Past will always be there to knock on your door.

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We were in the car silent all the time or maybe  I was silent he was continuously raging about the time when he got afraid and couldn't find me then when his eyes landed on me he was the lucky one because it was the time of the last dance and at the end, I had to dance with him.

He was too close to me. And my mind was somewhere else, to that guy who tried to look at me so close without asking for my permission.

Who was he?

My heart was bickering a name, my eyes were shut as the flashes of memory started recreating their scenarios again in my head and my mind was surfacing all the possible scenarios of him being here.

Is Neel Malhotra here in his full body and flesh?

My mind was running into the depths of the ocean and when I saw outside through the window I realized it started raining; because it was always meant to be rained here- here always in my heart as a whisper that never comes into reality.

"Julia?"

I was looking outside where all the children were running, running in the rain, drifting away from all the thoughts as they had nothing on their shoulders to think about.

I saw they were smiling, their eyes were glinting under the glittering shadow of the moon and then I realized many people are afraid of getting caught in the rain because it washes away all the sins.

"Julia? Will you listen to me?"

My mind came back to the same man who was driving the car, looking at me because he thinks I will always listen to him.

"Yes?" My heart was pondering because of the rain outside and my mind was looking at him.

"You are beautiful, you know." He looked at me With a different kind of passion, that passion which I have never seen in my life.

And what's about being beautiful? He only told me because he is seeing what I was showing to him.

"Why?" I asked while raising my eyebrows.

He shrugged his shoulders and leaned on to me, before I could do anything he caught me off guard and kissed me on the cheek.

I was there bolted on my seat when I hear his laughter

"What?" I snapped back at him.

"Your face! You are looking like a deep red tomato,"

Oh yes! I forgot that I still have the temperament to break his tooth.

"If you didn't stop Arnav! I will break one of your teeth!

Then he started laughing hard again this time as he doesn't care about anything.

"Geez, you are such a kiddo!"

The child will always be there in me as my grandpa used to say.

When he saw me smiling at the thought of my grandpa he pinched my cheek again but this time I hit on his shoulder,

Of course, no one can mess with me!

As the car stopped ahead of my house I realized my journey has ended.

"I am looking forward to meeting you again," he said his goodbye and drove away.

I went to the house it was locked, my family must have gone somewhere, so I only need to find the spare key which I used to keep in my purse just in case.

Abruptly, I heard breathing voices, as someone is running for too long and my heart got stuck about the next outcome.

I felt a tap on my back, and when I looked I found a little child with blue eyes as the waves of the ocean looking at me and smiling showing his all broken teeth.

"Are you Julia di?"

His voice was too innocent for this uncivilized world
When I nodded my head in acknowledgement.
He gave me a brown colour bag and ran away. He ran away in the rain with his little feet.

I tried to find him, for any chance to locate him! I left all the things on the porch and started running in the rain as a madwoman but there was no hint of it. As he has vanished into the thin air.
How could a small child vanish so easily on the road while it's still raining?

My black dress was now more clouded on my body.

So, I rain to save my life and picked up all my things only to close the doors! The doors will hide my pride against the wall.

My brown hair was soaking with water running on my body.
And I was getting more cold due to the thunder which was lightning in the sky.

My eyes went to the brown paper bag.

I gently opened it without making it plunge on my skin.

And found the same necklace which I threw it away five years ago.

The same necklace with a deep blue stone gives the chills of storm and ocean.

My heart skips a beat while thinking about the ocean.

And the same letter with the Initials

N.V.M

I am regretful

This time I am taking the risk and going to read the next two lines more. I have never read his letters only the first line in which he is saying he is regretful!

Why is he regretful, anyways?

I saw Sarah the other day and she was pregnant! Must be married to him!

Is there anything left?

Or he still wants to use me to get something?

I know I never let him win and maybe that's the reason he can't take it!

He can't accept the rejection by a woman! He can't accept the defeat by a woman!
Especially by a woman like me!

So I tried to read the next sentences whatever he has written in his letters.

You didn't change!
The same girl with heart of gold and eyes of the ocean.
You are still the most beautiful woman in my life
And tonight was the night when I saw the glint in your eyes which you were afraid of showing to the crowd.

Oh my God! It was him!
He is here! And by sending this letter he just confirmed his presence!
The bloody Neel Malhotra is in New Delhi from California!

But why is he here?
His parents live there! His girlfriend or better be called his wife lives there then why is he here?

Why the hell Sarah is here too?

Why the hell they left California and came here to New Delhi?

And what's more important is that- what does he want from me now?

I had so many questions in my mind and nothing in my heart. I was still clueless as a paperboat in the rain about the stream, I am still clueless about the rain that always falls hard on the lily.

Then I saw the necklace. It was the same necklace that he gifted me five years ago, which I had thrown away when I left my hostel.

And that means he must have gone to my hostel and when he found nothing against me... he got this!

Why?

Why he kept it with himself?

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