Chapter 4 Aaron's P. O. V

I'm not sure where the power came from, but I drew Thara towards me fiercely, and within seconds I was out of the car, far away from the car, and the black fog was following us, so I started chanting as some mantras (spells) came out of my mouth, which I realized I didn't understand, and the black fog faded away completely in front of us. Thara looks at my face normally, as if nothing bothered her, and she asks me what has happened now with her blue eyes fixed on my eyes.

I was stunned at my position, standing on a sloppy area where she was leaning on my half-front body side with such close proximity, and looking down at blue eyes that appeared calm and brave, as if nothing had happened, and waiting for a response.

After that incident on the road, I told her not to tell our parents about this incident because of it, neither our studies nor our freedom would be disturbed. After some thought, she nods her head and bombards me with multiple questions at a time to which I have no answers: "What were you chanting, and how do you know the fog will blow up?" "Why does the fog follow us alone and leave others out there?"

I stood there silently and loved the way she was leaning on me, mostly like a half hug, and looking at me eye-to-eye as if she were very comfortably positioned in herself on me. My insides were screaming at me to kiss her, and the urge was so strong that my body overpowered my mind, and I pressed my palms against both sides of her cheeks, drew her closer, and gave her a peck on the lips. In such a time gap, she didn't realize what had happened, and her lips were too alluring and soft. She didn't say anything, so I kissed her, making it a bit deeper. She didn't respond at first, but she began to respond when I bit her lower lip. A slight moan erupted from her as I pulled away.

Thank God she didn't push me abruptly. I didn't reply to the questions she asked but answered the unasked ones, and a sudden surge of powers passed through my spine and jolted me from my place, tightly holding Thara in my arms, and my eyes changed color and returned to normal. When I faced her eye-to-eye I began to feel her emotions and thoughts..

That night was something I will never forget. I felt my body lift up from a heavy weight, and inside my body, I could feel some energy pile up, giving me the sensation of having more powers within me. That day is the day I started to feel Thara's thoughts, her feelings, and her emotions like mine. Thara's thoughts about me were running through her mind the same night; at first, I was confused and uneasy about Thara, but I could read her mind and hear her mind's voice and thoughts. Later, her thoughts about me bothering her made me happy because I discovered she was remembering our first kiss.

PRESENT DAY?

Thara, Pranav, and Diya are of the same age group. Diya and Thara are close friends from middle school and are classmates. Pranav and Diya's parents are relatives and family friends. Asha, Thara, and I have been childhood best friends as well as family friends and business partners for generations.

One week after the car accident, I was lying in bed, surfing my tabloids for a location to visit on a world tour I had planned with my love and friends. While searching on the internet, I saw a hilltop village with beautiful nature surrounding it, including a river and forest area. On seeing the image of the hilltop village, I remembered that my dad and Thara's father were working on some projects at the hill station, but I was too mesmerized by its view in the photo itself. It was something that drew me in; the image is very appealing, and I couldn't get it out of my head.

I suddenly felt a severe pain in my chest, and I couldn't get it out of my head, so I started pulling the bed covers up and throwing up everything that got into my hand, and I started shouting fiercely because the pain was that intense, like someone was stabbing continuously with the knife into my heart, and a scene flashed in front of me, and I could see the red-eyed Thara sitting on the bed with a range of anger and fire.

Within seconds, Thara's thoughts disappear, and then, after some time, the pain gets reduced, and I received a call from Asha about Thara being admitted to the hospital on the same night. That night, I came to know that the pain I felt was true because of Thara's news.

Two days prior to the day of hospital admission, my twin Asha suddenly called me in the evening time and said she was going to stay with Thara because my parents went out on a business trip with Thara's parents and Asha was staying alone at home, so they both decided to have a girly time together. She inquired as to whether Thara and I had made any headway in our relationship. I didn't say what things happened between us, but I said there is a little bit of improvement between us. She was very happy that she was getting Thara as her sister-in-law, but not for the way my love is developing.

I am staying separately in my penthouse, far from my house but nearer to my college. I started staying alone in my penthouse, which I purchased on my own earnings while doing internships during my junior college days. I was not great at cooking for myself, but I learned to cook and started maintaining the garden in my penthouse, which became my habit of nurturing it because of Thara, who loves flowers and nature. She used to say that it would give her the inner power to be strong and brave.

Asha called me in the morning of the same day Thara was admitted to the hospital and said we were both planning to go shopping for the tour trip, so she is going out for shopping with Diya and Pranav, and in the afternoon Thara will join us after her college. I told Asha to take care of Thara, especially because the accidents happening around her were not something to be taken lightly, like an accident, but somebody was trying to kill her. She said OK and even invited me to join her for the shopping so that we could spend more time together and that you could come and drop us off at our house after the shopping if we don't want the chauffeur to drop us off because you know how he behaves, which is against our will and your Thara doesn't even like it.

"Did you mention my Thara?"? She, said yes because you both are of the same type and treat me like a toddler. "My Tara❤️," I said quietly to myself. On the next day at the hospital, I was on the verge of the urge to grasp her, hug her tightly, and say, "I'm here for you," but she couldn't even respond to her own breathing and was wearing her oxygen mask in the hospital bed.