Lily arrived in the hostel to look for the person she wanted to meet after sometimes, she can't found the person as she had no idea where his room was located. When she arrived at the second floor and walked past three doors, Fakhri suddenly came out from his room, startling her.

Lily: Hey, Fakhri!!! It was you......

Fakhri: Oh Lily!! Sorry, I didn't notice you were coming toward here. So, what are you up to?

Lily: Well....do you perhaps know where Prakash's room is?

Fakhri: Prakash? Why him?

As you might have guessed, that bracelet was obviously belonged to Prakash, he always wore it because a precious guy was with him all the time before the trauma happened to him. You'll get to know that soon anyway.

Back to Fakhri, he had no idea as to why Lily was looking for Prakash out of the blue, he thought it might be weird to meet him, as he's silent but kinda looked like a rough guy most of the time.

Lily: I think he lost one of his belonging, so I came here to give him back.

Fakhri: ( whispers ) Sial, I thought she came to meet me.

Lily: Sorry, what was that?

Fakhri: Ah...hahaha...nothing, nothing.

Lily: So.....where is........

Fakhri: Ah yes yes, Prakash, he's just next to our room, go ahead Lily.

Lily: Oh, thanks Fakhri, I'll catch you up later.

With that said, Lily immediately left Fakhri behind, he glared slightly at the thought of her meeting Prakash, who was his opponent for his next manifesto.

Fakhri: What is this Prakash trying to do with Lily? I'll keep an eye on him!

Fakhri put his both hands in his pockets and turned around to go back to his room, but he can't help but to know the reason Lily came to meet Prakash. He was hesitating to move to anywhere.

Fakhri: No, I won't let him win over Lily, that should be me. I'll come for you, Prakash!!!

On the other side, Lily arrived at Prakash's room, she can't wait to meet him as she had no chance to talk to him for ages. As she was about to get inside, a loud crying sound welcomed into her ears, sound of objects falling on the floor with force. Lily felt a bit uneasy all of a sudden and stepped back a bit.

Lily thought that it might be a bad time to meet Prakash, but she had no other choice as she was holding his bracelet, but she didn't know the huge secret behind that bracelet. She slowly entered the room with all the courage she gathered. She found some things lying on the floor, a man who was sobbing while sitting on the floor, covering his face with his both hands.

Lily immediately recognized that it was Prakash who's sobbing like a child. She slowly went toward him and kneeled down, touching hair a bit. He looked up from the floor and gazed at her with teary and red eyes. His cheeks were dried from the tears he flowed from his eyes.

Lily: Prakash.........

Prakash: What are you doing here? Leave me alone.

Lily: Prakash, why are you crying? Is something wrong?

Prakash: I.....I......( scoffs ) I lost something.........my......my precious gift that I got from.........

Lily: Do you mean this?

Lily showed the bracelet on her palm to Prakash, he took a look for a second and realized it's his bracelet. He widened his eyes in shock and breathed rapidly.

Prakash: How did you.....how.......

Lily: I found it on the ground when I walked around the school, you must have dropped this.

Prakash immediately hugged Lily in happiness without any warning and cried on her shoulder, she was taken aback by his sudden act, but she knew that he need someone to comfort him at this moment. She rubbed his back to calm him down.

Prakash: Thanks Lily, thank you so much!!!!

Lily: It's fine Prakash, stop crying.

While Lily was trying to calm Prakash down, someone was watching them at the door from the beginning. He was confused and mad to the fact that they were hugging each other.

Fakhri: Are they hugging?! What the heck?!

Lily: Prakash, that's enough, get up right now.

Lily helped Prakash to get up from the ground, Fakhri immediately hid behind the wall and tried to be silent as long as he could. He really wanted to know the things going on between them.

Fakhri: Are they a thing or what? I never thought Prakash could be this emotional, he's a rough man as far as I know.

On the other hand, Lily made Prakash to sit on his bed for a while, she took a glass of water and gave it to him, asking him to drink some to calm him down quickly. As he drank the water, she took a seat next to him and waited for him to talk.

Prakash looked down on the floor again as he couldn't bear of how much devastating is it to lose something precious to him.

Lily: Prakash......is everything ok?

Fakhri leaned a bit to the edge of the door to eavesdrop at their conversation.

Prakash: Everything is not ok after all it happened.

Lily: Happened what?

Prakash looked at his bracelet that he was wearing just now.

Prakash: A wise guy would always teach me to be strong and brave for everything I face, he would always be there for me.

Prakash looked away from his bracelet and turned back to the floor again.

Prakash: But now.........he's gone....... forever..........

Lily felt that it's getting deep, Prakash didn't want to talk about it at first place but he gave up in the end.

Lily: I'm sorry for your loss, Prakash.

Prakash: Don't be sorry, it should be that someone who has to feel sorry.

Prakash started to get mad when he thought about the person who's the reason behind the trauma.

7 years ago...........

Back at time when Prakash was just a little boy, he and his parents were in the hospital, standing in front of a dead body. The nurse covered up the dead body with a white blanket, a woman there cried and lied her head on the dead body's chest.

Woman: ஏன்கே நீங்க ஒன்னும் பண்ணல? அவனே உங்களாலே காப்பாதே முடியலையா?

( Why didn't you do anything? Can't you protect him? )

The man felt guilty as he couldn't do anything to save him, Prakash who was standing next to him glared as if he was his biggest enemy of all.

Back to present time.......

Prakash: Losing someone you love the most in front of your own eyes is an unimaginable pain, no one can understand it until they're in my shoes.

Prakash can't control himself from feeling guilty about losing the person he loved the most, he couldn't save him when he was there as a little kid. He could only stood still and watched everything quietly. His eyes kept flowing with tears for non-stop.

Lily: Prakash, stop crying. It's not your entire fault, it's just the situation that was hard on you.

Prakash: ( sniffles ) I don't know anymore Lily, I'm so strong and brave right now just because of him. Now that he's gone, I'm totally useless.

Lily thought for a while until she spoke up again.

Lily: You're not useless, you are just going through some pain that you can't come over.

Prakash slowly looked at Lily's eyes and blinked for a few times.

Lily: Look Prakash, you had a big loss, it might be hard at first, but you need to accept that it happened. Otherwise, this will never end, it has to be for your own good.

Prakash: I guess I'm not lucky enough to be loved by anyone.

Lily: Says who? You have me.

Prakash widened his eyes and parted his lips in shock.

Prakash: What? You mean you love me?

Lily: Of course I do, but as my friend I love you, that's all.

Prakash: Fuhhh, you scared me there.

Lily: Hahahahahahaha, don't be, I'm not going to date you anyway. You deserve someone better than me.

Prakash smiled a bit after an emotional ride, he wipes his tears away sniffed.

Prakash: Thanks for finding this bracelet by the way, I need something to keep me reminded about being strong all the time.

Lily: No worries, and get some nice rest, you have cried so much to the point that you have flowed too much teardrops, I'm scared you would dehydrated.

Prakash: Hahahahahahaha, I won't get dehydrated you silly.

Prakash pushed Lily's head a bit and they both laughed it off, but what they didn't know was that Fakhri had been watching them for so long that his throat had dried like a desert.

Fakhri: I never......( coughs ) I never thought Prakash would cry so much. Is it right to fight with him in the manifesto? What should I do? He looks so hurtful just like me.

At the beginning, Fakhri was upset and eager to know why Lily wanted to meet Prakash, but after hearing his hurtful and devastating story of his loved one died, it made him felt terrible for Prakash. Eventually, Fakhri and Prakash were facing in the same criticism, which was family conflicts.

Fakhri: I should talk to him then by tomorrow.

To be continued.............

Hi guys. Thanks for reading. For your information, I have just finished on my STPM trial exam, so I probably have a little bit of time to update this story, and that's why I have to write a short chapter, hope you all understand me. Anyway, what do you think about this chapter? Leave your thoughts in the comment section down below. Sty in touch to find out more about the story. Until then, I will see you guys in the next chapter. Bye, guys! Terima kasih semua! 💛🇲🇾

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Mithran.