ESTRANGED
6th Installment of FATED & FRACTURED SERIES
I met him for the first time when I introduced myself to the entire class.
Teen Nia Asthana
Hey everyone. This is Nia Asthana. My father is a doctor. We used to live in the States, but our family recently moved to India.
Everyone looked amused with me being a New Yorker, but there was this one guy who was strange and aloof. It was like he didn't even notice that I was there.
Which is exactly why I decided to take the empty seat beside him.
Teen Nia Asthana
Hey, I'm Nia
He was cold and so, I was attracted to him.
Crushes are weird. The boys in the entire school roamed around me and the only boy who didn't, I wanted him.
Teen Nia Asthana
What's his problem?
Teen Diksha
You don't know? A month ago, his girlfriend died.
Teen Nia Asthana
Oh, no! How?
Teen Diksha
Some sort of cancer I guess.
Teen Nia Asthana
He must love her so much to turn so cold after her death...
Teen Diksha
Yeah, they were the best together.
Ever since then, my huge crush on Yug Pratap turned into true love.
I found out who his friends were and entered his friend circle by first befriending his best friend's girlfriend and then his best friend and then... Yug.
Teen Yug Pratap
Listen to me Nia, I can't love anyone else because I still love Varsha. So just... Stop trying to get me.
Teen Nia Asthana
I respect your love for her Yug which is why I know you will respect my feelings as well. I don't want to replace Varsha in your heart, just want you to know that she would have wanted you to move on as well.
When she said that, something inside me flipped. Nia was different and not like other girls who thought it was a chance for them now that Varsha was dead.
I don't know how, but I decided to date her, out of respecting her feelings and then, her love and care for me and the way she respected Varsha so much... I fell for her as well.
Teen Yug Pratap
Nia where are you taking me?
Teen Nia Asthana
*laughing** To a secret place! *winks**
Teen Yug Pratap
What secret place?
And we were inside an abandoned building.
Teen Yug Pratap
*coughs** What is this? Dusty and broken?
Teen Nia Asthana
This place is abandoned, and it has all the furniture.
Teen Yug Pratap
Broken... Furniture? *touches one of the furniture and hands turn all dirty**
Teen Nia Asthana
Stop complaining. We're still kids. If we want to do it, we have to do it here.
Teen Yug Pratap
Do... What-? *surprised and unsure if she was suggesting what he was thinking**
Teen Nia Asthana
*smirks biting her lips and pushes him in the dusty bed behind him**
Teen Yug Pratap
Nia *coughs-coughs**
Teen Nia Asthana
*pulls him closer from his school tie** I want you to make me yours.
Teen Yug Pratap
Are you sure? We're still seventeen. I don't want you to regret anything later.
Teen Nia Asthana
I trust you, Yug.
And just like that Nia lost her vxrginity to me.
Fooling around both of us were about to graduate from High school. Twelfth boards were around the corner.
Teen Nia Asthana
I am super stressed about exams.
Teen Yug Pratap
Don't worry about it so much.
Teen Nia Asthana
Aren't you stressed?
Teen Yug Pratap
Talking to you makes me stress-free.
Teen Nia Asthana
But I need you here to blow my stress away.
Teen Yug Pratap
What, like right now?
Teen Nia Asthana
Dad and Ruth aren't home. You can come over.
And I went over to her house.
We were having sex when her father caught us in action. Dr. Shankar Asthana. This very dangerous man who was perhaps in his fifties.
Prof. Shankar
NIA?! WHAT THE FXCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING UNDER HIM?!
We both covered up, but before I could put on my clothes, that man dragged me from my hair and threw me in his car and drove me back to my home.
Naisha
P-professor Shankar? What are you-?
Mom opened the door and saw me there with him in that state.
Prof. Shankar
Naisha Pratap, tell this to your son very carefully to stay the fxck away from my daughter. I would never let your filthy Pratap bloodline touch my daughters, do you get it?
Naisha
*confused, she just grabbed Yug's arms and asked him to go inside and get dressed.**
I don't know what happened after that. Dad got really mad at me.
Rudra
I can't believe that fxcking Asthana dragged my son nxked from his house to here! I will never forgive that son of a bitxh!! And YOU, STAY THE FXCK AWAY FROM HIS FILTHY DAUGHTER!!
Naisha
Rudra calm down... Yug was just-
Rudra
JUST WHAT?! He had fxcking boards around the corner and this is how he is preparing for exams?! Your parents are doctors what are you planning to become? A manwhxre?!
I didn't know what to do. Dad had never yelled at me like that before. After that night I didn't get to see Nia ever again. She didn't even come to school to give her boards while I failed all of my exams.
But then again, my dad wasn't angry at me, they were mad at Asthana and so, I was allowed to reappear next year and joined med school the year after that.
Time is thought to be the best healer. It healed everything, every wound. I no longer loved Yug Pratap... Even if I did, time had made those feelings fade away.
I am a doctor now, just like my dad. Just joined my dream hospital in Mumbai, 'LIFE BEAT'
On my way to the first day at work my car crashed into someone. And that someone, was going to become the person I was going to get married to.
Rishi Pradhan: A software engineer.
What I didn't know was that fate hadn't yet closed the chapter of Yug in my life
Rishi
Man, Yug, I want you to meet the love of my life, Dr. Nia Asthana. She's a cardiologist.
Rishi
*wraps his arms around Nia* And this is my brother aka my best friend, Dr. Yug Pratap. MD Surgeon.
And that was exactly when I realised, how much he hated me for what my father did to him. When I realised, how much I fxcking missed him all these years.
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⚠️ Trigger Warning for Estranged
This book includes themes of generational trauma, emotional manipulation, toxic love triangles, identity crises, and complex family dysfunctions.
For mature audiences (18+). Reader discretion is advised.
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