Edward's POV

After searching for a long time we couldn't find anything so we returned back and sat on the sand as the water waves touched our feet and went back.

"What to do now" Ashima murmured as she wrapped her hands around her knees and placed her head on her knees.

"I don't know, I'm sorry because of me you got stuck here" I whispered as now I'm feeling guilty because she might be so hungry and I can't do anything about it.

"It's no one's fault" she said looking at the water.

We both were quite for a while we didn't say anything, there was silence between us as we kept looking at the waves which came every minute smashing against the rocks.

"So tell me something about you, you lived with your family in India?" I asked breaking the silence.

"No I lived with my friend Pia" she replied after a while with much hesitation.

"Oh but why, where's your family" I asked again confused if she even has a family or not.

"Because they live here I mean in Seattle" she replied with sadness in her eyes.

"Then why don't you live with them, why do you live alone" I asked surprised that her family lives in Seattle, so close to her and then also she lives alone.

"It's fine if you don't want to talk about it" I said as she didn't say anything for some time.

"My mom died when I was seventeen years old and then dad changed suddenly he became really rude with everyone and even with me and my brothers. You know I never shared a very good relation with my brothers but when mom died my and my brother Vihaan's relation was getting better and after some time he was getting married with the girl he loved and she was my best friend Ava, I was really glad with it but my dad was not, just because Ava was poor and not Indian. He was really mad at Vihaan but somehow he agreed to this marriage but just one day before their marriage Ava got into a car accident and she died" she said with moist eyes and her voice became shaky in the end.

The name Ava rings a bell in my head but maybe I'm just over thinking.

There are many girls with the name Ava not necessary that Ashima is talking about the same Ava whom you are thinking about, my subconscious tried to clear my doubts.

"And I think it was not just an accident I...I think that it was all planned" she continued.

"Do you know who did all this" I asked.

"I think it was my dad who was behind that accident and I even tried to tell this to Vihaan but he didn't believe me and again turned cold towards me" she replied and I was shocked how can her own dad do this.

"How can you be so sure that it was all planned by your dad" I said.

"Because he was the only one who was against this marriage and he thought that getting his son married to a poor girl would stain his reputation and I know he can go to any extent to save his reputation" she replied in an angry voice.

"And that's why you don't live with them" I asked.

"Yeah that's one of the reasons I left my dad's home but the main reason I left was because my dad wanted me to get married to his friend's son, when I was just eighteen and I told him that I can't marry now because I have some dreams in my life, I wanted to study I wanted to do a job and didn't wanted to be some spoiled brats house wife. So one day I ran away from my dad's home and went back to India" she explained and till the end her cheeks were soaked with tears.

"It's not like my dad didn't loved me or something but he just became like that after losing my mom and that's the reason I don't want to believe in love because I have seen how my dad and Vihaan turned after losing their love. Love just makes a person weak and helpless nothing else" she added as tears were still flowing from her beautiful eyes.

"You know you look beautiful while crying too but please stop your tears now because somehow I don't like tears in your eyes" I said wiping her tears as she looked at me.

I have always been the reason of tears of the girls whose heart I broke in my past and I didn't gave a damn about their tears but I don't know why I hated seeing Ashima crying and it's the first time I'm wiping away a girl's tears.

"I'm sorry it's just that when you talked about family I felt like I need to share my pain with someone..." she replied but I interpreted her.

"It's okay, you can always share anything with me I'll always be there to listen" I said.

"It's strange you lived in Seattle and we didn't met there ever but we met in India" I said as we looked at eachother.

"Everything happens when it's supposed to happen we can't do anything in it" she replied.

"You mean we met because of our destiny or something like that" I said but didn't got any reply and again there was silence between us.

"Are you feeling cold" I asked as I saw her shiver a little as the cool breeze touched her.

"Yeah, but you must be feeling more cold then me as you are not wearing a shirt" she replied as her eyes lingered on me more then usual then she moved her gaze from me to the water again.

I moved closer to her putting my arms around her shoulders as she looked at me surprised.

"Edward" she protested and tried to move away but I held her tight.

"Shhh it's just to protect us both from this cold" I said grinning as she glared at me but didn't say anything and I lied down on the sand with her still in my arms.

"Edward what are you doing" she protested again while sitting up.

"I'm just feeling sleepy" I said with an innocent face.

"Then you sleep don't pull me down with you" she replied.

"Okay then, don't tell me that I didn't help to keep you warm when you'll be frozen till the morning by the cold" I said with a shrug and closed my eyes and after a while I felt her lying beside me and without saying anything I extended my hand out which was till now under my head, so that she can keep her head on it instead of the sand and after few seconds I felt her head on my shoulder and I grinned moving more closer to her.

"Enough don't move any more closer to me" she said strictly.

Anyways there's no space left between us to move more closer Ashima, I thought to myself while smiling.

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