Heart is a fire.

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One week later

It's time

It's time to get up and change the world.

It's time to pack the  bags and run away from here

It's time to jeopardise the whole earth

It's time to look straight in the direction of the sun

It's time to bleed for those who love you

Open your eyes, Julia your grandpa is calling you.

My body was agonizing, my eyes were heavy and my heart?
I don't even want to think about it right now!

My heart is in no condition to feel anything again.

I don't want to wake up to find myself on the same page over and over again where I could do nothing to let go of my grief.

And what are the chances that things will be better now?

All these people who are waiting to hear my voice, to see my face, to feel my energy, to echo my laughter in grief.

How do I make them comprehend that I have done nothing for them?

Grandpa is looking outside of the window staring at the starriest night, the night is giving them faith to believe in love.

Maybe it was giving me too.

He confessed he was glancing at grandma. To her old warm eyes, to those eyes which have seen different era's but now she is gone.

Gone because what else will she do besides resting on the sky.

But when I saw again at the window there was no one.

Julia.. you know you are strong.

Your eyes are still the warmest pleasure

Never change. 

And in a second he vanished as he was never there for me. As he got lost in the infinite mystery of the universe, as nothing I can do to save him. As I will never see him, never feel his presence, never hear stories from him.

The day he died was still fresh for me, he held my hands and kissed them. He promised that he will always be there for me no matter what happens and it doesn't matter where I am, what I am doing, where I am living, I am glad, or assertable, he will always look for me.  Because I am his little girl, I am his little Julia.

Then he died right ahead of me, his lifeless figure was hard for me to look at, all the weight from his body was drowned, and I could do nothing to save him.

The only I was capable of was crying, crying because I am a human and a powerless creature made up by his blood besides that  I have nothing in my hand, not even my life.

"Julia...Wake up!"

A bright light entered into my vision, and I was going towards it, the black tormented death was running behind me. The death was angry and anxious that it couldn't take me in its power, the death was angry because I am still breathing and in a second my vision became blurry, light shrieked my soul from the universe making me fall on the earth again.

"Julia, can you hear me?"

"Julia, are you alive?"

"Julia, my baby!"

All the voices were hurting me again and again spinning my head with the noise.

Then it went all black.

***

"Doctor, many days have passed when will she gets up?"

"She is out of danger now, she will be coming to her senses anytime soon,"

"When can we meet her doctor?"

I felt a moment around me, the nurse was here trying to figure out what the hell I am doing here.

Her footsteps told me she is out my the room.

I remember about Neel. Where is he? Did Jessica find him? Is he alive like I am?

Has he left India?

And what about Arnav?

You were supposed to marry him and look at you now. Laying on the hospital bed whispering about the only boy who broke your heart.

How can my heart be broken when it is perfectly beating inside me?
And it's not just the heart that is beating inside, it's a beginning of a storm, a cascading swirl of emotions, an endangerment that is never going to be fulfilled, a pearl of the ocean that has lost itself in the intimacy of water.

"Oh Julia my baby," my mother was moaning, I could hear her heartbeat. The heartbeat that gave me life is so bing now for love.

"Julia?" My father was crying too. I don't want him to sob for me. I don't want him to feel grief for me. I don't want him to feel helpless for me.

I never want him to cry for, never in my life.

"Paa?" I slowly opened my eyes and whispered my heavy eyelids were enough to see his damp figure.

He has not eaten anything since I am here. He is unstable, his legs were trembling, he has already lost his parents and he can't see me laying there on the hospital bed. I can see in his eye the fear of letting go of loved ones.

Then I saw more people. My aunt, Jessica, Alisha, Tony and some of my other relatives.

They all were weak, especially my mother. After all, I am her blood, her flesh I know she must have not eaten anything, she must be blaming herself for not praying enough worships.

Then my eyes landed on the one particular boy, whose eyes were deep like the ocean, that boy whose eyes could hypnotize the world with its power,

His eyes were crystal clear, but he had bags under them. He had a cut on his lower lip, his hair was in the mud. He was dull and thin, his eyes were swollen as he has been crying, crying because he had nothing to do anymore, and I am crying because I have done everything.

Then I heard him whispering my name, rolling on his tongue as he has been doing this every day when I was lifeless.

He took a step ahead, making my stomach crumble over and over again.

"Julia darling, thank God you are alive," Arnav planted a kiss on my forehead he was sitting near me.

And then in a second everything smashed again.

***

"What you are going to do now?" Alisha was right there close to my heart when we were alone in the room.

Everyone was outside.

"I guess. I have to marry. I have promised to get married and I cannot betray my parents especially my father. I have seen his face, the way he was looking at me,"

"To whom?"

"Arnav Malhotra, who else?" I moved my head to look at another side of the room so that I cannot look into her eyes.

"And you are going to forget that guy, who sat beside you for every second! You are going to forget that guy who held your hands as you were a sunflower, you are going to forget about that guy who cried for you like a puppy lost in love, you are going to forget that guy who did everything  in his power to make you alive, how can you do this Julia?"

"What are you saying? How can I forget paa!" I am feeling a little better now.

But what is she saying, how can I forget paa that's what I am doing right.

That's why I am not listening to my heart.

"How can you be so ignorant Julia?"
I saw anger in her eyes.  Her fluid eyes were filled with passion while I was filled with regret.

" How can I be ignorant of my parents Alisha?"

"I am not talking about aunt and uncle! I am talking about Neel Malhotra!"

Neel didn't leave me after all this time. He was always by my side, catching my trembling fingers, whispering nice words to me, drawing circles on my back and above all didn't leave me, not even for his own sake.

I have never thought that love would be so powerful. It is the deepest tragedy and kindest storm, it has the power and pain, it has everything to withstand and above all, it is real and free, unrestricted for everyone.

That's the beauty of love, it gives you everything and asks nothing in return.

"But what about Arnav and that marriage?"

She rolled her eyes and gritted her teeth in anger.

"You are impossible," then she walked away. Opening door for my mother so she can talk to me.

"How are you feeling darling?" She planted a kiss on my forehead.

"Mom tells me what you do when you get stuck in a situation,"

She was horrified to know that instead of lounging I was ready for an argument.

"But.."

"No, tell me right now!"

She gently placed my hand where my heart was so I could feel the reason behind everything.

"Close your eyes and listen to your heart, it has the power to heal everything, to know answers of the universe, especially to those who are god's favourite,"

"Remember Julia you are a god's child,"
These were the last words of my grandma. Suddenly, my whole life was right ahead of me.

And I know what is needed to be done.

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