Chapter 8: Leaving a Part of Soul

Alex  Pov

When Xandar told us that he saw a girl resembling Arianna and the same girl cooked food for us tonight, I was surprised but Jason was shocked, he was on another level. He is definitely hiding something from us, even his behavior has become suspicious. He doesn't like sweets but he was enjoying the sweets and most of the time he was distracted. He never behaves like that. He hardly got distracted with something.

Xandar is a foodie so he was busy eating delicious food. He never noticed a change in his behavior. I caught him staring at a group of girls at the dinner table. They were too far from us to see who he was staring. He is acting very out of character. Usually, girls stare at him, but here the situation is polar opposite. Does he have a crush on someone here? 'Naaa' he is Jason Knight. He never chases any girl.

I want him to experience the beautiful relationship and actual love, care, passion, compassion, fear of losing loved ones, a little bit of jealousy, passiveness, and the way I enjoy the love of my life Rose. She came into my life and everything changed in my life. That feeling of peace, contentment wants him to know about it. When you witness the love in the eyes of the person you love, it is inexpressible.

I know he is afraid to fall in love, he must think that it will detach him from work. You never had an actual relationship. He deserves to be loved by a pure heart and from the bottom of their heart.

He doesn’t know how to express feelings or anything related to his emotions, basically he is afraid of his emotions. He needs someone in his life that makes him accept his emotions however it is. Even after so many years of our friendship he wasn't able to express how we are important to him, but we know he never needed to tell us that, his actions showed us that. His changed behavior makes me worried. Maybe, due to exhaustion and jet lag or lack of work.

After dinner we all were chatting with each other. Everyone is praising the feast prepared by the princess. We still don't know her name, but her food was mind-blowing, we were struggling to eat but it was worth it. I never ate such a mix of flavors, even its smell making me salivate. I saw Uncle James was moving towards the corridor and he was alone. I took this opportunity and approached to get some information from him as she became important for Xandar.

“Wait uncle" I shouted a little as he was walking a bit fast.

"Yes son?" He stopped in his tracks as he heard my voice from behind. I walked towards him and stood in front of him.

“You know the girl who prepared dinner for us. You are talking a lot with her, I saw you." I mentioned her to remind him of her. A smile formed on his face as I mentioned her.

“Ohhh, princess?” he questioned back to check back.

“Yaa princess, Xandar met her in the garden and told us that she resembles Arianna a lot. You have met her right?” He must have as Xandar’s father was a very close friend of his. He confirmed with a node but his face was darkened. Shit, I was too blunt. I should have known that, it was a sour topic for him.

“Yaaa, she was 15 years old at that time. I remember her, and yes she resembles her a lot. That's why I call her princess." His face showed that he is getting out of that past as he wasn’t that sad after mentioning that girl as princess. Maybe she covered that space from his life.

“Tell me what her name is?” I asked him to take it a step further.

“You haven't introduced it to the whole family?” He asked me in disbelief furrowing his eyebrows at me; he was perplexed by my words.

“Actually Nirmal only introduced to his brothers not sisters" I tell him the truth, honestly lowering my voice in embarrassment, rubbing my back of head.  As I finished he started laughing loudly, nodding at me trying to speak something but couldn’t.

“He can do that," he said after controlling his laughter.

"Actually, he is very protective of his sisters. He doesn't allow anyone around them" he explained his protective nature and defended him, they all are really closer than I expected.

“Anyway, why are you asking about princesses?" he further asked while shaking his head to control his laughter.

“Just curiosity, we would like to know about her." I told him casually.

“Hmmmm, she is the daughter of Prakash Raj, Pavi.” He finally told me her name, while patting my shoulder with his hands.

“Thanks uncle." I bid good night and I returned to our bedroom with both of them. We are getting ready to sleep. I remembered a conversation with Uncle James. I should tell them before I forget.

"Hey, guys I asked James uncle__" Xandar broke my sentence in mid.

“What happened tomorrow is the wedding right, I am not going to wear that dress" pointing out traditional Indian attire at the table, looking at it with a confused look. Turning it up and down.

“First listen to him, you dumbass." Jason hit him on the back of his head and both turned towards me to hear from me.

“I asked the name of the princess to him" and both of their eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. Sometimes I feel like they are ten year old children, I chuck at their reactions.

“What is her name?" Jason asked impatiently, He is showing too much enthusiasm and interest in her. Or maybe I am over reacting. I ignored my thoughts about it. I told them.

"Pavi. Prakash uncle's daughter".

Jason pov

Pavi, Hmm. Her name is as gorgeous as her eyes. I don't know what's in them, that I have this much captivated in them.

Oh come on Jason get a grip on your thoughts. You are here for only a day. You are going to leave after the completion of the wedding ceremony and never come back again. It's not healthy for your mind to get stuck with one person and most importantly tying your heart with them. I don't need women to keep me company my whole life, I am better alone.

I don't want any distraction in my life. My rivals in business are not decent and have morals in their life; also they keep me busy a lot of time. They just want to suppress me. One idiot even tried to kidnap Xandar and Alex on the day of the auction. I and Ron handled that situation. While trying to remove Pavi from my head I fell asleep.

Next day,

We are getting ready to attend the ceremony. Whenever we all are going to attend any gala or party, we always enter at the same time and an hour late. We know today is going to be very tiring so they both are getting ready slowly but I was already ready 15 min before. Actually, I always make them wait but today they made me wait. I was too eager to see someone. After a long time they both finally got ready and decided to come out of the room. Guests had already started coming way too much earlier than scheduled time.

Ceremony was going to be conducted in the backside of the palace. I saw the ball hall of the palace. It was huge and could accommodate 500 people easily but they said it was not going to be sufficient. How can it be insufficient? I ignored it at that time and thought they over estimated the count of guests, but realized why they said that. There are more than thousands of people here to attend a wedding ceremony. We were shocked and saw each other's faces. In the middle there was a huge stage decorated with flowers, lights and columns of metal pots decorated at four corners of it.

Bride and groom were sitting in front of the fire and some chanting was going on. One waiter came towards us and held drinks towards us. We saw there were no alcoholic beverages.

“Where is champagne?" Xandar asked in a little loud voice, I was searching for the same actually.

“Slowly sir, No alcohol is allowed here." He told us, making us shocked, what he meant not allowed? They don’t drink? Then how do they celebrate?

“Why?" Alex asked confusingly, looking at him.

“Sir, both families are very traditional. That's why no one eats meat and drinking alcohol is out of the question." He tries to understand us.

“No meat No alcohol?" Xandar asked, shockingly sharing a strange gaze with both of us.

"But there was meat in yesterday's dinner, I remember eating it." Alex asked him.

“No sir, dinner was pure veg. You have eaten cottage cheese." He explained as it was unfamiliar to us.

"Ohhh" Xandar and Alex replied, Taking soda from the tray he was carrying. So, we are celebrating strangers' weddings with soda. I never thought that such a day could also come in my life.

Indian weddings are events of the whole day. Back in America it was an event of some hours only. After chatting with some people we understood that we missed a lot of ceremonies.

We started chatting, after some time someone's voice took my attention. They didn't realize but that voice was stuck in my mind. 'Pavi' that's only reverberating in my mind and my eyes started looking for her, and finally I found her. My breath hitched at that time like I forgot to breathe. She was wearing a skirt and crop top with long fabric resting on her shoulder. What's with this piece of fabric she always carries with her? There was a delicate design on her skirt. She was wearing some jewelry like a heavy necklace, earnings and lots of bracelets in both hands. Her hair was kept open and they were weaving in the air freely, covering her back. She is looking breathtaking. And I kept looking at her, forgetting everything around me. She was with some of her friends doing some help with some stuff in her hands. She was happy and continuously smiling at Shuddha, from time to time turning to her.

Whole ceremony I was looking at her or looking for her. I don't know but it was weirdly soothing for my eyes. I felt relaxed for some unknown reasons. I don't understand how someone can get attracted to someone like I am attracted to her in such a short time. She doesn't even know my name and here I can't take my eyes off her. It’s frustrating me a lot, making me irritate at myself for this sensation.

Whole day is coming to an end. I realized and relaxed that we are going back to New York City, back to my usual life, back to my office, away from her. I thought it was not going to be difficult, it was not but it was strangely suffocating. I should be happy that I am going away from my distraction but don’t know? I already kept my bags ready before attending the wedding.

Ron informed me that the flight is ready. I informed everyone. Mom and dad are also coming with us to New York. We all sat in the car and it started to move. Am I regretting not approaching her, not speaking to her, and not letting her know about me? My heart becomes heavy. I don't know why I am feeling in such a way. Like, I am not complete anymore. Like, leaving something behind.

I don’t want to miss her smile, those beautiful eyes, her Raven black long hair, cute little lips, her food, her voice, her sound of anklets while running through corridors. Ok, I have to accept that, she was beautiful, caring that's it. No need to fantasize about her. There are lots of beautiful girls standing in line for me back in New York. At least now I can work peacefully. They are not bothering me for a vacation as I did their task.

I don't know why but I would have liked to know more about her. I can't deny that there is something in her that attracts me for God knows what reason. Anyway it has caused enough distraction for me for my whole life. I don't need it anymore.

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