Part 17
Angad sat on the rocks looking out into the lake, it was such a beautiful starry night, reflected in the lake with trees surrounding them, and there was no soul in sight. If he had been in the mood he could have looked up at the sky and yelled and no one would have heard him.
He looked back at the hotel, there was so much of a difference b/w the two places one filled with real joy and the other so fake, everyone had smiles on their faces but no one could know what was in their hearts.
He thought of kripa, she must be somewhere very happy probably with Prithvi, telling him that he(angad) wasn't her boyfriend for "real", enjoying and laughing. His heart twinged at the thought, he hastily removed it from his mind he did not want to think about that now.
He just wanted to lay here all night undisturbed, Casey would probably be looking for him but he didn't really care. He was different then her and all her friends, he just did not fit in the "rich group". Maybe god had mistaken and accidentally made him rich.
He saw an approaching figure at distance he couldn't really make out who it was, except for the fact that it was a girl, she went and sat on the sand her head hidden, as she hugged her body. He observed her closely so he wasn't the only one alone today. He got up to go closer to her but stopped in his track when he saw her get up.
She walked towards the lake. She was talking a bath in the lake in the middle of the night how weird? Angad questioned himself. He decided to go down to the lake to find out what was going on, he stepped down the rocks there were quite a lot. By the time he got down the girl had 3/4th of her body already in the water.
Angad remembered what the life guard had told him about there being a sharp drop in the lake after a few distance. He hurried running through the sand he had to warn her.
"Hey!!!!" he called out to her, she was quite far into the water and if it had been day she probably would not have heard him because of all the commotion, but it was night and his voice echoed, enabling her to hear it.
She turned back to look at him, it was KRIPA!! His heart stopped beating for a few seconds, what was she doing here. She turned around fully to face him, her face was expressionless, she started walking backward. Angad put out his hand as though to stop her. The water was up to her mouth.
Angad thought no more he ran forward blindly, she put all of her head inside the water. He jumped in swimming as he had never swam before. He found her, she had fainted and was water logged, he carried her in his arms. He laid her down on the sand.
"Kripa" He wanted to cry when he looked at her as a whole she did not look right her shirt was ripped, at different places; all of the buttons except for the ones in the middle were missing there were mark, and bruises all over her body.
Her lip was bleeding; he was just hoping nothing of the sort that he was imagining had happened. He lifted her face slightly to feel weather she was breathing all right or not. She slight choked on the water and got up suddenly as though from a bad dream.
Angad didn't even give her time to recover he slapped her on the face, "What the freaking hell were u doing? What if u had drowned? What if I had not been there."
She laughed and when she spoke her voice was cold and empty, "Just my luck I don't even have the power to kill myself."
Angad suspicions were confirmed, "What happened kripa?" It was the weirdest question he had ever asked anyone. He already knew what had happened, and he couldn't believe he was asking her to relive what was probably the worst moment of her life. But what was he suppose to do, what was he suppose to say, he had never felt so help less in his life.
She laughed like a maniac this time; she did not answer him, after she was through laughing she collapsed on the sand crying. Angad wrapped his jacket around her, and hugged her as she cried on his shoulders.
What had he done!! He knew who had done this and he swore to god that he was going to make him pay for every, tear that kripa had shed tonight. Prithvi Bose, he would be destroyed!!!
Entry of a new character next part of the part after that!! The real story is just starting!! Think of the parts before this as background.
Edited by munizaaa - 18 years ago
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