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Raj loves mentorship camps.
RJ loves andreamcl's ff's.
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Chapter 32:

Naina sat down between Alekh and Pooja, disrupting the friendly argument that had been going on between them.

"You tell him, Naina." Pooja said stubbornly. "He can't drink while we're on mentorship camp."

"Tu bhi na, Alekh." Naina told him, "It won't hurt you if you don't drink for a day."

"Chor na, Naina." Alekh said. "I've already heard enough from Pooja."

Smiling, Naina stretched out her legs in front of her. "So how's it going so far, guys?" she asked them, wanting to know how everybody else's camp had been so far.

"I'm not sure who's the mentor, Suriji or me." Alekh remarked "He's constantly confused about what we should be doing. But still, he's better than the last two."

"I think," Yudi told Naina in a whisper, "That Dr Shalini is going to end up killing Huda before the evening is over. Does anybody want to lay any bets?"

They all laughed at this, as Huda walked over with everybody's share of the food, giving it to the teachers and then coming over to the students. It was nothing fancy, just some pre-packed meals like ones they might give to soldiers in the field.

"What did I miss?" Huda asked, "What's so funny?"

"Nothing Hudabhai," Ali told him with a smile, "We were just talking about how the camp is going."

"Don't even ask," Huda said, shaking his head, "Why couldn't I have changed mentors? That Dr Shalini may look harmless, but when she looks at me, I suddenly get this strange fear. I swear that if she goes sleep walking tonight, it's your responsibility Yudi, I'm staying out of it."

Everybody just laughed even harder, leaving Huda more confused.

"My connection with Lolitaji is going much better than it was with that mucchad." Pooja told them, "She's strict but she's got a good heart. I just feel bad for Ali that he got my cross connection."

Ali shrugged, "It's only for a day. Major Nair isn't that bad to me, and at least it will make me tougher."

"So what about you, Naina? How's your mentorship camp going?" Yudi asked with a grin, wanting to see if Naina would get embarrassed.

"Oh you know, it's going well." She replied casually, "Of course we haven't really done much yet except put up the tent and gather some firewood. We'll see how everything turns out tomorrow."

Seeing everybody staring at her in disbelief, Naina stared right back. "What???" she asked them, "What were you expecting me to say?"

Looking across the campfire at the cadets, Raj leaned over to speak to Shalini. "What do you think they're talking about?" he asked her.

"Why? Are you afraid that they're talking about you?"

Raj glanced towards Major Nair, and saw him engrossed in a conversation with Suriji and Lolitaji. He was far enough away to not be able to hear them anyway.

"No, of course not, it's just that…"

"That you can't wait to leave here and get back to your tent, right?"

Raj stared at Shalini, open mouthed. He couldn't believe that she was talking like this.

"Not at all!" he said defensively, "I was just…"

"Look, Raj." Shalini told him in a very no nonsense way, "Do you still remember the advice that I gave you all those months ago?"

"No hugging Suriji?"

"No!" Shalini hissed at him, "Don't do anything that you can be court martialed for!"

"I can assure you Shalini, that I have no intention to do any such thing." Raj told her, slightly offended.

"Look Captain, I know that your intentions are very good, but let's face it, this is the first time that you and Naina will be, uh, spending the night together. So just make sure that you don't actually spend the night together!"

Realising what she meant, Raj turned bright red. "Shalini, you know sometimes I think your one mission in life is to embarrass me terribly."

"That could be true." Shalini admitted with a grin.

"And besides this isn't the first time that Naina and I have spent the night together."

Seeing Shalini's raised eyebrows at this comment, Raj hastily added, "That wasn't what I meant! I mean, there was the last mentorship camp, and then that time that she fell asleep in my room."

"That was different Raj, you weren't in a relationship at that point. Just don't do anything that you'll regret later."

"I promise you Shalini, that I won't do anything like that." Raj told her solemnly, "Now could you please make me a promise that we're never going to discuss anything like this EVER again?"

Shalini just laughed, "Alright, I know you're a grown up. I trust you, and I won't bring it up again."

"Thank god…" Raj muttered. "And besides, should I be giving you advice too? After all, you'll have your hands full with those two."

Shalini sighed, and looked across the camp fire to where Yudi and Huda were arguing about something else.

"Just wish me luck." She told him.

Raj glanced across the campfire to see Alekh watching him intently.

Finally it was time to go to sleep. Ali and Major Nair were the first to leave, followed shortly afterwards by Lolitaji and Pooja.

As Suriji and Alekh left, Alekh quickly shot Raj a glance that clearly said he'd better not do anything tonight that he shouldn't be doing. Raj sighed, it seemed like everybody here was suspecting his intentions.

When they were far enough away from everybody else, Raj allowed his hand to brush against Naina's, then quickly entangled his fingers with him. It was too dark to see her face, but he could swear that he could feel her smiling.

**

Both Ali and Pooja and their mentors went to sleep quickly, since there was nothing to distract them. However in the other tents it was a different story.

In Alekh and Suriji's tent they were having an argument about Alekh drinking.

"You know I can't go to sleep unless I drink." Alekh told him.

"Well you'll have to learn to then." Suriji replied in a strict tone, "It's not good for young men like you to be drinking all the time."

"Suriji, just a few sips won't hurt me!"

"Just hand that flask over now, it's an order!" Reluctantly Alekh did so, knowing that he couldn't refuse his mentor.

Suriji went to pour it out and then thought better of it, "It's a pity to waste good rum." He remarked, and opening the flask, drank all of it without taking a single breath.

Alekh stared at him in disbelief, "Suriji? What have you done?"

"I'm just saving you from this alcohol, putar!" Suriji announced, "It's my duty to stop you from drinking, even if it means that I have to do so myself!" Then Suriji lay down on his sleeping bag and very quickly went to sleep.

Alekh glared at Suriji as his mentor began to snore. It looked like he wouldn't be getting much sleep tonight.


**

After some initial quarrelling about who would sleep where, and who would get which blanket, Shalini and her two cadets finally lay down to get some sleep in a row with some space between them. Yudi next to Shalini and Huda next to Yudi. Shalini and Yudi went to sleep almost immediately, but Huda stayed awake, worried. He didn't want Shalini to go off sleepwalking again and get herself into trouble like she had last time. The worry was going to disturb his sleep. Finally Huda came up with the perfect solution, grinning to himself, he began to set up his plan.

Later that night, Yudi woke up needing to go to the bathroom. Standing up, he tried to quietly sneak out of the tent, not wanting to wake Dr Shalini or Huda up. He had only taken a couple of steps when…

"ARGH!"

"ARGH!"

"Argh?"

"What the hell is going on, Cadet??"

Waking up to the surprised yells of Dr Shalini and Yudi, Huda quickly turned on the lamp that was on the ground beside him. Looking over in their direction he grimaced, Yudi was sprawled over Dr Shalini's legs, still trying to pick himself up.

However when he stood up again, the rope attached to his leg just jerked him back down and he only narrowly avoided landing on top of her.

"What the hell is going on, Cadet?" Shalini asked angrily, she'd been woken when something had tugged on her leg, Yudi had fallen on her when she had jerked her leg back hastily.

"I swear I have no idea, ma'am!" Yudi told her, "I was just going outside and…" he looked down at the rope tied around his ankle and began to untie it. "I swear I didn't do this!"

"Well if you didn't, who did?"

The answer is suddenly obvious, and both of them turn to glare in Huda's direction.

"Cadet Huda," Shalini says in a very dangerous tone of voice, "Would you like to explain this?"

"I swear ma'am, I was only doing it for your own good! Last time you almost killed yourself while sleep walking while we were on camp. How was I to know that Yudi would get up in the middle of the night?" He turned to Yudi accusingly.

"This is all your fault. Why did you have to get up?"

"Bro, nature called so I went to answer it." Yudi said, feeling slightly embarrassed. "Why did you tie Dr Shalini to me if you were so worried, you could have tied her to yourself?"

"Excuse me, cadets! But I don't want to be tied to anyone thank you very much! Cadet Huda, thank you for your concern, and if you're so worried then go and sleep next to the tent's entrance, that way you can stop me if I go sleepwalking."

Angrily, Shalini untied the rope from her ankle. "You heard me, go!"

Taking his sleeping bag and blanket, Huda got up and moved to the entrance of the tent, grumbling. She should've been thankful to him for thinking about her safety. "Next time," Huda muttered, "I'll never try to help anybody."

**

Naina had been inside the tent setting up the sleeping bags and blankets, she had thought that Raj would come in at any moment, but he was still sitting by the fire outside.

Naina stepped outside the tent and came to sit beside him. "Aren't you going to come inside?" she asked him, "It's quite late."

"I don't know if I should." Raj replied.

"Why not?" Naina asked him.

"Because everybody seems to suspect that something will end up happening between us, and honestly, I'm not sure that I don't want it to."

Naina blushed under the intensity of his gaze, heat rising through her body. "What do you mean everybody suspects you?" she asks, not wanting to comment on his other statement.

"Well by everybody, I really mean Dr Shalini and Alekh. Shalini gave me a warning at dinner time, and you should've seen the look that Alekh gave me before he left."

Naina starts laughing, "You're scared of Alekh?" she asked him.

"Well, not scared exactly, but I know he's very protective of you. He thinks of you as his sister, and nobody wants someone touching their sister."

"And you don't trust yourself?" Naina asked Raj, half amused and half nervous.

"Why do you think that I left the tent last time we went on camp?" he asked her, and Naina began to laugh.

"Naina, this isn't funny!" Raj tells her, even though he's fighting not to laugh himself. The situation really is ridiculous now that he thinks about it. He thinks to himself that this is why teachers should never date their students, because it leads to situations like this.

"Look, Raj," Naina tells him, taking her hand in his, "Are you honestly worried that we might… well that…" she can't quite bring herself to say it, quite embarrassed about having to have this conversation.

"Well I wasn't until everybody started warning me not to do anything." Raj admitted, "And then I started wondering whether they were right and there really was a danger that I'd get carried away."

"No matter what anybody else thinks, I trust you." Naina tells him, "And that's what matters. Now come inside."

Raj allows her to lead him inside, and they settle down on top of their sleeping bags. Raj notices that Naina has laid them right next to each other with no space in between. He can't believe how much she trusts them.

Looking at Naina in the low lamplight, Raj softens, forgetting some of his earlier annoyance and nervousness.

Naina takes the band out of her braid and begins to loosen her hair, preparing herself for sleep. Raj is struck once again by how beautiful she is, he feels a strong urge to protect her from any harm, to make sure that she's never hurt.

"I can't believe they would think that about me," he murmurs, "I mean, no matter how much I want you… I know what's right and wrong. I would never want it to happen like that, not on a camp, in this type of place."

Her hair now hanging loosely around her shoulders, Naina smiles at him. "To tell you the truth, I was a little nervous about tonight. I trust you completely, it's me that I was worried about."

Raj takes off his boots and then lies down on the mat, gesturing Naina to do the same. The lie facing each other only centimetres apart, and he lifts a hand to trace it down her cheek, then strokes her hair. Naina relaxes and her eyelids begin to droop. Raj grabs the blanket and covers both of them with it, before turning back to Naina who is now smiling at him sleepily.

Leaning across he kisses her lightly on the lips, then places his arm over her waist, bringing her closer so that she's now firmly within his embrace. He places his other arm under her neck, to hold her around the shoulders. Naina snuggles closer to him, she feels warm and safe in his embrace and she throws one of her arms around his waist to hug him, bending the other one to rest lightly on the arm under her neck.

"I love you." She whispers to him sleepily, her breathing becoming deeper and more even.

"I love you too." Raj tells her. "Much more than you know." He feels himself beginning to go to sleep and doesn't resist.

"Sweet dreams." He tells Naina, and hears her mumble "You too…" back to him.

With her in his arms, what else could they be?

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hey great part......i cant belive that every bodu suspects raj.... 😆 hey plz continue soon 😛

i just woke up n read this (again lol) n i'm pretty much having sweet dreams again, despite the nightmare (really scary, trust me!!) i had... =D

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Here's your next part guys, I hope you all enjoy it! Sorry to hear about your nightmare, RJ and glad that 'Cadet' could be of help!

Chapter 33:

Raj wakes early due to habit, blinking his eyes against the sunlight filtering in through the tent's opening. Smiling, he looks down at the girl asleep in his arms. During the night they had shifted position so that Raj lies on his back, still with his arm around her shoulder. Naina lies with her head resting on Raj's chest, her arm flung across his stomach.

Unable to resist, Raj lifts his other hand to stroke her hair, and Naina mumbles, trying to move herself even closer to Raj and shutting her eyes tightly against the sun.

Raj tries to work out what the emotion is that he's feeling right now. He realises that it is, quite simply… contentment.

Eventually after five minutes of pretending that she's not really awake, Naina opens her eyes. "Good morning," she tells him sleepily, dropping her head back down again to bury it in his neck, and pulling him tighter.

"It certainly is." Raj replies, "If only I could wake up like this every morning."

"Of course you can wake up like this every morning, just tell me and I'll start sleeping in your room," Naina tells him jokingly, "Then you can explain to Major Nair exactly what I'm going here."

"Oh god, Naina, I was having such a nice morning, and you had to mention him."

Naina laughs, and resists Raj's attempts to get up, not moving from her position on top of his chest.

"Don't get up just yet," she tells him, "We don't have to be at breakfast for another hour."

She crosses her arms on his chest and leans on them, looking him in the eye. "So, you managed to resist me for an entire night." She teases him.

"Well it was difficult, but I managed to stop myself." Raj jokes back.

Suddenly he sees a mischievous look come on Naina's face, and knows that she's planning something.

"What?" Raj asks, slightly nervous due to the look in her eyes, "I know you're planning something."

"Well," Naina told him, "Wouldn't it be fun if we let them think that something actually had happened, you know, just to see their reactions…"

Raj stares at her as if she's crazy. "You're joking, right? I have no desire to get killed by either Alekh or Dr Shalini while I eat my breakfast."

"Well when you put it that way, I suppose it isn't that great an idea." Naina says, playing with his hair with one hand, "But you have to admit that it would be good to see the looks on their faces."

Still moving her fingers through his hair, Naina rests her other hand lightly on his chest.

Raj is incredibly aware of her closeness, of the softness of her body on top of his. The mischief in her eyes and the smile playing on her lips are too great a temptation for him. Quickly he flips Naina onto her back, rolling on top of her.

Naina stifles a giggle, not at all nervous. She knows that Raj doesn't really intend to do anything to her, they're both just in a playful mood.

"What's so funny?" Raj asks her, "That wasn't really the reaction I was hoping for." He tells her, and she's tempted to ask him exactly what the reaction he wanted was.

Gazing up at him, Naina blushes at the intensity of the look in his eyes. His body is hard and lean against hers, and she knows how much strength he has. She trusts him so much that it hadn't occurred to her until now how difficult for him it might actually be to stop himself from taking things further. He's a man after all, not a saint.

"Are you going to get off me?" Naina whispers, not really wanting him to.

"No." Raj replies, and leans down to kiss her, brushing the hair back from her face while he does so. He kisses her with enough pressure that her lips part, allowing him even greater freedom. As the kiss becomes even more heated, Raj moves his hand down to Naina's hip, slipping it underneath her t-shirt to rest on her skin.

Suddenly Raj stops, and lifting himself up slightly, he looks at Naina.

"What?" she asks him, confused by why he's looking at her that way, and wishing that he hadn't stopped kissing her.

"Naina, now is the point when you're supposed to tell me to stop."

"Oh, right." Naina blinks at him, her mind only half working through a cloud of sleepiness and desire. "Well then, stop."

"Excellent work." Raj tells Naina, and lifts himself off her, sitting up.

"Sorry," she says a bit sheepishly, "I didn't realise it was my job to tell these things."

Raj grins and leans forward to kiss her again.

"Okay stop!" Naina tells him, "And I mean it, otherwise we really are going to be late for breakfast. I haven't even done my hair yet."

Getting a comb out of her pack, she begins to separate the strands, ready to begin braiding.

"Can I do it for you?" Raj suddenly asks.

Naina states at him, "Raj, do you really think that you know how to braid a girl's hair? And if you do, then my next question is whose hair have you been braiding? Should I be jealous?" She asks him jokingly.

"Well, I admit that I don't have any experience, but it can't be that hard." He tells her, "I was the best in my class at tying those rope knots of Major Nair's, it can't be more difficult than that."

Naina is a bit unsure about placing her hair in Raj's hands, especially after this justification from him, but she allows him to braid it anyway. Facing away from him, she can feel his hands deftly move through her hair, braiding it lovingly. Naina can't help but smile, knowing that he's doing it wrong, but not minding at all. When he's finished, he tilts her head back with his hands and places a kiss on her forehead.

"Well, shall we go?" Raj asks and they set off in the direction of where the campfire had been the previous night. They walk silently, glancing at each other with small smiles every few seconds.

They arrive to see that everybody is already there, except for Major Nair and Ali who have gone jogging.

Raj and Naina walked over to the kettle that hung over the fire and Raj crouched down beside her while Naina made them both tea and handed his to him. The look he gave her warmed her far more than any tea possibly could. Then they grabbed their breakfasts and went over to their different sides of the fire.

As soon as Raj sat down, Shalini turned to him. "So Major, how was your night?" she asked, obviously wanting to check up on him.

Remembering Naina's words from earlier, Raj fixed a slightly guilty look on his face and avoided meeting Shalini's eyes, "Uh, it was good, Doctor." He replied, trying to make his voice sound as embarrassed as possible.

Shalini just stared at him wide eyed, her mouth hanging open as if she was a fish. "Major, you didn't…" she whispered, her tone absolutely shocked, turning around she quickly made sure that Suriji and Lolitaji weren't listening, "After all the warnings I gave you???"

Raj's face suddenly broke into a grin, Naina was right, it had been worth it to see the expression on her face. "Relax Shalini, I was only kidding you!" Seeing that Shalini still seemed slightly suspicious, he reassured her more, "I swear that nothing happened! Now tell me how your night was?"

Relaxing now that she knew for sure he had been joking, Shalini sighted. "Do not even ask, I don't think I'm volunteering for a mentorship camp ever again."

"That bad?"

"Worse." And Shalini narrated the entire story to Raj.

He was in stitches by the time she finished, unable to control his laughter.

"No wait, the story's not finished yet." Shalini told him, finally beginning to see the funny side of things herself. "Wait until you hear what happened this morning…"

**

Earlier that morning…

"ARGH!"

"ARGHHH!"

"Cadets, what the hell is going on???"

As instructed by Shalini the night before, Huda had gone to sleep lying across the entrance to the tent. When Yudi decided he needed to go out to use the bathroom, he thought it was a better idea to simply step over Huda rather than waking him up.

Yudi had just lifted one leg to step over his friend when Huda suddenly woke up. Still half asleep, and panicking at somebody standing above him, Huda had yelled, and tried to sit up. Unfortunately, Yudi's leg was still half way over Huda and the movement had unbalanced him, making him fall backwards and also yell.

This was when Shalini had woken up.

By the time she finishes, Raj is laughing even harder, holding his sides since they're hurting so much.

"I'm definitely never coming on mentorship camp again." Shalini told him, "And if I do, then I want a female cadet."

**

On the other side of the fire, Pooja was unsuccessfully trying to get some gossip out of Naina.

"Come on doost, tell me what type of sms's you sent each other last night?"

"There was nothing like that, Pooja. Honestly, we just went straight to sleep." Naina replied, blushing slightly. She definitely wasn't going to mention what had happened in the morning.

"What a shame," Pooja told her, "You finally got some uninterrupted talk time and the call was wasted! And me? Even at breakfast, that Mucchad has sent Ali on roaming!"

"The talktime wasn't wasted, Pooja." Naina told her, "It was nice to spend some time alone no matter what the circumstances were." Honestly, she become happier just being in the same room as Raj.

At this moment, Ali and Major Nair arrive back, Ali waiting to collapse until he'd made the Major some tea, wanting to prove he could be a good protg.

That done, he came and sat down next to Pooja, leaning against her shoulder. Ali was only slightly less shy now that his and Pooja's parents had accepted their relationship, he still wasn't likely to express much affection in public.

Pooja gave him a sympathetic look, she knew exactly how difficult it was to have Major Nair as a mentor.

"Guru, what's wrong?" Ali asked, noticing that Alekh hadn't taken his eyes off the other side of the camp fire.

Naina knew exactly what was going on. "Please Alekh, would you stop glaring at Major Rajveer as if you want to murder him?" She said, a bit fed up about it, "Honestly, nothing happened! Stop being so overprotective!"

Reluctantly, Alekh turned away from where the teachers sat, muttering "It better not have." Under his breath.

As annoyed as she pretended to be, Naina didn't really mind Alekh acting in this way. Whenever he was with her, she didn't feel Navin's loss quite as much. Nobody could replace Navin for her, but at least in Alekh she had found somebody that was like a brother.

"So guys, what are we actually doing today?" Naina asks, she'd been too distracted to find out from Raj.

"Major Nair said that we'll be going canoeing," Ali replied, "Apparently it will be a competition between cadet and mentor teams."

"That's not fair!" Pooja exclaimed, "Yudi and Huda's team has a double battery!"

"More like double the problems," Alekh commented quietly enough that the two boys couldn't hear.

They began to eat their breakfasts then, still talking and laughing as they heard stories about what had happened in Alekh's and Yudi and Huda's tents the night before.

Suddenly Pooja realised that there was something different about Naina today. "Naina, what did you do to your hair today?" she asked her.

"Why? You don't like it?" Naina hid her smiled and touched the end of the braid. "I thought a change would be good."

"No, it's not that." Pooja replied quickly, not wanting to offend her friend, "It just reminds me of one of Major Nair's rope knots."

Naina really tried hard not to laugh, but her eyes met Raj's and there was nothing she could do to control herself then.

Shaking his head at her behaviour, Major Nair had a look on his face that clearly said 'This is why women shouldn't be allowed into the army.'

The rest of Naina's friends didn't have a clue why she had suddenly started laughing, but Pooja had suddenly understood.

"You must really love him if you'll keep a braid that bad in your hair." Pooja whispered to Naina, once the others had turned back to their breakfasts.

"I really do." Naina admitted to her friend.

She was completely and utterly in love with him.

Naina started to eat her breakfast, trying not to glance across at Raj. She didn't need to look to know that he was watching her.

Suddenly she couldn't wait to go canoeing.