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When it hurts-observe.

Life is trying to teach you something.

                                  -Anita Krizzan

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Everyone needs to undergo pain at some point in their life. Pain and loneliness will be there in everyone's life at some point. They will make us stronger and will teach us the lesson of life. God gives us pain not because they don't like us. God gives us pain because they love us very much and to test our love and trust towards them. It will prove to them that whatever happens in our life we will never leave our trust in them and will always pass every hurdle. We will still pray to them to make our pain lesser. Pain also represents that something good is going to happen in our future also. Hurt and happiness are cyclic. There will not be only hurt or only happiness only in our life. It is like waves. Ups and downs will be always in our life. It is the way that we manage our problems make us unique.

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Her scream and pain were only witnessed by the four walls. Nobody was there to share her griefs and nobody will be there from now on to support her.  She is alone. Once again. The person who means the world to her had left her to suffer alone. Maybe they were never meant to be together. That's why after these much years of living together under one roof he didn't develop any feelings towards her. Her thoughts are making her suffocating.

Why Devimayya? Why only me? What mistake I had done in my previous birth that you are making me suffer like this?

Maybe love is not destined in my life? Earlier it was my parents love I was deprived of. Now my entire world is at stake.

Now? She laughed sarcastically.

It is not now. From earlier itself, I was deprived of his love. From 8 years I had faced only losses in my life.

He always ignored my love and care. Earlier he used to make fun of it. Now he is in ignoring mode. 

She sat on her bed and hugged her knees and hid her face. She is afraid of being alone in the new environment. He knew it. Still, he left her to suffer. She has no idea how she will spend an entire night here. Not only this night coming nights also she will be alone. Her throat began to ache due to fear. She closed her eyes tightly chanting her Devimayya's name. Still, there is no relief. Immediately something struck her mind. She immediately ran towards her bag and started searching for something while creating a mess around her. She doesn't care about anything other than the thing she was searching for. Finally, she got it. 

(please imagine that this pic is framed)

His picture. She laughed looking at his picture.

How irony is it na, Annav? Mujhe dard denewala bhi tum ho aur meri dawa bhi tum ho. Jitni bhi koshish karlu mein tumhein pyaar karna bandh nahi kar sakthi. Kash mein tumse nafrat kar pathi Annav. Shayad mujhe yeh sab sehne ki zaroorat hi nahi padthi. Shayad mere pyaar mein koi kami hogi shayad is liye tum dekhkar  bhi mere pyaar ko andekha kar dethe ho hamesha. 

(How irony is it na, Annav? You are the one who gives me pain and only you have the ability to heal my pain. How much ever I try I can never stop loving you. I wish I could hate you. Maybe I don't even need to bear it all. Maybe my love wasn't enough, that's why maybe you have been ignorant towards my love always even after knowing everything).

Tumne kaha tha Annav aur Doll hamesha. Nahi Arnav. Annav aur uski Doll tho saalon pehle mar gaye the. Ab sirf ARNAV aur KHUSHI  baaki reh gaye. 

(You have told me Annav and Doll forever. No Arnav. Annav and his Doll  were dead for several years. Now, it is only ARNAV and KHUSHI is left only).

I hope mujh se door rehkar  tumhein khushi milegi. Tumhari tension aur responsibilties kam hogi. Tumein chain aur sukoon milega. Tumhein kisi ke saamne sar chukhane ya sharminda hone ki koyi zaroorat nahi padegi. Meri ek darfa pyaar tumein irritate nahi karegi. 

(I hope you will be happy without me. Your tension and responsibilities will decrease due to my absence.  You will be at peace from now on. From now onwards you will not need to lower your head before someone or you don't need to be shameful because of me. My one-sided love will not irritate you from now on).

She chokes while saying all these. She kisses his pic and laid down on the bed while hugging it close to her heart as her entire life depends on it. She closes her eyes but sleep was very far away from her. Maybe it was a start for the coming sleepless nights in her life.

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NEXT DAY MORNING (GUPTA MANSION)

Arnav was sleeping hugging a pillow. He reached Gupta Mansion around midnight and after freshening up straightly went to bed.

Suddenly he jerked from his sleep by screaming "Doll........". He sighed while looking at his surroundings. It was just a nightmare. Nightmares are a common visitor from past 8 years. There was not a single day or night where he has slept without nightmares. Sighing he got up from the bed and went to the washroom. After a few minutes, he came out in his jogging gear and left his room. He knocked the room beside him three times without checking it and went for jogging. 

After almost one hour he returned and got ready for his office as usual. He reached downstairs and started reading his newspaper ignoring the Guptas who were at the dining table. Guptas were glaring at him with hatred as usual. Daayi Maa brought coffee for him. He took the cup from her. She called him for having breakfast, as usual, he said he will have it from outside. Daayi Maa turned to go away when he said something which was a shock for all the people who were present in the living room cum dining area.

Daayi Maa, aap zara aapki Khushi baby ko bulayenge?

(Daayi Maa, will you please call your Khushi baby?)

Daayi Maa looked at him with wide eyes and Gupta's stared at him weirdly.  Looking at Daayi Maa who is not responding, he thought to call Khushi himself. As always she is making him late.

Khushi..... Bacha....come fast. I am getting late. Mere paas zyada time nahi hai. Tumhein school chodhkar mujhe office bhi to jana hai. 

(Khushi....Bacha.... Come fast. I am getting late. I don't have enough time to wait. I need to go to office after dropping you to school).

Hari Prakash who was cleaning the living room dropped an expensive vase by hearing his Arnav Bhaiyya. Arnav was ready to pounce on him.

What the **** HP. Tum.....

(What the **** HP. You...)

Daayi Maa touched his shoulder and turned him slowly by which made his sentence incomplete. He looked at Daayi Maa with confusion written all over his face.

Arnav Bitwa, Khushi baby yahaan nahi hai. She said in a painful voice.

(Arnav, Khushi baby is not here).

At that time realisation dawned on him that his bacha ( his personal punching bag 😏😏😏) is not here. He looked at Daayi Maa with wide eyes. He immediately grabbed his laptop bag and left the house ignoring Daayi Maa's constant calls.

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GURUKUL HOSTEL FOR GIRLS

Khushi got up by the warning bell of the hostel. She looked at the time and gasped. It is already  8 am. Yesterday warden has told her that all students must be at the canteen at 8 am and at 8.15 am all students must leave the hostel premises and go to school. School starts at 8.30 am.

Hey Devimayya! Hum to pehle hi din late ho gaye. She said to her deity.

(Hey Devimayya!  I am late on my first day itself).

She looked at the photo frame in her hands and a lone tear dropped from her eye. She kissed his photo gently and said:

I love you Annav. I miss you.

She gently placed the photo frame on the table. She took the uniform which was given to her yesterday and left for the washroom. She got ready at a jet speed and left the hostel premises without having breakfast. She wants to talk to her Daayi Maa and Arnav but she postponed it because she was already late for classes.

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GURUKUL SCHOOL

Khushi reached the school premises and heard another warning bell. She immediately rushed to her classroom with the help of a staff. She looked at her classroom. All students are busy in gossiping, laughing, joking with their friends. She felt left out. Again. She looked around the classroom for a suitable place for sitting. Arnav always told her to sit on the front bench. But all front benches were occupied. She looked all over the room to find a place to sit. At last, she found a corner seat on the last bench. She sighed and walked towards the seat hesitantly. Some of the students noticed her and turned back and engaged in their previous conversations. She silently gets seated and prayed to her Devimayya to make everything right. She didn't like the place even a bit. She wants to go home. A small pain arises in her chest while remembering home. She prayed to her Devimayya to show some miracle so that everything will be alright and she can go back to her home where her entire world exists.

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Hello sweethearts😍😍,

Hope you will enjoy the update😊.

So, how was it?

Any idea regarding what will happen next?

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Do you think he is missing Khushi?

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Is it love?

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Sorry for all the typos and grammatical errors.

Sorry for giving a short update. Actually, I am very busy with studies and project. Next update will be a long one😊. Pakka waala promise.

Next update is on Sunday.

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Aaru😘.