NEVER IN THEIR LIVES WOULD THEY HAVE IMAGINED RUSHING TO THE HOSPITAL FOR ONE OF THEM. BUT NOW HERE THEY WERE. RUSHING IN THE ER FOR SHANAYA. SHE HAD GOTTEN INTO AN ACCIDENT. HER PARENTS HAD GONE OUT SOMEWHERE NEARBY SO HER FRIENDS WERE THE ONLY ONES WITH HER AT THE MOMENT. ALL FELT AS IF THEIR WORLD HAD JUST CRASHED AND FELL INTO THE DEEPEST LAYERS OF EARTH. SHANAYA, THE GIRL WHO WAS CHATTY, CONFIDENT , INTELLIGENT, TACTUL AND BASICALLY FUCKING SUPER WOMEN IN THIER EYES WAS NOW LAYING STILL ON THE HOSPITAL BED WITH MANY CONNECTIONS ON HER. THE FRIENDS WERE JUST TOO BROKEN TO LISTEN TO ANTHING THE DOCTORS WERE SAYING. FOR THE GIRLS THEY FELT AS IF THEY WOULD JUST FAINT AND COLLAPSE TO THE GROUND HEARING ALL THE DETAILS THE DOCTOR GAVE. THE BOYS WERE TOO BUSY TRYING TO FIGURE HOW THIS MUST HAVE HAPPENED. AFTER HEARING TO THE DOCTOR, THOUGH WITH UTMOST DIFFICULTY, MIHIKA AND VAMSHIKA JUST SLID DOWN ON THE GROUND. THE BOYS HURRIED TOWARDS THEM THOUGH AARAV EXPECTED ARYAN TO GO TO VAMSHIKA, HE INSTEAD WENT TO MIHIKA. SO, AARAV WENT TO VAMSHIKA AND JUST SILENTLY HUGGED HER. SHE WAS SHAKING AS IF SHE WERE IN ANTARTICA WITHOUT THE WINTER CLOTHES. SWASTIKA WAS JUST IN THE HOLDS OF MARVIN. HE WAS HOLDING HER AS IF THERE WAS NOTHING HE WANTED TO DO EXCEPT SILENTLY LET HER KNOW HE WAS THERE FOR HER. SWASTIKA WAS JUST QUESTIONING EVERTHING THAT HAD HAPPENED IN THE PAST FEW HOURS. HOLDING VAMSHIKA AARAV SLIGHTLY STROKED HER HAIR. " WHY ? WHY HER ? WHY NOT ME OR ANY OF US ?" SHE ASKED SO LIGHTLY IT CAME AS A WHISPER AND COULD ONLY BE HEARD BY AARAV. HE SOOTHED HER BY SAYING " SHHH. CRY ALL YOU WANT. I'LL BE THE SHOULDER YOU CRY ON. I CAN'T BEAR TO HEAR YOU SPEAK LIKE THIS". FOR THE FIRST TIME HE DIDN'T REGRET WHAT HE SAID. INSTEAD AARAV WAS STARTING TO ADMIT HE HAD FEELINGS FOR VAMSHIKA. HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAD LED TO THIS BUT THERE'S ALWAYS THAT ONE POINT WHERE YOU DECIDE SOMETHING. FOR HIM IT WAS THIS MOMENT AS HE HELD HER IN HIS ARMS AND LET HER CRY HER EYES OUT. STROKING HER HAIR SILENTLY REASSURING HE'D GO NOWHERE LEAVING HER OR ANY OF HIS FRIENDS TO GRIEVE ALONE. THAT NIGHT AFTER LEAVING THE HOSPITAL, ALTHOUGH WITH AN EMPTY HEART, THEY WENT STRAIGHT TO THEIR HOUSES AND LOCKED THEMSELVES UP. BUT VAMSHIKA WENT TO THE TEMPLE AND SAT LEANING NEXT TO THE STATUE OF GARUDA THE VEHICLE OF MAHAVISHNU. SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND THE TEARS AUTOMATICALLY RAN DOWN HER FACE LIKE A RIVER. WHENEVER SHE WAS IN THAT TEMPLE SHE COULDN'T CONTROL HER EMOTIONS. SHE CRIED, ALTHOUGH THE PREVIOUS TIMES WERE WITH THE SATISFACTION OF BEING WITH HER SWAMY. NOW, HOWEVER, SHE JUST FELT HER HEART ACHE FOR HER FRIEND WHO HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT MUCH PAIN. SHE BEGGED HER SWAMY TO NEVER LET THIS PAIN ON ANYONE, EVEN HER WORST ENEMIES. VAMSHIKA THE NEXT MORNING FOUND HERSLF SURROUNDED BY HER FRIENDS. THEY ALL HAD WOKEN UP AN HOUR BEFORE AND NOW WERE EXPLAINING WHAT HAD HAPPENED THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. " WE SAW YOU GOING TO THE TEMPLE,BUT NEVER EXITING. SO WE WENT AND CHECKED UP ON YOU. YOU LOOKED SO BROKEN. YOU'RE FACE WAS RED WITH ALL THE CRYING, WE DECIDED TO STAY WITH YOU" MIHIKA EXPLAINED. " WE DIDN'T WANNA LEAVE YOU ALONE " SWASTIKA'S VOICE CRACKED EVER SO LIGHTLY. " OH MY. THANK YOU" VAMSHIKA WHISPERD AND THEY ALL HUGGED EACH OTHER. " WHERE ARE ARYAN AND AARAV ?" " THEY WENT TO TAKE A DIP IN THE POND ". FROM THAT DAY THEY TOOK SHIFTS IN THE HOSPITAL TO BE WITH SHANAYA. HER PARENTS WERE ALWAYS EITHER IN THE HOSPITAL OR THE TEMPLE. THE GIRLS WENT AND HUGGED SHANAYA'S MOTHER. THE BOYS WERE WITH HER FATHER. THIS SMALL GESTURE ASSURED THE PARENTS ON HOW MUCH THESE PEOPLE CARED FOR HER DAUGHTER. TWO WEEKS PASSED BY LIKE THIS. SHANAYA GOT WELL AND NOW SHE COULD WALK. SHE WAS BEING HER COMEDY QUEEN SELF WHEN ASKED WHAT HAD HAPPENED. " REMIND ME IF I KNEW I WOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT WOULDN'T ?" " YOU DON'T EVEN REMEMBER GLIMPSE ?" " NO ARYAN I DON'T. I WAS TOO BUSY WASTING ALL THAT BLOOD AND BEING UNCONSIOUS ON THE DAMN GROUND " SHE EXCLAIMED HER TONE HINTING SARCASM. AARAV NUDGED ARYAN WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING. " I WAS JUST ASKING" HE MUMBLED. FOR THESE PAST WEEKS VAMSHIKA HAD BEEN DEPRESSED AND AARAV NOTICING THIS HAD GONE OUT OF HIS WAY TO HELP HER THROUGH IT. HE WAS WITH HER WHENEVER SHE WOULD VISIT SHANAYA. HE BOUGHT HER TO THE TEMPLE AND JUST LET HER STAY IN THERE AS MUCH AS SHE LIKED. NOW AARAV WAS STARTING TO ADMIT HIS FEELINGS FOR HER. HE KNEW THIS WOULD CAUSE PROBLEMS IN HIS FREINDSHIP WITH ARYAN BUT, HE FOR SOME REASON DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE.
