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Chapter Five
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2020-07-08 21:52:03W
e're told constantly that any problem in our life can be solved if we're determined enough. The end of every movie, every good book features the protagonist having absolutely no issues. So we try to convince ourselves that we can have a perfect life too; a life with zero problems.
Raina's grandma shared the same opinion. But little did she know, even after experiencing life more than most living people, not all problems could be solved. Not all things can be fixed.
Sometimes, you have to accept the fact that there exists things in the world you cannot change. Not with a thousand prayers or uncountable drops of tears. Not with violence or with silence. All you can really do, is watch it damage itself and along with it, a part of you.
Smearing a dark lipstick across her lips, Raina pressed them together and forced a smile on her face. She eyed her reflection in the girls' bathroom mirror.
She looked beautiful, adorned from head to toe in expensive brands. Her eyes darted to the new bag she'd purchased from Paris only a month ago. It costed more than what most parents of her peers earned monthly.
Anyone would die to be in her place. Live her life. She had everything and yet...
Her heart sank everytime she realised that she was only existing, never living.
The other students in her class were better off with their mediocre salary-earning parents. She was sure they atleast owned a part of their attention and time. Love too, perhaps.
Money doesn't buy happiness, they say.
Ask someone who is filthy rich-- Money does buy happiness. Temporary happiness.
Out of the two problems in her life, she had put her all in the past seventeen years to fix one. Everything can be fixed if you're determined enough, right? No.
No amount of determination and hardwork could fix problems that cannot be fixed. That was the principle of real life. And Raina was no character of a fictional story.
She was exhausted but every time she decided to put a full stop to her efforts, a sliver of hope clung to her heart, telling her-- just a little more and it'll be alright.
She groaned, sensing another incoming migrane. She couldn't let her life fall apart like her parents marriage. Divorces occured everyday. It was no big deal.
She was filthy rich. She had all the resources to spin her life into a beautiful one. She wouldn't let Pinterest quotes sadden her anymore.
And she would start by fixing the problem she never really focussed on before.
Confessing her love for Aditya.
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The heels of her boots clicked against the stone pathway that lead out of the college building. Her field of vision was filled with green trees and hormonal teenagers running around.
A quick glance at her watch and she knew there were twenty minutes more before the last class for the day began. Aditya had to be around here somewhere. The woods were their favorite place.
Spending all those years alongside him in school had gotten her the recognition as his 'best friend'. Soon, she realised she wanted to be more.
Initially, she shrugged it off as a stupid feeling. Infatuation with a guy possessing enormous muscles and an arm full of tattoos was inevitable. She believed time would shake sense into her and the feeling would go away. But as time passed, the feeling intensified.
She concealed it all these years in the fear of being rejected. She didn't want to force her feelings on him.
His recent quest for finding 'the one' for him made her restless. He was hooking up with more girls than ever. She didn't judge him. He could be with as many girls as he wished. There was nothing wrong with it. Except, he would share all the hideous details with her, breaking her heart to infinite pieces.
It was better to confront him than live in the fear of the unknown and yet, every step she took increased the sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.
How would he react?
Does he already know?
Would he reciprocate her feelings?
Or just laugh it off and break her heart again?
The questions popped into her mind, one at a time, melting her brain.
One confession and she would receive an answer to all of them.
With a determined smile, she marched forward with a newfound courage. However, she stopped mid-track when her eyes witnessed a heartbreaking deed.
Aditya stood beneath a tree, kissing a girl passionately. His hands were all over her. They parted and he waved her off with a wide grin, the kind which was only reserved for Raina. Even when the girl had vanished into the crowd, he still kept staring in her direction, gently rubbing his palm across his chest.
Tears spilled out of her eyes without a warning. The amount of time she'd put in her eye-makeup was in vain. Her mascara dripped down her cheekbones.
He had already found his 'the one'.
And she wasn't Raina.
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