55. Her first letter

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Dhruv's point of view

My gaze to the seminar hall, full with people, applauding for me when I finished my speech. I was the last one giving the speech of today's session. My eyes fell on the exit gate gate of the seminar hall and I one of my man standing there with a white envelope in his hand. He nodded his head when  my eyes met with him. I thanked the host and make my way towards the exit gate of the seminar hall. I took the envelope from him and my lips curled up into a soft grin when I read the name of the sender.

from Aditi....

It's been a week already, I am here and this is her first letter I am receiving. It's been already a week, I heard anything from her. I took updates about her, from Raghav and my other men but still there is not a word from her. Sometimes I want to asked to Raghav to give his phone to her so I could talk to her for sometimes but I know Aditi won't like it so I ignore the idea as soon as it came into my mind.

"Dhruv, you coming?" One of my colleague officer called me.

"Yeah, give me five minutes." He nodded his head and leave. I again turn my attention to the letter which my beautiful neighbour send for me.

There is a grand dinner organized for all officers after the seminar, I want to go to my room and read my beautiful neighbour's letter which she wrote for me for the first time but I have to attend the dinner, it's important. I can't ignore it.

So after having dinner with other officers and my seniors I directly went to my room. I was reluctant between taking shower or reading her letter but then I choose to shower first as I want to read her letter without other things in my mind. It cold in Mansouri. It's usually hazy sunshine in the morning but at night temperature drops to 14°C. In my free time I went to the famous maal road of Mansouri and did a small shopping for Aditi. I bought some sweaters and earrings for her. I wish she could be here with me when I was roaming around the road looking things fir her. I wish we both could enjoy this cold together and explore this beautiful hill station with hand in hand.

Under the hot shower I could only think about her, from imagining her taking shower with me to making love to her on the cosy bed under the warm bedsheets and her soft naked body touch against mine when touch her sensitive spots, exploring them with my lips that make her moan my name which echoes in the whole room and no one was there to hear us. I groaned when I found myself hard again. Nowadays I turn on easily with her in my mind. Is it sin to think about her in that way because right now I don't have any right on her.

Yet...

Soon I am going to change this, confessing my feelings to her but I need some time to reach there.

Aditi, my darling just give me some more time, just a little patience then no one can apart me from you.

I took the towel and wipe my wet body. I wore the off white sweater which she gifted me on my birthday. It is little loose to my fitting as she doesn't know about my fitting but it's comfortable for me as I don't feel suffocated in it. This is most beautiful birthday gift I have ever received and this is very close to my heart because my beautiful neighbour knitted this for me. I don't know how long it will take her to knead this and how she managed between office, college and house chores I am going to keep this with me forever. I wear it every night. It makes me feel that she is with me here and I sleep with her every night beside me.

I set on the study table and turn on the table lamp. That was the only source of light, I switched on. I took her letter and looked at it for a minute. Again a grin came to my face when again I read her name and traced it with my fingers, like I am touching her soft cheeks.

In my letter I have written all my feelings, what I am feeling for her from past months, though they were not clear but I tried. I still do not confessed that I like her. I feel something romantically for her. I want to see her face when I confess to her. Maybe then she leave that hell and come with me.

I opened the letter slowly and instead of blue ink I introduced with yellow. I bring the letter close to my nose and sniff. It's turmeric. She maybe ran out of pens. I have to call Shastri ji to give her the box of pens so she could write letters to me without getting disturb though it's very cute and fond of that she wrote a letter for me with turmeric paste. I pushed all thoughts aside and started reading her letter.

Dear Dhruv,

I hope you are taking care of yourself in between your busy schedule. I am sorry for the yellow ink. I used the turmeric paste as I ran out of pens and the excitement of writing letter to you did not let me wait till morning.

I chuckled softly of her little confession. Though I smell the turmeric when I opened the letter before I could red her letter.

As far as I know you..you might be smiling right now on my stupidness.

She know me well but she is not stupid. I grin and continue to read.

Thankyou for asking Raghav to pick me and drop to the house. I feel safe with him, after you and it saves a lot of time, give me more hours to study.

I put my internship on hold because I have my exam. Shastri ji also asked me to continue it later and wants me to focus on my exams.

I know it was not Shastri ji to put my internship on hold, it was you who wants me to focus on my studies first.

Thankyou Dhruv, for everything you have done for me. You have come into my life like an angle. I don't know if it's not you, I may die in next few years because of hunger. It's not about the food and medicines, you gave me the mental peace which I never get in my life. You gave me the hope to live and fight for myself.

I still feel lonely and my mind may not at peace completely but it's in better condition than before. At least now I have some peace in my mind that you are with me right now.

Dhruv I don't know, what I am to you or what relationship we both have between us but I don't want you to be the part of my messed up life. It's dark and dangerous. It was about something you may not handle in spite of you have power in your hands. I don't want you to get your hands dirty to cleaning the mess of my life. My family already leave me and it would not surprise me if you leave me too.

I know you may get angry after reading this letter but I have my insecurities and fear. At least I would be at peace that you are safe and living your life with your love one.

I hope you like my gift and fits you well. I am missing you my handsome neighbour.

                                                Aditi...

Yes, the last paragraph of her letter upsets me. It makes me angry. How could she think that I am going to leave her leaving her in that hell. I have cleared this with her many time but why didn't she understands that I never going to leave her hand ever and what danger she was talking about. For God sake I am District Magistrate. I have powers in my hand. I can do anything. Raghav is with me and if he came to know that something bad happened to her sister I am damn sure he would not sit in peace until he crack every single bone of that person.

I picked my phone and dialled the private investigator number whom I hired to find about Aditi's past. He picked the call after two bells. I stood up from the chair and walked in the middle of the room with phone stick to my ear.

"It's already more than a week and you didn't give me a single detail." I barked on him and fisted my hand to control my anger.

"I am sorry sir but the work you have gave me, I did not find the single detail about it. Just little bit information. You friend Aditi was missing for at least one month in eight years ago and one day she suddenly come back. Her family did not accept her and throw her out from the house. People said that she ran away with her boyfriend and her boyfriend abandoned her after taking advantages of her."

Fear crawled inside my chest when he talked about the advantages and Aditi's boyfriend.

"Who was the boy and what advantages you are talking about?" My voice came out as whisper coated with fear.

"I still don't know sir. I am trying to find out but always get back to square one." He said.

I clenched my teeth and fisted my hands.

" I am not paying you for half details. I want every single details about her life soon and found the information about that guy." I say through my greeted teeth.

"I..I am trying sir." He stammer.

"Don't try. I need results." After saying this I cut the call and throw my phone on the bed.

The information he gave me, unsettled feeling set in my heart and I feel restless. I know Aditi she can't had boyfriend because she liked me. I saw the feelings and emotions in her eyes when she used to looked at me. Yes, there was pain in her eyes but she loved her family then how it comes, she betrayed her family even after knowing that they could throw her out?

She did not admit her feelings towards me when asked her but in deep down I know...

I know that she still have feelings for me.

I again sit on the study chair. I took the pen and started writing the letter for her.

There are few things I need to clear and she needs to know.

****

Everyone's morning start with coffee or tea. I used to be one of them but now my morning starts with Aditi's thoughts. Not a single moment have passed I didn't think about her. How many times I have wished that she has mobile phone with her so I could talk to her daily or maybe we could do face time but neither I call her nor we can do face time.

My work at LBSNNA had finished and now I am on my way to Dehradun for some official work which take another week and another week to see her. My convoy was moving and sirens are echoing, increasing my head ache and the frustration to see her or know about her or what is she doing right now?

Suddenly an idea came into my mind. I checked the time in my wrist watch.

9:45 A.M

I took my phone and dialled to Raghav. My foot is tapping impatiently while I was waiting fir him to pick my call and finally he picked up my call when it was about to cut.

"Where is she?" I directly came to the point without letting him say hello or hey.

"Ouch..... Directly come to the point. Tell me at least you miss me." I rolled my eyes. He never leave a chance to irritate me.

"Raghhhaavvvv... Don't get into my nerves." I say through my greeted teeth.

"Did I..? Well, I am not sorry for that. You just hurt my feelings." Though I could not see but I can imagine his hand on his heart. He is such a drama queen.

"Fine I miss you..."

My ass...

"Well I don't miss you.." He started laughing and I fisted my hands.

Lunatic Asshole.

"Where is she?" I closed my eyes to control the anger which was building inside me when I asked.

"I just drop her to the college. In fact I was standing in front of her college gate and she is going towards the entrance." Suddenly I feel my heart started beating faster hearing about her and I find myself get calm.

"Do you want to talk to her? If you want I can stop her. You can both talk fir sometime." He asked me genuinely. He is aware of my condition and how I feel for her. Though he is a pain in ass but he always prove himself a good person and most importantly I am glad that he is my friend.

"No, it's fine." I whispered and sighed while swapping a hand on my face.

"Is everything fine?" He suddenly turn into serious and I heard concern in his voice.

Though I know he needed to know about Aditi's past and I may need him in future but I could not tell him anything until I find the truth myself, that's why I decided to go to Saharanpur after my official trip to know about Aditi's past.

"Is she fine?" Finally I asked.

"No, She is missing you terribly. She did not say anything but I could tell seeing her dull face." He said and my car came to halt in front of government building.

I step down from the car, wore my sunglasses and walked towards the building with my men following me behind.

"Tell her, I will come soon to meet her."

*****

Dehradun's D.M Raj Sinha and I decided to have our lunch at restaurant and continue our meeting their. He have ordered some famous dishes of Uttarakhand for me and introduced me with his great hospitality but he doesn't know that I used to live in the city which is 2 hours drive away from here and I spent many short vacations here.

We both were discussing on some topic when my eyes fell on the group of office colleague which just entered in the restaurant and took the table in front of us. But I wasn't looking at the particular person who is very familiar to me and used to my neighbour in Saharanpur.

Atul Tripathi..

Aditi's elder and only brother who barely think her as his sister.

My eyes could not move from him. He has changed in these years. He looked little bit taller and muscular than before. He also grown the beard. He was laughing and enjoying his lunch with his colleagues. I could not believe he is the same person who threw her only little sister from the house when she was just 18.

"I think we should send the papers to Delhi for official agreement. What do you sa....." Raj looked at me and then to his back, following my gaze to the particular table.

"Dhruv, you okay?" I averted my gaze when Dhruv asked me looking between me and the table.

"Yeah, I am fine." I blinked many times to clear my thoughts but I could not stop myself to looking at him. He nodded his head and we continue our discussion but my eyes keep looking at the same person.

The group was about to leave after their lunch and I waited for Atul to be alone so I could talk to him. He stood up from his chair and started walking towards the exit of the restaurant.

"Excuse me, I'll join you in a minute." I also excused myself and started walking towards the exit. I caught Atul outside the restaurant, lighting his cigarette.

"Does your lovely parents know that their dearly son smokes." Sarcasm was dripping in my voice and my teeth are clenched.

His eyes met with mine and he remove his cigarette from his lips, puffing out the smoke. First ge looked at me in confusion but then his turn into normal when he recognised me.

"Mind your own business Malhotra." He said again taking drag from his cigarette.

If he is someone I might took the cigarette from him and smoke it myself but I don't want to touch the thing which he use. I have to shower in holy water.

"Well I am doing mine but I think you forgot yours." I said through my greeted teeth.

"What do you mean?" He asked me in confusion.

"Where is Aditi? " I asked controlling myself not to punch him right now. I still remember how hard he slapped Aditi at Diwali night, in front of everyone.

Though I know the answer of my question but still I want to see if he knows about her or have any idea which kind of hell she was living in.

He smirked. "Still not get over her. I still don't get what was in her that every man wants to fuck her."

I hold his shirt collar when he talked shit about her.

"Do not dare to say anything against her." He growled in anger.

"Then stop asking me anything about her. She is nothing to me and my family. I am the only child of my parents.", He hold my hands on his collar and remove them with jerk.

"Don't you have any work to do or you throw your dreams of becoming an IAS out of the window. I knew from the start you are useless like her." After saying this he walked towards his office building while I stood there numb.
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