Part 8: Chained to you: Safely

Part 8: Chained to you: Safely

Hey Cara!

I am sorry, but I think you have dialed a wrong number and probably looking for someone else.

Ofcourse not! Aren’t you Karissa, the one who just got away from the Vegas life of hers’ few days back? I am looking only for you and its been since many...... I mean since quite a long time now.

Yaa! I am Karissa but not Cara and how do you know about me so much? I don’t know anyone here, in this part of the world. Are you spying me for some reason?

Oh dear! I am the one you met on the plane and shared everything there. Don’t you remember that you only gave me your details and the number to contact you at. Do you remember now or do I have to remind you about the hospital incidence of the Vegas also?

Oh Mr. Knight! Ofcourse I remember you. How are you doing? Its just that I wasn’t expecting your call. That’s it. And it really feels great that you are calling. Because hearing from someone during your lone time, especially at a place where you doesn’t know anyone, is just so so special. And you have always been so good and savior for me during all my hard times. I can never thank you enough for that.

Let’s not discuss about the past, Cara. By the way, I hope you don’t mind me calling you with that name. I just love this name on you because of the delicacy it has which kind of matches with your personality. I am calling to just ask you what are you upto during this weekend? How about seeing the city and spending some good time with me, if you are free?

Cara… Ahhh, OK. And that’s really kind of you offering me a city tour and to be with someone I know in the city. I really want to explore the place. But…… with the load of assignments and work, I think I cannot make it this weekend. May be some other time Mr. Knight.

First of all, please stop calling me this. My name is Kian and you can call me with that. You don’t have to be this formal. And I know. University is keeping you busy, but is it this hectic that you can’t take out a day from your schedule to be with someone who is looking to be with you since… I mean to meet friends and having good time.

I really wish if I can, but… really I can’t make it this time.

And after agreeing on meeting sometime soon, they both said their bye to each other.

Karissa’s POV

This is really kind of Kian to call me and asking about my well being. Though I really want to have a look around with someone I know but also on the same note, I don’t want to believe someone whom I don’t know. After all, I have already gone through a lot and the past is not healed yet. I can’t take a risk of hurting myself again, that too so soon.

I hope he doesn’t take it otherwise and also I don’t want to lose someone like him, who has been helping me in my bad times a lot. I wish he calls me again and offer me the same thing. I really wish.

Oh God! Why the weekends are so long? Why I just can’t settle for something that I want to do without fear of getting hurt……Sigh!

Kian’s POV

I just cant stay away from her anymore. I have been waiting to be with her since the time I first saw her in the bus, with all those fluffy eyes and broken heart. Why is she restraining herself to be with me? I know she isn’t over-burdened with the university work, then why can’t she be with me for the weekend? I just asked her for some hours after all? Oh lord! These girls really! They are just out of all the understandings. Anyways, I just can’t let it go like this. I will keep on trying with all my heart to be around her soon.

Just wait and watch Cara. I am near you. Though you cannot see me but I am hearing even your breaths. And don’t worry; I will have you as mine, sooner one day. I am sure you will want me the same way, I want you today.

Part 5: Chained to you: Safely

Karissa’s POV:

I walked out of the hospital… Thank God! Nobody saw me leaving after that nurse…

        I checked my watch and its 10:30pm… I need to go home quickly. I held a cab and sit inside while tapping my foot impatiently.

        When I reached home, no sounds were coming out from there and this is unusual for my home. I entered into the house and saw the lights were dim in the hall. And just besides the hall, on the dining table I saw my mom sitting with her head in her palms. She seemed to be worried with a pale face and body without strength. Dad was sitting beside her and was trying to explain her something which I don’t think she was giving any attention to.

        The moment they saw me, both of them got up from their respective places and came running towards me. The second she reached to me, that very moment she engulfed me into a tight hug and that’s when I felt like home. I were home with the people who loved me unconditionally and selflessly.

        And then was the turn for a most awaited round of questions and answers. Mom shot the questions at me like the bullets out of machine gun.

“Where were you since afternoon? Samantha also came in, after the school to enquire about you, when she couldn’t locate you in the school premises. Even your mobile is switched off! Do you have any sense of responsibility left? Even if you were busy with something important or for that matter something urgent, at least you should have informed somebody so that we could have taken a breath of relief.” Mom was just shouting at her highest pitch without realizing the situation of my heart who has just gone through this much.

“Mom I have been through the toughest time of my life today. As I got to know that Daniel was just playing a bet with my so called best friend Samantha to prove her that I can be trapped in anyone’s love and care. And against which he must have won some dollars but I had lost the faith and love and respect for him and also have lost the friend in Samantha. I think I have not known till now that what is good for me and what is not. You were right when you said that this guy is not a good person. But mom, what wrong I have done to deserve a friend like Samantha? I believed her more than my own self. I considered her as my sister and she have been doing such things against my back. I am completely broken and feel like as if I have lost everything in life.”

“My child! Please don’t lose heart. This is part and parcel of the life we are living. And the early you learn a lesson, the better it is for you to get up again and move forward. Just have faith in God and believe that whatever has happened, it is for good. But I don’t understand, where were you since then? As far as I know, you don’t have any other friend whom you could have been with.”

“Yes mom! I have learnt a lesson that it is not a world anymore where you can trust anyone and everyone with your full heart. You first have to be sure of the person’s intentions and then probably move forward with any kind of relation.” I replied to the first part of mom and my conversation. “And you are right that I have left with no one with whom I can share my sorrows and joys anymore. I were coming back to home via a bus, but then due to empty stomach and crying my lungs out since morning, I think I got unconscious in the bus and when I woke up, I were in the hospital. From there only I took the cab right now and came back home. I think I have been taken there by a nice looking gentleman who was sleeping besides my bed when I woke up in the hospital. But he was in deep sleep so I thought of not waking him up and I left without informing anyone.”

“But Karissa, you should have at-least thanked him for taking care of you when you needed it the most. I think you should call at the hospital and find out if he is still there or if he has left any contact number to be contacted on.” Mom said. And as told by her, I followed. I called at the hospital where I got to know that he has already left and without leaving his details.

I am now in my bed, and all that is coming to my mind is

the scene from the morning where in I have lost every relation of my life which I have chosen for me. I felt like crying for being so nonsense in life and for taking such rubbish decisions in life. Lesson I have learnt in the process is, when your parents are not very confident about your relations and decisions, it’s time for you to give it a second thought and reconsider your decisions. With these thoughts running in my mind, I drifted off to sleep, god only knows when!

Part 2: Chained to you: Safely

Kian POV:

Arghhh!!! I hate my dad sometimes… I mean he wants me to marry. I am just 24 for God’s sake! He wants me to give away my Bachelor life… and I am definitely not going to do that at any cost.

I want to enjoy my life and marriage thing, for sure, will not allow me to have that further. So marriage is a big NO NO! But of course I cannot say that in front of my dad, so I need to find some way to get away from all this carp.

After all I am a CEO of Knight Industries, owns a chain of hotels and bars around the world and with a height 6’2 and a well buit body, almost every girl wants to be with me from young to old. And why not??? So how can I marry in just a click of the finger?

I mean girls are good, but not for marriage but for enjoyment and for taking the stress out of your mind and body. That’s it! But in relationships! I Doubt!!!

Relationship are just a distracting factor for my career and for my life as well. And moreover, how can a person live with just one girl for rest of his life?

I mean I can’t accept this old man’s decision like this. I need to find some solution to this sudden declaration of him.

Every time I see Vegas’s people, having some happy feeling… Like you are partying all the time. I am standing at the glass wall of my office at the top floor, seeing the atmosphere of Las Vegas. It’s around 5 pm here.

I just got over with talking with dad and he just don’t want to take any of my reasons for not getting me married at this early age and that too with a girl who have nothing except that she is a daughter of an industrialist, whose company and name and goodwill, if merged with us can generate a multiple profit. But all I want at the moment is to just run away from my present state and from all the people around me. Because I want to shut down my mind when it comes to marriage and relationship. I am just not ready for it.

And in a frustrated mood, I picked up my coat from the back of the chair and told my PA to cancel all my further meetings and appointments. Moreover I have informed her that I may not be available for coming few days so manage my plans accordingly. And immediately after throwing my orders on her, I called my driver to bring the car and take me away from here. It was getting difficult to breathe in this environment because everything was screaming for me to get married.

Me: Robin, bring the car immediately.

Robin: Sir, you only told me to drop Mr. Kelvin to his hotel so I am on my way to drop him. It may take approximately an hour or so for me to reach back to office.

Me: Oh God Damn! OK go back to your home… I will take the public transport. (And in frustration I cut the call)

          I just want to go to my hotel room at any cost, if for that I need to take the public transport also.

          When destiny want to abuse you, it will do in every way possible.

          I am beyond frustration, I just want to get hold of a cab and want to go to hotel, but there is not even one freaking taxi… this is hell!

          I am gonna take bus, I decided.

          When I reached the bus stop, I saw a bus coming. I took off my coat and loosen my tie. Because in a bus, wearing a three piece pant suit will look weird. Right? Of course it is…

          I settled down in a seat and just my eyes roaming over people, when I see a girl; sorry, a very beautiful girl, in a black summer dress.

          She seems sad… with slummed shoulders and looks like she is in deep thoughts. With red and puffy eyes, I can say that she cried for very long.

At the thought of someone hurting her, didn’t suit within me. I don’t know why? I have an urge to protect her from bad, sudden need to care for her.

This is crazy. I have just seen her, (that too in a public transport) and I am feeling this towards her. What this girl is doing to me?

She is sitting like a statue, without turning her head in any other direction other than the window where her eyes are glued since the time I have entered the bus. In a little confusion, if she can see or if she is blind, I waved in front of her face. And with that she turned around and glaring at me…

Woah! She looked so damn hot while glaring…

After proper look at her face… she is too young for me but I can’t help it. I want her and want her badly. With the thought of her being with any other male, ragging my mind badly. I never felt like this for any other girl. This is a foreign feeling for me and at the same time it feels really good.

“Hi”, I said.

She didn’t even replied. OK! Now, this girl is getting over my nerves. No girl can ignore me.

“Hey babe!”, I said again.

“My name is Karissa, not babe. And what do you want?”, she said finally. See I told you that no one can ignore me.

“And my name is Kian, the same alphabet. Not a bad start, I must say”, I said.

“Excuse me!”

“What is your number?”

“What? And why?”

“I am not asking you about your contact number, rather the patient number, the mental hospital’s patient number from where you seems to have run away from”, I said jokingly.

“DO I look like a patient to you” she replied in a furious tone.

“I thought so because since the time I am in this bus, you seems to be lost in your own world and sometimes the patients behave like this to show the world that they are the most innocent ones around.”

“I am sorry, but I have no such intentions and if you please excuse me, I need to get down at the next stop.”

Oh god! Why does she want to get down so early? Why can’t she be with me forever? I know I have to know about her completely and have to have her in my life to be there forever. There is something special about this girl and I can’t ignore. I am surely going to get her sooner or later.  

Part 1: Chained to you: Safely

Suddenly! The alarm started to ring…

Oh! Who the hell set this alarm? Oh! It’s me only, last night so that I should not be late for class tomorrow.

Hey guys! Let me introduce myself. I am Karissa, 18 years of age and having a good life so far. Living with my parents and attending my high-school which is also an adventurous place as I have my best friend there and also a sweet and handsome boyfriend. These two people are the ones around whom my most of the time revolves and I am having the great time in my teenage.

My high school is at a distance of approximately 30 minutes from home when I travel by the public transport. And usually I am late because I have a habit of sleeping late and hence getting up early is the hell lot of a job for me. My best friend Samantha lives near to my place. Actually we are childhood friends and that is the reason we mingle and gel so well with each other. And since our childhood days, we are going together and at this point in time of our age also, nothing has changed. We go to school together and comes back together. This is why our mom and dad doesn’t feel worried even when we are late.

I have a boyfriend named Daniel. He studies in our school but goes to different class being senior to us by a year. We are dating since last 1.5 years and I feel that my life moves around him completely. I have completely given in the relationship. We both trust each other and love each other even more. My parents know about my relationship and they are OK with it. But my Mom, being mom, is always possessive about me. I don’t know why and what she doesn’t like about Daniel but there is surely something that she doesn’t like. Although she never tells me anything but at the same time she keeps on preaching me with the lessons like, you should not be believing someone in such short time, and neither should you be getting so involved with someone without checking and testing that person in and out and through your all thick and thins. I don’t know what does she mean when she says this but one thing I am sure of that my love for Daniel is true and he also reciprocate the same towards me; and I guess this the only thing a successful relation is based upon.

So life is good so far and I am sure it will be good being Daniel and Samantha at my sides and of course my family to support me in all the situations possible.