FF:First Love~LAST PART~ page 81 12/9/11

Do you believe in Destiny? I do, I believe that if two people are meant to be, they will be together, regardless of any obstacles thrown their way.

This is my first attempt at writing a story not related to SNS, yet it has all the same characters and some new ones. I hope you guys enjoy this journey of different Gopi and Ahem.

First Love

Gopi Ahem Modi stood at the window of her bedroom thinking about her life in the past eight months in the Modi Bhavan.

Her whole life has been one disappointment after another, never more than the past eight months. Soon it will all be over, her marriage to Ahem, her life in Modi Bhavan, love of her mother like Mother-in-law, Kokila Modi, who has chose Gopi for her beloved son. She will have to end all relations with them.

When she married in to Modi family, for the first time she had felt loved unconditionally, not by her husband, never, but by his family.

She looked at her beloved Kanaji's idol on her dresser and went over to him and asked "Where did I go wrong in my prayers to you? I only asked one thing from you my whole life, just to be loved by at least one person on this earth; you granted me my wish of a family that loved me, but just once I wanted to be first in someone's life, someone who only cared for me, whose life would not be complete without me."

She put Kanaji's idol back on the dresser and went back to the window thinking about the day she met Ahem for the first time almost six years ago. It was the first day of college for Gopi, she had never been too far from home, and she had been sheltered all her life.

Gopi knew her Mamiji had been up to something as soon as she talked to Gopi's father about sending Gopi away to college. She had wondered why Mamiji wanted her out of the house now, but before she always stopped her from going anywhere.

She had begged her brother to talk to their father to not let her go to college away from home, but no one had listened to her.

Her father wouldn't have listened anyway, because he couldn't stand the site of Gopi, he hated her for being born and taking his beloved wife away from him. She was shocked and hurt that even her brother would turn his back on her by saying she should go away to college and experience the world outside of her home.

She couldn't make him understand that the real world scared her, in the end she couldn't make him understand and gave up trying to make anyone understand and went away to college.

Few days before college was to start, her brother drove her to her hostel to get to know her roommate and to acquaint herself to college life.

She made her first friend, a girl named Shruti, who was also her roommate. Shruti was really nice, she showed Gopi around the campus and helped her made friends with the other girls in the hostel.

Before leaving Gopi's brother, Raj, pulled her a side and said "I know you are upset with me for not taking your side, but I think you need to be away from the house for a while and learn new things, make new friends, its better this way, I can't see dad scolding you for every little thing anymore, please understand I am doing this for your own good, and forgive me."

Gopi sighed and hugged her brother who hugged her back and said "I will miss you bhai, and I will give college a try for you, but promise me one thing if I asked you to come and get me anytime, you will come and get me without asking any questions." She looked at him with pleading eyes.

Raj loved his sister, she was the last reminder of their mother, whom he missed so much, his mother died when he was ten, giving birth to Gopi, and their lives were forever changed on that fateful day. He will never understand why his father blamed Gopi for his mom's death.

He looked down at her pleading eyes and took a deep breath and said "ok, I promise I will come and get you, but I know once you start classes and make new friends you won't want to come back." He teased her little and said, "who knows you might even find someone special and you will forget all about me."

Gopi flushed and pushed away from him, "You should leave before I change my mind and go back with you." She said this with tears in her eyes.

Raj hugged her one last time, got in the car and drove away. Gopi watched till his car was out of sight and took a deep breath and turned towards the hostel, and thought her last link to home gone.

First day of college, Gopi was extremely nervous, she had heard some of the girls talk the night before of the first day of college, how some of the senior student liked to play jokes on the freshmen students, how they made people do things to embarrass them.

Gopi knew she was going to stand out like a sore thumb in her traditional clothes. She had put on her best salwar suit in green with maroon trim; she tied her hair back in a ponytail, with minimum makeup, just powder, eye liner to enhance her best futures, her eyes, and a maroon bindi on her forehead.

Shruti had offered to take her shopping for some western wear, but Gopi had refused stating she would not be comfortable in western wear and would stick to her traditional Indian wear, no amount to argument on Shruti's part would change Gopi's mind.

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Shruti and Gopi walked on campus trying to avoid getting caught by one of the groups that were ragging on the junior students, just as they rounded the corner they ran into a group waiting to rag on someone, before they could turn and go the other way they were surrounded by the group and they started picking on Gopi and her clothes.

Gopi was frozen to the spot, she had been afraid of something like this happening and her worst nightmare was coming true, she couldn't talk, she could feel cold sweat running down her back, she knew if she tried to say something she would start stammering and end up crying, she could already feel her lips trembling, she looked around for help but couldn't spot anyone, the group had separated her from Shruti.

Ahem Modi watched his friends rag on new students and shook his head at their antics, he hated when they did that, but he never tried to stop them, he didn't care one way or another, he was only there to study and nothing else, but today something caught his attention.

He watched as his friends were picking on someone in green dress, which had caught his attention at first, he stared at the girl in green dress and thought who let his innocent loose on her own, they are going to eat her alive. He could see she was trying to look for her friend, her whole body was trembling in fear, he decided to intervene for the first time, he didn't know what made him do it, but he didn't want his friends to make her cry and laugh at her expense.

He went to his friends and said "Enough guys, let her be," the group instantly stopped because no one wanted to make Ahem Parag Modi mad, his temper was legendary. They genuinely liked Ahem and feared his temper, no one wanted to get on his bad side, and so the group instantly stopped teasing the girl and moved away from her.

Ahem turned toward the girl held out his hand and said "Hi, I am Ahem Modi," watching her to see what she would do, he didn't know why but he instantly liked the girl, she was refreshing site from all the other girls on the campus.

Gopi watched him nervously, loosened her grip on her books, instead of shaking his hand, she folded her hands in front of her and said, "Jai Shri Krishna," surprising Ahem, who dropped his hand and smiled at her thinking traditional like my mom.

He continued to look at her and said, "Are you ok? Don't worry my friends are harmless, they won't bother you again."

Just then Shruti came back, she looked at Ahem and said "Gopi, are you ok? Come on lets go to class."

Gopi turned towards Ahem one last time, gave him a faint smile "Thank you for your help." turned back and left with Shruti, Ahem watched her for few seconds then turned toward his friends again.

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