Just Fate

Chapter Nine

For a while there was nothing but a jungle surrounding us, and soon it was midnight. We still hadn't gotten anywhere and being the smart people that we are, we didn't leave the cabin with our cellphones. So smart. All of a sudden I heard Rahul whisper

    "I can't" he stopped. He catched his breath and said "I can't, I'm sorry but I can't continue anymore, I'm too tired. Please can we stop?" I was going to tell him to stop being a weak girl and act like a man, but looking at the expression on his face, I couldn't. So I nodded and entered the jungle hoping to find somewhere where the floor was dry enough to sleep on. But we were luckier, I saw a little house at the corner of a part of the jungle and I dragged Rahul to see if there was someone there who could let us stay for the night. 

    I knocked on the door and hoped for someone to open. And they did. An old lady around the age of eighty-five, opened the door, she was short and her back was crooked, she was holding a candle in her hand and looked at us with her small eyes.

    "Hi, my name is Priya and this is Rahul, we were just sort of lost and must I say extremely tired and we were wondering if we could stay here for the night. I promise we will be out of here in the morning, as soon as we have enough energy." I looked at the woman with puppy eyes hoping for her to allow us to stay. But she didn't answer, instead she took us by the hand and dragged us into the house. She was starting to scare me until she finally spoke.

    "Oh dear you must be careful with the tigers out there, they really are dangerous, especially when they hear human noises" I looked at her with a confused face and started getting really creeped out by her.  "but since you are a couple I could let you stay, I mean I get so many single people here everyday asking me if they can stay but ofcorse they can't." She took a pause before continuing "Oh this generation, people should be married at this age, just like you two, god bless you both" She held both of our faces and smiled. Just as Rahul was about to answer, probably to tell her that we weren't a couple, I squeezed his arm as hard as I could. He screamed a little ouch and looked at my face. Luckily the old lady wasn't looking at us and she couldn't hear us, so I whispered.

    "Shut up, if you tell her that we are not a couple then say goodbye to your goodnight sleep and say hello to the tigers and walking to the gas station. Or sleeping on wet leaves with the risk of being eaten by a tiger" I said with a hard look on my face. He shut up and didn't utter a word. The lady looked back at us, took me by the hand and dragged us to the room. When we reached, she finally said 

    "Here you go dear, you can stay here for the night, the bathroom is to your right if you need it." She said politley. She was very nice and soon she dissapeared into thin air. It was then when the most awkward moment of my life began. There was only one bed, and we both were dead tired. For a second, none of us moved an inch, but then Rahul walked up to the bed and threw himself onto it. 

    "Ok can you please stop being such big headed person just for tonight. Please? You can scream all you want at me in the morning  but please, let's just sleep it off right now ok?" He asked patting the bed. I wanted to clear things out, but I was dead tired, so instead, I walked up to the bed and threw myself onto it too. We layed on the bed for a bit, just staring at the ceiling, but before we knew it, we were in deep thoughts, asleep. 

    I was having a dream that I was being chased by a robber. I was gasping for breath but I couldn't stop. He was about ten feet tall and very, I mean, very fat. The thought of him suddenly killing me with his axe woke me up. Soon I felt a weight around me, and I realised that Rahul's hand was wrapped around me. I have always dreamt of this moment before, but not just after getting into a horrible argument with him, getting lost in some weird jungle and sleeping on the same bed with him whilst we are friends. My version of it was more bollywood romatic type, when the hero carries the heroine to the bedroom and puts her down on the bed, kisses her passionatley and... well you know the rest. I had to admit that even though it wasn't what I expected, I was sort of happy it happened. But it didn't last for long. He suddenly got his hands off me and woke up with a blast. I pretended to be asleep, just to avoid the weirdness. He got off the bed and walked to the bathroom. I then got up and walked up to the mirror where I arranged my hair, put on some of the lip gloss I carried in my pocket (thank god) and ran back into the bed, looking like sleeping beauty. I peeked a little whilst Rahul exited the bathroom, walked up to me, sat on the bed, and for a few moments, stared at me with a smile on his face. He then whispered in my ear 

    "I swear if Michaela didn't exist, I'm pretty sure I would have fallen for you." My heart started sprinting. At that moment I just wanted to kiss him so badly, and fate was sure working his magic today. He kissed me softly on the head and walked back into the bathroom. I instantaneousley got up from the bed and starting walking around the room, gasping for breath. He had just taken my breath away. It was making me regret not telling him about my feelings earlier. Maybe that way I could have been with him. I was the one to blame. I lost him, and I wanted him back so badly. There was nothing I could do now to get rid of Voldemort. The damage had been done and had been spread around so much, that there was nothing I could do now that would stop him from liking Michaela. This was the most he could say to me, and the furthest I would ever get with him. When I finally settled down, I sat back on the bed just as quick tears started escaping my eyes. I was so full of regret and I would give anything to go back in time. Just as I heard the creaky bathroom door open, I wiped off my tears and forced a smile on my face. It was time to let Rahul go. It was time to move on. 

    "Morning" I said silently. 

    "Someone's not mad at me anymore" He said smiling. Right, I totally forgot. Our fight. But I wasn't in the mood to fight with him, besides I had to move on, and fighting wouldn't help me do that. 

    "Last time Bhatia" I said with a warning look. "Now lets get out of here" I said before taking my jacket and walking out of the bedroom.

    The old lady, was sitting in her living room silently staring outisde the window. 

    "Good morning" I said giving a small smile. She looked much better in the light, but her features were the same. 

    "Good morning dear, did you two sleep well?" She asked kindly. 

    "Yes, thank you very much for letting us stay for the night. But we should get going, we have a long way to walk." I said thinking about my poor car in the middle of the road. 

    "Oh you must be very hungry. Why don't you two leave after breakfast?" she said smiling with her crooked yellow teeth. At this point she was scaring me again, but we were very hungry. We hadn't eaten since yesturday's lunch at the cabin. So we agreed and followed her to her small kitched situated at the back of her house, next to her own room. She opened the cupboard and pulled out some muffins and placed them on the table. We immediatley sat down and started muching through them out of all the hunger. It only took us five minutes to be done with breakfast, and after that, we thanked the old lady and hit the road again, in search of a gast station. 

    Getting out of the jungle was hard enough. It was like a maze, except, filled with a load of gigantic trees with leaning branches. We needed a map, we were lost. The day was hot and soon we ended up with a minimum layer of clothes. Rahul was walking shirtless, which made it even harder for me to look for a way out. The only thing I could focus on, were his very well made abs. It was hot, and distracting, but I couldn't help but keep looking at them every sixty seconds. My plan was to move on from him, but clearly he wasn't helping. All of a sudden I heard a noise. I looked back and found the image of a small deer infront of me. I didn't know what to do, but the deer didn't look like much harm so I walked towards it slowly.

    "Um... Priya, what do you think you are doing?" Rahul asked from behind me. 

    "What do you think I'm doing Albert Einstein" I said with a sarcastic voice. 

    "I don't think this is a good idea Priya, please get back" He said with concern in his voice.

    "Will you stop being a girl" I yelled at him and looked back "It's a deer Rahul, not a tiger. It can't do any-" at that moment I was interrupted when I felt a huge pinch in my butt throwing me to the other side of the jungle. I guess I was wrong. It was a small deer, but it sure did a lot of harm. I couldn't feel my right leg and  I saw Rahul running towards me, but soon enough, the image started fading away and before I knew it, I was unconcious, knocked out by a deer.