ArShi ff- when i was seventeen

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Posted: 12 years ago

hello everyone my name is vihaa and i am a big ArShi and taarey fan. there is no other couple as important as arshi but i have never really written anything till today because i never had something to really satisfy their chemistry and charm but today i have thought of a story which would be something that would define their passion. i won't say i am a good writer but i will try my best hope you atleast give a chance to me😳

PREFACE

when i was seventeen my life changed for ever.

i know there are a lot of people who wonder about me when i say this.they look at me strangely as if trying to fathom what could have happened back then, though i seldom bother to explain. because i have lived here for most of my life, I don't feel that i have to unless it's on my terms, and that would take more time than i am willing to give me. my story can not be summed up in two or three sentences, it can not be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand. despite the passage of forty years, the people still living here who knew me that year accept my lack of explanation without question. my story in some ways is their story because it was something all of us lived through.

it was i however who was the closest to it.

I'm fifty-seven years old, but even now i can remember everything from that year,down to the smallest detail. i relive that year often in my mind, bringing it back to my life,and realise when i do, i always feel a strange combination of sadness and joy. there are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling, that if i do the joy would go away too. so i take the memories as they come,accepting them all,letting them guide me whenever i can. this happens more often then i let on.

it is august 20, and as i leave my house , i glanced around.the sky is overcast and grey, but as i move down the street i noticed that the lilies and jasmines are blooming. i zip my jacket just a little. the temperature is cool though i know its only a matter of weeks before it will settle into something comfortable and the gray skies give way to the kind of days that makes dehradun one of the most beautiful places in world.

with a sigh i see it all coming back to me. i close my eyes and the years began to move in reverse, slowly ticking back as the hands of a clock rotating in the wrong direction. as if through someone else's eyes, i see myself growing younger, i see my hairs changing from white to black, i feel the wrinkles around my eyes smoothing out. lessons i have learned with age grow dimmer, and my innocence returns as that eventful year returns.

i open my eyes and pause. i am standing outside the devi mandir and when i stare at the gable i know exactly who i am.

my name is arnav singh raizada, and i am seventeen years old. this is my story and i promise to leave nothing out.

first you will smile and then you will cry- don't say you haven't been warned.

please do tell me how is it and if i should continue 😊

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