Chapter 3

                                                   A False Fall And A Fire Alarm

A false fall and a fire alarm, that defined the human relationships at large!!    

When the universe conspired to fulfill dreams, the truth often lies!!

Maya's thoughts are loitering between her sorrowful past and her skillful present! 

While writing the story, she stated that life has brought her to a point where she has no choice but to retaliate!! Its seed was planted a long time ago.

Maya entered along with a foil's shine to throw a tantrum on Rudra's face! Her every sin followed by a meaningful  Sanskrit sloka! Her special trait! The discourse followed by a fierce fight, he blinked, and she won!  

The message is clear here! Don’t think to define her easily. Human emotions’ instant impact!! The hunted and the haunted co-exist here for long!!

In love, we never chase!! We commune and converse!! However, we never chase! Chasing implies desperation and neediness, and that is quite frankly a turnoff!!

She wants him to race fast to reach the top floor to win. Rudra accepted the challenge.  She was floating, and he was running and climbing stairs in a hurry!! 

She was prey in her past, with those haunting memories she started hunting now with vengeance!! A past based emotion is guiding her now, which will impact her future-- if at all she has any!!

But I wish her to succeed …. The reactivated vengeance started testing honesty with a false fall!! 

Rudra ran to her and held her hand. She saw the force in his attempt to save her ..putting his life at stake for her here --- and a fleeing hurry for life somewhere ! Sometimes comparison will be inevitable!! Rudra pulled her up and asked what if she had died. She shows rope around her and said she was testing him! The volcanoes reflected in his shining eyes!!

Rudra was hunted by his pride, but hailed by wisdom, an urge to save … to safeguard her interest. 

Never fear to give all when it comes to love. He was guided by that belief. Your love and loving will never go unrewarded, Rudra!! He got a hug, though momentary, it defined the yielding effect to the two warring rivals!! A strong lover is a strong protector. You are secure in his presence!! Maya realized this??

'You win Rudra. You loved me the way I needed to be loved.' --Maybe, Maya thought at that moment!---

Love never usurps you, loving yourself. If it does, it is not loving. You’re being seduced!!

Rishi wanted to meet her, to greet her afresh, to have a glance at his Angel!  But he was haunted by fear and started running down with the crowd, which has given a rundown image of him to his Diva! The lava stood there on the stairs to watch the running down of that 'student of love' with fear!! Saw the weak chic to yield to the fear, to submerge into human history without any name— only with an urge to survive! A false fire alarm alerted him to run fast, averted him to see deep into the eyes stood in front of him!

With a smoke, she got clarity! Without any interruption or indication, it is an assassin's odyssey,  recounting past issues to define the present situations by Maya! 

Is it a comparison between the contradicting interests or a compromise in her yielding to desire in the indicative moment of that hug ???

He strengthened his grip when she tried to escape her hand in that pivotal moment! An expression of gratitude in the form of a hug, albeit fleeting, serves to define the inner tensions that exist in human nature!! While absorbing such tenderness from a rock, she felt pushed! Though both occurrences rang false alarms, one sounded like a temple bell in the shape of her faded smile to Rudra's hug, and the other sounded like a class bell that indicates— for today, the lessons are done, a well-learned lesson indeed!! Before one can really love another, one must first master loving oneself!!

Viswasruti2019-12-10 12:55:46