Video: Nickleback, Far Away

When I first heard the song I was like S*** man! That's like Neil singing his feelings....'m not kidding, give it a listen and you'll know what I'm saying.

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It was the ringing of his mobile phone that dragged Neil back to the present from his memories of the past.

He might have been standing in the balcony of his penthouse on the top floor of Four Seasons New York, but it wasn't the glittering skyline of the city that held him in its thrall, rather it was his memories of her that held him captive.

Because for the last 15 years that's what he had done, think of her, never forgetting....neither her nor the time that they had all spent together with each other.

DD had told him countless times to just accept the fact that She was gone. To mourn her, and then to let her go.

But he couldn't! He has not been able to let her go!

And he could not explain his reasons to DD. How could he? When he himself didn't understand them!

He didn't understand how is that when each & every person in their life had accepted her death at some point during the last 15 years, he alone had been unable to do so.

How could he explain that for some inexplicable reason he had this glimmer of hope that he would meet her again, and that too in this lifetime.

How could he explain that for the past 15 years this tiny flame of hope is what that had kept him going forward.

Maybe talking to Dr.Dhruv Dayal Khanna; Psychologist, instead of his best friend-turned-brother; DD, could be helpful to him.

But then intellectually what seemed wrong to everyone, to his heart that felt completely right.

That's why he, Dr.Neil Khanna, Trauma Specialist and volunteer EMT/First Responders, has been waiting, for 15 years, for a girl that the world believed to be dead.

He is waiting to meet a girl who by the way wasn't even his friend when they were together. The irony of that in itself was nothing short of epic!

What She is to him & why does he have this strange obsession with her being alive; he didn't know. But what he did know was that it was now time to return home.

His work here was done. The conference he had come to attend was over and now it was time to go home to his family and indulge in some dance, music, masti, food, and fun - Punjabi wedding style!

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A/N

Hey Guys,

So now that you have read the chapter, what do you think of it?🤞

I know it was a bit short, but we are now in the present times and things will only be getting interesting going forward. 😀😊

Btw, whose wedding is it do you think that Neil is looking forward to?🤔😉

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