Author's P.O.V.
10 years back
Some arguments of a man and a woman could be heard from a room of the little apartment.
"I want a divorce from you. I just don't want to be your wife and live a life like this anymore. I just want to go. Why don't you understand? Are you dumb or something??" the woman uttered furiously more like shouting.
"I love you. Please don't do this to me. At least think about Arnav. He needs both of us. Please don't do this. I promise you that I will work die hard from now and make sure to get back to our earlier days. I will fulfill your every demand. I will make our business a success again. Just give me little more time." the man said more like pleading.
"No. Nothing is left between us. I love Hopper now and I am going to marry him." the woman spoke up with a cold face.
The man got silent as he understood now no matter how hard he tried, it's not going to work on his wife as she had already made her mind to live a king size life which he failed to give her after his business got down.
"I am going. I want you to send me the divorce papers in two days otherwise I'll have to go to the court by myself.", saying this, the woman forwarded towards her packed bag.
The door of the room got opened and a lady in her mid thirties came out with her bag pulling behind.
Indeed she was beautiful but the coldness on her face was making her look ugly. She didn't even try to meet her child for the last time. She just left in a black Mercedes which was already waiting for her.
Arnav, a young boy of 13 years was standing right beside the room witnessing everything since the day first.
He witnessed their happy family shattering little by little because of his own mother and that billionaire man, named Hopper.
He had witnessed his father begging to his mother to stay with him since the last month. He had witnessed his mother becoming so cold-hearted and at last today he witnessed his mother dragging her bag away without even casting a single glance at him for the last time.
He forwarded towards his father's room as soon as his mother left and found him sitting on the floor in the middle of the room in a miserable condition.
He ran towards his father and hugged him. His father hugged him back immediately. Both of them were crying. A 13 year old boy was comforting his father.
He was also hurt but even at such a young age he knew how to control his emotions. He knew that from now they were on their own and from the depths of his heart he started hating, not his mother only rather the species called woman already...
Present Time
In a small town
It was past midnight. A girl of early twenties was so lost in her studies that she didn't even get to know when her parents entered her room.
Getting near, her parents sat on the bed. Looking at her, contented smiles crept on her parents' faces.
Her father spoke up then while caressing her hair, "Khushi?"
The girl immediately looked up at them getting all startled and got uttering while giving them a confused look, "Dad..Mom, you here? This time? Why didn't you sleep yet! What's the matter? Anything wrong? Are you sick or something? Should I call the doctor?"
She was about to get up but her father spoke up, "Relax, sweetie. We are okay. Nothing is wrong."
She looked at them and uttered again, "Then why are you awake till now? Do you have any idea what time is it? It's not good for your health to keep awaking till this late. Don't you know the proverb"
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A Dare
Romance"You can't keep running away from me", Arnav said, his face was all serious as his eyes bored into Khushi's. Standing her ground, Khushi uttered using her utmost effort to look confident, "I am not running away." Arnav went on uttering all confident...
