Love!
It was a feeling I had experienced twice , actually thrice.
True Love
It was a feeling I was experiencing right now. For the first time.
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Three years back , I was a rich spoilt brat , who fell hopelessly in love with a girl who could actually oppose me.
I don't know what actually pulled me towards her. Her strength? Her I don't give a shit about dazzlers attitude? Her will power? Her rebellious nature? Her undying love for her friends? Or her innocence?
I don't know but that one year , was the year where I found myself. That there was more to me rather than just being the dazzler.
I was simply Rey. A college going teen who was in love with his enemy. Well that's what she thought.
The two months of her and my relationship. They were filled with so much love , fun , a bit of misunderstandings.
I thought I had found the love of my life , that she was the only one I would ever need in my life. That she was the ONE.
BUT
She left me. She left me , breaking my heart into bits and pieces. I realized I was living in a bubble and the bubble just bursted.
I thought I was not good enough for her. I blamed myself for not living up to her expectations.
She went away , I thought I would never fall in love with anyone again.
But I did.
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It wasn't even a month since Kria had left me and Taani had entered my life as Swayam's sister.
I tried to resist myself from her but I couldn't. Maybe my feelings for Kria weren't that strong and I found myself falling for Taani.
She was a new chapter in my life and soon Kria became a distant memory which I never , literally never remembered.
Taani was like the fresh air a person gets after staying locked up for hours.
The moments I spend with her were beautiful.
But she was bringing me above her future and I had to push her away from me.
It was painful loosing your love for the second time.
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Eventually I got indulged in my dream and was forgetting about Taani slowly but she came back this time not alone. With her fiance.
I thought my heart couldn't break more but it did.
She got someone better.
Again I was not good enough for a girl.
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After two heartbreaks I gave up the hope of falling in love again.
But then she came back. Kria came back.
Her dressing style had changed.
She had said she was going because her mom didn't like her dancing.
But she lied! She had gone to new york to pursue her dreams.
She had tried to talk to me but I would give her a cold shoulder.
But that night when we were dancing in the rain.
I saw the helplessness in her eyes , the want of telling me something , the love , the vulnerability. She looked like a shattered glass. She looked broken.
I suddenly got an urge to hug her and keep her safe.
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The day she confessed it all to me , it felt like somebody was choking me. She had suffered , we had suffered , but I moved on and she couldn't.
I realized my love for her wasn't as strong as her love for me.
It scared me , it scared me that if I fall in love with her again , I would not just break myself more but even break her.
I cleared my feelings towards her. And she suddenly started acting weirdly , her ignorance was like another stab on my wounded heart.
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After a lot of hardships , I realized running away from love is never an option.
So I let it catch me.
Everything was so perfect between me and Kria.
This time my love towards her was way deeper.
Fate was never good to me. Kria's injury broke me more than it broke her.
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She broke up with me.
The worst feeling ever. The pain was more than anything.
BUT this time , the will of getting her back was more than anything.
I wanted her , I needed her. She was my everything and in no way I would let her go.
For the first time , I wanted to fulfill somebody else's dream. My love's dream.
She had sacrificed a lot to fulfill my dream. And can't I at least do this for her?
I could imagine the smile she would have when she saw the villagers dancing again.
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This time I didn't forget her , didn't let anyone take her place , didn't let my work occupy my thoughts completely. This time I remembered her , kept my love towards her strong.
Maybe that's the difference between the three times I fell in love.
I don't know how , I don't know when , I just know that I fell in love again.
It did come with pain , heartbreak but this time it was strong and true.
It was my true love. It was our true love. Which will stay till eternity.
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