*Forever : Love Or Friendship* [Part-3]

~"The innocence of life is lost when we enter teenage, they say. But I think it is one of the most beautiful periods of life, it is actually the time when we rise or fall, and we make our own identity."~

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I was seeing those pictures, that took me back to the time. Eyes full of tears, thousand unanswered questions inside me and I still smiled, because all that meant a lot for me. Saanvi meant a lot for me. And a photograph of both of us, where I looked like a guy in his growing up stage and Saanvi was still looking like a cute child, with her big smile. She looked weak in that photograph, because it was taken a few days after she just came back from the hospital.

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We were growing up, we were getting closer day by day. School, tuitions and back home, we were together for almost all the time. I liked sharing stuff with her. And I liked how she helped me.

I was often the targets of the bullies, as I was someone who would get suppressed easily and would be the victim. With passing time, Saanvi pulled me out of it. Very bravely, she took a stand for me. If someone tried to say something against me, she turned to be like a wild animal, ready to tear off flesh. She often fought with our classmates and then there came a time nobody said a word to me.

I used to feel great. She made me stronger and made me believe there is someone who would be always standing by my side.

But when we turned 14, I don't exactly remember what happened, but she was growing weaker day by day. She would often faint and her fever won't go. It had been 6 days. Dadi told Pandey Ji to take her to the nearest hospital. Pandey Ji didn't have that amount of money, so Dadi told him to take her to the best doctor and she would take care of the rest.

We got to know that she was suffering from malaria and she had to get admitted. I was more than worried for her. I was in tears seeing her getting injected, her body lay connected to machines and she lay lifeless. It all made me cry seeing this condition of hers.

I would often spend most of the time in the hospital near her. She was getting better and it was a sign of relief. I got Radhika Di's call. She told me mom dad were coming back home from their business trip, and she wanted me to come back home. But I wasn't ready to leave Saanvi alone.

I remember going back home by 9 that day and mom and dad were seeing me after almost a month.

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My thoughts were playing games with me. What all had happened in my life, I still couldn't figure it out. Was it my fight with destiny? Or was it something which was bound to happen.