A girl was sitting in a dark room, sipping red wine. Her sharp angry gaze was struck on the entrance waiting for a particular person to show up. That's when the door of the entrance opened with a thud and Rakshit entered inside with his bruised face.

“You are half an hour late Mr.Rakshit Shergill!” the girl said, her voice sharp and cold.

“Are you for real? Here iam fucking badly injured by that bastard ,who beated the shit out of me. And you are saying that I am late Ishika?” Rakshit snapped his voice hard and filled with furious anger. Ishika chuckled at him ,she stood up and walked to him until she was standing in front of him.

She looked at his face more like scanning his face,her anger flew away as she saw his broken nose “he is a good fighter after all” she said her voice filled with happiness.

“ Seriously! Meri boyfriend ko surgery ki zaroorat hai teri Avy ki vajah se” Riya said hurrying towards Rakshit as she entered the room.

“Oh my god!” Riya gasped as she looked at Rakshit’s face. “Baby! What did you do? Look at your face it's almost destroyed” she said as tears formed in her eyes and she took him in a hug. Ishika looked at them and rolled her eyes.

“Stop your PDA,Mai bhi hu yaha!” They broke the hug and Riya said to him “ you need surgery. We need to go to the hospital immediately”

“ No, I can't go to the hospital!” Rakshit said, making the other two thinned their eyebrows.

“why?” Ishika asked,

“ Uss, Avyansh saale ne mujhe forbid kar diya hai kisi bhi hospital Jana se, not only in delhi. Pure india ki kisi bhi hospitals Mai nahi jaa sakta hu. Upar se dad ki company bhi bankrupt ho gayi” Rakshit said his voice filled with pure hatred and anger. Riya gasped at his words while an evil smile formed on Ishika's face.

Rakshit noticed her “dost ho ya dush, aise kyu hass rahi ho?.Vaise bhi ye sab tumhare liye nahi kiya usne” he said, with an invisible smile, knowing that he hitted a nerve as he saw Ishika's smile disappearing.

Long gone was that smiling face which was replaced by a furious look.

“I know the things he did, they are not for me but for someone else, who actually doesn't deserve it.” she spat venom dripping from her voice. Rakshit and Riya nodded.

“He loves her” Rakshit said, making Ishika close her eyes. “ He can never become yours if she is here,— with him” he again Said knowing very well that he was hitting a nerve.

“ Did you check her background?” Ishika asked, ignoring his words, he nodded and said “there is nothing means nothing about her on the internet. But yes, I heard she has a terrible past” he said and Ishika looked at him with raised eyebrows “past?”

Rakshit nodded and said “something traumatic happened to her and she is scared of crowds, anxiety and panic attacks hota hai usko” Ishika nodded “pata nahi Avyansh ko ye kaise pasand aayi hai?. a girl with no background and with a terrible past.” Ishika said ,

“ What do you think she is hiding?” Ishika asked, looking at the wall which has Arya's picture hanging on.

“So what are you going to do?” Riya asked curiously. Ishika chuckled at her and said “ first, this duffer needs a surgery and about Arya let's take it slow” Ishika tightened her hold on the glass making it break into pieces.

Riya gasped, looking at blood flowing from her hand, and Rakshit shook his head at her and left from there.

Ishika is in love with Avyansh from her childhood days. Her love for him is beyond anything and after years of waiting he is finally going to become her's as their parents were on a verge to tie them in an arranged marriage however Arya entered the picture making her dream crash and lose all her senses. After knowing that Avyansh started to love Arya she got furious. You can say ‘jealous’. Knowing that someone is getting The love,care, time and affection she wanted for herself made her furious and now she was hell bent to destroy Arya not only in the eyes of Avyansh but in the eyes of everyone.

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“Please don't to-touch me!!” she said her voice frightened as she drew a shaky breath. But the other person didn't hear as he started to walk towards her, his steps steady and calculative.

“Remember you are mine little slut” the person said as he bent down to her level, Arya tried to Swift back but looks like luck is not on her side as there was a wall behind her and now she is caged between him and the wall. The person lifted his head and kept it on her waist making her shiver and he started to trace her curves until his fingers reached her breast and he squeezed them harder making her scream and he started his torchure on her.

Arya woke up with a jerk as she felt oxygen has cutted off from her lungs. She started to take deep breaths. Her eyes were closed as a teardrop fell from eyes,her face looked scared and was covered in sweat. Arya curled her fingers making a fist and she took her hand near her chest where the heart is located and started to beat it on her chest. Forgetting the pain it was causing,she continued the act Until she felt that her heart was pumping the blood properly.

She clutched the bed sheet as those scenes flashes again in front of her. Suddenly her breathing again got worse and again she started to take deep breaths. Arya looked around searching for her injection which she uses whenever she gets a panic attack. Slowly she left the bed with her shaking body and reached the cupboard which contained her medicine, with her shaking hands she took out her medicine filled injection and pushed the tip of the needle inside her shoulder arm making her close her eyes as the pain striked her.

After sometime Arya started to feel normal she went inside the washroom to freshen.

Arya looked at herself in the mirror and a traitor tear left her eye, rolling down from her cheek and it fell on her hand.

The girl who was standing there was a broken one,who is tired of fighting with her demons alone, the girl who is tired of pretending to be okay, the girl who is tired of crying alone, the girl who is tired of everything in her life.

After that incident, her will to live died. Yes, she is breathing but breathing alone isn't living.

Her heart is broken, whose pieces always pierced her every time she got those nightmares, her eyes are tired of crying, her Brian is tired of consoling her, her heart is tired of the same pain and her body is tired of everything.

Yes, She was breathing but not for herself but for her family —for her mother, father, sister brother and for all those who loved her truly.

There are multiple times she tried to kill her self by suicide however everything there was a thought which always stopped her

“ If I die today,then they will never get to know the truth” it always stopped her from cutting her wrist, there were multiple times when she tried to make scars on her wrist but the thought of her mother crying again stopped her.

Yes, she was living, her heart was pumping blood, her lungs were breathing but breathing alone isn't living,there was no liveliness in her body because her soul had already died years ago and now it was just a body without a soul equal to a dead body.

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Arya came out of her wearing a beautiful pink and white suit, with her favorite jhumka, and her smart watch. Her face is looking beautiful without the makeup and her lips were highlighted in a lip balm. She came down stairs and directly went inside the kitchen without noticing a person who was standing awestruck looking at her.

Avyansh who came a little earlier was sitting in the living room waiting for her to come out. When he heard the sound of the door opening his head snapped in direction only for his jaw to drop looking at the beauty in front of him.

Words run out of his dictionary to describe her beauty. Arya is beautiful and the fact is she never realized that she is beautiful. Avyansh's heart skipped a beat as he heard the sweet sound of her bracelet which made the sound everytime she moved her hand.

“Good morning” Arya said to Diya who was in the kitchen. Diya looked at her friend and her eyes instantly lit up “ good morning sweetie” she said kissing her cheeks lovely only to bite them in the end. Arya hissed as the pain hit her

“ Ahh, pagal ladki!! Stop doing that!” She said and came outside the kitchen while rubbing her cheeks only to freeze hearing a manly chuckle.

Avyansh who was looking at them chuckled when Diya bit her cheeks. Arya's cheeks turned deep red in embarrassment. Avyansh looked at her and folded his hand's near his chest making his biceps look sexy. Unknowingly Arya gulped looking at his medium sized body. She looked at him, he was wearing a green shirt which was tucked inside his white pants and his sleeves rolled up, perfectly settled hair making him look sexy yet handsome.

Avyansh smirked at her, knowing that she was checking him out, knowingly he cleared his throat making her come out of her delulu world and she looked away as blood rushed to her cheeks in utter embarrassment.

“You are late Miss Roy” Avyansh said suppressing his laugh,

“ I-I—” she stuttered under his gaze and shook her head to clear her embarrassment.

“I slept late last night,so I woke up late,” Arya said with a pout and sat in front of him on the couch. Avyansh nodded understanding.

And the silence followed between them, both didn't speak anything. Avyansh was shamelessly looking at her, meanwhile Arya shoved her head in her phone trying to escape his gaze but it seemed difficult.

Diya looked at both of them in disbelief

“ Kon bolega ye dono dost hai,dost jaisa toh kuch hai nahi beech mai, pure lovers vibes de rahe hai” she walked to them

“ Breakfast is ready, let's eat” she said and Arya shook her head “ I'm not hungry Diya, let's go Ansh” she said and went inside to get her bag. While Avyansh froze on his spot hearing what she said, Diya too looked stunned for a minute but she recovered from her shocked state and grinned at Avyansh.

“ Hmm, Bhai Ansh, haa? Baat nickname tak pahuch gayi, aur aap ne bataya nahi” she teased him and a smile formed on his face as he said “ did i hear right? She gave me a nickname?” He asked, ignoring her teases.

“ She did give you a nickname but i don't know as a friend or—” she stopped and Avyansh signed. Obviously she didn't realize her feelings for him and he knows that for now it's just one sided that to from him.

They both stopped talking as they heard the sound of payal. Avyansh stood up and nodded at Diya and both Avyansh and Arya left from there.