Bound By Contract

Amayra's Pov

"But tell me what happened?" Siya asks for the hundredth time but I refuse to tell her anything, I don't want my equation with Rudra in any way to ruin her relationship with her brother-in-law.

"Nothing, I just thought it's better to concentrate on my own company now," I say as she sighs.

"But just this morning you were scared that he would fire you and now you're telling me you directly went and resigned on his face?" she asks and I look at her shrugging.

"Yes, I don't want to talk about it anymore," I say and look at the time, it was almost eleven in the morning and she was getting late for her office, Kanishk had already left as Siya waited for me not understanding why my mood was down when I came back from talking to Rudra.

"Fine," she says and I look at her and take her in for a hug, we stayed in a hug for a minute before I break it off, "Feeling a little better now?" she asks and I nod my head. Whenever I would be sad or feeling down Siya would come and hug me, it was just a feeling of comfort I felt in her arms, since I didn't have anyone else to turn to, Siya was always there and she always said hugs make people happy. So it was almost like a habit now, whenever I felt sad I would go and hug her.

"I'll be going home now," I tell her as she nods her head.

"You sure? Why don't you stay with me for some days?" she asks and I shake my head immediately. Even though Kanishk and Siya are welcoming, I don't feel like intruding on their privacy, and the important reason, I don't want to face Rudra every day.

"No, I'm fine, I'm just going to go home and take a much-needed rest," I tell her and she nods her head as we both walk downstairs where I already have my cab waiting for me.

After twenty minutes I reached my apartment building and took a sigh, home sweet home, I live in a small one-bedroom apartment near to the office, it has a cute little balcony which I love so much, sometimes at night I would go and sit in the balcony, looking at the stars and talk to my parents, I always felt like they listened to me. The place was small, but it was mine and I had made it look homely and comfortable, the living room was small with a two-seater sofa and a bean bag, and I had pictures from my college and graduation hung on one wall with Siya and her parents. In the middle of those small pictures, I had a huge portrait of me with my parents smiling at the camera happily.

It was one of the last holidays we had been to where I had cried that I wanted our picture to be clicked and it was one of the only good pictures I had with my parents, suddenly I felt like I wanted to cry at the hurtful things Rudra said today, I'm strong I won't deny that but there's a limit how much hurt I can tolerate, and it was as if today was my breaking point, I felt like crying and I did just that, I cried so hard looking at my parent's pictures because all of a sudden I was angry at them for leaving me all alone in this cruel world and taking my Nani with them too, I wanted to yell at God for making me feel this way, unloved and unwanted by the only family I had.

I didn't know when my eyes gave up and I went into a deep slumber, exhausted by crying and finally relaxing that I didn't have any pressure to complete any of my work now, when I opened my eyes it was almost evening, I had been sleeping for hours and I had no desire to wake up and do anything else than to go back to bed and continue my sleep.

But I had to get up because I felt hungry, and you would think all alone in this world I would've learned how to cook by now, but no, even after trying and failing hundreds of times I never learned to cook, even after watching plenty tutorials online, it was useless, even I had given up to learn cooking after that and only survived by the tiffin service they provide here.