asleep, it's not a big deal, I can teach you again."

Aaradhya looked at Abhinav thoughtfully..

Feeling her thoughtful stare, Abhi sighed and said, "To me, you are different to everyone else. Since that's the case, why don't I treat you differently to everyone else from the start?"

  In fact, the feeling of having your fiancé as your professor is so wonderful Ahh...

After taking another sip of the warm ginger tea, Aaradhya asked, "Where did you get the ginger tea."

"I asked my mom to teach me... How is it??" Abhinav said while looking at her attentively.

Aaradhya nodded her head eagerly, "It's good." , which brings a warm smile on Abhi's face.

After drinking ginger tea, Aaradhya saw a heating pad and chocolates on the table beside the bed.

Abhinav tucked her in the bed and accompanied her by the bed side reading a book whilst Aaradhya continued to sleep.

When Aaradhya woke up, it was already late in the afternoon. Rubbing her eyes she looked at the time and realized she had slept for quite some time. But she really felt comfortable.

Aaradhya turned and saw Abhinav sitting on the other side of bed looking over documents. Seeing that she was awake, Abhinav put down the pen in his hand and shifted over to make her lean against his shoulder, "Are you hungry?"

Aaradhya nodded, Abhi brought over the lunch box which he prepared for her according to the diet.

Finished lunch, Abhi took Aaradhya to her dormitory in his car.

01/08/21

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