Entanglement With Fate (Part 2)

10. Vulnerable

"Why did you stop? Go on. Speak out till you feel better." She insisted.

I chuckled.

"Because I cannot let go of all the feelings I have had for a person and a flash of a moment. When I give someone my love and affection. I give them that with all honestly. Constantly wishing good for them. I do not wish bad with anyone to who I give affection. What is different between me and this shack of fools if I too act the same way? I'm my mother's daughter. I will simply wish well for them and try to walk ahead in my life."

"Say anything about me, Adya. But what I felt for you was true. Everything I said was true. I never lied to you about my feelings for you. They are true and real."

"So are mine. But what point are you trying to prove? What do you want?"

"You like me and I like you."

"And?"

"I want us to be together."

I started laughing. I laughed for a few moments.

"That is a hilarious thing to say. Thank you for the laugh."

"Alaknanda."

I looked at her, fury entering me. "Don't you dare call me Alaknanda. You don't have the right to call me the name that my father gave me."

"Your father didn't even bother to come to save you. That father you speak of?"

I grabbed her throat. People tried to come towards me but the earth started to crack not allowing anyone to come between me and her. Nandini held my hand and tried to pull herself out of my grip.

"You don't deserve to speak my father's name."

"Alaknanda..." I heard Guru Amarka and Chanda. "Let her go."

I let go of her throat. The earth under my feet cracked but I wasn't imbalanced at all.

"I would suggest you keep your ideas to yourself. I don't care for your thoughts about my father. Your suggestions and ideology don't matter to me, mine don't make it to your head. So, let us just leave things here. I don't need your help. I will do with what I have. I do not require your help. You didn't help when I needed it, now I don't need it and you want to offer it to me."

The cracking stopped and I took a few deep breaths. I walked away for a while.

I wondered why the temper had struck like that. It was normal for these people to taunt my dad. But of course, they hate him because of their own lack of introspecting on what they do. So, why did I get so angry?

Maybe it isn't your anger about comments on him. It is that she dared to push the blame away on him for what had happened to you. It started with her. You would have been safe if you didn't go back to save her. But you did because of your feelings for her and turned out to be your foolishness. She was one of them. It is the way you feel that your feelings have been insulted just like that. It is that she didn't take up the blame but tried to brush it away by saying something about him.

I closed my eyes and tried to meditate. I didn't want to hear any of them getting to me and insulting my dad just to get a rise out of me.

My own feelings for Nandini made me angry. I should not feel guilty for hurting her. I had every right to be angry and vent out the anger. Betrayal would make anyone break down.

Nandini had tricked me well. I thought I was the trickster but she did well. I couldn't even have imagined that someone I knew for so long as the enemy's coalition.

I felt my wrist touching something hot. I looked and saw the bracelet. It held the coin that I had given to Raj. My promise to him. I had promised him to help him when he needed it. I never realized how long I sat alone to calm down myself that I had also missed my dinner.