Ok my first ever FF
Please let me know what you think, I'm only starting with a few lines
Astha stepped shakily out of the auto, thrusting a handful of crushed rupees in the direction of the driver, not caring or heeding his response, as if deaf and blind to all but her inner world. Moving over step by veering step to the barrier she stared out blindly.
She did not notice the white SUV which had pulled up quietly moments after the auto and which was now parked by the bushes. The driver could only be made out vaguely by his silhouette through the darkened glass. But what could be seen was that his whole attention and posture appeared to be riveted on the slight female figure by the railing.
Astha's hands gripped and twisted the railing until the knuckles on her slender hands stood out starkly white. Particles of rust flaked off the rail and floated slowly to the bare earth by her feet. She hardly felt the pain as a couple of sharp edges of metal cruelly dug into and broke the soft skin of her hands. The pain in her heart drowned out everything else. Nothing could compare to the agony her heart and mind were going through and had been going through for the past few weeks
Pyar aur Nafrat, love and hate. It was said that these emotions were so closely aligned that they were barely separated. And Astha had felt them both, not knowing when one was masking the other. She, who had only ever received and given love, never knew that hatred could be felt, and could cause such devastation. Well now she knew, and in full measure...