Chapter 16

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Ch 14

Walking into Captain Rajveer's room with a tray of food, Naina didn't even think about knocking.

"Sir, I've brought you…." And she gasped and almost dropped the tray on the floor.

Raj turned around quickly, he'd been at the mirror shaving and hadn't expected anyone to arrive just yet.

"Cadet Singh!" He exclaimed, panicking. "What are you doing here? Why didn't you knock?" The last time that this had happened…

The only thing he was wearing was a towel, and thank goodness that it was long.

Turning away, Naina put the tray down on the bench and then turned back, keeping her head down in an effort not to look at him.

"Sir, I'm so sorry!" she said, absolutely horrified that she'd walked in on him in this way. "I swear I didn't mean to, I think today just isn't my best day!" or maybe it was, but she wasn't going to say that… She was blushing so much that she was sure her whole face had turned red, and she honestly was trying not to look at him, but she couldn't help herself from glancing up.

His hair was still damp, and ruffled from when he had tried drying it. Apart from the towel, his body was completely bare, drops of water still clinging to his shoulders. And his body… She had known that he would be fit, as a soldier in the army he had to be. But looking at him half naked this way, his strong chest, the muscles of his upper arms… it was doing strange things to her insides. Naina decided it was a much safer option to just keep looking at the ground.

"I'll uh, I'll just go and change." Raj said, and practically ran for his bedroom.

Naina tried not to laugh, she supposed she had cursed herself when she had told Pooja she hoped she wouldn't do anything else embarrassing today.

Meanwhile in the bedroom, Raj was trying to decide what he should wear. Her coming in on him like that had been embarrassing, although he didn't have anything to be ashamed about. But now he should wear something that was… To be honest, he wanted to wear something he would look good in. Especially after how he had looked the day before.

Suddenly he realised how that sounded. 'Raj,' he scolded himself 'Stop behaving like a teenager. It's Naina, she's your student, and she doesn't care what you wear.' But he still took another minute to choose a shirt.

Finally coming out of the bedroom, he found Naina sitting in one of his chairs, looking both embarrassed and amused. "I really am very sorry, Sir." She told him "I promise I'll knock before coming in from now on."

"It's really okay, Naina." He told her, "I should've realised that you would be coming back, it was stupid of me to just have been standing here like this."

"Sir, breakfast." She indicated the tray on the table. At least it looked like Suriji had made an effort. But Raj had no idea how he was supposed to eat so much food. He stared at it in amazement, it was a wonder that she had managed to get the tray here. Raj supposed it was a sign of how much Suriji liked him.

"Naina, do you think you could help me with this?" he asked her, "I don't know how I'm supposed to eat all this food."

"But Sir, you haven't eaten well for days. I think it's best that you eat all of it."

He looked at her in disbelief. "All of it?"

Naina looked down at the tray and laughed, "I suppose you have a point, Sir."

"You haven't eaten breakfast yet have you, Naina?"

"Well no, but…"

"Then you'll have to help me!"

And going to the bench he took out an extra bowl and spoon, and began dividing up the breakfast.

"Anyway," Raj continued, "It seems like you haven't been eating or sleeping properly for days either."

Self consciously, Naina looked down at her hands, "Am I really looking that bad, Sir?" she asked, only half joking.

The question caught Rajveer off balance, he hadn't been expecting. "No, I didn't mean it that way. I mean, you're always… You look fine, Naina."

"That wasn't the way you put it last night…" she muttered under her breath.

Raj nearly spat out his breakfast, she couldn't have just…. "Did you just say something, Naina?"

"I said you're looking a lot better than you were last night." She replied innocently, and started sipping her juice.

They ate in silence while Raj tried to work out whether his ears were playing tricks on him.

Finally, when the food was finished, he decided it was time to fill Naina in on the events of the past few days. He told her about his questioning of Dr Mishra, of how she had led them to the documents and evidence they would need to jail the people responsible and prove Navin responsible. He had started telling her the names of those people when his phone suddenly rang.

"Yes, Sir?" he said. "That's excellent news, Sir. Right now? Thank you very much for informing me. Yes, much better, Sir. Jai Hind." And he hung up the phone.

"Turn the television on, Naina!" Raj told her excitedly.

"Which channel?" Naina asked, as she grabbed the remote.

"Any of the news channels."

And there on the screen in front of her, was news of a huge conspiracy that had been uncovered within the defense ministry, government, and high ranks of the army. Even the defense minister had been arrested on charges of betraying the country, the government was in chaos as they tried to figure out what to do. And then the line that she had been waiting five long years for came.

"When a young officer named Captain Navin Singh Ahluwalia had tried to expose the conspiracy four years ago, these same people then branded him as a traitor and he died with a stain on his name. Today this brave, patriotic officer has been proved innocent, and the true traitors are facing punishment…"

Naina didn't need to hear anything else other than that, dropping the remote she turned around to Rajveer.

"We did it, Sir." She told him with tears in her eyes, "We finally did it." And wrapping her arms around him, she began to weep.