______________________________ Slow Down
Make it last
 I’m having the time of my life ______________________________     Present Day Raizada Mansion     “Oh my god! Chachu!! Chaaachu!!” screamed a terrified thirteen year old as he ran down the stairs of his own home in horror.   Aakash, who had bolted upright from his position slouching… Continue reading Epilogue

  ______________________________   The strands in your eyes That color them wonderful
   Stop me and steal my breath.
 And emeralds from mountains thrust towards the sky
 Never revealing their depth. ______________________________   Sometimes people had the perfect fairytale. Where people fell in love and they had everything just fall in place for them.  … Continue reading Chapter Fifteen – Almost Heaven

  ______________________________   What you got – if you ain’t got love
 The kind that you just want to give away
 It’s okay to open up
go ahead and let the light shine through
 ______________________________   For just one second, he took it all in.   She was alive.   She was here.   She’d run… Continue reading Chapter Fourteen – Running Out on Faith

______________________________   Alone in your mind, waiting for the sun to shine
 Alone in your mind, waiting for the sign ______________________________   After having spent nearly six months hiding in the one place, Khushi knew Arnav would never think to look, she decided to finally, for the first time venture out.   But if she… Continue reading Chapter Thirteen – Lost and Found

  Six months ago     ______________________________ How can I just let you walk away,  Just let you leave without a trace 
 When I stand here taking every breath with you, ooh ______________________________     Arnav Singh Raizada was not mad. No, mad was such a tame term.   He was bloody furious.   And that… Continue reading Chapter Twelve – Walk Back Home

_____________________________________________   I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house, – that don’t bother me
 I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out
 I’m not afraid to cry
 Every once in a while Even though goin’ on with you gone still upsets me _____________________________________________  … Continue reading Chapter Eleven – Closer

________________________________________ Is anybody out there?
 Is anybody listening?
 Does anybody really know if it’s the end of the beginning? ________________________________________     Softly getting up to check on the one slightly nagging thought that had been invading what should have been Arnav Singh Raizada’s perfect calm, he pressed a soft kiss to her forehead as… Continue reading Chapter Ten – Echoes and Prayers

  __________________________ Here we are 
 Isn’t it familiar 
 Haven’t had someone to talk to 
 In such a long time ___________________________   Silence had never been one of Khushi’s better friends.   The poignant loneliness it portrayed too much for her bandaged soul.   But today, for the first time in a long time she appreciated… Continue reading Chapter Nine – Weaker

  _____________________________   Find me here, 
 And speak to me. 
 I want to feel you, 
 I need to hear you.  
You are the light, 
 That’s leading me, 
 To the place, 
 Where I find peace again. 
   _____________________________       Arnav how no idea how much time had passed since he had come downstairs.  … Continue reading Chapter Eight – In the Arms of an Angel

  [Flashback Chapter] _______________________________   And I’d give up forever to touch you
 Cuz I know that you feel me somehow
 You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be
 And I don’t want to go home right now   _______________________________   It was as if time had ceased to exist.   As if the… Continue reading Chapter Seven – Broken Vindication