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Chapter 72 - Expectations!

So soon, we entered Rajasthan, which was as hot as ever, and the people were surely unaffected by it. So we also quickly converted our car back and started to slowly drive the car near the house because the hotels were filled; only one room was vacant, so we gave Imu that room, and after telling her to wait till night, I started to move near the village that was near that fort. On the roadside, we saw people hanging while their bodies were being torn apart by crows, and the insects were feasting on those corpses. Seeing them in such condition, we all shared a glance with each other and gave each other a smile while moving forward, and after moving a bit, we saw a corpse moving out of a house. Seeing it, Bona smiled and spoke, "Hey, want to know some of our other interesting abilities? Wait, let me show you. Park the car near a tree, and I am going to show you something that you mortals call godly eyes. I will let you see his entire life in a short summary. Want to see it?" Hearing his words, I thought, what could even be worse than my life? So I nodded while Antak and others were gesturing for me to not accept it, but I still chose to see it. So seeing my approval, bona took me near the corpse that the people were carrying, where his father and mother were crying with his sister while other relatives and neighbours were like always sympathising and trying to fake their tears and surely the scene was quite dramatic while he took me near the corpse while possesing everyone around, so that they won't be seeing me around while he took my hand and placed it in his hand and took me back and the moment I sat in car, my head started to spin and I felt that something strange happened, I was now in someone else body, and after taking closer look to mirror, I noticed that this body was looking like corpse but it was way too young and despite being in this body, I was unable to control it, As if I was living the memories of someone at their places, so this person's name was raju and had quite an average family, not quite rich and not quite poor but rather middle class, so like always expectations in the house were surely more heavier than entire loan, while the kid surely was struggling to keep up with expectations, here from one side he was struggling to keep up with his studies while all the other students were living their lifes, this kid was struggling to keep up to his education or maintain sociality but despite that he didn't even had a single true friend, the people he called his friends, were just mere people, they surely could be said more like chameleon, treating the kid good when they need anything and rest of the time, treat him like he didn't even exist, even the teachers were also same because despite trying hard, he was not able to keep up with studies, so the teachers used that as an excuse to abuse the kid by taunting, making fun of him and using him as an easy target to give an example, every word of his mouth is being treated like a sin and they surely printed it in his mind. so his school life was surely not good and the home was also not quite different, the parents use to fight while the child kept struggling with his tension, he started to cover his ears whenever he heard any noise of shouts, his sister was not that unfortunate in this term because she was smart in the accademics and had quite great social life while Raju was just way too average and his run for his families expectations, Just consumed his entire childhood and then he entered adulthood while now he was expected to earn something for his family but just like always, he was unable to find a job because of his personality, the taunts and expectations surely drained him to his core because his every best effort was never good enough, so he stopped even worshiping or hoping for anything good but one day his life turned when a girl came to his bus, as once he was travelling from his house to job office in a govt bus and the bus was quite crowded and like always he was sitting on the floor of bus, while a beautiful girl stood near him because of crowd and due to hussle-bussle in the busm it was quite rough with its journey but raju was like always securing his seat without paying attention to anything else and soon the bus driver applied pretty tight brakes and people started to fall on each other, while that girl fell on his lap and seeing her like this, out of sudden, he was left numb, unable to say anything while the people were cursing the driver and the driver was justifying his actions by some strange old man came right infront of bus all of sudden, so the people cursed that old man while fixing themself but surely girl and the raju were still same, even the girl was feeling a strange feeling because it was something that was quite sudden and way too unbelievable but soon she came to reality and she tried to lift herself while apologizing to him, seeing her apologize, raju felt a strange kind of curiousity and a beating in his heart out of curiousity, a feeling that he wanted to say something that could just keep her near him while he was numb to even to look at her but still he spoke with nervous and way too terrorised tone " Oh, no worries, its not your fault, it was the fault of the fate that made the old man come near the bus and the bus driver took that brake, so it has nothing to do with you, so don't mind it!" Hearing his words, the girl unexpectedly giggled and spoke with a smile "Do you believe in fate?" Really, I guess then I don't have to worry about harming anyone if we can just blame everything on fate, right?" Hearing her strange logic and strange cheerfulness, he felt something strange, as if something that he lost long ago, something that was quite familiar to him, was feeling so much like a foreign concept. So despite her words, he gave her a forceful smile and nodded like a little kid. Seeing him nod like this, she smiled and extended her hand infront of him and spoke, "Ok, Mr. Fate, So think of it also like fate, meeting me and having such a rough ride on such a hot day. So tell me, where are you going? going to somewhere special or just moving around like a donkey!" Hearing her words, he felt pretty strange because There was no time in his life that any person was talking to him this straighforwardly and also with cheerfulness without asking for anything from him, so he was feeling kind of empty in this moment, he wished he could talk anything stupid or beautiful or even selfish to just make her stop but his burden of expectations surely started to sink in his mind and he just kept staring at her hand, while she gave him a slightly pouted face and spoke " Oh my, just look at mr fate, getting all cautious, just because a little girl like me made fun of this uncle looking guy, ok-ok I apologize for calling you donkey, now can you tell me where are you heading, because you see, I am quite tired and if you are about to drop on the next stop then can you please let me have your seat!" Hearing her words, his voice came in quite broken with a quite cute manner: "Hey, I am not Mr. Fate; I am Raju, and second, I am not giving you my seat because I won't drop till a few stops, so don't again ask me for my seat, ok?" Despite saying these words, he was shaking to his core, while his hands and legs were shaking pretty insanely, and he was trying to put up a rough, tough act. Well, even he doesn't know why he was doing it because he never put up such an act, as he always just listened to requests and tried to put up with their expectations, while now, for the first time, instead of putting up with her expectations, he chose to deny it, the first time in his life, but he was feeling a strange kind of joy in it, as the girl was still standing there despite hearing all this.

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