Hey guys I am sooooooooooooooooooooooo sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry about the long time it has taken me to continue this fic but I hope you will all forgive me as I have a VERY good excuse. You see it is my last ever semester of university and I have been busy writing essays and preparing for exams so that I can graduate with a good score! For that reason I haven't even been able to read any of the other great fics on here and comment on them again until a couple of days ago, but now that I'm finishing off my last ever essay which is due on Tuesday I will soon be absolutely free to write more often and for now I am giving you a looooooooooooooooooooooong update, and there'll be a shorter one tomorrow.
So please forgive me and I hope you understand about the pressures of Uni! Now that I'm free I want to start a new one soon too! Soooo please leave me some comments about the new chapter and expect the next bit tomorrow without any delays! (Can I stop holding my ears now?)
New Chapter:
In the next week Naina tried to concentrate on her studies again and do her best in the drills, but the thought kept nagging at the back of her mind. Why was she so disturbed about what Rajveer Sir had done?
Now when she saw him or talked to him it was better than before but there was still a strange type of awkwardness between them that she didn't know how to clear.
Naina had been so quiet lately that even her friends had noticed it,
"Oy Naina, tujhe kya hua? Tere signal kaha jammed hogaya?" Pooja asked her when they had returned to their room after the last drill before getting changed for dinner.
"I don't know Pooja, I think I just have to work some things out myself."
"That's okay yaar, just let me know when your talktime is back to normal and I'll be here."
The two girls quickly got changed and went downstairs to dinner.
Naina was in such a daze lost in her own thoughts that she didn't notice who was next to her in the line for food until she bumped into him.
"Careful, Cadet Singh," she heard a familiar warm voice tell her.
"Sir…" she started and then trailed off while looking into his eyes, she had avoided being too close to him until she worked out her feelings and now that she was standing this close to him…She realised that his hand was still on her arm from when he had steadied her after she collided with him.
"Uh, I'm sorry Sir, I guess I was so hungry that I didn't look where I was going."
He smiled down at her, and then suddenly realising that he was still holding her arm he hurriedly removed his hand.
"So what do you think Cadet Singh, will tonight's food be too salty, too sweet, too hard or too soft?" he joked with her.
"You can never tell Sir," she joked back, a smile coming to her face. "After all, Suriji is back in the mess, at least it's not as bad as when Lolitaji was in charge, then you couldn't even tell it was food at all."
Raj grinned and then took his food.
"Enjoy your dinner Cadet Singh," he told her, and moved away to sit at a table with Dr Shalini.
Naina had to stop herself from staring after him, she had to get a grip on herself before she did something embarrassing. She had to work out what her feelings for him actually were. She couldn't believe that in such a short space in time her feelings had gone from respect and trust, to hatred and distrust, back to trust and friendship and possibly…love.
There, she had said it to herself. But if she was in love with him then when had it happened and how had it happened?
"Oy Phoolan, Hath jao yaar." She heard Huda's voice behind her and realised she was blocking everybody's access to the food.
Taking her plate she sought out Alekh who was sitting in a corner by himself eating his food. Alekh had always understood her even more than she understood herself, surely he could help her work out the answer to this problem. Alekh had been the only one she had told the truth about her brother's death to, knowing that he at least would understand.
Naina slid into the seat opposite Alekh and he looked up from his plate, nodding at her in acknowledgement.
"Alekh I want to ask you something," Naina said to him in a low tone, not wanting anyone else to hear.
"Tu bol do, apun sunre hum."
"Now before I ask you this, I want you to give me a completely honest answer. Just tell me exactly what you think."
Alekh nodded and took another bite of his food.
"Alekh, kya mujhe pyaar hogaya?"
Unfortunately Naina asked him just as he had started chewing his food and Alekh was so shocked he started choking on the potato he had been eating. The whole room turned around to look at them, and Naina hurriedly got up to pat Alekh on the back until he calmed down.
Finally when he had stopped coughing Alekh looked up at her seriously. "Bole to, should we go outside to talk about this?" Naina nodded.
"Finish your dinner and we'll go for a walk."
She ate her dinner as quickly as she could without starting to choke herself and then signalled to Alekh that they should leave. If she had turned around while going out the door then she would've seen Captain Rajveer's eyes on her, with a strange mix of sorrow and desire in them.
Naina might not have seen, but Dr Shalini certainly did. She sighed on seeing the look on his face and muttered under her breath "Yeh dono kabhi nahi sudregi".
"Huh?" Raj asked her, jolted out of his daze. "Did you say something Shalini?"
"Me? Never." She said rolling her eyes, "When do I need to say anything when everything is going on right in front of me."
Raj gave her a sad smile, he knew that out of all the faculty members here Shalini was the only one who understood him, and the only one who had guessed about his feelings for Naina.
"So Doctor…what were we talking about?" he asked her, trying to change the topic before things got too serious.
Shalini knew that now wasn't the time to press him on the subject and let him change the topic, there was nothing she could do for now.
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